Give your stairs a concrete look in 3 nice ways

Want to give your wooden staircase a concrete look? Check our tips Do you have a wooden staircase at home and you want to give it a concrete look? Making your stairs look like concrete is the trend of the moment and in this blog article I will give you all the good advice to do it yourself! The gray, somewhat cloudy colors fit very well with a dark industrial interior. Painting the stairs in a concrete paint, or applying a concrete mortar is quite a job. You have to sand off all old...

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A one-storey Tiny House also needs a safe staircase! People are becoming more and more aware, and people are working to live smaller, more in connection with nature, to be self-sufficient and sustainable. A tiny house is completely contemporary and also a very good solution for starters who are looking for a starter home. With the current turbulent housing market where prices keep rising, the tiny house is a very good addition. Affordable and built quickly. So you would say an ideal sol...

Tips that keep your stairs safe If you give the house a makeover, you can now also refurbish your stairs with different materials. Such as a transfer renovation step, plastic stair moonshaped pads, painting your stairs completely white and applying a white non-slip stair strip, applying an old-fashioned 1930s stair runner and much more. You can also open your stairs completely for a nice spacial effect. The balustrade is removed, the risers are removed from the stairs, possibl...

You might know those slide-out ladders to the attic floor. Many houses in the Netherlands have an attic floor, which is often used for storage of household goods. You don't use the attic that often. An extendable and folding ladder is ideal and these are also not that expensive to purchase. If you want to turn the attic into a children's room, pay close attention to the safety and depth of the loft steps. (FUN FACT) A loft ladder, also abbreviated as vlizo, is an extendable ...

You just got a new house and  you are so happy with it, finally you have the house of your dreams. How are you going to furnish it? It is already completely clear in your mind, the kitchen, the bathroom, the layout of the rooms, everything will get a refurbishment turn. Only the stairs and the hall you are not sure about.  Do you recognize this thought? Yes that is not surprising because for many people who move into a new house, the stairs are often the setting post. ...

How to paint and refurbishing your stairs Do you still have carpet on the stairs that needs to be replaced and would you like to give a beautiful white-painted staircase and the hall a new modern look? Are you handy, careful and patient? Then you can do this yourself. Traditionally, a spruce staircase is often placed in a house, these are usually covered with a soft floor covering because spruce is not really a beautiful type of wood. You see more and more changes in this in...

Do you want the very best solution for a non-slip strip in your stairs? Installing a milling strip is then a very good and sustainable choice. If the stair factory makes the stairs, the customer can opt for a milled anti-slip strip in the steps as an option. Fortunately, this is much more common nowadays, but in earlier years the stairs had to be kept as cheap as possible. Why is anti-slip not standard in every staircase? The contractor did not want to pay all those extras for this ...

Buying non-slip stairs at the Gamma hardware store is this the best choice for my stairs? If your stairs are slippery and you want a quick solution for this, you are inclined to visit the local hardware store. Logical because this is easily and quickly arranged. You google whether they have something for this and most hardware stores do have a non-slip stair strip. But the question is, of course, is this the most suitable product for my situation? Most hardware stores sell 1 type of a...

How to prevent slipping or stumbling while using the stairs. Are you responsible for safety at work or your own company? Then read this article with my recommendations on what to do about unsafe situations. You often hear and read in the news about people falling due to a slippery staircase or slippery floor, sometimes with serious consequences. Often for some reason insufficient attention is paid to this. A serious fall must take place before anything is done about the situation....

Make your stairs anti-slip again You have made the hall beautiful again, painted the walls, new laminate on the floor, sanded the stairs and given a new coat of color, you are completely happy with the result. That's quite an improvement. It's just a shame that the stairs are still so slippery because of that layer of paint. How can you solve that problem without a lot of costs and work with a nice result? Then choose a non-slip stair strip that is self-adhesive. There are diffe...

Climbing stairs safer, how do you do that? The Dutch staircase in the house is often steep, narrow and therefore less easy to walk on, how is that possible? The origin lies in the fact that the pre-war houses are often small and most of the stairs in the hall are at the entrance, this is also often a small space. A staircase that is easy to walk on is often called ‘a lazy one’. Here the steps are very deep so that you can easily put your entire foot on the step. For such a lazy st...

Anti-slip strip also for shops and catering You can apply anti-slip strip in many different locations and not just in houses. There are many locations where anti-slip is a must. I mention a few situations: Of course in homes, these often have steep stairs with narrow steps, which causes many falls. But also in Galleries, Catering locations, Hotels and Shops, Saunas, Care homes and so on. In many places unsafe situations can arise or be. Applying a good anti-slip here is important. The...