How are your house building skills?

Some of my builds aren't bad, some of them end up bulldozed :D

All of my builds are always playable though, so at least that is one good point lol.

I confidently picked "getting off the ground" but then my critical mind told me I should have chosen "I can build a box". But I really think I've gotten better than that. Really. Maybe? :/

Ok, I picked the wrong option... but my interiors are really nice. I still think I've gotten beyond "box".

It's an everlasting work in progress. I can build a box, and always usually does. Have learned, after all this time, to build my boxes seperately in Sulani, choose their foundation, then combine them to stop said foundation from reverting. Got quite annoying when one tried to reach the foundation in the middle of the house.

I rarely find myself satisfied in the end though. Both with building and decoration. I've yet to find the middle ground between large empty rooms and cluttered closets.

a new problem is that I have fear of spiders
and i watched tv show with spider horror
cause i thought it was gonna be okay but it totally wasn't
and now I can't stop seeing spiders in everything unrelated again :sweat:

= no more round windows on round builds for simmingal this year
all because it vaguely resembles zoomed in spider face p_p
rest in peace realm of magic windows

I'll be back... one day

Oh, i had fun reading through this thread! I have been interested in building lately, in fact my latest play sessions were mostly spent in build mode. I am still so new to it, and not close to being good, but i have a lot of fun exploring things and messing around. Landscaping is still hard to do for me though, i dont know where to begin and how to end, and how to make it look pleasing. i feel like i end up making it look empty, lacking, messy, unnatural, and lets just say not good overall :D Hmm, i should have probably picked not good at all lol.

I build when I tire of a difficult sim. I enjoy building and more favorite style has to be ranch. Everything's on one stinking floor, lol. I still suffer from the bouncing betty camera so many times I find myself building basements rather than fight with a second floor.

I also love downloading from the gallery then redoing the houses, community lots...sorry. I enjoy redecorating an EA build because, they are horrible for my style.

Probably the most fun I've had building and decorating is with the Eco Lifestyle ep. I can furnish an entire house with the stuff from this pack, not so much others.

I hardly ever upload to the gallery because of my love affair with custom content. My houses look great but non uploadable. I just play for myself anyway.

My style has to include at least 2 exits from each room...shell shock from building in Sims 3. Most houses are small to medium with a max bedrooms of 1-2. I don't play large families normally, 3-4 sims in a house is plenty for me.

"Kbobster;c-18153092" wrote:
Yay! I figured out how to put pictures on here! Here are my builds. The tan house is 1870s Second Empire. This style is mostly found in the Midwest. Although, there are few in other locations. Mine was a coastal/southern one.
The colorful one next to it is an 1880s Queen Anne style, Painted Lady specifically. I could be wrong, but I feel that these are more common in California. (Painted Lady, not Queen Anne).
And the blue one is another Queen Anne with a more general palette, which can be found anywhere. This one is from the 1890s in my mind. I'm creating a Turn-Of-the-Century Queen Anne, but I got tired of it. You can see it next to the 2nd Empire.

https://i.imgur.com/PRtRx0h.png

Love the colorful Queen Ann - please post the Gallery link, or what they are named, and/or your gallery name. - thanks

"Kbobster;c-18153101" wrote:

"catmando830;c-18153095" wrote:

"Kbobster;c-18153092" wrote:
Yay! I figured out how to put pictures on here! Here are my builds. The tan house is 1870s Second Empire. This style is mostly found in the Midwest. Although, there are few in other locations. Mine was a coastal/southern one.
The colorful one next to it is an 1880s Queen Anne style, Painted Lady specifically. I could be wrong, but I feel that these are more common in California. (Painted Lady, not Queen Anne).
And the blue one is another Queen Anne with a more general palette, which can be found anywhere. This one is from the 1890s in my mind. I'm creating a Turn-Of-the-Century Queen Anne, but I got tired of it. You can see it next to the 2nd Empire.

https://i.imgur.com/PRtRx0h.png

Love the colorful Queen Ann - please post the Gallery link, or what they are named, and/or your gallery name. - thanks

I'm K-Bobster in the gallery.(the colorful house is named: 1889 Queen Anne) Sorry, I don't know how to put the link. It's a haunted house, but you can change it in Build Mode. If you're unsure how to do it, I can walk you through it,

Found them - thanks

btw does anyone else really struggle building single story houses that don't just look like boredom box on the outside

I've been thinking of making some for my wolves since the stairs slow them down but I just can't find magic in single story

I feel like I at least need to make small attic to break the shape

"Simmingal;c-18153137" wrote:
btw does anyone else really struggle building single story houses that don't just look like boredom box on the outside

I've been thinking of making some for my wolves since the stairs slow them down but I just can't find magic in single story

I feel like I at least need to make small attic to break the shape

Well you can always do like I do, I like the look of multiple story houses, but I hate to play in them, so I remove everything upstairs so they have no reason to go upstairs, sometimes I even remove the actual stairs to give me more room, so from the outside it looks appealing and multi-storied but inside the living space is actually just on one floor.