Extraordinary Staircases from AD Features : Architectural Digest
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Water Mill, New York staircase
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I am preoccupied with stairs.
Oh elegance!
When I was a young girl with ah, so many longings, I yearned for a splendid home of my own – a home with a sweeping spiral staircase!
As a new bride I harbored dreams of the mansions featured in magazines like Architectural Digest – gorgeous homes of the rich and famous with circular staircases leading to enormous bed/sitting rooms, with silken draperies, libraries, and the artwork of the masters on the walls.
And my yearning for such a home was always punctuated by the impressive, inspirational, sumptuous spiral stairs.
And would you believe I finally did get what I wished for?
Have you ever seen the GEICO commercial about a guy who meets a genie and makes a wish for a million bucks. And that’s what he gets – a million male deer?
My wish was exactly like that. The genie appeared in the form of Bill (my singularly brilliant spouse) and he magically produced a spiral staircase for the house of my dreams.
The stairs are spiral all right, and they are
metal,
not particularly elegant,
slightly rickety,
even dangerous
(particularly in lightning storms),
frightening to those who fear heights,
and the railing is similar to a stiff rubber hose!
Bill is a Civil Engineer who spent a lifetime building roads (not houses), but he knows all about blueprints and measurements and since he is a highway man, getting from one point to another. The point is, his design plan worked.
We do have a lovely, much beloved, mostly one level, mostly comfortable, unpretentious home. Bill designed it – drew out the plans and everything. AND THERE IS A UTILITY ROOM IN THE BASEMENT.
Evidently, the most utilitarian way down to the utility room was to install a pre-fabricated metal set of winding scares stairs.
AND YES, BILL MADE MY WISH COME TRUE AND I DO HAVE THAT SPIRAL STAIRCASE!
It is not a million bucks, and certainly not a mansion, but who can complain with a literal wish coming true?
Eeeeeeek!!!!!!
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