Stairs · Hardwood · Bespoke Spindles
Staircases drawn around your space, not pulled off a shelf.
A staircase is one of the few things you'll touch every day for as long as you live in the house. We build them to last that long, and to look as right in thirty years as they do on the day they go in.
Forest Joinery staircases are drawn on a per-house basis. Treads, risers, going, headroom, balustrade height, measured on site, drawn to scale, then cut and assembled in the workshop. We deliver in sections, fit on site, and finish in oils or paint as the room asks for.
Hardwood treads in English or European oak are our usual recommendation, durable, settled-in grain, ages well. For modern interiors we'll mix materials: oak treads with steel or blackened spindles, glass balustrades, hidden-tread storage drawers.
Period homes and conversions need more thought. We've worked across listed Sussex farmhouses, Edwardian semis in Tunbridge Wells and converted barns, replacing tired pine staircases with hardwood that suits the building.
What We Make
- Straight, quarter-turn and half-turn flights
- Hardwood and softwood, oak, ash, sapele, pine
- Cut-string and closed-string construction
- Bespoke spindles and handrails, turned, square, twisted
- Open-tread and floating staircases
- Hidden-drawer treads for compact homes
- Glass, steel and traditional balustrades
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Oak staircase with hand-turned twisted spindles for a Heathfield farmhouse.
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Closed-string oak staircase with full-height bannister for a new Sussex home.
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