Stairs that were designed by people who have clearly never used them

This article was originally published on eternallifestyle.com and has been republished here with permission.

Most of us find ourselves walking up and down stairs every day of our lives. You walk down the stairs in your house or apartment building in the morning, you walk up the steps as you arrive at work and then you repeat this cycle many times over throughout the day.

A lot of the time we don’t even notice what the stairs look like that we are walking on and that is because they have been designed well but not all stairs have been designed to the same standard. These hilarious stairs look like they are designed to confuse you and we have no idea what the people designing them were thinking.

Stairs Versus Carpet

Carpeted stairs are pretty common. The carpet creates some good traction for you as you trudge up or down but when the carpet is patterned like this one a pretty crazy optical illusion can occur.

As you stare at this carpet it actually just looks like a flat floor, not a set of stairs. We really hope that nobody took a tumble when they accidentally missed a step here but it would be pretty hard not to.

It’s All About The Design

Everyone wants to be the person who has the stairs that everyone talks about but for good reasons, not that they might actually cause you to have an accident. This person thought that stairs that doubled as a bookshelf and desk would be the talk of the minimalist and architectural world.

Instead, they just made guests nervous about knocking things off the shelves or even just knocking themselves off. These should definitely come with some warning signs.

A Design Flaw

Good workers are the ones that follow directions well but it would appear in this ‘case’ that these builders followed this stair design a little bit too closely. The stairs and the design are definitely a perfect match but there’s just one little thing that appears to be off.

There is no way to actually walk all the way up the two sets of stairs because the second stairway was built on top of the first one without the landing. This means that it is now a stairway to nowhere. We hope they built another one inside the building so that people could actually move between floors.

For Geometry Lovers

This crisscrossing triangle stairway is really neat to look at as it appears to be like puzzle pieces fitted together but walking up and down is another story. If you have big feet you will need to be very mindful of where you step otherwise you’ll find yourself missing a step and going headfirst down the stairs.

The stairs are nice to look at but definitely not so nice to actually use. Just another case of poorly designed stairs that are pretty.