Theater is life on stage. Here is an example of taking my theater skills and bringing them home. The kitchen was just not large enough and the load baring wall just had to go.

The landing floating in air. In this photo, we see the threaded rod. In the photo up top, the rod is hidden inside the hollowed out spindle.

1/4" angle iron holding up the landing's joists and end cap. The threaded rod can be seen towards the left.

Here is the wall that supported the landing.

Additional spindles were needed to fill the gap left when we removed the back stairs.

A view from above. The stairs and a wall have been removed. The side walls have yet to be removed.

Disclaimer: Be aware that removing a load baring wall can lead to a major collapse. I created this design and hired a structural engineer to come give advice. The engineer gave me an additional pointer which I incorporated. The load the baring wall was supporting is being held by three micro-lam beams glued, screwed and bolted together. Each end is supported by vertical 4x6 posts sitting directly on the foundation. Each post is diagonally supported by two other baring walls, each at 90deg from each other.