Wood Railing

Stairs Railing

When building a new home, a detail that is often overlooked is the deck stairs. But they are a very important element of the home, essential to travelling from level to levell. Often these exterior deck stairs will lead to the backyard. This area can sometimes be manicured into a courtyard or landscaped with plants and bushes.

Timber Frame Deck Stairs

Deck stairs railing comes in many different forms. The most basic handrail, seen on just about every house, is made with pressure treated lumber with 2×2 pickets running straight up and down. The visual effect of this look is equivalent to bars on a window. This pattern really does nothing to enhance the view from your deck or the way it appears to onlookers. There are some interesting geometric patterns that can be made with lumber. But no square shape can compare to the rustic beauty of the organic and wondrous forms made by woven branches.

Deck Stairs Railing

Mountain Laurel Handrails are crafted by skilled carpenters versed in combining disparate pieces into a cohesive whole. The handrail sections pictured about arrive as an easy to install railing kit. Sections are built to custom measurements and each order is unique. When they arrive, simply trim the ends of the sections and slide them into place. Screws are the suggested fastener for securing the wooden handrail to the posts. This wood handrail endows any home with incomparable and utterly unique works of art!

Carolina Branch Railing

What a beautiful backdrop for this Mountain Laurel Handrail! These deck railing pictures show the forest near the Blue Ridge Parkway in Western North Carolina is the traditional setting for this artform. The curved and sinuous shapes of the rhododendron and mountain laurel trees inspired previous generations efforts to decorate their abodes and set the stage for this work you see here. The trees with yellow leaves in the picture are rhododendron trees in the fall. It’s an evergreen tree but drops old leaves in the fall.

Couch and Handrail

This project, like many, is custom and was closely coordinated between homeowner, design team and workshop. A good amount of woodwork like milling and roughing up lumber was required to achieve this elegantly spaced pattern. The homeowners vision of spacing and mass was translated by the designer in a series of drawings and achieved in the wood shop. As usual, the onsite contractor and carpenter assembled the railing with nice cuts and tight joints.

Mountain Laurel Handrail Installed on a Curved Deck!

Best Deck Railing

This curved deck railingproject was a labor of love for the Wood Railing crew. The home’s beautifully curved deck and majestic log framing required the best deck railing available.

Awesome Railing

There are two curved sections which each required a special jig for bending the cedar 1×4 lumber and another jig for building the sections. The carpenters had to use a stool while working on the more strongly curved section on the workbench.

Incredible Curved Railing

Each curve on the deck is just a piece of a much larger circle. Through careful coordination with the onsite contractor, the finished result is an incredible curved handrail!

Log Home Deck Railing

Rubble Stone Wood Railing

Each curved portion of the deck had three sections of railing for a total of 24 bent 1x4s.  The section with the more gentle curve has three inches of arc in six feet while the stronger circle has eleven inches of arc over seven feet. Cedar was chosen as the lumber for this project because it is weather resistant and also soft and (relatively) easy to bend. We’ve done some projects in ipe, a Brazilian hardwood, and oak and it would be impossible to get this kind of curvature out of a hardwood. I don’t even think that we would have gotten similar results with a softwood like spruce or pine.

Log Home Porch Railing

The front porch of the home also has Mountain Laurel Handrails installed. Contact today for more info!

Log Home Wood Railing