Staircase what paint to use

last year

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We refinished our existing wood floors with Bona light color and also added same floors throughout the house. We didn’t do stairs at that time and left them in their original condition (dark handscraped) as i liked the contrast but now want to redo them in black. our frie recently painted their stairs with proclassic oil based and love those but we are worried the VOCs are not good for our family and want to stick with water based paint that will adhere strongly. attaching picture of our current floor and stair wood colors and also our friends that I am

inspired to do. please suggest a good water based paint that doesnt peel.

we considered staining but it doesnt give the modern finished look I am

aiming for

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Patricia Colwell Consulting
last year
There are100s of VOC free or low paints find one for floors that will stand up well but before you do that you need to know what on there now is it oil based or maybe even lead who knows you need to test it to find out or the new paint will peel. I think a nice runner on the siars with a colorto work with the lighter floor could look nice
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la_la Girl
last year
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I would head to a Sherwin Williams or Ben Moore paint store and talk with someone there and get some good advice on formulas to use - FWIW we've had painted stairs for years and did opt to put in a fine mix-in to the paint that made the stairs less slippery (we did this years ago for young kids, you can't see it but it def made a difference) - will black stairs be hard to keep clean?
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