The Case of the Stairway Runner Snafu
Week 7 is not the week to run into a snafu, but such is life. I’m just rolling with it, though.
Recapping from last week: Our stair runner guru from Stair Runners Direct sent me these sexy little Salvador sisal stripe stair runners, so I couldn’t wait to play around with it.
Isn’t that dark blue edging the perfect color to pull the entire space together?! It’s a bold, vibrant, extravaganza of color, prints, and textures!
Wouldn’t ya know it, though. I had to go and pick out the hardest pattern to try and match up on winding stairs, especially when your carpet guru isn’t local and can’t come to the house to measure directly with the material on hand.
If you look at the arrows on the pics below, you can see those winding stairs aren’t quite a match on the edges. So, the Stair Runner Direct people being the wonderful human beings that they are, offered to send me the uncut material directly this week so that I can cut it myself while installing the straight part of the stairway.
So, once I’m done getting the perfect cutouts, I’ll send them the materials so that they can sew on the dark blue edging. No biggie, though. It’ll just be 2 stairs that won’t be finished while I wait for that to happen.
Plus, with all the Covid-related warehouse/shipping delays, I’m waiting on my super-fantabulous Ourika Berber-style Runner from La Redoute Interieurs. Fingers crossed it makes it before reveal time!
So, we’re back to this:
- Tearing out carpeting
- Priming
- Painting
- Installing stair runner
While I’m scrambling to catch up on all of that, go check out all the One Room Challenge Featured Designers here and Guest Participants (like me) here!