Sims 3 - The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread

[Dellena]

Looks good so far.  As for the doors to the cellar, I'd expand the rear hallway so the doors to the cellar are accessed from the hallway and not from two other rooms.  As for the empty rooms, do you have an office and library?  Or an exercise room?  Or a craft/art room?

[ragz1332]

Looks good so far.  As for the doors to the cellar, I'd expand the rear hallway so the doors to the cellar are accessed from the hallway and not from two other rooms.  As for the empty rooms, do you have an office and library?  Or an exercise room?  Or a craft/art room?

Thanks, I did rearrange the doors just before reading your message! Here's two pics (walls up and half down)





And I extended the space between the staircases to make a room for the butler!



Here's a pic to show the Trophy room with actual tropies plus the visible cellar, because I removed the Bookcase door as it didn't want to open. I replaced it with the cellar door from WA.



As for your questions, first here is the gym. It was visible as a blue patch on the left side of the house in the main floor layout picture.



And here a 3 pictures of the large common room on the first floor. It has the library, office desk, skilling stations and relax/fun corner. I wanted most skilling object together to benefit from the incense I bought in china.

[Janna]

The empty rooms at the front of the house, what about small setting with some plants, the decorative ones and one or two in planters, have a wicker chair or loveseat so someone could sit there and relax. 

Or a Zen setup, have some sand, put in the small fountain, few plants, rocks, and anything else you feel would give it a Zen atmosphere.  You could add a chair or two, or maybe a mat a sim could sit on (can sims be told to sit on the ground?) You could have the boom box hidden behind some plants and set for the Asian music. 

With the foundation you would have to take out some of the floor, put steps down for a sim to use to enter the area.  You could even put in some trees,  a couple of small bamboos one.  Remember seeing a room set up somewhat like that, they had steps the length of open area where the sim entered the room.

Others will probably have better suggestions. 

[ragz1332]

Thank you, it is great to receive some input.

I did think about revamping the architectural design, because I think that in the present state it cannot be clearly identified, and that's why I have troubles finding inspiration.

The natural way would be to modernize it, redoing the color scheme and roofing. The windows and door would have to go as well, as do the columns. I do like your zen idea because some of my sims are practicing martial arts. It would fit better in a modern setting than in a colonial house.

As for the space in the front, I do want to have some display and seating. Since it is more a hallway leading to both sides rather than a room where sims actually stay, it can be great when my politician invites tons of people over to get some funding to have many spot for them to sit and chat.

[Swimmerdude1997]

Just wondering what you guys think of my 1920's Gold-Coast-inspired mansion. I drew inspiration from Land's End, Oheka Castle, and Hempstead House. I also was inspired by Biltmore and Mooreland Mansion. The whole idea behind this house was the glamorous lives of the rich during the early 1900's. I will post an exterior shot and if you guys like it, I will post pics of the interior. https://imageshack.com/i/jj1zadj

[Pam]

Welcome to our Forum!

I think there's some confusion here.  This Project Stories board is for members who are playing official Forum Projects and are writing stories about them.  What you have here is a construction project.  I'm going to merge this with our Showboat thread, which is where members can show things they've built in Sims 3.

[Dellena]

Just wondering what you guys think of my 1920's Gold-Coast-inspired mansion. I drew inspiration from Land's End, Oheka Castle, and Hempstead House. I also was inspired by Biltmore and Mooreland Mansion. The whole idea behind this house was the glamorous lives of the rich during the early 1900's. I will post an exterior shot and if you guys like it, I will post pics of the interior. https://imageshack.com/i/jj1zadj

The exterior looks really good.

[Dellena]

Due to an unfortunate incident early last year involving a chemistry set in one of the dorm rooms (strictly forbidden by school policy), Mallan Hall was pretty much destroyed beyond repair.  The university made the decision to demolish the old dormitory and asked for submissions by senoir architect students for the dormitory of their dreams.  After much deliberation, the university settled on a design which embraced a more modern look and offered unparalleled comforts for the lucky students who would live and study there.  The rooms have a studio apartment feel with several large enough for a small fridge and dining area.  Each bedroom also boasts an ensuite bath.  A massive atrium brings the outdoors indoors which will be greatly apprecited during the winter months.  There's a large study hall with a full outfitting of appropriate books and computers as well as tables for study groups.  The communal eating area offers a wide range of food possibilities from pancakes to pizza to lasagna as well as a snack bar for those that slept late and need a quick bite to eat before class.  An excerise room and recreation room round out the activites available while the building also offers onsite laundry facilities.  The university presents the Mallan Hall of this century.

(Notes:  I used a fair amount of CC in this build so I won't be offering it for the shop and swap.  However, I hope it might inspire your own ideas of a new dormitory.  To build it, I simply went into edit town in the University town and deleted everything on the lot except for the very front fixtures.  The outside notice board proved tricky if I simply bulldozed the lot.)











Walls down screenshots so you can see the entire layout:

[smilesdude98]

After returning to Sunset Valley from a trip to Bridgeport, I wanted to bring some of that night-life to my hometown. Unfortunately the city-council and I didn't exactly see eye-to-eye on what is considered desirable. So I had to make a deal with some of the, uh, less than savory members of our quiet beach-side town.

It all started with this pre-fab house I ordered from a service called the "Library." We needed to have it look completely legit from the outside, just in case any nosy regulators decided to come around.

We then dug two floors down for soundproofing and added a bar and dance floor, to my exact design, of course. This is what Sunset Valley was missing!

Of course, when you make a deal with the type of people I had to, compromises must be made. When I tried to argue, they invited me to a diving trip just off the coast. I was excited at first, but then I realized that there aren't any diving spots in Sunset Valley. I stayed pretty quiet after that. At least they added a spa!

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This is a remodel of on of the houses in the Library. Aero...something. I'll check and add the name later. I wanted to add a dance club to Sunset Valley, but didn't feel like there was any appropriate place to put it. I thought, why not make it look like a house and be an "Underground" dance club. So this is the result. I'm not sure if I'm going to add it to the Swap Shop, but if there's enough interest in it, I just might.

Let me know what you think!

[Dellena]

I love the idea!  With the backroom gambling as well.  Nicely done!

[Acustical]

@smilesdude98

Loving the idea! I don't think I've seen that executed before, and it looks great!

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This is the front of my Asylum Challenge home. I started out building this house with no intentions in mind, and this suddenly popped up  out of nowhere after fiddling around with a few things. I'm thinking of remodelling this house after I complete the challenge fit for a family, but I don't know what colours and style I should use with this shape of house.

Anyone have any comments, ideas, feedback?

[smilesdude98]

Thanks for the comments Dellena and Acustical! I always appreciate feedback.

I thought this was too funny to share. Within the first week it seems that one of Sunset Valley's women in blue just had to partake in some backroom gambling herself!

So much for being on the down-low...

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@Acustical: Wow, I really like that exterior! The landscaping seems very well done. For some reason the Queen Anne style of Victorian houses came to mind. I think searching google images for some examples would give you some really nice inspiration for remodeling.

[Dellena]

With the release, today, of the new build set for mansions from the EA store, I went on the hunt for an epic mansion to build.

Here's what I found:

http://www.archivaldesigns.com/home-plans/villa-capri-house-plan

I'll be building the First Floor Plan, the Additional Optional Second Floor plan, the Basement and the Sub-Basement floor plans.  So that's 4 floors on their own.  I'm also kicking around ideas for the fifth floor.

Rather than the Greek style that you see in the pictures, I'll be using the Second Empire architectural style for the exterior (to take advantage of all the new juicey build bits with the set.

My question for this community is:

Would you like to see the build in progress with screenshots, etc.?

This build is going to take a few days to complete, minimum, and has some build issues that I'll have to deal with in the Sims universe and what's possible.  But I'm excited to get started and thought I'd share.

[sunshine_2406]

I would love to see your progress Dellena, I always enjoy seeing what others are able to build and the process behind it.

[JudesSims]

I would LOVE to see the progress on this mansion! It looks very daunting to me. I wouldn't even attempt something of this magnitude.  I can hardly wait to see how you achieve it! Good luck!