Working on an addition to a mid-19th c. house which has been renovated extensively inside to create an open plan:
I'm placing an addition which in-fills a corner: to new walls, two existing: In the space being filled is an existing bulk-head, and an interior staircase to the basement will be included in the addition: because of the openness of the plan, the stair will be open, and the door-way to unfinished basement will be at the basement level: I'd like to design this as a stair to an unfinished basement/ not a means of egress, which would allow it to also be in scale and character of the house.
My concern is- with a building official who has been challenging regarding stair code exceptions in the past, whether the optics of an open, finished stair, serving an unfinished basement is going to create room for interpretation which would force me into a conventional stair.
I'm placing an addition which in-fills a corner: to new walls, two existing: In the space being filled is an existing bulk-head, and an interior staircase to the basement will be included in the addition: because of the openness of the plan, the stair will be open, and the door-way to unfinished basement will be at the basement level: I'd like to design this as a stair to an unfinished basement/ not a means of egress, which would allow it to also be in scale and character of the house.
My concern is- with a building official who has been challenging regarding stair code exceptions in the past, whether the optics of an open, finished stair, serving an unfinished basement is going to create room for interpretation which would force me into a conventional stair.