Yes. We fabricate the railings ourselves, so the balustrade is designed alongside the stair and finished to match rather than sourced separately. Glass, cable, and metal are all available, and we can match the finish to other metalwork in the house.

The persistent moisture off Budd Inlet works on fixings and base connections first rather than the structure, which is the pattern on nearly every coastal installation. We specify appropriate hardware and detail those connections deliberately, with non slip treads for wet conditions.

Usually noticeably. Open risers let daylight pass vertically through the staircase instead of stopping at each solid riser, so light from an upper window reaches the floor below. In a region with limited winter daylight, that is often as much the reason people choose them as the look.

In a renovation they frequently do. A minimal steel and timber stair against original woodwork in a South Capitol house reads as a deliberate contemporary intervention. The practical question is the existing opening and the structure around it, which in a period house needs measuring properly rather than assuming.