Which colors for stair rail and spindles?

[midwest07]

I am going to paint our stair rail and spindles from the current ugly oak color. I am repainting all of the trim in our house white, but I think I want to bring some color into this part because it would just be too much white.

Do you more often see the rail white and the spindles a different color, or the spindles white and the rail a different color? I know this is generally done as a mixture of white paint on one and dark stain on the other, but I have decide to go the easier route and use all paint, no stripping and staining for me.

If anyone has photos of what you have done, please share!

[housegeek]

What color is the rest of your room/ area that shares the stairs?

[housegeek]

I would totally do something like this if I had stairs

[Ramz-ee]

I would love to know what the rest of the room looks like.

However, without out knowing that, I think a dark charcoal gray for the railings and a crisp white for the spindles would be pretty.

[midwest07]

Jun 30, 2012 15:04:48 GMT -5 housegeek said:

What color is the rest of your room/ area that shares the stairs?

The stairs are in the entryway of the house, so as you walk in and see the stairs, you also see the dining room, part of the living room and the upper hallway that connects the bedrooms. I am thinking about painting the walls in all of this area except the dining room with SW Perfect Greige (or a similar greige color). It's currently a light pinkish builder's beige.

So if I did go with color on the rail or spindles, I would probably use a darker color on the Perfect Greige paint strip.

Sounds like most of you are saying to put the color on the rail and leave the spindles white. That's mostly what I see when I search for images. I don't know why I am leaning the other way (painting spindles the color). It could be because I am nervous about doing the painting anyway, and using a dark color on the rail and making it look nice and smooth sounds daunting.

[stretchad]

I'm thinking about the same thing...I have seen dark handrail and white spindles look good. Especially if the stair treads are dark as well.

I think for my house I'm probably going to stick with the all white look though.

[gingerlecoeur]

Jun 30, 2012 15:07:41 GMT -5 housegeek said:

I would totally do something like this if I had stairs

I really like this photo, but I think this works in part because the rail is dark wood against the stark white walls. I'd be afraid that a white rail would not ground colored spindles.

Dark greige (I really hate that word...) on the rail would ground white spindles well, but I would want to find another place to bring in that dark color as an accent.

[housegeek]

Ginger if you google ombré stair spindle there is a gorgeous white with shades of blue spindles too