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\n We may earn a commission from links on this page.<\/span>\n <\/p>\n For some reason, I have painted a lot of stairs<\/a> in my time. Exterior, interior\u2014I\u2019ve painted more stairs than I ever imagined I would. But sometimes, painting stairs is the easiest way to transform them. When my wife and I moved into our house, the stairs<\/a> were covered in this truly awful green carpet. We tore that up almost immediately, and I figured I\u2019d just paint the stairs as a short-term solution. But we wound up actually liking the paint, and just left it there.<\/p>\n It\u2019s getting a little worn, though, so it\u2019s time to refresh the paint job, and we thought it was a good idea to change things up by painting the risers a lighter color, for contrast (we\u2019re fancy like that). This gave me the chance to use one of my favorite little painting hacks: A wall edging pad on stair risers. I forget who showed this to me, but it makes the whole process a lot faster. In the past, painting something like stairs with all those angles and corners would mean a metric ton of painter\u2019s tape and a stiff wrist from using a cut brush. (I\u2019m pretty good with a cut brush these days and skip a lot of taping, but stairs still present a challenge.) But using a wall edging pad means I can skip all the tape and save my wrist a lot of strain.<\/p>\n
\nEverything you need to paint stairs<\/h2>\n