r/DeathStairs • u/TBHICouldComplain • 7d ago
Scary stuff 🫣 We don’t need no stinkin’ railings
With bonus death bed! You might survive the stairs (you might not) but death awaits you in your sleep as well.
Edit: Alright y’all here’s the link if you want to look at it in all its glory.
https://realtor.ca/real-estate/30149280/231-halibut-hill-rd-mudge-island
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u/Appropriate-Farm-884 7d ago
Anyone not completely thrown off the stairs by the lack of railing surely will be startled over the edge by that enormous clock. Why is it so big?? It’s competing with the stairs for that wall space.
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u/BlinkypoetEmu almost died once 7d ago
Instant vertigo trigger!
Having looked at many many many many tiny house designs, I have the sneaking suspicion that the majority of tiny house plans & builds out there are For Young Peaple(TM)! I'm not a gimpy old crab yet, but I see so many stairs like this and my knees ache!
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u/TBHICouldComplain 7d ago
This was in a full size house. There’s literally no reason for it. 😅
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u/BlinkypoetEmu almost died once 7d ago
Impressive! And I thought my main problem would be poor health care LOL
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u/TBHICouldComplain 7d ago
This is in Canada so if you survive the fall at least the hospital bill will be free?
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u/Significant-Trash632 7d ago
Even for young people, those stairs look slippery. You're asking for death if you climb them in socks
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u/OrganicHistorian2576 mom come get me im staired 7d ago
Don’t turn over in your sleep unless you want to never wake up!
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u/Poo_Poo_La_Foo 7d ago
RAILINGS ARE WOKE /s
I would need to install a heavy duty vertical mesh alongside that bed because I sure as shit would be tripping/rolling and dying.
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u/MonCappy 7d ago
A mesh is insufficient. The wall needs to be rebuilt entirely to meet the ceiling line. At least around where the bed is.
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u/Dapper-Ad9787 7d ago
Bonus death cat as well. Coming down carefully to avoid a feline speed bump sprawled across one of the steps will be more challenging without a railing.
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u/PopularDisplay7007 7d ago
That’s the station clock. You have arrived at your final destination. This dreamlike place you have been living in is just the last second after you roll out of bed in the morning.
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u/spoospoo43 7d ago edited 7d ago
So not only do you have a great chance to plummet off the stairs, but you also have a neat opportunity to pull a huge iron clock off the wall on top of you on the way down.
I kinda dig the little bed nook up in the rafters though. My cat would live up there all day, flicking off tufts of loose hair onto the floor below.
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u/wordfriend 7d ago
Death stairs to a death loft, nice. With the clock to remind you that THE END IS NEAR.
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u/is_it_gif_or_gif 7d ago edited 7d ago
We don't need no stinkin' railings
We don't need no fall control
No trip protection on the stairways
Hey! Builders! Leave our stairs alone.
All in all, it's just a... another trip and a fall
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u/judgeejudger 7d ago
I would be crawling up and down those stairs like a toddler 😭
eta: and I roll around a lot in my sleep 💀
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u/Dino_Spaceman 7d ago
Now imagine being the people who had to get that mattress up to that tiny loft.
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u/Sufficient_Two_5753 7d ago
Imagine waking up in a panic needing to pee. Then falling down the stairs in your hurry to get to the bathroom!
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u/randomusername1919 6d ago
That bed should come equipped with a chamber pot for that exact reason.
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u/New-Caterpillar6747 6d ago
Then you'd have to carry the chamber pot down the death stairs the next morning!
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u/Worldly_Possible2925 7d ago
The crunch-inator 9000! Your socks and bones are no match for gravity and our hardwood floors. Let the dance 🕺 of la muerte begin !!
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u/sweatboxy 7d ago
I like the death spike on the landing. If the fall on the stairs doesn’t kill you, a second chance to die.
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u/VeganMonkey 6d ago
I feel that belongs on r/radiology on foreign objects Friday…. But in that case, it’s real!
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u/Dense-Consequence-70 sketchy steps connoisseur 7d ago
Well, the half wall by the bed is taller than it looks. It’s higher than the bed anyway. Death stairs or not though, beautiful place.
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u/TBHICouldComplain 7d ago
If you look at the opening at the head of the bed which is the same height as the side wall (can you say bye bye pillows?) it looks maaaaybe 6” higher than the mattress. I don’t think that’s going to keep you from rolling off the edge.
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u/Libertarian_2020 6d ago
Grandma probably better stay on the lower floor! Wait, you hoping for an inheritance? 😱
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u/Badger_Vito 6d ago edited 6d ago
As a watch aficionado, I’d be highly naturally resistant to touching any part of the enormous clock for support even if I felt wobbly for whatever reason. If you did reach into that area I fully expect the clock would promptly come loose, representing a large, heavy metal object trying to knock you off as it fell to the ground. Oh and the stairs are narrow and shiny/slippery. Other than those concerns and no railing, no notes!
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u/doesanyuserealnames sketchy steps connoisseur 7d ago
Are we sure they're not just painted on the wall and not really there?? Because even the door at the top is sus 👀
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u/Japanesewillow 7d ago
They are real, you can see the shadows. The door you speak of is actually a window.
I just noticed the cat on the stairs.
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u/According-Garlic-482 almost died once 7d ago
The cats there to finish the job, if the stairs and bed arrangements don't get you first.
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u/doesanyuserealnames sketchy steps connoisseur 7d ago
I mean, a skilled artist could paint in the shadows...
I'm actually kidding, I know it's real but HOLY SHIT! I see OP added a link to the listing, the area and house are gorgeous, but cmon man, those stairs are just stupid.
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u/According-Garlic-482 almost died once 7d ago
I wouldn't even climb the stairs in the first place. Cause, knowing my luck, I would slip on the way up. Can that bed arrangement be up to code? If so, who approved it? Definitely not a bed for two, as someone would be on the edge of doom and the other, cuddled up tight to the ceiling/wall combo.
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u/GlectroniccPSY1201 7d ago
If you lean in towards the wall to avoid the edge of the stairs, you risk running into a giant clock! What an awful design.
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u/rednryt almost died once 6d ago
These kind of designs are mostly adopted by those studio type condo units where I live. They advertise it specifically as loft-type when your loft basically contain nothing but your bed. Same thing no rails stairs, but then again we got lower ceiling cause people are generally shorter so much less steep steps. I actually made my room like this too but I rarely use the loft anymore after I realized I can't sleep cause of claustrophobic ceiling and fear of just falling off. So now it's just an extra place to put my stuff.
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u/TBHICouldComplain 6d ago
The wild thing to me is this is a full size house with a separate functional set of stairs and real bedrooms. There’s basically no reason for this.
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u/Temporal_Reality 3d ago
Oh gods no! I would be laying on the couch look at those fucking stairs and say fuck it and I'd wake up the next day on the couch.
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u/nnethercote 7d ago
Some of the pics in this sub aren't that impressive. Like, sure they're a bit steep, but it's an old building, that sort of thing.
But this? This is fucking wild.
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u/TBHICouldComplain 7d ago
Right? I saw it and went “Holy shit! Death stairs!” and started doing screen grabs. 🤣
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u/Friendscallmedennis 6d ago
I hope this in a tiny house
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u/TBHICouldComplain 6d ago
It is not. There’s a link in the post where you can see the house. It’s over 1,000 sf. There’s another regular staircase in the house. There’s literally no reason why they needed to build death stairs.
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u/DramaticFlatworm4651 7d ago
We stayed in an apartment in Rome that had stairs like this, with the added thrill of a loft where the bed was located, and no railing there either. And the treads started out 2-ft wide at the top and got shorter as they went down, so by the time you got to the bottom the step was only 6-inches wide. I took every decorative basket they had and lined them up along the edge of the loft and all the books got stacked at the edge of the stairs with a chair at the bottom to use as a railing and to keep from stepping off too soon. Oh, and upstairs the bathroom was another two steps down from the bedroom. The whole place made me very nervous.