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#1 Old 16th Dec 2014 at 5:54 AM
I suck at building houses
OK I can build small and simplistic houses. But anything large and/or fancy, I just can't make it work, because it quickly becomes horribly inefficient.

I tried to replicate a large colonial mansion from "Gone with the Wind" buuuut failed miserably, because the whole thing was just wasted space and took forever to get around in, and my pets keep getting lost inside.

Guess it's just cottages for my poor simmies. I suck at building.
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Mad Poster
#2 Old 16th Dec 2014 at 7:41 AM
I'm the same way. I remember the first house I made for a large sim family - it was like a gigantic barn.
I find it hard to get the proportions right - where it's not too small, but also not wasted space. And I hate having to tear almost the whole thing down so that it can be resized.
In 5 years I've built like two Victorian houses that I like - and one of them doesn't fit very well with any of the worlds I have; the other I've used over and over.
Test Subject
#3 Old 16th Dec 2014 at 8:20 AM Last edited by Charming Rogue : 16th Dec 2014 at 6:55 PM.
Quote: Originally posted by Le Carrera
OK I can build small and simplistic houses. But anything large and/or fancy, I just can't make it work, because it quickly becomes horribly inefficient.

I tried to replicate a large colonial mansion from "Gone with the Wind" buuuut failed miserably, because the whole thing was just wasted space and took forever to get around in, and my pets keep getting lost inside.

Guess it's just cottages for my poor simmies. I suck at building.


Your not alone, I've also had problems with building. I've found an way round this. I mostly customize houses that are in the house bin, on lots or those that I have down loaded to the way I want them.
Mad Poster
#5 Old 16th Dec 2014 at 3:22 PM
I hate building so much. Unless I Google search house exteriors they look like utter balls.
Alchemist
#6 Old 16th Dec 2014 at 3:51 PM
I have never built a big house and I never will and I too hate building. I mean I get quite proud when I build a house of 2-3 bedrooms, livingroom, kitchen and bathroom and it does not look like a pile of shit but that's pretty much it.
Scholar
#7 Old 16th Dec 2014 at 4:10 PM
Yeah, I'm terrible at building. I enjoy it but I suck so much. I seem to be doing better recently at avoiding huge boxes of doom, though.

One of my friends is great at building. I'm jealous.
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#8 Old 16th Dec 2014 at 4:25 PM
I suck at building as well. I blame my childhood house, which was a rectangle of doom. I've had no positive house models. *sob*

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#9 Old 16th Dec 2014 at 5:30 PM
I once tried to make a high class escort agency in Monte Vista, I failed and the house looked like a pile of shit.

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#10 Old 16th Dec 2014 at 8:46 PM
I love building houses and I'm pretty good at small to medium size homes. Once you get into the larger homes, I'm in trouble. The sizes just go way out of proportion and for the most part, it takes my sims forever and a day to get around it. Like they really like going to the farthest bathroom (usually the 3rd floor) even if there is one right beside them already. That's where I get really frustrated so I've kept it to small and medium houses I also build from plans so that I have something to go by and not get crazy and make a horribly ugly house I find I'm better at renovating large to mansion type houses, not building them from scratch.

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#11 Old 16th Dec 2014 at 11:06 PM
Tell me about it. I just like to decorate, so sometimes I'll go to an empty lot and make one room I've had in my head and call it quits. The few times I've made houses I actually semi enjoy, I usually end up forgetting to put in a bathroom, or have nowhere to put the stairs. That and I'm really impatient. Building just takes so long, and if it crashes you're screwed.
Lab Assistant
#13 Old 17th Dec 2014 at 1:00 AM
I started by building from house plans and after enough experience you gain a sense for what is needed, and what layouts work best for you. It's a good way to learn. I mostly prefer to build small to medium houses, though. I suck at landscaping - house plans haven't helped me much with that!
Field Researcher
#14 Old 17th Dec 2014 at 1:19 AM
I consider myself the worst build to have ever entered the Sims franchise. I can only build houses in a square form... Which I later then just remove again because they just look ewww. And don't come telling me I'll learn how to build here, I've played The Sims for nearly 10 years now, I got no hope left in becoming a somewhat decent builder. The only decent house I ever created was copied almost 1:1 from a YT video. Also, landscaping. I want a small pond to fish in? The entire lot is now water. I want a small hill to build on? The entire lot is now Mount Everest.

Decorating inside of houses is something else, I can make it look kinda nice on the inside, all cozy and stuff. Decorating is yes, building is a big NOOOOO.
#15 Old 17th Dec 2014 at 6:27 AM
I wonder if this might help the Mansion builders get some idea of scale ... Here is a mansion I made a while ago, it will sleep up to eight sims and it's only on a 40x40 lot. It's totally playable and it doesn't take sim hours to get around. Maybe a look at the floor plans might help some people with an idea of the space needed.
Lab Assistant
#17 Old 17th Dec 2014 at 8:33 PM
I'm decent, for the most part. Most of my homes are one extreme or the other....super modern or super old......as of late in trying to stick with midcentury, in Riverview. I'm not good with super sized homes at all....the house will turn out ok or the landscape will, never both, and sometimes it just looks plain awkward.
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#18 Old 17th Dec 2014 at 9:00 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Le Carrera
I suck at building.

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#19 Old 17th Aug 2017 at 10:55 PM
I stink at making buildings too. I want to build so many things but the only thing I am good at building is square rooms. I had this one idea for a museum but as if that is ever going to happen and at least look nice. The house my sims are living in now is a bit modern nothing too fancy. White house with windows everywhere.
Mad Poster
#20 Old 19th Aug 2017 at 5:01 AM
I love to build and have done hundreds of builds. I usually/often run a family of 8 but still like medium size houses best. I like to see where my sims are easily. And I have all things of interest on the first floor and just bedrooms and baths on the higher levels. For me simpler rather than complicated works best for gameplay. That works the best for me and so I use that method most often.
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#21 Old 19th Aug 2017 at 12:08 PM
Quote: Originally posted by catnapper2
I stink at making buildings too. I want to build so many things but the only thing I am good at building is square rooms. I had this one idea for a museum but as if that is ever going to happen and at least look nice. The house my sims are living in now is a bit modern nothing too fancy. White house with windows everywhere.


That was the hole reason to necro this thread? Read the guidelines next time you post

For this subject you can just start a new thread. This is a chatting forum after all. Just don't start too many at once.
Lab Assistant
#22 Old 19th Aug 2017 at 5:01 PM
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#23 Old 19th Aug 2017 at 6:08 PM Last edited by Emmett Brown : 20th Aug 2017 at 1:14 AM.
yeah.. dead threat thread brought back to life...

Two kinds of houses: pretty houses (that often have too many triangles and make your map view look like crap) and playable houses. What I mean is, the "Goth" house looks good, but if your sims have to go outside to do an interaction, it's not really playable.

There are many tutorials on Mod the Sims on how to build houses.
http://www.modthesims.info/wiki.php...lding_Tutorials

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#24 Old 20th Aug 2017 at 12:24 AM
Just embrace your inner box nature, is my advice. Most houses in the real world are boxes anyway.

It took me 8 years to reach some kind of truce between me and Build Mode and only recently I began to build more. All in all, however, there are maybe 10 houses that I've built from scratch myself, so far.

My biggest sins are: I tend to build and decorate symmetrically - boring; and my outsides and insides never agree: once I get the outside half-way right I realise that the stairs don't fit, there's not enough space for a nice bathroom or that the living room is an assortment of mismatched walls. But I love my houses nevertheless - because they're mine and I made them.
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#25 Old 20th Aug 2017 at 12:33 AM
The main reason I finally got around to putting sims in my worlds was so that when I finished a new lot my poor husband wouldn't end up discovering the hard way that I had the tubs in backwards and the swimming pool had some kind of routing issue where they could find the way in but not back out. (Which really happened in Sims 2. It seemed to be caused by having a diagonal foundation wall too close to a straight wall, and was another example of the "I'm lost in my own back yard!" syndrome, which I was also very good at.)

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