Picture thread - Side view of the staircase opening

Dear people,

thinking about the planning of the construction staircase, I just realized that the side of the stair opening with an 18cm intermediate ceiling and a 20cm floor structure somehow has to look like something. The stair builder had made an estimate including cladding, but somehow I didn’t think that it is almost 40cm in total. Do you really clad everything with wood there? Or rather just the structure and plaster the ceiling? I can’t really imagine it right now and would like to invite everyone with already finished houses to a picture battle because of that! Show me (us) your stair openings! Everyone who hasn’t built yet can gladly share what they are planning.

Best regards

Tolentino

We will probably choose a steel stringer staircase and therefore clad the side views of the floor slab with the same steel (about 30cm); that is the current idea. Otherwise, I would rather imagine plastering, your 40cm high wooden paneling would also seem too massive to me. However, it also depends on where/how much wood you have used elsewhere so that it doesn't appear too bulky.

Look, I just happened to find this among my pictures earlier. However, for me, having this much wood like here would be too much.

Yes, and whether that's already 40cm is also questionable. For me, the railing is also wood. Although I know everything and have covered it, so it's not a typical wood tone... But I also think that I might rather just have the floor structure clad and then plaster the suspended ceiling.

We also plastered it.

Look, I just happened to find this among my pictures earlier. To me, as shown here, that would be too much wood.

I’m into flat steel railings. We have a flat steel railing outside around the terrace.

But 1. at first glance it looks cheap, but it’s not, and 2. (much more serious) in this design no insurance in the world will pay if a child or a visiting child slips through and falls. From an insurance perspective, no child’s head may fit through at a fall height over 1-1.2m (I don’t remember the exact value). This applies both indoors and outdoors.