Christmas staircases · Charlotte, NC
Christmas staircase decorating in Charlotte, NC: banister garland measured to your stairs, with bows and light worked in, installed in one visit and taken down in January. Book the staircase on its own or with the rest of the house.
What’s included
Garland on a staircase only looks designed when it’s measured to the rail. I’ll hang deep, even swags with bows and light worked in, and fix it so nothing marks the banister or gets in the way of a hand on the rail.
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How I approach it
You can book the staircase on its own. It’s a separate job from the rest of the house, and in a two-story entry it’s often the piece that decides how the whole space feels when the front door opens.
Garland bought by the box looks thin on a long or tall staircase because it’s made for an average one. I size the garland and the swags to your rail, so the drops are deep and even from the bottom step to the landing, and the bows land at a steady rhythm rather than wherever the box ran out.
A fresh garland on a banister holds up for two or three weeks if it’s misted, which is shorter than the season, so for a staircase that should look the same on New Year’s Eve as on the first of December I build on good faux and add fresh where it’s seen up close.
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Before you book
Yes. The staircase is a separate job and doesn’t need to be part of a whole-house booking. It’s quoted after the walkthrough, once I’ve measured the rail.
It shouldn’t. I fix the garland with methods that don’t mark the rail, floral wire over felt or fixings sized to the balusters, and it all comes off in January.
Yes. The garland is fixed at the newel post and along the rail rather than draped, the cord never crosses a step, and nothing narrows the stairs or sits where a hand needs the rail.
It’s quoted after the walkthrough, because the length of the rail, the height of the stairs and how full the garland should be decide it. There is no price on the site, and the quote covers the design, the materials, the installation and the January takedown.
Yes, as an add-on. A second staircase or a landing gets garland in the same palette, so the two read as one.
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Planning the staircase
A garland on a banister is either the best thing in the house or the most obviously store-bought, and the difference is fixing and continuity.
Length first: measure along the handrail, not the floor, and add a third for the swag. Garland that's cut to length hangs flat and looks exactly like what it is. The swag is the point — consistent drops between fixings, deeper than feels correct, because it reads shallower once you're standing below it.
Fix at the newel post and at consistent intervals with a method that doesn't mark the rail — floral wire over felt, or fixings sized to the baluster. Lights go on before the greenery is dressed, batteries or a plug run planned so the cord doesn't cross the tread. And whatever happens, nothing may narrow the walking width of the stair or sit where a hand needs the rail. That's a safety line, not a styling preference.