Sims 3 - The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread

[danefaith]

I see some familiar faces and some new ones making very nice houses as well. 

Hello everyone, wow, I haven't posted/played for like three months.  You probably don't remember me, but I thought I'd drop by, get some inspiration so I can get back in the swing of things. 

[Lilygirl]

Gorgeous kitchen and dining room Thomas! I especially like the walls in the kitchen, very bold move.

Welcome back dane!

[samoht04]

Haha, I know what you mean by Bold, I was unsure whether it would work but I think it does. Welcome back Danefaith! 

[LlamaMama]

Good work! What furniture set are you using in the dining room?

[samoht04]

A Late Night set I think, I recoloured a bit.

[Tayena]

First post here on the forums, and it happens to be in a building thread. Typical. =P

Anyway, I have been going through the whole 47 pages and looking at everyone's buildings. All I have to say is, wow! You all have some really beautiful houses. I am jealous. I love building, but compared to some of the houses in this thread - well, I just couldn't do it. Probably because I tend to stick to modern looking houses. Which, brings me to the main reason why I am posting.

I have a house to show off that I just finished building for my sims. They were living in an apartment, but then my female sim became pregnant with her second child and I realized that they couldn't live in apartments anymore. They needed a house, so, here it is:

Its a modern, two-story house, fit for a family or three or four. It has three bedrooms, one bathroom and a basement. ( Also, I was working on this house for quite a while, 4+ hours, and eventually wanted to get to back to playing. That is why some things have been missed or unfinished here and there.)

Here are the pictures.


The front of the house with the driveways, and stairs leading up to the actual house. All the nice big trees are for privacy reasons, plus, I think it makes it look nicer.


Better view of the front of the house.


The ground floor with a spacious living room (loving the new platform tool! So great for separating open rooms!), Kitchen/Dining area, bathroom and master bedroom.


Top floor with two bedrooms and a party room, which leads out onto the deck with the pool. (Also, loving the fact that you can now place pools on any level.)


And finally, the basement. The basement includes an inventing/sculpting room, display room and a room for making/storing and sampling nectar.

More shots can be found here.

So yeah, that is my house for my sims. Its not up for download or anything, because I don't generally do that. Also, a few of the patterns are CC, because I feel the EA patterns are never what I am looking for. If anyone would like this house though, let me know and I will replace the CC patterns with EA ones and put it up on the exchange.

[danefaith]

I would liken myself primarily a modern builder as well.  Nice to meet another fellow of the trade.

Great use of lines.  I especially like the use of half-walls in the living room, although the upstairs entertainment room is likely my favorite.  The color palette of the exterior walls is particularly pleasing: the red cap of the half walls really ties the two shades of gray together.

The sheerness of the cliffs is interesting.  Although Sims needs a way to increase entropy in walls of the same height as to get a more realistic look stat.

[danefaith]

As for my own dabblings, I'm glad to see I was able to get back into the swing of things.  I call this beach front bit, "Monochrome Marina."






Not the most amazing thing ever, but frankly I'm just glad I haven't completely lost my touch!

[Joria]

@Tayena:   I looked at all the pics and did not see one item of CC that wasn't either Sims3 store or freebie.  We use store CC all the time, just not 3rd party CC except for skin tones and things to make our Sims prettier in their face/hair.  Your house is one of the loveliest I have ever seen.  Modern houses can really look cold or stiff, but yours is clean in line, open, free flowing and yet cozy and homey.  It's a house I would definitely personally live in in real life.  So please, upload it so my Sims can enjoy it too.

@ Danefaith:  Another wonderful house from you and welcome back.  Where ya been dude?  I love your use of water features and can hardly wait for you to furnish this so we can all share.  I can smell those tropical breezes right now.

[Pam]

@Tayena:  I agree with Joria.  It's a beautiful house and I'd love to download it, too. 

[danefaith]

Joria: Back, maybe around when Fast Lane came out I had a registry error that prevented me from updating the game...  I didn't know how to tackle it, and pretty much gave up on it as the school semester began.  thus I've neglected P&C.    

...Well, semester's finished so I decided I'd give the sucker another shot at correcting that registry error and it's all fixed!

And lol, JUST got done furnishing and updated the pics to show.  Kind of a run of the mill modern furnishing but I'm pretty fond of how the living room came out.  So excuse me while I stop running my yap and get to uploading this'un.  

Good to be back.

[Tayena]

danefaith: Fantastic! I didn't think there would be many others who liked to build modern style homes. Not many people seems to like building them, which is understandable. They can be quite a pain to get them looking right. A lot of cheats are usually needed and I have found that you also need to know how to use the cheats to their full potential to be able to get modern houses to look right.

Also, love the look of your beach front house. Especially with the pool area and deck. It looks like it would have a great view of the beach!

Joria: Actually, most of the windows and a few of the wall and floor patterns are 3rd party CC. I can't afford to by the Sims3 store things. I've found they are just too expensive for what they are, so I don't have any items from the store in my game. I know that with the windows the store has windows like that now, but yeah. I'm glad you like it!

I generally only make houses that I would actually live in in real life. So, I suppose, because of my tastes, they are usually modern style, but with a nice homey feel to them. =P

Pam & Joria: I'll see what I can do to make it so I can upload it then.

[Joria]

This is no big deal but I'd promised a new member I'd post pics of my modified outdoor living home.  The first pic is a bird's eye view of the entire lot.  The light tan colored area is flooring I put on top of what would normally be a second floor, using a pillar I moved around to get the ability to do that.  I later used two posts as well as the top of the only actual room, (bathroom), to hold it up.  You really don't need to keep the posts but it looked weird to my eyes just hanging in midair without them.




Here's the "house".  I used fairly cheap items, but I did not want any bad moodlets, so I placed a floor, some el cheapo plants and decorations, painted the potty room inside and out and called it good.  I also used top of the line stove and frig as my Sim is also a cook and that nasty, "tastes like fridge" was not for her.  I gave her a good, single bed.  Not the best but good enough to guarantee a good night's rest.  She also needed the second best tv for skilling/entertainment.  Being a cheap skate is not as fulfilling in some ways as using salvaged goods but since we can't salvage now what I did has worked out just fine.  I also opted for a more patio/room feel by partially enclosing the rooms with brick fencing which is a lot cheaper than half walls, is the same height, and looks pretty good.








Edit:  there are actually a lot of modern house builders on here.  As for me, I love the look but totally fail at building them.  They always wind up looking modern on the outside and very, very cluttered and "gramma's kitchen" on the inside!  Now, you give me a castle to decorate and I'm your woman. lol  (Pam is too.  She makes the most wonderful houses and interior designs)

[Shenice93]

@Tayena

Your house is gorgeous. I would love to download it for my Sims to use.

@Danefaith

I too find myself building more modern houses. I think there is something wrong with me because every time I try and do something more traditional it ends up completely modern or some other theme that's not traditional. Maybe it's because I live in a really modern house or maybe it has something to do with my love for the combination of black and white with random color pops everywhere. I don't know. Maybe I should see a specialist.

[danefaith]

Here's the exchange link for the fully furnished Monochrome Marina.  Hope you enjoy!

http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=3485561#