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Recessed lights are a less intrusive and less direct way to illuminate the stairs in your home. Recessed lights reside in the wall along each stair. Thus instead of extending light from the top of each stair and downwards, the recessed lighting emits a soft glow from one end of each stair extending to the other.
Also, installing carpet on the stairs helped quiet down the sound of trips up and down on the hardwood stairway. We have carpet (berber - wheat color) on the second floor, bedrooms and hall. After trying to live with the hardwood stairway, we decided to just continued that carpet down the steps.