The stairs are coming along beautifully.

This is an earlier stage, but even then they were starting to look great!

Amazing detail in the hardwood at the bottom of the stairs! Couldn't see it before!

The treads have also come up beautifully.

We couldn't find a stock handrail we liked, and custom would've been expensive, so the inimitable Keith devised this plan: a stock piece customized to match the original (and now the height is to code).

I think it's teak? They and the newel posts will remain unpainted.

New rails, which will be painted.

These stairs are going to be a lot of fun!