The mattress is a metaphor, it doesn’t matter where it is.
There is no mattress.
Omg you are right!
Steps in a staircase have two measurements. Tread and rise. The proportions of what we can see make more sense as treads rather than rises. Therefore the mattress is at the bottom. Also what we can see of the handrail would make sense in either direction.
it’s about the wear patterns in the Berber.
that’s the bottom of the stairs because we’re looking at the treads.
I know as someone who has rabbits and cats that the hairfall on the close to camera stairs indicates we are at the top looking down. I know hair patterns.
Unless it is floating, it’s at the bottom.
How are y’all arguing this? The banister makes it unquestionably obvious that it’s at the top. There’s no debate to be had here unless the banister was intentionally installed wrong just for the purpose of this meme, which would be crazy.
The mattress is at the top, y’all.
There’s no banister in the picture. It looks like maybe there’s a support for a banister, but that doesn’t magically make the tops of the steps into the sides of the steps.
Ok. Then use what you know of gravity and look for things that should be the other way if this were at the bottom.
IKR. This was the obvious answer 24 hours ago but here we are discussing wear patterns and contrast.
So the people walk on the wall? (Wear of the carpet and lack of visible ledge that stairs should have)
I guess I should address the “wear” on the carpet as well: it doesn’t look worn to me, it looks disturbed. Like before this person tried shoving their mattress up the stairs and got it stuck, they carried a heavy dresser or or something up the stairs and dragged it up each stair, sliding it along the carpet. I suspect this is a person moving into a cheap efficiency apartment, since the one my father moved into last when he was still alive looked extremely similar.
My stairs don’t have a visible ledge. I don’t know why people are acting like that’s standard. I think only one of the homes I’ve lived in has had a stairwell with ledges.
And do you suppose the banister would be installed if the mattresses were at the bottom?
If our view was from the top looking down at the bottom then the banister would be rotated 90 degrees towards us.
So if we are looking up the stairs then why is the carpet worn on the front and center of each stair step?
This is gonna be our white and gold/black and blue dress, huh?
I don’t think so. This mattress is pretty clearly black and blue, unlike the dress.
There are no stairs.
top or bottom doesnt matter, whats important is that you PIVOT!
Bottom, look at the wear of the carpet, lots of people have walked here.
Not just that, but the steps seem unreasonably tall and get shorter in the distance.
Maybe but we don’t know where this is, stair styles could vary in different regions.
It’s white and gold!
All joking aside, most stairs that I know had some sort of overhang, which we don’t see in this picture, so I’ll venture to say that we are looking down. The mattress is at the bottom of the stairs.
Yes.
technically correct etc ;)
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It already looked like bottom on first glance, The shadows and light seem to verify it.
Bottom, these stairs have a rounded lip to make them compliant with rise over run requirements in limited space.
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