Ceiling/enclosure of underside curved staircase

Bernieberg · 2020-04-06T17:53:27+00:00

We are in the process of renovating the hall and entrance in a 1920s house. We have a curved staircase leading up to the upper floor that passes over the hallway where there is a small staircase down to the ground floor and basement door. The staircase is quite raw and was never built to be visible from underneath. Originally, it was covered with a stretched fabric, and you can see traces of that. Now we are considering how to create a nice ceiling or covering. One option is, of course, to keep it visible, which actually feels quite appealing to maintain the maximum spaciousness in the room. The question then is how best to make it smooth and nice. You could probably cover it with gypsum board step by step, but it is a lot of fiddling, and the question is whether it will hold. Perhaps we could paint it as it is, but as mentioned, it's rough with pieces added to the stringer, risers, and treads that meet in various ways, so it will be a lot of work to make it look nice. Another option that has probably been the main consideration is to build a gypsum board ceiling, but we're having trouble deciding what would look best. We are experimenting with stretching strings and using a laser level, but no solution has convinced us. We want to avoid it looking like a big block encountered when going down the basement stairs, while also not wanting the ceiling to be overly faceted. What are your opinions, ideas, and experiences to share?

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Huddingebo

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24 Jan 2025 at 9:23 PM

Huddingebo

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24 Jan 2025 at 9:23 PM

I think it would have been nicer to have the staircase visible and painted nicely.
And definitely not white everywhere...

Unless you want to maximally try to hide that you live in a house from the 1920s.

The first thing I would have torn off was that cladding.

Image 20 and 22 for example:
https://www.hemnet.se/bostad/villa-9rum-malarhojden-stockholms-kommun-hokarvagen-7-21467219

Last edited: Jan 24, 2025

Ceiling/enclosure of underside curved staircase

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