So I realllllly love to build, it's probably my faveourite thing about Sims, and I'm just curious! Where do everyone here get their inspiration???
I myself use google, pintrest, youtube and real life as inspirations. I don't have any specific sites I use, but I just find an image and get inspired by that. Right now I'm doing a build thats a Traditional-Modern japanese house for a collab with
@MLDesign wich is turning out pretty sweet, I probably never wouldhave had the idea if not for the collab
So I find that the challenges and collabing with people ahve given me new inspiration, and that is soooo much fun! What are your favourite inspirations for bulding??
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One of my favorite things to do is to add a sleeping quarter and adding showers to the community lots, especially those in San Myshuno. I have issues with the festivals, where if I have my sim leave before it is over, things don't completely clear up, and it gets very messy when the next festival rolls around. To make matters worse, usually, after the festival has completely cleared up, the game won't let my sim go home, because a "vampire is breaking in", so it usually means my sim can't go home until around 6 am.
Click the spoiler if you want to see some of the work I have done at a few of the community lots in my game.
Added a little internet cafe, because I can't even tell you the number of times it was raining, and the geek festival going on at the game time. It won't count if your sim is trying to play the contest, but gives them a little something to do if the electronics outside are getting fried in the rain.
Waterside Wable
Turned the second floor into a one bedroom apartment, although it is still labeled as a karaoke bar. But I did this for several reasons, the main one being what I already mentioned, and also when it is time for Father Winter to show, and he does show up. I just keep my sims around till a little after 2 am, so he doesn't show up at their homes. He does a really good job leaving when he is supposed to here. Plus not all my sims have room in their homes for a Christmas Tree and a big dining table for those Grand Meals.
I added glass roofs to locations, such as this one at the gym in San Myshuno.
Down in the basement of the same building.
Added a greenhouse to a park.
Short version is it's all off my own ideas and playing off my initial ideas, no Google or anything like that
I pretty much only build and I get my inspiration from lots of different places. I watch youtube creators and then I go and google certain house types.
My fav TV shows - currently The Arrow and The Flash
TINY HOUSE CHALLENGE
The May Family
Modeling Career?
http://www.getfreeebooks.com/star-trek-original-series-fan-fiction-trilogy/
All my creations are CC free.
and then there's this one, some random suggestion. and the entire time watching the video i was "...i want to build that plaza and building in the background" (several households i've created or plan on creating for those challenges were kpop, cpop, or jpop, so i get why the video was suggested. but it was still rather random for me)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSzmFLTSdtQ
I've built a house along with a greenhouse on the same lot, which took 4 hours to build and furnish! I get my inspiration to build my lots from my imagination depending on the size of the lot, type of house I'm building and what style I choose. I like the log cabin and stone-building style. Depending on the Sim's aspiration, the furniture varies too. If they are creative, I always use easels, musical instruments, woodwork, computer for writing, etc.
> Or you know, think about the type of sim you are building the house for. Maybe even do a family first, and get inspiration from the family to build the house. Then you can add both to the gallery!
I add my lots and households to my gallery: Metzfits1984, if you want to have a look. The bowling alley has been downloaded a few times.
Sometimes I just put the rooms around and see if I get an idea or not.
I take a lot of inspiration from other video games as well. When I was building my Elven forest library, I used references from Night Elven buildings in World of Warcraft (Night Elves are my favorite race, :P ). I've also been slowly working on recreating the Night Elve's Temple of the Moon from WoW as well.
Sometimes I just find images that I think are whimsical and pretty and I build with that in mind. That's mostly what I did with my Elven gardens.
I've only really done one build collab and that was with @Haids5987! We did the Finish My Build challenge! That was a lot of fun, I'm still actually finishing that one, but it really forces you to get creative! With that challenge we each had to begin building/decorating a lot and then upload it very unfinished. The other person had to download it and finish it without removing anything that was placed/built by the original builder.