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Custom Stairs
In our new home we built the stair case with Brazilian Cherry treads, handrails and newel post. The risers and stringers are made from poplar. Brazilian Cherry is a really beautiful wood and extremely dense. I’m told it’s about 100 times harder than red oak.
As you can see in the photos the design of our stair case included a landing allowing us to access the stairs from the foyer and the breakfast nook. This was a wonderful design idea we came up with and it really helps the daily flow of traffic.
I ordered all of the Brazilian Cherry parts from an online vendor, Stairsupplies.com. All of the parts were of great quality and craftsmanship. My only complaint was the lead time was much longer than they advertised. Having said that I’d still purchase stair parts from them again because of the quality and price. I had a local custom stair builder give me a price of $8,000 to build this stair case. I spent about $2,400 on parts and another $1,200 on labor and probably another 20 hours of my own time. All in all I’m really pleased with this stair case.
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Gorgeous – and I love the landing design. We’re planning on a Brazilian Cherry floor upstairs when we start renovating up there because the stuff is tough as nails and so pretty too.
Hey – is that a baby gate in that picture there? I’m laughing to myself because I see you guys have the same high-baseboard dilemma we have. Our baseboards are 7 1/2″ – so we always have a sizeable gap under our baby gates… enough so that our 3 year old is teaching our 18 month old to do the limbo in order to escape. :)
That is indeed a baby gate. I actually interupted the baseboard nd installed a narrow block of wood that I’ve attached the gate hardware to. It allowed me to set the gate a tad lower and also helped me mount the gate out away from the wall a bit further. Nothing like a great new staircase with a fine baby gate attached!