Margaret Powell, a showroom consultant with H. Winter & Co., lives in a town home in which you have to walk up a flight of stairs to get to the main level. She got tired of having carpeted stairs as they were difficult to keep clean. Margaret felt that since the stairs were the first thing you saw when you walked into her home, she wanted to have an aesthetically pleasing entrance! So... she and her husband Tyler decided to rip out the carpet, install oak stair treads, and tile the risers!
Margaret and her husband hired a professional carpenter to remove the builder-grade pine stair treads and install more durable oak stair treads. The treads were stained and coated with multiple layers of polyurethane.
The risers of the steps measured about 6.75" high. Margaret and Tyler did not want to install a tile that would require cutting each piece to fit the odd height, especially since there were 14 risers that needed to be tiled!
Margaret chose Florida Tile's Legend Titan in a 6x6 for the stair risers. It's classified as a V4 shade variation (super shaded from piece to piece, with color/pattern variation) and made to look like a natural slate. Since there was still a remaining .75" that had to be filled in to meet the 6.75" height, Margaret chose to use a Original Styles Venetian 3/8" Mosaics in the noce tumbled marble and chiaro tumbled marble. She used a sanded light buff colored caulk to fill in the grout joints in the mosaic.
They love not having to vacuum the stairs anymore and are truly enjoying how maintenance-free their new stairs are!
Margaret and her husband hired a professional carpenter to remove the builder-grade pine stair treads and install more durable oak stair treads. The treads were stained and coated with multiple layers of polyurethane.
The risers of the steps measured about 6.75" high. Margaret and Tyler did not want to install a tile that would require cutting each piece to fit the odd height, especially since there were 14 risers that needed to be tiled!
Margaret chose Florida Tile's Legend Titan in a 6x6 for the stair risers. It's classified as a V4 shade variation (super shaded from piece to piece, with color/pattern variation) and made to look like a natural slate. Since there was still a remaining .75" that had to be filled in to meet the 6.75" height, Margaret chose to use a Original Styles Venetian 3/8" Mosaics in the noce tumbled marble and chiaro tumbled marble. She used a sanded light buff colored caulk to fill in the grout joints in the mosaic.
They love not having to vacuum the stairs anymore and are truly enjoying how maintenance-free their new stairs are!
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