OK, I know I am late with posting these. I just got DSL back though and it was too hard to upload anything with the snail pace of AOL dial-up. I truthfully had my remodels finished around the middle of July though. This one has three versions; one with a huge amount of CC, one with a fair amount of CC, and one with only a small amount of CC. All the pictures are of the Maximum CC version which to be perfectly honest is pretty muc unplayable even with RAM out the yinyang. It is just too slow to play, but I liked my "landscaping" and other embellishments for it. The medium CC one plays much better but the minimum CC one is obviously going to be the most playable. I kept the Menaceman light fix and Numenor's Carina light stairs and maybe a few recolors is all.


Front view


Right side view


Back view


Left side view


Playground area


Pond


Cook-out area


Basement pool and recreation area


First floor one bedroom apartment for a retired couple


Second floor efficiencies and common area for young singles or newlyweds


Third floor three bedroom three bath family apartment w/ guestroom/nursery bonus room

319 Chobee Park Road-Minimum CC http://www.box.net/shared/2n93ikas49
319 Chobee Park Road-Medium CC http://www.box.net/shared/nps4e0xant
319 Chobee Park Road-Maximum CC http://www.box.net/shared/udu0nc7pey

I am adding my second remake to this same post. It is a "Family Business" with their living quarters/Apartment above it. Yes I know Apartments did not allow this (big disappointment) but by re-zoning to Community to install the "Business" then back to Residential and finally to Apartments I got a functioning business as well as an apartment. Placing the apartment entrance as I have done at least gives the illusion of a family owned business. And yes, to get the proper effect I wanted, I had to use quite a bit of CC. In test play however, the lot played well at a good speed.


Front entrance


Right end view


Back view


Left end view


Roof view


Basement level


1st floor restaurant


2nd floor living quarters area


3rd floor living quarters area

''The Place'' @ 'ChobeePark http://www.box.net/shared/g97hvizx6e

I hope you enjoy these as much as I had fun doing them. 

ciane,
I like your take on this and think you have probably stayed truer to the spirit of the challenge than any of us because you didn't radically change the floorplan or enlarge the original house but simply altered it sufficiently to be unphail.

My own remakes are done but with dial-up I've just not had the patience to put them up. Maybe later today I'll "get 'er done".

319 Bella Park Road (Belladonna Cove) is UGLY! So it obviously gets MY vote.

allon's link to it worked. The other one did not with either ie or firefox. Gave same type error message with both.

Sorry, won't download.

Smaller is better. This one drove me mad being so big.

I do not think Sims3 should go in this thread though. Start a new one for it. I don't have it yet and don't know when (or if) I will get it. Not that anxious for it even if I was not currently too impecunious to afford it. Can't Arrr it either (even if I were so inclined) as I no longer have high speed.

Here is my submission for this month, probably the only one I'll do this time. It took me a long time to get it completed, plus I no longer have high speed and am relegated back to dial-up which takes forever to upload pictures and/or files to photobucket and box.net, increasing my frustration levels to level red. In fact I have not gotten pictures all uploaded to photobucket as yet and will post only one here (with a link) after I do.

http://photobucket.com/chobeegal
I have all EPs and SPs installed.
http://www.box.net/shared/8qfds6ugs6 (NO CC at all!)

OK, is this challenge now dead due to the arrival of Sims3?

I already explained that particular idiosencracy in an earlier post.
The trick to do this is to place a foundation surrounding the area you need to enclose, draw your fence on it then delete it and draw another fence at ground level directly below the other. Since a foundation can only be placed two spaces from lot edge there must always be that distance from the edge for your yard or garden.

Sorry but no. I thought of that as a possible solution so I tried that on your lot and it would not work.

Here's my Fifth (and maybe last) submission for this month. It is definitely not symetrical and is also quite a major departure from my usual, more traditional and conventional, exterior color scheme, but I like it a lot! There are two apartments; a one bedroom 1& 1/2 bath for a single or couple and a two bedroom 2 & 1/2 bath for a couple with 3 same sex (I decorated for girls) children. The CC included is only the recolored things necessary to achieve the proper effect. I play tested it quite extensively using several different family compositions.

Front

Back


Sides




First floor




Second floor

http://www.box.net/shared/dg3l1uh98v

This definitely would be the problem. To fix it you would either have to remove the second door from each apartment or put a closed fence around the area. The trouble with enclosing a fenced area is that with a foundation the fencing has to be done on two levels, and this can only normaly be done leaving two squares from lot edges. If your building is too close to lot edges it will not be possible to enclose a "garden" area.
EDIT: OK, after "diving into" the lot here is what I found; there was not just a problem with an unenclosed back door, there were doors from the "apartments" opening directly into the pond area. This can not be done, even if you "fence in" or completely enclose the pond. The game will view doors from the apartments into the pond area as accessing into each other, even if the pond is in between and completely seperating them. The pond can only be used as a "common area" with no direct access from the apartments. I was able with some alterations to get working apartments and keep the same basic "look" to your lot.

Errr, Pes, she did apologize/explain any bad spelling/grammar/punctuation in her initial posting...
e.g.

Like I said before; I've done a diagonal tub a number of times and never seen any problems in my games.

I have had my Sims decide to be nudists also, but it was not when or because of the use of the diagonal tub. I had mods to let them wear casual to work and to sleep nude and they were the culprits (maybe a conflict with another mod) because removing them cured the nudist problem.

I've done it a number of times and never seen any adverse effects on my games. But I'm no expert about coding etc. I am admittedly binary illiterate. And I can't even get HomeCrafter to work for me, though I actually did get SimPe to function for making some changes in my game. I had to remove SimPe though because it prevented me from downloading anything from the internet, Sims related or otherwise. So now when I want to use it for anything I have to instal it for whatever I use it to do and then remove it to restore functionality to my PC.

I'm not sure the shower works, I did it more for appearance than usability. I have used the tub with the shower in place with no problem. I believe the tub works with the curtains, I saw it done this way by someone else somewhere and I think I tested it out then. I know that Sims can still pass through arches that have curtains placed on them so I see no reason they could not use tub. If they can't, I'll be disappointed because it eliminates one more method of adding some realistic details.


Oops, I forgot that I used Inge's Stay Things Shrub in my test run (done in residential mode) to keep the furnishings from disappearing when I moved them out. But the mailboxes and garbage cans came in on the base lot because I forgot to clean install it this time. I frequently find extra CC mailboxes and garbage cans piggybacking on the lots I download here. I usually remember to uncheck them in clean installer though.

Primarily Irish and Scots ancestery, with a dash of Dutch thrown in for "seasoning". I married a Hispanic and my sister married an East Indian so our children are really a "Mulligan Stew". My niece is not married and does not plan to ever do so. My 3 daughters have married a man of German ancestery, one of Welsh ancestery, and one of English ancestery. I'm curious to see what diversity the next generation (my 8 grandchildren) brings into the family line. LOL

I tend to go with symmetry when creating apartments only because, here in the US at least, most apartment complexes are built with symmetrical or "mirror image" units. I assume it is because it costs less to do so. I would think getting an archetect to plan "individualized" units would be much more expense as well as time consuming and would require a lot more diversity of materials which would cut out any discounts or savings for purchasing materials in quantity.

So OK, here I go again with my fourth entry. And yes it is again symmetrical. Actually I might try doing something asymmetrical now, but am unsure if I will like it well enough to post. We'll have to wait and see. Some CC; mostly walls, floors and ceilings but also Menaceman's light fix and the Morroccan chair.


Front view


Back


Play area



Master Bedroom


Downstairs Bedrooms


Diningroom


Kitchen


Livingroom


Downstairs overview


http://www.box.net/shared/xcc06yd2fx

OK, I confess. This month I have contracted the dreaded inspiration virus. Here I present my third effort for this month's challenge; Chobee's Country Cypress Shack. I have uploaded only the CC version because without the CC I used in creation of this one it is going to not look at all right. The "Cypress" siding is actually "Cedar" but was the closest thing I could find to replicate the Cypress that used to be used for much of the building in this part of Florida. It was used because it would last longer in this climate than any imported wood, but it is now illegal to harvest and use Cypress lumber. The only Cypress available now is if it comes from the dismantling of old houses and barns. There are some Cypress homes and buildings over 100 years old still in use around here and most are now declared for historical preservation.

For the photos I changed the street to gravel and lanscaped over the sidewalks. The street has to be redone as well as the sidewalk remnants also every time you enter to play the lot. I know there are people who have made mods to permanently alter streets and sidewalks, but I don't have any of those and don't know how to make them myself.


Front view


Side front view


Back view




Foundation (ground) level






First floor living areas


Second floor bedrooms


Third floor bedrooms


Fourth floor bedrooms


Play tested by S. W. and Hattie Blackwater

http://www.box.net/shared/5edjkr047p (CC)

Here is my second presentation for this month's remodel, Chobee Bungalow Apartments. I am attaching both the version in photos that has some CC and which is the play tested version, as well as a "cleaned" version which of course required some replacement items for the CC I had used. I have all EPs and SPs.


Front view


Back view


End view


Overhead view











http://www.box.net/shared/c0bn6kisf9 (CC)
http://www.box.net/shared/639tqmsav3 (Clean)

The only time porches could not be changed or demolished was when they were specifically restricted in the bonus rules. In this month's lot there are no restrictions of them.

Here is what I came up with for this. Actually it is my second effort. I realized I absolutely hated my first attempt after I got it done, so I nuked it into cyber oblivian. I like this though, but I did use some CC in building it the way I really liked best so I am posting two versions; one with the CC (which is in the pics) included and one clean version. I have all EPs and SPs installed and no idea what I might have used from which of them. I just kind of went with a green theme that might have been more appropriate for a month and a half ago.  Oh, well so what...Kiss Me, I'm Irish!


Front


Back


Second Floor


Ground Floor

http://www.box.net/shared/gn0uyr14q7 (CC)
http://www.box.net/shared/psstz7o942 (Clean)

I had no problem downloading without having to sign up. In fact I downloaded it twice because I closed without saving the first time because the phone rang and I forgot I hadn't saved when I came back.

pentabet, DL is now fine. Thank-you. 

Posted download has only 390 bytes

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But methinks I like Giggy's definition better. LOL