WTF to do with Servant Stairs

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Anonymous wrote:Our new old house has those small servant stairs that lead to and from the kitchen. Do people normally take those out or live with them? They are too steep for the kids, I could make it up and down but do I really want to keep in something that was built for SERVANTS?!

Sure. Why not? Just call them what the rest of the world calls, them..... stairs.

Yeah. Or "the back stairs."

Also, what the hell is wrong with servants? I mean, I now just use a cleaning lady, instacart, daycare and ubereats, but its just another name for the same job(s).

I don't think it is quite the same as having someone scurrying up and down back stairs because they weren't good enough to be with the rest of the people in the house.

Oh for the love of god.

Ok, remove the second, useful set of stairs because of some assumed value judgment you have assigned to some previous occupants you don't know, haven't met, and whose perspective you know nothing about.

The amusing part is that if it has a back staircase, it means its likely a big house in this area. So OP is complaining about her classist house that she paid more than $1m for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is OP, sorry I see I had a typo in my post. I meant do I want to keep stairs that were expressly built for servants, that seems wrong!

I could just call them stairs, but I would always know they were really meant for maids who were to not be to seen on the regular stairs. That's just kind of gross to me.

Then you shouldn’t have bought the home given the original occupants built their home with the express expectation that servants should never be seen. Disgraceful you would live in such a place.

[Anonymous]

Sage them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is OP, sorry I see I had a typo in my post. I meant do I want to keep stairs that were expressly built for servants, that seems wrong!

I could just call them stairs, but I would always know they were really meant for maids who were to not be to seen on the regular stairs. That's just kind of gross to me.

Then you should never have bought the house. You are coming across as a pearl clutching ridiculous person.

They are stairs.

[Anonymous]

Features like that are a treasure. I hope you keep it even if the kids can't use it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP, sorry I see I had a typo in my post. I meant do I want to keep stairs that were expressly built for servants, that seems wrong!

I could just call them stairs, but I would always know they were really meant for maids who were to not be to seen on the regular stairs. That's just kind of gross to me.

Then you should never have bought the house. You are coming across as a pearl clutching ridiculous person.

They are stairs.

OP is definitely ridiculous. She is virtue signaling, but so stupidly that she calls attention to the fact that she has bought a house big enough and old enough that it actually housed servants. Why don't you feel "gross" about that? Call them back stairs and get a grip.

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She didn't say the house was nice

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OP, I grew up in New England in an old Victorian. The two sets of stairs were beloved by all the kids. Fantastic romps up one set and down the other. We never called the back stairs "servant stairs" but we did refer to the pantry as "the butler's pantry," though I am not sure any butler ever entered that house. And we knew that the third floor was intended for servants-are you considering taking out the space the stairs lead to???--but my uncouth siblings slept up there so it worked out. In any case, it's a well known fact that Victorian servants will haunt the house if you remove the stairs. You can't erase the past just by knocking down some stairs!

[Anonymous]

If the second set of stairs is really narrow/steep and not to code, I’d consider getting rid of it. But only as part of a significant and thoughtful remodel. It doesn’t matter what the stairs were for.

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I’d rename them the secret stairs

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I think it's a charming old fashioned feature to have in a house. I'm jealous of my relative's house that has them. My kids think they are very cool.

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I completely get the OP being weirded out. It would bother me to have slave quarters out back too. “Servant” is a euphemism for slave, if the house is old enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Turn it into an in-house elevator.

Or better yet, a slide!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our new old house has those small servant stairs that lead to and from the kitchen. Do people normally take those out or live with them? They are too steep for the kids, I could make it up and down but do I really want to keep in something that was built for SERVANTS?!

Sure. Why not? Just call them what the rest of the world calls, them..... stairs.

Yeah. Or "the back stairs."

Also, what the hell is wrong with servants? I mean, I now just use a cleaning lady, instacart, daycare and ubereats, but its just another name for the same job(s).

+2 I’m not sure why OP is so hung up on the prior name or use.



Because OP wants to virtue signal.
Op, are you going to enclose your back door because it was the only one servants could use back in the day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is OP, sorry I see I had a typo in my post. I meant do I want to keep stairs that were expressly built for servants, that seems wrong!

I could just call them stairs, but I would always know they were really meant for maids who were to not be to seen on the regular stairs. That's just kind of gross to me.

Then you shouldn't have bought the freakin' house. JFC, OP.