DIY Stair Slide If you’re looking to update your stairs, there are many ways you can do that: take up the carpet, install a carpeted stair runner, paint, restain, replace the railing, build a new banister/newel post, add fabric to the risers, plus more ideas here. But if you’re...
Helpful DIY advice on how to repair loose, squeaky, or broken stairs, handrails, balusters, posts and other stair parts.
Your garland should be the length of your stair railing with an additional foot per swag. Also take into account if you want it to cascade down the newel post. How do you secure garland without nails? There are so many ways to secure a garland to the stairs without using nails. Comman...
Above: my sister Linda Ann demonstrated that using this stair newel to try to maintain one's balance is going to be difficult. See details at NEWEL POST CONSTRUCTION Walking Up Stairs Without Handrailings In the photo above, Nizar is demonstrating how he hangs onto the door gate from a ...
Should the paint remover can nozzle be insufficiently wide to fit a paintbrush — tip an adequate amount of stripper into a metal container that allows you to dip in the brush. Generously load the brush with remover and then cover the paintwork with this stripper — ensuring that you penetrate...
In the first phase of our renovation, it felt liked there was a lot connected. The dining room led us to tackle a balcony which led to new windows and doors ...
be offset to accommodate the handrail, which needed room to gooseneck up to a let-in newel at the stairwell’s corner and connect at this newel to the short rail for the top three steps; that rail then tied into the top newel post on the second-floor guard (see finish photos below)....
While the old newel locations worked fine for our stair design, they did require notching the newel bases to fit over the treads, which presented an extra hurdle during installation. For the upper newel (also called the “landing newel”), some dissimilar trimwork on each side of the post ...