New Stairs - Day 5

After the fiasco of the ordering process from the flooring company, we had to wait a while before the stairs could be installed.  (Not this long, admittedly, I am a bit behind on blogging.)  We had enough of the wood (too much by two boxes, actually) but not enough of the nosing, which had to be reordered so that the stairs could all be done in a matter of a few days back to back rather than getting some of the work done and not the rest of it.  So even though this is technically Day 5 of actual work, it is Day 23 of having no banister.  The kids are starting to get used to it.  And less afraid of it.  So work must be done and sooner rather than later.

Luckily for us, that work was started by Travis and Mike, who, as we all know, do amazing work.

And fast, as it turns out!  By the time I got back from teaching my morning class (I was home by about 11:30) I had already missed a good deal of the work.  But it wasn't a bad thing to walk into the first run of stairs looking as lovely as this.

I was able, however, to capture the guys installing the custom stair nosing that they made to run the length of entryway and repair the work that the flooring guys screwed up.  It's smooth, beautiful work that Mike milled for us based on the wonky specs that they had due to the shift in sizes of the wood that the flooring guy had created.  So over the course of 8' it gets 1" wider.

But you can't really tell.  And it looks amazing.

By the end of the day, they had the first run and both landings completed.  SO PRETTY!