hiya lovely, any advice for building family homes or just houses in general??? much love for you and your blog xx
Hiii and thank you so much! ♥ I guess, it’ll be easier if I just give you an idea of my process.
So first, I usually just find a house on Pinterest that I like (and that I know can be replicated in sims with the tools/cc we have) and I use that as a guide while I’m building. I do the same for interiors too. I’m not sure if this is the best way to do things but I always get the outside of the house completely done (or as complete as I want it to be for the time being) before I move on to the inside. This is just because I know that if I hate the outside, I’ll hate the inside no matter what I do to it, lol. Also, I try not to make the rooms too big because smaller houses are easier to make “cozy” since there’s not a ton of space to fill. I usually don’t get this completely right on the first go round so a lot of resizing is done as I decorate.
Once I get inside, I layout the floor plan with walls and doors, basically section off all the rooms and create walkways and such. When it’s time to decorate, I put down all the necessities first, so in a kitchen, I get all the counters/cabinets, stove, refrigerator, all that stuff down then I add in little accents like rugs or wall decor, that kind of stuff.
Lastly, I paint the walls, which is kinda backwards cause it removes all the stackable clutter items, but I can never find the right walls until the room is all decorated so I just put them all back once I’m completely finished with it.
Once I’m done with all that, the rooms will still be a little scarce and that’s because I personally like to add in things that they earn/collect throughout life. So in the living room, they may start off with an empty shelf that later ends up filled with one of the sim’s future kid’s snow globe collections. Or a wall that was left empty, later on becomes covered with paintings or other photos (family portraits for ex) that one of my sims paints/photographs. I think these little touches give the houses character and it’s fun to see the changes over time.
If all of this sounds overwhelming, you can try renovating other people’s houses. It’s just as fun and something I’m really enjoying doing atm.
This turned into a huge numbered ramble but I hope it answered your question at least a little bit, lol.