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Published September 28, 2026 · Last updated September 29, 2026
Quick Answer: How Do You Build a Custom House?
Pick the blank plot instead of a preset home, then place architectural blocks — walls, floors, stairs, windows — using the same move/resize/rotate/recolor tools as furniture. Start from one box volume with door and window cutouts, walk the empty shell, then decorate room by room. Collision-free placement is available the whole way for mezzanines and wall-mounted pieces.
| Step | Action | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Footprint | One box per room, sized generously | Cramming rooms — resizing later is cheaper than refurnishing |
| 2. Openings | Cut doors and windows, face windows at the view | Window walls facing a blank map edge |
| 3. Walk test | Tour the empty shell before decorating | Layouts that feel wrong empty never feel right furnished |
| 4. Decorate | Anchor piece first, layer under it, room by room | Decorating every wall equally — the busy-room trap |
The Placement Toolkit
Every placement shares one control set: pick, place, move, resize, rotate, recolor. The two that matter most for construction are resize — box volumes stretch to any proportion, which is how room shapes happen — and ignore-collisions, which lets pieces overlap during assembly. The workflow that works: assemble loose, then walk through and separate anything that visibly clips in the light.
When to Build vs When to Preset
The blank plot is for when you want a room shape the presets do not have, a second building, or the construction itself as the fun. The preset houses (like the Frutiger Eco House) are genuinely good — reviewers call them solid starting points — and they skip straight to the decorating half of the game. A reasonable rule: first home from a preset, first custom build on the second plot.