My church is scheduled to be renovated, and I am one of the people active in the process. I have been saying for a long time that if there are steps anywhere, that it is good to have one tread dark and the next tread light. I got this idea from an article in Smithsonian Magazine. (long ago, I don't have the reference) After I read that article, I painted my basement steps, one dark red and the next white. After that I felt much safer going down those steps.

But yesterday a friend of mine said that she hates having one step dar and the next light. She said that going down steps like that made her feel dizzy and confused. She doesn't like my basement steps, nor the big staircase at a local mall where the steps are alternately white and charcoal gray.

Neither she nor I have any obvious handicaps that might explain this difference.

So this is the survey: if you have ever gone down steps where different treads are different colors, how did you feel about it?

Feel free to mention anything else that might be a factor.

Thanks!

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