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Wed, Feb 15, 06 at 7:45
| Here is a picture of my stairs into the basement -
when you get to the bottom to the right there is a door into the kids playroom that runs to the back of the staircase where there will be a wall that runs ender the staircase even with the top step... leaveing that space under the steps usable... The basement will not have a door at the top of the steps - but rather be completely open - with railings to the first floor... Depending on where we put the pool table there is a LOT of room down there... so What did you put under your staircase - or intend to Pictures ?? |
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- Posted by formulaross (My Page) on Wed, Feb 15, 06 at 12:34
| Storage closet with door. |
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| We put a wet bar under our stairs.
We have a bar fridge underneath on the right. Carrie |
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| I like both of those ideas, but one suggestion, for the sake of looks, would be to do the little landing like Carrie did in the above picture, to break up the line of the stairs a bit. |
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| we will do it with one step at the bottom ;) I am starting to think out of the box - no reason we can't close the side in the picture and have it open to the kids playroom - with a cubbie unit for storage of toys, etc... hmmmm.... |
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- Posted by msafirstein (My Page) on Sat, Mar 11, 06 at 12:49
| A friend of mine enclosed the area under the stairs and then slipped in her extra refrigerator opposite the stair landing. It fit perfectly and keep it out of the way. We have always enclosed this area and used it as closet storage but there is wasted space due to the incline of the stairs. But cubbies are a good idea and I love the wet bar. |
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- Posted by legardhome (My Page) on Sun, Mar 12, 06 at 18:58
| A couple of houses ago, we had stairs that led straight down like yours and we did a built in entertainment unit for tv, vcr, etc. |
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- Posted by bus_driver (My Page) on Sat, Mar 25, 06 at 17:38
| The code in my area requires drywall on the underside of the stairs if the area is enclosed- even for storage. |
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- Posted by dominogold (My Page) on Tue, Mar 28, 06 at 9:55
| We have our under-stairs finished off and use it to store the kids toys. They can throw all their junk in there and close the door and "poof" a clean room. |
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