Stair Crazy

The builders have asked for the details of the staircase. We have always said that we wanted something unusual, simple and chunky looking that will be hidden completely behind a wall. The French seem experts in producing creaky staircases and given our exacting requirements this would need to be of a bespoke design and hand made. These are the details that we quickly drawn up.

  Together with the drawings the builders were also sent a photograph of a similar staircase that was found on the Internet. If ours turns out like this one we shall be really pleased.

The baluster at the landing level was something else that was a thought about hard and long.First of all we were thinking of glass then developed into something a bit more simple in the form of stainless steel posts and wire. It moved onto wrought iron and is always the case back to our original idea of glass.

For more details on stairs in oak and glass that can be purchased in kit form here are a few links.

 http://www.tradestairs.com/acatalog/Vision_Oak_Grooved_Handrails.html

http://www.stairplan.com/townsend-oak-staircase.html

One last thing is that we had a bit of surprise with the discarded floor joists in that they are of oak and have enough to make the treads and risers. Cutting the timbers down to the right dimensions and building up the staircase is going to be a really nice job for the joiners right now particularly as the temperature in France is around about -9 degrees during the day. The inside of the house is bitterly cold especially when the wind gets up and we think on more than one occasion Tony and Steve had to head back home early to get warm.