Struggling with a challenge that I set for myself

I think it looks very alike. It's a bit hard to see though for me, the pictures are small.

its good

"Auroraskies;c-17865092" wrote:
I think it looks very alike. It's a bit hard to see though for me, the pictures are small.

Yeah I should have found a way to enlarge those before posting! They are quite small.

"comicsforlife;c-17865107" wrote:
its good

Thank you. I just feel like I'm not quite "getting" it. Maybe I need to just walk away from it for a couple of days, then come back for another go. :)

I think it looks pretty good! The only thing I would do differently is add a roof over the front porch. You can always use three small pieces of roof around the white fence to make it look like one solid piece.
Maybe also add a few windows on the end facing the camera if the floor plan allows it. You have matched literally everything else that I noticed to the picture, I bet the whole thing looks great!

@Clousinators - yes, windows on the end are definitely part of the plan, as they are on the original picture. :)

I think you're right about the roof, this is one of my weakest skills. I wondered whether breaking it down into individual pieces in some places might help. I'll give that a go - thank you.

There actually *is* a roof on the front porch, but I flattened it down because I was having a lot of problems placing that and the upper balcony fence at the same time. Doing the roof in pieces might help with this.

I always struggle with roofing, its something I've been trying to practice with more and I have found that using a bunch of small pieces sometimes helps get the look you're going for. I am excited to see this when its done, so make sure you post pics lol

You did a great job, don't doubt yourself. To me just a few details seem a bit 'off'. Still looks very nice, but I'm very detail-oriented when it comes to pictures.

1) The main roof, you seem to have overlapped the sides on the center. It should be the other way around, the sides go under the center (like with the porch) That way you see the finishing on the edge of the top from the frontal view and it will give a nice detailing there.
2) I think this one will be 'unfixable' but the balcony actually has a sloped roof, not a flat one. This may make it look wonky in your eyes. However, the only way you can fix this is with half hipped/gabled roofs, which do not align with rounded corners so I guess it's a toss-up between the sloped roof or the rounded balcony :'(
3) The windows are blue, not white. If it were me, I'd settle for a less detailed window that still had the pop of blue, it will give the house some life. You could instead keep the white windows and add some blue curtains inside, that should also do the trick I think.

Either way, kudos on the great job you did on it, I bet some landscaping around the house will make this look incredible! :)

Thanks @DeanXeL - yes the roofs are definitely the bane of my existence! And I'm not good at roofing in general, which makes it harder. But I definitely think I need to play around with that balcony - having the rounded fencing there is what was making it so difficult.

Maybe I will think about the blue curtains as one possibility - finding windows that are anywhere near what I want is interesting indeed! Or if I found just what I wanted, then the colour was wrong, or the size was wrong (and re-sizing made them unable to fit etc.).

:D :D

So when I try to change the balcony roof, I get this problem where it takes out some of my patio railing. (btw, @DeanXeL I fixed the main roof, thanks for pointing that out! I saw it clear as day once you pointed it out).

Anyone know a way around this, I tried to just draw the railing back in, but it wouldn't let me.

https://i.imgur.com/ULueIx1.jpg

Have you tried holding alt while adjusting the height so that it doesn't snap to the pre-determined heights? maybe making the roof touch just below the top of the fence will allow it to still show up with the roof