Bye Bye Stair Case Wall

So my stair case does not have spindles rather it is a wall. My mom did not like it that way and said it looked stupid. She said we should tear it down and put spindles in it's place which would open up the area. Sounded like a good idea, but i thought we would do that project later. Well if anyone knows my mom she gets a little ambitious. In any event she decided she wanted to do demo and there it went...