Small Modern Staircase Design Ideas
Top Tread Stairways
Space-saving staircase terminology
I normally call these Alternating-tread stairs, but there are other common terms:
• Space-saving Stair
• Alternating stair
• Thomas Jefferson Stair
• Jeffersonian staircase
• Ergonomic stair with staggered treads
• Zig-zag-style
• Boat Paddle-shaped treads
• Ship’s Ladder
• Alternating-tread devises
• Tiny-house stairs
• Crows foot stairs
Space-saving Stairs have been used widely in Europe for many years and now have become quite popular in the US with the rise of the Tiny House movement. A further boost has been given to the Space-saving staircase with several of the major building codes in the US allowing them.
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Thomas Alexander
Our bespoke staircase was designed meticulously with the joiner and steelwork fabricator. The wrapping Beech Treads and risers and expressed with a shadow gap above the simple plaster finish.
The steel balustrade continues to the first floor and is under constant tension from the steel yachting wire.
Darry Snow Photography
Baxter Projects
Andrew Kist
A 750 square foot top floor apartment is transformed from a cramped and musty two bedroom into a sun-drenched aerie with a second floor home office recaptured from an old storage loft. Multiple skylights and a large picture window allow light to fill the space altering the feeling throughout the days and seasons. Views of New York Harbor, previously ignored, are now a daily event.
Featured in the Fall 2016 issue of Domino, and on Refinery 29.
Duvinage LLC
This stunning spiral stair grants multistory access within a beautiful, modern home designed with green principles by Carter + Burton Architecture. This is a 10' high 6' diameter stair with 22.5 degree oak covered treads, featuring stainless steel rail with 5 line rail infill. The rail extends around the stair opening, balcony, and loft area for a beautiful, integrated, thoroughly modern statement.
Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects
All the levels are tied together by a compact but dramatic stainless steel and walnut staircase which incorporates display shelves for the owners’ various collections. (Photo: Matthew Millman)
Red Pepper Design & Cabinetry
Railings became important in the transition between levels in this vertical home. We wanted simple but with detail. We didn't want boring.
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