How are your house building skills?

I like building, but I definitely have a specific set of priorities that make it hard for me to take a real house and turn it into a Sims house. Especially when I'm playing a large family, I don't want to be constantly spinning around trying to figure out what my Sims are doing, so when I build and decorate, almost everything tends to be oriented so I can see it from one angle.

I did recreate my own house in the Sims once, but that house is basically just a box in real life, with a little porch stuck on, so it wasn't terribly difficult.