Sims 3 - The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread

[LlamaMama]

You made your own CC?

[Caitie]

You made your own CC?

I don't use CC.  Like, ever.  If I use anything that didn't come with the game, it came from the store.  I might use CC in screenshots, in the future (for clothing, that sort of thing), but I don't like including something for download that has CC required.

[LlamaMama]

I have no CC there that I did not make myself, no mods, and no adult content

I misunderstood. Your link is broken, btw. We can't view the picture anymore.

[Pam]

Quick question to any mods out there: may I post a link to download this lot on my Sims 3 blog, since I have no CC there that I did not make myself, no mods, and no adult content?  I would just throw it up on the Exchange, but I personally believe that the Exchange does not encourage creativity but laziness and the stealing of other people's content, and so don't want to put anything I've made on it. 

Yes, if it's clean of third party custom content or mods, you may put a link here.

[Choccolatee]

Why hello, I've decided to show you all a house I'm decently proud of. I'm sorry about the repeated patterns. I just like them. Be prepared for this style ALOT.




Tada! The exterior of this house. I like it. 


I will be giving you a tour from the bottom-most floor,  to the top.



The basement. Just the butler's tiny room, and some Late Night content. Also a mini gym.



The next basement which I randomly made. It's the TV area, the vampire's bedroom, and 2 bathrooms, both identical. All the bathrooms are identical because I got bored recolouring them.



The entrance level. It has the kitchen, dining, and piano room. As well as yet another bathroom, and stairs leading up to the living quarters. The swimming pool is on the left hand side.



The top level. Extremely identical bedrooms, and two boring bathrooms.


As you can see, it's not brilliant, but the colours are nice and I like it. The simplicity of it is nice. 

[caliban]

Very nice!

I really like when each floor has a purpose: sleeping floor, activity floor, etc. At least for me, play wise, makes it easy to know where to "go" to assign tasks to folks.

Looks very nicely laid out, and I like the clean simple color scheme. I do the same thing with bathrooms, get bored and just make them all the same.

[Choccolatee]

Very nice!

I really like when each floor has a purpose: sleeping floor, activity floor, etc. At least for me, play wise, makes it easy to know where to "go" to assign tasks to folks.

Looks very nicely laid out, and I like the clean simple color scheme. I do the same thing with bathrooms, get bored and just make them all the same.

Awh, thanks! 
I spent so much time on the exterior I got bored and rushed the interior.

[Joria]

I LOVE it!  I struggle with a modern look to a house yet you have done so with style!  Are you going to upload it so we can all share?
It really is an awesome house.  What size lot did you use?

[Choccolatee]

I LOVE it!  I struggle with a modern look to a house yet you have done so with style!  Are you going to upload it so we can all share?
It really is an awesome house.  What size lot did you use?

Thanks heaps! Modern for me is easy but traditional is really hard. I don't think I'm gonna upload it because I haven't playtested yet and I THINK I have one thing of custom content in it.

I can't remember the lot size.

[CharlotteDaBookworm]

Heres some pictures of my two newest houses, hope you like them. 

The front of house number 1...





The first floor...





The second floor...





The front of house number 2...





And inside...

[Lilygirl]

I really like the interior angles in the first house! Gives it a twist.

[Joria]

House number one looks like it might be very small from the outside front view but then when you see inside you see it has all the conveniences not to mention a great view!  Good for that beautiful vista moodlet.  House number two is very unusual but I love it.  What a cool idea to build a house around a great play ground for the family.

[Shenice93]

I'm not really good at building but I've been told I should become a professional interior decorator.   Here is one of my latest works of art. Well the inside that is.

Front Daytime


Back Daytime


First Floor Daytime


Second Floor Daytime


Roof


Here's the link to download it at the exchange:
http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=3461329

I have some other homes I'm working on at the moment but I needed a break from them. Making the inside of a house beautiful is a long and exhausting process.
Now to go get a snack. My mom made a cake!  

[Shenice93]

Here's another house I built. I have been playing around with this idea for a while. The whole underwater room thing. Except I'm going for a whole house underwater. This is just my first attempt at it.


The outside view.


General View Daytime
Here you can see all the necessities a sim needs.


General View Nighttime


Zoom in of Living Room/Office Area/Bathroom


Zoom in of Bedroom

The whole goal is to eventually get a three or four person family to live underwater. And maybe if possible get multiple floors and gardens as well. But for now this is good enough. I haven't play tested this yet so I'm not sure if a sim could actually live here. I'm sure they can but I should probably test it. If anyone wants to test it for me go right ahead, but it will cost your sims a pretty penny at $76K. Another kink I have to work out.

Here's the link for download anyway:
http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=3466679
I look forward to hearing what everyone has to say. I'm open for criticism.

[Lilygirl]

@ Shenice: That is a fabulous concept - living surrounded by water! What would be the icing on the cake, so to speak, for me is of Sims can actually swim in the pool, for which I don't see why they couldn't. Really, really neat idea!

And welcome to the forum!