Sims 3 - The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread

[ladybug53]

Wow Chuckles_82 ! This is just amazing . You're extremely creative ! I really love it. 

[Louise56]

I look fantastic Chuckles! I can't wait to see the inside.

[bubbles]

So many amazing creations! On the same page we have a roman coliseum and a futuristic sci-fi build!

[Toni]

Awesome build, Chuckles. I'd love to see inside!

[NearlyWitches]

That's a brilliant build Chuckles! I can't wait to see the inside 

So, I'm making a manor on my game and I'm about halfway through doing the grounds. I thought I'd share a few screenshots.











Whether I'll actually finish the manor, I don't know seeing as I'm rubbish at building the house shells but the landscaping and designing on the outside has kept me busy. Hope you like!

[Alyse]

I closed my legacy story forum because it's too much work to write about it and play it- I'm a full-time grade-obsessed college student and I work full time, so there's little time for playing!

However, I just -have- to share my pride and joy, my brand new house! It took forever, and I looked at a LOT of floor plans and home designs online before I decided on this style.

Already, someone has died in my pool because of poor planning, though - just a neighbor, not my family. Phew. I tried to have someone play the Grim Reaper for their life just to see how that worked, but I guess I was too late. The Grim Reaper just left the lot after my sim got to the chess table.

Oh well, I digress. Here's a list of details about my home!

GRAND TOTALS:
7 bedrooms
10 skill-based rooms
1 pool
1 hot-tub
1 deck
1 porch w/ barbeque and fire pit
1 pond (unstocked... I want to learn how to stock it, lol)
5 beehives (maybe too much!)
1 nursery
9 bathrooms
3 half-baths
4 balconies
1 porch
10 halls/galleries/entertainment/animal/other rooms

Oh, and one amazing entrance gate if I do say so myself. ;P

STILL WANT TO BUILD:
• Graveyard - separated by lords (founder and heirs), spares, spouses, other people, pets
• Ranch area for horse - or a unicorn ♥
• I want to move the garden to a better place... I'm too lazy to move and reorganize my jumbled mess of plants
• Maybe a garage-but probably not.
•Laundry room - maybe in the basement. I just like the laundry clutter, hehe.

Please please please give me advice and critiques on what to do to make it better - I want the best home ever! Money is not an issue - if I need cash, I can go on vacation and do adventures, or sell a lot of fruits and veggies... I have my ways, hehe! Hopefully I can get more tiberium! That stuff was an amazing money maker, the gem dust I got from the cutting machine grew to even more tiberium!! Woah!

Ok so-without further delay- screenshots!!

OUTSIDE THE HOME







FIRST FLOOR


SECOND FLOOR


THIRD FLOOR


View to pet room from gallery


Dojo


Reining Lord's Suite - Belonging to founder and spouse until he dies, then she moves to the grand master suite


Alchemy room


Of course, I didn't take a picture of every single room - there are too many.

[NearlyWitches]

A house fit for a king! I love the dojo and having the fountain objects in the pool is a brilliant idea, I'm amazed you managed to fill all of the space up

[Pam]

Welcome to our Forum, Alyse.

Your house is quite gorgeous.  However, we are not in the practice of allowing an individual topic just to feature a house.  We have a Showboat thread where members can share the houses and lots they have built.  It is located here.  There is also a limit of 10 images per post and you have 24.  If you would kindly remove 14 of your images, I will be happy to merge your thread with the Showboat thread. 

The only other option would be to put your house into the Swap Shop.  It would have its own thread there, but it still needs to be trimmed down to 10 images and must follow the Swap Shop rules.  To do this, you would need to upload the file for your house and then I would move it to the Swap Shop board.

[Alyse]

Sorry Pam - I have reduced it to ten and would love to be merged into the Showboat.

I suppose I need to be more careful. Thank you for being so polite in correcting me though. This is perhaps the very most polite forum in the world.

[Chuckles_82]

I love the opulence of your Legacy house, Alyse.

I have mostly furnished my sci-fi house - Orbital Planes. Click the link to see more pictures. Now to upgrade everything, and make an alien family to live in it Here is an updated version of the front:

[Alyse]

Oh my gosh! I am in love with your house! Is that whole thread all your work? I think I'll be reading it.

I never knew you could recolor ceilings. How do you do that? Just the redecorate tool?

[Chuckles_82]

Thank you It's some of my work (but, yes, all my own). I have a separate incomplete thread for each of my worlds. The link is in my signature for my current one, though my first one was all modern stuff, and I didn't get around to uploading each one separately.

And yes, just floor tiles, and the recolour tool. You have to tilt the camera to the right angle, which is kind of a pain. I ended up with a crinked neck because I couldn't get the camera to point high enough, and of course, trying to tilt my own head (duh).

[Alyse]

HA! I do the same (trying to look up on a monitor by lifting my head) ... Someday the future will catch up to us and computer games will sense that kind of thing, and adjust accordingly.

But seriously, beautiful work! I especially love your futuristic homes, and of course the zen home. I am a little Japan-obsessed and it actually reminds me of the traditional temples and castles you see in Kyoto Japan - I'm not sure if it's the same in China, too .. Only got to travel to Japan so far.

[Andy_555224]

Beautiful work Alyse! Anata wa Nihon o suki desu ka? 

[Majick81]

I've got 2 houses I'd love to show off here ... I'll use Spoiler tags to try and help break it up some since the total pics combined may be more than 10 ...

Not Quite a Starter
Not Quite a Starter is a charming little home perfect for a single Sim, or a newly married couple just starting out ... with a few Simoleans to burn.

Furnished Cost: 21,918 (comes with lights only)
Unfurnished Cost: 21,632
Lot Size: 30x30
Link to Download: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=5961789

A little about this lot ...
• 2 Bedrooms
• 1 full bathroom
• This home comes as a complete blank slate
• This home is entirely unfurnished; basic white walls, soft tan carpetting and hard floors for the bathroom and eat-in kitchen
• Large fenced-in back yard
• Plenty of room to expand
• Great for a couple looking for a slight upgrade

Please recommend, thank you and enjoy!

Pictures
When downloaded




Sample of in-game play & minor re-decorating



My Townhome - 2 Bdrm 1.5 Bthrm
A simple home built with a similar layout to my own real life home. A few tweaks were made to give your sims more room for thier buck. This home also comes with a backyard, which mine doesn't have. Furnished rooms include: kitchen, 1.5 bathrooms, laundry room. Walls are white, carpet is tan to give you all the room you'll need to add your own touches!

Link to Download
Please recommend if you download and/or like this home!
My Townhome - 2 Bdrm 1.5 Bthrm


In Game Pictures
Unfurnished - This is how the home looks when you download and install it ...