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.

Do better OP. This is piss poor attempt at trolling.

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.

Well, if there are servants stairs, then there are probably other parts of your house that were just for servants, too. Are you going to get rid of the kitchen bc servants cooked there?
And why do you have to hide it away, like they didn’t exist? That seems somehow even more disrespectful. Like buying a plantation and getting rid of the slave huts and pretending they were never there.

Anonymous wrote:Any concerns about your Master bedroom?

Oooooo...I never thought about Master bedroom as that way.

My childhood home had an awesome closet that was the closed-off "servant stairs" to nowhere.

Two sets of stairs are a MAJOR fire safety advantage. If I had them you couldn’t pay me to get rid of them.

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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.

Oh don't be so precious and woke.

I suppose you are in favor of keeping lawn jockeys too

I might, if it was useful. Like if I had a horse that I needed to tie up there (which is what the were originally for). Unlike stairs, most people don’t have a use for lawn jockeys, so they get rid of them. (They weren’t all racist depictions, you know).

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.

You are trying to be PC. We get it. However, instead of sounding like a wise, socially conscious individual you sound incredibly naive and not very smart. Why are you slinging mud at being a maid or a housekeeper or a butler. Those are honest professions. How would you like it if people sneered at you and your job? Get over yourself.

Anonymous wrote:Call them back stairs instead of servants’ stairs and they’re fine.

+1. Love having back 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.

Right? “Look everyone at how woke I am. This house used to have servant stairs but that offended my sensibilities so we boarded them up.”

No one calls them that, they are primary bedrooms

Any concerns about your Master bedroom?

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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.

Oh don't be so precious and woke.

I suppose you are in favor of keeping lawn jockeys too

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.

Oh don't be so precious and woke.

Anonymous wrote:I honestly always wanted them when I was little because the families on Full House and the Cosby Show had them and I desperately wanted to be in those families/houses that I thought were so awesome!

That's so funny. I used to live in a Victorian in Shaw that had kitchen stairs, and I remember a 7-year-old visitor saying, "you folks are just like the Cosby's." A family we were nothing like.

Anonymous wrote:We have a second set of stairs to the kitchen and just call them the back stairs. They come in handy. My kids have no concept of them being used by servants.

+1. They're back stairs. And I guess I'm the servant.