Now that the dining room is painted, the giant gouge of a doorway that leads to the stairs stands out even more.

Here’s what it looks like right now:

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Why the hole-like appearance of what appears to be an original doorway? Well, our house was a two-family for some period of time, and the stairwell was blocked off with drywall. Then, when they reconverted back to a one-family, they just ripped the chunk of drywall out and left it as is. PRETTY.

Eventually Teague wants to do some work with the stairs – put in a landing, extend them a bit, etc. So there’s no point to buying molding that we’ll just take back off. We’re looking for some type of camouflage along the lines of curtains…..

Ideas: