Wraparound porches and covers

[Janna]

I am experimenting with building a two story house., no problem in building the house, but not sure what to do with a wraparound porch.  I laid the foundation, built the frist two floor and then added to the foundation for a wraparound porch.  I added the columns and brought over the wood to cover the porch and go one row past the columns. 

When I put the roof on, the porch covering didn't have a roof on them.

What did I do wrong?  How do you build a wrap around porch and have it covered and what about a balcony, can they also be covered? 

[Galena]

Are you using auto-roof?  Auto-roof only puts roofs on rooms.  You need to manually put roofs on porches.

[Twinmum]

Was the porch completely enclosed or did you have the stairs in place already? I'm guessing you have the stairs there and so the porch isn't closed in. A roof will only be added automatically to areas that are closed in.
Have you seen the roof guide? There is a wrap around porch with roof on this page of it.

[Janna]

I was using auto roof, so I  guess that was my problem, I will go read what has been written about roofs. 

 And the only confusion, if you can call it that, was the stairs I put in refused to go near a wall, they wanted to be open all around them.  I created a foyer and placed the stairs there with space to walk around them and on one side put in a study/library and the other the dining room. 
 
I will read up on building roofs and do some more practicing.