Sims 3 - The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread

[TheChronicR]

That bedroom is awesome, Ausette. Can we see the roof?
@Dane - Now the pool is both safe and better! I love the whole complex, well done!

[danefaith]

Oh dear yes, it's going to be an upgrade.  I actually remember my dorm room like it was yesterday.

Good old Manzanita, 15 floors of 30 two bed dorms.  Sadly, I couldn't properly convey the mold.

[thesweetestpea]

The Carpenter-Rhodes rebuild is done! It is the hardest house I've ever created, making them aesthetically pleasing as well as livable in is not easy!


The Log Cabin


Basement Level 1


Basement Level 2


Exterior View from front


Exterior View from back

I'm tempted to design a version without the basement space for the Swap Shop - unless anyone would like this one?

[LoveEvil]

LoveEvil, thanks for explanation. I never saw that effect for fog emitters, are splashes on rocks waterfall or there is a splash too? Can you share a link to download this lovely Pier? I'm very curious in unusual effects that regular building tool is providing, and what you described would be very usefull and effective:)

EDIT: Love Evil, never mind, I track it down on official forum, along with some other interesting creations you've made!

Umm I think the splashes were "oceansurfsplash", the emitters have so many codes that I forget what is what sometimes! 
Glad you found the pier ok.

[danefaith]

So now we're upstairs, but still in the community areas.  Here's the elevator landing.



Next up kitchen and laundry.





Finally I made some studio accommodations for the art student.

[ladydragon76]

That is looking so great!  I can't wait to see the actual dorm rooms! hehe

*hugz!*
-LD

[Ausette]

It looks great, dane! It'll be awesome having all those amnities in one building. And wow, I think you win on "who gets the most cluttered uni room". At least I don't have to share mine. 

[Micler]

@Danefaith- That kitchen is awesome! I also really like the ambitions skills and art spaces. This building will have something for everyone!

[Seabody]

@Ausette
You should see my bedroom! Half the time, there's no free surface.

[samoht04]

Half the time, there's no free surface.

What's a free surface? 

The Community Areas look cool Dane! 

[pallyndrome]

dane, that looks awesome. If the actual bedrooms are really small, it might be a really cheap option for sims fresh out of the nest? I see you put a sink in the art rooms, is that to extinguish a sim if they catch on fire?

[Gogowars329]

The communitiy rooms look great dane!!

[danefaith]

We're left with two mores communal rooms and then it's on to the dorm rooms!


A simple hang out room with a few of the remaining amenities.  It links to the communal bathrooms, but since a residential can't use the male/female restroom doors, I made mini plaques to designate.


and of course here's the bathroom, which somehow ended up looking like a pirate ship.    Ah well.


And here's the dorm rooms!  ...Well, here's the dorm rooms at the beginning of the school year.  My plan was to use a like set of furniture and then flesh them out in different styles, which resulted in this fine little quartet!

[Gogowars329]

Love the dorms and final community rooms Dane!!!

[pallyndrome]

no offense dane, but I was hoping the dorm rooms would be small and cheap, like in TS2University. I don't really see the point in having all those community rooms filled with items like easels, if that stuff can be easily fitted into the dorm rooms themselves - it's just overkill to me. I feel a little like nearly everything on this thread is too expensive for the average sim, and i was hoping for rooms with room only for a bed and a closet, barely, so they'd be really cheap. Anyway, what you've designed is good in itself, just not what I was hoping for.