What is under your staircase? pantry, pet room, play room, broom closet.....?

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We are remodeling this week and one of the major benefits is I now have a closet under the staircase. It used to be a laundry closet, but we moved the washer/dryer to its new home upstairs.


The stair case is straight and I have standard 5" bifold doors on one of the long walls. I have movable shelves under the lower angled section right now up to about the 4ft mark.

I have a smallish kitchen with a small pantry right now. I am thinking about changing the space into a larger, more efficient pantry. But then I started Googling for ideas, and I started thinking about other options.


I figured there are some very creative people here, so I would ask ....


What is under you stairs?


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[Andie]

Nothing creative here - just the steps to the basement!

[Ellie]

Mine has a small "butler's pantry," as you pass right by there going from the kitchen to the dining room.

My dd's condo has a small laundry room under her stairs--washer on one side, dryer on the other, facing each other.

My greatgrandmother had a pantry that went waaay back under the stairs. I loved that pantry :-)

[MeganP]

The area under my stairs is open to the hallway. I've got a stack of folding chairs stored there along with a shoe shelf and hooks for the kids' coats.

[Just Me]

We have a half bath under the stairs. I love it, because we rarely use it, so it stays "clean" for company.

[Jeannie in NJ]

coat closet and way deep inside is the hot water heater

[Tracey in TX]

The "Radar Room" is under the staircase. Didn't realize how it sounds until a friend asked to see the ham radio workshop. Huh? It's named for a previous dog, Radar, whose kennel was kept there before he arrived here. LOL It's now the homeschool storage closet, but still affectionately known as the Radar Room :)

[Virginia Dawn]

Coat closet and vacuum cleaner storage.

[Jean in IN]

We live in a quad so the space under the stairs is small. We put leftover carpet in there and bought one of those small touch lights? and the kids have a "secret hideout" :) Great fun!

[JFS in IL]

Just another staircase to the basement. But is that other staircase was not in the way, i make a reading nook.

[Faithr]

Well, we have two sets of stairs; one that goes upstairs to the bedroom level and under that is just the other set of stairs to the basement. But under the stairs to the basement is a playhouse for the littles. Alas, my dd no longer plays there very often so it only gets used when other little kids come over.

[Hoggirl]

LOL! We store wine under ours.

[Jugglin'5]

We have a very small half bath. My dh calls it the bordello bath because it has red walls and ceiling with black towels and a small chandelier.:)

[Andie]

We live in a quad so the space under the stairs is small. We put leftover carpet in there and bought one of those small touch lights? and the kids have a "secret hideout" :) Great fun!


At the risk of sounding stupid, what's a quad?

[~Tara~]

a quad is a house with 4 levels
the ones I have been in kind of go in a circular fashion, I guess you could say...
living room and kitchen on ground level, at one point in that level stairs go up to a couple bedrooms and another set of stairs go down to another room or two, then off that, yet a few more steps down to a basement, often times a garage

hth




as for OP...

we have a what we call 'the big pantry' under our stairs...it houses a few storage buckets and small appliances

[Dot]

a long, narrow,L shaped space. It's quite scary, and I think it's the headquarters for all the creepy mole crickets that wander thru the house this time of year. I try not to go in there too often. My dog sometimes sits in front of the door and makes whiney sounds, which doesn't help.

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Thanks everyone, it is amazing how one little closet can have so many uses!


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