Affordable Family Housing Challenge!

Happy Family Home and Young Family are both very nice homes! @MoriGelopi :) Very nice exterior designs of them! The layout and furnishing of the interiors of them are very nice! Very nice roofing on Happy Family Home! The windows look nice how they are placed in the build. The flowers look pretty in the front yard areas. It looks great the way the terrain paint is used for the footpaths. The side entrance looks great. Very nice backyard areas! Nice outdoors dining area. Sims will enjoy cooking meals on the BBQ and eating them at the umbrella covered table in the outdoors air. Child sims will have fun playing on the monkey bars. Nice gardening area for sims to enjoy growing and harvesting plants in the gardening boxes. Very nice light filled living and dining room areas. Sins will enjoy the sunshine coming in onto them through the windows whilst they are sitting on the armchairs resting or are enjoy dining at the table. Very nice outdoors dining and gardening patio in the Young Family build also. Sims will enjoy growing plants in the planters. The placement of the windows in the build looks very nice. The lavender on the front edges of the home looks homely and nice.
They are very nice homes :)

Thanks for this challenge! I'm just coming back to the game after 8 months or more, so it was good inspiration to get started re-learning how to build.

This house has 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, and was built with a mid to large sized family in mind. It's out in the countryside with lots of room to expand later, and a nice little garden area. I built the affordable version first then turned it into the version I'm actually playing in my game. I used the Coorinberg Cottage lot.

Bargain Garden
Gallery Link: https://www.thesims.com/en_GB/gallery/EC65870809AB11E6819EB45EC46F5166
$43,962 + cost of lot ($46,962 if you use the Coorinberg Cottage lot, as I did)
Lot
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Downstairs
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Upstairs
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If you're interested, the less affordable/final version is here.
127 Garden Lane
Gallery Link: https://www.thesims.com/en_GB/gallery/07C2A04B09A211E686619D002A7C4901
$108,808 + cost of lot ($111,808 if you use the Coorinberg Cottage lot, as I did)
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Bargain Garden is a very nice home! @kristinemancuso :) Very nice exterior of the home! The exterior wall texture and the dome type windows look nice and complement each other well. Very nice gardening area. Sims will enjoy growing and harvesting plants in the gardening boxes there. The purple flowers look pretty and homely either sides of the front steps. Very nice layout of the interior of the home. Nice windows study desk area for sims to enjoy the sunlight coming in through the windows whilst siting there using the computer. The floral wall pattern looks pretty in the nursery.
The circular floral feature in the 127 Garden Lane build is so very pretty! The corner nook of flowers is very nice as well.It looks very nice how you used the terrain paint for the pathways.
Welcome back to simming after your break! :)

Thanks so much @rosemow. I only post occasionally, but you are always so kind and supportive of everyone, it's wonderful :)

It was hard, but I finally managed to do this! I built a 5 bedroom home (master, grandma and grandpa's, teen, girl and twin boys) for $48,489.

Gallery link (or search for my id: vepeixoto03)

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Great house, @vethesims ! I feel sorry for the mother, though, who has to do the dishes while everyone else is eating omelets. ;)

@Jesf8312 I chose a small lot so that I could fill all empty spaces without spending too much money and I used a lot of paintings my sims painted to save money in wall decorations. :) I really like your budget houses, especially Bargain Bend and how you made it match the neighborhood that the BFFs live in. I love matching neighborhoods! :blush:

@StSciurus haha I felt bad for her too, but she cooked and ate before everyone else got there, I'm terrible at managing big households! And there was no space for everyone at the table, god knows where the teen daughter was at that moment! hahaha :lol:

Affordable 5 BR under 50 K is a very nice home! @vethesims :) Very nice exterior design of the home! The roofing and corner looks great! The floral greenery on the exterior walls and the flowers and plants on the front edges of the home look very nice. The gnome and flamingo look cute there! The open shutter windows look nice in the home. Nice seat bench sitting area for sims to rest in the sunshine. The flowers look nice around the base of the trees. Very nice fenced outdoors dining and gardening patio! Sims will enjoy cooking meals on the BBQ and eating them at the umbrella covered table in the sunshine. They will enjoy growing plants in the gardening boxes there. Child sims will have fun playing on the monkey bars. Very nice layout and furnishing of the interior of the home! The living room is very nice. Sims will enjoy sitting on the sofas there, watching tv and reading a book from the bookshelf. The items on the tv table and wall shelf are nice home touches. The coat stand is homely near the front door. Very nice kitchen and dining room. It is nice that there are seating at the table for all the family to enjoy dining together. The pictures on the walls add a very nice look to the room . The flowers on the side wall table are pretty for sims to see when cooking and dining there. Very nice furnishing of the bedrooms! Nice corner reading nook in the master bedroom. The flowers and beauty products are nice touches on the dresser. The candles and butterflies photo are pretty on the bedhead wall shelf. Very nice corner study desk nook in the teen room. She will enjoy sitting there using the computer or reading a book. The floral wall pattern in the girls room is pretty. The pink bunny is cute! The kids drawings look great on the kids bedroom walls! The dinosaur theme of the boys bedroom looks great! The portrait painting on the grandparents bedroom wall is very special for the sims to look at.
The home is very nice! :)

@vethesims oh my gosh! I was just on Twitter and saw that SimGuruHouts retweeted some house that I thought looked super familiar, and it's your 5bdroom for under 50k !!! Congrats on that! You really have done a great job on it i'm not surprised it got recognized!

OK, let hope I get this right. I just started posting pictures yesterday. I just added several homes that meet the criteria. I did a modern home in two styles. One to fit in Newcrest and Willow Creek, and the other for Oasis Springs. They are the same house, just different colors and landscaping to suit each world.

For Willow Creek and Newcrest

And for Oasis Springs

These two houses come in two sizes per style. Family Modern 1 and Family Modern 1 OS are both 3 bed two bath homes with a basement for future expansion. Both houses are similarly furnished with only small deviations
This is Family Modern 1.

and the basement (not much to see here)

Modern Family 2 and Modern Family 2 OS has 5 bedrooms and 3 bathes
Modern Family 2 OS looks like this

and the basement


If you are interested in these houses, my user name for Origin in Evilfeline. I have had a lot of fun doing these, and I've been able to down load some great affordable house in styles I don't build well. I really appreciate the thread. I have another house, but I'll post it separate. This post is long enough.

Well, the post just got longer. I forgot to post the amounts for each home. (Sorry about that.)
Family Modern 1 37,336
Family Modern 1 OS 37,661
Family Modern 2 44,496
Family Modern 2 OS 46,011