{"id":31315,"date":"2016-05-24T18:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T23:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=31315"},"modified":"2016-05-21T18:11:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T23:11:15","slug":"an-update-to-the-basement-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=31315","title":{"rendered":"An Update to the Basement Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"

As of this week, we have lived in our townhouse for five years.\u00a0 And what a fast five years they have been.\u00a0 Can life slow down, please?\u00a0 Just a little?\u00a0 We have thoroughly enjoyed our down-sized life and haven’t looked back with regret even once.\u00a0 Of all the rooms in our place, though, the basement has gotten the raw end of the deal.\u00a0 Every time I go down there to work in my craft room, the basement just didn’t feel right to me.\u00a0 Even though it has a full bath, a sofa, Murphy bed, art, etc., it was just off.\u00a0 I knew that it needed some tweaking, but I just didn’t know what exactly to do.\u00a0 I called my decorator friend Beth, “The Lone Rearranger”, and scheduled a session with her.\u00a0 Beth is loaded with energy, ideas, and creativity. She specializes in working with what you already own to give your home a new look.\u00a0 She can walk into a space and know immediately what it needs.\u00a0 And that’s just what she did to the basement.<\/h3>\n

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She was only in the room about five seconds before she started showing me improvements that could be made.\u00a0 One of her suggestions was to paint the risers on the steps black and to also paint the spindles.\u00a0 The steps’ depth is more narrow than normal, and we were constantly adding scuff marks to the risers.\u00a0 A few days after Beth was here, I spent a morning applying three coats of Tricorn Black by Sherwin Williams, and not only did it cover up the marks and eliminate our problem, but it totally changed the look of the stairs.\u00a0 By the way, the photo looks yellowish because I had to use the overhead lighting<\/h3>\n

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She also suggested that we add a mirror at the top landing.\u00a0 She said that when we open the basement door to turn and go down the steps, we shouldn’t be faced with a blank wall.\u00a0 She suggested some art in the landing, too.\u00a0 I had a mirror on hand, and I dry-brushed some black paint onto it.<\/h3>\n

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I hung some prints at the top of the stairs, and the black frames are perfect with the mirror.\u00a0 The prints are sporty and contemporary.\u00a0 Again, there was no natural light for the photos.<\/h3>\n

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Here’s a shot of the stairs before.\u00a0 These changes have already made the basement feel more like a room.\u00a0 Beth made some other great suggestions, and I can’t wait to follow through on them.\u00a0 I’ll be sure to share the results with you.\u00a0 It’s perfect proof that minor tweaks can make a huge difference in the way a room feels and lives.<\/h3>\n

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Our children, their spouses, and our new grandchild will all be here for the July 4th week-end, and so my goal is to have the room ready by then.\u00a0 It’s a good thing I have never been asked to do a One Room Challenge.\u00a0\u00a0 That six-week time frame would probably have gotten me into trouble.<\/h3>\n

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Take care.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As of this week, we have lived in our townhouse for five years.\u00a0 And what a fast five years they have been.\u00a0 Can life slow down, please?\u00a0 Just a little?\u00a0 We have thoroughly enjoyed our down-sized life and haven’t looked back with regret even once.\u00a0 Of all the rooms in our place, though, the basement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31315"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31315"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31340,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31315\/revisions\/31340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}