This Park Hill bungalow needed some love.
This growing family needed some solutions to their storage problems that preserved the charm of their classic home.
The basement stair was a later addition and was not built to code. After several trips and falls, the family wanted something safe for their elderly parents and kids to access their family room. We added a continuous hardwood handrail with solid anchoring for a safe grip. The tread heights were adjusted to be within the code-required variance of +/- 3/16”. Everything was refinished and re-trimmed with WindsorOne pine mouldings so as to not be upstaged by this home’s charming original details. We even added a little built-in linen closet for additional storage, making use of an underutilized corner of their restroom.
Fir beam creates a substantial mantle at a modest price. The surround floats over the original brick just in case someone wants’ to restore it one day.
shaker style mantle surround
Stair treads replaced and stained, risers painted, skirt trim boards added
This was our solution for adding a safe grip rail. This extension floats over the bottom stair tread for steady support the whole way up.
Sometimes in older homes, there’s just no good place to put a stair. Here we made the best of a tight turn, adding an additional tread to equalize the tread heights and make this a lot safer.
graceful transitions help to blend this new stair skirting with the finished basement’s existing trim.
built-in added that takes advantage of wasted space in the adjoining bathroom
Before. Oak floors in bad shape, no wall trim, unsafe stair, no grip rails
before: damaged wall trim, odd transitions, and varrying stair heights and depths
Before: plain brick with outdated, painted mantle. Cute, but we could do a little better.
