Custom timber staircases
Honest materials, refined detailing, built to your home.
American oak, blackbutt, spotted gum, victorian ash. Every tread, riser and stringer profiled to suit the architecture and finishing schedule.
South East Melbourne stair builder
Make every arrival an entrance.
Custom staircases for Melbourne homes where the first impression matters as much as the last.
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Brand promise
Your biggest investment deserves more than a way to get upstairs.
You’ll spend a fortune on the build. The staircase is the first thing guests see, the spine that connects every floor, and the one upgrade that pays you back every time someone walks through the door.
Build the home. Define it with the staircase.
“The staircase everyone notices before they say a word.”
Services
Built for the way the home is lived in.
From new builds to statement renovations, every staircase is designed to suit the architecture, the materials and the people who use it.
/ 01 / 02 Feature & sculpture stairs
Architectural centrepieces designed to be seen first.
Curved, spiral, helical and sculptural runs developed in close collaboration with your architect or designer.
/ 03 Open-riser stairs
Lightness, sightlines, and a sense of scale through the home.
Open treads with concealed structure — perfect for double-height voids and homes built around a feature view.
/ 04 Floating staircases
Cantilevered precision — engineered to look effortless.
Hidden steel armatures, timber treads, glass or steel balustrades. Engineered, certified, finished cleanly.
/ 05 Stair balustrades
Steel, glass, timber and stone, finished with intent.
Bespoke balustrades and handrails, including frameless glass, blackened steel rod, brass detailing and traditional joinery.
/ 06 Renovation & replacement
Replace a tired stair without losing the home around it.
Period-respectful rebuilds, balustrade upgrades and complete stair replacements with minimal disruption to the home.
/ 07 New build design & install
Brought in early, alongside your architect and builder.
Engaged at concept stage so the staircase isn't an afterthought — sized, framed and finished to fit the home.
The process
From sketch to first step.
A handful of decisions made well, in the right order, with the person who will build it.
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Concept
We meet on site or over plans, talk through the home, and shape the staircase to the way you'll live in it.
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Design
Detailed drawings, materials, finishes and balustrade choices — costed and confirmed before a board is cut.
- 03
Build & Install
Workshop-built to millimetre tolerances, installed clean, finished to handover standard.
Recent work
Recent work across Melbourne.
A snapshot of recent staircases — bayside renovations, architectural new builds, period rebuilds and feature stairs.
Cantilevered new build
Oak treads, hidden steel structure, white wall
Floating against rammed earth
Timber treads, central steel spine, rammed-earth wall
Sculptural spiral
Sweeping timber form, full-height glazing
Vertical dowel feature
Open-riser timber treads, full-height oak dowel balustrade
Sweeping curved
Curved timber stringer, slender white spindles
Open-riser U-flight
Oak treads, blackened steel rod balustrade
Period restoration
Turned newel posts, traditional balustrade rebuild
Floating with cable balustrade
Open-riser timber treads, cable balustrade
Sculptural curved
Flowing timber form, circular landing
Why work with CTM
A staircase you’ll want people to stop at.
The reasons clients choose CTM Stairs for the staircase that defines their home.
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South East Melbourne specialist
Local builder, on the road between sites every day.
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Custom-built for your home
Every staircase designed to the architecture, not pulled from a catalogue.
/ 03
Premium materials, clean finishes
Selected timbers, considered hardware, finishes that hold up.
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From concept to install
Plain-English guidance through every decision — materials, balustrade, lighting, line.
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Built to suit the architecture
Sympathetic to coastal, modern, period and architectural homes alike.
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You talk directly to Cam
No call centres, no project managers — the person building your stair is the person you brief.
About
Meet Cameron.
Cameron Mills runs CTM Stairs, building staircases for Melbourne homes where the detail matters. Trained in the workshop and refined on site, he works alongside architects, builders and homeowners to bring staircases to life that fit the home and last the life of it.
Based in South East Melbourne, Cameron services the bayside and inner-east — and the wider Melbourne metro for the right project.
His work is on Instagram. The conversations start here.
Recent work in
- Brighton
- Hampton
- Sandringham
- Beaumaris
- Mount Eliza
- Toorak
- Malvern
- Hawthorn
- Glen Iris
- Camberwell
- Kew
- Armadale
Follow @cammills_
Follow Cameron’s latest work across Melbourne homes.
Treads going in, balustrades being fitted, the small details that make a stair feel like it belongs.
Get in touch
Plan your feature staircase.
Tell Cameron about the project — the home, the timing, what you have in mind. He'll come back with a way forward, usually within a business day.
- Phone
- 0404 156 628
- [email protected]
- @cammills_
- Service area
- South East Melbourne & wider Melbourne metro
Servicing Brighton, Hampton, Sandringham, Beaumaris, Mount Eliza, Toorak, Malvern, Hawthorn, Glen Iris and the wider Melbourne metro.