Hi Howabominable! It looks like a really great house. From the screen shot, I will like your kitchen too. It's unusual that you put a wardrobe in your kitchen, but kinda neat too. Looks like a hutch, but you don't have to make your sims go back to their bedroom or take a shower when they stroll downstairs to make breakfast in their undies or PJ's! Very convenient. The only thing I don't like is the pink yard, but I will download it because I figure I can change that anyway. Otherwise, I think you did a great job on it. I make dull, boring, boxy houses, so I must come here to MTS2 and the great creators like yourself to have an interesting house. Thank you!

Thats really very nice. It's great to know someone has the player in mind instead of their egos for a change. And your kitchen is very homey and cozy too. Very nice job, thank you for considering those of us without the latest in video cards or computers.

Thanks, glad someone enjoys it. I can breathe now :-P.

And real men have pink yards! I had to use that terrain because it's the only one I had that I knew where it came from. It was either that or make the yard dirt brown. Yummy.

Howabominable, I bet you really worked hard on this.
And I agree on your comments about having houses that are playable (Do a search for "Budget Lane" for great starter houses - and no, they're not mine).
Tips:
1/ Think about having enough flat space, level with the road, for the new cars in Nightlife (I deleted one of my threads because of this).
2/ You have plants in front of windows, which block the view and affect the aesthetics, but if there's a reason for doing it, fine. Same thing with furniture, but I can understand you may be doing this for downloaders to change themselves.
3/ You don't need a fence all the way around the lot, except for looks, if it's to keep visitor out.
This is not criticism, as you asked for tips (be prepared for lots of suggestions, most of it contradicting what's been posted before, and DO YOUR OWN THING!)
Fine work, and I'm looking foreward to seeing more from you, Howabominable.

=P The fence is for looks. I got the idea from a house I downloaded elsewhere and wanted to try it out lol.

And I remembered garages right as I finished it. You can just remove the garden and add one there though. Or get rid of the gazebo. I'm constantly downloading houses, demolishing parts, and adding what I want. I don't expect anyone to keep my houses exactly the way they were downloaded I even changed the color on my version lol.

Howabominable, amen! The house is great!

I have a lot of down loaded lots in my Veronaville. I don't think there is a one that I ahven't altered. Everytime I renovate I try to keep the house as close in spirit to the original as possible. That's my homage to the creator's hard work.

Th biggest nightmare for me has always been a house with a single stairway for each level. My Simmies are stubborn meanies and complain incessantly when a stairway is not double wide. That is one thing I have corrected in my beloved down loaded lots. I see that you have wisely addressed this with you fab house.

The other nightmare is landscaping. While a lush landscape is lovely it is sooooo impracticle. I can't tell you how many gardeners have spent the entire day trying to landscape properties that were severely overgrown. Oh my! Your garden is lovely and just right.

I have two or three houses that were one bedroom barns when I originally down loded them. How I made them three to five bedroom livable spaces is another story.

I have nothing but praise for your new house and hope you will honor us with more of your creations.

Okay, wake up everyone!

LOL thanks for this, I wasn't expecting this kind of a reaction Oo. I've had that stair problem too, in houses that I build. This was the first one where I was like "hey, maybe I should have TWO stairs! Wow!" And thanks for liking my garden, I'm not a very good landscaper. I'm glad nobody's complained that I didn't put in a pool.

The nannies hate me cause of that.

This house looks very cozy

For those who care, I'm going to add a Nightlife version of this house in the next couple of days with a garage the only problem I may have is the garage may not if on the specific side of the lot I have planned it for. If that doesn't work out, you can always add your own.

dunno how i've missed this house till just now
going to download. i like ones that are playable. i try to make mine playable, usually they are and i have low specs due to playing on a laptop. too much landscaping is terrible for me so i have to take a lot of it away, i only landscape really for those i upload here and even then i try not to go overboard

i cant play the house it keeps crashing do i need to go to those site to download the stuff individually i have university so wuts the problem?

No, the list I provided are things that are included in the package. If one of them are causing a problem, use the Clean Installer to delete them before installing the package.

The house works fine on my computer, does anyone else have a problem with it?