stairs :: the coolest for the smallest

What do you do when you have a small space and lots of stuff? You  get creative! Here's a clever way to do it with style. This sleek modern staircase has three functions. It's obviously a set of stairs but it also acts as a room divider, a coffee table and a bookcase too. Very smart and very JUST COOL. I like!

 

Unfortunately I found this one on the web and have no idea where it originated or who manufactures it / designed it. :(  Do you??

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interior :: air stairs

Me and my floating stairs. I love these - Designed by Florence architect Guido Ciompi for The Gray Hotel in Milan, Italy. They're JUST COOL!

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interior :: cool curly stairs

More stairs! This cool DNA staircase was designed by Ross Lovegrove and manufactured by Chistophe Moinat Design. The staircase is made out of fiberglass. It looks so lightweight...

It's JUST COOL!

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building :: storage you never knew you had

If your small home is short on storage, but big on clutter, here's a simple solution. Stair drawers. Keep the clutter to a minimum, step by step! These drawers would be perfect for stashing shoes, mittens and scarfs, books, papers - yup, just about anything.

These actual stairs were pictured in the Vogue Living Australia Before+After Autumn/Winter 2007 issue, with no manufacturer's credit so I don't know where you could purchase these, but the concept seems easy enough for you to transform the stairs you already have, or to add to the new construction plans.

JUST COOL, aren't they?

architecture :: W-Window House - the stairs!

W-Window House in Kyoto was designed and built by the husband and wife team of architects Kentaro Takeguchi and Asako Yamamoto as their own residence. The challenge was to build the small house to fit a small space, and to optomize the light, yet minimize the conflicting views of the surrounding buildings. The stairs and angles are amazing! So is the rest of this house.

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stairs :: to slide or fly?

What kid wouldn't love this? (and maybe we adults too?) A modern stair slide... 

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but leave it to Aven to find the absolute best way to get from the top to the bottom

...he flies! That's my grandson for ya - he's JUST COOL!

architecture :: it's about these stairs

they're JUST COOL.

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design :: funky millipede seating

They don't call the DS 600 sofa "Slinky" for nothing. It's millipede-ish  good looks function just like our classic childhood toy, the Slinky. But don't try "walking" it down the stairs. 

The Swiss-based design house de Sede came up with this slithering yet comfy design and describes it  as “a multifunctional element range.” A nifty notion to zip any number of it's sections together , making up an endless variety of segmented configurations of virtually any length, creating seating groups that will conform to any space -

Now that is JUST COOL! 

Interior :: metal tree railing

A tree has taken root on my staircase. Instead of chopping it down, I'm keeping it because I just love the wild natural look it gives the place.

Naaaa... I'm kidding. These aren't my stairs, or my tree. But I'm not kidding that I think this stair case railing is JUST COOL! You can custom order this wrought iron railing or design your own. I found it at this iron fencing place called Imagination Metals.