Sims 3 - The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread

[Chuckles_82]

I love how it turned out. I think you did a marvellous job!

[Katie123urgreat]

I think it looks great katie! It really feels like a home.

I love how it turned out. I think you did a marvellous job!

Thanks, you two.  You made my afternoon. 

[norenegonc]

Worked for quite a while on the interior of the entrance house unit... thing hah. It has been kind of slow, I am always clicking on that crazy colour wheel about a million times before I settle on a colour (don't even get me started on the designs with 4 different colour schemes each with like 3-4 colours inside the colour palette  ) Anyway here is the interior so far, I managed to fit a grand entrance hall, living room with bathroom, a great hall (dining room) and the main kitchen.

Ground floor of main entrance


Second floor of main entrance with chandelier


Living Room off the main entrance


Living Room Coat Room


Bathroom


Dining and Throne Room two story view


Dining Room view from main floor


Dining Room two story view with entrance to kitchen in the back

[NearlyWitches]

That's brilliant again norengonc! It's impressive how you have managed to not leave any empty spaces in such a big house 

[pallyndrome]

It looks really great norenegonc! I'm impressed! The only reason I don't download your lots is because they're so huge (too much to load and fill and stuff - so if you ever make a (much) smaller place, I'll snatch it up!

[norenegonc]

Thanks Nearlywitches and Pallyndrome I know what you mean actually, I would likely not move my sims family into this lot either, my computer wouldn't be able to handle it. But sometimes it is fun to visit the big lots and just look around hah. In any case, the world I am building will contain quite a few smaller lots, what size is small for you, I can prioritise working on one Something small but elegant, maybe a riverfront kind of house.

[pallyndrome]

I don't mind - I would rather you do what you enjoy, and if it works for me, that's a bonus.

[norenegonc]

Ok I took a break from the castle to work again on Tower Yonkori. I redit a lot of it because I just learnt of a new building technique that allows you to create the illusion of a building with more than 5 stories ! Which meant redoing a lot of the CFE. I really did not like the top of the original tower I created because of the single story border. This one looks much better I think

I was so overjoyed with the build that I let my sims visit to take some eating images and afternoon images hah

Again the official role of the lot is a restaurant and hangout, the bistro is in the basement reachable by stairs and an elevator. Two elevators also take you to the eating area above. And I checked and if you order food to eat outside, the sims auto go up to the eating area with the elevator and eat on the tables! Enjoy (This one is on a 3 by 3 by the way pallyndrome lol )

Edit - btw if anyone knows how to make the skylights turn on, could you let me know (the two at the very entrance to the lot). They are not clickable like other lights and even if I turn all the lights on and off on the lot, they won't turn on. I know I have seen them on at clubs...

Front view at night


Garden view


Chatting in eating area


Blue lights


Orange lights


Magenta lights


Cyan lights... ok I went a bit crazy with the lights lol


Eating at sunset


Sunset view


Night time view with white lights

[fortheloveofcake]

I could be wrong here but I believe those lights only come on while a lot is designated as a Hot Spot for the night, with Late Night installed.

[norenegonc]

I could be wrong here but I believe those lights only come on while a lot is designated as a Hot Spot for the night, with Late Night installed.

How do you designate a hot spot, is it a community lot type. If so, how do lots labelled as dance club or something get the lights to work, thanks!

[fortheloveofcake]

I think the way it works is a few community lots will be randomly selected to be hot spots each evening. I know you can look it up in the newspaper where the hot spots are on a given day.

[norenegonc]

I think the way it works is a few community lots will be randomly selected to be hot spots each evening. I know you can look it up in the newspaper where the hot spots are on a given day.

Ah okay and then the lights would be an indicator of where the hotspot is. Follow up question, I recently downloaded a world by another build, when I go to edit it in game, a few of the lots have these lights turned on forever, even when I am in build buy mode, anyone know how this is done, thanks!

[norenegonc]

This next lot is for pallyndrome a smaller version of the castle lot, I will upload it as soon as I furnish it. I was intending to make several smaller decadent lots so I figured I would do this one now. It is meant to be on the riverfront of my world, where a lot of smaller but rich and elegant houses will be closer together for an inner city feel, that is why there is not much garden in it. There is however an inner courtyard Maybe for some gardening. Enjoy

















And some nighttime images

[pallyndrome]

Oh thank you! It's BEAUTIFUL!

[Toni]

Since I have heaps of time now, I decided to try my hand at building. This is a small starter home with renovating potential!


Outside.


Floor Plan.


Garden.

Its not furnished because I tried to put as much into the landscaping. I'm not one for it.