Ideas and Colours for Dark-Painted Stairs
You may be interested in taking part in the trend of having dark-painted stairs in your home, but you might not yet know exactly how you’d like to carry this out. You might not know what colour you want, for instance, or you might not have decided on patterns or themes that you want to be present around the staircase area.
We can step in and help with our guide to ideas and colours for a dark-painted staircase.
Choosing Colours for a Dark-Painted Staircase
After you’ve decided you would like a dark-painted staircase, there will be several considerations for you to make. For example, what kind of style are you hoping to achieve with the result? What effect will this create? Are you trying to match the stairs to an existing colour scheme in your home, blending it so that colours transition seamlessly between rooms, or are you redecorating your entire property and going for new colours everywhere?
This will take some careful consideration, because doing it well will create something truly stunning for your property. Meanwhile, doing it poorly can be jarring and make a space unpleasant for you or visitors to look at. You can make sure this doesn’t happen by ordering paint samples and testing them by painting the steps of your staircase in small patches to see how they look before you decide what is right for you. These can then be matched to patterns or accessories you’d like for the room.
Of course, the most important thing to make sure is that you are choosing the colour, paint, and overall style or patterns that you like most and that you think will work best for your property. You can find inspiration for this almost anywhere, from websites to magazines and newspapers, or colour palettes in showrooms and DIY shops.
Colour Ideas for a Dark-Painted Staircase
If you haven’t yet decided on the colour you would like, you can always choose from the list below. Try to imagine how each of these would fit your painted staircase ideas:
Black-Painted Stairs
The first colour that will probably come to mind when imagining a dark-painted staircase is black. This colour tends to be better for a more open staircase, as it doesn’t bounce light around very much and will make a small or narrow staircase look extremely closed in. The only exception might be if your walls, banisters, or stair railings are painted white, leaving just the floor and opening up the space around it.
In any case, black is a smart, tasteful choice for the colour of your stairway flooring, and also extremely practical. This is because stairs are often high traffic areas in properties, and having black stairs is less likely to show dirt, scuffs, and other marks.
Dark Grey-Painted Stairs
If you don’t want black stairs but are interested in having another dark colour paint for your stairs, then you might be interested in dark grey instead. Grey-painted stairs are gaining popularity, and a sleek, dark grey can work even with the most ultramodern or classically styled home to bring an air of sophistication.
Blue-Painted Stairs
Blue paint offers the benefit of an energetic appeal to your staircase and hallway, no matter what shade or hue you decide to use. It also opens up a range of possibilities for decorating ideas around the staircase, as many other colours work with blue. This includes different types and colours of natural wood, which work wonderfully well with navy and ultramarine.
Purple-Painted Stairs
Like black, purple can also suffer from the problem of not bouncing enough light around. However, it is also an extremely striking colour that is bound to impress guests in your home and make your space a little bit more luxurious. Pairing a purple staircase with a white or cream banister and walls offers the best of both light and dark colour options in the space you have available.
Matching purple-painted stairs to purple furniture or pictures on the walls is a great way to set a colour scheme while not going overboard with a colour that might otherwise be too dark.
Green-Painted Stairs
Deep green is a great colour for a staircase, especially if the rest of your space is painted a light colour like cream or features wooden flooring. Pairing this interior design with potted plants, drawings of flowers, and furniture with plant and leaf motifs can create an easy and natural theme.
Green is an excellent colour as it can easily be incorporated into both modern and traditional designs. As a colour found in nature, it can always be paired with both flora and fauna-based designs and styles (as we have demonstrated above) to create a timeless appeal, but it can also be utilised in ultramodern homes with white walls and bright white lighting for a cooler-toned interior.
Dark-Brown Painted Stairs
Dark-brown painted stairs might be mistaken for natural varnished wood – if you choose the right colour. Offering a range of different shades, brown paint also gives you the opportunity to choose exactly how light or dark you want the wood of your stairs to be, so you can more easily match it with the colours present on your walls and furniture.
As a warm colour, dark brown is best paired with reds, oranges, tans, beiges, and other browns, but it can also complement colours like green, teal, or blue if used right. The result is almost certain to impress either way, but you should carefully consider if you think you’d prefer to come into a hallway that suggests warmth and comfort or one that suggests coolness and energy.
Red-Painted Stairs
Like brown stairs, red-painted stairs help suggest warmth in a hallway or the area of the property they’re found in. They’re also more easily paired with other warm colours, like tan, beige, and brown – as well as yellow and gold in certain situations. If the rest of the room is white they can act as an amazing focal point, drawing the eye to them in no time at all.
Accessorising a Dark-Painted Staircase
A dark-painted staircase can look perfectly elegant on its own, but you can also enhance it as an ornamental feature with your ideas. There are a few things that we can suggest you do to increase the decorative appeal of dark-painted stairs:
Two-Tone Steps
You might decide that having a staircase in one colour is too much. In these cases, why not opt for a two-tone look? This might mean painting the tops of the stairs (the treads) one colour and painting the sides (the risers) another.
For example, you might decide on black paint for the treads but white paint for the risers, or vice versa. And this can be done in any combination you like – any colour combination is an option! Deep, ultramarine blue risers can be paired with emerald green treads, for instance, to help you create a peacock theme or colour palette throughout the room.
Making Use of Patterns
Having dark stairs doesn’t mean you can’t still use gorgeous patterns or vibrant stripes to draw the eye and make specific areas interesting. It’s possible to add these into the design of your stairs when you’re painting them, using tape to make perfectly straight lines for stripes and getting in stencils to make more complicated patterns.
For example, you might decide that the risers of each step look best in a black and white checkerboard pattern, or that a white floral pattern with hints of bright red or magenta will add a pop of colour.
Adding a Bright Contrast with Stair Runners
If you’d rather leave your stairs alone but still want something with patterns or that adds colour to your hallway, living room, or any stairway space, you can always decide on a carpet runner. Our own stair runners come in a range of shapes and sizes to ensure they fit a myriad of staircase types and shapes. They’re also available in modern, traditional, plain, and even animal print so you can make your staircase eye-catching in any way that you want.
Stair Rods as Finishing Touches
If you decide on a set of stair runners for your dark-painted staircase, you can choose to complete the aesthetics by adding a set of stair rods as well. These come in a range of classic and contemporary styles and beautiful finishes. These include black, chrome, and pewter for matching and contrasting with black staircases and accompanying stair runners, or even brass hues and bronze that blend seamlessly into your colour scheme.
Making Dark-Painted Staircase Ideas a Reality
If you are looking for accessories to make your dark-painted staircase look as stylish and sophisticated as you’ve always imagined, Stair-Rods Direct can help. Our stair runners and stair rods are ideal for adding a bold, ornamental touch to black-painted stairs, blue-painted stairs, or even stairs painted green, brown, purple, or red.
Whether you want the runners and rods to match the steps or stand out on their own, we’ll have something for you. Shop by colour or finish on our website to find everything you know will match the ideas you imagine to create your perfect painted staircase. You can also speak to us about bespoke products if you need something unique.