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How to Add a Second Floor or Loft to Your Home — RoomSketch3D

Turn a single-floor home into a two-story design in RoomSketch3D. This guide adds a loft above the ground floor, shapes it over the rooms below, makes the open side a pony wall, connects the floors with a staircase, furnishes the loft, and views the finished two-story home in 3D.

2 minUpdated 2026-11-02
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What this video covers

  1. 1Build the ground floor
  2. 2Find the floor menu
  3. 3On a phone, the floor menu is in the top row
  4. 4Add a floor — above, or below for a basement
  5. 5Choose how to start it
  6. 6Shape a copied floor or a loft over the one below
  7. 7Draw from scratch: draw the new floor right on the plan
  8. 8Place the stairs on the lower floor
  9. 9Check the stairwell upstairs
  10. 10Build out the upper floor
  11. 11See the other floors while you work
  12. 12Walk between floors in 3D
  13. 13Export per floor or the whole house

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