Funky Stairs need Hand Rail Ideas
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Need help/ideas for porch & stair railings
Comments (12)Insofar as arts & crafts style meant honest materials/ design your heavy 6x6 newels/guardrails are fine. By honest materials, I mean shingles and heavy timbers that aren't ashamed about what they are. 20 years previous, Victorians embraced the idea of all forms of sham and pretense. The porch posts were more like table legs writ large. The popular furniture style du jour was expended into the porch, the cornice, and the dormers! If a material could be tortured into a convoluted shape by saw or blade, it was. Or they cast it in plaster and tacked it on. Was it supposed to be emulating ancient stonework? then paint wood it and embed the surface with sand! Instant faux-stone. Things would not always (if ever?) be what they appeared. A&C was a reaction against this, and timber and shingle and natural lines without artifice and pretension were embraced. Your little bungalow is a simple expression of an honest ideal. "Let things be what they are". They _did_ like to use oversize elements, especially on the porch. Think of the huge pyramidal rounded fieldstone piers, and knee-braces and timbered gable decorations. Brutalism is something else entirely. It's about raw unfinished (and intentionally roughened) concrete surfaces. Not 6x6 porch railings. I grew up in a 1938 house that was sort of a stone cape cod and adirondack lodge combo. It had a third-floor interior balcony/catwalk enclosed with 4x6 white pine rails and 6x6 newel posts. Woodsy, but not brutal. The stair treads were solid 6x10's. I should scan the construction photo album from that place some day... Casey...See Morerequirements for hand railings in New Jersey for Exterior stairs
Comments (1)I'm not sure but it is probably the I2012 RC. A guard and a handrail are different requirements but they can sometimes serve the same purpose. R311.7.8 requires a handrail for 4 or more risers. R312.1.1 requires a 36" high "guard" at a walking surface more than 30" above grade. At the stairs a handrail can serve as the guard if it is between 34" and 38" above the nosing of the treads....See MoreIdeas for replacing interior 1950s iron railings and stair rail?
Comments (15)Be sure to sell or give away that beautiful old railing and not throw it on a heap. I happen to like it. But indeed, it might look better in black. The railing you have posted instead gave me some shudders. Quite a contrary style and not one I'd welcome in my home. Way too modern for a ranch home, is what comes to my mind. If you are really going to get a new railing, I like the one Judy proposed, although I wouldn't want it in white at your place. Perhaps in black and the railing that matches the wood of the stairs? Or maybe something like this?...See MoreHand rail ideas needed
Comments (8)This needs a rail on the close side or it is a safety hazard, and the hand rail needs to be able to go continuously from top to bottom, so it would be helpful to see up the stairs. What style are you going for? Would a classic wood railing in trim color not work? You could go black metal if you wanted something a bit more unique, but you'd need other black metal accents to compliment it....See MoreRelated Professionals
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