27 Stair Designs That Will Hurt Your Brain And Break Your Neck

Stairs, like ceilings and doors, are a basic design feature of most buildings. And yet, somehow there are designers out there who still manage to mess them up… sometimes in spectacular fashion. Whether it’s a visually confusing layout that makes you unsure where to step or a geometry-defying design straight out of MC Escher’s wastebasket, these god-awful stair design fails will make you shake your head or break your neck.

1. This invisible kicker

How dangerous these stairs are
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2. This visual mess

Imagine being drunk
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3. This shop class-looking booby trap

These stairs in my in-laws summerhouse. We have parties here so going down these stairs drunk is a challange.
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4. This 45 degree nonsense

These new stairs at my office.
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5. This step that isn’t a step

Almost broke my leg
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6. This plaid-patterned death trap

When you let Satan choose the carpet
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7. This actual Escher come to life

These stairs are bad
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8. This top of the stairs speed bump

This death trap in Thailand at the top of a large set of stairs, WHY!?
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9. This dystopian holo-staircase

I've seen some crappy stairs, but this one takes the cake
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10. This waste of concrete

Stairs to nowhere
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11. This irregular jumble

My friend's stairway to his bedroom
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12. This trap

My legally blind friend (he can still see a little) pointed out to me that the black line at the bottom of this staircase makes it look like there's another stair. Classic state schools.
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13. This slippery mess

These tiled stairs that are a nightmare in winter and rain
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14. This…thing

Stairs to nowhere
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15. This stairway that’s not quite on the level

This stair set with a wonky step at the top of it. I nearly fall every time I go down it.
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16. This surprise ending

Nearly died carrying a box down these basement stairs
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17. This visual nightmare stair

Not a good carpet choice for stairs if you ask me
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18. …And this one

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19. This staircase that would kill you if you could access it

Well thats one way to make stairs
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20. This sobriety test

These stairs
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21. This opportunity to use a fire pole instead

The guy who lay the carpet on this stairs must have been drunk
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22. This railing that’s not helping

My house( a rented one) has this. I’ve… fallen down the stairs a lot
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23. This miscommunication

I am amazed by the very existance of those stairs
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24. This carpet-covered design fail

This set of stairs at my relative’s house. (I almost fell)
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25. These stairs for the brave

These thin stairs
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26. This art project

These stairs popped up in my timeline on FB. Actually kind of cool design but I would certainly die trying to go to the toilet at 2 AM.
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27. This head banger

yeah just don’t walk up the right side of the stairs
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