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The Western Springs sweep — Western Springs — Custom Railz & Stairz
Gallery/Western Springs · Illinois

The Western Springs sweep.

A three-story continuous curved stair, finished with a flared bullnose at the entry and a single walnut handrail running from cellar to crown.

Three floors. One stair. No breaks. A curved sweep that starts with a flared bullnose at the entry foyer, climbs continuously to the second floor and the third, and resolves into a single walnut handrail you can run your hand along from the first tread to the top landing without ever lifting it.

The signature move is the entry: a flared three-step bullnose that fans out from the curve into the foyer, set under a pair of brass-and-glass pendants. It's the kind of detail that takes a stair from architectural to sculptural — the moment where a flight of stairs starts behaving like a piece of furniture.

The geometry is uncompromising. Every tread is curved. The handrail follows a true helix, hand-formed in sections in our shop and joined so the seams disappear. The turned white balusters carry a classical vocabulary into a contemporary envelope — they read as traditional from below and as rhythm from the side.

Look up the well from the entry: three full stories of stair resolve into a single, ascending curve. The walnut rail is a continuous line. The white balusters are a steady drumbeat under it. The whole house reveals itself through the geometry of the stair, which is what a curved stair is supposed to do.

Specifications
StyleContinuous curved · three full stories
TreadsWalnut, clear finish
HandrailSolid walnut, continuous over the run
BalustersTurned white, classical profile
Bottom stepFlared three-step bullnose
ScopeStair, rails, and bullnose flare in our shop

A curved sweep where the handrail is one piece — first tread to top landing, never lifted.

Selected Frames

The entry foyer in full context — flared bullnose, brass pendants, double-door entry.

The arched front door framed by the curve of the bottom flight.

Looking up from the entry — the helix resolves into the second-floor balustrade.

The foyer at a closer reading distance — bullnose flare, turned balusters, walnut rail.

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