How are your house building skills?
The title says it all "How are your house building skills"?
Forum Discussion
If I build from scratch, I build backwards.
I place down all of the objects in the room that I'd like to have, arranged in the areas and position I want them. Then I decide which room would cohesively "connect" to that room and do the same thing, building the walls, halls, etc around my placed furniture. And I always make my halls at least 2 tiles wide, can't stand these tiny narrow hallways some people put in their houses.
If I don't do it "backwards", then I have a tendency to make GINORMOUS rooms that are ridiculously oversized because when drawing out the walls it looks little, until you start adding furniture. And then there I go having to bring walls in to make the room smaller and messing up my outside landscaping.
I do sometimes use RL floorplans for inspiration and base the sizes as tiles (if a room is 8x10, then in the game I make it 1/2 that, so it would be 4x5).
I'm also pretty particular about what room you enter from the front door. Where I live, every house I've ever been in, you either enter into an entryway or the living room (never the kitchen or dining room!). So I will never D/L a house if the kitchen or dining room are in the front of the house because it's just odd to me because sometimes the rooms are too small to swap out and make the living room in the front, or I need to delete walls or add more room and by the time I've done that I might as well have just built it from scratch.
I place down all of the objects in the room that I'd like to have, arranged in the areas and position I want them. Then I decide which room would cohesively "connect" to that room and do the same thing, building the walls, halls, etc around my placed furniture. And I always make my halls at least 2 tiles wide, can't stand these tiny narrow hallways some people put in their houses.
If I don't do it "backwards", then I have a tendency to make GINORMOUS rooms that are ridiculously oversized because when drawing out the walls it looks little, until you start adding furniture. And then there I go having to bring walls in to make the room smaller and messing up my outside landscaping.
I do sometimes use RL floorplans for inspiration and base the sizes as tiles (if a room is 8x10, then in the game I make it 1/2 that, so it would be 4x5).
I'm also pretty particular about what room you enter from the front door. Where I live, every house I've ever been in, you either enter into an entryway or the living room (never the kitchen or dining room!). So I will never D/L a house if the kitchen or dining room are in the front of the house because it's just odd to me because sometimes the rooms are too small to swap out and make the living room in the front, or I need to delete walls or add more room and by the time I've done that I might as well have just built it from scratch.
Featured Places
