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Australiana Series: Kewarra

by Beefysim1 Posted 19th Sep 2014 at 2:56 AM - Updated 19th Sep 2014 at 7:13 AM by Beefysim1
 
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#2 Old 19th Sep 2014 at 3:26 AM
Very pretty. I don't know if you have ever seen the movie Thorn Birds but the beautiful house reminds me of a house in the movie.
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#3 Old 19th Sep 2014 at 4:18 AM
Wonderful work thank you for sharing!
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#4 Old 19th Sep 2014 at 4:26 AM
Nice one, mate. Thanks, looking forward to my sim pottering around in this queenslander.
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#5 Old 19th Sep 2014 at 7:11 AM
Had a giggle at the word "toot" nice piece of aussie slang there. Beautiful job though.
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#6 Old 19th Sep 2014 at 8:05 AM
good day mate :D
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#7 Old 19th Sep 2014 at 4:41 PM
Wow, it's so great to see Australian creations like this- really hits home! I think you captured the queenslander essence to a T, mate!
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#8 Old 20th Sep 2014 at 10:36 AM
Thanks for the comments!

Quote: Originally posted by Skpamd
Very pretty. I don't know if you have ever seen the movie Thorn Birds but the beautiful house reminds me of a house in the movie.


I read the book a long time ago, but I've only seen snippets of the TV series.

Quote: Originally posted by tunny
Had a giggle at the word "toot" nice piece of aussie slang there. Beautiful job though.


I have to credit Kath & Kim for that one. It's noice, it's different, it's unyewsewl.

Quote: Originally posted by moneyddragons
good day mate :D


G'day!

Quote: Originally posted by MzzUnvrz
Wow, it's so great to see Australian creations like this- really hits home! I think you captured the queenslander essence to a T, mate!


Thanks! It's hard to do an authentic one in The Sims due too all the woodwork/fretwork you see on them. I wanted to have fold-out doors instead of windows on the verandahs, buts the default ones had dodgy colours.
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#9 Old 20th Sep 2014 at 8:22 PM
oh so nice love it, gonna use it for sure, been waiting for a like this , thanks
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#10 Old 26th Sep 2014 at 12:14 PM
This looks fantastic from the outside cobber. A couple of things if you don't mind me saying, and definitely no offence meant. My comments refer to original Queenslanders and those renovated for modern use, both of which I am quite familiar with.

Queenslanders are usually high set to let air pass underneath and help cool in hot and humid weather. Often on stumps and can me enclosed with lattice work just like you've done. Not sure if that would work within the game as the stairs would have to be longer. If built on the side of a slope, the hight will of course taper if the grade is high and it was to expensive to excavate the foundation area (usually when half the back yard has to be also needs lowering so water won't just flow in the back door.

From the front door to (usually) the kitchen at the back is a hall that serves as a breeze way in warmer weather that also helps cool the place. There is often a living room off to one side of the hall, the hall opening up into the living room - one of the hall's walls being a living room wall. The dining room could also have been in this 'living room space with the living room being where the bedroom might have been.

Bedrooms usually flank the front door, but one could easily be a study. Other bedrooms would be accessed via the living room. In large Queenslanders, extra bedrooms could possibly have been architecturally designed behind the living room with the hall continuing on to the kitchen and a bedroom mirroring the extra bedroom.

The kitchen was usually always at the back of the house, as was the laundry (clotheslines being in the back yard or around one side closest to the back door). The kitchen was often the dining room. Toilets were also squeezed in the back somewhere and original 'updated' Queenslanders may have had the toilet to one end of the back veranda (or even under the high set house near the back stairs!).

You've done bloody good with what the game has to work with! Looks beautiful! You have inspired to give my own a go... though I probably lack confidence to upload to MTS.

Well done!
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#11 Old 26th Sep 2014 at 2:09 PM
Quote: Originally posted by MrRoc
This looks fantastic from the outside cobber. A couple of things if you don't mind me saying, and definitely no offence meant. My comments refer to original Queenslanders and those renovated for modern use, both of which I am quite familiar with.

Queenslanders are usually high set to let air pass underneath and help cool in hot and humid weather. Often on stumps and can me enclosed with lattice work just like you've done. Not sure if that would work within the game as the stairs would have to be longer. If built on the side of a slope, the hight will of course taper if the grade is high and it was to expensive to excavate the foundation area (usually when half the back yard has to be also needs lowering so water won't just flow in the back door.

From the front door to (usually) the kitchen at the back is a hall that serves as a breeze way in warmer weather that also helps cool the place. There is often a living room off to one side of the hall, the hall opening up into the living room - one of the hall's walls being a living room wall. The dining room could also have been in this 'living room space with the living room being where the bedroom might have been.

Bedrooms usually flank the front door, but one could easily be a study. Other bedrooms would be accessed via the living room. In large Queenslanders, extra bedrooms could possibly have been architecturally designed behind the living room with the hall continuing on to the kitchen and a bedroom mirroring the extra bedroom.

The kitchen was usually always at the back of the house, as was the laundry (clotheslines being in the back yard or around one side closest to the back door). The kitchen was often the dining room. Toilets were also squeezed in the back somewhere and original 'updated' Queenslanders may have had the toilet to one end of the back veranda (or even under the high set house near the back stairs!).

You've done bloody good with what the game has to work with! Looks beautiful! You have inspired to give my own a go... though I probably lack confidence to upload to MTS.

Well done!


That was an interesting read, thanks! This house was more 'inspired' by a Queenslander than being an authentic one (perhaps more so by modern reproductions of the style). I laid it out with a view to practicality, seeing as many houses of the time have rather inconvenient floor plans for the modern lifestyle. The one my grandparents live in was originally flanked on all sides by verandah and entered straight into a living room/bedroom, which had a kitchen behind it. They built out into the verandah and raised the house on stilts and built in underneath it.

I've tried doing high-set ones as well (which are far more majestic, in my opinion), but they look a bit dodgy without proper latticework to put around the ground floor. Having said that, I am working on a two-level one at the moment (well, after I finish my university work). My main concern is that The Sims 4 does not allow multi-landing staircases like the ones that seems to grace most Queenslanders I've come across, though I'm sure I can make do. The colour palate is also very limiting. I may try to consult some floor plans this time around if I can find some. If I can't make it look good, I might try my hand at another style.

Thanks again for your comment!
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#12 Old 27th Sep 2014 at 9:37 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Beefysim1
That was an interesting read, thanks! This house was more 'inspired' by a Queenslander than being an authentic one (perhaps more so by modern reproductions of the style). I laid it out with a view to practicality, seeing as many houses of the time have rather inconvenient floor plans for the modern lifestyle. The one my grandparents live in was originally flanked on all sides by verandah and entered straight into a living room/bedroom, which had a kitchen behind it. They built out into the verandah and raised the house on stilts and built in underneath it.

I've tried doing high-set ones as well (which are far more majestic, in my opinion), but they look a bit dodgy without proper latticework to put around the ground floor. Having said that, I am working on a two-level one at the moment (well, after I finish my university work). My main concern is that The Sims 4 does not allow multi-landing staircases like the ones that seems to grace most Queenslanders I've come across, though I'm sure I can make do. The colour palate is also very limiting. I may try to consult some floor plans this time around if I can find some. If I can't make it look good, I might try my hand at another style.

Thanks again for your comment!


Exactly, I feel for you in the limitation department with the game. Like I said, or intimated, I thought you did a fantastic job for the tools you had to work with. Keep up the good work.
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#13 Old 29th Sep 2014 at 9:10 AM
I put it in the tray folder and started a new game but it didn't work!
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#14 Old 29th Sep 2014 at 9:27 AM
Thanks, it's lovely! As an Aussie girl, I appreciate some familiar styles in my game
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#15 Old 30th Sep 2014 at 5:50 AM
Quote: Originally posted by CaptainFirefly
I put it in the tray folder and started a new game but it didn't work!


I'm not sure what would be wrong. As far as I know, you just extract the .zip and put the 6 individual files straight into the Tray. The files cannot be inside another folder.

Then it should appear in-game in the Gallery.

@Moonfox: Thanks!
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#16 Old 15th Oct 2014 at 4:42 AM
thanks :) i am a australian so this to me is a awesome job
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#17 Old 24th Oct 2014 at 4:56 AM
I'm a little confused and perhaps I am doing something wrong but I downloaded this and some other houses but none of the furniture shows up when I place the house even though I choose furnished. Any ideas?
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#18 Old 29th Oct 2014 at 3:06 PM
This house looks amazing in Oasis Springs as well as Willow Creek! Ive seen in the comments you plan on making another one with an Australian design. Cant wait! Great work.
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#19 Old 31st Oct 2014 at 9:25 AM
Beautiful!
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#20 Old 31st Oct 2014 at 1:04 PM
Quote: Originally posted by barbiegirl2u
I'm a little confused and perhaps I am doing something wrong but I downloaded this and some other houses but none of the furniture shows up when I place the house even though I choose furnished. Any ideas?


I'm not sure what to say. I can only suggest to check that you've copied over all of the lot files. I have not encountered this problem.

The new system for installing lots is not very convenient.
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#21 Old 31st Oct 2014 at 1:10 PM
Quote: Originally posted by freedirth
This house looks amazing in Oasis Springs as well as Willow Creek! Ive seen in the comments you plan on making another one with an Australian design. Cant wait! Great work.


Thanks! It's a bit of a way off because I have exams coming up, but I do plan to do another one. I was working on a two-storey Queenslander. The building materials are a bit limited, but I'm trying to make do.

@sims2014lover, Sturtainen: Thanks for the kind words!
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#22 Old 30th Nov 2014 at 3:32 PM
I like how everything ties in from entry way and through out the each room. Very elegant home that you have designed. Please keep on creating more homes.
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#23 Old 24th Jan 2016 at 1:15 PM
Really nice looking lot, thanks for the share.
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#24 Old 24th Aug 2016 at 9:55 PM
I love this house and I placed it a while back. Just went into it last night finally to play and once I clicked on the house in "build" to check it out, the game told me that some (I think it said five) items were removed because I did not "own" them. Is there some custom content in here that's not listed or what??? Thanks!