How many total stairs

13 from main floor to second floor

10 from side yard to back deck

6 from back deck to backyard

1 at the front door

Total: 30
 
I live in a third floor walk up.

No steps inside of my apartment.

Four steps up the front stoop and twenty six stairs to my apartment.

Thirty nine stairs and two additional steps to get into the parking garage or the laundry area.

I appreciate the exercise but at some point I will need to relocate to a first floor apartment or a building with an elevator.
 
In our old warehouse there are three one story flights of inside stairs: one from front door to living area; one from side door to living area; plus one back set which we never use. Outside, there are no stairs to the second floor living area but there is a wheelchair lift and in the backyard there are five steps leading to a small deck overlooking the park and stream in the NE corner of our lot.
 
I live in a apartment building that is an old school. It has a lot of stairs going to each floor (there are 3 floors). I have never used them so have never counted them. And there are 8 stairs to come in the front door of the building which I have used but rarely. I use the elevator and the ramp at the back of the building to go in and out.
 
Five steps from one inside area to another (house is built on a hill and although it is "one story", that added on section is "upstairs"). The only reason to go up there is to use the walking pad located in one of those upstairs rooms. If I become unable to use those stairs, the walking pad use will be a moot point. There is also a laundry room up there but I relocated that to the main bathroom downstairs.

Four steps from garage to front door. Plan is in place to establish a different area for parking that will require no steps to get from car to front door.

There is a fenced deck outside off the master bedroom, no steps to access it from inside. However, there are two gates that lead from the deck to the outside area around it with two steps each. I rarely use them.

13 total.

Making this mountain forested home "accessible" has always been part of the plans for this renovation. Hopefully, this summer the bridge crossing the rushing creek will be rebuilt wider so the back half of the property is accessible by scooter, although it will have to be one that can take fairly steep grades.
 
5 steps to inside door through enclosed porch and 5 steps to back door entrance. No steps inside home.

10 steps total.
 
Is there a difference between 'steps' and stairs?

“The fact that the movement signaled by each footfall is also called a "step" perhaps contributes as well. In its earliest known use, which currently dates to the turn of the last millennium, stair refers to what we would now call a set of stairs: you would go "up the stair" (but you'd say it in Old English) to get to the second floor. Step, on the other hand, in its earliest known use about 200 years previous, refers to the single structure that we would now also most often call a step.”

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/climbing-steps-and-climbing-stairs

To me with and English upbringing a series of singular steps makes up a set of stairs but strangely the couple of steps up to the back door I refer to as “the steps' and also whilst the 5 steps to the front door I refer to as the front steps but the flight to the basement are called stairs not steps....

Either way I have lots of individual steps to navigate as I move into my 8th decade and starting to wonder if its a good thing in keeping me mobile or if will be wishing I had less Steps and stairs to get into and around the house in the future!
 
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13 to the basement, 3 & 3 from exterior doors and 2 from the garage into the house.

Stairs make me dizzy going down. They always have and it’s getting worse. I cling to the railing.

The demand for homes without basements (i.e. very few stairs except to the entry) is high. They sell quickly.
 
This will probably sound a bit strange but as stated earlier we have only a half step or about 4 inches difference in height going out to our Lanai. Our houses are in a retirement community where everyone's house has very few, if any, steps. Very few of the businesses that support this community has stairs.

The strange part is we get so used to not walking up and down stairs cases that it is really a strange feeling when you go somewhere that has staircases. It is an awkward feeling when you haven't done it for a while. I think the last time I walked up a flight of stairs was last October. I will likely not go up another staircase until next month when we ho out of town.
 
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