20 Creative Staircases That Make Regular Stairs Look Like They Gave Up
I have lived in places with normal stairs my entire life and I genuinely never thought twice about it until I started looking at pictures like these.
Stairs that spiral like a corkscrew. Stairs carved straight into stone. Stairs that fold out of a bookshelf like a secret passage in a movie. Somewhere out there someone looked at a perfectly functional staircase design and thought, no, we can do better, and then went and built something that looks more like a sculpture than a way to get to the second floor.
These staircases range from creative to deeply impractical and every single one of them made me look at my own boring stairs a little differently.
1. “Rehabbed”
2. “Saw this going around. Does this count?”
3. “I had to stare at these a while”
4. Crazy Stairs
5. “I heard you guys really like stairs … me too!”
6. “I hope that belongs here”
7. “Cool Tree Railing”
8. “Looks cool but scary”
9. “Chand Bairi, Jaipur, India”
10. “Cool and interesting but dangerous”
11. “What are they trying to keep up there? “
12. “Stairway of Nope”
13. “I saw these on a social media site. There was no info posted, but they sure are unusual!”
14. “Do stairs for fish count?”
“This is a fish ladder on the Sorne in the Pichoux Gorge, Switzerland. It is a prefabricated with 24 tanks & elevation gain of 12.5 feet/3.80 m & it was built to allow fish to migrate varied elevations between lakes & rivers. Fish swim up the gradual level between pools; uphill.”
15. “Concrete stairs with the prefix ‘art’.”
16. “Stone stairs worn from use on the Great Wall of China”
17. “There are 9 steps here.”
18. “Airbnb stairs”
19. “Well that saves space”
20. “Airbnb accident prone stairs”
