Bertram-Blondina Handrail & Stair

Distinctive stairs occupy an important part of nearly every classic architectural style. Whether straight or curved, steep or gradually inclined, narrow or wide, grand or understated, stairs can make a stylistic statement of their own or be used to tie the whole house visually together. Balance and simplicity are sometimes all that is needed for an entrance stair.

Similar to Arts and Craft style but distinguished by the sequencing of balusters, patterns cut into balusters or rectangular balusters. Our craftsman style encourages originality, simplicity of form, and the visibility of handicraft. The earlier craftsman usually made the moldings and trim on site with their available tools resulting in beveled cuts and linear design.

Greene and Greene was an architectural firm established by brothers Charles Sumner Greene (1868-1957) and Henry Mather Greene (1870-1954), influential early 20th Century American architects. Active primarily in California, their bungalow houses and larger-scale ultimate bungalows are prime exemplars of the American Arts and Crafts Movement.

Spiral stairs wind around a central pole. They typically have a handrail on the outer side only. Spiral stairs were originally designed in a clockwise ascent in order to fend off right-handed attacking swordsmen but have undergone many changes over the 2500 years since their introduction.

Today spiral stairs are used as a space efficient way to achieve the next higher floor and if you are not worried about right handed swordsmen they are also available in reverse-clockwise ascent direction.A 5' diameter spiral is the smallest that will meet California Stair Code. We design and build custom spiral stairs as well as work with a company that specializes in spiral stairs to bring you a very nice product at an affordable price.

Architectural Millwork is defined as any wood mill produced building construction interior finish component such as doors, window casing, baseboard, mantels, and crown molding created to match an architectural style. Architectural Millwork dovetails with stiarbuilding.

We have been asked to fabricate a large variety of architectural millwork projects such as hardwood beams, custom corbels, custom pot racks, butcher block counter tops, wainscotting, post wraps, coffered ceilings, columns, built-ins, custom millwork, etc.We bend wood and bandsaw radius pieces for various projects.