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anthonydyer
Seasoned Traveler
7 years ago

How do you guys build 2 floor foyers?

Hi everyone

I love the look of a 2 floor foyer where you walk in the house and there is a beautiful wide open space where the ceiling is 2 floors high and the staircase goes up and looks high. I have always been able to do this in under 1 minute in sims 2 and 3, but with 4, they radically changed the tools, and the game is not letting me have a room with no floor.

https://i.imgur.com/Ks1zefd.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/tQQoXTx.jpg

I've tried using the platform tool, and have had little success, but the game gives me a very difficult time placing a ceiling on the 2nd floor. When I remove the 1st floor ceiling in the foyer, it also removes the 2nd floor ceiling, and it will not let me have it back.

If I get the chance, I'll post pictures of me attempting this in 4.

I wish we could just place tiles the way it was in sims 2 and 3. How do you guys work around this? Thanks.
  • Yes, I do it exactly as @Xinqun mentioned. Thanks for explaining it better than I did, I'm not very good at explaining how my brain works, lol.
  • "Anthonydyer;c-16531175" wrote:
    https://i.imgur.com/mAJ3AJ7.png
    Without my method, there would be no possible way to place a ceiling within the yellow area.


    you should still be able to use the room tool on that floor and drag it over your foyer in order to get a ceiling. Then again I never had the problem of a disappearing ceiling if I removed a floor of a room