After designing and painting her own staircase at home during the latter part of 2016, Cheryl Pardington thought that everyone should have either the staircase of their dreams, or at least be able to hang replicas of their favorite books on the wall of their favorite room. That, along with the coaxing of a multitude of her followers on both, Facebook and Instagram, is how the idea of custom painted risers spawned. So, in January of 2017, she started her Denver, Colorado based company, Risers & Spines, LLC.