Blueprints Home Plans Inspiration

@creativemetaphor What I used to do was extend houses over time, starting as a small shed and then adding to it. I actually miss doing that these days as I used to end up with some very interesting houses.

Oh, and welcome to the forums :smile:

Thank you!

I confess that I actually play the Sims relatively little compared to how much I use it to make houses. I use it to get my architecture fix. I said above grid paper works great for pre-designing but that's because I doubt most people here have AutoCAD. I totally use AutoCAD to design my houses... :blush:

I have played games using a very simple starting house and then never moving my family, just making additions and some renovations as funds and circumstances allow.

I have been building houses since Sims 1 and I still can't build that well. One thing I have noticed and that goes with some of EA's prebuilt houses in the game that if you don't build them big enough your Sims will have difficulty moving around furniture and each other the Sims themselves in the game.

@Kylieb191 :rage: Yours is nothing like the original,clearly you can tell the original has 600 watt electronic garage door opener,yours does not.Also if you look closely in the original you can see a single dandelion in the yard yours does not have it.So tear it down and start over :#

:D Joke good job <3

@06Bon06 Love how you made the little porch alcove on the first house by the front door that is awesome :love: And the colorful flower bed is cute. 5 stars :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: And the Wysteria growing is a nice touch.

If you look around the internet you can find some plans all over the place.

This is a 1920s house, although the image is a bit small:

http://www.advertisingarchives.co.uk/preview/87516301/1/Magazine-Plate/House-Plans/1920s.jpg

Noal Park in Hornsey in London:

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTGNGNde9zZxADQSNs8EMUFrz0LuT3-jsEB2OJh17HGom1k8Gm0GA

Charlton House, a Georgian house:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/71/f4/48/71f448150382692e626cc31b2562c8bd.jpg

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Thanks. :)

@juleseast3003 - only if I'm feeling EVIL enough do I lock them in... >:)

"CravenLestat;15031266" wrote:
@Kylieb191 :rage: Yours is nothing like the original,clearly you can tell the original has 600 watt electronic garage door opener,yours does not.Also if you look closely in the original you can see a single dandelion in the yard yours does not have it.So tear it down and start over :#

:D Joke good job <3

Lol oh gosh the mean simmer is back :P bad thing is I actually scrolled back up to see if the original did have a single dandelion, haha! Thank you my lovely :)

"juleseast3003;15032978" wrote:
@5782341b77vl cool do you merge your families and then play with locked doors.

Sorry - misread your question.

I never tried assigning the front door to various members of my family - I should give that a try. Mostly, I use the hidden and public rooms markers to assign the other mobile homes to the NPC and leave one trailor for my family.

This may or may not be helpful to you, but another way to use inspirations is rather than look for specific floor plans, look at all types of houses built in the style you are after. You'll get an idea for what kinds of elements they have architecturally and how they are laid out from outside. Then you can build the outside of the house to a specific style, then fill in the rooms inside. This is something I have done before, built a house specifically to get a look on the outside, then worked in the individual rooms after.

That's a really cool site. I always try to build too big when big isn't always the best. I wish I could master all the cool building tricks