Nice Stairs - a bit too nice

magnethead

Hi Guys,
I was just ogling this lovely stairs on a UK website.....Not cheap, coming in at an optimistic €23K... (It's Oak)

I know you can't recommend any companies on boards, but are there companies in Ireland that could create a beauty such as this?

and how do they get the curves, is the wood lot's of thinner curved sheets laminated together?
Thanks

looksee

Beautiful! If you do a reverse image search on one of the pics (right click, search google for image) you will get a couple of ads of firms that do stairs, nothing on that scale though.

magnethead

Thanks, I found a good few Irish and Northern Irish companies that do CURVED WOODEN stairs, but the examples were not up to this guys standards. and I checked the prices, I was getting 15-17K for a simpler form of this. Still big skins, It would be some feature for a house, I'm still in the dreaming phase ;p things will firm up soon enough though.

bemak

while i admire the skill that went into making a stairs like that, I think it's horrible. What bothers me the most is the amount of space it kills!

less is more something like the attached. The little 'flick' at the end is just the right amount of elegance in a stair. the one above is a waste of money.

gozunda

bemak wrote: »

while i admire the skill that went into making a stairs like that, I think it's horrible. What bothers me the most is the amount of space it kills!

less is more something like the attached. The little 'flick' at the end is just the right amount of elegance in a stair. the one above is a waste of money.

I agree very elegant but in an understated way. The only problem I foresee is that little Dachshund will never get up those stairs lol. He looks so disheartened. Poor wee fella

bemak

mightn't be a bad thing!

gozunda

bemak wrote: »

mightn't be a bad thing!

Of course there is always a work around - the following photo shows a Dachshund versus stair solution ....

See if you can spot it ...

Inside:


Outside:

Bonus points - spot the Dachshund

Lumen

It looks like it was designed by a carpenter. too much wood, not enough contrast. Not helped by floor and wall colour choices.

It's like the form is serving the technique, rather that the technique serving the form.

These are nice.

Lumen

Lumen wrote: »

It looks like it was designed by a carpenter. too much wood, not enough contrast. Not helped by floor and wall colour choices.

It's like the form is serving the technique, rather that the technique serving the form.

These are nice.

http://www.granddesignstairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Curved-steel-stair.jpg

http://www.granddesignstairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Curved-stair-steel-central-spine.jpg

I prefer the one in the OP, but in reality, no matter what my house was like, I don't think I'd have either.

They'd look alright in a hotel i'd guess, but outside of that I wouldn't be keen. to each their own, I guess, though.

magnethead

Lovely follow up Lumen , THat particular stairs(Black powder coated steel with Beech boards) is 9.9K (euro) inc shipping from the UK..
and the more I look at it, you are right about it being more interesting with the bigger contrast, and the other one becomes slightly more bland, with the skirting and door frames all melding together.

In the end of the day, it's less then half the price ;p and money plays a big part in all this too.

EDIT:
and the misses absolutely hates the open stairs with the central support...(but we need something to let the light through)

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[Deleted User] wrote: »

I prefer the one in the OP, but in reality, no matter what my house was like, I don't think I'd have either.

They'd look alright in a hotel i'd guess, but outside of that I wouldn't be keen. to each their own, I guess, though.

A hotel probably wouldn’t have a stairs so hard to climb. I like the first photo from lumen.

endacl

gozunda wrote: »

I agree very elegant but in an understated way. The only problem I foresee is that little Dachshund will never get up those stairs lol. He looks so disheartened. Poor wee fella

He manage it all right as he is. He’s just wondering how he’d manage it while horny.

gozunda

endacl wrote: »

He manage it all right as he is. He’s just wondering how he’d manage it while horny.

Ok - that's just a little bit to much detail there I think ..... backs away

rampantbunny

gozunda wrote: »

I agree very elegant but in an understated way. The only problem I foresee is that little Dachshund will never get up those stairs lol. He looks so disheartened. Poor wee fella

But with a bit of effort he will be able to turn on/off the lights. Is it me or are those switches very low.

No reply required...don't want to derail thread.

gozunda

More stairs with dachshunds ...

gozunda wrote: »

Of course there is always a work around - the following photo shows a Dachshund versus stair solution ....

See if you can spot it ...

Inside:


Outside:

Bonus points - spot the Dachshund

Just realised the image links aren't working - oops...sorry!

garbo speaks

Just remember OP, in looking at the photo of the stairs you attached, in Ireland the Building Regulations state that horizontal spindles are not acceptable (too easy for a child to climb up and over).

magnethead

I know, I found out about the regs now, the 100mm ball rule(no more gaps) and all the nonsense

If you exceed 15 steps, you need a ball breaking landing.....I'm on 17 threads but I don't want a stupid landing.

I've being told horizontal railings might be ok on the Stairs, but the landing will definitely NOT have horizontal bars (not like where I'm living now, pre-reg house built 25 years ago )
I'm looking at glass sheeting like this

kupus

You could go to a metal fabricator near you with lumens photo and ask him to do something like that.

The wood part is actually the easiest in that build and to keep costs down it can be sourced from numerous places.

Lumen second photo reminds me of a james bond movie scene with the two ladies bambi and thumper trying to off James.

magnethead

Thanks kupus, That's exactly what I've done, after getting some stupid quote unfortunately from some other Irish Suppliers, THe UK manufacturer 'Grand Design Stairs' that features in Lumens shot actually came back with a reasonable price. But the fabricator I found is 2km from work and will fit it too. and he's got some nice work under his belt too.