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Saturday, October 29, 2016

Nice Switch Back Design

This Octagon newel post starts a series of 180° switch back transitions as the stairs ascend to the 3rd floor. We see a tight twist fitting making up the 2 180° turns

Stacked

Incredible View looking down from the 3rd floor onto the 2nd floor below

This radius balcony overlook adds a ton of detail and a graceful turn on the 2nd floor hallway

Octagonal Newel Post

A real nice example of a Octagonal newel post, this example appears to have a few extra
detail features added to the top and lower turned sections.

A lot of careful and well thought through planning went into designing this handrail system, with a combination of straight treads and curved transitions this handrail flows nicely down into the twisted volute at the bottom starting bullnose

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Twisted Square Block Newel Posts

Echoed Paneling

Smooth Flowing

Twisted

Box Posts

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Now that's a Ramp Easing

Great view from the side of this really interesting Ramp Easing, it must by almost 3' long

Nice close up view of the Rail Cap and the Ramp Easing

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Simple Elegance

It doesn't always have to have a ton of detail and fancy moulding to look good, this

handrail system just a warm feel to it. There is not a detail but what is there works well together.

This is a nice view of the octagon newel post and some well designed balusters. I wish there was more of the stair brackets as they look attractive too.

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Twisted Stair Design

A real nice Octagon newel post and Twisted rail caps start off this incredible stair design and layout. Toad Back handrail profile pretty standard for the times and a great finial turning for finish off the top of the cap

You don't see too many Level return handrails in these early stair layouts, here is one where the newel post does not match the octagon starting post.

A great view looking up through the stairwell, the tight and twisting handrail is very dramatic as it makes it way up to the 2nd floor hallway area.

Here in this view you can really see the overall stair design...note the reversed curved treads at the top of the stairs to keep the pitch the same as the rest of the stairs.

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Twisted

Nice stair design, it is very popular here in the NE. A Twisted Volute starts a graceful climb up to a twisted 180° transition and up and across the upper hallway balcony.

Great view of the 2nd to 3rd stair and the twisted 180° transition of the level handrail to the upper stairs. It then wraps around the upper balcony and dies into the wall.