The Drama Of Beautiful Indoor Staircases

Adding an Architectural Focal Point To Your Home

While indoor staircases are a necessity for homes with multiple levels, you can choose to make them an architectural focal point of the home. There are so many different designs available that you can fit a beautiful one in almost anywhere now. Don’t let the beauty though keep you from considering the safety aspects.

If you’ve noticed sweeping indoor staircases in movies, you know what a dramatic statement they can make. If you are building a new home, or even remodeling an older home, you can add some beauty and drama to it by replacing railings. You can remove a large entryway and replace it with spiral staircases, giving you more room to work with in a home remodel.

Or you can add steps where there previously were none, like in the case of a new attic remodeling.

Going Round And Round

If you want to give your rooms a softer look, replace angular with a circular staircases. You can modify the home stair railing to be curvier too, to bring a more natural look to your home. There are a number of places now where you can look for different railing designs. Home improvement stores offer some interesting looks at railings and online you can even find places that help you created your own custom stair or deck railings. Don’t limit yourself to what’s on a shelf, if it doesn’t fulfill the vision for your home. Find someone who will work with you to make your dream a reality.

Keep one thing in mind when shopping for stair railings: safety. You want something that is substantial enough not to buckle under pressure and break. You also want to make sure the width between railings is compliant with city codes. These codes are set up to keep small children from accidentally getting their heads stuck in between the railings and hurting themselves.

Stair Cases For Tight Spaces

If you want a little more room in your room remodel, but have a big fat staircase in the way, consider spiral as a design solution. There are so many different styles and materials used to make these elegant stairways and they take far less space than a conventional one. Circular ones come in metal and wood and can complement modern or contemporary decors.

There are even kits available to build your own spiralcase at home without the need to hire a professional. Two people working together should be able to assemble the circular staircase in record time.

Again, be careful to pick one that is sturdy and is safe for your home. These kind if staircases are a little harder to climb than ordinary straight ones and people should be advised to use the hand rail at all times.

Attic Stair Cases

Spiral designs can be great for getting to out of the way places like an attic. However, there are other options for attics too. You can get a pull down stair case that unfolds when you open the attic trap door, like a retractable ladder. You want to make sure it has sufficient headspace when climbing and that it can support the weight of a full grown man on it. You can also build a gateway to your attic or get a compact modular staircase and assemble it. Usually, with safety and building regulations being very important in stair design, you want to get a professional to help you make sure the new addition is safe and meets safety codes.

Consult An Architect or Interior Decorator

If you are unsure about the choices of stair design or what you can do to modify an existing model, consult an architect or interior decorator. They can tell you the latest possibilities for stair design and what materials might work best in your home. They can also help you figure out whether the placement of your stairs will work well for design layout. They may even come up with some novel ideas that just really add a lot of glamour and spice to your design.

Interior decorators also have contacts in the design industry that can help you purchase design elements for your home at a discount. It will cost you to get their design services, but hopefully they can find something to fit in your budget. Stairs are a significant investment and should be deliberated thoroughly. It may be you can get away with just changing the home stair railing to achieve the look you want without having to replace or move the entire stair case. This can be a very budget-wise option when remodeling a home.

Look To The Internet

If you are not familiar with the many different designs and options, take a look at the Internet to find out more. You can research all the different styles online and see a number of photographs that can help you visualize how a particular stair case might look in your home. As they say: A picture is worth a thousand words. It will help you to compare prices and materials. It can give you an idea of what is custom and what is standard on most stairs.

You can even have fun trying to figure out new types of railings, by looking at detail pictures of other standard railings. That way, if you have to talk to an interior decorator or architect, you might already have some photographs you can point to online or printed to show them what appeals to you the most.

This can help the professional to really zone in on your design tastes and make the entire process that much easier. It will also give you something to compare to and to understand the market value of different staircases when your designer chooses something different.

At the very least, the browsing you do online will open your eyes to the many design possibilities you have with stair case features in the home. You can dream and plan about how you want to remodel your home and even work out the dimensions on paper.

By planning your design on paper, you can tell if the dimensions of your staircase is too big or not proportionate to the entire design. This is very valuable information to know before you even spend a dime to get the kit delivered or have it ordered by your interior decorator.