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Banister Lighting. Banister lighting turns your staircase into a focal design element of your space. Small recessed lights installed on the underside of your rail in between each provide ample illumination for the walking area without cluttering the walls, ceiling or stairs with fixtures.
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.