"Next I started on the railing. The hardest part of it was trying to find the right materials. I searched and searched the moulding section on Home Depot's website and couldn't find anything that resembled the moulding on my existing stairs, and I had just about conceded to it being hand made until I decided to check Lowes... Hallelujah! It's called stool moulding and Lowes has lots of it! Since it's only rounded on one side I had to rip them in half on the table saw and them glue the two rounded halfs together to get one normal width piece of moulding that was rounded on both sides.  The uprights are just standard 2x2 deck railing spindles and the spacers are 1x2's cut to 4" long. Then I trimmed it with 1" quarter-round. I was very thankful that my dad has a nice compound miter saw when doing all this because I can't imagine the time it would take with a hand saw and miter box!"