Does anyone here have stairs in their house?

[Craig3410]

Just wondering.

[elshiva]

1. I do. Why do you ask?

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. No, but I have stares...

[fizzgig]

3. i do

but i don't have access to the basement. it's an empty apartment

[flvegan]

4. In the house? I have one leading to the sunken doggie rumpus room.

[SeattleGirl]

5. Two sets. One from the main floor up to the bedroom, and the

other from the main floor to the basement.

[realisticphish]

6. I'm protected

gibbis fo life

[Left Is Write]

7. Yes. It's hard to get to the second floor without them.

[Broken_Hero]

8. nope, no stairs, just a step.

From the kitchen, to the utility/laundry room. Someday, we will have stairs though...

[mwdem]

9. No, not anymore.

We bought this home 4 years ago, and we didn't want stairs anymore. Now, living in Texas, we don't have a basement! We moved here from Kansas, still in tornado ally, and now, no basements! We're getting a bit older, and so are our friends, so that's what we decided on.

[old mark]

10. Plenty. We have an old row house in SE Pennsylvania,

nearly 90 years old. Has very steep stairs for 3 floors and a basement, plus stairs outside for the side porch and rear patio, plus 3 stairs up to the front porch.

That's how I get my exercise.

mark

[PRETZEL]

21. the architecture in some of those houses is awesome,

you don't see much of the 10ft ceilings or the old 5" moldings anymore.

Those houses had class.

[old mark]

29. Unfortunately, that was removed in a remodel in the 70's, but we still have

the 4' thick stone walls in the basement, and the original stome patio.

The house is very solid, well insulated, and we just added all new windows and a wood pellet stove for heat.
Thinking about solar electricity, but it's very expensive to install.

mark

[sarge43]

11. Basement stairs. n/t

[yy4me]

12. Two sets in this old house, The front, more formal and back, a

curved, less formal. There are also stairs to the attic and cellar. Geeze, I never thought much about it but that is a lot for a 6 room house. One of the sets, the rear is built into an add-on called a Beverly Jog. This was a full height addition on the side of the house added sometime in the 1800's as additional access. This house has been added to and changed through 200 years. I think that at some point there were two families living here. One on the first floor, one on the second and third. Perhaps Mom & Pop on one, Grown children above. Only one kitchen.

[MorningGlow]

13. Five sets, soon to be six

Outside: steps to front door, soon-to-be-built steps to back door (replacing a rickety deck), steps to basement under bilco doors; inside: front staircase to second floor, back staircase to second floor, stairs to basement.

...Is it a record? If so, what do I win? :D

[TZ]

14. Not IN my place no...

But I live on the second floor of a garden style condo building......

[mnhtnbb]

15. Yes. My knees do not appreciate them on laundry day.

Last fall I figured out I should do laundry on Saturday while watching college football in hubby's
lower level office so instead of going up/down stairs, I just walk over to the laundry room during
commercials.

We almost made an offer on a one level house last week where we would have had to build hubby's office as an addition, but in the end figured that with the exception of the up/down for laundry, the problems of trying to coordinate 3 people living in this 1800 sq foot house that includes an office for hubby's private practice (psychiatry) would be resolved in a couple of years when our rising 2nd year college age son would move on to an apartment or another town for graduate school. He's only here summers and breaks now, but
his room is adjacent to hubby's office, which makes scheduling a bit of a hassle.

[Bertha Venation]

16. Our house is unique.

It looks like it's up on a little hill if you drive down the street, because of the slope of the front yard. With that, the garage and basement are on the ground floor, and the house is on the second floor.

But then, it's not, because half upstairs of the house is surrounded by dirt, and the other half is a true second story because that side of the house has no hill.

Confused yet? Me, too.

Long story short ("too late!"), yes, we have stairs. A flight outside and a flight inside.

[av8rdave]

17. Yes

All bedrooms upstairs.

[azmouse]

18. I don't.

I have a ranch-style house and I love it! No dragging my weary body up stairs when I want to go to bed.
No up and down stairs to do laundry. No stairs to clean.

And ranch houses stay cooler here in the desert. Every two-story house I've been in here is much warmer on the second floor than the first. Heat rises.

[TZ]

19. but....

they get scorpions in them...:P

[azmouse]

23. Did I tell you about the one I found in the bedroom doorway this week?

I can't believe I didn't step on it on the way to the bathroom! :hi:

[TZ]

24. Thats it.

When I go to Scottsdale next year..I'm NEVER EVER taking my shoes off...:P

[azmouse]

27. That's probably a good move.

Scorpions LOVE to hide inside shoes. heehee... :)

[Forkboy]

20. There's two flights of stairs from the road just to GET to my house.

Then another three to get to my floor.

[Lucian]

22. I have stairs leading up to the attic and stairs leading down to the basement.

[no name no slogan]

25. One set leading down to the dungeon

that's all

[Critters2]

26. Yes. nt

[Midlodemocrat]

28. Yes, two flights. Otherwise, I'd have to rappel out the window to reach the kitchen.

[AlCzervik]

30. yes but mine only go up.

it's a real pain.

[LaydeeBug]

31. yes. nt

[merh]

32. I have stair to my house

does that work?