Liminal spaces are broadly overlooked within spatial research but are no less significant as spaces in which emotions, identity and meaning might be embedded. Residential staircases are no exception. This paper examines the stair of residential buildings as liminal spaces, liminal spaces in this paper are defined as in-betweens and at the boundary of two or more dominant spaces. The aim is to highlight the significance of everyday lived experiences of space; notably, those spaces “on the margins and the relevance of tuning in to the in-betweens, through the lens of phenomenology particularly from a phenomenological perspective.