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I have a few house plan magazines that I am hoping to use as the basis for some buildings in the Sims. Before I bought the Sims, I actually had a house plan design program and would use the houseplans to play around with building things. It was a lot of fun. I have also found books at my local Library with houseplans, so that might also be a good place to look.

I use the blueprints in Sims 3 mostly for Resorts, as I'm normally too distracted with other things to bother making a decent resort from the beginning :wink: As I gather funds, I go back and adjust, but I find the blueprints help create a basic shape to start from.

@ThePinkBookGirl I have built some large hotels before but they take ages so I know what it is like trying to perfect a resort.

Oh, and welcome to the forums :smile:

These are 2 of the houses I build using online blueprints, so it helps a lot. The only hard part is the measurements but you have to wing it so it looks good in game

Another solution is to have your boxy house - which is a perfectly legitimate style - and do other things to make it seem less boxy. Add a covered porch or pop out the entry, decorative elements on the roof like pop-out gables (whether you have an upper floor or not), or just take one room or one section of a room and bump the wall out one square to break up a long wall. If you have a second floor, offset some of the walls (out or in) for different effects. You can have a perfectly square main floor but if you have a very different layout on your second that will really break up the visual impact.

@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.

"candy8;15029585" wrote:
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.

Same here. I like using some of EA's pre-built houses in the game. Sims 1 had some good pre-built houses. I also like to download houses from various websites. Building a community lot must be hard to build. I read that you have to do certain steps when you build apartments.

@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