See, besides looking cool while folded into the wall, and looking amazing while folding down, those stairs are stupid. As an architect, it's not hard for me to see that those stairs, whether 'up' or 'down' are actually, in reality, folded down all the time. Here's what I mean...go ahead and put your couch against that wall...ok...now sit on it...whoops, you forgot to bring your blanket down from upstairs. Pull your couch out...pull the stairs down, go up and retrieve your blanket. You'll do that all of 1 time until you'll realize that, because those stairs need to occupy space at some point, you'll need to leave that couch out away from the wall all the time. So, you might as well just leave the stairs down and kiss the money you spent on 'em goodbye.

But hey, they look really cool folded up!