OhCrapItsYouAgain t1_je3nvgc wrote
Either way you’re going to need trim where the flooring ends and the stairwell begins, and for the trim to look right you’d either need a drywall crew OR go the route of a nice wood piece. That part is completely up to you: personally, I would get wood pieces to “box in” the stairwell - it’ll accent it/could looks a heck of a lot nicer than drywall there.
DukeJan OP t1_je5d95a wrote
I tried googling boxing in stairwell with wood, any idea where to find some handy guides on it? Should I just use concrete screws to attach the wood to the side? And put some bumpers on the topside?
OhCrapItsYouAgain t1_je69553 wrote
Yeah sorry, I wasn’t really using a true terminology. What I meant was, install planks of nice looking wood (stained/finished to your color choice) around that vertical surface in your pics. Personally, I would have the planks extend about 1/4-1/2 inch above the top of your floor (on 3 sides, but flush at the side where your stairs exit), and then install like a 1/2” (or whatever thickness gets you flush to the top of those vertical planks) by 1.5” or 2” with a nice finished edge to sort of “cap” over your flooring on the upper level. And on the stair exit side, you can pop on that metal piece that the other commenter posted.
Minothor t1_je5lc8g wrote
I'd say: go with the wood panel idea, you can get some thin plank or a decent looking piece of ply cut to size for the walls of the hole, sand it lightly and varnish/oil it to make it look a little nicer and polished.
Then surround the edges of the laminate flooring above and the ceiling below with with edging profiles like this:
You can probably find brass, wood or black ones depending on what you think would look nice.
Personally, I'd go with wood edging strips stained/varnished to match the siding wood and the upstairs flooring, but it's not my home - you do you and make it your own.
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