Do you build your own house or do you download from gallery?

I'll d/l for look (if I'm just getting a house for an NPC household) or for ideas, or for the structure, or most of the time for community lots. I do not enjoy building community lots.

When I download a house with the intent to play in it, it's always a gamble as to what will actually be usable. Are some of the doors or furniture blocked off by MOOed objects? Are those objects wall decorations that are invisible unless I'm playing with all walls up and using the Sims 3 camera so I can rotate to strange angles?

So what I mostly do now is browse through old home plan catalogues with a pencil and a graph-paper notebook, converting interesting house floorplans into sims floorplans (I assume each sims square is about 2.5 feet, give or take), and then using those to build houses. There's some difficulty because TS4 doesn't like split-levels or walk-out basements.

And if I decide I'm going to redo the apartments in San Myshuno I almost always just go to the Gallery. Any of the bigger apartments, left to my own devices I end up making a common area and then breaking them up into smaller sub-apartments and then I'll move in the cast of Friends or Seinfeld or something. Those big apartments are a scourge.

I'm a builder. I don't even remember what year it was the last time I downloaded a home.

I’m a lousy builder, but pretty good at interiors. If I can, I’ll download a shell and do the interior myself. If I can’t find that, I’ll download several potential lots, use the one that functions the best, and declutter/redecorate as needed.

Download and remodel. I am terrible with roofs and other outside details, but often disagree with builders' decor and room spacing.

"chongjasmine;d-1008373" wrote:
Do you build your own house or do you download from gallery?

I rarely download from the gallery. I usually build my own.

You know, it's probably strange but if I don't build it, I don't feel comfortable in it. Even the pre-made houses, I feel weird somehow playing in them. I'm glad others download from the gallery *cough*downloadmylots*cough*. Sorry, had a tickle in my throat...

I download houses from the gallery & then decorate them to my liking. I can design, but I can’t build.

I only ever tried to move into houses. I would download but I do not know how to place the houses downloaded into the worlds.

@blazerntq here's a little tutorial on downloading and installing lots.

https://help.ea.com/en/help/the-sims/the-sims-4/the-sims-4-gallery/

@simgirl1010 Oh my gosh! Thanks you.