Do you make your house?

I live in England so I have only lived in semi detached or terraced houses which is what you mostly see here so it's difficult to make an exact copy. I either have to put windows on walls that would connect to another house in rl which would look weird to me or build a house attached and that's too much effort and a waste of garden room for one household but I have tried.

Yes, I built mine a few years ago. It should be in the gallery. But it is not currently in the games I play. I need more worlds. I also built one other house in the neighborhood. I think most sims games I have played I have built my house. I lived here when I started playing the sims. Lol.... in Sims 2, I won some kind of award for it. I have always built more community lots than homes. I am not really good at creating something i can’t see, especially roof patterns. I should create the house I grew up in. I just might do that. I am not good at using the trims and friezes (sp) and stuff in this game.

I've built every house I have lived in (and also places I've stayed on holiday), and they are all shockingly small once they're in-game. Urgh, Britain.

I did once, but my home has a really strange shape and layout and doesn't transfer to the sims very well. It turned out rather badly if I'm honest. (Its very wide but quite shallow from the front- and because of this the inside layout for furniture turns out really bad. Even with MOO on, things just don't fit well at all.

We should have all posted pics of our own homes here (the sim version, I mean), though I would probably be jealous seeing the type of places some people live.

"elanorbreton;c-17069706" wrote:
We should have all posted pics of our own homes here (the sim version, I mean), though I would probably be jealous seeing the type of places some people live.

That seems like a challenge :smiley:

I've changed most of my houses and venues to my own builds. I'm in the process of everything being my own builds.

No. I'm trash at building. Every house or apartment my sims live in has been downloaded form the gallery. I do redecorate the place to better fit the family.

I've built my own house in every Sims game so far. But since the proportions in all Sims games are so vastly different from reality, it never works out quite right. For example, there's a bedroom in my house that's about 2 by 3,4 metres - which I have to build as 3x5 squares because the bed can't possibly fit into it otherwise. But it looks really off. And same goes for the toilet, in real life it's about a square metre, yet I have to build it as 2x2 squares because otherwise you can't fit in the door, the toilet and the sink. Compared to the measurements of the room mentioned above, it doesn't really work with each other.
I'll see if I can find a picture of the TS4 version that I built years ago with just the basegame (haven't felt the need to update it, it's huge in the Sims).

I've built the house I live in now, the last house I lived in, and my grandma's house that I lived in as a teen. I haven't decorated any of them accurately to RL though, I just place the shell and decorate them to suit whatever Sim is currently living there. I've used my current house a few times to figure out how I want to decorate IRL but never save it.