Since our new house will be high in the trees in the north Georgia mountains, I am carrying that theme throughout the house. At the center of the house is a staircase, the kind that switches back with a landing halfway up, flanked on one side by the two-story aviary. My idea is to make it look like you’re walking up through the woods. Here’s the inspiration photo:
I’m planning to use those lovely round balustrades (the name for the vertical spindles that march up the staircase) that delicately taper to the top as does a candle.
For my first stab at a trial I cut dowels 12″ long at an angle and sanded them. I held them up to our current railing to take this picture. We don’t have marching railing, so this is all I could do for now. (We had the wall filled in to house my husband’s humungous stereo/video system.) So, envision these marching and stained. The angle on the ends is greater than what shows here. I’m playing with making drawer pulls for the cabinets throughout the house with fatter dowels, but same angled idea.
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