How do you guys build 2 floor foyers?

Hello
This tutorial link may help
http://getsimplyruthless.blogspot.com/2014/10/how-to-make-lofttwo-story-foyer.html

Thank you everyone and thank you @rosemow for the nice guide and thank you @Dianesims for taking the time for the image. The guide got me real close, but it wouldn't let me place the ceiling directly above the foyer.

I did figure it out on my own. Here is what I did.

Build the wall that separates your hall from the bedrooms.

Delete the floor for your foyer and 2nd floor hall. (Ceiling should stay)

Place a platform on the 2nd floor where your hall will be. Size as appropriate. (This will make the hall ceiling disappear. Foyer ceiling should stay.)

Place your stairs so the top landing meets at the platform.

Click on the platform/hall and place a ceiling by clicking on that yellow stripe that shows up on the wall.

Place a fence or half wall by drawing it. Do not use the tool that replaces the whole "wall" at once.


https://i.imgur.com/ib3CuEk.png
https://i.imgur.com/mAJ3AJ7.png
Without my method, there would be no possible way to place a ceiling within the yellow area.

It is helpful for other simmers that you have posted your method of creating the two storey foyer. It will help other simmers who are also having issues with doing it. I am glad that you have been able to create the two storey foyers now :)

This is how I'd do it; and how I think @Momma_Jibi does it too.

1) Draw the wall separating the upstairs hall and the open space from the upstairs bedrooms.
2) Draw the fence that divides the upstairs hall from the open space over the foyer. This means you actually have two "rooms" upstairs: one is the upstairs hall, and one is the space over the foyer.
3) Delete the floor of the room over the foyer. Its ceiling should remain.
4) Place your stair. You do NOT have to delete any portion of the fence to do this: the fence at the top of the stair will disappear when you place the stair and reappear when you remove the stair.

You do not have to do anything to the downstairs foyer room other than place the stair there. If an upstairs room above it is set to have no floor, anything directly beneath it will seem to have no ceiling.

This method also allows you to keep the ceiling over the marked space.

Good news! I think there may have been an update go through, because building 2 floor foyers has just became much easier. Here is the new method.

Build the wall that separates your hall from the bedrooms.

Build a fence with the drawing tool to separate your upstairs hall from the foyer. There should be no opening for the stairs.

The foyer should be recognized as a different room from the upstairs hall. Click on the foyer floor and click 'remove floor'.

Place your stairs so that the top meets right where your fence is. The fence in front of the stairs should go away.

Can't you just build it with floors, then remove the floor afterwards ? Or, there's a floor that looks like grass, not as nice but it can be a solution.

@Dianesims If I don't build a platform at the top of the stairs, the game will not differentiate the 2nd floor hallway from the floor to be removed in the foyer. Unfortunately, this way it is all or nothing.

I usually don't have grass for a first floor. The pictures you see is something I whipped up in 2 minutes for the purpose of this thread.

I just did this.

I see what you mean. I pulled the first floor wall forward to make a small platform.

Basically you want 2 rooms. One around the stairs for the hallway around your foyer, and one over the stairs. Then you delete the floor on the one over the foyer and the hallway floor should remain. When I'm on my PC (and I get link ability, lol) I could show a video here.

In the meantime, you could check my New Orleans home build and Peles Castle build to see examples.