Do you build your own house or do you download from gallery? «1234...Next Go

chongjasmine

Do you build your own house or do you download from gallery?

becks1112

Almost always from the gallery. I'm a terrible builder.

GrumpyGlowfish

If I want something that isn't in the game, I usually search the gallery first. Only if I can't find what I'm looking for, or what I find is so hopelessly overcluttered and MOO'd that it would take forever to fix, I begrudgingly start building myself.

NRowe

I have been known to do both. I especially like decorating apartments, so most of those are my own. But I'm not great at building the actual house so I also download regularly.
Same for community lots too. I have a number that are my own originals and favourites from Gallery.

chongjasmine

I tend to download from the gallery as I am bad at building.

SheriSim57

I do a little of both. I have made a few houses, and I have downloaded several from the gallery. A few of the houses I have made ( more modern track houses ) are houses which I have actually seen inside. When I download houses I have downloaded shells where I can design the interior, and some houses where the interior is already designed, but I almost always change up some things inside a downloaded house till I am satisfied with it. I also do that a lot for community lots I download. I tend to like making community lots the most. And like someone else also mentioned, I love decorating apartments sometimes changing interior walls too. Many times I will add to Maxis builds as well.

kiwi84

I always start out with 0 simoleons and rrely get much further than a shack of some kind I build myself

SERVERFRA

I mostly build my own, unless I’m doing a Maxis shell challenge.
I’ve even sometimes build a house for my daughter, so that she can download it from the Gallery. My daughter doesn’t like to build much. So sometimes I’ll ask her what theme she wants & then I make sure to only use the packs that she has to build it. She really appreciates it.😉

simgirl1010

I don't like building. I've been building a wedding venue for a couple of weeks and it's still not finished. All my lots are downloaded from the Gallery. So thankful for all the great builders.

GlacierSnow

I love building, so I automatically just build my own 99% of the time.

Isharell

Both, although lately I've been downloading a lot of houses. I always make changes to them so they work for my sims.

maggiemae8135

I enjoy building so I usually build my own. I did download lots when I first started playing, but found them unplayable due to all the items using move objects on. I was surprised when I downloaded a house I liked and found my sim couldn't walk through the yard due to overuse of plants everywhere. I use MOO for landscaping in small areas to get more plants in, being careful not to use taller ones in front of posts. I love some clutter in my homes but find many have too much clutter. @SheriSim57, like you I enjoy building real homes I have lived in, have been in, or have researched. It is so much fun to have sims live in houses you know!

SerraNolwen

I love building - I participate in challenges here and I'm currently on a project to rebuild and repopulate all of San Myshuno before I start a new legacy there - but I still wind up downloading builds from the gallery quite often. There are so many amazing creators on the gallery! And sometimes, if I'm in the mood to play and I don't already have a build that fits the style, budget and function I want, it's so much easier to just download something and keep focusing on the live part of the game while I feel inclined to do so.

GalacticGal

I love building, and mostly it gives me a sense of peace. However, sometimes I want something like right how, and am too tired to build it myself. I will browse the Gallery. I once found a shell, which was great. I finished the inside and eventually added onto it.

For the most part I build my own.

Simmingal

Mostly my own
I might use part of cool build I find
and I do get lots of inspiration scrolling some things others have built

but I never really just put down a build
and be yay and start playing in it

I just find it little overwhelming when I don't know exactly where every item in the build is
I think thats why I end up just building my own regardless of how beautiful things other people build

MrManyIdeas

Not the gallery but I have began to look for houses on MTS. I'm quite lazy nowadays so I don't build.

Lenny_Ogg

in sims 1 i just built a box with a roof. one room for everything 😂 but it got way better. i've built hundrets of houses over the years and until i started storytelling a few months ago, i spent 80% of my ingame time building. so, no, i never download lots 👩‍🔧

Larrikateven

Most of my houses, I build myself. Gallery builds don't work most of the time for me: because of the MOO issue mentioned earlier where it is hard for Sims to navigate builds, because I'm missing several packs which mean that half the build disappears sometimes, and then also because sometimes I want something very specific for my household (for example, a house that is shared by a painting vampire, an astronaut, and an actor, with the decor/skillbuilding items for all three of them).

With that said, I have downloaded a few houses from the gallery. There are just some styles of house that I cannot build. I have a handful of Victorian houses from the gallery, because I love that style but cannot figure out how to do them myself.

vossims

Community lots I download from de Gallery. The houses it depends. I like de gameplay more than the building part.
I agree with simmingal that i find the Gallery a bit overwhelming.

Isharell

Oh, yes, MOO can be very problematic at times. I generally do a quick drop and look things over. If it's just too much I'll redownload the house unfurnished, which is a big help in some ways, but there have been quite a few times I've just given up in the middle of a reno and deleted the whole thing. If it's a build I've fallen in love with, though, I'll power through and make it work.

mightysprite

I like both. I find that whenever I download from the gallery I still have to spend a lot of time building the lot anyway, either because of problems playing in the lot or because I'm just picky about things. Or unowned packs. I really wish we could filter gallery results to include/exclude certain packs.

ChuChuExpress

I do build on occasion.
That said, I do download from the gallery. I do not like lots with way too much MOO used, though.

SimplyJen

50/50

I'm very picky and must make changes to a Gallery lot before I use it so often it makes more sense to build my own.

SheriSim57

SERVERFRA wrote: »

I mostly build my own, unless I’m doing a Maxis shell challenge.
I’ve even sometimes build a house for my daughter, so that she can download it from the Gallery. My daughter doesn’t like to build much. So sometimes I’ll ask her what theme she wants & then I make sure to only use the packs that she has to build it. She really appreciates it.😉

I’m just the opposite, I sometimes download my daughters community lots. And sometimes even some of her families, she often has ones that have completed aspirations that I can use for like a bakery shop ( so stuff doesn’t spoil ). She also has a lot of retail, and she has someone upgrading furniture and stuff, which I don’t normally take the time or detail to do.

Umbreon12

I download my houses from the Gallery all the time, I don't have the patience to make my own.
I have also downloaded malls and other builds from the gallery as well.

DaniRose2143

If I need a build for one of my SimLit stories and I'm really in a rush I download from the gallery and then do a little redecorating to fit the story. Otherwise I do my own builds. I've gotten comfortable and gained a lot of confidence in my building skills so it's really fun and helps with inspiration for my writing.