Why Choose a Floating Staircase?
A cantilevered staircase, often referred to as a floating staircase, can transform your home, bringing in light and creating a striking architectural feature. The design offers the illusion that the steps are suspended in mid-air, without any visible support. Starting at £14,999.00 plus VAT, this stunning design can be the centerpiece your home deserves. Consult with our experts to explore the possibilities.
Introducing a new staircase design allows you to add a unique charm to your home, something that might be difficult to achieve with simple renovation work. Whether you’re aiming for a contrast in a rustic setting or a seamless match in a modern home, our custom floating staircases can become the highlight of your living space.
At vpstairs.com, our goal is to enhance light, space, and aesthetic appeal, ensuring that every one of our designs leaves a lasting impression. Our expert craftsmen and designers work closely with clients to create bespoke staircase solutions. From the initial design consultation to the final installation, we ensure that your vision becomes a reality.
What Is a Floating Staircase?
The Advantages of Floating Staircases
When choosing the perfect staircase for your home, many factors come into play. A floating staircase offers several advantages over traditional designs, both aesthetically and functionally.
Floating staircases are excellent for optimizing space. They take up less room than conventional staircases, making them an ideal option for smaller homes where space is valuable. Additionally, they are highly customizable, allowing you to tailor the design to your personal preferences. Whether your home leans toward a classic or modern aesthetic, a floating staircase can accommodate your style.
Visually, floating staircases are a showstopper, adding a contemporary and unique element to any home. The open tread design promotes a sense of openness and brightness, turning your staircase into a focal point. Despite their delicate appearance, floating staircases are designed to be both structurally sound and safe, adhering to all necessary building regulations. You can also incorporate additional safety features such as glass balustrades or handrails.
Kubos: A Stylish Alternative
Our Kubos staircase is a close relative of the cantilevered floating design but with a couple of key distinctions. One major difference is cost—Kubos staircases are more budget-friendly due to the lack of stainless steel supports embedded in the walls. Also, Kubos designs do not feature open spaces between the treads, unlike their floating counterparts. Check out some of our Kubos designs to see how they can bring elegance to your home.
Design Freedom with Floating Staircases
Designing a custom floating staircase with vpstairs.com gives you full creative control. Unlike renovating an existing staircase, building from scratch allows you to focus on even the smallest details, such as the spacing between risers or blending different materials. This attention to detail ensures a staircase that is truly unique to your home.
Whether you prefer wood, glass balustrades, or stainless-steel finishes, you can mix and match to achieve the desired look. While cantilevered staircases are more cost-efficient for new builds or major renovations due to their need for embedded structural supports, they are worth considering for any project aiming for a contemporary, luxurious feel.
A separate point that we would also like to mention is safety. Some may say that a floating staircase is not a safe object, but this is not the case at all. The robust basic structure ensures that each step can withstand loads of more than 150kg. We pay attention to even the smallest detail when designing a staircase to achieve high safety standards.
Innovation Meets Functionality
5 Comments
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Samuel Walker
I completely agree with your opinion. These staircases are the perfect addition to a home or any commercial project. The most important thing is to consider the overall interior of the room where you plan to install the soaring staircase.
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Liam Phillips
Interesting, why do the lower steps look ordinary. What if I want to make them floating too, for example. Would it be possible to realise such an idea?
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vpstairs
That sounds interesting. We will try to help with the realisation of this idea. Contact us to discuss the future project in detail.
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Jack Thompson
The way you’ve explained the hidden steel framework behind the floating staircase is really reassuring. From the photos it looks almost impossible that the treads can hold so much weight, but knowing they’re tested to more than 150 kg per step makes a big difference.
Grace Evans
I don’t want to sound sceptical, but are these designs reliable? They don’t seem to be safe with everything