Custom Stairs & Railings

A staircase is the one piece of carpentry in a house that gets touched every single day, so it has to do two jobs at once: feel solid underfoot and look like it belongs. We build interior staircases, exterior entry stairs, and deck stairs from the stringers up, measuring the rise and run on site rather than trusting a plan that was drawn before the floor was poured. That on-site layout is what keeps every tread the same height, which is exactly what your foot expects and what the building inspector checks.

Railings built to code, finished by hand

Railing work is where the details show. Massachusetts code sets handrail height between 34 and 38 inches and limits baluster spacing so a 4-inch sphere can't pass through. Those small measurements matter a great deal on a stairway full of kids. We install wood, composite, cable, and metal railing systems, and we're as comfortable matching the profile of a 1900s newel post as we are running a clean horizontal cable rail across a modern deck. Every connection is through-bolted or lagged into solid framing, never just toe-nailed to a board.

For exterior and deck stairs we account for New England weather from the start: pressure-treated or naturally rot-resistant framing, stainless or hot-dipped galvanized hardware, and stringers spaced and flashed so water sheds instead of sitting. The result is a stair that still feels tight after a decade of freeze-thaw cycles, road salt, and wet boots.