For us, a staircase is a staircase, no more, no less.
It still has a good solid Mosaic tiles in placed despite all the years serving the people. For that we have decided to keep it as it is.
Until we built up a storeroom at its side !
It appeared that, the bricked wall was built onto the side of the staircase. This staircase, being an ancient product, was measured at about 3 feet wide, or almost a metre. With the wall built onto the side, and a future handle bar to be placed against the wall, the staircase would have been too narrow for comfort !
So we have decided to hack off the top wall, creating a bricked flat top staircase handle instead.
As this is still a project in progress, we will see if the plan works well.
The Triangular space that forms the side storeroom will be covered up with plywood or something similar. We will discuss the option with the renovator in due course.
The stair case started to take its shape with plaster in place.
This is closer to its final look.
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A board was placed to cover up the void, forming side wall of the staircase.
This is how the board was built viewing from inside the storeroom. The lower part is the original staircase side concrete wall, allowing future diy wall fixtures.
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At this point, a layer of cement plaster was being applied to cater for future floor lamination.
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Hi!
ReplyDeleteI've been visiting your blog to get ideas as I wud be doing some minor reno on my hse.
Great blog u have!
p/s Your staircase is not very wide so it's better for u to check b4 buying your furniture. When i went furniture hunting, the boss told me there was a case they had to use a crane to put the furniture/mattress via the balcony on the upper floor. Mind u, this was a bungalow ...according to the boss.
New modern houses seems to have at least 4 ft wide staircase, according to my brother who is an engineer. Thats according to bomba guideline. For old house like this, there is nothing much can be done other than hacking them down and rebuild from scratch. Here again, $ would be substantial.
ReplyDeleteSo we opt to change the first design to allow at least wider space above our waist level.
Another issue, there will be very few new furniture. Most of them will be from my existing house, which will include some larger furniture.
ReplyDeleteWe will see how to carry them up in due course. Surely it will recorded in our blog as well. :P