As long as it doesn't go outside the pre-existing footprint, then yes. If it expands the house, then no, you unfortunately can't

Shoot! The pool area doesn't look as good if not raised. I guess I just have to start over and find another way to make it work. Thanks for the fast answer

Sorry for the delays in the scores, guys. College is three days away and I am, very quickly, starting to shut down and raise my defenses. They will be done soon! I promise!

I may have to drop out. I can't find my original sims 3 disc to get the stupid code off of it for the reinstall (all the other expansions were bought online so I'm fine there). Very irritated at the moment.

Did you register the game with Sims3.com? If so, you can get the code on Origin.

Foundation #4 - Non-Participant
 

So, this one was obviously a monumental challenge! I had two different attempts going until I had an epiphany . So, below you will find out how my inspiration took shape.

I'm afraid that this one requires a story, which I don't usually do.

This foundation was built along the coast of the Barnacle Bay world. It was once a fort that house the local garrison. This fort had cannons, a drawbridge, training field, small cannon tower, a moat, cemetery, and two dungeons . (oops! Looks like someone overstayed their welcome! )

A local architect decided to refurbish this amazing landmark and here you see the results. She was able to re-purpose many objects and tried to keep the essence of the fort.

I hope you enjoy your tour!

I finally finished my Round 4 build.

Each of my entries so far has had an inspiration. This round is no different. This time, the inspiration is something that happened in my past – getting hit by a hurricane. As soon as I saw the CFE foundation, I knew that I would make a hurricane-based build.

Now, here’s why I took so long. I flooded all of Twinbrook for this build. That’s right; I created a whole CC world just for this contest entry!

Anyway, here are the pictures. I couldn’t take any pictures beyond the required pictures because the house is completely underwater and the floodwaters got in the way. Also, the house appears small in the front and rear view pictures. This is also because of the floodwaters. I didn't know until now that the camera in Sims 3 has the Hydrophobic trait!






I didn't delete the houses next to my entry because the flooded Twinbrook world is extremely buggy and I didn't want to tax it any more than was necessary.

Expansions used: All
Stuff packs used: None

Credit for CC Used:
Myself for the flooded Twinbrook world
QBUILDERZ for the lot

That's a fantastic idea PSDuckie! & Everyone is doing amazing!

So, did my extension request get accepted, or?

My entry !! (round 4)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N6-...E&feature=g-u-u - video of the house

Powelly009, you need to upload the photos directly to your post, or link to them on an external site. You can't upload contest images in a rar file.


EDIT: Thanks :D

I *DID*, but the code that it has in my Origin page WILL NOT WORK. Is there somewhere else I should be looking? I looked on sims3.com but can't find anywhere that would have my code.

I'm seriously irritated. Still can't find it.

Try redownloading the game from the Origin software. That worked for me.

Spirit of the Dragon - Lamamma entry for Round 4
 

My entry for Round 4 is an exotic house tailored for a disciplined sim who regularly practice zen and martial arts. Spirit of the Dragon has room for a couple or a single sim.
First floor: kitchen, bathroom, living and dojo.
Second floor: TV room and studio, balcony, bedroom, large bathroom.
Exteriors: bathtub and a nice artist corner, good also for meditation, parking is available but my test sim didn't buy a car.
The style is a mix of traditional and modern, with a limited colors palette. Spectacular vista from the dojo and from the bed.

Except for the KathyPerrySP, I used all EPs and SPs and few items from the store (Japanese set bathtub, Asian fusion wall lamp, Imperial bedroom paintings and free dragon lamp and wall decoration)
No other CCs.

Requested pics
Front, Back and general view


Plan (foundation, 1st floor, 2nd floor, roof)


Additional random pictures



HERE a short album with some wow pics

That's what I did, but it didn't work. I was able to get it back by opening a support ticket with EA. Whew.

Now to try to reinstall everything and hopefully have time to get a house done! Everyone's houses have been pretty cool so far. Not sure what I'm going to do with mine.

Actually, with the incredibly slow downloads I have going on, I doubt I'll have time to finish a house this round. Hubby and I are going to be out of town this weekend, so I'd have to get it done today. Sigh... Don't really want to build a house with the base game only.

For my round four entry, I present LaBianca. This is a two level split classical modern house.

The ground floor has the sitting room with an attached bar area, the kitchen and dining, Study/Library.

The top floor, consists of two bedrooms with en-suite bathroom and a laundry room.

The outdoor of course, have a decorated garden,swimming pool joined with a BBQ area, and a golf practice area. Then there is the car garage as well as an arts room(kind of a green house) where Sims can practice and paint lovely images and arts among nature. There is also at the back garden a dog house and of course the outdoor is a big place for your little pets to play around.

Well I present to you LaBianca








Custom contents
The lists of custom content used includes

Paintings
Audrey kowasakio2, Painting dama, From sims3-modeli.ucoz.ru

Light By Dot@TSR

Scalet kitchen extractor hood By Huddy77@MTS

Rug 3x2 set 1 By Yarona@mylittlethesims3world.blogspot

Painting Rodena By Kikolwiek@simsdistrict

Cabanat Vasa, Apesantuer planter@Mungo Sims

Planta2 @sims3d.host56

Door and Window By Kriss@TSR

Store objects

Classical plant by Kate@parsimonious converted by me

The rest are by me.

A slide preview of this and more shots here
http://s952.photobucket.com/albums/...mview=slideshow

Holy poo, you guys! Round 4 entries are wow'ing my sock off!
And the "just for fun" entries... fabulous!

Rishara- I'm glad you got your game up & running.
And congratulations on having a ̶u̶n̶h̶e̶a̶r̶d̶ ̶o̶f̶ happily resolved EA ticket!



Oh jeez, Flabs! I would hope so! ...Q?

Well, I unfortunately have some bad news, I am going to have to drop out of this challenge even though it is the last round. I am pretty sick at the moment and I just found out my friends Grandma died, her wake is today and the funeral is tomorrow. So I will not have any time to play the Sims let alone build anything for the entire weekend. I look forward to seeing how everyone does once this is over and hopefully Q will host another build challenge that I can complete.

Good luck everyone and fantastic lots so far for Round 4.

Q, my lot house got corrupted, so I'm going to have to rebuild it. I expect to make the deadline, but I'm giving you a heads up ahead of time so you're aware of the situation on my end. I will be working my bum off tonight trying to get it done. I believe the deadline is midnight tonight? Or do I have another day? I'm going to aim for midnight anyway so I I can get it done, just in case.

Also,

CM, my condolences.

-Fuko

I'm really sorry for you and your friend.

Flab, I know that Q was starting university/college sometime around now. I suspect that's the reason for the delay in Round 3 scores (which are all in) being posted. If I don't run across Q in the chat in the next couple of days, maybe one of us judges can arrange to post scores?

ETA: CM, I'm sorry for your loss. Hugs, thoughts and prayers going out for you, your family and your friend's family.

Phew, I didn't think I'd get this finished in time!
My entry is called 'Industrial Chic'.






and loads more pics on my site http://sims-eclectica.weebly.com/
or at http://s833.photobucket.com/albums/...mview=slideshow

Contains CC by Luna, Around the Sims, Tinkle and Louma at Black Pearl Sims, Pocci , Einfach Simlisch, B5Studio, Simply Kitsch and the following TSR artists (all items used are FREE content): jomsims, spacesims, wondymoon, flovv, fantasticsims, eryt96, pralinesims, ruhrpottbobo, annflower1 and riccinumbers.

Desert Home Entry # 4

This time it has some CC, thank you MTS porkypine and Macarossi for your desert plants.

Front View:



Front Door View:



Back Door View:



Roof View:



Floor Plan View:



Hallway:



Study:



Bedroom:



Kitchen:



Living Room:



Bathroom:



I really enjoyed this competition, thank you QBuilderz.

Also I didn't know how to do anything with CFE so I just covered it up with floor tiles.

Round 4: The Cheshire Club
 

I have been wanting to do a community lot since round 1 and now I've finally managed to do so. Yay! This is the Cheshire Cat themed Cheshire Club, a dance club/lounge.

It seems the residents of Bridgeport thoroughly approved of my addition to the neighborhood since there were so many of them present on club's opening night. XD

CreativeMommy1985, I'm sorry to hear your news. My condolences to you and your friend.

Fukothepixie, we'll be rooting for you to beat the clock!
And I think Q's lenient with the clock

Round 3 scores are not all in yet, but Q's the only one who can wrap it up & post them.
As it should be, RL comes 1st & Q started college this week.
I wish him best of luck and say enjoy this wonderful time in your life!
He'll be back as soon as he can.

Seriously, you guys are really rocking Round 4!
Great new entries here, everyone!

And here's my last entry, right on time:

Front picture:



Back picture:









CC content: Sims store, Around The Sims 3, Awesims, Einfach Smilisch, Luna, Pyszny, SimsPhantasia, Louma, AngelamvEliza, Butterfly, FantasticSims, Zveki, Simcredible, QBUILDERZ, Lisen and joyfulgirlhol.

Well, I was going to stay anonymous, since I'd already PM'd Q about it and got the okay... Round 3 was down a judge. The only scores "not in" are mine. I was away on vacation with very limited access to sketchy internet, so I asked Q to leave my scoring out of the round so that the scores could get posted in a more timely fashion.

Oh, the irony. All the best to Q and anybody else heading back to school in the next few weeks! (I, for one, am happy to NOT be going to school for the first time in 20 years... )

Cutting things extreeeeeeemely close:





Floorplans


Other

Yay Lanawinst & kiwi_tea!
Wonderful houses!

C'mon Fukothepixie!

ForeverCamp- You could have remained anonymous. Excluding your scores, it doesn't look like all scores are in yet. That's all, and judges' anonymity respected.
It is ironic that you excluded yourself to keep scoring in timeframe. Hell, since we're still waiting, go get your scoring on!

Finally made the game work, but I'm still working on it. Is it possible to be given an extra half an hour to finish it off and post my pictures? -Fuko

So, I've just posted a link to an album of pictures for this house here:

http://s1070.photobucket.com/albums...ie/Foundation4/

I wanted to get it posted up as quickly as possible. I ended up doing something in blue, which didn't turn out too bad considering the aim was to make it so bad a blue lover wouldn't live in it. It's got one bath, a patio/deck, the kitchen a living space, a reading room/conservatory, and the bedroom, with a number of sitting areas scattered about the house. I think it's called Cool Blues, or if it wasn't before that's what it is now. After the initial failure of my game to load my original schema it's hard to remember. The world is the only cc, and it's Rosewood Hills from MySimsRealty.com.

There are exterior, floorplan, and room shots in the photobucket account. Hope you like it and thanks for the patience with my game going funny on me.

Best, Fuko.

Rofl, you guys are waiting on my scores I only have half of them done. I have my first day of classes tomrrow and I only JUST got internet access up and running in my dorm. Tomorrow, scores will be up!

A little late I think, but better than never!

I went for a modern theme again, highlighted by Earth, Airiness and Light.







CC Inut:
Armi's DIY Build Set
Armi's Recolorable Chimneys
My stuff

I'm so sorry I didn't get my entry in on time! My entire computer just derped and wouldn't work! My dad just finished fixing it today. >< I could have an entry in by Wednesday, though. Since I need to reinstall EVERYTHING. He had to wipe the hardrive. ><

I'm sorry I didn't get my entry done. I actually ended up in the ER yesterday with a giant kidney stone. I'm in massive amounts of pain right now despite being on heavy painkillers. Not sure how long this will last, but playing games is about the last thing on my mind.

I'm another who had some life stuff happen. Between storms randomly shutting me down for computer or internet, sudden deadlines for art/work stuff and general sick and so forth, just didn't even get started on R4. Sorry Q and other folks, I had a blast, just couldn't get 4 out =/

Wow, okay, I obviously have had the Summer-Cold-Combined-With-Night-Shift-and-International-Move-Planning-Brain for the last little while. I totally didn't even see Q's empty slots on our spreadsheet.

My head is mush.

I am an awful person -- no later than TOMORROW night will scores be posted and this round start undergoing judging. I just got slammed with work! The first day, all the professors were like "LOL yay! We are all gonna be so smart TOGETHER!" and today they were like "DO YOUR WORK, NOW OR FAIL! FAIL AND WASTE ALL YOUR MONEY, PUNY BOY. DO THIS WORK OR FAIL!!!" and I am...well...posting on MTS....but I -was- doing work! I swear!

What is this, I don't even...

Did you tell them how important this thread is?

Welcome to uni, Q. It's not like in the Sims 2.

Not. At. All.

sorry (round 4 entry)
 

hah sorry didn't know i have changed it but it took me so long to change the file size hah !! anyway i hope it isn't too late :D

Yea. You gotta hustle if you are taking a full credit load. What? You expected to just mosey through, party and hang out! HA!

Well, I ended up back in the ER and had to have surgery, so have not had a pleasant week. Sorry I missed the end of the contest. It was nice learning from everyone.

I have followed this contest from the beginning and was really trilled by the enthusiasm and zeal that was put into this contest both on the part of the contestants and the judges because it kept the atmosphere really heated up.

I kind of feel this has died down and the atmosphere is just dull now. I checked to see how the contestants have done so far and was just surprised to see that nearly 3 weeks after the third round ended, no scores have been posted for them .

I read the different reasons for this, but at the same time if these guys did not enter for the competition this would not have been successful to this time in the first place. While we all have different things to deal with, we all have one thing in common and that's the 24 hours of time we have in a day. And the key point here is time management. If the contestants did stress themselves to make this contest a success so far, I believe they deserve to know how they have done .

Come on Qbuilderz take the atmosphere back to its tops.

Real life trumps gaming. We'll get there. We're all patient. ^_^

Well said

I understand completely, and I have apologized greatly for it already. I cannot make more time in my schedule to accommodate for this contest right now. I have just started college and my work load is taking some getting used to. But, to try and hold you guys over for just a few more days, let me fill you in on what I am dealing with...

- 20 credits, two of which are honors courses
- Three hours of homework (minimum) nightly
- Dealing with numbskulls who want to judge me for enrolling at Penn State
- Trying to make friends
- Coping with my supremely weird room mate
- Trying to make time for:
* This site
* My contest
* The two other sites I frequent

and, as of yesterday

- My speeding ticket (that I can't afford)
- My family demanding I come home to visit (which I neither can nor want to do.)

So, I will apologize one more time for these delays. I have a lot of stuff to do and, quite frankly, I don't think this contest I am running is worth the $15,000 I'm paying in tuition. Please, try to be patient and understand. I am very appreciative that you guys enjoy the contest, and I have been extremely lenient with your entries for the past month; all I ask is you hold on for just a little while longer. I am 18 -- my plate only fits so much.

Thanks for understanding.

Alright, mere minutes after my previous post, I rearranged my day a bit. I did laundry and, while waiting, I sat down and finished the scores.

View Scores Here!

Yayyy everyone did amazing! We should all be proud of our work!

Verdict on a round 5? I can put up a foundation and have it be SUPER. DUPER. HARD. but really fun. I am thinking it can either be:

1) A full round
2) An optional round and a way to win 20 bonus points (just points added to your score, not averaged.)

It would keep you all busy while I finish organizing the past round. Anyone up for it?

I would LOVE a 5th round. And I'll vote for option 2 to make it easier for our wonderful judges.

Plus I'm not really doing this for the feedback or points, I'm loving the practice and seeing all the beautiful and unique lots people have been creating.

Since I'm just doing this for funz, option 2 would be cute idea IMO too.

on a random note,
psst. Flabs, 1 point! *smirks*

I'm really enjoying this and would love a 5th round. I'm not worried about which option you select. ^_^

Mr Q, a 5th round is what we want! now.
:D

No thanks on a 5th round. I've moved on to other things. :0) Have fun!

I'm still away (mobile internet only) until the 8th (AEST) so unless the fifth round ends well after then, I won't be able to participate, which I'll be annoyed about because of the loss of extra points putting me even further behind on the score table. Either way, I think if the host is going to be late on everything it's better to finish this challenge off soon.

I completely agree with both paragraphs of ReyaD's post.

I'm down for a 5th foundation! And remember Q, family

This should be fun for everyone, Mr Q.
Even if I love this kind of contest, better to stop here at the fourth round and let Q and judges have fun as well as us.

Can judges vote? If so, I vote that we have a fifth round (with whatever option the contestants prefer).

Just putting in my two cents.

While I would love for a fifth round, I will beg to differ from it after giving it a thought. Not for me but because of others. While this contest was mainly for fun, the question for a request for a fifth round should be, Will all the contestants have the time to go for a fifth round. Mind you not all have indicated an interest for a fifth round and some have said they can not participate in a fifth. And the reason just might be they will be doing something else that can or may occupy their time and prevent them from going further. So whether for a full round or an optional round, it would be unfair to them if the fifth round should go on as long as a point would be awarded in anyway except if people are willing to do it just for fun and forget about getting any point in any way.

Okey doke -- I'll post up a fifth foundation, but just have it be for bragging rights Later tonight (I work in a bit) I'll finish making this round's scoring sheet, update the first post with the R3 info, then send our the sheet for the judges to be scored (we are still waiting on one or two extension entries.)

Thanks so much for participating guys!

You are the bomb Q!!!

First post is all updated -- score sheet is about to be sent to the judges -- "Bragging Rights" round will be up later today

Been thinking about you QBuilderz! Last year was my son's first year in college and I totally understand about the demands on your time! Have a great year at Penn State!!

Oh Shit! Right, gotta do the scoresheet! AP Classessssssss!

LOL! I cringe to think about how long it's taken me to finish up the scoring.

Poor Q! He's found out that taking 16+ credits and the homework load for college classes is a BIG workload! You can do it Q! :0)

Several of the professors here don't care what amount of homework you have from other classes, they load up their students with TONS of homework every night! .. and you wonder where all the 'as seen on tv' party animals have the time to party like they do. (They only take 3 credits and fail!)

Yeah. In real life, hardcore partiers don't last long in university.

Closing the contest as of right now Scores will be up tomorrow! More to follow.

Update #1: Acquiring final scores right noooooow!
Update #2: I know who wooooooon! :D

SCORES UP! WINNER REVEALED! CHECK IT OUT, HERE!

Congrats to those of you who stuck it out. I am so glad you enjoyed the contest and apologize for the dragging along the third round. Everything you guys made was amazing and it was really an honor to get to work with all of you. Now, I better see some uploaded houses, because a lot of these are simply breathtaking

Wooop it 's finally OVER :D

Just kidding. I loved this contest, it was great fun!



^ IS a spoiler, click on own risk.

Congrats to the winners (and really, everyone who participated). I never realized just how much creativity there could be in a single competition.

And big thanks to Q and the judges. You guys helped me become a creator and improve on my lot building. You're awesome.

Congratulations to the winners!

Congratulations everybody! and particularly to AdonisPluto, Perfectionist and Morphead. And to Armiel (I've clicked "love" in your post above, Armiel, it was nice to open the spoiler button! ).
I loved so much this contest I already miss it and the fun, it's been a great occasion for finding inspiration, also looking at ideas and creative solutions by other contestants. And then thanks to Mr Q, finally free to mess in the campus, and all the judges for this event.

Yay! Congratulations to our winners!

And you all should know-- I think each & every one of you are winners!
**ooo! got the sappy out of system for the week now**
It's been a treat to see what you all came up with each round.

Great job and a bravo all around!

And Q... Nittany Notes (if they still exist?).
I used to get paid for taking notes. It helped pay for my ̶b̶o̶o̶k̶s̶ ̶p̶a̶r̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶f̶e̶e̶s̶ beer
Best of luck with school!

WOW, everyone did so great! 4th place is ridiculous! thank you to the judges, Q, and everyone else who participated! I loved this contest so much & I'm off to prepare my round 2-4 lots for upload! Once again congrats to everyone (:

WOW. Hahahahahha this was really a breath taking contest and I want to say congratulations to all the winners and to everyone that entered this contest. It created a family out of us. To QB I want to say thanks a lot for hosting it

Hear! Hear! I 110% agree with the congrats to the winners! To me, everyone was a winner!

I really enjoyed seeing all the talent that participated in this challenge! I learned a lot and have applied some of it to my new creations. I really appreciate all the work that the judges put in and to Q for the awesome foundations!

Can't wait for another challenge...after school is done...

Congratulations llamamamamamama! (and Q! It's the weekend coming up... Have a little fun ;0) )