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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!
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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!