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Below is a snapshot of a design I've received from the company doing our staircase. As you can see, two steps from the first floor landing there the stairs begin to turn 180 degrees around a rather tall and chunky newel post. I don't love this newel post but the staircase company tell me it's important for the stability of the staircase. They say they can remove it, but the staircase and particularly the handrail won't be as sturdy. Surely there is some way of engineering this so we could have a thinner less dominant newel post but still a sturdy handrail. Has anyone got any experience of the structural engineering of handrails? Just wondering if it would be feasible to replace the cuboidal newel post with a round steel post that was thicker than the steel spindles/balusters (shown in black) but thinner than the current wooden cuboidal newel post.