split wall horizontally?

[Cougargold]

Is there a way to split a wall horizontally so I may have different textures on the same wall? I'd like to have tile in my kitchen from the floor up until the hight of the backsplash. Then from that point to the ceiling, I'd like to have paint.

Can anyone advise how I can pull this off?

Another thing we're considering is to have paint on the entire wall, and then just one row of tile at about counter height. We'd very much like to see how this would look, but can't figure out how to represent it in Sweet Home 3D.

I'd welcome any advice or pointers to an appropriate tutorial.

Thank you!

[Keet]

There are two ways:

1. Use the baseboard options which you can find n the Modify Walls dialog. This method has the advantage that you keep a single wall but a baseboard has a minimum thickness of 0.1mm so it will stick out a little. If that is no problem than this is the best option.

2. Another method is to create the lower wall with the height of the lower part you want. Then add a level with an elevation of that <lower wall height> + <the floor thickness of that new level>. (A wall sinks down with the floor thickness). Copy your lower wall and past it on the new level. Set its height so it reaches the height of your lower level. Basically you put two wall on top of each other without a floor. Now you can texture each wall separately.

For the single row of tiles look at the available wall textures. There are textures that have such a tile row. If that is not sufficient than use method 2 but at an extra level where the 'middle wall' is for the decorative tile row. Set the floor thickness for that level low because the actual wall height will include that thickness.

To understand how levels, wall heights, and floor thicknesses work you can read my manual Levels explained

[Cougargold]

Thank you very much for your informative reply. I have a somewhat related question. We have a rectangular window in the kitchen that we are considering bordering with one row of tile all the way around. Can you advise a way to get this result?

[Keet]

Use thin boxes to form a border around the window and give them a tile texture. Experiment with the width of the border and scaling of the texture to get the perfect result.

[Cougargold]

Thank you very much! This worked very well. Also, I read a bunch of your posts and looked through your page of how to manuals. Thanks for all you contribute!