Stair runner + wooden landing = okay?

[WastingMyYoungYears]

I want to have a wooden landing at the top of the stairs, then stairs painted white at the edges, with a plain runner down the middle.

Would this look okay? Would it be slippy at the top of the stairs?

What are you planning to do with the top step? Are you just going to end the runner under the top tread? If you do this the top step up will seem less big than all the rest (particularly if you are adding underlay too. If the stairs are made of wood, the top stair will wear down.

If you carried the runner just over the tope step, it would probably end up being a trip hazard.

Having just ripped the stair carpet up off my very old staircase, I can see that previous owners used to run their runners along the landings and round to each door.

This thread might be useful Runner meets landing thread

Thanks both .

Madcats, yes, I was thinking of ending the runner on the last vertical part of the stair (the runner?). I hadn't thought about the last step being smaller due to no underlay or carpet. I also hadn't thought about wear. Hmm.

I can't quite envisage having the landing at the top with a runner as it's an odd shape.

JellyBelly, I read that thread this morning .

We have exactly this, we replaced all of the floorboards upstairs with oak floorboards and have sanded and used osmo floor oil on them. Our stairs have a runner which ends at the top of the last vertical and then the first floorboard has a lovely shaped edge that comes over the top of the vertical by about an inch.

Looks lovely and definitely not slippery but I suppose that could depend on what you used on the boards at the top.

I probably ought to mention that our worn stairs are 200+ years old (it just seems odd that it is the top step that is the only one to wear on each flight, so I am guessing the carpet ended before the landings at some point).

I also think that carpet is probably slippier than a wooden painted floor if you are hurtling down the stairs in socks!