Custom Home · Naperville
Curved Foyer Custom Home in Ashwood Park
A house in Ashwood Park, Naperville, built around a two story foyer where a curved stair runs down to the front door under an arched transom.
A foyer two storeys tall
The foyer is the argument this house makes, and it is the first thing the front door gives you. It runs two stories, with a curved staircase sweeping down to a double front door and an arched transom window set above it, throwing daylight back up the stair well.
Curved work is unforgiving. The handrail has to flow, the iron balusters have to stay plumb through the turn, and the wainscot paneling under the rail has to follow the curve without a visible break. Dark treads against white risers and paneling leave the joinery nowhere to hide, which is the point of doing it well.
The short version
- Type
- Custom Home
- Where
- Naperville, IL
- Scope
- Naperville home with a two story curved foyer
- Photographs
- 25
The gallery
Around the curved stair
The foyer is shot from the landing and again from the door, because the curve only reads properly from one of them.
Worth noticing
Three things about this one
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A two story foyer with a curved staircase down to the front door
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Iron balusters and a continuous handrail carried through the turn
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An arched transom window above a glazed double entry door
Ask what this one cost
We can tell you the budget, the schedule and what went sideways on the way. Every job has something. The useful question is what happened next.