stairs

Come on if anyone was going to be starting a thread dedicated to stairs and staircases it'd have to be me right, self-confessed staircase fetishist and all. I like them in all shapes and sizes, styles or condition you name it. Here are a few I have seen this year...

A quickie, but a nice one...... Villa Margherita is an abandoned house in Italy. An ornate staircase curves around into the entrance hall. The house has been cleared of all content but the architecture of the staircase and hallway is lovely. That's about all I know! 1. Entrance hall 2...

The history of the Holy Cross Hospital is surreal. Built about 200 years ago, it has been renovated several times over the years then suddenly abandoned. A new hospital was built exactly in front of it. After a few years, they closed it too. Two abandoned hospitals facing each other...

A large justice building undergoing renovations. There is only one room worth seeing here, but what a room it is!! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Thanks for looking you can find the full set here

Gave this place a lil visit on a roadtrip last year. It was totally trashed and I never got many shots from here really. So I ended up getting a bit arty with the 50. 1 decostairs 2 Decadent Decay 3 Bokehstrade Just to show how trashed it was.... 4 Walking away Thanks for looking

This was more of an empty place than decayed or abandoned as such. Permission job, I know the owner well as he lets me use his many mansions for model photoshoots. I liked this place, but I do love my decay, so wasn't head over heels for this one! Went with Mookie :D

So it turns out if you a) ask nicely and B) do a fair amount of yarn spinning to the owners of places, they sometimes don't mind you having a peek behind closed doors...accompanied of course! This is one of those many manor houses that is 'empty' and not 'derelict', the original home has had...