Colorful Stair Runners
Hi! I’ve seen some English stair runners that are quite colorful and others with fantastic designs – however, I have not been able to find links to them. Please help if you know of any.
Hi! I’ve seen some English stair runners that are quite colorful and others with fantastic designs – however, I have not been able to find links to them. Please help if you know of any.
we heard that carpet remnants from huge remnant companies can give a great price if your doing a stairway, carpet or runners. does anyone know where to but these remnants?
most remnants place around here don’t seem to have enough to carpet a 5 story stairway.
The nicest I have seen (and have installed in my house in london) is http://www.rogeroates.com/ if you have a curved stair this is not a self install job although they do not cut the runner (or didn’t with mine)
They are also crazy expensive, but I didn’t find anything else nearly as good. I looked, a lot.
3:47 is right. As long as it’s a straight run, you can install it yourself. It’s not a particularly easy job. the runner needs to be installed from the foot of the stiairs going upward. You need a rug stretcher which you can buy at HD (or online) and I found that the electric staple guns did not work well enough but I have a compressor and an air staple gun and that does the trick
A place that sells them very economically and were very easy to work with over the phone was http://www.rugdepot.com They start at about $17-18 per lineal foot and come as narrow as 26″ which a lot of brownstones require.
I found the quality to be better than I expected at that price
Don’t try to skimp and not order the step pads
Re: self-install
I think this is outside the domain of most do-it-yourself’ers. If you’re just doing a straight run directly off the roll, then maybe you can pull it off, but I watched the guys do my install which involved a number of turns (miter cuts), widening out the pattern, narrowing it down, etc, and it requires skill to do cleanly (not to mention a LOT of extra material to splice the pattern from). A single stairway with landing and short hallway at the top took 30 man-hours to install. And that doesn’t even include the stair rods which I did myself.
Any recommendations for carpet runners similar in color to LizaPhillips (Lava etc)..but not as pricey.
http://www.lizaphillipsdesign.com/alto.stairs.html
Guest 11:43 – if you like Hicks stuff check Lee Jofa for his fabrics and wallpapers. Also in D&D Bldg on 2nd fl.
http://www.leejofa.com/search/fabresults.asp?Code=LJF&roy=DHC-David+Hicks&Price=All&x=14&y=25&Page=1
I think most cost effective is when you order yourself from internet and self- install.
This company I have ordered from before and the quality is good plus they have choices of widths. These are definitely more traditional.
http://www.peerlessrugs.com/shapedetail.asp?shapeid=STA
Where can you find the most cost effective runners?
Thanks so much for your responses…any additional information would be great.