purrrrrrrr…
So let’s just start with the fact that I *heart*Â Pantone books. There’s just something about ALL OF THOSE COLORS! ALL THE POSSIBILITIES! that makes me downright giddy. I have a set of books that I’ve owned since graduation (where we did, in fact, have Pantone colors taped to the tops of our mortarboards), in it’s handy little case, safely stored away in a dark drawer so as not to fade my precious colors.Â
A few weeks ago, I ran across this house on Flickr that honestly just blew me away. I swear, if I had super high ceilings, massive amounts of time and painter’s tape and a willing husband, I’d totally go for this look.  But I don’t. So, alas, no Pantonization of the house. Â
Until yesterday, when I spied these stairs over on Apartment Therapy. Oh yeah. I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with our basement stairs — they desperately need work and we were thinking of painting but hadn’t settled on anything yet. There are tearsheets laying around the house of various painted staircases, some of which I really liked, but nothing that I lurved. The main problem was that most of these had the treads painted, some in white (ack!) and I just couldn’t see that working for this five-person, two-cat, minimal-cleaning household. The Pantone stairs will work. Ok, so we won’t use the actual Pantone paint because we’re not bazillionaires, but I’ll break out my trusty swatch book and start picking colors now. For 13 risers. Egads… that should take, oh, three or four months. Anyone have any requests?Â
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