Upstairs hall (leading to master bedroom) @ MDHQ
There was a small 6×6 room at the end of the upstairs hall which was not quite big enough to be a bedroom (although we have heard tale from a previous renter of it being used as such - he had to cut his mattress to fit inside) but a bit too much for a closet. We decided to attach the room to the master bedroom as a sitting room (see more at the master bedroom project.) We covered the doorway, creating an inset bookshelf on the other side, and put leaded glass windows facing into the sitting room and above the stairs, which provide interesting pass-though daylighting on both sides of the wall.
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- Before: Upstairs hall
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- Hall with sitting room closed off
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- Hall with leaded glass windows
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- Hall with leaded glass
Resurfacing+refinishing the stair @ MDHQ
Years of wear, carpet adhesive, and general grime made the stairway and front hall of the MDHQ seem anything but grand, but under all that we knew the beautiful original 1900s banister and lovely step detail might clean up ok. We won’t go into detail about the removal process for old hardened carpet adhesive, but it was most unpleasant. The simple resurfacing and repainting of our front hall and stairway created a grand entrance to the MDHQ.
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- Before: Stairway and front hall
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- After: Stairway and front hall
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- Adhesive on the stairs
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- Stairs covered in drywall from the wall knockout
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- Sanded and stripped
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- Detail: stairs stripped and ready for painting
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- Refinished stairs
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- Detail: refinished stairs
