Good Hope – Colonial House with Skylights (Requested)

This is a request, a friend of mine wanted a house with 5 bedrooms and 4 baths on a 2x2 lot for one of his sims families. At first I thought are you kidding me? But I went ahead with the project anyway, the house turned out quite nice, so I ended up using it in my neighborhood too. I have an active sims family living in an exact copy of the same house for at least 30 sim days, everything is working properly.

Since I don’t play Seasons, building a house with a playable attic that is weather proof requires some thinking, and I think I have succeeded at it. I would like to thank Ed and Julien for re-confirming the attic of this house is absolutely weather proof and poses no hazard to sims. How did they test it? They installed this house to their games with Seasons and moved a sims family into the house, played through the entire winter with snow storms, had their sims basically lived in the attic for several days, watched their body temperature (did not shift even a bit, remained solid green all the time), watched the snow falling on the roof, and watched the computer screen for any warning dialog from maxis' game tips about weather issues (none appeared), and their sims did not make any complaint about having weather issues..

What EPs do I play? I play all except Seasons. What EPs don't Ed and Julien play? They don't play University, OFB, Pets, and BV. What do we have in common? AL and FT. My guess is that the AL and its patch are crucial for CFE windows weather proof. Maybe there are other reasons as well.

Note: The zip file I give you here is a clean original, never had any sims before, you will have to move your own sims in to play it.

UPDATE: April 19, 2013
Thanks for Ed and Julien for letting me play their families on their computers, I have continued their tests, carried out the test all the way for an entire sim year, covering all four seasons, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, actually 2 winters, the attic is livable, functional, and poses absolutely NO hazard to any sim ages, including babies, toddlers, teens, adults, and elders.

Thanks for viewing, enjoy, and happy simming.

Total Bedroom: 5
Total Bathroom: 4
Car Park: 1

Lot Size: 2x2
Lot Price: 78875

Custom Content by Me:
- Advanced Brick-Dark Blue and Green
- Advanced Two Tones Brick-Orange and Blue

Custom Content Included:
- "Shuttered Midnight Ride" Window by Cross-Reference and Leesester
- Edge Smoother White by Ailias
- TheNinthWave-Calla Lillies Recolor by sims99fanatic
- TheNinthWave-Calla Lillies Unpotted by TheNinthWaveSims
- LadderStairs by Targa
- Cesa Reda foor tile by Kate
- Birch Tree Shrubby by khakidoo
- Birch Tree Shrubby Yellow by khakidoo
- Residential roof4 blue2 by mzcynnamon
- A clear transparent tile by RGiles
- x4 Stair Wall Fix by JRW
- x4 Stair Wall Fix-White by JRW

Additional Credits:
Jonesi’s tutorial on roofing with skylights at MTS.

Related Downloads: If you like Good Hope, you might like Liberty Land in Blue - 5BR & 3.5BA and other houses I have here http://vogerbitssims.freeforums.org...-bath-t111.html, and here http://vogerbitssims.freeforums.org...-bath-t129.html