(CNN) -- There are plenty of reasons to fall in love with a staircase. 

It's a home's conduit and connector. It ushers life along, makes a grand impression on visitors and serves as the backdrop for family memories. 

"It's where my daughter took pictures for her first daddy-daughter dance," said Anisa Darnell, part of the Milk and Honey Home decorator team from Roswell, Georgia. Her home's staircase is also special to her because her grandfather posed with her daughter for a snapshot there before he passed away. 

The back staircase in Emily A. Clark's home is significant because it's mostly used by her kids. "I've also caught them playing school on the little landing in the middle of the stairs." 

Jacki Poovey and her husband designed their staircase to be a grand, welcoming part of their Cary, North Carolina home, but it's also at the heart of countless family memories. It still bears reminders of the time their puppy chewed every bit of molding from the edges of the newel post to the cap molding on the treads. "It's a lived-in home," says Poovey. 

Massive undertakings, like DIY home renovations, can imbue a home's staircase with lasting impressions of the experience. 

"If you paint three stories of spindles, you never forget it," Victoria Barnes said of the painstaking restoration she and her husband undertook in their 1890 Victorian home near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Barnes blogs about the "really, really, really slow" process of their work, which she calls wonderful and overwhelming. 

Christine Price, from Manchester, England, can relate, having spent 250 hours stripping, sanding and painting the staircase in her Edwardian home. "The staircase is the first thing you see when you enter our home," she said. "Now that it's restored it makes such a huge difference to the whole feel of the house." 
Where is it located?
1890 Victorian home near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 