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Pine to oak stairs

Leopardprint · 2018-09-10 22:13:32

Is it possible to stain a pine banister and newel posts to look like oak? Gonna paint the spindles white. We can't really afford to buy a new stairs. We are changing the pine doors and buying oak doors

10-09-2018 10:13pm

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Leopardprint

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Is it possible to stain a pine banister and newel posts to look like oak? Gonna paint the spindles white. We can't really afford to buy a new stairs. We are changing the pine doors and buying oak doors

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#2 11-09-2018 9:17am

JimmyMW

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Leopardprint wrote: »

Is it possible to stain a pine banister and newel posts to look like oak? Gonna paint the spindles white. We can't really afford to buy a new stairs. We are changing the pine doors and buying oak doors

Not sure about the staining but as a cheap alternative to total replacement, paint the newel posts and handrails and replace the spindles with oak ones.

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#3 11-09-2018 9:33am

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Look up George quinn stairs.
Good option

You dont have to replace whole stairs, Only what you want

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