Well, I have started on my quest to learn how to make my own creations for The Sims 3. I started by just playing - seeing where others have made mistakes - things that irritated me. Like one neighborhood where the creator forgot to put in a school. Or where someone put the mailbox in a position where the mailperson couldn't get to it. Small things like that.

Now I am reading tutorials on designing and building houses. I am going to try creating my first house to fit a rather large, but oddly shaped plot in the neighborhood I am playing in right now. It is 64 x 32 - plenty of room to make mistakes, but I'm not going to stress over it being perfect or anything. This is just a practice lot after all. If it works out, great! If not, I will have had fun working on it anyway.