I am cooking up a trim scheme for the bottom end of a straight stair run, and I’m a novice at this stuff.
Stair wizards, please help! Photos will be appreciated.
The stairs shown in the attached pics will go past the full-height sidewall end on the right of the staircase. I modeled the two bottom tread ends as shown, but things don’t look right.
I was lazy and didn’t model the tread end returns as being bullnosed, nor did I bullnose the back end returns of the main returns, but all this stuff will be full radius to match the tread noses.
The model shows butt joints at riser corners, but they can and will be mitered.
But how about the wall wrap? Is there a better way? Those short returns of riser and skirt wrap can have mitered returns at their terminations, to hide the endgrain, but am I way off base here?
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These pics, while not your exact situation may give you some ideas. A stair skirt could be used in your case, without newels and balusters. In one case we used an oak round end starter tread and riser. A squared piece to the floor can be used at the bottom of the skirt to butt the baseboard. The newels are set on a 1 x 6 and carpet is run between the 1 x 6 and to the stair skirt on the wall.
Hardwood starter steps are avaliable without rounded ends.
In the floating stair oak treads are used and overhang the skirt.
We have done a bunch of these, but I do not have many pics.