home improvements – step by step

I’m pretty much never without a project.

The steps at our home have been on my mind lately.

I’ve seen so many fun ideas for stair steps – like the fabulous steps painted to look like a stack of classic novels.

I’ve wanted to do something with them since we moved in but Kevin was hesitant to paint on the lovely old wood since it had never before been painted.

He was right – I have no problem painting over wood that’s already been painted before or painting over plywood or an ugly grained wood.  But painting over quality craftsmanship seems wrong somehow.

And so, we have compromised.

We have numbers!

I’ve yet to make it to seventeen but I purposely didn’t buy all the numbers at once.

I think it will be a bit of fun to discover cool numbers here and there and to slowly add to the collection until we reach the top.