Lawn Avenue.
A multi-story switchback in walnut-stained oak, threading three full floors of a Western Springs new build past a sparkling glass-globe chandelier.
Some projects name themselves by their signature. Some take the address. This Western Springs build is Lawn Avenue — a multi-flight switchback that delivers three full floors of a luxury new construction with the same vocabulary repeating, flight after flight.
The stair lives at the center of a generous coffered-ceilinged foyer, with a Carrara-paneled dining room on one side and a deep-navy china cabinet wall on the other. The runs are arranged as a classical switchback, with a wide intermediate landing between the main and upper floors and a smaller turn descending to the lower level. From the foyer you see all of it at once, and the eye climbs from the leaded-glass front door past the staircase to a chandelier that scatters daylight across the second-floor ceiling.
The wood is walnut-stained red oak — darker than honey, warmer than ebony, sitting comfortably between the two. The treads carry the same stain as the floor, so the stair flows out of the foyer rather than landing on top of it. Risers are bone-white, scribed flush. The handrail and newels match the treads — a single tone across every wood element, no mixing.
The newels are heavy turned solid oak with deep ring profiles and a flared bullnose top — the same family as the newels on Burr Ridge Versailles and the Oak Brook Radius, but proportioned slightly taller and slimmer to fit this home's tall coffered ceilings. The balusters are slim twisted iron with knuckle midpoints, set at tight pitch so the lines blur from across the room. The whole stair reads as fine joinery doing the work of architecture.
Walnut-stained oak — darker than honey, warmer than ebony, sitting comfortably between the two.
Foyer context — the navy-paneled archway framing the stair from the dining room.
Looking down the well from the upper hall, the lower flight catching daylight.
Entry hall view — the stair visible past the deep-navy china cabinet.
Mid-stair elevation, both runs visible, the white risers stepping cleanly.
Upper landing run, looking back through the second-floor hall.
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Lawn Avenue.
A multi-story switchback in walnut-stained oak, threading three full floors of a Western Springs new build past a sparkling glass-globe chandelier.
Some projects name themselves by their signature. Some take the address. This Western Springs build is Lawn Avenue — a multi-flight switchback that delivers three full floors of a luxury new construction with the same vocabulary repeating, flight after flight.
The stair lives at the center of a generous coffered-ceilinged foyer, with a Carrara-paneled dining room on one side and a deep-navy china cabinet wall on the other. The runs are arranged as a classical switchback, with a wide intermediate landing between the main and upper floors and a smaller turn descending to the lower level. From the foyer you see all of it at once, and the eye climbs from the leaded-glass front door past the staircase to a chandelier that scatters daylight across the second-floor ceiling.
The wood is walnut-stained red oak — darker than honey, warmer than ebony, sitting comfortably between the two. The treads carry the same stain as the floor, so the stair flows out of the foyer rather than landing on top of it. Risers are bone-white, scribed flush. The handrail and newels match the treads — a single tone across every wood element, no mixing.
The newels are heavy turned solid oak with deep ring profiles and a flared bullnose top — the same family as the newels on Burr Ridge Versailles and the Oak Brook Radius, but proportioned slightly taller and slimmer to fit this home's tall coffered ceilings. The balusters are slim twisted iron with knuckle midpoints, set at tight pitch so the lines blur from across the room. The whole stair reads as fine joinery doing the work of architecture.
Walnut-stained oak — darker than honey, warmer than ebony, sitting comfortably between the two.
Foyer context — the navy-paneled archway framing the stair from the dining room.
Looking down the well from the upper hall, the lower flight catching daylight.
Entry hall view — the stair visible past the deep-navy china cabinet.
Mid-stair elevation, both runs visible, the white risers stepping cleanly.
Upper landing run, looking back through the second-floor hall.