Wednesday
Apr252007
Stairs and storage
Wed, 25 Apr 2007
Image from from Vogue Living Australia. What a great idea. If you’re having some stairs constructed why not consider this. Handy and hidden, a great storage idea for linen, winter woollies, books and papers, anything small in fact.
P.S. These amazing stairs have travelled all over the blogosphere in a few short weeks. This is a scanned image from the Vogue Living Australia Before+After Autumn/Winter 2007 issue. The true originator of this staircase, the joinery company is named in the comments. If you're in Australia and want one of these then google their name and their address and phone number are yours.
Reader Comments (46)
Love it
We had our own staircase built to a similar design. There is no safety issue. We have two kids (8 and 5) and the drawers are never left open. You can see pics here:
http://meandmybigmouth.typepad.com/scottpack/2007/02/books_do_furnis_3.html
Sent this to a contractor friend of mine. He said looks great but probably not code compliant. Anyone know?
If you turn on the lights and look at were your stepping you shouldn't have any problems. Neck Break free.
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I haven't read all the comments so someone might have mentioned this already.
The drawers could be opened by pushing them in half an inch. Then closed by just pushing them back into a magnet.
I think I would have hurt my toes plenty with that small pull.
I would also put a small light in each of them, from the top, not in the actual drawer but down into it. Only on when the drawer is open.
It's the perfect home for your Slinky collection!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slinky
How about lidded (and sprung) chests rather than pull-out drawers? That would make it easier not to leave them open.
It's a Kaidan-dansu (stair tansu).
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My guess is you'll have creaking staircase not before long.So no late night tip toeing after a late night out.
I build stairs and steps (steps are outside). They are the most dangerous part of the house, and should be designed with that in mind. If these stairs don't have some automatic method of closing, then it's inevitable one will be left open and an accident will happen.
Yes, it's a cool idea, but cool and safety don't always go together. -- Nehmo
instead of a drawer, maybe the use of layered slide door (Something like a door built with numbers of vertical sticks) which slided into the side will help reduce the hazardous issue
What hazard issue? They use self-closing sliders. If you turn lose, they pull back in.
Tada!
We have them on the bottom 2 steps going from our garage into the house. Great for putting our shoes into instead of always leaving them on the landing going into the house. You just learn to close the drawer the same as you learn to close doors.
No way this would pass local building code.
This will be perfect in my place. I have stairs, but they are unused now because the house was split into two apartments. Yeah!
i fucking love it!!!!
Woah I think its a fantabulous idea!!
Believe it or not, inside these 'manhatten box skyline' stairs, are storage units and a complete electrical control unit.
You can build virtually anything underneath a stair, and it's probably most interesting if it is only partially enclosed....
I am getting my newly bought house a renovation soon. Emm, this will be a good idea to add storage space for the shoes. Especially the shoes to pass down from one sibling to another.
In Sweden, we don´t wear shoes indoors. And I´m sure safety has been thought of. Excellent idea!