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