Ah, yes, that would be the problem. *slaps forehead*

I tried your suggestion (about playing with the slope). I fiddled around by degrees *bless M&G's new slope feature!!!* and it helped a little...then I slapped on a darker roof, exited, and came back again to find the whole thing much less noticeable. Thank you!

Oh, one other thing...I noticed that with this technique, I wasn't able to build u-shaped modular stairs using the foundation+staging technique...every time I tried to lay the foundation against the wall, it pulled the walls back down to their original height. I've noticed some pretty complex stairs in your starters, but I'm new at this, and I just can't seem to "get" what it is you're doing. Is there a tutorial, or maybe just some tricks, to getting the stairs to behave themselves in a house like this?

Umm .. not sure how to explain this in one sentence .. yes, the foundations do pull down the walls, you can pull them back up by flattening the top floor. Perhaps it helps to only turn on the cheat when you absolutely need it to minimise having to pull everything up and down again. The way it all behaves is a bit retarded =) one thing you have to keep in mind is that whatever you do, it will affect the floors *above*, but not the floors below.

Basically, just keep fiddling and after a while you'l be able to mess with this stuff like with chewing gum. I can imagine it's difficult for someone who's new at it, but it just requires a little practice =)

Ah, okay, I *think* I get it...I'll go play with it in a few minutes until I've got it figured out.

Thank you for all of this; My starters have always been boxes with very little furniture, but I've just finished my first "real" starter house (using this tutorial and looking at some of yours), fully furnished with a garden and decorative touches.

Works with the Sims 3 too! :D

Yes, build mode didn't change much between Sims 2 and Sims 3. This works just the same way, with the additional benefit of varaible roof slopes being available in TS3 from the get-go.

Thanks a lot for this pb

Thank you! I couldn't find any link that said whether all the Sims 2 cheats still worked. I haven't had time to play trial and error.

Hi pbox, do you have a trick to achieve the 6-click-high walls for Sims 3 now that clicks are not accurate any more, and a short stair is 4 clicks per section?

No, but the walls don't need to be exactly 6 clicks. See the OP – 6 clicks is useful for TS2/base game, since you can only build 45° roofs in that, but TS3 allows for any angle so you can just as well use shorter walls.

Wow this is really helpfull especially for recreating historic 1 1/2 story homes with the knee-wall. Took me a few tries to get it figured out but it's really great having the tutorial here. I noticed that the windows in the gable end are normal. When I try to put windows in the gable end on my house the upper half is covered by wall, I can only see the frame of the wndow. Do you know how I've been managing to do this/ if I can fix it? Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

You need to pull up the gable walls to full height. See step 5 of the first part.

thank you for this! Helped alot!

How did you do that thing on the side of the house? :p

I want to build a two story house on a deck along with a basement and half-story attic with 6 different dormers. How can I do the halfstory attic with dormers when I have a two story house?

I'm having problem with windows... my windows keep get eaten by roofs ....how can I fix this?

You could change the roof slope to make sure that it doesn't cut into the windows.
You could use different windows, that go above the roof.

Adjusting roof slope angles didn't worked at all T_T
After few tries, figured it out by myself. If anyone have same problem I had, don't put halfwall, use roof.

Thank you mootilda for trying to help me. I appreciated that :-)