I actually did finish the Rowhouse stair room the same weekend I last posted about it, just didn’t get around to writing about it until today…

Before I tackled the trim in the the stair room, I glued in the attic stairs and fixed the floor around the opening. My tasks were to cut new frame pieces for the side and edge of the hole, and to patch holes in the floorboards that occurred when I pulled out the original staircase.

I had saved this little piece of floorboard all this time, intending to glue it back in, but you could tell it was a repair.

On to Plan B – I used a razor blade to pry out the rest of the board.

I cut a replacement floorboard, as well as new frame pieces for the side and edge of the hole. The remaining gap is where the top step used to be.

Even with the border piece added, the gap was a little too big for a floorboard.

I cut a teeny tiny sliver off a piece of floorboard to make up the difference.

Here it is with the new pieces stained and glued in.

I had to sand the edges of the floorboards to get the side piece to fit, and I sanded a bit too much. There a visible crack where the floorboards don’t butt up against the trim piece.

I used Minwax Golden Oak wood filler (same color as the stain) to fill that in.

Here’s the finished attic. I want to replace those two brown chairs with bar stools and add a table with the cocktail set I made for last year’s half scale swap. I like these chairs but the shipping from Australia is too expensive.

Heading downstairs. Now that the shelves have their accessories glued in, I can glue the bookcases into the house. This is necessary because once the stair railing is glued in, there won’t be enough space to remove them.

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