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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #120 on: July 29, 2010, 09:10:22 PM »
Do you mean the slope of the land? I just placed a 40 x 40 block on Sunnyside Blvd in SV and built on the natural slope. The lower level walls are foundation walls on the high side, but change into normal walls where the ground is lower.
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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #121 on: July 30, 2010, 02:10:53 AM »
Hmm gonna give it a whirl.



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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #122 on: July 30, 2010, 02:24:44 AM »
Very nice Twinmom. 

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #123 on: July 30, 2010, 09:22:19 AM »
I uploaded my house to the exchange with a brief note about the moodlet. Yikes what an experience. I tried to add a note about placement of the house and the moodlet in the description, but it was too long. So I thought I'd make a blog post and then just direct people to it from the description. Has anyone used the blog feature on the main site? Seems you are limited there too as to how much you can put in one entry. I ended up having to make a couple of very short posts just to get basic info there. I think next time I build a house, if it has any quirks, i will just keep it for personal use lol

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #124 on: July 30, 2010, 04:57:02 PM »
Victory!  Thanks to Twinmum's tips I was able to raise the terrain on the front of a pre-set lot and and make the front of the house the 'main level' and the back of the house the 'lower level' - even though the back of the house is actually the unaltered part of the lot.  This is obviously just a trial house, just wanted to see if I could do it.  expect something amazing very soon :)






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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #125 on: July 30, 2010, 09:52:26 PM »
Looking forward to see what you come up with Tommy. Fancy me teaching the builder something lol
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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #126 on: July 30, 2010, 11:39:30 PM »
I still remember that little beach house/cottage you put up about a month ago :)  It's exciting seeing how many of our members are getting into building!



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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #127 on: July 31, 2010, 04:26:36 AM »
I have decided to move my family to a new house, since mine is so boring (it's like a box). I'm not capable of making an interesting one from scratch, but I enjoy renovating, so I looked through all the houses in riverview, sunset valley (is that what it's called), and I chose the big house on the hill with a back entrance onto a path in Riverview. It's big, and interesting, and I'll be making it even bigger (and hopefully more interesting). I'll show you what I do with it, but it's gonna take me a while.

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #128 on: July 31, 2010, 07:56:49 AM »
Hello my fellow sims loving people :)
I wanted to post a screen of a modern house I've made from scratch.
Had an idea in my head for some time which I worked on, finally made the idea and this is what came out :)
I've tried making it without any CC what so ever.
It has a very large area behind the red tree for  gardening :)
                              
                                


I'm also working on a medieval castle for my own satisfaction. I hope i can be forgiven for showing a screen of it for this time (forgive me since it contains CC stuff )




I love building from scratch, besides I don't do well with redecorating premade houses lol

Want to say that i really love most of the houses made from the others :) great work!

                            

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #129 on: July 31, 2010, 08:10:36 AM »
Oh, I do like that first one Wicked, very nice.

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #130 on: July 31, 2010, 08:42:55 AM »
Me too.  I'd like to download that first one if it doesn't have any third party content in it.  I'd like to give it a test drive to see if it's playable.  If you decide to upload it to the exchange, please give the link here.  Thanks much!
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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #131 on: July 31, 2010, 09:09:06 AM »
Hi Pam. and Norma :) thanks for the positive reply.

I did make the house with some cc, but removed most of them because my cousin wanted the house (didn't know how her game would react without downloading the cc herself so took it out and remodeled the area).

The house is tested by myself and I loved it, even though it takes ages to get from top level to car pool :p

Btw, I am not really into modern stuff, but I just wanted to make one for once :)

Unfortunately, I got some issues with exchange at the moment, else I would upload it for sure.

It's also first time I have uploaded a screenshot from any of my houses :) so I love getting anymore comments or other ideas for improvement.
I got more screens of the modern house from inside. If anyone wants to see just pm me :)

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #132 on: August 01, 2010, 05:52:32 AM »
This is the new room for my triplet girls who are about to age up to children.  It's at the Landgraab Mansion.

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #133 on: August 01, 2010, 08:12:30 AM »
That's a lovely room Pam.

I'm impressed by your castle WickedSimmer. How did you make it so tall? Did you buy the castle parts from the online store? It's very creative and realistic.

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #134 on: August 01, 2010, 08:25:21 AM »
Hey pallybdrome.

I don't remember anymore where I got the castle parts from :s

The lower section of the castle is actually the foundation where I used "moveobjects on" to put in windows and doors, etc. :)
I'm still working on getting the items to look like from medievel/victorian times. But it's a close call since I don't want to pay anymore for stuff.
I'll upload a pic once I'm done with some of the rooms :) if I'm allowed that is (remember it's included cc items).

 

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