ᐅ Staircase Drawers: Should They Be Installed Before or After the Staircase Is Built?

Since I saw useful built-in drawers integrated into stairs on Pinterest, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about them.

We will have a staircase with risers. The general contractor honestly said that they could install such drawers for us, but the price would probably be cheaper with a carpenter or similar.

Does anyone have experience with this?

I’m considering whether to add the drawers later or if there are companies that offer a more affordable complete solution (seems like it). However, this could be risky for warranty issues if an external company installs the staircase and there are problems in the stair area...

If you are thinking about something like this:

then it has to be planned as an overall concept. It’s not enough to just consider a drawer instead of the riser.

Lucrezia schrieb:

Since I saw useful drawers integrated into staircases on Pinterest, I haven’t been able to get them out of my mind.

I recall a house with a straight staircase with two flights; where exactly are the drawers supposed to be built in there?

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@kbt09
Thanks for the tip!
Have you ever seen a staircase like this in a private house in person?

@11ant now we have a very similar staircase as in the picture above

Drawer stairs are great. The installer knows the correct order of assembly. It makes little sense to retrofit a staircase with drawers afterward. The stair builder plans the entire structure.

I saw a solution from Portugal in an architecture magazine. In this example, the staircase was designed as a cabinet—or the cabinet as a staircase, depending on how you look at it. The clever part was that the cabinet stopped just below the upper floor, creating a tread without a riser. We initially wanted the same, but it would have been too dominant in our space.

Something like this? For me, it was planned this way from the start by the carpenter/stair builder. Behind the drawers, there is a box that contains the tracks.