By Marcie Geffner - NewHomeSource.com
Home buyers who want the space and spaciousness of a two-story residence need to know a thing or two about stairs and staircases.
That’s because every two-story home naturally needs at least one full staircase to allow access between the floors.
Some 305,000 of the 569,000 new detached houses builders completed in 2013 had two or more stories and 166,000 had a full or partial basement, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That suggests builders constructed something like 471,000 or more staircases during that one-year timeframe.
Like doughnuts, staircases come in two types: fancy and plain.
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