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- IreneSwiftSeasoned Newcomer@Avatarit
Here's what I did with the Shotgun Style house in a long ago game. At the time, I had only Generations, Ambitions, and Town Life Stuff. I enlarged the house as the family grew. I started with a young adult with a child aged daughter. After the daughter's high school graduation, the daughter adopted a girl at the child stage. As each succeeding generation graduated, each in turn also adopted a child aged daughter.
This was shortly after the update that allowed us to customize lifespans. I had set a lifespan of 156, with 2 sim days equivalent to 1 human year and a 78 year lifespan, and set the length of the stages to match the corresponding human life stages, as I interpreted them at the time. My goal for this family was to find out how many generations I could get into the family before the matriarch died of old age.
At this point, there were four generations. The matriarch of the family, Faith, was a self-employed writer. Her daughter, Hope, was in the science career. The granddaughter, Charity, was a self-employed painter. The youngest, Justice, was in high school.
Here's the house - the pond is stocked with fish that Hope had caught. Her daughter and granddaughter learned to fish there.
Hope's garden:
The ground floor of the house - As you can see, I didn't just expand the house, I moved, deleted, and added walls.
Kitchen
Living Room
The study, where Faith did her writing:
The Bathroom
The end of the hall between the study and bathroom was the perfect place for the children's toybox and costume chest.
The upstairs – As you can see there, are four bedrooms, but only three are in use at this point. - I usually use whatever is available in the homeworld I'm using. Occasionally I'll edit at lot to make it affordable (Twinbrook, for example). Usually that's not necessary. I like tackling different houses (starter or not) and adapting them to the family that I'm playing.
My favorites are actually the lot I customized in Twinbrook (I removed a frieze to make it affordable), one of the starter homes in Riverview (don't remember the name of the one I settled on), and one from Meadow Glen v2. The Twinbrook home was perfect for 1 sim, the other two were good for a starting family and had enough room to expand to accommodate 2-3 kids. - https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4549/27102848929_ed5f4ead98_h.jpg
This one in Sunlit Tides! It's crazy small, with only enough room for a single bed, and the lot gives almost zero room for expansion (except for adding upper floors), but it's super modern, has tons of big windows on the other side that face the beach, and I just think it's so charming :) - @IreneSwift Your sim lived in the same house as mine! And I did the same as you did: expand it when money came in.
http://kobayne.weebly.com/uploads/1/7/3/2/17320944/765182084.jpg - El Urban Sprawl - Even though it is tiny, I like the 70s vibe it has to it.
The Monotone - I usually modify to make it more spacious, and use arches instead of doors. - NikkeiSimmerRising AdventurerWhen I first started playing Sims 3 - over an year ago (January 2017) I started out with this little thing.
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Kw2ILB-xeag/WHKVX_xKSaI/AAAAAAAAIMY/SIlZ7VDeIdYg7iX6KomFZ7XjrNSn-en1ACLcB/s1600/Screenshot.jpg
This was a starter house. Glorified box on a foundation and long before NRAAS and mods so my game was crashing all over the place. :D
Then there was the glorified one room box that I shoved Machiko into.
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y6znyUYR4C0/WHADk_UjMCI/AAAAAAAAIBQ/UhMCp55Tk7Aj-Sb176sSGub94Zt24KcuACLcB/s1600/Screenshot-6.jpg
I'm sure she really enjoyed that.
These were my "starter" houses - basically one-room things with everything shoved in that could potentially be shoved into one room - at the time I only had the base game.
...and then I would gradually expand them until such time as I could get a house that looked like this.
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4N30pfYtJSI/WGsWiPIgJoI/AAAAAAAAH_g/fwUHJoO_ROsF5wCIQhJ-qaFkbU4fdcnIACLcB/s1600/Screenshot.jpg
I wish to this day that I binned this house (especially with the island...that I had created in the yard. Maybe I'll try and recreate this thing.
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L9QRQUMklrA/WGoXhOUMLCI/AAAAAAAAH9E/7Ndt_IFzyrIN3GRXFcGL0_hsqAbctwuLwCLcB/s1600/Screenshot-4.jpg
Well...this was a trip down memory lane. :mrgreen: - Bettyboop55New SpectatorFor me it has to be the Pre-Fabulous from Sunset Valley, possibly because it was the first I used when I got the game. The pictures show the house after Baby and her husband Christopher moved to a custom built house on the sea shore. As you can see Baby did spend some time doing the property up, even putting a small extension at the back to be the nursery. Note the fruit and veg in the front garden. Most of my sims are keen gardeners and Baby is no exception. This lot has plenty of ground for growing plants which makes it a first choice for me.
https://i.imgur.com/FW4qa17.png
https://i.imgur.com/XhaMe1M.png
https://i.imgur.com/EQdTAs1.png - ZeeGee1Seasoned Hotshot@IreneSwift Your post makes me wants to branch out from Sunset Valley and go exploring.
- @SimplyJen @Charlottesmom @IreneSwift So I guess it's only me :smile: even after expansions I nevet got to use the hole space, when I need a bigger / more complex house I just tend to move the family to another house. I like this house for it's simplicity, after expanding it's kinda loses it's shape in my experience...
- @IreneSwift Cool pictures, I like what you did with this house! thanks for sharing :smile:
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