Chicagoland Suburbs
Founded in a Naperville garage in 1969, Designed Stairs grew alongside the suburbs. 55+ years later, you would be hard-pressed to find a Chicago suburban town without a Designed Stairs installed — from Waukegan to Woodstock, Rockford to Ottawa, and Yorkville to New Lenox, Tinley Park, and the Fox River Valley.
We serve homeowners, builders, architects, designers, and remodelers across the Chicago suburbs with custom stair design, fabrication, and installation.
Services throughout Chicagoland may include custom stairs, curved staircases, railing remodels, fabricated stair-and-rail kits, stair parts, and complete stair-and-rail packages.
View Chicagoland Suburbs custom staircases →Chicago
Designed Stairs works throughout Chicago and nearby suburbs, including Lincoln Park, Southport, Lakeview, Wrigleyville, Gold Coast, West Loop, Fulton Market, River North, Near North, Old Town, Hyde Park, Kenwood, South Loop, The Loop, Deerfield, Prospect Heights, Grayslake, Barrington, Lindenhurst, Prairie Grove, and other Chicagoland communities.
Chicago stair projects often involve constraints that are easy to miss early in design.
Some city homes have narrow lots, stacked floor plans, tight stair openings, or older framing that does not match drawings. Remodels may require new railings or stair parts that look right with existing trim, flooring, and wall finishes. Modern homes may require floating stairs, open risers, glass railings, cable rails, or custom metal details that need structural planning before fabrication.
Designed Stairs helps builders, designers, architects, and homeowners make those decisions early, when changes are easier and less expensive to manage.
Services in Chicago and Chicagoland may include custom stairs, curved staircases, railing remodels, stair parts, modern stair systems, historic detail matching, and builder-led stair projects.
View Chicago custom staircases →North Shore, IL
Designed Stairs serves Wilmette, Winnetka, Kenilworth, Glencoe, Highland Park, Lake Forest, Evanston, Glenview, Northbrook, Lake Bluff, Skokie, and surrounding North Shore communities.
In Chicago’s North Shore communities, a staircase is often one of the most important architectural features in the home. It affects the first impression, the way rooms connect, the amount of light moving through the interior, and the overall level of craftsmanship people expect from a high-end residence.
North Shore homes often require more planning than a standard stair replacement. Many properties have larger foyers, custom floor plans, architect-designed interiors, historic millwork, or modern open layouts where the staircase is highly visible from multiple rooms.
Designed Stairs supports these projects with planning, field measuring, custom manufacturing, railing coordination, and experienced installation.
Services on the North Shore may include luxury curved stairs, open-riser stairs, floating stairs, glass railing systems, historic stair reproductions, formal hardwood stairs, and custom architectural stair packages.
View North Shore custom staircases →DuPage County and Chicago’s Western Suburbs
Designed Stairs creates custom staircases for homes throughout Naperville, Hinsdale, Oak Brook, Burr Ridge, Downers Grove, Elmhurst, and Chicago’s western suburbs.
For homeowners, builders, architects, and designers planning a high-end home in DuPage County, the staircase is not just a structural requirement. It affects the home’s first impression, floor-plan flow, safety, finish quality, and long-term value.
Designed Stairs has deep roots in Naperville and the western suburbs. The company’s early work began in Naperville subdivisions, and as the area grew, Designed Stairs grew with it, providing stair work for many upper-bracket homes throughout the region.
Today, that local history still matters. Designed Stairs understands the homes, builders, architectural expectations, and finish standards common in DuPage County’s luxury residential market.
Services in DuPage County and the western suburbs may include custom architectural staircases, curved stairs, floating stairs, open-riser stairs, historic railing work, custom railings, and complete stair-and-rail packages.
View DuPage County custom staircases →Wisconsin
Designed Stairs serves Wisconsin communities including Milwaukee, Madison, Lake Geneva, Waukesha, Brookfield, Mequon, Oconomowoc, Middleton, Verona, Lake Country, and nearby areas.
Wisconsin homes vary widely, and that variety affects stair design.
A lake home may need a stair that preserves views and natural light. A Milwaukee-area renovation may need new stair parts that respect older millwork. A Madison custom home may call for clean modern lines, glass railings, or open-riser construction. A luxury estate may need a curved staircase that becomes a main architectural feature.
Designed Stairs helps turn those goals into stair systems that are buildable, properly measured, and manufactured for the real job site.
Services in Wisconsin may include lake home stairs, estate staircases, curved stairs, open-riser stairs, floating stair systems, traditional hardwood stairs, spiral stairs, and historic stair or railing reproduction.
View Wisconsin custom staircases →Milwaukee and Nearby Wisconsin Communities
Designed Stairs works with Milwaukee homeowners, custom builders, architects, interior designers, and remodelers on stair and rail systems for new homes, major remodels, historic renovations, and luxury interiors.
The Milwaukee service area includes Milwaukee, Wauwatosa, Brookfield, Waukesha, Mequon, Whitefish Bay, Shorewood, Fox Point, Bayside, Elm Grove, New Berlin, Oconomowoc, Delafield, Pewaukee, Hartland, Cedarburg, Menomonee Falls, Franklin, Oak Creek, Glendale, and surrounding areas.
Milwaukee projects may include traditional hardwood staircases, grand foyer stairs, curved staircases, railing upgrades, open-riser stairs, floating stairs, and complete stair-and-rail packages.
For older Milwaukee-area homes, Designed Stairs can also help reproduce stair parts, railings, newels, balusters, handrails, treads, risers, and other wood components so the finished work respects the home’s character.
View Milwaukee custom staircases →Indiana
Designed Stairs installs throughout northwestern Indiana, from Lake Michigan down to Lowell and east to Chesterton. The installation area includes Crown Point, Valparaiso, Michigan City, La Porte, Merrillville, Munster, Schererville, St. John, Portage, Chesterton, Hammond, Highland, Griffith, Dyer, Hobart, Cedar Lake, Beverly Shores, Ogden Dunes, Dune Acres, Porter, and surrounding communities.
Everywhere else in Indiana, including South Bend, Mishawaka, Elkhart, Granger, Goshen, Carmel, Fishers, and Indianapolis, Designed Stairs supplies fully fabricated stairs, assembled stairs, and stair-and-rail kits. These carry the same custom stair and rail styles and designs available in the rest of our work, and ship anywhere in the United States.
Indiana homes vary widely, and that variety affects stair design. A lake home along Lake Michigan or one of the inland lakes may call for open treads, a floating stair, or a spiral stair for a loft. A custom home or remodel may call for a traditional hardwood staircase in oak, maple, alder, or walnut, designed to match the architecture of the home. An older home may need original newels, balusters, or handrail profiles reproduced. An upper-bracket home may call for a curved staircase that becomes the main architectural feature.
Throughout Indiana and the Midwest, Designed Stairs specializes in curved stairs and luxury stairs for upper-bracket homes. Curved rails are built with a traditional tangent handrail method, for a continuous handrail without flat sections or breaks, and Designed Stairs is one of the few stair companies in the Midwest that recreates curved rails on historic stairs.
Designed Stairs has been building custom staircases since 1969. The shop, design staff, and installation team work out of a 50,000-square-foot facility in Sandwich, Illinois, roughly 90 minutes from the state line, and every stair is built to Indiana building codes.
Services in Indiana may include lake home stairs, curved staircases, open-riser and floating stairs, spiral stairs, traditional hardwood staircases, historic stair and railing reproduction, and fabricated stair-and-rail kits.
View Indiana custom staircases →Southwest Michigan
Designed Stairs installs along the Lake Michigan shoreline corridor in the southwest corner of Michigan, in communities such as Three Oaks, New Buffalo, Bridgman, and Grand Beach. Everywhere else in Michigan, including Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Beverly Hills, Huntington Woods, Orchard Lake Village, Grosse Pointe Farms, and East Grand Rapids, Designed Stairs supplies fully fabricated stairs, assembled stairs, and stair-and-rail kits.
The southwest Michigan shoreline draws a specific kind of home — second homes, lake homes, and high-end new construction built with attention to detail and unique styling. In these communities the staircase is often part of the investment rather than an afterthought.
That shapes what the work looks like. Open-riser and floating stairs are the most common request here, with treads paired with glass rail, cable rail, or custom metal infill to keep sight lines clean and natural light moving between floors. Larger lake homes and estate properties designed around a grand foyer may call for a curved staircase. A loft or a space too tight for a full standard stair may call for a hardwood spiral stair or a custom-built ladder.
Designed Stairs has been building custom staircases since 1969 and specializes in curved stairs and luxury stairs for upper-bracket homes. Every stair is designed and fabricated to order around the actual opening, rise, run, and design direction, and built to Michigan building codes.
Services in southwest Michigan may include open-riser and floating stairs, curved staircases, traditional hardwood staircases, spiral stairs and stairs for small spaces, custom railing and balustrade systems, and fabricated stair-and-rail kits.
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