I have a stair case between two floors on a new house, When you get to the bottom landing you make a left turn to go out into the living room . I want to take out a few extra feet of the living room wall so the stair case will show at the bottom and use the spindles and stair case railing for about 5 ft . after that the wall will be solid to the top of stairs . My problem is the code says the handrail must be continuous with no break from top to bottom unless the stair turns and a newell post is there, how can I change over from the spindall rail to the rail going up the wall without a break , The code will permit a rail on one side only and I can put it on the other side . but I still have the rail with spindels that will dead end where the wall starts . Is that allowed if I say the hand rail is on the other side ?