Riad Al Qaria-Moroccan house

[Nixxy245]

Hello everyone!

I've recently started building this house but I'm not finished yet, I have some details to finish up. I basicly am interested in what you think of it so far and I will highly appreciate any criticism so...go for it! :P The theme is moroccan house, so everything is in it's style.
Thanks in advance.

[Amylet]

Nice start :up:

but maybee you should try some tiled walls for a more marrocan-looking style.

[karen lorraine]

Could we have some more pictures of the outside? It's difficult to see where you're going with it with only that one picture.

The bedrooms seem rather large and a bit empty. You've squashed all the furniture in the lounge together and left a huge open space unfilled.
It might be better if you moved the bathroom to nearer the bedrooms too.

But as Amylet says a good start.

[Nixxy245]

Amylet: Thank you! I will.

karen_lorraine: Thank you, here are the pics :)

Okay, I'm back. I moved the bathroom right next to bedrooms and I resized the bedrooms. I also decorated the outdoors and bedrooms so they don't feel so empty anymore. The wall where the fireplace is seemed so empty to me so I made a recolor of some painting with the bridge, putting a moroccan style wallpaper instead. The room where bathroom used to be is now what I call study( but really, it isn't :P ). I placed chess table and an easel there. I know that the livingroom still seems empty again, but I was kinda going for that in some point anyway. I took the screenshots of all house again because there's a change in every room, but they can't all fit in one post, so I'll separate them.

[Nixxy245]

Sorry for double posting, but here are more screenshots.

[karen lorraine]

This is looking so much better.

I think the bedrooms would look better with a different colour floor to the wall. I suggest a ceramic tile rather than carpet with rugs. You have some wasted space between the bedrooms; I would suggest you make the house smaller by one square or add some alcoves in the bedrooms.

In the kitchen where you've rounded off the corner, why not make that the exterior wall and add some more interest to the outside of the house? The house is flat-roofed so it won't make it difficult to redo the roof.

You could add an office space where you've put the fish tank.

I really like the patio area.

[JadedSidhe]

I agree with Karen. You need to turn the chess table around. The timer box can't be against a wall.

[HugeLunatic]

The house is very boxy. Your going to need to add some variety to the exterior and probably height as well.

And those windows and columns don't really look moroccan to me. :/

[Nixxy245]

karen_lorraine: Thank you for your wonderful ideas! But I'm afraid that the spare space between rooms can't be used in that way because it's needed so that the bedroom's doors don't collide with eachother. But I did change the carpet for ceramics. I also changed the wall in study room and made it diagonall. I took the screenshots which I will provide in next post.

JadedSidhe: Thank you, I didn't really saw that at first!

HugeLunatic: I know, I was afraid some will eventually say that but I tried to make the inside very different instead. For the windows&columns, I couldn't find any better than these and I want to keep the CC low so I used the ones that look similar to me. About height: I'm trying to make a house for small family so they don't really need many rooms, do they?

:here: The entrance of the house seemed so lonely and empty so I added some cactis and two wall lamps. Also added the moroccan-style pictures in kitchen and 1st bedroom made by me :) . I deleted one arch which leads from livingroom to kitchen and instead I made a stage with a fountain and some flowers, right next to bathroom. Oh yes, almost forgot, I added the big fountain and additional flowers to the patio in the space where it seemed like it's empty. That's all I think for now.

[Nixxy245]

Again, terribly sorry for double posting, but the pictures just can't fit in one post!

Here are the screenshots of the bedrooms, where I replaced the carpet for ceramics, like karen_lorraine suggested.

[karen lorraine]

Getting better.

Why not try grouping the windows into pairs?

With the bedroom doors I'd move the furniture in the rooms so that you can move the doors. Or why not add fireplaces into those rooms?

The windows next to the fireplace don't actually open into the lounge. I'd remove those.

Could you add a colonnade/walkway to the front of your house to make it less boxy?

I really like those pictures that you've created too.

[Nixxy245]

Getting better.

Why not try grouping the windows into pairs?

With the bedroom doors I'd move the furniture in the rooms so that you can move the doors. Or why not add fireplaces into those rooms?

The windows next to the fireplace don't actually open into the lounge. I'd remove those.

Could you add a colonnade/walkway to the front of your house to make it less boxy?

I really like those pictures that you've created too.

Windows: I tried but something is always in the way. I got so frustrated!

Bedrooms: I tried that too and the room ended up being full and non-practical.

Windows in lounge: I deleted the wall and moved the fireplace out so the windows actually open into the lounge.

Colonnade/walkway: I don't really know how to make this because there isn't much space left from the end of the lot and the house itself.

And, thank you very much for everything! :)

Okay, I thought about what HugeLunatic said about house's height and I improvized a little. So, instead of tiles I had as roof, now I put the stage as roof. I don't know how to explain this exactly but I have a screenshot. But another problem occured: there's a visible line that really reminds me all the time that the roof is actually a stage and it's bugging me because I don't know a way how to get rid of this, but there probably ain't any anyways.

[karen lorraine]

To add a colonnade/walkway to the front of the house you would need to shift your house back by 2 squares.

Sometimes you need to move furniture and stuff on the inside of the walls to enable you to move your windows and achieve the best look for your house. On one of my recent houses (The Luton) Leesester suggested I moved everything in by 2 squares - it was a pain to do but the house looked so much better afterwards.

You might like to enclose the outside of your fireplace with wall so that you can paint it in the same as your wall too.

Why not try a half wall instead of the staging to add height to your house? You could then make it into a roof terrace too.

[Nixxy245]

Okay, I will try that.

Half wall? I don't have that. I believe that comes with Nightlife, which I don't own.