Stair project is still ongoing

Last week I got the curtains made for the storage under the stairs. There are black bears and rustic wood/birch bark printed on the fabric. The window curtain is only temporary as I didn't have the kind of curtain rod that I needed. Gramma Marshall's homemade braided rug matches the rustic way the room has started to come together and adds a nice touch at the base of the stairs.

Walls both upstairs and down were freshly painted brownish-beige today. Stairs are still plywood as carpet will be the last step completed.

Nice office area at the top of the stairs. This used to be Noah and Levi's bedroom. The railings are temporary - the next step is building cedar railings. New overhead light is in the box to the right of the stairs...I was pretty happy as the bears on the light fixture match the bears in the curtains I made for the understair storage area.

Bonus cute baby and suicidal Jedi...

From downstairs looking up. The big desk was a family heirloom from my Grandmother and is quite a unique item with all kinds of neat cubby holes and drawers.

Not to shabby for two non-carpenters to put together. Seems like every day when I come home from work Michael has done something new on the room. Finishing the wood alone took weeks. And the best part of the whole thing is that by adding this stair case we now have two bathrooms, double the living space and storage space we never had before.

After this project is done it gets even more fun - a whole new Master Bedroom complete with a fire place.