Custom staircases in Magog
An interior hardwood staircase drawn for a house by the water: the ceiling carries on up to the rafters, the mezzanine looks over the living room, and the flight is seen from below as much as from above. Drawing and milling both happen at our Granby workshop.
Measured, milled at our workshop, installed and finished by our own team
Eight staircase families. One that fits your home.
In a lakeside house the flight is seen from the living room, from the mezzanine and often from the front door: it has no blind side. These are the eight models we build in our own shop, each available in a classic or a contemporary style, and all shown under our staircases.
Straight staircase
The most common layout. Simple, solid, and the least costly to build.
Winder staircase
A quarter or a half turn, to save floor space without narrowing the treads.
Spiral staircase
When you need a way upstairs and there is very little floor to give.
Classic staircase
Closed risers and turned balusters. The warm, timeless choice.
Modern staircase
Exposed stringer and tempered glass. The change people notice first.
Butcher Block
Thick hardwood treads glued on edge. The thickness is the whole point.
Central stringer
One steel beam down the middle, and treads that look like they float.
Luxury staircase
Curves and wrought ironwork, for when the stair is the centrepiece.
How it works, from the site visit to the install
Under a tall ceiling the site visit counts for more: the number of treads changes, so does the headroom, and the guard grows with them.
A staircase drawn, built and installed by the same team.
Finished floor to finished floor, the run available on the floor, the width of the opening. Nothing is drawn before that visit.
You get a dimensioned drawing and a firm price: layout, wood species, stain, railing infill. Nothing is cut until you approve it.
Everything is made in Granby, in our own shop. Count six to eight weeks between the approved drawing and the install. We check the dimensions a second time once the stringers are laid out.
Our own crew installs it, in one to three days. No subcontractor: the same people from start to finish.
In Magog, the staircase stops being a passage. It becomes a room.
Houses that face the lake share one thing: the living space runs right up to the roof frame, and the upper floor is just a mezzanine. Your staircase is then seen from the living room, from the kitchen and from the gallery above, and the underside of the treads gets looked at as much as the top. That steers the choice: a Central Stringer or a floating flight let the light and the view through where two solid stringers would stop them. And the underside is sanded and finished like a face you see, not like a back. We draw and mill in Granby, for Magog and for the rest of Estrie.
- The underside of the treads is finished like a visible face
- A Central Stringer or a floating flight keeps the view open
- Headroom is worked out tread by tread under a sloped roof
What is included, and what drives the price
A custom staircase comes down to four or five decisions, not more. Here they are, so you know what to expect before you even call us.
- The site measurement, at your home
- The dimensioned drawing and your approval
- Manufacturing in our own shop in Granby
- Installation and finishing by our own crew
- The layout: straight, winder, spiral
- The number of treads and the height to climb
- The wood species and the stain
- The railing infill: wood, metal, glass
- Moving the floor opening
- Keeping the existing stringers and anchors
- Reusing the opening exactly as it is
- Choosing a common wood species
- Doing the staircase and the railing together
Tell us what you have at home and we will tell you what it costs. The form is right below.
Three figures, and measuring does the rest
How much height there is to gain, how much floor length you can give it, and what the upper level will be used for: those three let us answer you seriously straight away. One picture shot from the foot of the stairwell fills in the rest.
Measuring then happens on site. If the house is only lived in for part of the year, do say so: we fit the visit around your stays rather than the other way round.
From the first measurement to the last tread, one team.
We subcontract neither the manufacturing nor the installation. The same team measures, mills and installs — and that is what allows us to correct on site the discrepancies no drawing ever anticipates.
Design
We measure the opening at your home, set out the rise and run, and settle the wood species and the railing. The project is fixed before a single piece is cut.
Manufacturing
Milled at the workshop, in hardwood. Every staircase is built for its own opening: nothing is assembled in series or pulled from stock.
Installation
Installed by our own team, in one to three days. Adjustments are made on site, against the real opening rather than the drawing.
Restoration
Straight, winder or spiral, classic or modern — measured at your home, milled at the workshop, installed by our team.
A few of our projects
Flights brought together by their geometry rather than by their address. Every entry states the layout, the wood species chosen and the finish applied.
Is it the railing rather than the stairs?
When the structure is sound and only the mezzanine guard gives concern, the work stays above the stringer: nothing is taken down, and the long span becomes the real question.
