Modern Spiral Stairs

Here is the complete process for the back set of spiral stairs from start to finish. This is the first project of many to be completed on this phase of the renovation.

Before the project started there was nothing functionally wrong with the stairs.  They just looked off from the rest of the renovations we had done to our great room (family room, kitchen, and loft/kids playroom)

 

They had to take off the spindles because they said that there wouldn't be a good way to stain the whole thing otherwise.  When they first stained it, it looked really dark so they had to sand it down and do it again.

 

They custom made over 150 white spindles but unfortunately when they started going up there were a couple of problems.  I was concerned it was going to look like a wall due to the fact that the size of the spindles were increasing x2 because of the spacing of the wholes on the steps.  They said that they had to use the same holes otherwise the banister would have to be replaced.  It turned out to be what I feared and on top of it, since the custom spindles were made by hand, they did not all look the same and had some quality issues.

 

They took them down and we brainstormed for solutions to fix the problems.  I decided to use a thin piece of wood over the holes so we could space them out however we wanted to.  I also determined that the custom spindles were making it too busy so we used a pattern of 2 plain square spindles and 1 custom one. 

 

In the end, it looks perfect! I am so excited to walk into my family room and see how much more modern the stairs now look.  Thrilled!