staircase – Francois et Moi https://francoisetmoi.com Making a Handmade Modern Home one DIY project at a time. Tue, 21 May 2019 17:10:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/francoisetmoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Untitled-2-2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 staircase – Francois et Moi https://francoisetmoi.com 32 32 76357554 Modern Tudor Foyer: Design Direction https://francoisetmoi.com/diy/modern-tudor-foyer-design-direction/ https://francoisetmoi.com/diy/modern-tudor-foyer-design-direction/#comments Wed, 15 May 2019 21:12:16 +0000 https://francoisetmoi.com/?p=18067 Modern Tudor Foyer: Inspiration and thoughts surrounding our upcoming foyer renovation. Come weigh in on my design direction! First impressions are everything, and my foyer, in it’s current state anyway, couldn’t charm a fly! See below. Our home is wonderful, if I do say so (with great bias!), but the foyer just isn’t a great indicator of what’s beyond. As you guys know our home is a duplex. (We live on the main floor and rent out the upstairs apartment to our fan-tabulous tenants.) The foyer is the space where the duplex splits in two. Go through the door on the left for our place and up the stairs to the door of the tenant’s unit. If you’re interested in becoming a landlord or buying a duplex, read up on my I Am Landlord series! The foyer has the original wood trim/stringer which I want to keep (and not paint), but the carpet/plastic runner on the stairs has got to go! I plan to refinish the stair treads to match the existing wood trim and paint the risers white. There’s also a great opportunity to make a real focal point on the radiator wall with picture frame moulding and a […]

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