New Project!

I've been needing a new project. So today I decided to tackle the stairs.  Here's the "before" picture...

 I have just pulled up the carpet at this point. Still trying to figure out exactly how to finish them. Couldn't determine that until we saw what was underneath the carpet. We got lucky, there's real wood under there, so that leaves us with a lot of options that aren't too difficult. The boys aren't overly thrilled that we're in construction mode again, they don't like the house being torn up.  Hopefully this will be a relatively quick and simple project though. At any rate, here's where I stopped for the day.  Clearly LOTS of work still to be done.