Thank-you, Thank-you Vincent for sending me these wonderful pictures of staircases, all formatted and ready to go! My computer's been on the fritz for two days now, and suddenly sprang to life a few minutes ago, just when I was ready to jump into bed. Thanks to Vincent Waller I have something I can put up tonight to prove that I'm not dead.
What a pity to have to rush through these photos! I love the idea of having a real tree in the living room (above). It would proably be a delivery system for ants and weevils that want to get into the house, but sacrifices need to be made for the sake of beauty. Is this tree still alive? I've heard of trees that thrive even when the center's been cut out.
Very nice (above), but it appears that the steps don't take you all the way up!
A terrific idea (above) for saving space!
Iron railings work great on stairs (above).
Good place to put CDs (above), though I'll bet the owners forget to close the lids and walk on them.
A necessity (above)! Every house needs a built-in sliding board!
Here are stairs (above) that are deliberately hard to use. For such a house I recommend second floor hallways like the one below.....
...hallways (above) that are also deliberately hard to use.
Holy Cow! Stairs (above) that look like a piano keyboard!
Hmmmm...doesn't work because the book shelves have to be unnaturally deep so they can double as stairs. Interesting thought, though!
19 comments:
nice post eddie
only you could make a post about stairs entertaining lol.
i agree with you about those tilty stairs...i'd definitely bust my shins on those daily.
some interesting undertones to this post...so rarely do you see form over function for such common things. I wish there was a greater balance between the two in our world...too many objects solely utilize function and not form
maybe as visually creative people we're biased...haha but in an ideal world stairs would be fun and interesting...we can dream.
How 'bout this one?
"Hmmmm...doesn't work because the book shelves have to be unnaturally deep so they can double as stairs. Interesting thought, though!"
Silly of them not to put a vertical board in the middle of each shelf, so the books don't go all the way back. Also that staircase is very wonky- I don't think I'd want to walk on there.
When we shot a marionette movie in Copenhagen a couple of years ago, the producers put us up in the Ambassador's apartment. The stairs leading up to the loft where the bed was were about 30" high and 36" deep. It was a steep climb after a day's shooting, and made me feel like Laurel & Hardy in BRATS!
You put in great looking but tricky to navigate stairs, then you climb to the top, get polio and have to be carried out. Happens every damn time.
holy cow, the slide is amazing! It's so interesting to see something as playful and childlike as a slide carved out of beautiful wood.
Ha! These are great! My favorite idea is the stairs with all the cd's in them--only I would fill them up with comics instead. Combine that idea with the slide staircase and it would be completely perfect!
Those staircases are beautiful, Eddie! I'd want at least three in my house.
The CD case one nearly gave me vertigo. Really.
These all look extremely dangerous!
I fall down the stairs at least once a month, haha.
Wade watched me do it on three different occasions, and I think he once watched me eat the ground at Otis on the freshly waxed floors too!
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Those split stairs are meant to conserve space in modern matchbox story and a half high homes, whether built from scratch, or placed in a renovated loft space.
Splitting the stairs means less of the lower floor is taken up by staircase, yet, it is a bit more climbable legs only, than a pure ladder.
Usually the 'upstairs' may only be a place for a bed, with 4 feet or so or less of clearance, such as on top of an eight foot room in a 12 foot tall loft. That is why the stairs stop short of the upper landing, so the person climbing doesn't bump their head.
When the person has gotten their ass above the floor of the upstairs, they sit and roll or climb on to a mattress placed there. Hanging their legs off the bed is just like taking that first step downstairs. So that is why the split stairs do not keep going.
Pardon me if I have stated the obvious. These split stair/ladders are common in small homes or urban places where there is an attempt to maximize limited space.
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I've seen the bookcase/staircase before(which you've uploaded upside down; it makes more sense the other way around). These are all great ideas for interior design.
This got me thinking about a Jimmy Stewart poem book I once picked up. There's a poem in it about the stairs leading up to his hotel.
"The top step in the hotel in Junin is mean. Like the Devil is mean. And it lies at the top of the other steps, So quiet, so still, so serene."
That's all I could find of it online. The book is worth checking out, though.
I got vertigo looking at the CD staircase, too. I like the "piano keyboard" stairs, though.
I love the floating stairs,
Then I thought, why do they look like theyre floating and
started looking for the light source
and they are lit from below>...!!!
Maybe that stops the stairs from casting the usual shadow downwards and makes them look like they are floating??
Wow these are great! Thanks Eddie for posting and Vincent for sharing.
I'm sending this link to my dad he's going to love them and I'm telling him that when the time comes and I get my own house(?)
to get out the tools. I want him to build a crazy set of stairs, I'll build the slide...
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"Hmmmm...doesn't work because the book shelves have to be unnaturally deep so they can double as stairs. Interesting thought, though!"
Silly of them not to put a vertical board in the middle of each shelf, so the books don't go all the way back. Also that staircase is very wonky- I don't think I'd want to walk on there.
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Why not use it for unnaturally deep books?
(Or something other than books.)
The "wonky-ness" seems to be intentional. The left side is vertical, the right side is diagonal. The boards and vertival supports inbetween all change ther form a bit to make the transition.
Raybert
(Sorry, I usually don't leave anonymous postings, it's just that I don't have an account with Google.)
"I love the floating stairs,
Then I thought, why do they look like theyre floating and
started looking for the light source
and they are lit from below>...!!!
Maybe that stops the stairs from casting the usual shadow downwards and makes them look like they are floating??"
The lighting helps, but the steps are "floating" because they are designed as cantilevers. The bearings must be designed to take torque as well as the vertival loads.
Raybert
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