@paneinger I love that game karma at times! You will have to show us with the new additions.
@Amphora I do basements as well if I don't want to mess up a roof line. I'm still not great at roofing.
@OriginalMara I like your sims house and love the roofing over the decks. I watched a video recently on the wrap around decking roofs, but, haven't tried it in game yet.
Now I am not the best builder but this is my house.Has been feeling a bit cramped lately with a wife,3 kids and one on the way.Just feels like I have no privacy.
I think you got the award for the best decorated 1x1 house. but it definitely must get a little cramped in there. If it's any consolation, the kids could sleep out in the yard.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
@puzzlezaddict That is just wrong on so many levels.Imagine in real life your nosy neighbor looks out the window and sees babies on the ground at night under a sprinkler.You would be on a episode of C.O.P.S and Lifetime channel movies made about your cruel family.
Now I am not the best builder but this is my house.Has been feeling a bit cramped lately with a wife,3 kids and one on the way.Just feels like I have no privacy.
Cozy!
That house is a perfect place that would be conducive towards family togetherness.
@CravenLestat I prefer to think I'm helping them build character... or at least giving them an impressive pile of material for their nascent writing careers. Novels/screenplays/reality TV shows about ridiculously messed up families never seem to go out of style. Just think, in 25-30 years I could make a killing optioning their rights. The Real Housewives of Sunset Valley? Keeping Up with the Shallows? The Bachelor? (Oh wait, living out a townwide version of that show is what got my sims into this trouble in the first place.)
See? My sims are good parents, always looking to conserve their time and resources so that they have more of both to devote to the kids. Or at least that's what they'll tell the social worker.
See? My sims are good parents, always looking to conserve their time and resources so that they have more of both to devote to the kids. Or at least that's what they'll tell the social worker.
S’okay.
The kids in my sim family live on a diet mainly consisting of snowcones.
And that includes the adults.
I think the fact that it’s yellow snow makes it worse.
But since he’s a merman I like to think that eating snowcones adds more flavor to him, since I often see him harassed by the bear population in my game.
Just like in nature, those bears are after those fish filets. The circle of life
@CravenLestat I prefer to think I'm helping them build character... or at least giving them an impressive pile of material for their nascent writing careers. Novels/screenplays/reality TV shows about ridiculously messed up families never seem to go out of style. Just think, in 25-30 years I could make a killing optioning their rights. The Real Housewives of Sunset Valley? Keeping Up with the Shallows? The Bachelor? (Oh wait, living out a townwide version of that show is what got my sims into this trouble in the first place.)
See? My sims are good parents, always looking to conserve their time and resources so that they have more of both to devote to the kids. Or at least that's what they'll tell the social worker.
I'm dying laughing. You're all hilarious.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
@OriginalMara
You did a great job translating the house from blueprints to the game! I love how it turned out. And it looks so cozy during winter too
As for adding a basement to a foundation’d house, ugh, I can so relate. I remember doing that once a few years back and it made me so frustrated.
If I remember right, you have to clear a 2x4 or larger foundation space (so you have only solid ground) by deleting the foundation around where you want the stairs. Then place the stairs from the basement and then go up a level and place another set of stairs from the existing foundation to the cleared solid ground surrounding the new stair leading to the basement.
And in addition to all this you have to use the constrainfloorelevations cheat which is a pain in and of itself. My attempts at instructions are very likely confusing so feel free to ignore them since it’s been years since my last attempt
But you’ll probably get it better than me. I’ve no patience when it comes to certain things in the game. However, one thing I do remember is spiral staircases are easiest to use when building a basement on a house with existing foundations.
@Amphora -- Haha thanks! I'll have to get the interior shots so the floor plan is more visible.
I have already looked at multiple YT vids and other instructions, made at least a half dozen attempts, ugh. But I hope to keep trying! (I'd rather add a basement than a third story. )
There was a tutorial on the old forum that I had bookmarked, and every time I wanted to put a basement in an existing house on a foundation, I would look it up. Then they deleted the old forum, and I could never find it in this forum. But I found that I had done it enough times I was able to remember, once I got started. It's not too hard, but it sometimes doesn't cooperate very well.
With the house I showed earlier in this thread, the two story house with the stable, I had to plot out where I was going to put the foundation, and make the basement and its stairs first, because the game refused to allow me to put the stairs in when there was foundation anywhere near it. Even after bulldozing half the foundation, it still wouldn't allow it. So I had to start over on a new empty lot.
My fairy legacy house and a few of my favorite rooms
Lovely!
I love the rooms you showed. Especially all the clutter pillows on the bed. All this CC I see in this thread makes me want to become a CC addict again. Clutter is the best
Lovely!
I love the rooms you showed. Especially all the clutter pillows on the bed. All this CC I see in this thread makes me want to become a CC addict again. Clutter is the best
Thank you!! CC is the best agreed! I can't live without the clutter
@IreneSwift -- I know. But I would hate to start over, so I've been trying to make it work with my current home. If I can't get a basement, it's okay... I just would prefer it haha. When the triplets grow up, it's going to be a cramped house haha.
A while back I had been thinking of moving the family (before the babies had come). But I have just grown too attached to this house now... It even takes awhile for me to even redecorate a portion!
@JoshuaSims_
I pretty much do the same thing from time to time. But then I find myself renovating the premade house until it’s fit to my specifications...
@Nikkei_Simmer
Holy cow that was one of your first houses you built? That’s a million times better than when I first started out!
Mine only looked like giant shoeboxes with windows and a door. I still have no imagination to make my own because I mostly follow online blueprints. Otherwise my sims would still be in those boxes
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@paneinger I love that game karma at times! You will have to show us with the new additions.
@Amphora I do basements as well if I don't want to mess up a roof line. I'm still not great at roofing.
@OriginalMara I like your sims house and love the roofing over the decks. I watched a video recently on the wrap around decking roofs, but, haven't tried it in game yet.
The Cowboy and the Mermaid
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
Whatever, it's not like they'll remember.
That house is a perfect place that would be conducive towards family togetherness.
Both figurative and literally.
See? My sims are good parents, always looking to conserve their time and resources so that they have more of both to devote to the kids. Or at least that's what they'll tell the social worker.
The kids in my sim family live on a diet mainly consisting of snowcones.
And that includes the adults.
I think the fact that it’s yellow snow makes it worse.
But since he’s a merman I like to think that eating snowcones adds more flavor to him, since I often see him harassed by the bear population in my game.
Just like in nature, those bears are after those fish filets. The circle of life
I'm dying laughing. You're all hilarious.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
You did a great job translating the house from blueprints to the game! I love how it turned out. And it looks so cozy during winter too
As for adding a basement to a foundation’d house, ugh, I can so relate. I remember doing that once a few years back and it made me so frustrated.
If I remember right, you have to clear a 2x4 or larger foundation space (so you have only solid ground) by deleting the foundation around where you want the stairs. Then place the stairs from the basement and then go up a level and place another set of stairs from the existing foundation to the cleared solid ground surrounding the new stair leading to the basement.
And in addition to all this you have to use the constrainfloorelevations cheat which is a pain in and of itself. My attempts at instructions are very likely confusing so feel free to ignore them since it’s been years since my last attempt
But you’ll probably get it better than me. I’ve no patience when it comes to certain things in the game. However, one thing I do remember is spiral staircases are easiest to use when building a basement on a house with existing foundations.
I have already looked at multiple YT vids and other instructions, made at least a half dozen attempts, ugh. But I hope to keep trying! (I'd rather add a basement than a third story.
With the house I showed earlier in this thread, the two story house with the stable, I had to plot out where I was going to put the foundation, and make the basement and its stairs first, because the game refused to allow me to put the stairs in when there was foundation anywhere near it. Even after bulldozing half the foundation, it still wouldn't allow it. So I had to start over on a new empty lot.
My fairy legacy house and a few of my favorite rooms
I love the rooms you showed. Especially all the clutter pillows on the bed. All this CC I see in this thread makes me want to become a CC addict again. Clutter is the best
A while back I had been thinking of moving the family (before the babies had come). But I have just grown too attached to this house now... It even takes awhile for me to even redecorate a portion!
I went all out on the landscaping and created an island in the middle of the lot.
I didn't think to "bin" the lot. So the only thing that I can try to do is recreate it... ~sigh~ that was an oasis in the middle of Sunset Valley.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
I pretty much do the same thing from time to time. But then I find myself renovating the premade house until it’s fit to my specifications...
@Nikkei_Simmer
Holy cow that was one of your first houses you built? That’s a million times better than when I first started out!
Mine only looked like giant shoeboxes with windows and a door. I still have no imagination to make my own because I mostly follow online blueprints. Otherwise my sims would still be in those boxes
My other family are in a very expanded version of Connor and Jared's house (not my build just my expansion)
*Fairy Jared and Vampire Connor*
I love all the houses in here, im currently on mobile but ill have to post my sims beach villa science lab.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
I chose her house for the view. It's just such a wonderful sight to wake up seeing. Plus the neighbors are so friendly.
I put a lot of effort in this starter house.