Ideas for stairway and hallway?
Hi all,
I'm hoping some of the incredibly imaginative minds here can help. Currently designing our home and have pretty much all aspects we want locked in...except for the stairway placement and how it'll affect the downstairs hall and upstairs landing.
Below are the plans for upstairs and ground floor. The upstairs "hallway" is lounge/sitting room area that is open to and overlooks the living room below. We'd like to not have the stairs land in the middle of this room but also want to keep the hallway that runs behind the stairs downstairs.
Also attached the two stairways we had in mind...we love both but they may not be feasible?
Does anyone have any suggestions? We're open to all ideas and even putting the stairs somewhere else. I realise its a tough ask but hoping some of the bright minds here can help :)
Thanks in advance for any advice
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Apologies, my post was probably not very clear. ground floor is where the front door, kitchen etc is…street level. upstairs is first floor.
@3onthetree i agree, my wife loves narrow hallways, there wont be doors between these but she is keen for one to run on that side of the house and join up with the other hallways down to the bedrooms - as seen in ref below.
we’re planning on making the main enterance more narrow as its very wide. Any suggestions on how to achive this are greatly appreciated
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PROlast monthHave you tried https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/uk-forums
You build differently than we do in the US and might get better suggestions on the UK forum.
Who is doing the design?
Have you seen the plan rendered in 3D -- both inside and out?
Mark Bischak, Architect