∙ Sep 4, 2009

Lovely lot

goldapple ∙ Aug 31, 2009

Beautiful lot! I just love all of your lots, they are great! And no custom content!
Fantastic designs!

ErikMesa1179 ∙ Aug 26, 2009

The Gregor Affleck House is a later FLW design.  It's unique in that it's elevated over a creek/pond below that actually runs thru the house.  A large Loggia space with a railing overlooks the creek.  Originally the creek was supposed to feed into a swimming pool (that was never built).  This version has a fairly accurate floorplan with five obvious modifications.  First the Loggia area (the entryway) I've walled in and put large windows due to the Sims needing to be "inside" yet outside.  I've added a tree there to so it's kind of an enclosed courtyard below.  The actual house has this open (in Wisconsin I bet they have bug problems!).  The second change is I've added a second powder room off the kitchen (the original house has one off the entry).  I've enlarged the rooms very slightly to make them more Simlivable.  The third change is the fact the first floor is flat.  In the actual house the bedroom wing is about five steps higher then the Loggia which in turn is higher then the living area (kind of a split level).  I wasn't able to recreate it in the game (actually I was but I ran into a bug where there was big open areas above windows in the "tall" sections of walls).  The fourth change is the addition of a swimming pool and an extended balcony out to the master bedroom.  In the real house it ends at the stairway by the Loggia.  The fifth change is the addition of a basement (actually two of them).  The actual house does have a basement but it's just the maids quarters (small room).  Knowing Sims need a rec room and stuff I added the bigger basement but it's unfinished.   I found some great pictures online at this URL to help me in my design.  Again it's tough to match the real houses with no custom content and the basic Sims blocks but it turned out OK.  http://www.peterbeers.net/interests/flw_rt/Michigan/Afleck_House/afleck_house.htm   .   ErikMesa.