Sims 3 - The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread

[LlamaMama]

Is there a trick to placing a 30x30 Samo French Villa onto a 60x60 (or other size) lot? Should I be doing this in edit town, or move to the empty lot and place the house by some game mechanic?

[samoht04]

I think it will always place it in the centre of the lot, so you would probably need quite a long path.

[Joria]

Is there a trick to placing a 30x30 Samo French Villa onto a 60x60 (or other size) lot? Should I be doing this in edit town, or move to the empty lot and place the house by some game mechanic?

I think you have to do it in Edit Town mode.  (runs off to see)

It does put it in the middle of the lot.  I put it on Summerhill Court lot and it's FABULOUS!  I already see gardens, guest quarters, a Petit Trianon kind of area, garages, WOW.  Thomas you could take this house, add some garages and reception areas and VOILA, October contest done!

[brenden]

sorry to hear that, there are 64x64 lot sin sunset valley they just already have building on them.

[Joria]

What about a community lot devoted to skilling? Easels, martial arts, inventor's bench, etc.

That is an EXCELLENT idea!!  Could also do a small martial arts garden/skills lot.  Thanks!

[Joria]

sorry to hear that, there are 64x64 lot sin sunset valley they just already have building on them.

That's true of RV also but I don't think we are allowed to remove something like the military post or stadium in order to put a house for a car lover on it for this challenge.  I'll have to check with the challenge co-ordinator to see if we can modify an empty 60x60 lot in order to do this, but I THINK it's going to be a matter of work with what's there.

[LlamaMama]

Samo, I really like your French Villa, which I downloaded, except I can't figure out which rooms are intended for which use. i guess I'm pretty uncreative after all.

[samoht04]

Very Cool Joria! 

Samo, I really like your French Villa, which I downloaded, except I can't figure out which rooms are intended for which use. i guess I'm pretty uncreative after all.

Llama I think you can be creative! You can always knock down some walls and make new rooms etc.



 - The Room will tiles and wooden floor on the left is the Kitchen/Dining Room.
 - The Dark Room was intended as the Main Living Room.
 - The Room at the top left is just a small study or could be another Bathroom,
 - The Pink and Blue tiled floor is the Bathroom.
 - The room at the top right is just a back room with the door outiside.




- Green Tiled in the top left is the Main Bathroom.
- The Bedroom off that is the Main Bedroom.
- The Red, Purple and Light Blue rooms are other bedrooms but the Light Blue could serve as an Office.
- Again pink and blue tiles is the Bathroom.

You can change that around and expand the upstairs onto the Balconies etc.

[LlamaMama]

@samo: Thanks! That helps a lot!

@Joria: Great job! I'll have to check out the house flipping story.

[Joria]

I think I did something wrong when I moved Granuaille out.  I put her in Mosquito Cove but all the furnishings came with her, so the original house is empty!  Not my intent at all and I really did not want all that stuff to come along with me.  Of course, it did make cleaning up Mosquito Cove really fast but it kind of destroyed the whole purpose of remodel/sell/move on to the next.  I guess I just don't know how to move her and Christopher, (Steel), without dragging all their stuff along!  And, I think next time when I do a house "for sale", I want it completely furnished the way I myself would want it so whoever moves in is good to go with all the little details.  Gee, even the toilet paper holders came with her!

[Sophie4563]

Joria, next time you move out uncheck the option to pack furniture. I'm not sure if it comes up in Edit Town mode, so you might have to move them out through the phone or computer.

[Saltypaws]

The furniture might actually still be in the house.  I had done that before when my sims kept moving and they would take the furniture. I went back to the house to put some stuff back in and imagine my surprise when I found the furniture there.  So, take a peek at the house and see if the stuff is still there.  If not, I tried, mayb it was a glitch or something.  Nice redo, I might have to give it a try.  Good luck.

[Joria]

Thanks!  I'll check it out and see if the stuff is still there.  Meanwhile I'm working on Mosquito Cove now which actually is much easier than I thought it would be.  In this neighborhood of low priced starter homes, I really didn't want to make the houses I redo too grand.  If you do that, then where would folks with low to moderate income and those just starting out live?  Still they shouldn't live in squalor either.

[LlamaMama]

Solstice won the September building challenge with her fabulous entry which you can see here.

I like it so much I downloaded it, then placed it on a 60x60 lot in BB. Unfortunately, the game places it in the center of the lot, so I decided to rebuild it myself closer to the front of the lot. This also gave me a chance to play with color, which I love. I'm very pleased with how it turned out, so I want to share the exterior...with the credit for all cleverness and design going to Solstice. I learned a lot from this exercise.

I got to sneak in the raven and black cat, too!

[Joria]

ooooo!  Very nice rebuild.  I love the landscaping and the car ports.