We created our Greene and Greene interpretation in quarter-sawn white oak. Each piece of wood was laboriously hand selected for its grain and “flake” pattern, every tread carefully grain matched. We were into it. We got a little crazy – maybe even obsessed. This was our masterpiece, our very own craftsman style stairs. We tortured ourselves trying to break the code – to figure out how to make the alternating widths of intertwining mortise and tenon railings into the pattern we had only seen in photographs. It was a jigsaw puzzle!
