The Banister

I must have taken this about a year after we'd moved in.  We still had those red curtains up...yuck!  

Anyway, this is the tale of the wall unit and the banister...

Here's another view: you can just barely see the bare oak banister...

In transition...

And after...

We were so hesitant about staining the staircase because of the permanence it meant.  So glad I did it now.  If the next owners don't like it, they can easily paint over it.  Or replace the spindles.  Easy! 

And now perhaps the biggest of the transformations...

We had the tv mounted on the wall and the corner taken up with bookshelves.  I just love it.  

I managed to clean up the bookshelf upstairs too, as it was looking textbook heavy and not so lovely.  I know what you're thinking: that iron makes a gorgeous focal piece ;)  Hey, it has to go somewhere!