These guys sell Cumaru stair parts.

I'm sure there are others. I was shopping for some stair parts in Santos Mahogany recently.

Here is a link that might be useful: Stair Supplies

We've got Cumaru - love them! They are being finished this week, so I can't get into the house to get photos - too stinky! IMO, if you love the flooring, get it because you'll have a lot more of that surface area to look at than the stairs. We did Cumaru treads and railings with painted risers and iron ballusters. This way we saved a little (just a smidge, but it all adds up!). Plus, the ballusters are difficult to 'turn' in cumaru because the wood is so hard. Before we decided to go for it and get the cumaru treads we were going to go with another wood grain and match it with a stain.

We are going through the same thing. We have Tigerwood floors throughout the upstairs, and do have the top of the landing in a Tigerwood nosing. My original supplier has since gone bankrupt and we still need to do the stairs down to the front entry. We have enough wood planks left over to do the stair treads, but would need to order nosing. The nosing (3" wide) is around $100 for a 7foot long piece (which would do 2 stair treads), and then we'd need more to create a return on one side of each tread, add a box newel post, handrail, and yikes, it's getting close to $2000. (Probably more if I need to pay exchange, duty, etc.) This is for stairs that we'd be installing ourselves with 'left-over material. And like you, ordering online doesn't guarantee matching- (though I think if I did go ahead, I would send a sample of my floor to them, so that they could try and match!)

However, I had my heart set on ordering Tigerwood heat register covers, even though my flooring installer thought they were way too expensive, and said he could stain Oak to match. Long story short, after delaying floor installation for weeks waiting for the TW registers, we finally cancelled the order, cuz it seemed like we were never going to get them. My flooring fellow did stain the Oak ones, and they look great! No one would ever notice that they were not Tigerwood! So, ... particularly with teak, which is more uniform than TW I bet a good stainer could do the railings to match- or you could go iron?

If you want Teak, I would compromise on the stair tread and railing and keep the floor you really want. I admit that I love it each time someone comments on how nice my floor is!

clg - That's the one place online I found that had the double rounded first step in cumaru! I'm worried about the matching of the wood, and the quality. I didn't see any online reviews of the company. Do you (or anyone) have any experience with them?

Mairin - Funny - I've been following your progress (and lusting after your potential countertops!) as we seem to have a similar style. I can't wait to see your pictures! Please share when you can! We considered iron balusters too, but a stairman mentioned that our stair area is rather small and they may not look good there. That lead us to wood.

Raehelen - wow - your registers look great! You'd never know it's not the same wood. My concern is that the step is 5" wide so if it's a little off, there's a lot of space to notice it. (And I'm not sure if my floor guy is as good as yours!)

We've already contracted for all wood stairs, including risers, the "catch" is it was presented as "in your choice of any wood we carry". We didn't realize they didn't carry the steps we need in all the flooring woods. We could try and take the stairs out of the contract price, but I really have the same issue either way. Even if I order the stair parts on line myself, and have someone else install (I'm a diy'er, but more on the painting level!) I'm still unsure the floor would match the stairs. My biggest issue is the first step. This step is right inside the front door - literally 6 feet from the door, so it's really visible. There are railings in both the kitchen and the stairway that need to match, but I am a little more comfortable trying to stain a different wood to match those. Has anyone done all wood steps in a different wood and tried to match the stain?

mairin - I just noticed that you said you did cumaru railings. Do you know where you got them? BR111 (the floor company) lists the treads, but not railings. Assuming you got them from a different company, how is the match?

We have cumaru floors and our floor contractor also made treads of cumaru for all of the steps EXCEPT the bottom double rounded tread. Our stair contractor is doing the bottom tread in cumaru, the balusters painted white (I think they are maple but not sure), and the handrail in Brazilian cherry. Many reasons for the Brazilian cherry---cost, difficulty in getting it locally (would have to have it shipped from out of state)and not knowing whether it would really match after all the cost and effort.

We have settled on the Brazilian cherry and will have it stained a darker color than the stair treads and the rest of our floor. The darker handrail will be close to and hopefully match our dark stained kitchen island which is visible from the stairs. I have always liked the pictures I've seen of stairs with white balusters and very dark, almost mahogany, handrails. Our solution worked for me because of this and my fear that I would be trying to match the handrail to the treads and floor but miss on a really good match. I knew this would drive me completely buggy and opted to make the handrail noticeably different. HTH.

sorry i missed your question about the railing! The stairs are not yet completed with balusters and railing because they just finished the floors this week. Our flooring guy has gotten everything for us, so I'm not sure about the sources. I'll contact my builder and ask. As soon as it goes in I'll take a picture and post it. You can email me off my page (your page isn't set up for this).