It's official friends, the banister is complete!

Well, after a year of being patient my loving husband finally finished the banister! For those that may not know, we started working on the banister last June, so it took about a year to complete. I have to give Keith credit though because he was finishing up his last semester of grad school. Last summer we remodeled our kitchen and we had decided in order for everything to look complete the banister needed to be remodeled as well. Rather than refinish (sand it down, new stain, etc) we decided it would probably turn out better to just build it brand new. Keith actually did it all on his own (the long piece of wood running up and down the stairs was replaced, ballisters installed, and staining). It's really been a blessing that Keith is so handy b/c we've saved tons of $$$. Thank you Keith...it looks great! Unfortunately I forgot to take a before pic, but here's an after:



Here are some kitchen pics from our remodeling project last summer:
Before:

After: