skipperinchief Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 I can't seem to make a utility room under these stairs. It may be that there is something unique to the plan that is causing a problem when I try to build the walls. This flight of stairs is done in five different sections, it's a bit messy and tedious to rebuild, and knowing how difficult this will be to build, I need to hide a lot of the structure inside a utility room. There is a balcony above (open below) in this area, and there is a bit of an odd overhead obstacle that seems to confuse Chief over by the 2nd and 3rd tread. I've got a sink and some furnishings below the highest part of the stairs. Moving them didn't help. Moving my walls below the stairs in a 100 different places didn't help. Here is the problem shown in 3D view (see attached file). You can see where the room has been drawn because the floor is different. The door for the utility room is the only part visible. Building walls at different places around stair tread #3, 4, 5, etc. didn't work. See also the 2D view. The plan was uploaded, too. Two Story Idea L (Stairs-test).plan You guys are amazing, so I thought someone could give me some pointers. Chief Architect Premier X5, Windows 8.1, i7 with 8 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Joe_Carrick Posted September 18, 2014 Solution Share Posted September 18, 2014 The 2nd Floor Exterior Walls of the Stairway seem to have been pulled down to the First Floor. That's resulted in the Utility Room having no height. Those walls need to stop at the 2nd Floor. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skipperinchief Posted September 19, 2014 Author Share Posted September 19, 2014 Whoah, you are the man! All I did was drag the 2nd floor exterior wall smaller, then back to where it used to be. Then the adjacent 2nd floor wall back to match it. And voila!!! There is a room underneath the stairs. I can't believe it. How you figured that out must have about 10,000 hrs of experience behind it. Thanks! (I also had to make the second floor room an "Open Below" room for the staircase, but that was the easy part) My window on the stairwell had to be redone, too. But I am in disbelief. I'm like 5 minutes into this and I had used up hours trying everything else. Thanks Joe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keekee52 Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 I want to close under the stairs but leave the railings showing. Is there an easy way to do that? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HamlinBC Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Just draw your walls under your stairs right at the edge... See attached... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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