Sims 3 - The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread

[Janna]

I love the houses also, but the blue one, not the purple.  I guess I have a hard time seeing a house being purple.

Probably because here where I live you hardly ever see a house other than brick or in various shades of creams and light browns.  If it does have color, it is very light.  Really, it is quite plain and boring if you think about it, the colors are from the plants and trees in yards. 

[cathyknits]

When those houses were being built in the 1800s, though, they were often painted very brightly, using multiple different colors on the trim, and pink and purple (plus brighter greens and blues) weren't uncommon - do a google image search for "victorian painted lady houses". Personally of the two pictures I preferred the purple...

[napoleonwrasse]

To add to cathyknits, homes in the Victorian era were very bright usually very bright and had more than one trim color. I build many victorians and use this tool (link at bottom) to get the best match.
I personally think if you are going for an 1800s/Victorian look you need contrast like the purple one. And check this tool out it might be helpful I'm using it on my current period replica (from a book of 1870s Victorian floorplans), I'd post a picture but it uses cc.
If you can't tell I'm a total Victorian nerd. I seriously wish I was born in the 1880s.
http://www.colortools.net/color_complementary.html

The other trick is googling homes like cathyknits said.

[pallyndrome]

Hello! Long time since I've shown anything here, but I finally have something I'm quite proud of. I am terrible at building from scratch, so this is a remodel. The original lot was one that came with an expansion (I think supernatural?) that's based on the little dolls house. I completely changed the outside look, and the inside rooms and rearranged the walls just a little bit plus did the backyard, and the garage and the 'daycare centre' at the front (my sim is going to be in the daycare profession). Thanks to everyone who's patterns I've used in this - sorry I don't remember all your names. It won't all fit in one post, so I hope it's ok if I put two about this:



STUDY:


KITCHEN:


The best part of the kitchen:


Ground level BATHROOM:


DINING ROOM:


LOUNGEROOM:


MAIN BEDROOM:


ENSUITE BATHROOM:


KIDS BATHROOM:

[pallyndrome]

GUEST BEDROOM: (currently grandparents room)


ATTIC: (for all the extra stuff):


Little ART ROOM:


The rooms not shown are the two kids rooms - the nursery I left nearly identical to the original lot so I won't show it here, and I'm not so proud of the little girls room.

What do you think?

The only problem I've got with the lot so far is that there seem to be TONS of seeds everywhere! Here is an example:

It only grew from there! I have no idea why this is happening, as I have not placed nor can I find any spawners on the lot.

[saltpastillen]

Wow, I really love the look of the house. I particularly like the wallpaper in the purple living room and the look of the master bedroom.

I do not have a solution to the seed problem. Maybe there were spawners on the original lot you copied and they somehow carried over when you placed it without being visible?

[ladybug53]

Wow..you did a great job at your remodeling ! Love all your decor . It looks very cozy . Great job ! 

[YZJay]

Did the house have an alchemy table (or was it station) before the remodelling?

[pallyndrome]

Salt & Lady - Thanks to both of you!!! I found the living room really hard so I'm glad it worked out well. The master bedroom is one of my favourites. I hope the seeds aren't going to be a problem, they just look weird for now I guess. I don't want to pick them all up, because I'm afraid they'd just spawn all over again.

YZJay - I don't think it had an alchemy room. Now that I think about it, it had a lot of kids stuff, so maybe it was actually from Generations. I'll have to check next time I play...

[ladybug53]

pallyndrome - Your livingroom looks lovely . You did a great job on your decor . I love your library !

[pallyndrome]

thanks ladybug! I think the library is my favourite, though I didn't know it would be. I've got some nice shots of the family in there. When I get my camera right down in that room it makes me feel good

[Chuckles_82]

Gorgeous use of colour in every room of the house Pally!

[fortheloveofcake]

Beautiful remodel pallyndrome! I especially like the blue bedroom, and the outside and yard are gorgeous. As for the seeds, if you turn buydebug on the spawners will be come visible I think? Then you could delete some or all of them?

[Janna]

I was just going to suggest that she try the buydebug and see if they showed up. I would suggest that all of the seeds be picked up first.  When I go to work with a garden that has spawners of insects and the insects are "out" I have to use the moveobjects to move them around and if I want to delete them I have to catch the insects first. 

I can't think of any reason for so many seeds in one place except for spawners and ever time you turn a lot the spawners increase.  I once moved a garden with a pond several times on a lot and had fish all over the place, it looked as if it has rained fish! 

I love the house, it has a lot of items I don't have, from expansions and other sources so I doubt I could use it, but it is a beautiful house.

[Gulliver the cat!]

That is a lovely house! I like the colors you used throughout the home, especially the kitchen's color theme.