It was love at first sight.  At first glance our foyer was open, airy, and had a gorgeous curved staircase.  (It also was disgustingly dirty and had about 10 yrs of soot caked on it — but that’s a story for another day!)  The staircase is one of my favorite things about our house.  The only problem is our house was built in ’86 and the wood railing was looking quite tired and outdated.  On Houzz I had seen several black railings that I thought looked very sharp.  Since we have a lot of black accents on our house I decided to do it. See below for instructions on how…