Expert DIYer April Wilkerson builds stairs the easy DIY way with simple, step-by-step instructions for safe results.

You may be like most folks. I’m guessing you give very little thought to the stairs you go up and down on a regular basis.

Amateur carpenters who have laid out the cuts in a stair stringer (the zig-zag structural support for the steps) know the queasy feeling that bubbles up at the prospect of this job. There’s the simple ...

Simple stairs have just two components. The flat board that your foot steps on is called a tread. The treads connect to side stringers and sometimes to one that is in the middle of the stairs. The ...