Whether you are a building professional looking for prefab staircases, stair and rail parts, stair design services, or installation of a custom luxury staircase, Designed Stairs offers stair products in every way imaginable.
Let's start by understanding your project and your needs. We can help you establish an appropriate stair budget for your project and find stair solutions to fit into that budget. If your staircase needs one of a kind styles, we can build any staircase style imaginable. If you have space constraints, we can offer you options to meet codes. Whatever you stair challenge is, we have a solution.
With more than 50 years of stair building experience and innovation in staircase design, many of our designs have been copied throughout the industry and are now considered the industry standard for stairs. We specialize in complex projects and stair designs. We provide technical advice and assistance to other stair companies working on stair projects that exceed their capabilities.
Serving all types of building professionals, from Multifamily to Commercial building, to Modular / Systems built, to Developers and Custom Builders, we have completed thousands of stairs for each segment of our building industry.
Contact us today and send your prints, so we can review your stair project with you.
Designed Stairs handles Multi-family projects of high-quality stair and rail systems. Working with your estimators from the planning stages, we can make recommendations to streamline your process, increase your efficiency and raise the bar on quality. From drawing packets for architect signoffs to well-planned schedules, we handle large multi-family projects with ease.
Project: Nelson Mandela Apartments
Contractor: Linn Mathes
Architect: Landon Bone Baker
Designed Stairs created a "turn-key" proposal for staircase design, fabrication, and installation that allowed the customer's labor to successfully install prefabricated staircases, already assembled in sections, at the site.
Designed Stairs provided stairs and rails that were of a much higher quality level than the customer expected. The scheduling, communication and on-site help kept the project running smoothly and efficiently. The assembled stairs and prefabricated railing systems allowed trim carpenters without stair experience to install high quality custom stairs.
DSI has perfected the stair upgrade options for Systems-Built and Modular Manufacturers and Dealers. Having worked together with dozens of America's top manufacturers over a 25 year period, we have developed proven stair products that put custom-home stairs and rails into the finest Systems-Built homes. Each order is carefully coordinated with your engineering department and production teams to "tailor-made" specifications for your operation. Not only will your customers have access to the finest stair products in the industry, they will have a trending selection of style choices that can satisfy the most demanding interior designers. Your custom stairs and rails can be shipped to your plant or direct to the jobsite.
Our product development team worked with modular plants to customize solutions for their unique needs. With different price points available, from carpet grade stairs and rails on wall caps, through premium hardwood stairs, we have been able to address all their stair and rail needs.
We customized style selections for the builder/customer to offer their homebuyers, and provided custom selection brochure pages to facilitate the selection process.
The result has been a product line with features for plant installation and "ship through" usage.
For use as a standard handrail system or an upgrade option, our Production Series Rail System provides professional craftsmanship and style options at every level. This system can be partially plant installed and partially "shipped loose" for jobsite completion. The entire rail system can also be shipped directly to the jobsite for installation by the builder.
Our Production Series Stairs offer a variety of materials and installation options. Sizes and shapes are coordinated with each customer's engineering department for your specific plant's installation needs. Production Series Stairs are built for wall to wall installation and designed to work with or without our Production Series Rail System.
The design possibilities are almost endless with our Premium Stair product line. We use our deep knowledge of custom staircases and make it available for the manufactured housing industry. A manufactured home can have the finishing touch of a custom staircase that can be installed in the plant or shipped to the jobsite. From a simple flight with open rail to a complicated curved staircase, our Premium Stairs provide the custom feature that homeowners are looking for.
Today's housing Developers face an increasing demand for upgrades and style choices. Designed Stairs specializes in providing our Developer-partners trending and timeless stair and rail options that homebuyers expect.
Whether you limit homebuyers to just a few styles or offer milled hardwood stairs and custom styles, we will help you define what works for you. We offer support media from a customized website page to cut sheets to samples for your design center.
Our production, scheduling, and installation teams have years of experience in providing specialized services to our Developer partners.
We specialize in helping custom builders meet the goals of your customer! Our website, Design Center, and experienced staff are all geared to help you with the design and selection issues that are important to your homeowners.
Designed Stairs is real standout and one of our straight "A" specialty craftsmen on all our homes since 2007. What we love about Designed Stairs aside from on time, on point, and on budget is — we can start the design process from any aspect and get exactly what's needed. Sometimes we start with price, other times — unique space or designs constraints, often — it's a "look we have to achieve" that is hard to articulate. Regardless of where we start — we are always thrilled with where and what we end with — wonderful stairs.
John Rogers
Portfolio Properties
I have used Designed Stairs for the past 12 years. Recently, I was contacted by someone to quote my stair work; their price was lower. I mentioned to my finisher I was considering the lower price quote. He told me that he is happy when he comes on a job and sees the stairs were done by Designed Stairs. The stairs have tight joinery and are much better quality; there's much less prep work on his end. I am continuing to use only Designed Stairs ….
Anthony Monteleone
Monteleone Homes, Inc.
Environs Development designs and builds distinctive luxury custom homes. We are a full-service firm with a rare mix of credentials under one roof. The same can be said of Designed stairs. They have true expertise in all aspects of a professional stair firm. They have been a valuable partner sub-contractor with Environs since our start in 1991.
Christopher McKinnis
Environs Development
Designed Stairs has been a valuable resource for our company. They provide expert technical advice at the plan stage and can design one-of-a-kind styles that meet our customers exacting requirements. Their ability to pull all of the details of a high-end project together sets them apart from other stair companies.
Lisa Pickell
Orren Pickell Builders
Installing throughout the greater Chicago area; Selling to all 50 states
Designed Stairs
Showroom (by appointment only), Shop, and Offices
1480 E Sixth Street
Sandwich IL 60548
815-786-7600
