Sims 3 - The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread

[Phyre]

I needed a little break from my dynasty tonight and decided to challenge myself at building. The idea was to try and create a 1-story starters studio on a 10x10 lot.

It's not yet finished (I didn't landscape at all and the interior still needs tweaking), but it's definitely a start. I had a lot of fun with it, but it was also incredibly hard to deal with the insanely small cube-like space. I went for a very light interior to create the illusion of more space. If the budget will allow for it, I'm also considering working with full-lenght mirrors to do the same. To spice the light walls and floor up I decided to go with an extreme colour-scheme of black and red to offset the white.

Let me know what you think

[cathyknits]

Feefel, I've been looking for something like the roof you used on the porch of your house. Where did it come from?

[Seabody]

Lay flooring down where you want the roof to go, use fences to make the pattern, then remove the flooring.

[Anushka]

Welcome Ejnarts, yes, this is a great topic, both for viewers and posters. I like your remodel, fasade is little too pink for me, but it look so much better now than what came with the game. I also don't like homes we got, and almost never play them. Your remodel is great.
Phyre, that is one beautifull starter! It is hard to make functional small place and to make it beautiful, you don't need mirrors with windows and glass you already used. I love red and black combo so you got me there!

I continue building boungalow street, and in total there are now 6 lots, 5 of them are starters, 2 for families and one unfurnished (furnished is around 20.000$ but it is for a couple without children). Then I exported world, placed radom trees and rocks just to get a feeling of how will it look like when fully landscaped, and fall in love. It is definitely my favorite part of island. I took tons of pics but will not clutter this tread with all of them, only few:

[Seabody]

Anushka, that's beautiful! It makes me want to go into your World, and live there.

[ladydragon76]

That is absolutely GORGEOUS!  You're so talented!  It all looks so perfect together.  I ran into issues with my island, but I learned a lot this last time, so... back to the drawing board.

Keep up the incredible work!

*hugz!*
-LD

[samoht04]

@ Phyre - That house looks cool!

@ Anushka -  That is just amazing! Did you adjust the sun position to get it there, or did you build around that? On a side note, do you know how to make the lots in CAW go to actual sizes? So like 30x30? I will be downloading the World when you are finished! 

[Anushka]

Thanks Seabody and LadyDragon! Seabody, I just told my husband - let's move here, I made it affordable for us to buy it and of course he agreed!
LadyDragon, thank you very much, I had a clear idea how will this area look and am getting close to it. I'm specially happy cause I made all boungalows from scratch, they are all different and cheap with deserved high beautiful vista moodlet. And ideas I have for other island next to it, with larger lots and more expencive bouungalows, I can't wait to start doing that part. I was also tempted to clear all town, and made it all from boungalows, put rabbitholes in basement and make a woodoo/tiki village on small archipelagus. I won't do it now, I put way to much work in this so far, but eventually I might start working on not so small and flat, and even more tropical world.
Having birds, waves, splashes and better organized and placed trees and flowers will made this even better, and I'm very excited about it. So much that I gave up on Career challenge and having second thougths of even trying Baby boomer. I had too much fun with this world
Samoht, yes, I make an effort to mark most of the lots in size that world editor have (30x30, 20x20, 20x30, 30x40 etc). I didn't adjust sun jet, but will, at the end, cause .ini files are not saved in CAW but are exported.I'll put in equatorial position, and probably add more colors to sunset But I did plan world according to sides of world. Thank you for compliments

[TheChronicR]

Anushka, your world is absolutely wonderful. It is both convenient to play in (I am sure), realistic and beautiful. Thanks for sharing your techniques with us.

[Phyre]

Phyre, that is one beautifull starter! It is hard to make functional small place and to make it beautiful, you don't need mirrors with windows and glass you already used. I love red and black combo so you got me there!

Yea, a 10x10 lot was really hard to make functional and beautiful. I think you're right concerning the mirrors - perhaps I'll look into what more I can do to extend the indoor environment to the outdoor environment (or pulling the outdoor environment inside), that way it'll also increase the spaciousness of the studio. If there's interest I might upload it to the Swap Shop once it's done as it's completely CC free.

About uploading to the Swap Shop; I will most definitely download your world when it's done! That bungalow island is unbelieveably gorgeous! I love that you kept it serene and open, it really adds to the feeling of the island. As does the uniformity of those bungalows you designed. It really feels like a tranquil retreat in the Seychelles islands! I'm with you and your husband on this; if it were possible I'd move there!

[danefaith]

Feefel, I've been looking for something like the roof you used on the porch of your house. Where did it come from?

I'm pretty certain its the placefriezes on cheat.

Put placefriezes on into your cheat box, and it transforms the foundation tool into the frieze tool.  Simplest terms, friezes are essentially slices of foundation which can be placed above ground.

[Seabody]

@danefaith I think you're getting feefel and Phyre confused. Feefel did not use the Frieze tool - I can't see friezes anywhere on their house.

[danefaith]

*aneurysm*  How did I miss Feeful's house? 

[thesweetestpea]

The porch roof is done the same way as the one on Meadow Carpenter-Rhodes' house (again!) It's done using fences in a lattice pattern. Just add floor tiles and then use a fence to create the pattern.

[RubyLovesSims]

Anushka, that is so beautiful.
I love the whole look of it!