Sawdust Girl®

Renovation, cabinet building and woodworking plans and tutorials. Build like a Girl®

Stairs and Upstairs Hallway – House Tour

All Posts, Illinois House, My Home

Today’s house tour includes the Stairs and Hallway Upstairs. This space was featured in Small Spaces Magazine and all over the web.  People love a good Picture Frame Collage Wall!

House Tour - Stairs and Hallway

The wainscoting and picture frame collage extends up the stairs and down the hallway.  I spent a few weeks creating the wainscoting.  It’s MDF that I routed with a “Roman Ogee” bit.  Then I spent another week priming, sanding and painting it.  It took a few days painting and hanging all the picture frames.  Not too bad in terms of time/work for the impact it created.  I love having it extend all the way down both the upstairs and downstairs hallways.  It adds texture and the white and bright paint make the hallway not seem super narrow.

House Tour - Stairs and Hallway

 House Tour - Stairs and Hallway

·

Comments

  1. I think this is my favorite part of the whole tour, for some reason. I even love the doorknobs. lol

  3. I love it! You did a wonderful job of including so many pictures in a classy way.

  7. I am in love with your photo wall going up the stairs! it looks fabulous!and you are more than welcome to coe to my house and do the wainscoting for your tutorial. 🙂 i promise to provide wine and lots of attention from 3 wiener dogs!!

  8. This is amazing!! I just found your blog and I am hooked, I am making my husband very nervous 🙂 So my question is how tall is your wainscoting on the landing and coming down the stairs? I am making my drawings as I type. Thanks for being my inspiration picture!Jessica

  9. Thank you for responding to our questions and posts. I posted something last week, and you quickly responded and answered my question. I have a couple more…1. I noticed that your entry wainscoting is taller than your upstairs hallway wainscoting. Is that because your ceilings are higher downstairs? And, what is the exact measurements of each? I am somewhat sure, going by where they line up compared to your doors (as I have the same doors).2. How many inches wide are each piece of the horizontal and vertical moldings (MDF)? They seem to be about 4 inches or so, but hard to tell on the pictures. And the bottom one is about double that?Again, thanks to much for the inspiration. You have truly worked very hard to make your house a home, and it [email protected]

  10. I absolutely LOVE your photo frame walls! I am going to try to incorporate the idea into my home. Can you tell me the finish of the paint you used on the frames. They look matte to me, but I wanted to make sure.

  11. I am so very glad you are doing this tour! Not only is it beautiful, it is inspirational. So many great ideas for the next house! I really look forward to the wainscot tutorial!

  13. Sandra, I adore your house. Seriously if I could buy it I would. If you don't sell this house in a heartbeat I would be amazed. It's so beautiful! Great work.

  14. You don't even need a real estate agent. Just post your blog address everywhere, and let the stampede of buyers begin!

  15. Please! Please! Sell me your picture frames/collage. 🙂 I am sooooo in love with them. You nailed it! PERFECT!!! Please let me know. $$$ Your home is beautiful. It will sell fast! Looks better then a model home. 🙂

  16. I would totally pay you money to do that in my house. 😉 If I had money to spend, that is. You have really, really improved what started out as an already nice home by most of the world's standards. Great job! Still trying to convince my hubby about wainscoating in what was once the dark creepy living room which we are renaming The Happy Room. It will take a while. Right now it's gone from dreary/creepy to resigned. 😉

  17. I love what you've done with the place!I think I like this part of the home tour the best… the transformation is simply amazing. It doesn't even look like the same hallway.You are so smart to take before and after pictures. Our old house was a fixer-upper, and we forgot to take before pictures. It was always a bummer telling people, "No, it really did look heinous before we started in here. Really!"

  18. OK, OK, you can come work on my house…:) I'm sure you've always wanted to come up to Alaska right?! Thanks for the inspiration. It makes me happy!

  20. That's THE most amazing hallway in the history of hallways!! The wainscotting is perfection and the frames are so creative! love it!your new KnoxVegas friend!

  21. Just Beautiful!!! I want to create this look in my basement. How high up the wall is your wainscotting?

  22. I'm totally late to the tour here, but I have to say that this is just an AMAZING transformation! I love it. LOVE it.

  23. I love your stairway so so much. It is the very first thing I saw at your blog and it makes me smile everytime I see it.Your house has got to sell lightening quick. I can't imagine anyone passing up that hallway.

  25. Hi Sandra!

    Just discovered your blog via Pinterest. You have a beautiful home! In this particular post, you mentioned hiring painters to stain the treads and railing the same color as your floors, but what did you do with the parts of the stairs that are now white – the sides and backs of the stairs (they were all wood colored in the before pic)? Did you just paint these white yourself, and if so, did you sand and prime them first or just paint over the wood with a semi-gloss paint? I’d like to do this in my house but I wasn’t sure how to proceed.

    Thanks!!

    Amanda

  26. Do you have more pictures of the trim work of the doorway that runs into your stairs? I have a very similar setup and have been looking for ways to trim the doorway with the stair rail running into it. It looks BEAUTIFUL!

Legal Stuff

Terms of Use

Privacy Policy

Disclosure

Recent Posts

Disclaimer:

Although it is my intention to provide accurate plans and clear instructions, not all plans have been tried and tested. Using plans or information found on SawdustGirl.com indicates that you agree with the Terms of Use policy and will accept full responsibility for the process and outcome of any project you attempt. All plans are for private use only. Plans and information published on SawdustGirl.com may not be reproduced, republished or distributed in any manner without written permission from Sandra Powell, Sawdust Girl. Actual projects built using Sawdust Girl plans may be published on your own site without instructions or "tutorial" as long as you provide a link to my original post with full post title or "SawdustGirl.com" as link title.