1930s brass and cast iron spiral stair
My wife and recently purchased a townhouse in Park Slope and are in the midst of renovating. As we have two boys under 2,we’ve decided to remove a spiral staircase that connects the parlor floor with the first bedroom floor… Can anyone recommend a resource for me to contact to try to sell it? (and/or…
My wife and recently purchased a townhouse in Park Slope and are in the midst of renovating. As we have two boys under 2,we’ve decided to remove a spiral staircase that connects the parlor floor with the first bedroom floor… Can anyone recommend a resource for me to contact to try to sell it? (and/or value it)? It is brass and cast iron and I believe it was installed in the 1930’s… Any help would be appreciated.
How high does it rise floor to floor? I may be interested.
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I have a spiral staircase and a toddler — just bar them from it.
Removing it seems a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Beautiful staircase. Too bad.
I don’t think you need to have children to understand the dangers of having them climb or play on a spiral staircase. I agree the stair should go, but it’s a shame that it can’t be stored somewhere for future reinstallation.
Once upon a time a scorpion and a frog lived on an island. The frog would regularly swim out to the mainland while the scorpion looked on with envy. Finally, one day the scorpion asked the frog if he would be so kind as to take him to the mainland on his back.
To which the frog responded “No, Mr. Scorpion. I cannot. As you will sting me midway and I will drown”.
“But then I will drown as well”, replied the scorpion “What would be the sense of that”
The scorpion’s logic made sense to the frog and he agreed to take the scorpion across on his back.
Halfway across, the scorpion plunged the barb on its tail deep into the frog’s fleshy back. As the paralyzed frog began to sink with the scorpion still clinging to his back, the frog spluttered “Why Mr Scorpion have you doomed us both to a watery death. What is the sense of this?”
“I am sorry Mr Frog” replied the scorpion. “I couldn’t help it, for it is in my nature”
Moral of the story and parenting tip to 4:41:
It is in the nature of 2 year old boys to climb up a spiral staircase and find enterprising ways of committing suicide.
wouldn’t discipline be a better (cheaper) option? perhaps that would be a little too much…
whoever posted the question about what having kids has to do with wanting to get rid of these stairs obviously does not have kids especially boys. I can thing of a million ways that my son would find to harm himself on those stairs aside from crawling through the large bar spaces and jumping below.
OP, Good luck in your new home! It’s gorgeous!
That lovely old spiral staircase really keeps
the space open and allows light to filter through the rooms… is there anyway that you could have an ironworks co. fashion iron gates at top and bottom for the toddler’s safety?
I can understand it not being practical, but wow, what a beautiful staircase. It’s a shame to lose it.