For anyone still playing sims 3, you can mask the warped wall with panelling. Use the ones that are full wooden walls. It hides it so well you can't see the warped wall at all.

I have always struggled with the stairs, and hated not being to create a split level type look. THANK YOU for this! I know this vid is a bit older, but man, this made my absolute day today! :)

They should have the L and U staircase on The Sims 4 without the cheat and level terrain.

Thank you. The internet needs more people like you :)

I did the L shaped stairs with your help!! thank you so much! Could not have done it without you x

Thank you so muuucchh. i just can build L-shaped stairs in sims 3 after so long because of your tutorial...

SO TIRED!!! :3 just let us have the damn U shaped stairs! EA

I want to thank you so much James for teaching me with this video. I have been trying to find a good tutorial to try and do this in my builds, thank you so much. Lots of love!

These tutorials are awesome! Definitely going to have to watch the other ones, so many tricks in Sims 3

Thank you very much for posting this, of all the videos I have seen of multilevel stairs, this is by far the best and easiest to follow.

Thank you so much, James! I've written it all down in detail an looking forward to try it out!

Omg!!! Thanks so much for the awesome vid! I couldn't figure this out at all and now I can't wait to try it! Thanks!

I wanted the L shaped stairs but they were too confusing so I went for the U stairs! Really helpful! Thank you SOOO much!!!!

omg ! thank you, i was trying on sims yesterday to find out how to do the first one, and just my luck you post a video showing us how to do it ! Yay i just watched it step by step while doing it on sims it's so cool !, thank you so much.

This is very cool I love these tutorials. I'm going to use these stairs all of the time!

This tutorial was so quick and easy to follow! Thank you :)

The vertical wood paneling doesn't warp when you use this stair building method and it looks great accenting any other siding :)

10/10 Hats off to you sir, that was quick and brilliant, great guide! Subscribed :)

You have got to be the most helpful Simmer! Thanks James!! :)

I was attempting to figure out how to build L-shaped stairs in a Colonial house I'm building and I couldn't quite get it right--I knew I was missing something. xD So, your video greatly helped me! Now, it looks marvelous! :D Thank you!

oh my gosh! I've been wanting to do stairs like this forever but could never get it to work. This is so great!

This is awesome.. Totaly using this. BTW I think we would all love to see another speed build. Ur so creative.. Its awesome!

Nice and concise, great tutorial.

I'VE ALWAYS BEEN WANTING TO KNOW HOW TO DO THIS!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! :D

Thank you for this tutorial. It helps me for my next house building. Wish you a beautiful day. Lovely greetings

Im coming late to the party.... i was gifted the sims 3 about 6 months ago.... never had a game i love and hate all at the same time. your the best. i want more ... hehehe... no speed builds. they make me frig-en head hurt. ye be just my cup of tea and fer many other's as well.... plz dont stop..... and thanks ever so much.

mannnn i have pondered this for a whole year. thank you

I finally understand how to do this!! I would just use this one inner walls and put a secret passageway behind it so no need to worry about the wallpaper

Hey James, I have the biggest issue with these stairs when I am near the finalizing of my projects... just like you I get last minute ideas and want to "hey, lets throw in a L shaped staircase".... can you show us how you personally handle this detailing issue. I often get so aggravated that my OCD forces me to deconstruct the entire house.

Thank you so much for this!

This helped soooo much. I'm glad u were talking in it so I understood what was going on, :D

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Great tutorial video! Very simple compared to others... Thank you!

This is incredible! Thank you for sharing!!!!

This is great! It's a lot simpler and quicker than other tutorials I've seen. But I do wish EA had better handling on U and L-shaped stairs. I remember it was so much easier in TS2 because the platform was four stairs high.

Please use them if you are planning on making houses! You two are great Simmers.

After so many tutorials i finally found a method that works!

I thought it wasn't possible... now my heart is fulfilled

Even today. This is so helpful! Thanks James :)

Oh you're genius. I never know these finicky tricks until I learn them from your video

I was able to get the L-Shape stairs, but couldn't fix the walls w/o messing up the stairs

Thank you so much, since I was building a mansion I needed 2 squares, so I simply modified it (not simply I was scratching my head a lil and had to change some things, trying not to rip my hair out) and it turned out perfectly! Thanks.

I did a T-shaped staircase already. Pretty neat too.

Can you do another tutorial on L and U shaped stairs on a foundation

I knew that your name is James since your The Sims 3 console let'splay which means i'm a true fan!

This is really going to help with some issues I've been having building a two story building for 1 (at most 2) SIM.

thank you soooooooo much! I have been dying for l shaped stairs!

Thank you for making these videos! I want to practice using this floor elevation cheat, since it opens up many possibilities for ones house. Just need to know the do's and don'ts :-)

Great, I had actually recently been wondering how to do the L shaped stairs xD I thought I one knew how, maybe form a previous video of yours, but I couldn't remember xD Ty

great video!!I'm goin' to try it right away!!!

Very helpful thank you for making these tutorials.

That U shaped stairs is so helpful when i am building small family homes with not enough space for basic stairs.

This is really helpful. :) Can't wait to experiment with this.

The most interesting the sims 3 tip's. thank you very much...

I love you 101 videos they are so helpful :)

Thank you so much for making this video, it was really helpful :)

I freakin love this guy 😊

The up arrow...how did I not know about this before?! No more typing in cheats over and over to toggle them on/off, yay :D

Thanks so much for this, James!

i have wanted to do something like this for a long time thanks!!!!

Thank you. This took me 4 hours to finally make. I was about to give up.

I also found that having auto-roof ON stopped me being able to do this if it had put a roof on already. Turned it OFF and deleted what was there and the stairs worked fine :) Thanks James.

this is so nice love it!

Thank you, this is very helpful too.

I made it a lot more complicated than it needed to be XD Thanks

I love this video. Every time I build, I have to open a window and watch this as I go....you'd think I'd be able to remember this, lol

I hope in sims 4 they make split leveling an actual building tool. It would be so useful! Along with making basements part of the main house too, not a separate part that you can't build up the walls.

in the first sims there was a curved staircase

Thank you for making this video it was very helpful. :)

easiest explanation of all the ones i've ever watched...thank you

I'm going 2 try this :) thanks 4 a great tutorial

Thank you. All the other tutorials on how to do this make it so complicated.

Thanks so much for this tutorial! ^.^

I've gotten too far down in your playlists... Been watching you for a few weeks now, and I don't even own Sims 3, but hey. Your voice is pure love

yay thanks a bunch i never knew how to do that , and it made me crazy :P

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you so much!!

You have great tutorials! I am going to make a Sim of you and spoil him rotten forever.

..wow, just what i am looking for, hope i can do it though...:) nice tutorial.

While this is a great tutorial, unfortunately, it still doesn't solve my problem of how to build a U-shaped stairwell inside a house. This works if the stairs are going to be on the outer wall of a building, but if the staircase is in the heart of the house, and has walls around it for other rooms (say a laundry room), this won't work.

As far as I know, to do a walk-out basement, you have to use TS2 basement building and not the basement tool. You have to build your house on a foundation and then level the back to basement floor level, remove the foundation back to just a 1 tile edge around the "basement" parts and then place a wall where the ground is at basement level. Check TS2 walkout basement tutorials. As for the stairs, you'll have to fudge around with adding a 1 tile room that you can adjust the height. Again check TS2

Thanks. I have wanted to do this.

You just saved my life 😩🙏🏼😂

YESSSSSS love this!

Thank you so much 😀👍

You could 'mismatch' the wallpaper to get an abstract effect on the walls :D hehe, would be cool for a modern house.

Very helpfull! :3 gonna use that for sure :3

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOOUUU

a big thank you!

awesome i was just thinking about how to do this earlier.

Omigosh I just made my challenge house and I was gonna do this but I couldn't figure out how to do it so i gave up!!! aarrgghh!!! oh well, great tutorial thanks :D

Thanks guys :)

I knew him as Flabaliki too! Guess he's decided to reveal himself. ;)

Thanks!

Thak you so much hahah inhad so much trouble doing this

2:19 THANK YOU!!!!!!!

yay more tuts now i just have to get my game back from my ex

wow pretty cool :)

I freaked out yesterday while trying to make L-shaped stairs. Ended up with regular stairs. After your tutorial I see my mistake: i put walls by perimeter of the "mid-platform". They were getting crooked when i wanted to even the wall height upstairs, unless i left a spacious hole in the "ceiling" around the staircase. Got to go for another try! Let me see if i can build L-staicase which platform is not in the middle of the wall, but 1/3...

Thank you so much! Do you think you could figure this out for the Sims 4 too? You can't dig down in the terrain (so no pools or basements), but a lot of houses call for L or U shaped stairs. It would be amazing if you could figure this out haha Thanks again!

THANK YOU !