Bookcase Stairs: Finding Storage Options in Previously Ignored Areas
Homeowners living in small spaces are always looking for ways to eek out extra storage. Using the dead area behind stairs is nothing new. How many of us grew up in homes with the small triangular coat closet under the stairs?
But what about storage in the stairs?
Turning your stairs into drawers is a pretty brilliant idea. Especially for people living in homes where space it at a premium. The idea for this application is taken from boats, where stairs turned drawers are common. Living with children, however, the idea of one of them opening the drawer and not closing it properly and therefore causing the next person to fall down the stairs, frightens me.
Here are instructions for building your own stair drawers some of you more adventurous DIYers out there.
Truly unique and innovative are these stair bookcases. The entire thing is like walking up a bookcase, rather than a staircase.
It is amazing. Functional and beautiful, I have to admit that as a fellow bibliophile I am also exceedingly jealous of all those books. I would love to perch there on their steps and browse through them.
Of course my practical side wonders how those stairs are to use every day. What if I accidentally started off on the wrong foot, would I go tumbling down? Possibly injuring myself or, even worse, my precious book collection. I think I would be more inclined to keep my steps as traditional steps and line the wall along the side of them as bookcases.
I do wonder though if the solution to many of the storage issues that would cause a person to need to utilize staircases could be solved by simply having less stuff.
