=Homes by grod4L= BILTMORE ESTATE - Pg.6 - 1/19

Oh my... Ah! Magnifique! (French, you know!) :smiley:

@Manssom hehe thanks!

Hey guys, I have a few little updates to Chateau Lyon, it's uploaded under the name "Chateau Lyon III" on the gallery. I know I have a bad habit of uploading multiple versions of houses, but as I play in them, I tend to find things I don't like and change them, and figure I might as well share those changes with you! Here's a couple pics of what I've updated:

New fountain out front:


Some architectural details added to the back:


Updated game room:


Updated upstairs study:


Laundry room with new laundry chute:


Updated art studio:


Updated bedroom (I didn't like the colors of the previous one)


Another updated bedroom:


And new posters in the theatre:


I was going to add things from the new movie hangout pack, but decided not to, just in case people without the pack wished to download it. It was really only replacing the theatre screen with the new projector screen and adding a popcorn maker to the snack bar, which you can easily do yourself if you own it!

So this is the end of this lot, I'm actually working on something very special which I think you'll all enjoy. It's another massive project and will take some time, but I'll post here when it's done!

And THANK YOU for all the wonderful comments!

The updates to your build are very nice! :) The home is so very grand and detailed! The colour schemes of the updated bedrooms look very nice. It is nice that there are a variety of fun games for sims to enjoy playing in the gaming room. The new movie posters look very nice on the in the very elegantly designed movie theatre! The upper balcony movie watching area looks so very nice!
I will look forward to seeing the new project that you are working on! :) Happy Simming, building and furnishing!

@rosemow Thanks so much Rose!

@masajo Thank you!

@stormycurls Haha thank you, that's nice to hear!

@GaiaPuma Thank you! It took about a week and a half to build and decorate, working about 2-3 hours each day.

@greenismeen Thanks so much!

@RyeCris16 Thank you! I really do appreciate you downloading again!

@MarilynMansion Thank you!

I have finished my latest project! It's the Biltmore Estate, based on the actual real-life Biltmore Estate in North Carolina, built by the ridiculously wealthy George Vanderbilt in 1895 as his summer home, and currently the largest privately-owned home in the United States. I have researched the floor plan and looked at countless pictures to make this re-creation as accurate as I possibly could, inside and out, modifying it as needed for space (it still wouldn't fit a 64x64 lot fully). This also means that there are no electronics, TVs, stereos, computers, etc., but you can of course add them if you'd like. There are some spots that aren't entirely accurate, and some rooms had to be moved elsewhere/left out, but I did my best. Overall there are 20 unique bedrooms (not including servant's rooms) with their own fireplace, 16 bathrooms, and many other various rooms and areas. Take a look!

Exterior:






First Floor

Entance Hall:



Grand Staircase:


Winter Garden:




Music Room:


Salon:


Breakfast Room:


Banquet Hall and Pipe Organ:




Billiard Room:



Smoking Room:


Tapestry Hall:


Library:




George's Private Study:


Outside Balcony:


Second Floor

Second floor Living Hall:


One of the many hallways:


Mr. Vanderbilt's room:


Oak Sitting Room (connecting Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt's rooms):


Mrs. Vanderbilt's Room:


Louis XVI Room:


Old English Room:


Sheraton Room:


Damask Room:


Chippendale Room:


Tyrolean Chimney Room:


Mr. Cecil's Bedroom:


Mrs. Cecil's Bedroom:


Third Floor

Third Floor Living Hall:


South Tower Room:


Raphael Room:


Earlom Room:


North Tower Room:


Old Rose Room:


Van Dyck Room:


Watson Room:


Madonna Room:


Claude Room:


Louis XV Room:


Observatory:


Basement

Swimming Pool:


Gymnasium:


Bowling Alley:


Stone Hallway:


Halloween Room (yes, this is an actual room, although it doesn't look like this, there wasn't anything in the game to make it similar to the actual room, so I figured I might as well use halloween decorations!):


Servants' Area

Main Kitchen:


Rotisserie Kitchen:


Butler's Pantry (with stairs leading up from kitchen):


Dishwashing Room:


Walk-in Refrigerator:


Laundry:


Storage:


Generator Room:


Servants' Dining Room:


One of several servant's bedrooms:


Layout

Top down view:


Third floor:


Second Floor:


First Floor:


Basement:


And that's everything!

This truly was a massive undertaking, with the hardest part probably being the decoration of 20 different bedrooms, and trying to make each one unique and true to the original with the limited number of bedroom items and color schemes (especially beds, we REALLY need some new beds Maxis!) But I'm very happy with how it turned out! Look up pictures of the real thing and tell me how it compares if you want :D I recommend exploring at least the first floor in first person mode (press Tab in live mode) as there are many ceiling details.

The house is listed under "Biltmore Estate" in the gallery, under my username grod4L, and requires Get to Work, Get Together, Outdoor Retreat, Spa Day, Spooky Stuff, Perfect Patio Stuff, and Movie Hangout Stuff.

Which bedroom would you claim if this was your house? Let me know what you think!

Biltmore Estate is such a very grand and elegant build! :) It looks so very, very nice! It is so very, very detailed! The exterior of the build and the furnishing of the interior refiects the real life Biltmore Estate so very well! The colour schemes of the rooms and areas look very nice. Each of the bedrooms are so very nice! I wouldn't know which bedroom to choose as my own! The build would have involved many, many hours of Simming work! The home is so very, very nice! Thankyou very much for sharing it with the Simming community for our sims and ourselves to enjoy living in and exploring the home in our games! :)

WOW! I tried once to recreate Biltmore Estate in TS4 but it seems you did it better! I also built it all in TS3 and because I too used the real pics and the floor plans to do it all properly I can say that you did spectacular job! Well done!!

@60209060 Thank you so much! I really hope they come out with larger lots than 64x64 so I can truly make it accurate, but we'll see!

@BryonyRae Thank you so much Bryony! I had a lot of fun figuring out ceiling decorations. I so wish we could color ceilings like we do floors, but hopefully they'll add that feature sometime in the future. The spandrels may make gameplay difficult, but I thought they were essential to making the rooms as accurate as possible. I used the shelf method for the ceilings in the entrance hall, and wanted to use them for other rooms, but it would've been WAY too much work haha, so I figured one room was enough! It's so nice to hear your wonderful comments, I appreciate them tremendously! And I just want to thank you for all the work you do, giving us information about building tips, and reporting any build mode bugs to Maxis, you provide such an invaluable service to the community!

@RyeCris16 Thank you so much!! This build was tons of fun, figuring out ways to make the objects we have in game translate into a recreation. The skylight dome took me ages to figure out, but I was so happy with the result. Sometimes it's like a puzzle, discovering how to fit objects together to make something completely different. I just love the sims build mode so much for allowing so many possibilities! But thanks again for your compliments and support, it really encourages me to do more builds!

@masajo Thanks so much :)