Are you talking about adding a half wall on the right side? I would just have a small railing. With thickening the wood to match the thickness of the other side. Good luck!!

Yes we would like to add half wall on the right side, but don't know what height to start it at. We want to a add hand rail. If we do the hand rail at 32". What height should we do the height of the half wall 34" or 36" I don't know could really use the help

Ok this is what we did, from the to the top of the frame of new half wall in to staircase is 50" the angle of the front of the frame is 38" and the length of the hall wall is 17 1/2" as it's frame and ready for dry wall.

Hi Rita. this is what you want. The key measurement is straight up from the front of the stair nosing to the top of the hand rail is 36". Good luck

Here is an update of our staircase problem that we were having. We make the knee wall 36" high in built in and just put to last coat of mud on the wall. In the other picture you will see the we built out the wall were the staircase is. Make that 66" wide. Starting to come along. Thank for all the help on the knee wall height.

Here are more update pictures of the staircase

Now that we have the walls almost done, we are now having a hard decision on what style of baluster to put there. We were thinking about black iron knuckle or white wooden colonial style balusters. My question is by using the black iron would it take away the carter look of the home. We use to have 1 3/4" colonial style balusters and really like them, but now we would be use 1 5/16" wooden balusters there nice as well. We are painting the base, handrail and stringers all white and the raisers and treads would be to only thing stained in oak to match the wood floors. Please give your suggestion on what you might do to help us out thanks..