Architects' concerns

Usage examples of stairs.

She let out another scream, a littler one then, of surprise, and whipped her head sideways to look down the hall before running down the rest of the stairs, sliding and nearly falling, twice.

The front door was closed against the sun, making the hallway dark after the brightness of the upstairs and Becca paused, slowing down on the stairs, blinking to let her eyes adjust to the light.

He ran up the stairs, taking them two at a time, leaving Becca to stand in the hall, her egregious tokens dangling elegantly from her fingers.

The floor had been refinished down the hall right up to the back door and up to the narrow door of the room under the stairs, but as far as she could tell, the only adjustments to the house up to there were just that.

There was a small room built under the stairs, hardly large enough to be called a room.

On her way up the stairs she glanced out of the tall, narrow window between the new front door and the wall for the stairs.

Murphy room was under the stairs to the peak of the wall, and beyond that the rest of the wall must have been dead space.

They found Don with Amber, at the end of the hall, in front of the pull-down stairs that led to the attic.

Tom came to the top of the stairs and walked down two or three steps to see her better.

The four of them went down the stairs, crowding into the little room underneath, with their bottles of beer.

Becca was taking her husband into her mouth, to his great delight, when downstairs the light sneaking out from under the door to the little room under the stairs spilled out into the hall.

Some time after Dan Mason pulled the front door to the house on Belisle shut and locked the deadbolt with his key, the pretty porcelain knob on the door to the little room under the stairs turned and freed itself from the restraint of the latch.

Just the same, when he went back inside the house about an hour later, he bypassed the room under the stairs, and cut through the dining room and the living room to go upstairs instead.

Concerned as he was with getting Becca a drink, he went directly down the front hall, passing the room under the stairs without thinking.

At the bottom of the stairs, he stepped into the same puddle and bent over and mopped it up.