Storage ideas for under switch back stairs?
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Comments (3)Hi Lyfia and brickeyee, Thanks for your ideas. Yes, if the stairs were built similar to open stairs that would give us lots of under stair options. I believe the stairs are well built. Can anyone elaborate as to how to best support these stairs, and still make use of under the stair storage? Thanks. Carol...See MoreThe Void Under The Staircase..
Comments (27)Too funny ks! I remember the doctor bit...and I wondered about the basement because it seemed a bit small otherwise. :) I have a full basement, with about 6' 2" clearance--I'm 6'1, and have to duck a bit to miss furnace pipes. Need new concrete for the floor, but got to save for that. I rented rooms for a while when I first moved in back in '87, always nice people who were co-workers or friends going to OSU...now I only have one 'roomie' since I needed someone to transport me around. The attic was supposed to be my library, but somehow, someone always wanted to live in it! The cats--ah, there's a story! I have maintained two cats--since I was a little kid; when I bought the house, had a black and white I bought six months after the house--within a year, had found a lilac siamese on the street (lost the lilac in '01 at age 21, the black and white in '02 at age 16). The siamese with attitude on the chair came in March 01 as a kitten to replace my lilac...and his sister came two months later when the last kitten got run over at my sister's farm--someone had tossed their mother out there, and she gave birth to three kittens. Fast forward to '05, and the 'attitude' boy got stolen...so I got the girl on the sofa to replace him (also from my sister). So now, I just have the two girls, Bortai and little Chula, ages 10 and 6 respectively. Genghis was the attitude boy, his sister Bortai is the tortie point above, and Chula is the one on the couch in a pic when she was about six months old. Genghis was a traditional seal point (they are larger than modern siamese), Bortai is a traditional tortie-seal, and Chula is a classic seal--they are an inbetween style (not as large as traditional, but not skeletons like today's models--they were around mainly in the 50s-60s and the kind I grew up with.) And now, back to the thread...:) I really need to post house interior pics, showing the woodwork, stairs and lights--btw, my stairs have the original dust things in the corners. :)...See Moreunder-stair kitchen storage idea
Comments (0)Hey GWers! Saw this cool storage idea in the Chicago Tribune this weekend, and had to share it here! I didn't see the picture in the on-line version, but it's pretty well described in the article. He turned 2 steps to his backdoor, from his kitchen, into hidden storage. The front step is 7"deep storage, and the second step is 14" of storage (the article in the newspaper was longer than the online version, with a bit more detail.) Pretty great idea! Here is a link that might be useful: Making mini-storage binsout of steps...See Morelooking for pics of under stair storage & columns (pics)
Comments (6)I am not following you on the columns idea (re:bookcase). Do you mean something like this? http://mitrecontracting.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54f8e2c43883301127904556728a4-500wi or in the below link? More than likely, your columns are "stuck" there for structural support of the floor above. Although, a lot columns are decorative. Here is a link that might be useful: bookcases...See Moremamablue
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