Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Let’s talk staircases- Metricon build 13Jan 19, 2019 8:29 pm Waldorf_Grange_Build MLC Morning all, I am in the process of finalising all my colour and finishes choices, and need some help with my staircase. I am building a Metricon Vantage 35 which has a u shaped staircase with 2700 ceiling height. A wooden Vic ash staircase is included in our package which we will keep. We would have loved to upgrade to a glass balustrade but don’t have the extra $9k in the kitty to do this so have just kept the black iron balustrade for now. We’re having engineered boards thoughout the living area downstairs (Istanbul oak colour) and cat 4 carpet (earl grey colour). They advised us to go a dark stain (blk japan) in the staircase to hide iron balustrade. I am not sure as I prefer the lighter wooden stairs to hopefully match the floor. We have a large 3m high window at the top of the stairs so will get lots of natural light in downstairs. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ My query is... * Has anyone done a light wooden floor and dark staircase? What does it look like? (Haven’t seen this in any displays!) * Can you change to a glass balustrade in the future? If yes, what is the best balustrade to get now to make it easy to do in the future? Many thanks for your help We took the gamble and chose a dark stain tread with light coloured floorboards. We are really happy with it. To help the stair treads look like they belong we added a black surround fireplace and black framed mirror in the formal lounge directly opposite. Here’s the link to the pic of the stairs showing the contrast to the floors. https://www.instagram.com/p/BoD2WlAgAFC ... 64o8gp277x Wow those stairs are beautiful! Thanks for the photo. It is all about making everything else in the room work with the stairs....just hard to visualise when you can’t see in the flesh! Thanks again Hi, First of all, thank you to this community for sharing your thoughts and opinions. We are in early days of our pre-contract stage for Metricon Doulton and we are… 0 10727 Hello All 🙂 We are planning to start our journey of construction our first home. We zeroed down on Metricon and henley homes based on design suitable for our lot and… 0 8179 We don’t live in VIC so want to know the exterior colours of Lumiere display so we can see it at the paint shop. Not building with Metricon so my request went… 0 17330 |