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   rez | Jan 16, 2009 08:42am | #1

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   rez | Jan 16, 2009 08:45am | #2

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   SquarePeg | Jan 16, 2009 08:46am | #3

   very fun!

   thanks!

   my mom has a stairway like this one leading to the attic computer office.

   I can attest that it hurts like hell to bounce down it and you have a 50/50 chance of a deep bone bruise on the shins to try and go up it.

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   rez | Jan 16, 2009 09:00am | #7

   I kinda liked this one but the code folks would have a hemorrhage over it.

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   SquarePeg | Jan 16, 2009 09:07am | #8

   Actually, I saved that picture. Pshaw to the code folks...it's cool. And useful!

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   rez | Jan 16, 2009 09:13am | #9

   Actually, I was thinking this one might be kind of dangerous...

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   SquarePeg | Jan 16, 2009 09:14am | #10

   It makes me dizzy. Did I do some LSD and just forget? With weed, no one would EVER get up those stairs!

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   jet | Jan 16, 2009 09:33am | #11

   The slide one is the one I want in my house

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   frenchy | Jan 17, 2009 08:05pm | #24

   you and me both!

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   rez | Jan 16, 2009 08:48am | #4

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   rez | Jan 16, 2009 08:52am | #5

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   rez | Jan 16, 2009 08:55am | #6

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   ruffmike | Jan 17, 2009 09:21am | #20

   Very cool. I've got a  salvaged sliding companionway hatch off a 1926 Alden sailboat that I am going to use when I make an attic room, hopefully with Tansu style stairs.                            Mike

       Small wheel turn by the fire and rod, big wheel turn by the grace of god.

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   StanFoster | Jan 17, 2009 03:40pm | #21

   Those are some 'thinking outside the box' stairways!  I particularly like the hollowed out tree trunk one!   Instead of adding material to build a stairway like I always do,  it would be a rush to have to  'remove' what it 'NOT' a stairway!  That is very impressive.

    

   Stan

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   JeffBuck | Jan 16, 2009 09:45am | #12

   cool.

    

   are those pics all from one source?

    

   I have a great pic from a castle in England, turret stairs. I was about 30 lbs thinner then and walking up on the tour, walking pretty much sideways, wearing a leather jacket that scraped both shoulders made it tough to imagine the knights running down the same stairs in full armour for battle hard to imagine!

   One guy trips ... take about a death spiral!

   Jeff

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   rez | Jan 17, 2009 03:10am | #14

   Friend just sent them in an email the other day. Don't know where she got them.

   Thought they were cool enough to post on BT. Makes one pause and consider. 

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   mikeroop | Jan 17, 2009 04:37am | #15

   wow rez i didn't know you were so talented!

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   rez | Jan 17, 2009 05:14am | #16

   ya, just from a few things I picked up listening to you guys yak on BT for the last 7 years or so.

    

   be as IMERC would say,

    

   cake and pie

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   JeffBuck | Jan 17, 2009 08:17am | #18

   made me pause, consider ... copy and save to the pic's!

    

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   six8nate | Jan 17, 2009 07:27pm | #23

   Most of them are from

   stairporn.com

    

   Nate

    

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   JeffBuck | Jan 18, 2009 07:39am | #35

   it's .org

    

   but thanks for the addy. Have it bookmarked, haven't been thru yet.

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   Piffin | Jan 18, 2009 12:08am | #31

   "to imagine the knights running down the same stairs in full armour for battle hard to imagine!"One reason for that spiral turret style of stair to be that tight was so an attacker could not fight his way UP it 

    

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   runnerguy | Jan 16, 2009 02:41pm | #13

   Thanks! A nice treat on a cold morning while sipping hot coffee!!

   Doug

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   apiersma | Jan 17, 2009 06:59am | #17

   So how does one go about adding a drawer to the bottom stair like in the first picture. What are the considerations to doing this in an existing stair case?

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   JeffBuck | Jan 17, 2009 08:20am | #19

   "What are the considerations to doing this in an existing stair case?"

    

   step one ... start on a slab or have considerable headroom downstairs.

    

   if there's room ... cut out the riser ... and build a drawer front with drawer. (if I'm thinking of the right picture)

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   GregGibson | Jan 17, 2009 04:02pm | #22

   . . . and never leave it open, especially if there's someone upstairs !Greg

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   JeffBuck | Jan 18, 2009 07:42am | #36

   the wife saw some pic's of under the stair storage, might have been something Ralph Wickland built. So she decided that'd be great and we needed something similar.

   I said as soon as I built that, I'd start working on the ladder down to the basement .... a firemans pole might work too.

   she looked confused till I asked what was right under the staircase ...

    

   the cellar stairs!

    

   Jeff

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   rez | Jan 17, 2009 09:02pm | #25

   My first consideration would be appraising the cross strength of the tread to hold weight without the riser.

   If bouncy in a worse case scenario perhaps a perpendicular to the riser 2x joist splitting the desired drawer into 2 drawers and giving support to the tread above.

   Dang, now you have me considering it. :o)

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   rez | Jan 17, 2009 09:08pm | #26

   "Chand Baori is a famous stepwell situated in the village of Abhaneri near Jaipur in the Indian state of Rajasthan. This step well is located opposite Harshat Mata Temple and is one of the deepest and largest stepwells in India. It was built in the 9th century and has 3500 narrow steps and 13 stories and is 100 feet deep."

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   sisyphus | Jan 17, 2009 11:09pm | #29

   Interesting photos! What is at the bottom of the stepwell? Water?

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   ruffmike | Jan 18, 2009 12:44am | #34

   Got a link to that? It seems the entry would have to be pretty huge since it reduces at each level.                            Mike

       Small wheel turn by the fire and rod, big wheel turn by the grace of god.

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   apiersma | Jan 17, 2009 10:57pm | #27

   Anyone know what the standard headroom for a stair case is? I might have the space to add that drawer or even two.

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   Svenny | Jan 17, 2009 11:07pm | #28

   6' 8" is what we're required here. I assume that's pretty universal.John Svenson, builder,  remodeler,  NE Ohio

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   rez | Jan 17, 2009 11:29pm | #30

   Are you speaking of building a new staircase or retroing an old? 

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   apiersma | Jan 18, 2009 12:42am | #33

   I'll be retrofitting an old staircase. Its a 1950s cape code with a basement stairs beneath. Rough measurements suggest I could squeeze in 12" deep boxes and still meet the 6'8" height. (I assume I measure from the tip of a tread up?The best part of this is these stairs are right in front of the front door. All those kids shoes can now be hidden.

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   rez | Jan 18, 2009 08:38pm | #37

   Ah, I see. Kind of limits the potential but doable to a degree.

    

   Ruff- that's the only link I took it from.

   stairporn.org and stairporn.com both worked the same here.

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   Piffin | Jan 18, 2009 12:10am | #32

   I would build the first 2-3 steps as stacking boxes with the drawer inside each, then build the rest of the flight on up 

    

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