depends on space is really all one can say but personally I often find U stairs at the back of house pretty easy way since I can easily add stairs in same place next floor and it takes like elevator worth of space
As said above, you don't save any space, in fact you always use more tiles. And it takes sims longer to go upstairs or downstairs too.
Wall height is also an important factor if you want to be able to place object underneath the stairs and use them and/or not have sims unable to use the stairs because of them.
But in tight spaces it can be useful to not have straight stairs. I usually just make L shaped stairs. Like for example in the tiny house I submitted for the contest.
I'm gonna try to add a picture to this, but I'm on mobile so it's a bit of a hassle.
The front door (not pictured, but opposite the back door that is pictured) is one tile away from the stairs (the lower floor is 5x9 tiles, short walls), so if I had wanted to use straight stairs I wouldn't have been able to put them in this orientation but I'd have had to turn them 90 degrees and align them to the long side of the house.
Hello! Your build is awesome. How did you delete the floor under the stairs? I’m attempting to build, but when I delete the second level floor under the stairs to expose the bottom (like floating stairs), my whole second floor staircase disappears.
Open staircases like the one pictured above don't have walls underneath them. You can place those first and then replace them with the stair type of your choosing.
Alternatively, you place the stair type of your choosing and if it does have supporting walls underneath it,
use the sledgehammer tool to remove those.
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Eta. The size is 3 X 2 with a tv, desk, or stereo fitting within the 3 X 2 area.
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You don't actually save space. However, if you want it more compact, instead of straight, then something like this:
Wall height is also an important factor if you want to be able to place object underneath the stairs and use them and/or not have sims unable to use the stairs because of them.
But in tight spaces it can be useful to not have straight stairs. I usually just make L shaped stairs. Like for example in the tiny house I submitted for the contest.
I'm gonna try to add a picture to this, but I'm on mobile so it's a bit of a hassle.
The front door (not pictured, but opposite the back door that is pictured) is one tile away from the stairs (the lower floor is 5x9 tiles, short walls), so if I had wanted to use straight stairs I wouldn't have been able to put them in this orientation but I'd have had to turn them 90 degrees and align them to the long side of the house.
Alternatively, you place the stair type of your choosing and if it does have supporting walls underneath it,
use the sledgehammer tool to remove those.
Edit: I just realised you asked something different, but as it happens I did write a tutorial that covers that technique: https://mdianasims.tumblr.com/post/141437735990/ts4-building-guide-warehouse-loft
The lot is called Tiny Home, Happy Garden.