RANDOM SHIIET June 27, 2025

101 Staircases That Defy Logic and Risk Your Life—Would You Dare to Climb?

In short, you want your building, product, poster, or whatever else you’re designing to look good. If it looks good, it appeals to more people. And that’s good for business, whatever line of work you’re in.

However, aside from following building codes and safety regulations, there are two things that you want to make sure of when you start honing in on the aesthetics of your staircase.

For one, you want to ensure that the form of your stairs doesn’t actually impede their function.

Sure, adding a bunch of gorgeous details in many different colors and materials everywhere might sound cool to you, but there are limits.

If those extra details make people more likely to trip and fall, if they can’t hold the banister properly, if they get woozy just looking at the flight of stairs… well, clearly, you’ve gone overboard.

In a similar vein, if the stairs are too low, too narrow, or too high for the average person to comfortably climb, you’re needlessly increasing the risk of accidents.

Naturally, not everyone’s going to be happy with the staircases you design because they might be far shorter or way taller than other people…

…And accidents can and do happen even when you’ve accounted for everything you could. But you still have a responsibility to do the best work that you can.

Secondly, you should not sacrifice your target audience’s comfort for the sake of your artistic vision. To be clear, we’re huge fans of aesthetic designs, art, and creativity. And some works are meant to be purely artistic, to be admired and not used.