Open Up Staircase To Basement

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Check to see if the wall is structural before removing it.

Open up staircase to basement. Removing the wall on one side and installing a handrail in its place is a good way to open the staircase up and provide a welcoming feeling when entering the basement. In this video i show how i want to partially remove the wall attached to my staircase in order to open up the space when entering the basement. Stay safe and healthy. To create a more open space designers knocked out the wall leading down the stairs creating a full view of the basement from the staircase.

Basement stairs are often enclosed on both sides. See more ideas about basement stairs open basement stairs open basement. Open staircase creates an open connected space. We used the ceiling line to go straight across that interior staircase wall.

Taking up the largest surface areas the floor of the stairs set the look of your stairway. This allows the basement to feel more open and gives a clear line of sight from one end of the room to the other. The stairs were our guide for how far down we took that wall so it made sense to start tearing down the dry wall on the inside of the staircase. In this new staircase to a finished basement we used the wall adjacent to the stairs to hide a tv and the area below it for media equipment.

Here are a few stairway ideas for the floor to get you started. There are various style options depending on your budget the level of maintenance you are looking for and your decor preferences. Dont assume that stairs to a new second story addition automatically belong stacked above the existing basement stairs. It also requires fewer materials than traditional posts or balusters would.

Dec 10 2019 explore spamhldrs board open basement stairs on pinterest. How to open up an interior staircase. We used a chalk line to mark a diagonal on the drywall that butted up against the stairs. Aug 15 2016 open up a staircase incase it needs structural support.

Instead of a stair rail and balusters this straight run staircase features the design equivalent of three parallel handrails.

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