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provide you with an excellent example of a Spanish styled staircase.
They usually have some type of brick or terra-cotta stair treads, but
the risers can vary from a decorative tile, to even wood.
Spanish styled houses usually have a smooth plaster finish and these
finishes can be applied to the stairway. It's not uncommon to find a
guard rail constructed out of stucco and finished with a smooth white
plaster.
Am I forgetting something, what Spanish building would be complete
without some type of cast iron decoration or even a staircase handrail.
Even if an architect was to design a Spanish style set of stairs,
without any cast-iron, the least they could do is hang some type of
cast-iron artwork on it.
I don't know what it is about these wonderful buildings, but they always
seem to provide me with a warm feeling. Maybe its because I've visited
so many Spanish missions, throughout my lifetime. My mother took us to
almost every mission around Southern California, as a child.
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