I am amazed by handy people like you guys, and I hope you guys can point me in the right direction on how to go about making this look nice. I couldn't find much on google because quite frankly, I don't even know what to look for. English is not my native language. I hired someone to custom make me the stairs and let him remove the old stairs. But now the stairs look fine, but the stairwell looks like crap 😭
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ifixallthings t1_je170x5 wrote
I’m not sold on drywall since the top where it meets the floor could create a problem. I would remove what is there and finish it with wood, a nice stain to accent the light floor maybe.
DukeJan OP t1_je17g69 wrote
Meaning, better not giving it a go DIY if I never did this before? It doesn't need to look immaculate imo, just better than now. Because I don't have much budget and nowadays it takes a lot of money and months before I can get a construction worker.
minesskiier t1_je18adi wrote
You can give it a go if you'd like too. Drywall is one of those things that is easy to do but is a true art to get it done right. If you want to give it ago it won't cost much but will take some time and rework to get it to the quality of those new stairs. A dry wall crew will get it done on the first pass and it would look great.
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Looking at the picture again, you could cover the area with a nice piece of wood that matches closley to the stairs and floor. This might be alot easer DIY wise.
OhCrapItsYouAgain t1_je3nvgc wrote
Either way you’re going to need trim where the flooring ends and the stairwell begins, and for the trim to look right you’d either need a drywall crew OR go the route of a nice wood piece. That part is completely up to you: personally, I would get wood pieces to “box in” the stairwell - it’ll accent it/could looks a heck of a lot nicer than drywall there.
DukeJan OP t1_je5d95a wrote
I tried googling boxing in stairwell with wood, any idea where to find some handy guides on it? Should I just use concrete screws to attach the wood to the side? And put some bumpers on the topside?
MiffedPolecat t1_je5gozb wrote
Just cover it with a wide piece of trim, then stain or paint as you like
Minothor t1_je5lc8g wrote
I'd say: go with the wood panel idea, you can get some thin plank or a decent looking piece of ply cut to size for the walls of the hole, sand it lightly and varnish/oil it to make it look a little nicer and polished.
Then surround the edges of the laminate flooring above and the ceiling below with with edging profiles like this:
You can probably find brass, wood or black ones depending on what you think would look nice.
Personally, I'd go with wood edging strips stained/varnished to match the siding wood and the upstairs flooring, but it's not my home - you do you and make it your own.
OhCrapItsYouAgain t1_je69553 wrote
Yeah sorry, I wasn’t really using a true terminology. What I meant was, install planks of nice looking wood (stained/finished to your color choice) around that vertical surface in your pics. Personally, I would have the planks extend about 1/4-1/2 inch above the top of your floor (on 3 sides, but flush at the side where your stairs exit), and then install like a 1/2” (or whatever thickness gets you flush to the top of those vertical planks) by 1.5” or 2” with a nice finished edge to sort of “cap” over your flooring on the upper level. And on the stair exit side, you can pop on that metal piece that the other commenter posted.
minesskiier t1_je12p41 wrote
you need a dry wall crew to clean that up.