One of the products that immediately caught our attention at Dwell on Design was Liza Phillips Design's ALTO stair treads.
Perhaps because we really hate the awful old carpeting on our own stair treads and keep fantasizing about tearing it out.
Designed by Liza Phillips, a New York artist with an obvious appreciation of color, the stair treads are made in Nepal from Himalayan wool. They're available in four color sets (berry, lava, mineral, and moss), each with six solid colors and six related patterns, and they can be rearranged or replaced.
("Moss" is shown to the right, "lava" above.)
Yikes, the price is a bit obscene. I was thinking of cutting FLOR tiles, www.interfaceflor.com, and using them as stair treads. However, I think I would need a much stronger adhesive than the dot adhesive stickers that Flor provides. God forbid the piece of carpet slips out from under ya as you're going down.
I had the same thoughts about slippage. Seems a bit "over-decorated" to me, but it seems to work in the photos shown.
Liza Phillips Design website: "We also offer a stair tread adhesive kit which consists of a roll of non-toxic lightly adhesive mesh that can be cut to fit and removed with no damage to your wood or other materials."
I just bought some FLOR tiles (albeit not for my stairs) and those little adhesive tabs are STRONG! I think if you cut the tiles to your stair tread size and put a tab on each corner they would hold, no problem.
Nice, but waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay overpriced.
Over $8000 for a 9X12 rug?? Oh I don't think so.
I was so excited to see these until I saw the price! Yikes! I like the idea of cutting FLOR tiles for stair treads, and would love to know if anyone has had success doing this. Or any other ideas for an inexpensive way to make our wooden stairs less slippery?
We bought flor tiles about a year ago for our stairs. We used extra dots but nothing more. So far, NOT A SINLGE SLIP. Really, really secure. I love them. But we did use alot of those dots: one on each corner and then two in the middle.
sigh...call me when buying "green" means affordable!
Thanks KS! I think I'm going to try that, too.
I have to question just how "green" this product is. It's a trendy label that makes people pay more because they think they are helping the environment. Perhaps I'm just bitter, but I can't imagine Ciba making eco-friendly colors or anything for that matter. Maybe they are feeling bad for poisoning my land and water with their buried barrels of toxic waste, or something.
7 steps x $70 is $490? Ugh, plus another $90 for the top/bottom. So $580 all set and done and I still have to buy the extra stuff to make it stick?? I mean, I love the mineral set but if it was like $350 and they already came slip-resistant I would definitely consider it. I'm better off buying extra accidental insurance or something for that premium. :P
We saw these in Dwell, visited the web site, and decided the price is obscene. Rotsa luck, Liz.