Rise Up 12 (two matching modern base-game no-CC houses)

The House:

The foyer of this house opens into the great room, with a living room, kitchen, and eating nook. This area is very open and airy, although there is a small privacy wall to hide some of the kitchen clutter. A formal dining room extends from the front of the house just left of the foyer, and a hallway on the right leads to the 3 bedrooms and 2 and a half baths.

Access to the garage is off of the kitchen and the dining nook has double doors leading to a covered patio. The attached garage and optional basement are roughed-in, for future use. The lot is small, but fully landscaped, with easily-playable views from the front of the house.

The Series:

Rise Up 12 is one in a series of matching modern starter-furnished one-story houses on 3x2 lots. It was inspired by a real floor plan, but modified to fit on a small lot, simified, and redesigned with a modern exterior. Choose between a ground level home or the same house on a foundation with a basement. Homes in this series are meant to be the next step up from a starter. Rooms are reasonably-sized. Furnishings are minimal and starter-style to keep costs down. There are no extraneous items like pictures and sculptures, although skill items are available. You can move your family in and have everything that you need, or consider the existing furnishings to be placement suggestions and upgrade to your liking.

Technical Details:

Some pets cannot navigate 2-click stairs. If you intend to play a family with pets, you might want to use the ground level lot.

The unfinished roof affects the environment score for the outside of the house. If you want to increase the environment score, you might want to add floor tiles to the top of the roof.

There is no room for a functional driveway at the front of the house. If you wish to add a driveway inside of the garage, you will have to place the driveway extension piece using the "moveobjects on" cheat.

The basement has two columns which can prevent your basement from flooding on low-lying ground, depending upon your EPs. Please see http://www.modthesims.info/showthre...840#post3579840 for details. If you'd like, the columns are easy to remove using the foundation tool, and the ground inside of the column can be flattened using the level terrain tool.

The roof is a "foundation roof", created with inexpensive foundation walls. If necessary, these walls can be removed using the foundation tool; the standard method of removing normal walls will not work.

The lot price shown is for the basement version of the house. The ground level version is slightly less expensive, at $48,881.

Lot Size: 3x2
Lot Price: $50,325

Additional Credits:
Numenor, for the AnyGameStarter, which allowed me to make this lot without any EPs:
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=250555

The LotAdjuster, which allowed me to create the walls one tile from the edge of the lot.
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=384656

The GridAdjuster, which allowed me to easily make the 2-click foundation and the modern roof:
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=327439

ConvertiWall, which allowed me to change the walls on the roof to foundation walls, thus reducing the cost in line with the actual structure:
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=327132

The LevelAdder (still in testing), which allowed me to add a foundation and basement to an existing ground level lot without rebuilding the entire lot:
http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=328166

Quaxi and Peter and Igne Jones, for SimPE, which allowed me to transfer the terrain paints from one lot to the other after a new level had been added:
http://sims.ambertation.de/

The LotCompressor, which allowed me to remove unnecessary images from the lot package, thus reducing its size by half:
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=426409

Ultimate Plans, for Plan #131005, which inspired this lot:
http://www.ultimateplans.com

The Parachute Club, for their song "Rise Up".