Heartfoam are you sharing the two builds I just saw? They are absolutely gorgeous~~! Would love to favorite and follow.
Hi. Um. Yeah. (That's too kind. Thank you.) My houses are far more rooted in being Sims houses than trying to recreate reality. I need rockets and all that stuff. I've been away from Sims for a while. I haven't shared any builds. The top one - that white mansion thing - is really an evolution of a TS3 University res. I always upgraded and remodeled and my student's dining room looked more like something out of Versailles than a university, and then figured I should just build one back in the home neighborhood. I know the dimensions of it in my head. Basically a 12x27 box divided into thirds. And each time I build it as a house there's something new or different.
That said, it's now a bit flawed anyway. It was built before we had basements, and I'm not sure where I'd put the staircase to one. I never just build for it's own sake - these are all very functional houses. One of my go-to aspirations is Nerd Brain for the Quick Learner and Handy traits, and that means having a rocket. On those two houses I just don't know where the rocket could go. So ultimately I feel these houses are pretty, but handicap the sims. Though, the strange dimensions of the rooms in Johnny Zest's new house mean that it's the only house I've ever had with the cupcake machine.
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By far, the lot size I've used the most is the smallest 20x15 one. By way of example, this is actually a house built during the forum's skill's dilemma challenge. Someone might find it helpful.
I carried on playing the file beyond the elder birthday of the sim, and that is Mr Pointment expiring from old age. The save didn't end here - he married the hermit (also insane) who was luckily an adult and they had a kiddo. Who is not insane. It's perhaps my favourite house. It has pretty much has everything, because all the skilling required a gym, and a garden, and a piano, bar, etc.
