Thanks a bunch, Armiel!! It will make a much nicer retreat now!

I don't know about the 5th round, I'll be lucky to do this one - my cat was put to sleep last night with liver failure leaving behind 4 x 2 week old kittens. I have to bottle feed them every 2 hours! Life is on hold but I may find a moment. Just don't expect much :-(

So sorry to hear about your cat Sandy.

I was so worried about this round because I'm leaving for a trip on Thursday. When I opened the foundation I almost had a heart attack, but decided to cover up the CFE potential. However to appease the CFE gods (And the judges) I have also included a CFE staircase and roof.

So without further ado, I give you Cappuccino Dreams a 1 bedroom, 2 bth bachelor pad for an aspiring musician (Or rich kid with too much money, too many friends, and nothing else to do but lounge around the pool in his swimming trunks).



Exterior:


Floorplans:


Interior:


Thanks to Splad for the name, and hudy777DeSign for their glorious Modern Line Windows .

EDIT: Cappuccino Dreams available for download here: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=484401

I feel bad for the kittens and for you.

Oh, Sandy! I'm so sorry to hear about your furry friend!
I'm sure you're giving the kittens much love!
Sending positive thoughts & ((hugs)) your way.

Bakafox- I hope you're feeling better!

CreativeMommy- I hope all is well with you.

ReyaD- Wonderful kick-off to R4 entries!

Mediterranean Dream
 

Alright, I am finally back and ready to post my round 3 house (thank you again Q for the extension.)

I welcome you to Mediterranean Dream, a contemporary home with open space, multi-levels in different rooms, and a lush landscape. This home has 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 half bathrooms, an office, a spacious living room and kitchen/dining room, an entertainment room in the basement and a 1 car garage with parking for 3 in the driveway.

Required Pics:

Front


Back


Floor Plan










CC Creators:
Fresh-Prince Creations
Miliana Sims
Morphead
Yarona (sims3-modeli.ucoz.ru
Simplan-X
Camille (camillecc.com)
Lisen (MTS)
DOT (TSR)
RicciNumbers (TSR)
Devirose (TSR)
Suza (simplystying.de)
Cyclonesue (TSR)
Gosik (TSR)
Frances (simsdesignave.net)
Pilar
SIMcredibledesigns.com
Pralinesims
Punisa (TSR)

CFE weirdness
 

Hi guys, I'm not that experienced with CFE, and I was wondering if any of you would have insight on this issue I'm having. Whenever I level my walls, I'm getting annoying graphical artifacts floating in the air:



Have any of you seen that? If so, is there some way to avoid it, or is it just my rig/game?

All you have to do is delete and then replace the wall, it will fix itself.

Thank you!

It normally also fixes itself when I go to map view and back into the lot again.

Round 4 - Renovation
 

This here is my round 4 entry. It's a house in the middle of a renovation process. So of the rooms can be lived already, some need more time and work to be called finished. Half the walls and floors are still a work in process, as well is the garden.

No moar blabbering, pics!








That's about it. Tired just from a nap waken up Finn bows and says thank you for a wicked foundation!

Custom content seen is my buildset and it's railings.

PS. I wanted to burn the house down, too, but got lazy :P

Armiel! I dunno about that decor! a pristine pool adjacent to weeds.... somewhat of a non-sequitur.

You guys are fast. I haven't even had time to crack open the game a and look at the foundation yet!

I think i will need an extension for this round. The end of this week i need to finish my major work, which is the project ive been doing all year. It includes an 80 page folio and the actual practical work involved. We have to finish it by this Friday but it's actually due next wednesday, just the prac and then the folio, the 80 pages, is due the week after. Meanwhile we have to be planning how we will display the whole project prepare it for official marking in other words, suuuuuper busy this week and next.

hmmm I'm finding that CFE is quirky in TS3.. It doens't always work the way expected..... But if I save and go back to the lot it will work again for a little while.... The split levels are not quite working the way I want them.. Still working on it. The 3rd level stairs don't want to go where I put them even though they should fit... hmmm.....

Sometimes with stairs you have to place them cfe still on. It doesnt always preview place them either. So you might have to just blindly place them. But it should work without trouble.

I have never used CFE so I just covered the layer up with some floor tiles. I hope that's okay.

I've had some troubles with my build, but I think I'll be able to get it in on time.

Round 4
 

Hey everyone! Here's my entry for round 4. It's a large 3 bedroom home with 2 1/2 bathrooms. I was inspired by fall again for the exterior colors and I did a large variety of interior schemes. I keep finding a way for these foundations to make great traditional-styled homes. This one has a sunken living area and a cfe staircase & entry. There's also a 2 car garage, a pool, and a gorgeous master bedroom. The lot is fully landscaped in warm tones also inspired by the upcoming season of fall. Enjoy!



I restrained from taking 900 pictures, so there's a total of 24 this time.







Thanks to the following creators:
Kithri
Purplepaws
QBUILDERZ
Armiel
Fresh-Prince
KiaraRawks
HugeLunatic
Roan @ TSR
NewOne @ One Billion Pixels

This may be my favorite house for the competition & it has the least CC too! I'm in the process of uploading my previous entries and my R1 is already up. Hopefully there'll be a round 5! Thanks everybody, and good luck! Enjoy!

Well. I had planned a thre story CFE split on each level but couldn't make it look good with all the stairs on the layout Q built so I jettisonned it and went simply split on the living room. Here's the result...


















Oh Q! This is the last round for me. School starts Monday and I go on winter hours, I won't have time for a round five if you extend this contest. :0)

Normally I love CFE, but it was just not wanting to work for me on this house. And then as soon as I happy with the house I'd done, the stairs and roof decided to refuse to be within 5 tiles of each other, or whatever it was. I don't have time to redo completely so... here it is. Not my best effort, but I hope it's not too bad.

Simply Classic
This classic red-brick family home features three bedrooms and two bathrooms. The living areas, on the first level, include a full kitchen & dining table, small study and sunken living room. Outside, a two-car garage and slide & swing set reside amongst plentiful vegetation.





No CC, EPs or SPs used.

Becca! Your images aren't showing!

edit Sunday - I can see them now. :0)

They're showing for me, must be something going wrong on your end.
I did have some trouble uploading them to photobucket originally, but I was able to get them to work using a different internet connection. If they aren't working for a few people I'll look into it, but yeah. I think it's probably just a one-off bug, porkypine, might work if you reload the page.

Becca, they're showing for me.

I was trying to do a Gothic castle, but the castle set doesn't work very well with a foundation, and it's just making me angry, so I'm going to scrap it and do something else.

Unfortunately, I have to reformat my hard drive today, so I'm not sure how long it'll take to get all my Sims stuff reinstalled. Hopefully, I'll have time to get something done.

Little question here: if I do a raised patio (outdoor area) adjoined to the house, is it considered an alteration of the foundation? I don't use a foundation, just raise the level with CFE.