Stairs become more hazardous with age. Visual changes make depth judgment harder. Balance is not what it once was. Muscles ...

Amateur carpenters who have laid out the cuts in a stair stringer (the zig-zag structural support for the steps) know the queasy feeling that bubbles up at the prospect of this job. There’s the simple ...

You probably give little thought to the stairs you go up or down to reach different levels of your home, deck or patio. I’ll wager that if I handed you a measuring tape, a framing square, a pencil and ...

Designers dislike carpeted stairs, favoring more stylish options that offer the same safety benefits. For traction, consider stair runners, anti-slip treatments, or scored treads instead of full ...

What is the second leading cause of personal injury to people in the United States? Injuries from falls on stairways is right behind those sustained in automobile accidents. According to the American ...

Lloyd Alter is Design Editor for Treehugger and teaches Sustainable Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. Alternating tread stairs are terrific for saving space; you only put one foot on a tread at ...

But cantilever stairs have never been reserved for grand designs, and thousands of more modest examples of principal and service stairs can be found throughout the country. Unfortunately, they are ...

Posts shared in early March 2021 claim that alternate-tread staircases are called “Witches Stairs,” allegedly built with the belief that “witches can’t climb up them.” This claim is false, as ...

How much thought do you give to your staircase? Day to day, probably not a lot. If you plan to renovate your home or install a new staircase, however, that will need to change. That's because there's ...