A few years after we got our sofa from Berkeley Mills, we faced a different sort of old bungalow challenge. We had just become parents. Our home has two floors, and the master bedroom is upstairs. The staircase is a winding sort of thing – not a tight circle, but essentially two sets of stairs divided around a corner that also has a stair.
The problem: No railing going up the stairs.
Carrying a baby up and down the stairs without a railing? Bad idea, we figured. My general lack of coordination plus the lack of sleep that accompanies an infant? I feel woozy just thinking about it.
At the time I thought to myself, “this isn’t a big deal.” I figured I could put brackets into the walls and put a long and thick stick-like “railing” up each of the two sets of stairs.
I expressed this idea to my wife. Luckily, she was not impressed.
I didn’t have a better idea. Luckily (again), my wife did. She thought of calling Berkeley Mills to see if they could do some custom woodworking to build us a railing. I initially thought that they couldn’t possibly be in that sort of business and, if they were, the cost would be prohibitively expensive.
I was wrong.
We worked with one of the owners of Berkeley Mills. He looked at pictures of our stairway and came in to take some measurements.
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