Custom staircases in Varennes
The municipal assessment roll puts the median build year in Varennes at 1987 — the decade when the two-storey cottage displaced the bungalow and the climb moved out of the corridor into the living room. Our flights leave the workshop in hardwood, drawn for the stairwell that stock left behind.
Measured, milled at our workshop, installed and finished by our own team
Eight staircase families. One that fits your home.
In a 1980s cottage the flight no longer drops to the basement from a corridor: it climbs to the upper floor in full view of the living room. Not every layout suits that stairwell. 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
Here the site visit starts with the age of the house: it tells us the opening, the floor-to-floor gap and the landing junction.
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 Varennes, the staircase moved house in the mid-1980s.
The median build year here is 1987, the moment the two-storey cottage took over on the land between the river and the highway. The shift is not a decorative detail: in a bungalow the flight ran down to the basement from a closed corridor; in a cottage it climbs to the upper floor in the middle of the living room, exposed on every side. Your staircase stops being a utility and becomes the thing you look at from the sofa. And because openings of that generation are narrow, the shape gets settled after the age of the house, not before. Every flight is milled in Granby before it takes the road into Montérégie.
- The build year is established before the first measurement
- The riser is recalculated on the real finished-floor to finished-floor gap
- The junction with the upper landing is settled before anything is drawn
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.
Start with the year of the house; the height can follow
In Varennes the build date already says a great deal: the storey height chosen at the time, the length of the opening, the way the flight was originally set out. Put it in the form, along with the street name if you like.
Add the distance from the lower floor to the upper one, measured finish to finish. We come out afterwards to measure the whole stairwell, with the cabinetmaker who will cut the parts.
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
Three builds documented from the first site measurement through to the final coat of varnish. You can see the wood chosen, how the stringers were treated and the tone it finished at.
Is it the railing rather than the stairs?
On cottages of that generation the treads are often still true while the guard has worked loose at every post. Rebuilding the whole flight would achieve nothing. The railing can be handled on its own, and that is the request we get most often here.
