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Simplified Stair Building (This Book Can Be Downloaded Today)
  This new and innovative book on stair building has plenty of pictures, illustrations tips and even links to videos. That's right, welcome to the future of books. Not only are there easy to follow step by step instructions, you get access to valuable stair building tips that actually make your job easy. Another fantastic e-book by Greg Vanden Berge.
1. Building Stairs For Professionals
  Any builder who can measure the distance between two floors can plan and build a stunning set of stairs. By clearly laying out the geometry, planning, and construction involved, author Andy Engel takes the reader from a simple structure of framing lumber to a set of stairs fit for a king.
2. Basic Stairbuilding
  This book includes instructions for straight run stairs, L-shaped stairs, and open-riser ladder stairs.
3. Simplified Guide to Custom Stairbuilding and Tangent Handrailing
  This guide to building custom staircases, including elliptical stairs and continuous incline stairs, explains the tangent principle for the advanced woodworker. Covering everything from locating risers in a curved stairway to the installation of balusters, this simple method enables the craftsperson to make distinctive, personalized stair and handrail designs that are not available from stock staircase companies.
4. Pro Stair Building Book
  Stairway design and construction is considered a cornerstone of homebuilding. To address this important topic, Building Stairs contains design, fabrication, and installation information for a wide variety of options, from simple, site built utility staircases to elaborate spirals.
5. Staircase Design and Construction
  Staircases can reveal much about the individual architect's approach to design, construction and building materials. Despite the ever-widening range of ready made components on the market, an expertly made staircase aptly fitting the building is still a hallmark of good architecture.
6. Amazing Stair Design
  Stair Design brings together more than seventy recent projects from all over the world, which respond to highly diverse needs from just a few steps compensating the changing level in a loft, to never ending staircases that rise up the facade of a skyscraper.
7. Upstairs Downstairs Architecture
  Often found at the heart of a building, stairs still represent fundamental circulation spaces despite the prevalence of and necessity for lifts in more recent building designs. This new publication takes a detailed look at an incredible range of stair designs and reveals that stairs can provide more than just the transition from one level to another.
8. Guide to Remodeling and Decorating Staircases
  This primer covers the worldwide evolution of residential staircases, including both classical and contemporary interior and exterior staircases, thorough well researched, accessible text and detailed, designer photography. A full resource section provides information for staircase restoration, resource tools, and other helpful industry contacts.
9. Smart Guide Stairs & Railings
  This Smart  Guide shows readers how to design and build all kinds of staircases and railings for their home, including straight stairs, deck stairs, and L shaped staircases with a landing. The most essential information readers need to successfully handle each task is packed into this concise construction manual.