Child's Play

So you know our house is on the market. Not normally a time to indulge in your creative design impulses. Well, I just can't live like that. Like any day now someone is going to come along and buy our house. It drives me crazy. And with how it's going we could be here for quite some time.

I've decided to just enjoy my home. I won't do anything crazy...no fuchsia walls (like I'd ever do that one), no faux painting of the cabinets....(never do that either just in case you were wondering)...

However,

I was recently inspired by this
I initially saw this photo on this gal's blog...and tucked it away for some future stair project. The other night I was looking through this book and stumbled upon this photo again.

TA DA! My mind was illuminated! I had the perfect stairs for this project right here right now! Not in some imagined future house - but here !

So I went out and made do with the number stencils I found at my local grocery store. Not quite as cute as the ones pictured above but all right. Picked up some charcoal grey acrylic paint and went to work. I will probably need to coat the stair riser with some poly at some point or these little numbers will scratch right off....
These are the stairs off of or living/dining room that lead up to our attic bedroom. We have always used this room as a guest bedroom so it is rarely seen or appreciated. We always have the door leading up to them closed partly because the door blocks our hallway while open and partly because we have little ones that were always wanting to climb them.

So I think we need one of these...The door that is...I'd take one of those kitchens too but I don't think we are to that place yet!

My husband agrees too (which is always the hard part) but now I need to find one for less than the one I saw at Lowe's. Any suggestions?

A door with windows would let in so much natural light (there is a window at the top of these stairs) and it would make our tiny house feel a wee bit bigger as well. Always a plus when you are trying to sell!

P.S. I just have to add....when we bought this house these stairs were painted (with the rest of the house) in a not so lovely faux way. With very dark paint I might add. I had to paint them oh...five times in order for the very dark faux paint job to be hidden forever. Well, two of the paint jobs were because the very heavy floor sander gauged it's way back down the stairs and when we couldn't get our Queen box spring up the stairs and had to rip apart the freshly painted door frame to push and cry and pray it up the stairs. Yes, those go down in the annals of home renovating hell.