Higher Ground

Building your dream home is an exciting chapter in anyone’s life. It can feel overwhelming at times – here’s how S&A Stairs can make the process easier for you.

From Our DirectorsAt S&A, we’ve been crafting stairs with Victorian Ash & Tasmanian Oak for a Century, working extremely hard to secure timber that is of the highest environmental, ethical, and safety standards, to the highest FSC Certification. We’ve done this in collaboration with the local communities and longstanding suppliers in Victoria and Tasmania. While […]

By playing on the form and size of stairs throughout some of Australia’s grandest homes, Martin Friedrich has redefined the way we think and create stairs.

For 25 years, InForm has been building beautiful and accessible homes throughout Melbourne’s suburbs. Minimalist, mid-century influences have made for the perfect family home.

With a holistic and intuitive approach to interior design, S&A Stairs admires Alicia Mckimm’s approach to practicality, functionality, and composition.

For 35 years, Peter Klauer has worked at the G. J. Lawson Wood-turning in Mordialloc. All the while working with familiar faces just around the corner from S&A Stairs.

Caulfield is one of the richest suburbs in Australia, in terms of its architectural heritage, because it is adorned with homes by many of the country’s most famous Mid-Century Modernist architects.

It was more than 100 years ago when Swisse boat builder, Augusto Pedrazzini started crafting boats by hand on the shores of Lake Zurich.

There are blemishes on your skin, scars and marks and bruises. The natural world certainly isn’t perfect.  

Brutalism is, perhaps, the most maligned school of architecture in the world.

Every day is different in the S&A factories around the country. During any given week, we build stairs for houses that range in size and scale, from high end stairs that belong in some of Australia’s most renowned homes, to quaint pieces in home renovations.

If you head west from Hobart in Tasmania in the car, you can be in some of the oldest forests on earth in just over 90 minutes.

It was the middle of the 1960’s and the world was expanding at a rapid rate. You’ve heard of all the stories of the post-war boom in Europe and America, a rise in world housing, culture, and media that had never been seen before.

Nestled in Melbourne’s inner suburbs the Bastow Institute of Educational Leadership bridges the gap between the old and the new.

Every so often there is an architectural design that embraces the beautifully abstract while maintaining an inviting and livable space.

Characterised as one of the most unique buildings in Melbourne; The Bridge Hotel in Richmond also houses one of our most unique stairs…and people are talking about it.

We provided this stair recently for Paul Smith’s Melbourne store, in the historic 120 Queen Street building. As with every Paul Smith store his “British eccentricity” shines through in all aspects of the interior.