Opening up the Stairwell

This was are stairwell area when we moved in a few 

years ago.I really wanted to the stairs to not be so hidden

 in a corner so we cut down the wall until we got to

 the baseboard on the stair side of the wall.

After the wall was cut down we put these 6 inch wide board

 going down the wall and along the cut drywall.

The bottom board was the board that was used at the top

of the half wall originally.  We just moved it down

to the new lower top of the half wall.  

We can't do drywall repair so the plan is to put 

trim down the wall under the boards

 so the cut drywall can't be seen.

We cut the trim to fit, caulked and painted.  We 

added trim to the side in the stair well also

 Before

After

We already had the wood and trim left over

 from other projects  so the project was free.