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Wow..impressive. You wrote this at 4:19 am in my Monday...lol
I should start building.
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From the top:
(NB: The couch under the stairs if fully usable)
Inside - downstairs:
All mod cons in the kitchen including dishwasher and trash compactor
Upstairs:
The exercise mat
The small gym (with wallpaper on one side to make it feel like James is competing) and the random object.
Finally the garden:
Not shown (no pics left) but at the foot of the stairs is Jim's gold trophy for a national event, and a phone on the wall next to the fridge.
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Some flowers for you - I actually picked them myself in RL over the weekend
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yavannatw. Mr. Evans has quite the sleek, modern dwelling! I can imagine many. many people would really like a place like that. I think I wouldn't have minded staying in that sort of place back when I was a single young thing!
Justpetro, such pretty flowers!
AndrewGloria ... Cassie works from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM. There is a slight period before and after when Molly would be unsupervised. Cassie hired a nanny for an hour in the morning to make sure Molly gets to school. Molly is unsupervised for an hour before Cassie returns, but Molly is a responsible person and usually just takes a nap. If there is a problem, her cousin Joanne Newman is right next door. (I turned off the viewable neighbors feature because those buildings are really distracting in the pictures.) If this was real life, I could imagine Cassie simply going over there to play with the animals until Mom returns. In the story in my mind, Joanne has guardianship of the child should something happen to Cassie. (When my kids were young, arranging guardianship was that issue that scared the crap out of me, but had to be done. You have to make sure your kiddos are in good hands should something happen.)
Cassie is not seeking promotion at the time because she wants her hours to be as close to Molly's as possible. Both live frugally.
I did give Cassie a little more than the 50,000 Simoleons at the start because in real life, you usually don't spend every penny on a house. However, the little extra I gave them would have run out in a couple of weeks if Cassie didn't get a job.
I've been seeing that while my pictures are within the guidelines for the size, I can use a slightly larger size. I might do that for the price picture before I leave. It will be a little larger than the other pics, but on my testing machine, that price is TINY! "Sall right with the host and judges? I don't think they judge picture uniformity!
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@NatteryakToad - Fabulous treehouse =D
@whoward69 - So Cute =D
@MystAngel - So interesting to look at O.O
@yavannatw - I Love you modern look =]
@gazania - Your Dutch Colonial is adorable =D
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Getting ready for our Judgement Party! Drinks and cupcakes (made by my daughter!) for all Inspired by a profile pic around here somewhere...
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I think I'll wait for discussion to expand at least to the next page; there are already two entries on this page, so maybe I should give more space to those entries and not bury them with new one. Edit: Aaaaad I started the new page.
Gazania, the canopy/pavilion totally stole the show! Absolutely love it! :lovestruc And the building style is pretty credible, but I wouldn't expect otherwise considering how thoroughly you approach each round.
Yavannatw, especially love the shape of a bathroom downstairs, stairs and how the couch lies beneath them (suppose it's fully usable like that?).
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Strange that whoward should mention a cantilevered house. This house was mostly based on a cantilevered building plan. I had a time with the roof. The original plan was a V-roof with the roof forming a V on top of the house. But structurally, unless there is a really, really good drainage system, that would be a disaster in real life. I knew of a building where, because of a builder mess-up, the roof formed a very slight V. It didn't last long. Water pooled in the middle of the roof and the owner had serious structural problems in no time. The owner took the builder to court for it and won ... that's how serious it was.
A flat roof looked .... flat ... with the boxy structure, so I went with a slanted roof. I tried slanting on the other side, but it looked odd. I would have had to research further whether the roof I used would have been OK with a cantilevered building. But I have to quit almost all building after this now until Round 4. I just have too much to do. I do see a slanted roof here: http://homedesignlover.com/architec...levered-houses/ I might have gone with a flat roof at the end.
If I get something in the judges' comments that I can easily fix today or Sunday with the Elliotts, I will do that, but otherwise, I'll have to hope they won't be too, too hard on me in Round 3.
This building is a little incomplete. I'd put this at around 92% ready. I probably would have used a custom ceiling. No major routing issues, except for those in normal real-life ones when three people want to use the shower at the same time and there are only two bathrooms with showers. I did test routing pretty thoroughly. No time for paintings and photos for the walls; hence, no paintings and photos. There would have been had I just a few more days.
The Lamberts (Unofficial Round 3 entry) ... the rest of the pictures. I am still keeping this in here in case I did something wrong with the Elliott lot.
Based on a real-life plan. I did mash in part of another plan on the other side, but the original plan did look like this sideways. Yes. I like doing modern houses, too! In fact, half of the lots I build are modern.
When researching a treehouse, I had a few things in mind:
1. Try to reduce branches peeking through the walls, or incorporate them somehow into the treehouse. Unfortunately, there are only two Maxis trees that are even vaguely useful for a treehouse. I chose the huge bonsai trees because I felt I could avoid the peek-through problem the best, and am just not creative enough at the moment to incorporate the trees within the treehouse itself.
2. Don't go overboard. This is a small structure and I have a limited budget.
3. Try to keep some sort of structural issues in mind. To me, treehouses that are structurally sound do take in mind that the house or platform might need some reinforcements near the tree. I saw pictures with columns buttressing the trees on either side, and saw many, many pictures of treehouses between two or more trees, and the idea for this treehouse was born.
Price. Yes, I've also seen treehouses with multiple platforms like this. I thought they were cool. The family loves to paint on the lower platform. I had to make the platform a little wider to avoid routing issues.
Inside the treehouse to the best of my ability. This is a tiny structure, which would make sense because of the way it's constructed. The boys enjoy looking at the ant farm and playing with their toys. Plus, the ant farm is a sneaky way to incorporate logic. The treehouse has two doors to help avert stompies. No lighting. Little kids should not be playing outside in a treehouse too late at night.
Contest item is on the wall. It's cut off, but you do see it pretty clearly.
And why should Big Brothers have all the fun? A space for toddlers. Big Brothers can also draw underneath the shady platform.
Oh yes ... forgot the back!
Layout pictures.
Third floor.
This was the best the parents could do for the sisters. That is NOT a walls-down issue. The room is partially walled-off, with an opening in the middle. The red carpet and drapes tie the look together a little.
Guess whose room? I thought I should give them something nice anyway, even if they don't care much, though not as nice as the sisters' room.
The more-private study area. There is a open one on the floor below. First come, first served. Now onto the second floor.
Yup. The nursery, The wallpaper is actually the one with the bears in the border, but I cut off the top when I saw the game decapitates the bears in picture mode! Yipes. This isn't the Addams Family! I might have changed this.
Master bedroom. The other side has the door that leads to the outside level, where if you look at the main plans, has a bench for the girls to hang out, or the parents to keep an eye on the treehouse.
The placement of plants on this level was a challenge. Maxis has no shade-tolerant plants, as far as I can see. Hostas, Maxis ... hostas, darn it! The Maxis coleus I used would at least thrive in shade or partial-sun ... I've planted them in mostly-shade and partial sun myself ... but their leaves wouldn't be as vibrant. Very few plants would thrive in full shade, unfortunately.
Main Floor
Kitchen
Living Room. There are toys behind the couches for the toddlers to play with.
Hallway.
Foundation
And MystAngel ... I was hoping to see more of the inside of your Rhodes house before I left, and I was not disappointed! Cool house!
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....Insert backstory full of witty and cute snippets of the family.....
Modified A-frame: 2 story, 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath, outdoors workshop, large garden, pond, and swing for a child; large closet turned into office for work at home mother.... locked and with a "do not enter: sign; Smoke detector, burglar alarm, 2 phones... required chair in office and all that good stuff.
Cost
Front
Back
Roof
2nd Floor
1st Floor
Foundation
More.....
The Garden... and pond and stuff
Workshop
Dinning Area with view of Office (& Don't Enter sign)
Kitchen
Living room
Office
1/2 Bath -downstairs
2nd floor hallway
Kalie's room
Mom's room
2nd floor full bathroom
Latoya and Kalie Elliott ~ then dad... left.
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Two Elliott families ... two entirely different ... and we're talking really different ... approaches!
But who is that mystery dude? Hope to see the story soon!
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I was trying to think outside the box with an eye to Realistic and Playable. So I tore down the Cupcake house I was building and did this one. XD
If I can think of a story (I'm not a writer in the least) I hope to fill in that missing insert spot. :blush:
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@MystAngel, Thanks. Yes the couch is fully usable. I had James' stand-in test it out and he sat there happily.
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For a long time I was stuck with just an empty shell, and couldn't think how to continue. But now I've got the internal walls all built, and I've built a tree-house -- using bits from Phaenoh's playground set. I think I've also bought most of the essential furniture. There's still a lot to add including stairs, internal and external doors, and about half the windows, but the cost so far is still under §26K, so I have high hopes I can complete it within budget.
Also about the 'bikes' I used that word so you could decide if the parent was a biker (motorcycles) or a bicyclist enthusiast.
And yes a web designer, which is why that computer is off limits to the child. She is meant to work from home.
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My heart, my heart, My drowning heart, Oh all the tears I've cried
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But I can change the story to fit the contest. Cassie also has enough experience to paint masterpieces at this point, so she could probably do that as part-time work.
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I edited my story to be much more open to interpretation. She could be a freelance web designer taking work home. She could be working from home and working part-time elsewhere. (Something Sims 3 has that Sims 2 doesn't ... part-time jobs.) In that case, I need to watch her hours to make sure she WOULD have time to work on website design. While I know of people working two full-time jobs, it's really not the greatest for their health. I would work double shifts at my job sometimes years ago. Really not recommended unless you have to.
Or she could be working full-time at home with no part-time job. The reader can decide.
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