@KaytayRoall Thank you for your kind words! I think my pool is too far from the water, and will have trees obstructing the view, so it doesn't really count. But I really like the see through pool idea, and uses the same techniques. I think your gazebo roof design is very creative. I've never seen something like that before, so I'm excited to see the rest of the house!
@ciane You're house is very pretty! I like the colors you used and your use of the spiral stairs. Looks very calm.
Your WIP is looking great! @Sweet2 It looks very nice how you have built it over the water. The outdoors loungers deck is great! Sims will enjoy sitting resting on the loungers looking out at the sea views. Great layout of the interior. The blue colour of the bed is restful for sleeping. It looks very nice how you have placed the windows in the build. It is great that you have moored boat with the home.
It looks very nice
@Naley, I actually thought the same thing when I was all done and taking pictures.
@Sweet2, Great build! I like the building shape, the windows, the lounging area, the kitchen layout (U-shape is my favorite in real life), and the location. Nice.
Thank you, @rosemow and everyone for the nice comments.
Good morning everyone. I've been down a little sick for the last couple of days, but I did still manage to work a little on my retreat. I'll post a few more WIP pics and if you all could let me know what you think so far I would be very grateful. I'm still not sure of the pool.
@ciane - I adore everything about Pepperino! The colors used and the shape, even though I do agree it would have made an equally cute houseboat. You always manage to squeeze so much into such small spaces with it looking over-crowded. How Do you do that?
@Sweet2 - I really like your WIP pics. I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product.
@Snorkelbucket - I can't wait to see your finished creation! I know it'll be great from the WIP pics we seen.
@AIRIS6962 - AIRIS! It's so great to see you! I love the new avi, too! I'm glad you like the lot I'm working on. Thank you. You really need to use that bookmark often and at least stop in to chat, if not participate. Would really love to see you participating from time to time, but will settle for the chats....lol I'm glad you like the thread though.
Although I´d love to participate, I´ll be watching and commenting by the moment, and if you need, giving ideas/and/or helping.
I have no much time lately for sims and I have 2 DNA Requests claimed nowadays.
I love watching other´s creations, I always find something to learn and inspiration
This is my last lot uploaded to my studio, if helps for inspiration
@Ivanna420, I am a minimalist at heart (and I do use moveobjects on and disablesnappingtoslots occasionally), but the real trick is having a photographer's eye. When you take pictures, you see what's missing; so you add something just there in the center. ; )
Personally, I think the pool is way too big and would make the center area between all the buildings into an outdoor seating and BBQ area, though you might have one your buildings earmarked for that already. In which case, a center garden would be lovely with plants and flowers and flowering bushes. I think you blended the pool well enough with the waters edge. Are you thinking of adding that pool bar on the edge of the pool by the buildings?
@AIRIS6962 I love that building and that deco section in the front center!
Your WIP is looking very nice! @Ivana The pool looks great! It is a central feature of the outdoors area of the build. It looks nice how you have it coming into the sea.
I hope that your work on your build continues to go well.
@ciane - I wasn't completely happy with the myself, as I couldn't get it the way I wanted it because of game restrictions and I thought it was a little big myself without doing as I originally wanted. I'll have some more WIP pics tomorrow.
@AIRIS6962 - I love that lot, as usual. You are so talented. You definitely deserve a place in DNA. Well, you can always join a different challenge later, if you find you have some time. Either way, I just love to see you stopping in and chatting.
I said I would get these WIP pics up today, so here they are. I did reduce the size of the pool. Even I thought it was too big. Originally I wanted to make to pool stretch to fill the center of the build area from edge to edge of the foundations, but it would not let me and the other pics were as close as I could get it. I like it now. This is the best it's looked, in my opinion, so I'm now done playing around with the structures and have to concentrate on furnishings, decor, and landscaping. How's it look to you all?
@Ivanna420, I think it's better, but still looks big as ciane says. If you put a central part in the pool as a square, where to put the loungers? Or do you have another idea?
Anyway, I´m loving your WIP and that pool
@Ivanna420 - I think it looks great! The pool looks more manageable, but still very much the focal point. It's too bad you couldn't bring it right up to the edges like you wanted to, though.
I spent some time working on my build on Tuesday (time that I was supposed to be doing chores--whoops!). All the talk of infinity pools gave me an idea and I was just going to do a quick experiment to see if I could make it work with my build, but my "quick experiment" turned into a lengthy adventure including a tutorial in German (which I do not speak, despite several years of it in high school) and four or five iterations of the build going into my library. Although I eventually achieved the effect I was going for, at least mostly, I'm now having a few problems with my build. I tried to remove a section of stilted foundation to rework the area for docking boats, but I can't get the stilts to go away no matter what I do. They don't seem to get in the way, but they look out of place. I'm also getting some weird artifacts, I think because of my inexperienced use of CFE. It's nothing I haven't been able to get rid of so far, but it can make small changes take a long time and I'm worried it might be indicating larger problems I just haven't figured out yet.
All of this and the fact that there's a building contest I'm considering entering, which looks like it will be quite time-consuming, means I'm considering putting aside my current WIP and making a smaller one using many of the same concepts, just on a more manageable scale.
I do see what you were trying for and I wish you could have gotten that look; but I do like it the way it is now, and I'm sure I'll like it even better when you finish with your furnishings and landscaping.
Your WIP is looking very nice @Ivana It looks great how you have the corner with the double pool bars on it, and the other corner has the hot tub. The fish window looks very nice on the edge of the pool!
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@ciane You're house is very pretty! I like the colors you used and your use of the spiral stairs. Looks very calm.
Your living room looks great @Snorkelbucket
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It looks very nice
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
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@Sweet2 looks very cozy and nice! good work
@Sweet2, Great build! I like the building shape, the windows, the lounging area, the kitchen layout (U-shape is my favorite in real life), and the location. Nice.
Thank you, @rosemow and everyone for the nice comments.
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http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase
Good morning everyone. I've been down a little sick for the last couple of days, but I did still manage to work a little on my retreat. I'll post a few more WIP pics and if you all could let me know what you think so far I would be very grateful. I'm still not sure of the pool.
I love this thread and the creations and WIP´s here. I´ve bookmarked.
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@Sweet2 - I really like your WIP pics. I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product.
@Snorkelbucket - I can't wait to see your finished creation! I know it'll be great from the WIP pics we seen.
@AIRIS6962 - AIRIS! It's so great to see you! I love the new avi, too! I'm glad you like the lot I'm working on. Thank you. You really need to use that bookmark often and at least stop in to chat, if not participate. Would really love to see you participating from time to time, but will settle for the chats....lol I'm glad you like the thread though.
I have no much time lately for sims and I have 2 DNA Requests claimed nowadays.
I love watching other´s creations, I always find something to learn and inspiration
This is my last lot uploaded to my studio, if helps for inspiration
Personally, I think the pool is way too big and would make the center area between all the buildings into an outdoor seating and BBQ area, though you might have one your buildings earmarked for that already. In which case, a center garden would be lovely with plants and flowers and flowering bushes. I think you blended the pool well enough with the waters edge. Are you thinking of adding that pool bar on the edge of the pool by the buildings?
@AIRIS6962 I love that building and that deco section in the front center!
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I hope that your work on your build continues to go well.
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase
@AIRIS6962 - I love that lot, as usual. You are so talented. You definitely deserve a place in DNA. Well, you can always join a different challenge later, if you find you have some time. Either way, I just love to see you stopping in and chatting.
@rosemow - Thank you. Have a great day!
@Ivanna420, I think it's better, but still looks big as ciane says. If you put a central part in the pool as a square, where to put the loungers? Or do you have another idea?
Anyway, I´m loving your WIP and that pool
I spent some time working on my build on Tuesday (time that I was supposed to be doing chores--whoops!). All the talk of infinity pools gave me an idea and I was just going to do a quick experiment to see if I could make it work with my build, but my "quick experiment" turned into a lengthy adventure including a tutorial in German (which I do not speak, despite several years of it in high school) and four or five iterations of the build going into my library. Although I eventually achieved the effect I was going for, at least mostly, I'm now having a few problems with my build. I tried to remove a section of stilted foundation to rework the area for docking boats, but I can't get the stilts to go away no matter what I do. They don't seem to get in the way, but they look out of place. I'm also getting some weird artifacts, I think because of my inexperienced use of CFE. It's nothing I haven't been able to get rid of so far, but it can make small changes take a long time and I'm worried it might be indicating larger problems I just haven't figured out yet.
All of this and the fact that there's a building contest I'm considering entering, which looks like it will be quite time-consuming, means I'm considering putting aside my current WIP and making a smaller one using many of the same concepts, just on a more manageable scale.
Store Install
Unlocked Stencils
random legacy
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase