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Offline Jaaaaks

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Pondside Mansion - 5br 4.5ba
« on: January 31, 2013, 08:33:00 PM »
Type: Residential Lot
Name: Pondside Mansion
Lot Size: 36 x 47
Bedrooms: 5
Bathrooms: 4.5
Cost when placed on X lot: $ 388,020
Cost when placed on X lot unfurnished: $ 208,603
Requires expansions: World Adventures / Ambitions / Late Night / Generations / Pets / Showtime / Supernatural / Seasons
Required Stuff Packs: none
Store Content: Earth Day (free), Weba Yayfoo (free)



Welcome to the Pondside Mansion! Originally built on that lot in Sunset Valley, all by itself by that pond... yeah, that one.

This mansion is built with Legacy/Dynasty families in mind. Essentially, its built for big families that also like to entertain. I've been wanting to create a house like this but never really got around to it. Finally, I did!

FEATURES:
 - 4 floors (including rooftop pool) + basement
- 5 bedrooms, each designed specifically to cater certain sims, but can be remodeled!
- each bedroom sports its own ensuite. The master even has a small walk-in closet!
- as mentioned; rooftop pool!
- home theatre directly underneath the pool; be able to see your sims swim while enjoying a good tv program
- large kitchen with plant pots to allow quick and easy cooking/gardening
- large lawn space that is partially furnished; continue editing if desired, otherwise can leave as is!
- "secret" entrance to the 'archive' room for dynasty players; otherwise can install normal stairs down.
- speaking of which, basement is INCOMPLETE to allow building of dynasty basements. However, can also be used for additional bedrooms and a butler room if so desired.
- essentials from other countries already there; those that belong in the inventory can be found on a table in the main hallway.
- as many skill building items as possible have been included (some of the chunky ambitions stuff is in the basement, my apologies)

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DOES NOT INCLUDE:
 - Laundry Baskets/Room - while certainly supposed to happen, ended up not happening because of floor plan restraints. Can still be added in if an ensuite is changed.
- Indoor Gymnasium - While the pool and other exercise equipment is included, none of them are indoors. If you fear for this due to seasons' weather changes, go ahead and convert one of the bedrooms or build one downstairs!

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I'm not the best at designing actual houses and how they look on the outside. So, um, disregard if it looks a wee bit off on the outside.

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Re: Pondside Mansion - 5br 4.5ba
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2013, 08:33:25 PM »
Alright, now that you know the basics, lets get down to the tour inside. This is partially shenanigans on my part; if you wanna skip the overenthusiastic written tour, you can jump to the screenshots to get a good idea of the floor plan.

FLOOR 1 - GROUND FLOOR
Right off the bat you will probably notice a large parking area. There are four parking spaces readily available for your car and sim's needs. There is NOT a gate already preinstalled for celebrities.

Pass the front arches and make your way into the house. Here is a large hallway with large windows so you can see directly outside. Is that a gazebo I see? Well, forget that for now. Observe the single door in this hallway; this leads to the half bathroom and the only bathroom on the ground floor.

To the right is the living and entertaining room. Dodge those couches, whoops, and here we are. The double doors to your left lead to the study. If you look to your right, you'll see some instruments just waiting to be played. Stop playing that piano and eyeing the bass, lets go into the study.

Here we have a nice solitary desk and computer for the workaholic sim. Those comfy white couches are also great for sitting on while reading. See those book cases - wait, don't touch that bookcase. Why? Just, don't.

And through those doors lead you to a hallway that can take you to the back garden.

Lets backtrack to the main hallway and walk directly across into this other room. Wow - its warm in here - and is that fresh bread? Well here's the kitchen. Over to your left here is some pots ready to be planted. Let's go right around the fireplace - do not take a drink from the bar just yet - and into the dining room. Ahh, this is nice and relaxing. And look; right there to your right takes us back to the hallway. Out the door to your left takes you to the opposite hallway that can take you to the outdoors area. Well, while we're here, why don't we go back into the main hallway and into the spiral staircase?

Ground Floor Plan


FLOOR 2 - BEDROOMS
Don't get dizzy now. And here we go, the bedroom floor. Notice how you can see the main hallway from here; always good for the kids to peer over to see if their friends have arrived. Let's head into this door here closer to the back of the house. This is the first bedroom - blue and white. Ah, this is charming: a nice space for the more studious inclined. And around that way is the ensuite. Lets head back out and into these bigger doors over on the left.

Here is the master bedroom - the fifth bedroom. Notice how the architect decided to be risky by making some interesting shapes with the walls. And here's the fireplace, lets go around that for a sec, and there's the master bed. And those two doors? The first one to the left is the master bathroom, on the right is the walk in closet.

Lets head back out and around the shuffle board. The first door leads to the second bedroom - the gothic. Some nice half walls to separate the room, a desk to do some work, a bed on the other side, and that door you see on the right leads to another ensuite. Pretty nice room, simplistic, suitable for another couple already living together.

Now here's a nice diagonal hallway. Lets check out the room to the right first. Oh, how cute - third bedroom - the kids room. It's noticeably smaller than the other rooms and more childishly decorated. And the ensuite is right behind.

The room at the end of this hallway is the fourth bedroom - twin room. Two beds here to share - so if you have three boys and two girls, or vice versa, I guess they better like each other! Here's also a cute little cat condo, as well as their own tv! I hope they don't have a bed time. And let's go into this ensuite - quite roomy, although they only get a shower.

Lets head back out to the main hallway. There's a porch over here, past the shuffle board with some shelter for playing chess and viewing the night sky, as well as some exercise equipment. Here's another spiral staircase - go on, you go first.

Bedroom Floor Plan


FLOOR 3 - HOME THEATRE
Not really much to see here. Just a big tv screen, some comfy seating, a bar, and -wait, lets pull all these curtains back. Woah! We can see the pool right through these curtains! Pretty cool. And I spot a snow cone maker in the back - perfect; big screen for home videos, video games, and the cooking channel. All that I need, really.

Well, I smell the chlorine. Why don't we take an additional walk up to the top floor- the roof top pool?

Home Theatre Plan


FOURTH FLOOR - ROOFTOP POOL
Aaand here we are. The pool is very warm right now, or we can lie down if you want on these chairs and sunbathe. Phew, it sure is hot up here. This is a nice relaxing spot indeed.

Well, this is all the house has to offer; of course, there's the outside, but you can go see that yourself later. I heard they have a mini beach to make some castles with, a pond, and a gazebo. Psst, I also heard that some past owners have gotten married on that gazebo! How romantic.

Well, enough gossip from me. Have I sold you on the house yet? I hope so. I can guarantee the architect and designer had loads of fun making the house for you. So, why don't you enjoy it as well?

Rooftop Pool Plan



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Re: Pondside Mansion - 5br 4.5ba
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2013, 08:33:50 PM »
Here's some screenies.



That's Renee, making some food in the kitchen. You can see past the arches is the dining room.



There's the home theatre looking from the bar. Looks like Hayden is playing some Tony Hawk at the moment.



Here's the main entertainment room. Elyssa is trying to improve her abysmal piano skills, as usual.



This is the view from the second floor landing. As you can see, you could technically peer over the glass to see who's below. Asher's sitting on the sectional.



The master bedroom, looking from the door. To the right is the crib and behind the camera would be the bookshelf.



The master bathroom. Luckily no sim is in there doing any business, as they seem to be when I take screen shots!



Well of course, Renee is in her room, the blue and white room, playing video games.



This is the back yard view. Here's the gazebo - underneath  the roof is a wedding arch. There's more space than shown - the porch/deck sticking out is hiding more room. Unfortunately, I had to go up all the stories to get the picture with the gazebo's roof.



And there's the roof-top pool, from a regular perspective. You may notice the fencing is different than the one pictured in the original screenshot of the house. This is the fencing that comes with LN, not the CC one I had used earlier. The current uploaded and downloadable version of the house in the link of the top post has this house; not the one in the first screen shot.

I could include more screenshots, but I'll only upload them to the gallery.

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Re: Pondside Mansion - 5br 4.5ba
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2013, 09:11:55 PM »
Welcome to the forum.  Before any house is uploaded to the Swap Shop, there should be no CC.  When UC was made by our forum members, there was no CC in any of the houses or there was none used in the world itself.  If you would please go back through the house and remove any CC, then you are welcome to re-upload the CC free house.  A few screenshots of the inside would be nice also.

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Re: Pondside Mansion - 5br 4.5ba
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2013, 09:18:18 PM »
Also I have removed the link until you can verify that the house includes no Custom Content.  Our members trust the Swap Shop items to not include CC.  You are welcome to re-upload the house when you are certain there is no Custom Content in it.
 
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Re: Pondside Mansion - 5br 4.5ba
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2013, 10:12:29 PM »
Hey Mods, thanks for the replies so fast.

I may have read the rules incorrectly, but is free sims 3 store content allowed? If so, I have to mention which free 'packs' were used, right? Otherwise I can just get rid of it all.

Edit: I took a look at the other posts and saw that you can include store content as long as you name what packs they're from, so I did so. Hopefully I got it right this time!

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« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2013, 03:42:30 AM »
Cool. Love the gazebo the best. Looks really peaceful.
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