If there is something almost all users here rightly agree on, it is that with these house sizes a straight staircase simply does not (work well). However, that seems to be the dogma here; the answers to the criticism at least suggest this. I would have also liked a straight staircase at home, but even with 11x9 it hardly works or at least it definitely does not look as desired... so I see only one of two parameters working here: 9x9 OR straight staircase