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Let me know what you think.
P.S. I just noticed the white ceilings as I was taking screenshots, so I'll plan to use the same wooden floor as I did for the outside balconies.
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Otherwise, I can't make any judgments without a floorplan.
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First i like the garden with a lot of plants, the garden its well, however you can move the palm tree ( in the left corner. ) more to the edge to avoid that the leaves goes to bedroom.
Second in the porch have too many columns, you can try to deleting the 2 columns right and left to the door and will be perfect.
Third you can try to put a more green wallpaper in the kitchen ( with a color like the bedroom or living room.) ( or even wood. ) to match the kitchen with the rest of the house.
Last you can try change ( think first about it, im not sure.) the distribution of the bathroom with closet, the wardrobe can be accesed by the bedroom to more funcionality. I like the house, specially the garden
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Im not a expert builder however i will tell some details and try to help. First i like the garden with a lot of plants, the garden its well, however you can move the palm tree ( in the left corner. ) more to the edge to avoid that the leaves goes to bedroom. Second in the porch have too many columns, you can try to deleting the 2 columns right and left to the door and will be perfect. Third you can try to put a more green wallpaper in the kitchen ( with a color like the bedroom or living room.) ( or even wood. ) to match the kitchen with the rest of the house. Last you can try change ( think first about it, im not sure.) the distribution of the bathroom with closet, the wardrobe can be accesed by the bedroom to more funcionality. I like the house, specially the garden |
Updated the house in most everything suggested here. I even changed several other walls around the house to make it greener than before.
Only thing I left unchanged is the wardrobe in the bathroom; instead I added an identical dresser in the bedroom that is one-tile wide. Originally the bathroom was equally as spacious as the kitchen, thus I was figuring out how to use the space efficiently. Also, an indoor spa used to fit inside before I added in those walls.
Yes, if you test the pool table with 2 Sims, they will start to play normally, but they quickly get in each other's way as as soon as one Sim needs to shoot from a square where the other Sim is standing. When this happens, they will not move out of each other's way, but will instead abort the game. (You can easily test this yourself. Place a pool table out in the open and have 2 Sims start a game. If you observe carefully, you will notice that the non-shooting Sim always stands 2 squares away from the table, in order to give the shooting Sim room to shoot.)
It's unfortunate, but for this reason pool tables should really only be placed in the biggest of mansions, with 2 empty squares all around them. Pool tables basically need a big room all to themselves.
The only exception to all of this is if you only ever intend for 1 Sim to use the table (to practice?). In that case, I'm pretty sure the Sim can play normally.
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Should I try to improve what was required for this current lot, or should I start over with a brand new house from scratch?
I have already begun with the latter option, but I want to know if this home is good enough that I only need to apply the changes to improve it. I do want to keep the concept of having a home stand on supported beams or poles as shown here.
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Lets see, there's a house on stilts, an oversized greenhouse, fruit trees that for some reason are inside the greenhouse, two of those axe-throwing target thingies, the aforementioned pool table (in the bedroom), a tent, a moat, Victorian lampposts, an outdoor chess table, an outdoor easel, a hammock in-between two palm trees, psychedelic doors, psychedelic wallpaper, and probably a few lesser things I'm not noticing.
Ironically, there is no kitchen sink.
Sometimes I think people upload things just for laughs.
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1. I like the concept and it looks happy to me.
2. Too many pillars under the house, I think. one in each corner should do. Perhaps move the tent in there as well.
3. I think the softer green outside is really nice, and I will suggest toning down a bit on the inside of the house. There is a lot of different greens inside, try to change the floors. Try white or cream tiles/carpets and perhaps a pink one in the bedroom (I would change the bedding too).
4. I would put the pool table in the living room and make a wall in that bedroom, and then use the extra room for the hobby work stations.
5. You can make the greenhouse smaller and take out the flowers, they don't need to be there. I have no idea (above comment) why fruit trees could not be in a greenhouse, but if it is a problem, plant them somewhere else.
6. With the columns under the house brown, I would suggest using brown stairs as well, or not that green ones, and change the roof color to a lighter shade.
7. I am not sure if the pond is wide enough for fishing, I think it needs to be - so perhaps make it a bit larger on the side of the greenhouse/tent/tree.
8. The flower borders are pretty and I like the rest of the garden
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I see no problem with having fruit trees in the greenhouse. It doesn't do them any good in a vanilla game, but there's a hack that keeps them from going dormant in winter inside a greenhouse, and it doesn't make any sense to have citrus trees out in the open in a temperate climate. Even trees in Florida and the Rio Grande Valley get frostbitten occasionally; in an area suitable to this cabin, they'd never realistically bear at all outside a greenhouse.
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No, I'll just start over from scratch with a brand new home or not at all. Thanks anyway.
And ScaryRob, don't make a mockery of what I did. Criticism like that is what discourages people.
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Starting over from scratch is hardly called for. This is a perfectly good concept that only wants a little tweaking and some good pictures. When you go to upload, make sure you take a close-up floorplan of just the house, so details leap out. I had to study that pic for a long time even to figure out how you were supposed to get into the bathroom suite. Remember your moderator may not have very sharp eyesight!
Ugly is in the heart of the beholder.
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Never let anyone put you down, kamoodle5 - and I also think you don't need to start over. You also do not have to follow all our suggestions - thinking about what we say may give you better ideas. I really like the house, the moment I saw it I had a positive feeling. It is a more ambitious built, so it may take a little longer, don't give up on it. (I certainly had to redo and resubmit buildings and I think Peni too, so don't worry about that part at all).
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As for your number seven suggestion, Justpetro, I didn't intend on making the stream big enough for fishing, although I do see a pond a possibility if I make the greenhouse smaller or remove some of the "pillars" that support the house. The stream could feed onto the pond as well.
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I don't think the pond needs to be big, just big enough for a little bit of fishing, because I always see fishing and gardening going together for sims who loves nature.
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Any helpful feedback is still appreciated. :P
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Instead of deleting the stepping stones, I placed them outside at the foot of the two stairs to the greenhouse. I removed the campfire, I added a bench in front of the pond (although it's not in the third screenshot) and placed back one of the axe-throwing stations. The fence I chose in front of the creak is to compliment the house's windows.
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Sorry to those who have already downloaded the lot.
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