Hello there fellow Sim-mers! My question, I see many homes built in the neighborhoods of the game that have a front porch that is elevated so that you need a small set of stairs to get up on the porch and enter the house. I have looked all over the place in build mode and cannot figure out how this was done. I am sure that many of you have done this and would be able to give me some hints. Thanks.
Jeff
This information is for an older version of the game. For the new way of raising the foundation please look at: https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion-Feedback/Building-an-elevated-porch/m-p/8791532#M23869
Of course we can help you!
First of all you need to elevate your foundation, you can do that with this option:
First click the Foundations option, then use the slider to move your house up or down.
Go to the 'Walls and Empty rooms' option:
After that you need to add a deck. You can do that by building a room and deleting or replacing the walls. Of with these options:
When you placed one of these options you'll have sort of a deck, add a little staircase (you might need to turn it a bit) and some railing on the stairs and voilà a little porch is born!
what if when going to build mode you don't have that bar option so I cant build a porch/ patio/deck??????
@gracmuir
The game has been updated since this thread started. To raise the foundation you now just select a room and grab the double arrow that appears in the middle of it:
