Magnificent Monday - Finally, something to hold on to

It has been over a year and a half ago since Jeff remove the hand rail from our stairs and replaced it with a wall with shelves on the other side.  Remember this photo?

This is the original look of our stairs.

This is the rough stage before the shelves and displays.

The new look from our living room side.

Since this was built, there was no hand rail on our stairs for a almost a year and a half.  Jeff had to order the special wood that would match the wood on the stairs  and the wooden part of this shelf.  For the past three weekends Jeff has been working on the hand rail from scratch.  He did all the measuring, shaping, routing, sanding, lacquering, and final installation.  And here's our new hand rail. 

Isn't this magnificent?

For those of you who have visited our home, you will remember this area.  It's funny how it took a very long time for Jeff to replace the hand rail but as you can see it's all worth it.  In fact he only worked on this on weekends.  I am indeed a very lucky person to have a truly great handy man around the home.