One of the fantastic things about Paralives is its building features and endless customisation. But if you are not a natural builder, it can be a struggle to find somewhere to begin. Thankfully, there is a world of real-life examples for you to pull inspiration from out there, and modders have come through to make them even easier to implement.

With this customisable flooring mod, it’s never been easier to build, as you can build a home in Paralives using a real floor plan as inspiration! Here’s a step-by-step guide to follow.

We have lots of guides for you to browse, covering all known Paralives features, which you can read here.

Building Realistic Floorplans

There are lots of real estate websites which have floor plans you can view and save for inspiration.

Once you’ve chosen your floorplan, save it to your computer and get ready to import it into the game.

Importing & Using Custom Images

Once you have downloaded the modded rug, you can find it by using the search function in build mode or by looking in the decor category.

Once you place it, click the image icon in the options, then click the plus to import your own images.

Then size it up as big as you need to make each room.

A quick tip: make sure your measurement settings match the ones used in the floor plan; otherwise, you will end up with a huge house!

Building Homes In Paralives Using Floorplans

Once you have got your floor plan sorted, start building the outside walls of your home. Then once you’ve got the basic outline sorted then start building the interal walls and structures.

To make it easier to see the floor plan details, leave a small gap in the dividing walls until you are almost done. This will stop it from turning the walls into a room and covering up the rug with the auto-placed floor.

Then, once you have built the main structure, you can start placing all of your appliances, furniture, and fixtures.

Unwanted Furniture Sticking To The Floor Plan

Because this is a customised rug, the game recognises it as flooring and lets you place items directly onto it.

Whilst that is handy, the downside is that once you delete your floor plan guide, the furniture you placed will also be removed.

To get around this, move your floor plan guide out of your main house structure, then drag it back into place to double-check door, wall, or furniture placement if needed.

Before long, you’ll have a fully furnished, realistic home, developed straight from a real-life floor plan.

No Mods? No Problem

Given that Paralives is still in early access and mods can at times be tempromental in ay game, its possible that you might encounter bugs or glitches which mean that you aren’t able to use the custom flooring to build from your floor plan you downloaded.

If that is the case, you can build homes using floor plans without this mod, but it is more fiddly.

Instead of using custom flooring, you can use a photo frame and then make it lie flat with advanced transformation tools.

Follow the same directions above to build using the floor plan; the only difference is that this uses a framed photo instead of a rug.

You will have to be really precise and have to work around the frame, but it is doable.

Have you managed to build any homes using this method in Paralives yet? Let us know below or on social media.