Preferrable Houses
ZiggyDoodle:
Call me Polly Paranoia; no downloads allowed; I build my own houses.
Probably the result of being warned as a child not to take candy from strangers.
Dark Trepie:
First and most important thing: Three bedrooms and two baths. I like making all of my couple have two kids, a boy and a girl. (although this has backfired quite a few times with the second pregnancy ending up as twins... >:()
Second: Small to medium. Two floors or less. Something that won't make my 384 megs of RAM cry. (I will be upgrading this. Most likely around Christmas)
Third: Reasonably priced. Some of these sims won't ever see $100k. Though I am at the point where I've memorized most of the right answers to most of the chance cards...
Forth: I like some furnishings as a way to tell me what the room is supposed to be used for. I swear, some of these Maxis pre-mades says it has three bedrooms, but for the life of me I can't find the damn third bedroom.
Lately I've been going through the exchange looking for houses with driveways. But they're few and far in between. I'd love to find something with a two car garage, but it looks like I'll have to build one for myself.
Speaking of building myself. My mom recently went to a Jim Walter Homes dealership and brought back a large stack of floor plans. (They sell pre-manufactured homes that they build on site, so they kinda are real houses...I guess. Kinda hard to explain) Although converting some of these measurements on the diagrams to the squares in the game is proving difficult at times. Some of the decks have angled stairs. And you can't attach a garage to a house with a foundation, unless there's some boolprop cheat I'm missing.
buddha pest:
The more bathrooms the better! At least three. Always.
Unfurnished, even of lights, because people are always putting in light fixtures that clash with the wallpaper. NO.
And yes, big enough bedrooms for double beds. What are people thinking when they make these teeny-tiny bedrooms? I like big airy rooms in general anyway.
And for the love of god, no weirdly placed shrubs that the gardener can't get to. I swear every single house I download ends up having those. Before the no route fail hack, I used to go looney listening to the gardener scream all day.
Ness:
speaking of cars with double garages... here is one that a friend made for me.
sparsely furnished, enough to give you the idea of what each room is, what is there may not be to your taste, but I liked it pretty much as is... all because I grumbled about not having space for a third car, so she built me a house with space for 4!
there's a couple that I've done, but I'm nowhere near the standard of this one!
Ness
nectere:
Generally speaking I only download wild feats of building imagination, enormous castles, crazy building techniques, specialty buildings like a clipper ship or some really cool looking cathedral. I never play these lots and I usually just plunk them down some place safe, figure out how they were built and then bulldoze/delete them, then try to build something better from the technique I just discovered.
Building is ultimately really the only reason why sims continues to keep my interest. I procreate my sims simply so I can build a new house and see how it plays.
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