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Stairs are such functional things; I love finding ways to make them beautiful, too. I've seen some interesting stenciling ideas, but beyond that, I can't find too many other ways to dress them up.

Great idea! We're finishing our basement and I've been trying to decide what to do with the boring white wooden staircase (which never looks white due to scuff marks, etc). While I like how stencils look in photos, we're not really the stencil types. Now I know what we'll be doing with the steps.

Is there a point to only the bottom stairs being painted? I mean, if they only have so many colors, why not do two of each to give a sense of what it would really look like in your home. I just don't get it.

The Pantone labels is what makes this so great. Randomly painted risers would not be clever or droll.

But yeah, why is only the bottom half painted?

I just assumed it was a display at a store.

lol, oops

I've been to the office several times, and the space is great.
Large white walls with reclaimed wood floors. The exposed wood ceiling structure was sandblasted. Tamotsu also has a great collection of vintage modern furniture in his office.

The only bad thing about these stairs is Pantone recommends replacing them every once every year or so. The ink on the stairs are subject to fading over time and will cease to be a useful and accurate reference. ;)

How come, since the AT sites are merged now, we still see the same entries over and over again for different cities? Doesn't everyone see the same posts?

What's the deal with Pantone? Their spot color system for printing was plain awful. And in this (stair)case I do not like the labels anyway.

I once assembled a table with color strips for selecting paint, most of which were the same hue, but either varying levels of whiteness or blackness. Looked very artsy - but the color numbers spoilt it a bit.