I had five of these walk under stairways to build in this home. It is for the owner of the “Jimmy Johns” sandwich shops that are all over the midwest and spreading rapidly.
These stairs have double 14 inch microlams that are 20 feet long inside to support them.
I had to make the raised panels that adorned the belly of these stairs.
You don't have to sacrifice historical elements of a house in the name of energy efficiency.
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Nice work, Stan. Something strange, though. Those stairs seem to be straight. Was it odd to not make everything bent?
Beautiful, nonetheless! I was beginning to wonder where the heck ya were!
Quality, Craftsmanship, Detail
Beautiful work as always. Were these built in your shop and moved, like your curved stairs, or were they built on site?
Crash: I had to build these on site....they were too big for the circumstances. Those stairs all stacked on top of each other for three floors. getting the top stairs in first would have been real tough.
Stan
stan... gorgeous... especially the way you integrated the paneling and the intermediate newels..
now.. a question..
i see you used a HALF-newel at the top... common enough
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i've done it myself 5 or 6 times..
it always seems too insubstantial compared to the rest of the work..
i wonder if we could develop a 3/4 newel that would have just a little more profile ..
Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Looks great Stan. As always, I enjoy your photos.
Jimmy Johns has pretty good sandwiches. Did they start down by you? Champaign maybe?
What I don't understand: you didn't punch the guy for putting that butt-ugly carpet runner on top of your beautiful woodwork?! Guess that's the key to getting future business- not punching out the client!
As always, nice work Stan!!
How come you didn't pick up that lint on then runner before taking the pic???
We always get it right!!!
the third time....
"Almost certain death, small chance of success.... What are we waiting for???"
Nice work Stan, looks like a nice little house.
Doug
wait ....
"all" that money ...
and that's "all" the dog he could afford?
Jeff