painted stairs

Painted Geometry (Triangle) Transforms a Flight of Stairs

On the heels of the yellow tape beam-of-light illusion, a simple yellow triangle painted on a flight of stairs transforms it from utterly ordinary to quietly surprising and wonderful. What is it about a simple yellow triangle?

defining space with paint

We recently stumbled on a cool post at French by Design illustrating ways to define space by painting walls in unexpected ways. We especially like the illusion of sunlight make be using tones of grays and whites, and the blue paint defining the start of a new space:

reverse-painted stairs (a carpet of wood)

From a UK home with a Scandinavian feel: a “carpet” of unpainted wood going up the stairs (the reverse of the usual painted steps). It kind of reminds us of the Painted Floor with a Surprise we posted about recently…adding an unexpected twist on the expected. via French by Design

stairs in colors

Architect Kim Sykes spotted these wonderful color-painted stairs in Sayulita, Mexico. Whoever made them cunningly painted each stair on the side that doesn’t get stepped on (so you’d only get the effect from a distance, and going up). Though Mexico is renowned for it’s brash use of color, colored stairs are a world-wide theme: a…