27 Stair Designs That Will Hurt Your Brain And Break Your Neck

Stairs, like ceilings and doors, are a basic design feature of most buildings. And yet, somehow there are designers out there who still manage to mess them up… sometimes in spectacular fashion. Whether it’s a visually confusing layout that makes you unsure where to step or a geometry-defying design straight out of MC Escher’s wastebasket, these god-awful stair design fails will make you shake your head or break your neck. 

1. This invisible kicker

How dangerous these stairs are
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2. This visual mess

Imagine being drunk
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3. This shop class-looking booby trap

These stairs in my in-laws summerhouse. We have parties here so going down these stairs drunk is a challange.
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4. This 45 degree nonsense

These new stairs at my office.
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5. This step that isn’t a step

Almost broke my leg
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6. This plaid-patterned death trap

7. This actual Escher come to life

These stairs are bad
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8. This top of the stairs speed bump

This death trap in Thailand at the top of a large set of stairs, WHY!?
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9. This dystopian holo-staircase

I've seen some crappy stairs, but this one takes the cake
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10. This waste of concrete

Stairs to nowhere
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