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Steel, aluminum & white oak railings

Powder-coated pickets, steel frames and white oak handrails — plus aluminum gates and privacy fencing, fabricated in the shop and installed by the same crew.

Matte black picket railing along an interior landing installed by HJR Construction
Picket spacingset by the 100mm rule

Metal

Powder coat doesn't ask anything of you.

Powder-coated aluminum doesn't rot, rust or need refinishing, which in a climate this wet is the entire maintenance budget going to zero. Slim black pickets have become the default look across Metro Vancouver for a reason — they largely disappear against a view while still reading as a railing.

Steel gets used where a frame has to carry something or span further than aluminum comfortably will, and stainless where the finish has to hold up outdoors.

  • 01Matte black picket railings, interior and exterior
  • 02Horizontal and steel-frame railings
  • 03Stainless posts and fittings
  • 04Aluminum privacy fencing and gates
White oak handrail with black metal spindles on a residential staircase
White oakhandrail over black spindles

Wood

Where the railing should read as joinery.

A white oak handrail over black spindles is the combination most people are actually picturing when they say they want something warmer than metal — it keeps the lightness of a thin picket but puts something worth touching at hand height.

Because the millwork and the metal both come out of the same shop, the handrail and the frame get made to each other rather than ordered separately and reconciled on site.

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Installed

Metal & wood work

Black aluminum privacy fence and gate installed by HJR Construction
Aluminum gate & fencing
Matte black picket railing along an interior stairwell
Interior picket railing
White oak handrail with black spindles
Oak handrail · spindles
Fabricated steel security bars on a commercial storefront window
Commercial security bars

Next step

Send the drawings, or just the room.

Quotes are free, and it's Harman who picks up.