At first the idea of creating an above ground split level home seems impossible as walls do not join evenly with foundations or walls built on uneven land.

The above downloadable house "ML Architecture" was the result of many days of trial and error. The discovery that foundation and walls can be joined at the ground level if they are of the same height allows us to build short split level homes.

A small top view of the "ML Architecture" home.

To begin your adventure into split level housing, start with a dividing wall. Place this wall on the lot where you will be dividing the house.

Use the raise terain tool (set at medium) to raise the land alongside the wall...

until the land is just about the same height as the wall..

Use the Page up key to see the next level so you can place a few floor tiles.

as you can see, the floor tiles levels out the land beside it, creating a land height that is exactly right for building a raised foundation.

Use the elevation tool to flattened the area to the same height.

flattened....

Using the foundation tool, start creating the foundation about 2 tiles away from the wall...

and dragging it for the full length of the wall

This is your split level staircase wall

holding down the CTRL key while using the foundation tool, remove 2 sections of the wall (for your stairs)

use the wall tool and ctrl key to delete the portion of the wall.

dusty eh?

use the elevation tool to level out any molehills beside the wall..

using the elevation tool, lower the first tile of terain to the original land height

done?

now to get the right height for the split floor, use the connecting staircase "Holy Smoke Stairs" to lower the terain by 4 steps.

Delete the stairs by holding down CTRL and clicking on the stairs again. The bottom area is now the right terain height for your split level. It is exactly half the height of a wall.

Again using the Elevation tool, level out the terain to create your split level floor.

Steadfast stairs is a good wood stairs to use for classic split level homes. Place your connecting stair tool at the top (as depicted) and....

create your first split level staircase.

add some tiles to the level above....

and place your upper staircase as depicted above....

done?

Notice that we can build connecting walls to the foundation.

more walls to create a room...

add some flooring to the split level area...

now lets level out the surrounding area using the elevation tool. Don't worry about the red areas.

To hide the unsightly slopes as you can see from the pic above, use the foundation tool again, add your foundation from the original foundation (this gives the added foundation the same height).

drag the foundation across the sloped areas...

this basically hides the terain slopes

Use the foundation to hide all the slopes...

Delete a portion of the foundation at the front (for your front staircase). To delete, hold the ctrl key with the foundation tool and redraw the area of foundation to delete.

lets add a small foundation wall at the back also

leaving a gap for the back steps.

To create the complete illusion of a enclosed split level home, lets add a foyer to the front of the house.

add a set of nice doors

in this top view, we have added front and back steps and a second floor wall all around...

Adding some nice two story windows provides the view that makes this home complete.

We have been using the Poured "Paste Stucco" wall covering for the foundation and walls, blending the two together to create an enclosed split level house.

here is a close up of the split level stairs....

and an angled view of the front of the house...

The above pic is too small to do justice. Download the "ML Architeture" house to see for yourself, the seamlessness of the split levels.

Thanks for reading...

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Ralphael