senior housing: Little things matter in a house: Stairs
- 09/19/09 03:43 PM
I showed a Cary home last week with a feature that I don't see often enough. Pointed it out to the clients, and they agreed it was pleasant. The stairs. The staircase was not endowed with hand-carved balusters or tacked-on mass-millwork MDF trim. It was not a dramatic sweeping complex curve of exotic woods. It was just "gracious to the gait." Easy to walk on. You got to the second level without feeling like you climbed a ladder. It felt, well, "classy." See, there is a little science to stairs, and sometimes common stairs forget the pleasing aspect of that science. As you climb stairs, (5 comments)