Eyes everyone suspiciously
Yes.
I always wanted an escilator in my house. I always see pictures of very rich people homes and they all have elevators. BORING!
If I ever win the lotto the first thing I’m buying is an escilator.
An escalator. I like that. Even better if it’s only, say, three steps high.
I live in a bachelor apartment (kitchen, bathroom, three closets, and an L-shaped main room), yet, oddly, I have steps. Two of them, at the entrance.
Nope. But then, I live in a one bedroom apartment. There are stairs in the building, but everyone uses them.
I really want to live in a house with stairs someday - my parents’ house only had stairs going down to the unfinished basement, so those don’t really count, since they were rarely used.
The novelty wears off let me tell you. I’ve never lived in a house that DIDN’T have stairs.
Two sets (one going up, another going down!) Just kidding, but we have the basement stairs, and stairs to the second story. Each is two flights (small) with a landing in between. I think the architect thought it would be fun to carry furniture upstairs and around corners. We’re going to move to Florida soon, where there are no basements and two stories are rare. So we might not have stairs anymore.
If I won the lottery I would probably get a firepole, or even better, a batpole. And maybe a spiral slide between floors as well. Just because I could (and I have kids).
Yes, 12 steps going up to a landing & the back bedroom, then turn 180° and 3 more to the top landing and the two other bedrooms.
They ARE cool once, but not if you get to the bottom, forget something, then have to go back up. They’re a pain to vacuum, too.
Now that would be cool.
Of course, then the hallway would have to have a moving sidewalk like what you see in airports.
No stairs. Please don’t push bread down my throat.
Yes, and I hate them, but I didn’t choose the house so I didn’t get a vote. It’s a nice house, though.
I really hate those houses that have two or three steps somewhere, say in the middle of a large living room. It definetly looks cool, but essentially cuts the house into two sections.
Many interior designers built houses like this, they probably haven’t lived in one!
Stairs everywhere. I am so buying a ranch house next time!
From the driveway - 5 steps up - a turn then 12 more steps to the front door. Once inside - 4 steps to the lower level and another 10 or so to the garage. Back on the main level - 10 steps up to the top level.
What really sucks is going to the garage and realizing you left something on the upper level.
Trying to sell a ranch house; only steps are at the doorways. Biggest is 2…
Currently in a ground floor apartment, with a single step at the entrance.
Yes! Stairs going up to the gameroom and 2 bedrooms, winding - I hate walking up them, not to mention vacumning. Also, my house sits on a hill…so you have to walk up steep stairs to get to the front door. Treacherous on those few days (like yesterday) when we actually get snow in Dallas. Going out to get the newspaper is right up there with taking your life in your hands, as it were.
I vote for one-story houses!
I have three sets of stairs in my house, two are scarlet o hara ones going upstairs and to the basement, and another regular set going to the side into the basement from the back of the house. They are a pain to vacuum, but my dog does like to sleep on the landing at the top of the stairs, so I guess they are okay. I think these stairs take up too much room.
Yes. And my next house won’t.
You could get one like what they have next to the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London.
Yes, there are moving sidewalks next to the Crown Jewels. This keeps us grubby commoners moving, y’see, so we can’t get our mitts on anything. There’s one on each side of the display case. At the end there’s another passage so that you can circle back to the beginning for another look, but you can’t stay still next to them.
And the treads you stand on are gold-coloured.
(I’m not going to go out on a limb and say that they’re actually gold-plated–they might be brass, for instance–but that’s definitely the impression you get. )
BTW, the Crown Jewels are gorgeous. Especially the Star of India or whatever that humungous diamond is called.
Excellent.
Yeah. Two times 14 steps.
I’ve fallen down from both of them. Lots of times.
Next house; No stairs.
Basement apartment. No stairs in the apartment, half a flight going up to the front door.
Best stair-related incident: moving half a household, including dresser and futon, up a wet Montreal exterior metal spiral staircase, and then up an equally characteristic narrow indoor staircase with an abrupt bend, to a third-story apartment.