{"id":7340,"date":"2013-01-25T13:30:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T18:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=7340"},"modified":"2013-01-25T14:16:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T19:16:08","slug":"hello-my-stylish-friends-i-need-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=7340","title":{"rendered":"Hello my stylish friends.  I need your help."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I finally got the other bannister stained. \u00a0I am in love with how it turned out. \u00a0On the time and energy scale, this part of the project scored a 7. \u00a0It wasn&#8217;t as hard as I thought, but it did take a little longer than I planned. \u00a0And no, I am not counting the 6 months that I procrastinated getting the second bannister stained.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7341\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/photo-51-764x1024.jpg\" width=\"764\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/photo-51-764x1024.jpg 764w, http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/photo-51-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/photo-51.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You like?<\/p>\n<p>The next step is to paint the spindles white. \u00a0This will BY FAR be the most time consuming part. \u00a0I briefly thought about sanding and sating them all, but then I gave my head a shake and moved on to plan B. \u00a0Plan B will look just as awesome. \u00a0I hope.<\/p>\n<p>But that brings us to my dilemma. \u00a0The stairs. \u00a0I originally hoped to sand and stain them to match the bannister, but this isn&#8217;t possible. \u00a0The wood is different and for all the work involved, it won&#8217;t likely turn out how I want it to. \u00a0This leaves me with 2 options:<\/p>\n<p>1) Leave them alone. \u00a0I detest this option, but I have to consider it.<\/p>\n<p>2) Paint the stairs white.<\/p>\n<p>3) Try to match the stain and paint the stairs dark brown\/black.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7342\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/photo-5-copy-1024x764.jpg\" width=\"737\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/photo-5-copy-1024x764.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/photo-5-copy-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 737px) 100vw, 737px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7344\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/photo-6-e1359138351648-764x1024.jpg\" width=\"764\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/photo-6-e1359138351648-764x1024.jpg 764w, http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/photo-6-e1359138351648-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/photo-6-e1359138351648.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m leaning towards option #2, but I need some advice from those who know what they are doing. \u00a0You know, the opposite of me.<\/p>\n<p>Help!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I finally got the other bannister stained. \u00a0I am in love with how it turned out. \u00a0On the time and energy scale, this part of the project scored a 7. \u00a0It wasn&#8217;t as hard as I thought, but it did take a little longer than I planned. \u00a0And no, I am not counting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7340"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7340"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7347,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7340\/revisions\/7347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}