Staircase to heaven



can you tell what it is yet?

Sorry for the pun post tile but I couldn't resist. The staircase we're getting has been designed & made by Kev the Stairs. In fact everyone working on the house so far has a great nickname; our builder is called Brewie and our plasterer is Ian Two-Heads.  I'm not sure of the plumber's nickname but I bet he has one. Does that mean I need a nickname too? Answers on a postcard.
Anyhoo, a week after Kev the Stairs had measured up and drawn the plan, the staircase arrived in pieces. I'm not the most spatially aware person, so the sections were an enigma wrapped in a conundrum. But they look beautiful.

I have no idea what finish we'll go for on the stairs. I fancy stripping them to some extent but I'm conscious of the fact that there'll be feet thundering up and down so some kind of carpet or runner will probably be the most practical. I have a Pintrest account where I'm storing images of ideas. For those who don't now, Pintrest is an online scrapbook you can create for yourself, and I have pages on kitchens, bathrooms, lino cut artists, garden designs, homeware, and other assorted pages. The good thing about Pintrest is that when you find an image, say of your dream cooker, when you 'pin' the image it also attaches the page from the site you found it on, so I can click on the image in my scrapbook and it takes me to the online store I found it on.

Krypton factor

I digress, and I am prone to do. I mean, why use one word when you can use a dozen? Brewey and Two Heads worked hard on flooring the attic, covering the gaping hole of a stairwell with scaffold boards to deter accidents. At this stage everything is looking stripped and raw. It was a nervous tie for us. Tony walked through the front door one day and exclaimed 'Steph, we've broken the house!' And I knew exactly what he meant.

weird assortment of found objects

safety is paramount