What's your Landscaping Style?

I like lots and lots. I like cluttered homes and lots of landscape outside. I try to blend it in with the off the lot area though.

I don't enjoy building all that much, so I don't think about landscaping very often.

I love doing the interiors of my builds, and will spend hours decorating rooms, but for some odd reason I rarely do much with the exteriors. There are a few exceptions, but often I don't even notice for a long time that I left the yard completely empty.

@Karababy52 In the case of the pictures you show, I think it looks beautiful the way it is. The minimal look goes well with the architecture style, and it also looks like it blends nicely with the surrounding landscape (outside the lot area) which also has a somewhat sparse vegetation look. I think putting in more would start to make it look out of place.

I love lush gardens and lots of different areas. I voted medium but I suspect most people would thing I’m actually doing maximum. Sparse just looks unfinished to me. But it’s just my personality, there’s nothing minimal about me or what I enjoy lol

Thank you @GlacierSnow for that critique! That's what I was thinking too. I thought about filling it up with trees or something to give it a 'hidden' look, but to me it just looked too cluttered that way. Thanks to those who have voted so far too, I know I just posted this but the results are interesting, different than what I expected.

Looks fine to me, though I may add some bushes or flowers to the front. Landscaping for me is something that builds up over time, but I like a lot of open space!

I tend to not like clutter and "every square filled". When I'm building for Gallery upload, I put in just enough for it to not look completely empty, and plenty of space for people to add their own stuff. This goes for both interior and outside. I like lots of open space too :)

Your build looks lovely the way it is, with a modern, clean look. As others have said, maybe a few bushes or flowers at the front would add that lil bit extra. I'd go there for a spa-day myself :D

If landscape was something we had to maintain I might do more just for the challenge, but as it is now I prefer minimal landscaping. I'm into gardening so I like to use all my extra space for gardening.

Never really saw the appeal of having a cluttered exterior and won't be any help in that regard, though I do like creating pathways and different angles by utilizing hedges and flowers. I hate squeezing by a bunch of plum spaced stuff just to get from point A to point B in RL, so it just bleeds over into the game, haha....

I think your lot is just fine without adding anything extra, in a way it allows the design to speak for itself. But if you must, maybe placing a medium sized shrub around the sides or a couple flower beds and stones around the pond. The seating area is nice and would be enough for me.

Thank you @WildIrishBanshee, the front does need something, I agree, and also you make a good point. Landscaping usually evolves over time for my Sims as well. Mostly because the majority of them start out with nothing, just a bare lot R2R style.

Once they earn some simoleons, I'll start building. They usually have a good size garden by then and I'll build them a greenhouse when they can afford it. I'll add some trees, flowers, perhaps window boxes, maybe a back patio/BBQ area, very rarely a pool and that's it. Since most of my Sims houses are one story on small lots, any more than that and it starts to look very crowded.

Using that mentality on bigger lots, like this venue, it would probably look very sparse so perhaps that's why I'm questioning whether I need more landscaping? So I don't know if I truly do need more landscaping to accommodate the bigger 'yard' because of my aforementioned playstyle holding me back or not. lol

Aw, Thank you @Kathykins for saying that! I can't wait to send my Sim there once it's finished. She has to make a few more tubs first to pay for the build though. lol I'm building this venue as part of the Shipwrecked Challenge by @Jendowoz0612 . As others have said along with you, I do think it needs some shrubs or flowers along the front. Next time I go in game I'll see what I can do about that.

@Goth583 99% of my Sims have gardens too. I love gardening in this game. Well, except for grafting now since it was borked.

@AceOfKnaves I think I'm a bit claustrophobic in that sense as well, I like a lot of open spaces to move around. Could be because I live in the country in real life too and we own a lot of land, more than half of which is a forested field with trails cut in it. Thanks for your suggestions, I'll try that out too!

Thanks for all the suggestions and comments so far everyone! <3