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That is pretty darn cool. My wife would go bonkers for something like that. But, our new house is a single-story so we don't have any steps on the property other than in the pool.
OMG, I love this idea! I wish we would've had these stairs while we were raising our kids. Our retirement home has no steps, but this is truly ingenious. Thanks for sharing it.
We all need extra storage all over our homes and this is just wasted space on the treads of stairs. The only thing is you would have to be careful the drawers were either locked or very hard to open so nobody would trip. But think of all the smallish things you could store- shoes, gloves and hats and scarves, pet toys and leashes, candles, flashlights, smallish blankets. I really loved this the minute I saw it.
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While at a first glance I like this idea as much as others who commented here already, I'd like to point to a few things:
- In many cases that space is not wasted. Lots of houses and apartments have under-the-stairs closets. If they add a bit of shelving there, the net outcome will be the same.
- Access matters. If the other side of the stairs is open, the same can be achieved by again, building shelves. The bottom step would have the widest shelf, the top the narrowest. The shelves would cost fraction of $$ compared with drawers.
- Again, access matters. If you cannot get to the other side of the steps, adding the drawers would be a lot of work. First, you need to tear down carpet or whatever flooring you have. Then disassemble much of the stairs. Then build the drawers. Then rebuild the stairs back together. All in all, non trivial project.
- To sum it up. This would be a nice improvement in space-deficient places if part of the original construction of the house.
Regrettably, it would increase the cost, and the builders these days build as cheaply as possible (but paint the house in designer colors instead)
As a retrofit of an existing house, still nice but not a silver bullet as it appears when you take a first look at the picture.
I have actually seen a similar version of this. My friend had a carpenter build two doors into the hallway side of her stairs. Behind the door are the step drawers, almost like an armoire. Quite the thing to see.
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