Help with friezes and stairs.

[makibird]

Hi all

I've been browsing these forums a lot lately and I was really inspired by the showboating thread - the work you all do is amazing! I decided to work on my own house. I've been experimenting with everything from infinity pools to CFE and friezes.

So my house is on a foundation and part of that house is up on a frieze, because I wanted to play with split levelling.

Here's a quick preview.



I'm trying to build a U shaped staircase consisting of two sets of steps using a frieze on top of the first frieze. After much fiddling and cursing and Ctrl+Z I managed to get the walls lining up.



I was so excited! Until I went to start work on the next floor. Then I realised, the frieze floor is the same level as the next floor. So now I have a gap where the wall transitions between the frieze level and the full wall height, if you get what I mean.



Can anyone suggest where I've gone wrong here or an alternative way of doing it? I've tried the normal way, lowering the ground level and using CFE, instead of a frieze but this just makes my walls really short (no clue why!). I was so proud of what I'd done so far and I'm gutted that I messed up. I know I could just use spiral stairs, but they look really out of place, I had my heart set on those U shaped stairs.

Thanks all, and thanks for the tutorials posted here, I wish I'd known about them sooner! I've learned so much in the past few days.

[Seabody]

Welcome to the forum, Makibird.

You can't really work around what you did, as the frieze is always the same level as the floor you're building. What you can do, however, is follow this tutorial I wrote about two years ago - How to: create a sunken living room. It's written for ground-level foundations, however, it's very easy to adapt for friezes. Hope this helps.

[makibird]

Thanks Seabody!

I think I've got a way around it, although I'm now at the floor limit.

I've flattened out that layer to the same height as the frieze and added an extra floor on top.



As a result I have extra long stairs, but it's better than spirals.



Hopefully I'll be able to do something with this now, although I fear for my doors! I'll keep you updated Thanks again!