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Ideas for a Staircase with Wooden Stairs
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A staircase is often marginalised during home decoration. It’s frequently treated merely as a connector between rooms we focus on when finishing interiors. It isn’t a priority, even though the staircase is visible from both levels of the house and often right as you enter. It doesn’t take much to make it not only functional but also stylish. One of the best ideas for decorating it is to use wood.
Wooden Stairs in the Staircase — Advantages
In the stairwell, you can introduce various wooden elements: wall slats, wall lights, picture frames, and other decorations to hang or place. However, the most obvious and most impactful design choice is choosing wooden stairs.
Why are wooden stairs a good idea for a staircase? Let’s gather the main advantages of wood as an ideal material for stairs:
- Lightweight ‒ it doesn’t load the building structure as much as, for example, concrete
- Durability ‒ properly maintained wooden stairs will serve for years;
- Ease of shaping ‒ allows for turning, curved stairs, etc., giving the stairwell its own character;
- Carvability ‒ you can create decorative elements, e.g. on handrails;
- Naturalness ‒ choosing wood is always a nod to nature and shows care for atmosphere;
- Versatility of style ‒ it fits both classic and modern interiors;
- Good combination with other materials, — e.g., metal, concrete in industrial homes, or textiles and wallpaper in classic interiors;
- Warmth ‒ both literally (bare feet feel it) and figuratively, adding coziness;
- Unique design ‒ resulting from the natural grain of the wood;
- Easy to update — e.g., by repainting.
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Staircase with Wooden Stairs — SOWOSZ Options
Choosing stairs largely depends on the house design and structural possibilities of the building. The most popular types include straight stairs and winder stairs.
Straight stairs work best in large spaces. They look elegant in large living rooms and long hallways. They play the leading role in the staircase, so in decorating around them it’s worth focusing on subtle wall accessories: paintings, posters, or a family photo gallery. If your home has a classic style or you like retro accents, you might enjoy straight stairs with a carpet or runner.
Wooden straight stairs are divided into:
- Closed (with risers) ‒ a more classic solution, which also has the practical advantage of allowing space under the stairs to be used;
- Open (without risers) ‒ appreciated for lightness and for letting light pass between the steps.
If you’re having trouble deciding ‒ with or without risers? See another SOWOSZ blog article that collects the most important advantages of both solutions.
Winder stairs are those where you have to change direction as you go up. In the SOWOSZ offer, they include:
- Stairs with a bottom winder ‒ where the winder section is at the very beginning of the run;
- L-shaped stairs ‒ combining a series of straight steps with a turn;
- U-shaped stairs ‒ featuring a 180-degree turnaround; sometimes with a landing.
For customers who want wooden stairs in the staircase, SOWOSZ can make them with either left- or right-hand turns.
If winder stairs have a landing (a flat platform between two flights), they offer additional possibilities for decorating the staircase with wooden stairs. Here are some ideas to enhance your wooden staircase space:
- If the staircase has a window and access to daylight, place or hang a plant to warm up the interior and provide extra oxygen for household members. Suitable plants include ivy, fern, snake plant (sansevieria), philodendron, peace lily, or pothos.
- If space allows, an interesting idea is to install a wooden shelf across the width of the staircase — you can place souvenirs or other decorations on it.
- Wallpaper on the wall near the landing works really well to bring some colors or depth into the staircase. Choose a pattern that visually enlarges the space.
- To keep material coherence, consider wooden wall slats. They can be vertical, horizontal, on the entire wall, or placed partially — alone or combined with concrete accents.
- The finishing touch may be lighting — classic wall lights or modern LED strips. The choice of lighting depends on the style of your home and the effect you want to achieve. Backlit signs or hanging chandeliers are additional unusual ideas for a staircase with wooden stairs.
