How are your house building skills?

I love to build, and I build a lot. I think I'm pretty good at it, but I see other builders who are spectacular, so I still feel like there is a lot I can learn.

I'm usually building with a purpose, so it runs the full range of simple to complex depending on what it is and what it's needed for. I mostly work from photographs as reference. But sometimes I just start with a box and keep adding on.

This gives a basic idea from simple to complex what kind of stuff I've built from scratch:


Example exteriors:




Example interiors:




I feel like I am most comfortable with the interior decorating, and least comfortable with the landscaping. Building the structures lies somewhere in between for me.

I am so appreciative of the Gallery! I change wallpaper and furniture sometimes but I'm mostly just playing the game. Newcrest is nothing but gallery builds.

"PenguinFoop;c-18151702" wrote:

"SimplyJen;c-18151689" wrote:
I'm getting a lot better. I think my problem is knowing where to start. I can Google a house and build that but what does the back look like? or the floorplan? Stuff like that I still struggle with. For now I'm sticking with renovations.

Check out the video I think from lilsimsie. It's called something like The Magic Box. I do know that once I watched her video, I was hooked! My houses are all unique, some incredibly awesome but some are just awesome so results may vary.

Do you have a link to that video?

While I'm still working on roofs and landscaping, I can follow a set of plans, not to toot my own horn. I have purchased a few magazines from a Hard Ware big box store and it has scads of professional floorplans, complete with an artist rending front and back of the house. I consider them a challenge. If things don't work out, I will delete the badly placed wall and restart that section again. Sometimes, I go off-script, as it were, and create the second story to better suit my own needs. I tend to play large families. Some of the styles I like are only 3-4 bedrooms, tops. This is also how I learned to cake decorate. I copied cakes from the Wilton Cake Decorating magazines, until I learned enough to make trim decisions on my own.



ETA: Never mind that misplaced refrigerator It's merely a new concept. LOL That's what I call an oopsie. LOL

"GalacticGal;c-18152287" wrote:
While I'm still working on roofs and landscaping, I can follow a set of plans, not to toot my own horn. I have purchased a few magazines from a Hard Ware big box store and it has scads of professional floorplans, complete with an artist rending front and back of the house. I consider them a challenge. If things don't work out, I will delete the badly placed wall and restart that section again. Sometimes, I go off-script, as it were, and create the second story better to suit my own needs. I tend to play large families. Some of the styles I like are only 3-4 bedrooms, tops. This is also how I learned to cake decorate. I copied cakes from the Wilton Cake Decorating magazines, until I learned enough to make trim decisions on my own.

Spoiler

https://i.imgur.com/F6LmVB5.jpg
Same house as above, from the 'family room' to the formal living room view
https://i.imgur.com/82xBweg.jpg
Erik's Lair (Music Room)
https://i.imgur.com/ZSwODUS.jpg

The Jessica Fletcher house, I built from pictures of the Inn used for the front, and still pictures of the sets.
https://i.imgur.com/hbcSGxx.png
Inside the main floor of the Fletcher house:
https://i.imgur.com/B4T5PAK.jpg

Why is the fridge away from the wall next to the table?

I like to build desert appropriate Oasis Springs/Strangerville builds because I lived in New Mexico for almost a decade and I love the style. However for the most part I've given up on building. I have a few builders who I really like and follow and I end up using their builds instead. That being said, the only lots that I still use that are my own are my old desert builds. I should get back to that at least.

"catmando830;c-18152291" wrote:

"GalacticGal;c-18152287" wrote:
While I'm still working on roofs and landscaping, I can follow a set of plans, not to toot my own horn. I have purchased a few magazines from a Hard Ware big box store and it has scads of professional floorplans, complete with an artist rending front and back of the house. I consider them a challenge. If things don't work out, I will delete the badly placed wall and restart that section again. Sometimes, I go off-script, as it were, and create the second story better to suit my own needs. I tend to play large families. Some of the styles I like are only 3-4 bedrooms, tops. This is also how I learned to cake decorate. I copied cakes from the Wilton Cake Decorating magazines, until I learned enough to make trim decisions on my own.

Spoiler

https://i.imgur.com/F6LmVB5.jpg
Same house as above, from the 'family room' to the formal living room view
https://i.imgur.com/82xBweg.jpg
Erik's Lair (Music Room)
https://i.imgur.com/ZSwODUS.jpg

The Jessica Fletcher house, I built from pictures of the Inn used for the front, and still pictures of the sets.
https://i.imgur.com/hbcSGxx.png
Inside the main floor of the Fletcher house:
https://i.imgur.com/B4T5PAK.jpg

Why is the fridge away from the wall next to the table?

That is a very good question, that I cannot answer. Must have been one of those moments, where I was rearranging things and forgot to put it back before snapping the photo. :open_mouth: Also, I have since seen episodes of "Murder, She Wrote", that puts the fridge on a different wall from the photos shown in the blog. I will get back there and fix it at some point. In fact, it's almost as if the backdoor is on the opposite wall. :open_mouth:

@catmando830 Here's the link. I was wrong, she calls it the fancy box.

https://youtu.be/-4h8DICJuzM you can really get an idea of how to make truly unique houses with very little imagination. The boxes to most of the work.

I nearly chose "I can put in the pool," and now I wish I had. I can build a box, but I struggle to put the roof on it.

I *might* become a decent builder if I practiced. I really want(ed) to build the house I grew up in, where my parents still live. It's not a terribly complicated design--a series of rectangles--but after spending an hour trying to get the basic shape without success, I got frustrated and went back to Live mode. I could only imagine how long it would take me to lay out the rooms. And then I'd have to figure out how to install the stairs to the second floor.

I have good pictures of the house, besides the images that are forever in my mind, but I can't translate them into a structure in The Sims. I'm impressed with those of you who can do that, and more.

"PenguinFoop;c-18152300" wrote:
@catmando830 Here's the link. I was wrong, she calls it the fancy box.

https://youtu.be/-4h8DICJuzM you can really get an idea of how to make truly unique houses with very little imagination. The boxes to most of the work.

Thanks for the link. These EA EE's make it look so easy, but it's not. I'll try the 'box' thing next time I build.