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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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?!

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

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).[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.

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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. [/quote]

+1.

OP, I think you're being ridiculous. But if it helps, back stairs weren't exclusively to keep servants invisible. Servants carried dirty stuff like coal or wood, dirty dishes, even bath water or chamber pots depending on the age of the house. You didn't want that on your carpet, especially before vacuums. Their constant foot traffic would also wear carpets in the main spaces, which were more fragile then.

Anyway, you bought a house built by and for rich (and almost certainly white) people. It's a bit hypocritical to get hung up on the stairs. [/quote]

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