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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #1020 on: May 15, 2011, 11:18:42 PM »
Thank you Natsuko. :)
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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #1021 on: May 16, 2011, 05:36:49 AM »
Dane, I would move easel to diagonal empty corner, and on it's current place I would put lamp or flower pot. I've been trying that trick with moveobjects and Alt on counters, but they keep snapping to each other, so it is a loong processto get them right, is there another trick or just much patience?
Chronic, have you finished landscaping? Put some dirt in garden around plants, and add some trees and shrubs:) House look so warm with all that wood!

I've been working on two very different projects. One is starter without depritiation cause CAW reset depreciated homes. I managed to build this on 20x30 lot with total value of 15.055$ Only thing I don't like is part of bed blocking small part of window in bedroom:

Outside is modest:


Other project was boungalow(s), fully furnished with two bedrooms, under 100.000$


Modern kitchen and small bathroom:

Master bedroom upstairs with luxury bathroom:

Living room and family bathroom:

Second bedroom, suitable for teens:

Outside dinning and party area:

Sunbathing area and outdoor:


both lower floors are colorless, and bedrooms are colorfull. Not shore if it would be better other way around. Or all with colors or none with colors/patterns.. Suggestions are very welcome.



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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #1022 on: May 16, 2011, 05:56:57 AM »
I think both your houses are great! The bungalow's kitchen is really great! Moveobjects is great sometimes. (I've said great too many times haven't I) Also this might be off-topic but what does depritiation mean?
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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #1023 on: May 16, 2011, 06:38:15 AM »
Both houses look awesome, Anushka. Thanks for the advice, I always forget about landscaping. ;D
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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #1024 on: May 16, 2011, 07:23:28 AM »
Thanks both of you, Chronic, you're welcome, I know you had beautiful and interesting pond in dynasty home, so I'm shore you'll come up with something for this one too.
Gogowars, thank you, depritiation is when you move in Sim, all furniture start losing value, so when that Sim moves out, house is worth less than when you build it. You can save it to bin with that less worth furniture even if your Sim hasn't changed anything. Hope I explane it well.

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #1025 on: May 16, 2011, 08:17:07 AM »
Anushka, those bungalows are beautiful! I would love to possibly see those in the Swap Shop one day. :)

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« Reply #1026 on: May 16, 2011, 08:34:20 AM »
Thanks Swetest Pea, my ego is growing 8)  hehehe Hopefully I'll soon finish this world and it will be available in Swap Shop (or if file turn to be too large to upload here, I'll check with moderators what would be the best option). There will be many of my own creations as well as those of our very talented members.



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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #1027 on: May 16, 2011, 05:15:27 PM »
I've just vaguely finished a rebuild of my Legacy Home, it's not completely done and I am trying to keep the amount of stuff in it lowish to help reduce lag and loading times, so far it is much better, cut from 15mins to less than 5 Mins for Loading the Save File! Can you tell em what you think? I am turning a lot of the Lots near their House (Where the Wolfes used to live) into Community Lots and will have them buy them and convert them into things such as a venue for parties and stuff like that, museums/collections area, gym just to help reduce the amount of objects in the House.

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #1028 on: May 16, 2011, 05:55:42 PM »
Wow! Samoht, that house is awesome! :D I wish I could build like that. Specially love the first floor.

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #1029 on: May 16, 2011, 09:10:29 PM »
I have (finally) gotten around to pulling the Carpenter-Rhodes house down and trying a rebuild myself. I'm moving all the bedrooms into the basement and I think I'm going to try to build them a log cabin which will hopefully leave lots of space for Meadow's garden and a pool.


Bedrooms belonging to Cherry (red), Camille (the empty one) and the parents. I don't know what the open room will be for yet.


Bedrooms belonging to Demeter (green), Faith (purple), Lucy (empty at top of picture) and Athena (empty at bottom of picture). This floor will have to be moved so that I can get the staircases where I want them. I'm going to use the same bedroom template for the other two bedrooms also.


The nearly non-existent top floor. The plant room is all that remains.


The still intact bottom floor.


Where the garage was originally - this became an indoor pool but is going to be removed.

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #1030 on: May 16, 2011, 11:42:20 PM »


There's a trick with the staircase that you can use. If you press Shift while placing a staircase, it will go straight through the foundation and into the basement - And I still think it can be covered with floor tiles like you've used.

A true sign of genius is making a cheap house look good - so Anushka, that means you're a mastermind of building. I love that house - it just seems "right" somehow.

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #1031 on: May 16, 2011, 11:44:43 PM »
There's a trick with the staircase that you can use. If you press Shift while placing a staircase, it will go straight through the foundation and into the basement - And I still think it can be covered with floor tiles like you've used.

A true sign of genius is making a cheap house look good - so Anushka, that means you're a mastermind of building. I love that house - it just seems "right" somehow.

Ah, thank you! I didn't know that! The new house probably won't have foundations though. I'm going for a simple and small exterior.

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #1032 on: May 17, 2011, 03:07:02 AM »
A true sign of genius is making a cheap house look good - so Anushka, that means you're a mastermind of building. I love that house - it just seems "right" somehow.

Aww, what a compliment, thank you very much Seabody :D
I was in a building mood and had some time to do it, so I managed to build 2 starting boungalows with +10 energy beds and nice shower, fridge and stove. And some trees too hehehe and laundro-caffee in same theme. I love how it turns out, but there is still lot to build and landscape.

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #1033 on: May 17, 2011, 03:57:56 AM »
Wow, Anushka, both your bungalow lots look beautifully tropical!
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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #1034 on: May 17, 2011, 04:17:47 AM »
Anushka, I love the look of your bungalows! The roundness is just awesome. Can you put them on the swap shop?

EDIT - samoht, the house looks good, my only comments would be: outside looks a little boring? I don't mean the view, it's stunning. And, perhaps your sims will get a little cross eyed sitting that close to the TV? :P