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Exterior residential entrance steps are usually about 7 inches high, so a porch with more than 2 steps would be about 21 inches high. Most building codes require a 36 inch high guard (railing) if the change in level is 30 inches or more.
Click here to read about building the stairs and the installation of the posts shown above. The posts for the flat handrails (the long horizontal railings along the edge of the deck) are all 8-foot 4x4's cut in half and bolted to the rim joist of the deck frame. Those posts all stood about 40 inches above the finished deck surface. Click here to see the installation of those posts.