# Are there stairs in your house?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-stairs-in-your-house/229407>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 16, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-stairs-in-your-house/229407 "2004-02-16T00:18:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![orange\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@orange\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orange_dog)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2004, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-stairs-in-your-house/229407/61 "2004-02-19T20:02:53Z")

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yes and if they’re uncarpeted and smeared with butter oh does he bang his little head when coming home too late and too drunk

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**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-stairs-in-your-house/229407/62 "2004-02-19T21:06:44Z")

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> [@angelicate](#):
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> Our house was renovated before we bought it, turning the small attic space into a couple of large rooms. (They raised the roof.) When they did this, they had to fit stairs in somehow, since the only way up before was (judging by the shoddy paint job in the hallway) a pull-down set of stairs in the hallway. There wasn’t really room to add stairs, so the stairs are in the living room, and are very steep.

Hey! That’s our house!  
Our staircase ends about three and a half feet from the front door, and cuts right through the bathroom.

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**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-stairs-in-your-house/229407/63 "2004-02-19T21:48:34Z")

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> [@Intent](#):
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> What I want now is something I saw in a magazine. There was a house with a two story room, and they built A ROCK CLIMBING WALL going up to the second story! I want that!!!

That would _rock_.

Heh. I made a pun.

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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2004, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-stairs-in-your-house/229407/64 "2004-02-22T09:04:52Z")

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As long as people are being oracular…

When I was a little kid (actually, until I was about 12 or so) I used to scamper up the stairs on all fours, sort of- I put my hands out in front of me and used them for an extra boost on the stairs further up.

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**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-stairs-in-your-house/229407/65 "2004-02-22T16:46:16Z")

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I still do that at my mothers house **matt** , the stairs are so steep!  
In my new appartment I have a set of stairs with a small landing to the second floor, the stairs are double-wide downstairs and then are single wide after the landing. The entrance and the office/guestroom are downstairs, rest of the place is upstairs. Love it 🙂

And that icq log was great!

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