A Staircase Saga (Part 8) - the Balustrade.
It's been a while since I posted about this staircase. The last post was in August 2013, when I wrote about making the handrail . For well over a year I have had the privilege of working on the renovation project of a lovely 1930's Art Deco House in Wembley, Western Australia. While I had finished much of the staircase months ago, the balustrading upstairs could not to be made and installed until we had laid the jarrah floor, installed the lining board ceiling, the walls had been clad, the floor had been polished, etc. There has been lots to do in the rest of the house too. Downstairs, there is an original decorative panel above the hallway, which originally would have had a heavy curtain hanging below it, as was fashionable in that Era. Tulip panels clearly visible in the original overhead woodwork in the hallway. The tulip panel would be utilised and reproduced in the balustrading upstairs.It had previously been copied for the short piece of balustrading downstairs. Up the...