"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Your staircase should be more than an avenue for ascending or descending to different floors. As these ...

Picture a stair slope in your mind to estimate about a 40-degree slope and guess at a landing point. Rest any straight piece of deck lumber on the deck and level it over to the landing point. Measure ...

Amateur carpenters who have laid out the cuts in a stair stringer (the zig-zag structural support for the steps) know the queasy feeling that bubbles up at the prospect of this job. There’s the simple ...

Are you tired of looking at your plain, boring staircase? Applying wallpaper to the stair risers is a great way to add color ...

To lay out a set of stair stringers from scratch requires a little math, but not much. Equally important is some quiet time to run the numbers and at the same time to think about the construction ...