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They say an eco-friendly house can't be built in 150 days for $150,000, and I say it can.
I'm Allen Smith. Join me as I push the limits with time, budget and creativity with the
Garden Home Challenge, exclusively on eHow Home. Today, the big thing is we're gonna
work on these stairs. We're gonna trim them out and finish them. So these 1x8s, we'll
do-- we'll rip them down for the risers. And then we're gonna use our flooring, existing
flooring that we already have here. So we're gonna use it on the treads for our stairs.
And we'll just put it together, and then we'll round the nosing on it for our nosing on the
treads. We just sawed this on the table saw, and it's square right now. So we're gonna
take this router and make the round nosing for our treads with it. Now all we need to
do is just sand off any irregularities or imperfections in it, and smooth it up. Now
we got it smoothed up really good, and we're ready to put it in. This is a riser, or the
face of one of the stairs-- we just slide that right in there. Then we're ready for
the flooring, put the flooring down on the tread. We'll just lay it in place. Now we
got a complete set of stairs, and we used the existing flooring that we already had
purchased, so we didn't have to buy anything extra for the stairs.