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As soon as you enter the “Staircase Decoration Group” page on Facebook, a smile will rise to your ears in an instant. Over 4,200 members here every day share their staircase masterpieces or the ones they accidentally saw while passing.
It seems that there are no limits to the ingenuity of Lithuanian apartment residents: they create real villages near the houses, amazing flower gardens and create real oases of peace on the stairs. But sometimes it is scary, for example, hanging the doll’s head on a pole.
“This communal decoration is like an ‘inside joke’ between Lithuania and other post-Soviet countries,” smiles G. Vililitė.
Photo from Facebook / Work of the Staircase Decoration Group
– How did the idea of creating such a stair decoration group come about?
– For 20 years of my life I lived in a 12-story apartment building. When going through the elevator every day, the decorations on the stairs visible through the opening doors seemed to slide through the eyes, as was normal.
However, in 2018, in the run-up to Christmas, neighbors adorned the staircase with fir branches and old Soviet toys. Upon realizing this, his father joked that this decoration of stairways and other public spaces was not mentioned anywhere, but was a Lithuanian folklore that had been going on since time immemorial. He came up with the idea to start a Facebook group.
Photo from Facebook / Work of the Staircase Decoration Group
– And did you decorate your own staircase?
– I currently live in Great Britain and the staircase has not been decorated yet, although the walls here are very dingy, white. I don’t think I would really mistake what a swan or a rough doll’s head cuts out of a tire.
– While living in England, do you keep in touch with Lithuania?
– The stair group really serves me when I miss Lithuanian humor. Such communal decoration is like an “inside joke” between Lithuania and other post-Soviet countries.
Photo from Facebook / Work of the Staircase Decoration Group
– Now the band is incredibly popular. Did you ever expect her to get that kind of interest?
– During the first year, the group existed with a maximum of 20 members. It was founded only among neighbors to lift the spirits and show off its great beauties. There were only a few photos, but when I came home for Christmas and paid attention to the decorations of the surrounding houses, I thought that this “stair movement” is popular not only in my house, but also in Lithuania, so I would like let a wider audience get to know the group. I wrote to one blogger, who shared a link to the group, and the members began to flow.
After telling my foreign friends about this Lithuanian fashion, I gained more interest, therefore įkūriau instagramo group, in which I share an English version of the group.
– What attracts people so much here?
– Ironic humor. The band is designed to capture these beauties, sometimes absurd, people approach it to lift their spirits.
– Many would say that stair decoration is just a grandmother’s affair.
– In the first place, I believe that it is everyone’s duty to take care of common spaces, not to litter and despise them. The decoration can be left to the grandmothers, they have more time and so they can do it themselves. While I would love to see the staircases adorned by the band members themselves, perhaps the younger generation would bring a new wave of style?
Photo from Facebook / Work of the Staircase Decoration Group
– And what kind of fashion prevails here?
– The stairs are dominated by the classics. Before Christmas and Easter, fir branches and egg trees grow. However, tires, stuffed animals, doll heads, flowers, and toilets remain the main decorating standard.
– What is the most impressive thing you have seen?
– I am more fascinated by the villages established on the stairs, mini gardens with several inhabitants, buildings. I think that in such facilities most of the mood and feeling.
Photo from Facebook / Work of the Staircase Decoration Group
– And what is the most fun?
– For me, almost all albums are tremendously fun. The most ridiculous are the toilets and shitty doll heads, and even funnier are the members’ comments written under those photos. Lithuanian satirical humor is perfectly suited to poking fun at this “rubbish”.
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