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Friday, December 19, 2014

Decorated Farmhouse Staircase

Our new-to-us farmhouse has a lovely staircase, with a huge newel post.  I love the old woodwork, even though it's been painted in a cream colour by a previous owner.

We decided to put a garland on the staircase, but along the bottom, not the top as is usually done.  We felt it looked better running along the bottom portion because the top rail runs right up against the ceiling, and also because the garland we had wasn't long enough to go along the top rail.


As you can see, the stairs don't go up from the door, they go up in reverse (there must be a technical term for that).  This did not leave us much room to get furniture upstairs.  You can read our exploits in that respect, in a future post!

Isn't the post marvellous?  The bottom square is 6 1/4" x 6 1/4"




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4 comments:

  1. ANNEDecember 19, 2014 at 7:43 PM

    Beautiful! Merry Christmas Julie!!! xox

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  2. Sherry@The BarnQuiltStore BlogDecember 20, 2014 at 5:04 AM

    So pretty...glad to see you're settling in!
    Moving can be such fun! ;)

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  3. My Repurposed LifeDecember 20, 2014 at 9:25 AM

    very beautiful staircase Julie! The garland looks perfect there. So homey and cozy. That newel post is beautiful. (I like it painted) ;)

    Merry Christmas to you all!

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  4. Cristina GarayDecember 23, 2014 at 8:57 AM

    The post is gorgeous! The garland looks perfectly well there, at the bottom, it will be to high at the top.
    Merry Christmas to you and your family!

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