(I just posted this under "Miscellaneous" and thought I would also post it under "Floor").
Even after carefully checking "This Old House" and "Jacobsen Rugs" sites, I still can't figure out how to install this 26" wide runner so that the 4 1/2" wide strips on either edges keep connecting and make the turn where the "winder" is.
Anyone ?
And thank you so much in advance !
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You'll have some waste.
Diagonal slices or miters which match the angle and rise matching the boarder (like the corners of a picture frame for example)then seam your runner. You can oversew it, use seaming tape with adhesive or do both (recommend using stitched seaming tape and oversewing with a curved needle since a staircase runner gets a lot of use/stress). You'll have to return your miter (for the outside edge of the tread to a straight seam for the next rise (face of the next step), you'll have to repeat this process for each pie shaped tread.
If you have a simple boxed landing with simple stairs off-set 90 degrees, then you just continue the lower runner to the landing, and run the upper runner to the landing and do a simple miter at 45 degrees across the intersection of the two runners on the landing.
Diagonal slices or miters which match the angle and rise matching the boarder (like the corners of a picture frame for example)then seam your runner. You can oversew it, use seaming tape with adhesive or do both (recommend using stitched seaming tape and oversewing with a curved needle since a staircase runner gets a lot of use/stress). You'll have to return your miter (for the outside edge of the tread to a straight seam for the next rise (face of the next step), you'll have to repeat this process for each pie shaped tread.
If you have a simple boxed landing with simple stairs off-set 90 degrees, then you just continue the lower runner to the landing, and run the upper runner to the landing and do a simple miter at 45 degrees across the intersection of the two runners on the landing.
