My Legacy House - Constructive Criticism Welcome

Your Legacy Home looks great! :) Very nice design of the exterior! The open shutter windows add a nice look to the home, amd upper level and ground level porches look great! Very nice kids outdoors playground area. Kids will have fun playing on the playground equipment, on the swings and in the sandpit. The layout of the interior looks very nice. Very nice sofa seat sitting nook for Sims to enjoy sittimg resting there watching tv or reading a book, and would enjoy painting on the easel. It is great that there is an island bar stool counter in the kitchen area for Sims to enjoy eating a meal whilst sitting on the stool. The windows dining alcove nook looks great! It is nice that you have used the circular dining table there. Sims will enjoy sunshine coming into the area through the windows whilst dining at the table. The flowers are a pretty touch on the table top for Sims to see when dining. The red and white patterned flooring in the bedrooms complements well with the red colour of the double bed and the bunk beds.
The home is looking very nice! :)

Yep to the gable pic. Maybe experiment with columns to finish off the end or add full walls opened up with arches if you’re not so keen on the half wall?

@seas Did you see my update? The post right above yours I changed all the shutter windows to square windows and fixed the siding and a few other tweaks :smile:

I like it. Lots of open space!

I'm really not into those arched windows with the shutters on this house. I think it would look a lot better if they were square. I also think the outside would look better with a different pattern/siding on the outside. I think it has to do with the separators you see between each floor, particularly the very top one with little space between that and the roof. It just doesn't look right to me. I would also remove the fencing that's not attached to the porch. I think it is a distraction for what should be a big and beautiful yard. Perhaps you could replace it with one of the very short "fences" that would typically go around a garden instead? I think those don't block sims from entering them either, so it would still separate your walkway from the grass.

Besides that, I think you're off to a pretty good start. I'm liking the overall shape of the house and how spacious it is.

I also think you’re off to a great start and that replacing the windows may be better. Perhaps joining the separate roofs with a gable right across would help tie them together nicely. I like the large round dining table. Have you tested to ensure Sims can access the seats at the back? You could potentially tie in the tiled kitchen and entrance areas... perhaps diagonally. Experiment and have fun :smiley:

@60smusicluvr I'll try out a few things with the windows, to be honest I wasn't very big on them either because I usually use full-length windows for builds and make them slightly futuristic looking, but I wanted an old-timey feel. I'll definitely try a few things... Also, I've gotten rid of some of the fences here and there. I tried getting rid of all of them and didn't like how it came out, but I got rid of a set and replaced it with a pond and rocks to act like a fence in a way with spots to allow sims to fish. I'll upload pics in a bit, let me know if you like it better than the fences. Also, I hate that pattern on the outside for that very same reason, but when I tried replacing it with one that didn't have separators, it looked horrible. Perhaps with different windows it'll look a bit better, I'll try that. Any suggestions for the painting/siding?

@soocoolsim I'm not completely sure what you mean.. is this what you mean but one that runs across the whole length to connect both roofs?

I really liked the large dining room table also, it's a custom content download. They made an 8-sim one and a 6-sim one, so I downloaded both just in case. The back seats were accessible but only if the side seats had no one in them, so if the person sitting in the back came late to the meal, they couldn't eat there. I've since sold it and tried the 6-sim one, which works perfectly fine as far as I know, then again my game just glitched out and I just fixed it again so I haven't had much game time since. Also, I like how it looks with the kitchen and entrance connected, but I'm a bit iffy on when it reaches the half wall. I don't particularly love the half wall, but I do want a separator between the entrance and living area. Let me know if you have any better ideas.

I've changed quite a bit of the house so far so I'm gonna take these comments into consideration to work a little more on it, then I'll post more pictures soon (:

Oh one more thing, it's winter time and I hate how the windows fog up. Does anyone know a way to/a mod to stop the windows from fogging?

@soocoolsim Ooh I like that idea. I'll definitely try that when I have more time.

Most Recent Update:

@60smusicluvr @soocoolsim I took a lot of your comments into consideration and here's how its looking so far. Let me know what you think :blush:



Thanks for taking the time to read this and reply :grin: