Just like with normal paintings you need to use Ctrl+Alt or moveobjects on to place more than one on the same wall. Naturally, Apartment Life is required.
Please try out and let me know of any problems.

(additional attachment in post below)

UPDATE 2008-09-08: New version of easelpainting hack attached. Remove the old one.

UPDATE 2008-09-15: More stuff added, see this post.

UPDATE 2008-11-21 Three more packages here
Update 2: Mirrors

UPDATE 2008-11-26 Kids activity table drawing added.

UPDATE 2008-12-11 Collected all files in a rar file, and removed the single downloads. No new hacks added.
Included:
Wall-hung signs
Easel painting
Photos - Photobooth, Uni cam, BV cam
Curtains
Big and small wall TV's
Wall mounted fish
FT craftables - potholder, plate, kids drawing
Deeds
BV maps
Speakers
Mirrors (most)
Alarms
Wall vents

UPDATE 2009-01-07: Added Bon Voyage souvenir shelf to package.

UPDATE 2010-06-29: Added fix for the shiftable curtains, made by leesester. See this post.

Yeah, mee too. But I did find that Inge's automatic cash register works though.
The Perfume stand and dog collar display had the menu still disabled, but it worked to buy groceries, magazines and videogames.
Jewelery worked, but it didn't make any sound or show the amount being deducted.

My neighbors used the resturant podium autonomously but very rarely with the resturantbarfix hack from here.
EDIT: In my first apartment/restaurant building I had forgotten to put furniture in the neigbors apartments, and all they did was eat until they passed out. So perhaps you can experiment with not having kitchens in restaurant buildings except for in the active apartments. But do put in beds!

You need to bring the bottom wall where the door is up to full height.
Turn on the floorelevation cheat.
Build a wall square in the yard, and drag with the level tool from that to the outer part of your entry room:



Then flatten the level above , and you should be able to place your door. (The wall closest to the house will be warped.)

EDIT: Basically what Zazazu just said, with a pic. Missed her post.

No, the sims can enter the yard just fine, they just walk through the invisible fence. (Or a solid fence too actually.) I think this is because as soon as they are on the stair the game considers them to be on the ground level, and since the fence is on the foundation level it's not blocking them.

I tried the split level yard entry as well, it definitely has its uses.

Yeah, the shadow fits neatly around the solid steps though:


However, if the foundation is is not 4 clicks high (or 8,12 etc) then the stair ends "mid-grid" and there will be ugliness.

The fence I linked to has no shadow when placed directly on the ground, but I think all partitions do if you go up one floor, even the otherwise shadowless greenhousewalls.

There are other ways though, cc free, but with other drawbacks.
Take a normal fenced-in yard, line the inside of the fence with foundation:


Then build a fence along the foundation edge, and delete foundation:


This way you can actually take advantage of the silly "room divider is a wall"-thing, and use that as the top fence, hiding it inside the bottom one.
The drawbacks are that you can't go to the lot edge, and since the foundation level yard area now counts as a room it will raise the rent considerably.


I think those two are only recolorable through the CEP?

I just posted a possible solution in the apartment borkiness thread.

Also found one custom door that made it impossible to turn a lot into apartment, so if you can't see anything wrong, try replacing cc with regular stuff.

I did some experimenting with this and found some workarounds.
The easiest one requires an invisible fence, the one I tested with is Niol's at MTS2. (First in the download list.)

So, you have your house with the fenced in yard; instead of adding stairs, add extra foundation where you want the stairs to be.


Now, add the invisible fence so that the foundation is completley framed. ( I used a stone fence instead so you would be able to see it )


Then remove the extra foundation again, and use the moveobjects on cheat to place the stairs in the gap.


Now you should be able to turn it in to an apartment if nothing else is wrong. I haven't had the problem that zazazu has with normal fenced-in areas, I did however have one custom door that didn't work in apartments, while others were fine.

With invisible fence and and a testing sim:

Batelle, I like that your house has a very "real home" feeling to it. Warm, like floopyboo said.


It is possible with moveobjects on, but I don't know of any way to have a wall or fence at the end. I think I saw some EAxis house from the base game or some early EP that had it though.
Maybe it was a house in Pleasantville? I haven't had them in my game for ages so I can't remember though, sorry.

Nice entries everyone.

Heh Annan, I also made a yellowish house with the old entrance glassed in, but with plants

It has 2 bedrooms + nursery and 3 bathrooms and costs §107,272.
All EP's, no stuff packs.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that the edges have been flattened with the lot adjuster.

Download




Front


Lounge


Old Entrance


Kitchen


Gamesroom

Floorplans:






More pics

Aw, thanks everyone, glad you liked it. It's nice to get out of my normal building routine with the constricts of the challenge.

Forgot to mention a few things: there's paved room for a driveway, but no actual driveway since I went the season only route. Visistors ring on the ground floor arch. Oh, and I forgot to put lights in the bathroom of the pool area I think  .

I really like the houses extending over the pond as in Witch's and Kchan's, and I love the airiness of Hecubus' house.
Will be fun to watch the other entries coming in.

Hey everyone. Recent delurker here.

Nice entries all!
I thought I should give this a go. So, here is my attempt. Some elements from awesomespecs are here such as lockable kitchen and staircase, the one desk and a perimeter fence.
It's 3 bedrooms + nursery and 3 bathrooms.
The ground floor is made into a semi-basement with the help of a deck.

Front


Side


Back


Main area


Pool area with workout equipment


Bedroom


Slideshow with more pics

It only uses seasons EP.

Furnished §142,552
Unfurnished §59,828

It's the first time I've shared a lot, but hopefully all goes well.

Ah, thanks. I did a version with that slot and child node in the cres, but gave up when I saw that there was no debug option to break the stereos. So I wasn't sure what positions to put in.

I thought that was what I did as well. Was it not working properly?
Yours is still  better with the recoloring enabled , I'm just curious what I did wrong?


No, the problem was with this one,  but nevermind. It's probably fixed in Lord Darcys version or it doesn't need fixing.

The effects while music is playing is working now i think, however there's another effect in the other stereos that is visible in the broken state.
I will look at that one tomorrow.

Try this out in the meantime.

EDIT: New version available in Lord Darcy's post further down or Kabutos collection.

If you placed it on a lot and later updated to the FT-version then perhaps you need to sell/rebuy?
I redownloaded both the one in this download and this one (they are the same version, tried both just in case), and they both worked as they should.

Whoa, great job kabuto!

I noticed though that it's not the right curtain version. Some other objects may/may not be the latest, so I suggest to use the ones from this post instead:
OUTDATED
Lots of them will be the same as those in your file, but just to be on the safe side with the fixes.

Oh and I did a quick count on the store page, and yes, it matches with your count .

I'm confused now I must have missed some posts.
Were did you get the different rug sizes?

Or perhaps you have duplicates of the rug and curtain?
Havelock changed the names with his fixes:
Rug_Cubic3x3 -> Rug_Cubic2x3
Rug_Deco3x3 -> Rug_Deco2x3
Curtains_DecoTwoTile -> Curtains_Deco

There are just 17 deco and 15 cubic that are exclusive, but then we also have the freetime updated stuff that ea can't be bothered with.

Just so no one thinks that they are missing something .

I think the packages in this post are complete now, and there haven't been any more problems reported:

OUTDATED

Oh that's great Lord Darcy.
I've updated the two collections and the FT version in my post.

Thanks havelock for the collected hair.

And a BIG thanks to all you guys who had to pay for the stuff!

Yeah, they're in there as well.


Good about the bed. If you downloaded the set today in the post on this page then the curtain is the fixed version by havelock. If it's from an older set I suggest to re-download, I had varying test results myself with the older one I did.

Allright, I Think I have collected all of the latest files in the object sets.
They are fixed by Havelock, BastDawn, Lord Darcy and myself.

Decoset: OUTDATED
Cubicset: OUTDATED

And the bookcase and TV updates by Richief ONLY IF YOU HAVE FREE TIME:
OUTDATED

If I have forgotten anyone, or any updates, please slap me.

I haven't kept track of the hairs and clothes so hopefully someone else collects them.

EDIT: the downloads now include Lord Darcy's recolorable bookcase and deco painting.

Ok. I'll look at the table and then perhaps I should make a new download with all the latest versions of the files in both sets so it's easier to find.

Hehe, actually all straight curtains I try to clone actually have that "urtainGlobal" Silly EA.
After more tries it seems my fixed version works after all and you don't actually need that lead tile but since yours work too there's no need to reupload it.
I was wrong again. Oddly it works on some walls in my game but not on others. Well well...

Was the problem with the ground/wallshadow fixed in your coffeetable?

EDIT: On a side note; has anyone had any luck with running the compressorizer on these files?

Actually that wasn't the problem, the problem was with the semi global. And there's a fixed one on the last page .
The lead tile isn't necsessary on a one-tile object if you change the 0x00A and 0x00B fields in the OBJD to 0.
EDIT: In the case of the curtain this is true. There may be other objects that references the lead tile in the code I think.
EDIT2: Nevermind I was sure when I tried the fixed one yesterday that it was working but perhaps I should have just gone to sleep.
Download Havelocks curtains people!

Katratzi, I don't see anything wrong in my game with the bed recolors, and nothing that is obvious in the file either.
Does anyone ele have the problem with the stripes on the double bed flashing blue in live mode?