Foundations

TheBlaireWitch

I'm assuming I'm not alone on this but it seriously irritates me not being able to have foundations and have walls on the ground at the same time. Ya feel?

SeaDragonSong

Yeah as someone who has played all through now, I miss being able to put foundations on first. It's just counterintuitive

AnnLee87

I don't even use foundations any more. I was using them a lot and then one day I built a house and forgot to raise it. I put a Sim in and played the house for about a Sim week (until the bills came) before I noticed I forgot the foundation and steps. Anyway I just built another house without a foundation and I am liking this house also.

Besides the foundation messes up the steps that go down to the basement. Anyway, I think the offset steps look weird.

TheBlaireWitch

AnnLee87 wrote: »

I don't even use foundations any more. I was using them a lot and then one day I built a house and forgot to raise it. I put a Sim in and played the house for about a Sim week (until the bills came) before I noticed I forgot the foundation and steps. Anyway I just built another house without a foundation and I am liking this house also.

Besides the foundation messes up the steps that go down to the basement. Anyway, I think the offset steps look weird.

I wanted to make a house where there are steps to get in and steps to the kitchen and stuff with a door to the outside, then I remembered there's no way to put walls on the ground.

ashleyrosey06

> @TheBlaireWitch said:
> I wanted to make a house where there are steps to get in and steps to the kitchen and stuff with a door to the outside, then I remembered there's no way to put walls on the ground.

I know, its annoying! You can make bi-levels if you raise the foundation and build all of your rooms closed, and then use the sledge hammer and knock out the floor on the rooms that you want lower. but you'll have to use stairs up to the front door.

Life would be so much simpler if we could just have foundations :/ sooo close with the half walls

Alysha1988

ashleyrosey06 wrote: »

> @TheBlaireWitch said:
> I wanted to make a house where there are steps to get in and steps to the kitchen and stuff with a door to the outside, then I remembered there's no way to put walls on the ground.

I know, its annoying! You can make bi-levels if you raise the foundation and build all of your rooms closed, and then use the sledge hammer and knock out the floor on the rooms that you want lower. but you'll have to use stairs up to the front door.

Life would be so much simpler if we could just have foundations sooo close with the half walls

I've tried that but then I got annoyed because you can't use the same wall coverings on foundations as you can on walls so then you wind up with really messed up looking walls with two different types of paint on them. They really should just allow you to use the regular wall coverings on foundations.

Frn0731

The dumbest thing is having foundations on fences and hedges.

ArielDelphinus

Yeah the foundations and fences in this game are way wonky and horribly implemented. Who every thought of this was not the brightest light bulb in the pack and there was absolutely no common sense used by the person overseeing the them that said "no that is not a good idea."

TheBlaireWitch

Yeah, or having a shed with a foundation.

wyn

Agreed, especially since I wanted to use a half-wall rather than a fence for a cellar I'm putting into a starter home... Can't do that because of the foundation carrying over however, so I made a bit of a work-around using the super low fence, and the flat brick foundation. Not exactly what I wanted but infinitely better than using just a fence (at least imo).

Piperbird

I want so badly to have a foundation for porches and things, because they look very nice, but then a garage or carport area also has to be a foundation. Or a shed or gazebo. And depending on how you place them, decorative hedges can end up with a foundation. I would love to be able to make row houses or shotgun houses with different foundation heights. It just looks terrible the way it is, and it doesn't seem to have a good reason for being that way. It really comes off as just plain lazy.