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That area upstairs

  • 12-04-2010 01:19PM
    #1
    abouttobebanned
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭


    Just a quick one...does everyone else call this the landing? I'm starting to doubt myself...

    Lately I'm remembering a lot of words I used as a kid that I'm not quite sure about these days


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  • #2
    Naos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,740 ✭✭✭Naos


    Yup that's the landing.


  • #3
    Davidius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    I call it the landing.


  • #4
    Schism
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Schism


    Yup, you got yourself a landing there.


  • #5
    abouttobebanned
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    Where the hell did that word come from? No wonder I wad doubting myself


  • #6
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Mines called another apartment, but in my Mam's house i call it a landing.


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  • #7
    alwaysadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    I call it the attic.
    I live in a bungalow. :pac:


  • #8
    TanG411
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    I usually land there after a night out, so yeah, it's the landing.


  • #9
    Keogg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭Keogg


    What else would you call it? It's totally a landing


  • #10
    abouttobebanned
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    The upstairs hall haha


  • #11
    Max Power1
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    id call it "UPSTAIRS"

    edit: beaten to it pff


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  • #12
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    abouttobebanned wrote: »
    The upstairs hall haha
    Max Power1 wrote: »
    id call it "UPSTAIRS"

    edit: beaten to it pff
    Nope, upstairs is including the bedrooms. The landing is the part from the bedrooms to the main bathroom :cool:


  • #13
    Naos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,740 ✭✭✭Naos


    abouttobebanned wrote: »
    Where the hell did that word come from? No wonder I wad doubting myself

    Maybe because when you are carrying something upstairs, for example a load of washing, you just land it there and let everyone take whats theirs?


  • #14
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Because it's where I used to play with my planes when I was a kid. Best place to 'accidently' send a wary parent down the stairs and still have it look like an accident!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #15
    Dravokivich
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    Tís all part of the foyer...


  • #16
    Gillington
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    Upstairs its the landing,downstairs the hall


  • #17
    daveyboy_1ie
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    Never called it anything other than the landing, never thought of where the name came from.


  • #18
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    What's the bit between two flights of steps, where the staircase changes direction, called?


  • #19
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    pickarooney wrote: »
    What's the bit between two flights of steps, where the staircase changes direction, called?
    Ah why did you have to go and confuse things? :(


  • #20
    abouttobebanned
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    pickarooney wrote: »
    What's the bit between two flights of steps, where the staircase changes direction, called?

    don't think it has a name. Didnt stop the black eyed peas writing some crap song about it though


  • #21
    noodletop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 209 ✭✭noodletop


    pickarooney wrote: »
    What's the bit between two flights of steps, where the staircase changes direction, called?


    that would be the mid landing


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  • #22
    abouttobebanned
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    And while we're in the area...did anyone ever put their foot through the gaps in the wood in the attic? The warnings we used to get about walking on them...


  • #23
    sron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 264 ✭✭sron


    pickarooney wrote: »
    What's the bit between two flights of steps, where the staircase changes direction, called?

    Call it a mezzanine; people will be impressed.


  • #24
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    pickarooney wrote: »
    What's the bit between two flights of steps, where the staircase changes direction, called?

    Banged-together NAMA gaff.


  • #25
    noodletop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 209 ✭✭noodletop


    abouttobebanned wrote: »
    And while we're in the area...did anyone ever put their foot through the gaps in the wood in the attic? The warnings we used to get about walking on them...


    you mean your parents made you live in the attic:eek: and had the neck to warn you not to fall through the ceiling:confused:


  • #26
    Earthhorse
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    pickarooney wrote: »
    What's the bit between two flights of steps, where the staircase changes direction, called?

    According to a Google search it's also called a landing: http://stairs.interiordezine.com/images/stair_tread_and_riser.jpg.

    Personally, I'd have called it a pause.


  • #27
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    According to a Google search it's also called a landing: http://stairs.interiordezine.com/images/stair_tread_and_riser.jpg.

    Personally, I'd have called it a pause.

    It can even be applied to the area at the foot of the stairs, according to dictionary.com.
    That sort of cheapens it.

    Anyone remember Knots Landing?


  • #28
    AnonoBoy
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    When I was young we used to call that area "where AnonoBoy sleeps".


  • #29
    hairyleprechaun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 106 ✭✭hairyleprechaun


    Always known them landings too. Never thought about it before. Where does the name come from?


  • #30
    OutlawPete
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    I grew up in Swords and my brothers told me when I was eight, that the Landing was called 'the landing' because if you forget to turn off the light there, planes would land on your house thinking it was the runway :rolleyes:


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  • #31
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,366 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    pickarooney wrote: »
    What's the bit between two flights of steps, where the staircase changes direction, called?

    When I was a lad, this was a half-landing


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