Abstract: A baluster, balustrade, and method for constructing the same are provided. The balustrade includes a rail supported by one or more balusters, each baluster extending from a support surface such as one or more treads of stairs. Each baluster has an elongate member having a terminus portion and an end member that receives the terminus portion. The terminus portion is structured to be shortened, and the end member is selectively positionable on the terminus portion, such that the baluster is aesthetically configurable to accommodate stairs of varying dimensions.

Abstract: An assembly of a hand rail, a shoe rail, a plurality of parallel balusters joined to the hand rail and the shoe rail through a pair of intermediate plastic webs attached both to the baluster and the adjacent rail so that the rails and balusters can be moved to any angular disposition keeping the balusters parallel to each other and the hand rail and shoe rail parallel to each other. The plastic webs include spaced tabs which are attached to each baluster end and provide total collapsibility to the rail section which is universal in use to any rake of the stair.