Oh my God! Stephanie, this lot goes above and beyond anything I could have dreamed of! You are so talented, and all the little details of this just make me want to squee with glee. <3
The intricate shell-lined walls, the lighthouse and the row boat, the perfectly furnished rooms, the beautiful garden with Dobby's grave that just makes me want to cry all over again...

See that little star that says "Picked Upload?" Yeah, you completely and utterly deserve that. This lot is just too perfect. Thank you so much for sharing it with us!

P.S. You mentioned earlier that it was a pain trying to get the landscaping right the first time around. Well, you nailed it to a tee this time! :]

Wow, StephSim! This is beautiful. You surely deserve the Picked Upload honor for this one.

And thanks again for including my contributions to the community in your work!

I LOVE this lot! Is there any way you can make the house like a regular house without the lighthouse and on a smaller lot?

Absolutely wonderful! This is a great lot!

Thanks for noticing my lot in such a way. I appreciate the recognition.
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Starfish:
Thanks for your sincere comments. I KNOW you mean it! I mentioned the landscape to you before because I couldn't find white stones to line the garden and when I did the owner did not respond to my request...so, I created floor tiles. The grave actually came out a lot better than I thought it would. You should see all the discarded samples I created! Then, there were the flowers. I used Macarossi's flowers but did not get a response about including them in uploads until AFTER I posted the house! (There will be other houses to use her flowers in.) I did find other flowers to use by bienchen83 and trees by Numenor to use as well. Thanks to all the object makers who allow their objects to be included in lots! :D
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Coastal Cutie: I will do that. I will post it by next Tuesday! The garden will look a little different (as I love creating romantic looking gardens), I will remove the burial mound, I will remove the lighthouse(??REALLY??) and I will place it on a smaller lot.
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Lara - Thanks for your positive comments! I'm glad you enjoy the lot!

stephanie b.

Beautiful, be justly proud of this wonderful creation!

Thanks! I appreciate that becuase I know that if I tried to remake it myself it wouldnt be as good. lol. What I'm really wondering is how you got the white parts on the front of the house and by the back door... the white thing with holes (its name escapes me). I've seen houses with those and ones with the color like the porch thats brown but I cant figure out how they made them.

Coastal Cutie:
Click on the name Reyn above (under Custom Items Included). There is a complete set of "lattice" downloads that come in wood (2 shades of brown, white and black wood). It's called the Silversong Porch Build Set.
stephanie b.

This is an absolutely lovely house -once I have some free time to actually play with my Hogwarts families, I'll definitely need to start picking up more than the school itself.

Steph!
Congrats on your picked upload!
I love this one, you made an excellent job, taking your time to do all the shell walls and everything! It's just as I imagined it from the DH!

Keep on doing such wonderful things!

Reyn,
Thanks for the compliment. Using your lattice set helped to give this cottage that "certain something" that it needed to be beautiful! Thank YOU for sharing your items!
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Laura,
You are quite welcomed! The shell walls would have been torture IF I didn't find a sample already in a white background. I traced out a few of the shells so the wallpaper would not repeat itself and spread them out over the design to help make the wallpaper seamless. You would laugh because I WAITED to paint the house until last. Then, I was EXCITED to see it all "shelled" up. (Yes, I am somewhat psychotic at times - Definitely flawed!) Take care!

You really deserved the feature on this, it makes a great cottage whether you like Harry Potter or not.

Thanks Claire. I REALLY appreciate the compliment! :D

You have hit on something interesting.

You said..."whether you like Harry Potter or not"

You know, people so easily compartmentalize things by putting them into categories (to make sense of the world I guess). Interestingly, you miss out on many great things when you do that. For instance, I don't design 1 style of lots, I LOVE creating variety as it expands my learning about architecture and design concepts. I love playing around in all kinds of lots. I guess most people stick to what they know and download only certain styles or kinds of lots. Me personally, I look at each lot for what it is and not the theme or style it represents! I think people miss out on great lots when they ignore the lot because of it's title or theme!

i have no words for this beautiful house. stunning. absolutly wonderful. thanks for creating and sharing x

You are most welcomed strawberryglaze! Do enjoy the house!

I know you most likely wont read this since you made this so long ago but sometime do you think you could make the charcters based of the book?

Hi! Actually, I don't make Sims...but, there are a few really great Harry Potter characters for the Sims 2 (some on this site). Sorry I don't have links, but perhaps you could ask in the groups here on MTS where to find the best HP Sims. Also do a search here on MTS for Harry Potter and it will bring up everything form more buildings, to clothing to Sims. Hope this helps!

~*~Stephanie~*~

Aw darn, this is cool and all, but I was hoping it would be a beach lot, since Shell Cottage is on the ocean and all...

sweetlilpsycho,
Glad you like and sorry it isn't quite what you wanted.

When I created Shell Beach, beach lots did not have the best reputation and I wasn't an experienced "beach" lot creator back then. I guess this would indeed be a great candidate for being placed on a beach. But, sadly not something I will take on as my RL plate is full at the moment.

Regardless, maybe you can still enjoy the lot. It's coolness is not limited by what it "isn't", but exist in finding value in what it "is"!