Which Type Of Stair Will Suit Your Home Best?

Are you planning to build your home, renovate, or revamp your staircase? Be it any reason, staircase is the focal point in the home architecture, thus needs to be according todays modern designs. 

Different type and styles are available in staircase that you can choose for your home and include your home in the list of modern homes.

Before you choose any type of stairs, you first need to determine which type will best fit into your home floor plan.

Typically, 5 type of stairs are popularly chosen by homeowners

• Straight run stair- As the name implies, these stairs are straight in look wise. Typically, used in homes where a lot of space is available. The advantage of these stairs include it is easy to climb, easy to build, no landing required and measuring of railing can easily be done.
• L-Shaped Stair- These stairs can be built in any home space (more or less). These stairs have a 90-degree turn at the landing. The advantage of these stairs include attractive, safer than straight stairs and landing provide a place to stop.
• U-Shaped Stair- These stairs are optimal for homes where tighter floor plans and multi-level structures are there. Either a wide or a narrow U-Shape of stairs can be built, depending on the space of home. The advantage of U-shaped stairs include fit into an architectural plan, offer a resting point and attractive.
• Spiral Stair- This is most optimal choice of staircase for many homeowners. The elegance look and minimal amount of space that it occupies are the two factors why this staircase is center of attraction of many homes. The advantage of these stairs include compactness, used extensively on city lofts, attractive, and no need of extra support structures.
• Curved stair- These stairs are curved in shape and are designed in a spiral formation. The advantage of these stairs include elegant, and easy to walk up.
• Winder stairs-These stairs are variation of L shaped stairs. At the rest point, the stair is of pie shaped or triangular steps. Advantage of winder stairs include require less space than other types of stairs and attractive.

Keep in mind each of the aforementioned stair types and ask your designer to provide you different staircases design from which you can choose the best one that fits right and add elegance into your home.

How Wooden Staircases Can Conceptualize Your House’s Interiors?

Whether you are designing a new home or trying to modernize your present one, you do need the right kind of designer staircase, as it can add a unique sense of style to your house. Elegantly designed staircase draws everyone’s attention. However, at the time of designing stairs, several things should be kept in mind, like-

• The staircase should be in sync with the style of the rest of the house.
• How much space do you want to invest?
• Do you want it smart and trendy or vintage and classy?

Stairs are used very frequently, so you cannot ignore its functional aspect as well.

Different materials used for staircases like wood, steel, or marble provide a different sense of styling. However, it has been seen that most of the people go for wooden staircases due to their durability and styling quotient.

In wood, there are different options like Brazilian cherry, oak, cherry, maple, poplar etc.

Open riser stairs are in trend these days. These stairs provide the mean of spreading the light through the core of the rooms. Open risers work well with large as well as small areas.

They are engineered using either steel rods or half-shaped riser down stands to uphold conformity with building convention.

Wooden Staircases are categorized into various types-

• Hexagonal geometry stairs- these stairs have wooden steps that are hexagonal in shape and provides support with stainless steel made rods.
• Integrated column stairs – this kind of stair case consists of fewer spirals made up from wood.
• Saddle stairs- these stairs do not consist of risers. The steps are put on the rise triangle shape.
• Inserted stairs- Steps of these staircases are slid into insertion opening. These stairs do not have risers.
• Mortised stairs- each step is inserted into the holes and have risers.