Building a deck makes for a fantastic addition to any home. But it’s not going to be much use without a good set of deck stairs to get up and down from your primary backyard relaxation spot. The right ...

Like every other design detail in your home, they can be a reflection of your personal taste and style, while also making life easier (for example, replacing straight stairs featuring a knee ...

Previously treated as solely functional, the integration of color and dimension into residential stairs is stronger than ever. Adobe Stock. One particularly unusual phenomenon is “witches stairs ...

Single-stair, then, is a change to local building codes that essentially removes the need for the second staircase. This allows buildings to be designed around, say, a central atrium or stairwell ...

In 2021—midway through the design process—the City of Austin abandoned their previous prohibition on single-stair multifamily residential projects. Three-story structures with a single staircase have ...

Seemingly a simple thing, this rule has a host of consequences for the size, shape, and design of U.S. buildings, all but forcing developments to follow a narrow set of building footprints. Most ...

Schwebs wrote in his report that the single-egress stair design now allowed by the B.C. Building Code “increases life safety risk to the residents by removing alternatives for emergency response ...

Social climbers: Stairs rise from necessity to blank canvas for creative home design — and oohs and ahs on the Internet Plus, what are ‘witches stairs,’ and were they truly invented to allay ...