Back when we bought the house, the very first thing that we did was rip out all of the carpeting. This of course included the stairs, which were covered in blue plush from head to toe:

Flash forward four years, and today we finally got them taken care of. Originally we had planned on putting pergo on them (and we still wish we could have) but alas pergo and bull nosing do not mix. So our next plan was to sand and stain them to match the pergo, but the quality (or lack thereof) of the stairs made that impossible. So we agreed the only choice was to re carpet them.

We wanted to change things up a little bit, so I decided to fill in the numerous marks and paint the risers and sides while I was doing the foyer:

It's been about fourteen months since that project, and with a one year old the wife had enough. She called Empire and the guy came out yesterday, took some measurements, made a few calls, and came back with an estimate of $250. Some paperwork and an oddly named berber carpet called "butter brickle" here we are:

Before:

After:

Going to take a while to get used to it.....