Elevate your timber staircase with bespoke design options including continuous handrails and feature steps. Explore how these crafted details enhance safety, style and architectural impact.
Additional Design Options
Continuous handrails
Continuous handrails offer seamless elegance and enhanced safety through uninterrupted timber that flows along your staircase.
Explore the different designs and finishing touches available below.
Whether you are working on a new installation or a renovation project, our timber handrails are also available to order directly from our shop.
Continuous handrail
Continuous handrail is a sculpted piece of timber which gracefully follows the full run of the staircase in a smooth unbroken curve. This impressive piece of craftmanship is often paired with metal spindles, giving the staircase a modern yet warm look.
Continuous handrail with newel posts
A continuous handrail on newels means a handrail that flows smoothly over the tops of newel posts, creating a single, unbroken surface along the staircase. This design eliminates breaks in the handrail, enhancing safety and aesthetics by allowing a user to maintain a continuous grasp.
Start with a volute
Enhance your continuous handrail with a choice of three elegant volute styles that bring traditional class to your staircase. Our standard flat volute offers timeless appeal, while the wreathed volute creates a more refined finish by positioning lower on the feature step for superior visual flow. For the ultimate statement piece, choose our special large wreathed volute to add dramatic elegance that transforms your staircase into a stunning focal point.
Feature step
A Feature step offers the opportunity to create a wider, more welcoming entrance to your staircase, potentially enabling approach from different angles depending on your layout and space. This design choice can improve both the visual flow and practical functionality of your entrance area, while adding distinctive architectural character that enhances the proportions and style of your staircase.
Explore our various feature step styles detailed below.
Bullnose
The bullnose feature step creates a graceful, curved entrance to your staircase with its distinctive rounded end that extends beyond the string. This classic design softens the transition from floor to staircase which works beautifully in both traditional and contemporary homes.
Curtail
The curtail feature step adds refined character to your staircase entrance by extending beyond and returning into the side of the newel post. This timeless architectural feature provides visual balance and sophistication.
Large curtail and bullnose
This premium feature step combines both curtail and bullnose elements in one generous design. The larger proportions create a truly commanding presence at your staircase base, offering the perfect solution for grand hallways where you want to make a bold architectural statement that showcases both traditional craftsmanship and elegance.
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