Stair Railing

At least the kids can't fall to the bottom floor any more!

Railing

Not sure when this happened, but I noticed this morning that they finished the stair railing in the garage.

Matt is working on staining the railing upstairs. I hope he finishes the upstairs this week. He still needs to do the varnish coats. He's the one I'm really concerned about.

Railing Installed

The railing is in for the stairs up to the kid's rooms. It turned out really well. I have to admit, I was bummed about putting the newell post in the middle of the curve, but it turned out ok.

Stair Railing Base

Gary finished all the base trim for the stair railing. Next will be the wood newell posts and then Matt can stain them in place. They will then put the hand rail up. The spindles won't go in until after the carpet is installed. The workers talked about the stocking days when they do all the touch up stuff.

Hi Dad.

Rail Bender

Interesting process to bend the wood railing around the bump out on the balcony. The trim carpenter bolted these heavy duty brackets to the floor and vice gripped layers of wood glued together to make them bend at the exact curvature of the floor. I can't quite picture what the rail will look like, but it will rest on top of the wrought iron spindles.

Stairs

The framers have now completed stairs going up and down.

The kids are loving that they can get to the basement through the house now instead of crawling through a window.