Anyone who has built their dream house in The Sims 4 will certainly have built a staircase in the house and provided it with a banister. If you place the stair railing on the stairs, it will automatically be placed on both sides. Depending on what you want to do with the stairs and how they are installed in the house, you sometimes want to only install the staircase on one side, but how does that work?
The Sims 4: Staircase railing only on one side?
If you have built a staircase and only want the banister on one side, you will probably initially try to do this by holding down the shift key or using other key combinations. Unfortunately, this is not as easy as it is possible, for example, when building a roof and creating roof sides of different lengths. But there is a “trick” with which you can make the stair railing in the Sims 4 one-sided and it works like this.
- Build a staircase with a banister.
- Build the same staircase again with the same railing right next to the stairs.
- If you now remove the middle banister, then on the first staircase there will only be the banister on one side.
- Finally, you can now remove the second staircase and move the first staircase with the one-sided railing to the desired position.
Update: Since around mid-2021, the trick described above no longer seems to work. If you remove the middle stair railing, it will no longer stay on the other side. We don’t know exactly in which update the “bug” was fixed, but it is probably no longer usable.
The trick described above currently only works because it is a bug. For this reason, it may well be that the trick for building a single-sided railing on a staircase will no longer work in the future as the bug has been fixed. We discovered the “trick” in the linked forum post and it still works perfectly to this day.
