Home improvement expert April Wilkerson adds safety and style to her unique tree-mounted deck by installing custom railing.

There were any number of moments -- when we came up a single 2x4 short, or realized one section was higher than another after it already had been installed, or that calculating the spacing was a ...

A basement stairway has been the scene of many accidents where there was nothing to hang onto. And so has a wide-open or steep stairway where there’s no railing for support on the opposite wall.

Q: I want to install a waist-high railing between the exterior wall of my home and a column on my front porch. The railing has holes at the bottom so that it can be mounted into the concrete, but ...