Blueprints for houses?

I'm also in team no multistory houses with @simgirl1010 and @joRN1414, I have my whole SaveFile online with all 1-story buildings. As most floorplans are multistory and TS4 has quite some special requirements if you want your Sims sit down to eat and and not wash their dishes in the bathroom, I tend to make up floorplans on my own if I'm not just sizing EA Houses down to be 1-story.

"Oldeseadogge;c-18272346" wrote:

"Ersa_Middleton;c-18270488" wrote:
I can't ever properly translate a real life housing plan to a building plan in sims 4. The dimensions tend to either lead to rooms that are too big, or rooms that are too small.

Try using 3 feet per square (the TS1 standard). Have been doing that, sometimes with some tweaks if a room dimension is not divisible by 3, for years now and it's worked fine,

I've found using 2.5 feet per square works a little better for me, but yeah.

"crocobaura;c-18266552" wrote:
I don't bother with plans because they often have features that don't translate well into sim buildings.

I agree with this. Real life designs more often than not don't usually work well in the game. For game-play.

If you just want to build something without actually having Sim people living in it though, then that's cool.

I do also agree. There are tons of spectacular builds for TS4 that sadly aren't fun for gameplay. As always, it depends in what you are looking for. If you're a storyteller and Play by posing your Sims and cheating their needs up, These builds are totally awesome.

It is definitely possible to translate real blueprints and houses into the game, I do it all the time. But, you have to set a scale and be willing to make changes. It is definitely not possible to be exact.

I once built a tri-level condo based on a real life one I looked at for a possible purchase several years ago. I took plenty of interior photos for reference, but even with the actual floor plans it's impossible to make every room have the same dimensions as its real life counterpart. If you're okay with settling for small compromises, it's a fun way to build homes you'd like to live in.