Or somebody thought a spiral staircase would look neat and didn't realize
how it would effect future buyers.

If you do a lot of house hunting in older neighborhoods you will see a lot
of this.

One that comes to mind is a house that used 4" x 4" tile in the entry way,
down the hall and into the kitchen and they didn't worry too much about
keeping straight lines.

Come to think of it this house also had a spiral staircase, but it was to
get "deck" that was built over the back porch. The only other way to get
there was to climb out and up from a second floor window.


"dpb" wrote in message
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MICHELLE H. wrote:
Just looking for a little history info. and hoping that someone can
help. My friend is "House Hunting" and looking for a new home. I went
with her the other day, and looked at a house that she really liked. It
is a 2 bedroom ( possibly 3 ) Colonial home built in 1926 that is
completely renovated. The thing that is "weird" about this house, is
because it has a spiral
staircase right in the MIDDLE of the small living room that leads
upstairs to a finished attic or possible 3rd bedroom or rec. room/kids
play area. But at the back of the house, on the other side of the
kitchen, there is
another regular wooden staircase that also leads to the upstairs. This
staircase is only located about 30 feet from the metal spiral staircase
thats in the middle of the living room. The house is only 936 sq. feet of
living area, so why when building this
thing, would they need to put 2 staircases about 30 feet apart from one
another that both lead to the upstairs? Why have a regular wooden
staircase located at the back of the house, and then roughly 30 feet
away, have a metal spiral staircase right in the middle of the living
room!? We are very curious about this? Can anyone please explain why the
house
would have been built like this?

Like the other poster, I strongly suspect it wasn't built this way
originally. But, my guess would be it was the spiral staircase that was
added, not the rear one.

My guess for the "why" would be that it was Code requirement to have the
second exit for the upstairs when the major renovations were done to get
approved for possibly using the upstairs as sleeping space.

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