House building advice please! (update 2)
First off, I'm horrible with designing my own house in this game! It always feels like it's so weird for some reason lol. And one think I definitely don't ever get it right; I feel is whenever I put down stairs! I'm so unsure of where to place them so I get the most use out of both the ground floor and making an upstairs or basement! Like I get them put down, and it feels as though I can't use the space right to get use out of most of it. I hope some others feel similar and can relate to that.
And the game had updated a while ago with the terrain changing heights tool? That was weird to discover, making the ground raise or cave in for no reason. And just using the lot space in general seems so hard for me! I don't know why that is.
It's like I make a house, my sims complain of how simple it is and it could be better, so I upgrade it of course, and that in turn makes it larger, which also could take away yard space I could use for future plans! >.< And ugh. I don't know why I can't use a pre-made game house. I always choose an empty lot and build up my house from scratch and always never completely satisfied with how I used all my limited space.
So any simmers out there with house designs they like or stair placement that is good for basement needs or going upstairs would be so kind to hear from! :smiley: Idk maybe I'm insecure about how I build my house or I'm very bad at designing it to use every single part of it. But getting suggestions would be so nice! :smiley: Please be kind!
(Also sorry if I put this in the wrong category, I didn't know where to put it since it's discussing how poorly I manage to design my own house when the tools to do it are AWESOME. So, if it needs to get put in a proper category, the organizer of the forum can do that.)
Thanks in advance! (P.S. I'm not sure if I can share any screen shots to show off my main family's current house design. I don't know when I can share screenshots or if that would be useful for this post. But I'm sure you can imagine the awkward stairs placement where I try to make a half wall maybe just under that one little strip length of steps, BOOM, stairs vanish XD cause I had clipped it through the lean of stair well. I like the one that is "floating steps with the single bar down the stair's centers" I'm sorry I forgot it's name. But you know, all stairs have a triangle like space area.)
(Sometimes I wish there could be swirl staircases in the game. Idk I think then the stairs might take up less then?)
Okay, okay, now I'm done with this post. Please be kind. Thanks again before commenting!
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Update 1:
I tried to just think about how I wanted my dream house to be in my head ;u; Massive fail so far on remodeling. I think the stairs are the most evil thing for me, cause I can't get it right so they'd be tucked in a corner or something and still usable, but also not overlapping. :neutral: I have 6 current sims, ugh and I'm struggling with a better house! :cry:
I know I want at least 2 bathrooms, on ground floor and one upstairs. I like one to be a master's bathroom for the parents only (you know only way in would be through a door connecting to the parents' bedroom, then 2 teen bedrooms, play room and kids' bedroom for the twins. Living room, dinning room, and kitchen, and 2 studies probably. And I failed to get the layout to go well and I blame that on the stairs :cry:
I didn't research about houses or look up images of houses like people said to do for help. So it's my bad. I was so hyped up with all the awesome replies I thought I could do it from my head :cry: And had failed this time.
But next time I'll try, I'd look at houses on google and blueprints and such to try to plan it out before going in.Man, it was such a mess I wish someone else could have taken over and just MADE it for me, then I'd go through and personalize it :neutral: But I gonna do it myself. There's no one else who can play Sims 4 and build my sim family a house but me.
Maybe now I explained how many are living there, feel free to give me more help specific to 6 people houses please ;u;
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Update 2:
So I tried again after getting some rest after the first attempt and it went better :smiley: So have I have a more decent house for my sims to live in, and all rooms they can use :smiley: So I'm not completely happy with it, but I discovered better layout so I can have several rooms for my needs. And things are going well so far :smiley: Thanks to all that helped out :smiley: (I'm not sure I might try to get a screenshot of the house in it's new state for this post to share what I had some help with. But I never took screenshots of my sim house before, so it'll probably not look too well Idk. If you're looking forward to that, stay tuned for a 3rd update please.)
And the game had updated a while ago with the terrain changing heights tool? That was weird to discover, making the ground raise or cave in for no reason. And just using the lot space in general seems so hard for me! I don't know why that is.
It's like I make a house, my sims complain of how simple it is and it could be better, so I upgrade it of course, and that in turn makes it larger, which also could take away yard space I could use for future plans! >.< And ugh. I don't know why I can't use a pre-made game house. I always choose an empty lot and build up my house from scratch and always never completely satisfied with how I used all my limited space.
So any simmers out there with house designs they like or stair placement that is good for basement needs or going upstairs would be so kind to hear from! :smiley: Idk maybe I'm insecure about how I build my house or I'm very bad at designing it to use every single part of it. But getting suggestions would be so nice! :smiley: Please be kind!
(Also sorry if I put this in the wrong category, I didn't know where to put it since it's discussing how poorly I manage to design my own house when the tools to do it are AWESOME. So, if it needs to get put in a proper category, the organizer of the forum can do that.)
Thanks in advance! (P.S. I'm not sure if I can share any screen shots to show off my main family's current house design. I don't know when I can share screenshots or if that would be useful for this post. But I'm sure you can imagine the awkward stairs placement where I try to make a half wall maybe just under that one little strip length of steps, BOOM, stairs vanish XD cause I had clipped it through the lean of stair well. I like the one that is "floating steps with the single bar down the stair's centers" I'm sorry I forgot it's name. But you know, all stairs have a triangle like space area.)
(Sometimes I wish there could be swirl staircases in the game. Idk I think then the stairs might take up less then?)
Okay, okay, now I'm done with this post. Please be kind. Thanks again before commenting!
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Update 1:
I tried to just think about how I wanted my dream house to be in my head ;u; Massive fail so far on remodeling. I think the stairs are the most evil thing for me, cause I can't get it right so they'd be tucked in a corner or something and still usable, but also not overlapping. :neutral: I have 6 current sims, ugh and I'm struggling with a better house! :cry:
I know I want at least 2 bathrooms, on ground floor and one upstairs. I like one to be a master's bathroom for the parents only (you know only way in would be through a door connecting to the parents' bedroom, then 2 teen bedrooms, play room and kids' bedroom for the twins. Living room, dinning room, and kitchen, and 2 studies probably. And I failed to get the layout to go well and I blame that on the stairs :cry:
I didn't research about houses or look up images of houses like people said to do for help. So it's my bad. I was so hyped up with all the awesome replies I thought I could do it from my head :cry: And had failed this time.
But next time I'll try, I'd look at houses on google and blueprints and such to try to plan it out before going in.Man, it was such a mess I wish someone else could have taken over and just MADE it for me, then I'd go through and personalize it :neutral: But I gonna do it myself. There's no one else who can play Sims 4 and build my sim family a house but me.
Maybe now I explained how many are living there, feel free to give me more help specific to 6 people houses please ;u;
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Update 2:
So I tried again after getting some rest after the first attempt and it went better :smiley: So have I have a more decent house for my sims to live in, and all rooms they can use :smiley: So I'm not completely happy with it, but I discovered better layout so I can have several rooms for my needs. And things are going well so far :smiley: Thanks to all that helped out :smiley: (I'm not sure I might try to get a screenshot of the house in it's new state for this post to share what I had some help with. But I never took screenshots of my sim house before, so it'll probably not look too well Idk. If you're looking forward to that, stay tuned for a 3rd update please.)
