Build a house or get one off the gallery?

The best thing to do when looking for any furnished lot is to see if the creator has play tested it. Anything favored by Maxis is also good because they play test things before favoring them. Play testing is really important because even without using MOO, a home can still have problems. I have been putting my own lots up on the gallery lately because I want to transfer them to a different computer (and I only want to move them). I don't use MOO often anyway and I have been redoing them so they don't use alt and don't use resize much either (I want clean copies of each thing in both libraries and some things needed update with new content). Even so, when play testing I have found small problems that needed addressing. There are some items you can place near each other in build mode that still don't work with game play even without using MOO or alt. Everything else is personal preference. Some players like highly detailed lots and some don't. There is no one right way to play your game.

I build my own houses for Sims to live in but do download all the Maxis lots made for specific packs like the Spa's, bowling alley etc. and then adapt and add to them as they only contain the Basic and specific items for their packs. There's a lot you can learn from them, like cornicing and roof structures and object placement. I'm not into mods, moo or cc. but like looking at the fabulous builds on the Gallery some make.

I used to upload my builds for easy transfer between my two laptops on which I play and got to nearly ten thousand downloads but now do that via my Cloud storage so took them all off.

I get one from the gallery, but I design the interior myself.

I always build. I don't care for the 64x64 creations RT'd on Twitter that use up over half the lot for landscaping. I can usually build a home on a 20x20 or 20x30 lot with everything my Sim needs. My latest one is an octagon shaped cabana house for the lagoon lot in Sulani. It's small enough so I can have a decent sized dock for sunbathing, but large enough to have two bedrooms and a loft upstairs.

I build, because I love designing my houses and as others have stated, people seem to overuse MOO. But I am terrible at building gardens.

I usually download off the gallery. Occasionally I will build by starting with either a maxis made or downloaded room or two.

I'm not the best builder out there & I hate trying to make the exterior of the house look nice. it's easier just to get a house off the gallery that I like the exterior of then just completely remodel the inside to my liking/a certain sim.

Build, that way I have the house style and type I want. If my imagination ever wonks out on me I have a shelf full of books with plans and photos of Victorian houses, many of them reprints of ones of the period. One of those is deliberately done to provide for a whole village, complete with community/public buildings.

Building it yourself means you can add/not add whatever you want with little fuss. No one knows your style, pallet choices, and the needs of your specific sims family like you do yourself!

"fullspiral;c-17209037" wrote:
I mostly build my own. Sometimes I get something off the gallery if it's a style I am not good at. Like Victorian mansions or something. And then I download it without furniture. And then I make it how I want the layout to be.

I do the same. Houses in the gallery are beautiful but I’m picky about layout and object placing. I only download if I need a house to finish off a neighborhood and don’t want to build it myself.