The family decamped to a cramped condo nearby, and a crew arrived to demolish the stairs and slice off the second floor, neatly cutting around the upstairs bath and the roof over it, leaving them intact like a hut in a clearing. Carpenters built new stairs with a cutout balustrade, and the small upstairs grew to hold two kids' bedrooms and that longed-for master suite.
Shown: The relocated staircase has Craftsman-inspired balusters that form a light-filtering screen.
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