Colonial Stairs

Colonial staircase designs with photos of interiors and exteriors. The colonial STAIRS DESIGN is a reflection (or should be) of the interior design where it is located.

Colonial Stairs

A colonial staircase will have its own characteristics according to its geometric, architectural and structural design, colonial style stair railing, etc. and at the same time, it will assimilate the decorative and architectural style of the space that houses it.

Colonial Stairs

Interior Colonial Stairs

The original colonial stairs were only found in very important buildings in city centers, churches, convents and ancestral homes of personalities. The most common was to build one-story buildings and houses, which did not require the construction of steps.

Colonial Style Stairs

We can find handcrafted floor slabs with various decorative motifs, while preserving a common pattern, the use of dark and intense colors.

Colonial Stairs design

In colonial houses, the interior spaces are decorated with a profusion of ceramic elements on walls, floors and stairs.

Colonial Stairs

It is common to find colonial stairs with a classical influence, and vice versa. This is due to the so-called “revivals”, modern constructions that are carried out retaking and reinterpreting architectural and decorative styles of previous times.

This has the consequence that sometimes we cannot define if it is a colonial or classic style staircase. They are modern eclecticisms, where the mixture of styles prevails.

They are characterized by intricate and spectacular designs. From the clean lines (above) of a traditional spiral staircase to the intricate carvings of Baroque-style stairs (below), colonial staircases come in a wide variety of designs to suit any decoration.

Colonial Wooden Stairs

Wood, so widely used in architecture and interior design, will find
elements in which to express all its generous power in the balusters of colonial stairs.

Colonial wooden stairs

As they pass through the hands of carpenters and sculptors, from the colonial and current times, they take on decorative forms, balusters, handrails, stair corners with colonial design.


The wooden bars, assuming imaginative shapes, will appear on the window bars, railings, stairs and also, more or less frequently, on the top parapets of some colonial houses.

Colonial Staircase Ideas

A colonial staircase, completely covered in wood, is undoubtedly a sublime work of art. You can see too, the wood colonial stair railing.

Colonial wooden stairs
Colonial wooden stairs
Colonial Staircase Ideas
Colonial Staircase Ideas

Colonial Stairs Designs

The stairs, designed and built in the colonial period, present three fundamental locations: directly linked to the entrance hall, in the hallway, or directly linked to the INTERNAL PATIO of the house.

Staircase Arrangement in the gallery, facing the central patio
Arrangement in the gallery, facing the central patio

This traditional arrangement of the stands was modified later, in the republican period. It was then, when the staircase took on a lighter and more stylized design, being relocated, in houses of less “importance”, towards the top of the hallway.

Spanish Revival Staircase

The objectives of not obstructing the views of the central patio and subdividing the house , independently, into a ground floor and a top floor, with access to both floors from the hall, were pursued.

Colonial wooden staircase, located attached to the hall.

Location of Colonial Stairs in the Lobby

traditional staircase ideas
Location in a not very wide hall, of the house

In this way, the typical COLONIAL HOUSING was restructured, occupying the ground floor for commercial spaces and the upper floor for family life.

Traditional Staircase Ideas

Traditional Staircase Ideas
Elegant Colonial Stairs

They used to be at the entrance, or hall of the house, so they deserve as much decorative consideration as the rest of the house.

Colonial Stairs Models

Hand-wrought iron railings, custom fretwork, and even inlaid tile can transform stairs into sculptural masterpieces.

Stairs of Colonial Houses

Depending on the colonial (and neocolonial) period in question, we will find different styles of stairs: straight with very simple balusters or also, with helical shapes, baroque and eclectic designs, in environments with a greater number of decorative elements.

Stairs of Colonial Houses
Stairs of Colonial Houses

Colonial Style Stairs

As can be seen, the typical location of the steps in colonial houses was in the entrance hall, anterooms to the social spaces on the ground floor and the bedrooms on the upper floor.

Colonial Style Stairs

Colonial Blacksmith Stairs

Once the possibility of working with iron arises, the railings take on a new dimension, making the designs much more elegant and striking.

Colonial Blacksmith Stairs

Colonial Stairs for Interiors

Colonial Stairs for Interiors

Models of Modern Colonial Stairs

In the following photo we see a MODERN STAIRS with a classic and colonial style, given the design of the iron railings, with colonial balusters allegorical to natural forms. The classic colonial turning can also be seen on the main posts.

Colonial Concrete Stairs

The following photos show CONCRETE STAIRS designs with different geometric shapes. The colonial influence is given by the simplicity of the iron or wooden balustrades and the dark ocher tones of its elements.

The treads finished in dark ocher wood, combine perfectly with the railings.
Colonial “revival” staircase with baroque influence

Colonial Style Staircase

Exterior Colonial Stairs

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