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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #2205 on: December 24, 2011, 06:47:51 PM »
Joria - thanks again, I'm so happy ;D

 

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #2206 on: December 25, 2011, 02:30:40 PM »
Coming soon to a Secret Location near you!  Merry Christmas!







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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #2207 on: December 25, 2011, 04:28:58 PM »
Joria, this house is special, awesome. I'm speechless. You manage to revive those cold walls. I feel peacefull, an inner peace while looking at Your house. I'm astonished. The whole house is perfect, please, don't change anything. It's so beautiful. I felt that this is a gift from Your heart. I feel the emotions You put in the house while building it. You're so talented. Thank You for sharing it with us. Thanks from the bottom of the heart for this Christmass gift.

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #2208 on: December 25, 2011, 04:33:17 PM »
Oh, gosh! I can't wait to download that house!!!

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #2209 on: December 25, 2011, 07:42:55 PM »
It is on a 64x64 lot, has 4 floors of rooms plus the towers and walkways.  The towers are mostly unfinished though one has a nursery in it and at least one has a powder room.  The basement is the teenagers "teen cave", with glass wall for part of it that looks out into the moat.  There is a pool inside there, plus a working sauna, and large play areas for the whole family so includes dance floor in some part, but video games in another.  It takes a tremendous amount of time to load.  I actually had to stop adding things because I was afraid no one could ever use it because it is so graphics intensive.

Here's the good news.........NO STORE ITEMS!  No cc!  It is totally just EP/SP stuff and base game.  Here's a sneak peek at another part of the inside of the castle.

This is the "teen cave".  Notice the dressing room attached to the bathroom.  You can't really see how to get into these rooms from the photo.  The upper right brown/wood room is the sauna.  (Actually a steam room because the fe puts out "steam", not dry heat).



Party/play area in basement:



Should be done soon.
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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #2210 on: December 26, 2011, 12:29:59 AM »
Wow Joria the house is amazing! ;D

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #2211 on: December 26, 2011, 01:26:59 AM »
That house is great, Joria! :)



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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #2212 on: December 26, 2011, 02:25:06 AM »
Oh my gosh Joria how long did it take you to build the shell. It's an aboslutley amazing house, can't wait to see the rest.  ;D
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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #2213 on: December 26, 2011, 11:45:46 AM »
Oh my gosh Joria how long did it take you to build the shell. It's an aboslutley amazing house, can't wait to see the rest.  ;D

Almost two weeks, but some of that was planning and redoing when I wasn't happy with what I did.  It would have gone faster had I used store items but really, it did show me you can make something really pretty without them.
What took the longest was the interior.  The landscaping was so much fun I just zipped through it.  I find I really do enjoy the landscaping more than other parts of building.
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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #2214 on: December 26, 2011, 05:10:12 PM »
Almost two weeks, but some of that was planning and redoing when I wasn't happy with what I did.  It would have gone faster had I used store items but really, it did show me you can make something really pretty without them.
What took the longest was the interior.  The landscaping was so much fun I just zipped through it.  I find I really do enjoy the landscaping more than other parts of building.
Haha Joria you are the complete opposite to me. I hate landscaping. :)
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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #2215 on: December 27, 2011, 12:57:29 AM »
Hey guys! I was hoping I could get a bit of help with something . . .
I've made the outside of the home and placed a few furniture items inside to mark what I want to use each room for.
However, I'm at a loss for what color scheme to use for furniture. Originally I was going to do white for everything, but after painting all the walls white and making all the floors white it looked a little bland. I'm still not sure if I like the new color for the outside better than the white, so I'll include a before and after for further opinion. I may end up making the outside white again, just keeping the tiles the color they are now.
I also am not sure about landscaping. I'm new at this, so any thoughts would be appreciated.

Testy McTesterson demonstrated that all rooms and areas can be accessed with no problem, so I am proud of myself. In the beginning I'd accidentally placed some windows in the elevators and she was riding the elevators like a theme park ride.

Here are some shots of the outside and floor plans. I started to do some arranging and coloring in the living room; that's where I got stuck with the color.

Before the color change.



After the color change.



The living room, where I started to look at color ideas . . .then gave up.









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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #2216 on: December 27, 2011, 02:41:24 AM »
It's a lovely shell but the inside looks so cold.
I suggest recoloring when you have lots of time.  ;)
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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #2217 on: December 27, 2011, 03:57:18 AM »
How about using a bold red colour or yellow along with the white and blue?



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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #2218 on: December 27, 2011, 03:58:32 AM »
My aunt helped me with the color . . . it's something to that effect! Thanks for the suggestion, though. I'll come back when I've recolored..... a lot of things. xD

EDIT: A couple of hours later got me a these colors for the inside. I also changed the color of all the windows to something called "ecru." Rather than style them all, I deleted every window and replaced them. I hope to never need to do that again!



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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #2219 on: December 27, 2011, 12:12:58 PM »
Backdrob, I like  what you did ( last photo). Maybe there are a little too much windows - what you think?