Sims 3 - The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread

[Pam]

@Tayena:

As much as I love your house, if it really does have 3rd party CC in it, we can't host the link here.  I'm really sorry.  It's just against our rules.

[Tayena]

Pam: Is that if I was to upload it to the exchange? From my understanding though, pictures of houses with 3rd party CC are alright, but just not links to uploads of them. If that is the case, then that is alright. I will remove and replace all the 3rd party CC with EA CC before I upload it to the exchange. I just have to spend quite a bit in the store first, lol.

[Pam]

Pictures of third party CC are fine, but to have a link here it has to be completely free of it.  Our members rely on us only hosting links that are clean of potentially harmful third party CC.  I'm not asking you to spend money or anything.  It's just that I can't allow a link.

[pallyndrome]

Tayena & Danefaith: I love both your houses. Danefaith - I particularly like your pool area with the windowed walls and the sand. Tayena - I love the trees and the living room and basement especially.

Tayena - have you seen the free stuff thread? There's heaps of free items at the shop, plus there's an offer now that if you post on facebook or something (it's explained on the thread), you might get given items on your wishlist. So if you had a small wishlist with just items that you need for the houses, who knows you might get some

[Shenice93]

I have another house to show everyone. This one took me a while because there were so many interruptions, school being the biggest (and most annoying) one of them.


This is the front view from which you can kind of see a two car fenced in parking area.


Here you can see the two bedrooms with shared pink and blue bathroom. There's a little office area by the left staircase and there's and easel by the right staircase.


Second floor where the kitchen and second bathroom are. There are two decks in the front and back of the house both accessible from this floor only.


First floor entry way with koi pond underneath. Staircase leading to sunken living room with a small office area and bookcase.


And a zoom in of the entryway.

This house is available at the exchange here:
http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=3504253

Hope you enjoy!

[danefaith]

The building would have interesting implications as a living environment.  Very conjoined, yet distinctly private.

[Pam]

Just want to let everyone know that we have a brand new free in-house image hosting service!  Anyone who is a member of this Forum can use it to host Sims 3 images that you use in posts here.  It's working great so far and means there will be no more thumbnail sized images in your posts.  Very exciting step for us! 

[Joria]

Wonderful, Shenice!  Downloaded it and used their thingie for "liked it". 

[Shenice93]

Thanks Joria! That means a lot to me.

[aAa]

I made a mansion  it has an outdoor sitting area, a garage, a main house and guest house. sorry no pics.
I TRIED to make the White House but my game crashed

[danefaith]

Wow, this was a fun build.  I normally build small one bedroom or two bedroom modern homes; today I ended up churning out a country inspired McMansion able to house a full eight!







You can pick it up here if you'd like.  fyi: the red and green torches in the basement are triggers, which open and close the door to the collectiom rooms.

[pallyndrome]

I love it danefaith! It's beautiful.

[danefaith]

Thanks!  I'm really happy with how the landscaping and nectary turned out, especially, although I might go back and make some ground texture touch ups.

The roof could use some work, but if there's anything that drives me insane it's roofing, so, I've learned to just accept defeat in that area. 

[Shenice93]

I'm with you on the roofing danefaith. I usually just throw a flat roof on my more complex houses and call it a day. I absolutely can not figure out roofing. It gives me a major headache.

[BlazeSolo]

Hello everyone! As you can see I'm new to the forum, as well as to Sims 3. I've played a few of the previous versions but since I never owned my own copy I never delved too deeply. Now that I've snagged the newest version I'm glad I did. I read through all 50 pages and was amazed at all the different styles and interpretations everyone has! Everyone makes such beautiful homes, I know I will definitely learn a thing or two. Well here is my first attempt at home building. This is a modern style mansion for my Rock Star sim. It boasts 3 stories and a basement as well as 2 pools. Glad I read the rules so I will stick to 5 pics but there is definitely too much to show. This baby cost a whopping $300k unfurnished and almost $1mill fully furnished, don't worry though the bills only cost $9k. Heck, after reading all the walkthroughs I'm fairly certain only a musician or a painter could afford the place. Unless you have a huge family, maybe use this as a dynasty house.

The First Floor: Starting at the top right corner and going clockwise. Sitting Room-Bathroom-Display Room-Office-Display Room-Foyer-Kitchen-Dining Room-Bar-Bathroom-Great Hall- And a pool in the center.


Second Floor: Laundry Room-Master Bath-Master Bedroom-Outdoor Entertaining Area-Pool Viewing Room- Junior Master Bedroom-Jr. Master Bath-Mother In-Law Suite-Full Bath-Great Hall


Third Floor: Patio-Bathroom-Artist Studio-2nd Pool-Bedroom-Full Bath-Shared Balcony-Bedroom-Full Bath- Great Hall


Basement: My pride and joy! Gym-Recording Studio-Bathroom-Kitchenette-Arcade-Night Club (Full Bar, Dance Floor, Stage)-Night Club Bathrooms- And windows in the center the allow you to view swimming sims.


Front View: The Rocker Mansion in all its glory!


I'm am open to any and all constructive criticism. This house is not available on The Exchange yet, not sure if I'm going to. All content is included in the main expansion packs, I'm sure someone could go wild with more content from the store. The four pillars surrounding the main pool are covered in glass it gives it a great look. I have since added a gate closer to the mailbox and trashcan to better facilitate the butler's recycling efforts.