The floating oak.
An open-riser cantilever in solid white oak, anchored to chunky hand-shaped newels.
There are floating stairs that try to look weightless and floating stairs that look substantial — like a piece of joinery that happens to defy gravity. This one is the second kind. Solid white oak treads, hand-shaped oak newels, and a single deliberate detail that signs the work.
The signature is the newel post. Most modern floating stairs hide their structure or skip the newel altogether — a clean cable run, no anchor visible. We took the opposite approach: a chunky solid-oak post with a separated cap, sitting above a slim reveal. Look at the top of any newel in this stair and you'll see a thin shadow line where the cap floats over the post. That's the project's handshake.
The treads themselves are full solid oak — not veneer, not laminate. They cantilever from a hidden steel armature inside the wall, sized so the wood does almost no work and the steel does almost all of it. The result is a stair that feels heavy and looks light, which is the right way around.
The handrail is a flat-topped square-section oak profile — comfortable to grip, clean to look at, and easy to terminate cleanly against the chunky newels. Matte-black round steel balusters carry the line, and a matching wall-mounted oak rail with black brackets carries the language onto the closed side of the run.
A stair that feels heavy and looks light — which is the right way around.
The full elevation — treads cantilever past the chunky newel posts.
Detail of the floating cap on the newel — a thin reveal between cap and post.
Mid-flight, with the wall-mounted oak rail on the closed side.
Looking down the run — treads, rail, and the board-and-batten wall pattern.
The lower landing and the start of the run.
Wall-mounted handrail on black brackets — same oak as the stair rail.
The stair in context with the surrounding millwork.
A quiet shot of the run, the way the family sees it on the way to bed.
Tell us about the stair your house deserves.
The floating oak.
An open-riser cantilever in solid white oak, anchored to chunky hand-shaped newels.
There are floating stairs that try to look weightless and floating stairs that look substantial — like a piece of joinery that happens to defy gravity. This one is the second kind. Solid white oak treads, hand-shaped oak newels, and a single deliberate detail that signs the work.
The signature is the newel post. Most modern floating stairs hide their structure or skip the newel altogether — a clean cable run, no anchor visible. We took the opposite approach: a chunky solid-oak post with a separated cap, sitting above a slim reveal. Look at the top of any newel in this stair and you'll see a thin shadow line where the cap floats over the post. That's the project's handshake.
The treads themselves are full solid oak — not veneer, not laminate. They cantilever from a hidden steel armature inside the wall, sized so the wood does almost no work and the steel does almost all of it. The result is a stair that feels heavy and looks light, which is the right way around.
The handrail is a flat-topped square-section oak profile — comfortable to grip, clean to look at, and easy to terminate cleanly against the chunky newels. Matte-black round steel balusters carry the line, and a matching wall-mounted oak rail with black brackets carries the language onto the closed side of the run.
A stair that feels heavy and looks light — which is the right way around.
The full elevation — treads cantilever past the chunky newel posts.
Detail of the floating cap on the newel — a thin reveal between cap and post.
Mid-flight, with the wall-mounted oak rail on the closed side.
Looking down the run — treads, rail, and the board-and-batten wall pattern.
The lower landing and the start of the run.
Wall-mounted handrail on black brackets — same oak as the stair rail.
The stair in context with the surrounding millwork.
A quiet shot of the run, the way the family sees it on the way to bed.