Just put it on with "Inspired by..". There are no copyrights or whatever on that design. I'm pretty sure MTS is for sharing, caring and inspiring

I'll think about it. But right now, I'm feeling a Spanish vibe. I'm going to finish off my tacky Neo-Colonial, which will be a mix of the 1960s and the 1980s, and then finish off my historic Spanish farmhouse and rebuild a Spanish Colonial Revival Hollywood Hills type mansion on a smaller lot. It's currently pictured on a 64 by 64 lot, but I've fenced it in to a 40 by 40 plot, so I shall rebuild it up the road on a 40 by 40 lot.
[Pictured is some of the tacky interior of the Neo-Colonial and then the façade of the Spanish Colonial Revival]

Hey, guys!

I haven't been posting for a long time, but lately I check out the thread and I am really happy to see all of your creations! You just can't stop doing better and better stuff, cant you!

Lately I have also been working on a spanish colonial house. I hope you can give me some advice on how to finish it with a good garden.

Lol, it seems like there's a Spanish virus going around, a lot of us seem to have gotten it.

It looks good, but before I make any suggestions, which side is the front? In my view, two of the sides would make great fronts, and they both open on to the same room, so I guess it doesn't matter too much.

The side on wich you can see the arches on the second story is the front. The other that makes a nice front has also a lot of space before it, I think I would place the pool there.

heh. ya me too. I'm not sure if it wasn't started by the Sunset Valley Makeover contest hosted by BlakeS5678 .
One of the choices is to decorate for the Martinez family. I know it gave me the bug.

I like where you're going with this front court entry. I like the near-symmetry, the change in elevation with the stairs and platform,
and the colour you chose for your stucco combines beautifully with the hues of the roof.

I have a good idea for a grand landscaping scheme that would suit the house very much, but I wonder if the lot is big enough. What size lot is it built on?

Thanks I got the vibe from the hot summer we're having here in England at the moment, and also from the house used in the original version of "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?"

It inspired me do a search of what had already been done as I decided I wanted to make the Hollywood Hills counterpart to one of my previous uploads, which is where I stumbled across Fertie's La Hermosa Villa.
I've now rebuilt the shell of my Revival home on the smaller 40 by 40 lot as intended. I'm not too sure what I'm doing with the tower windows, or the sides, I want it to feel like it is enclosed by similar gracious homes on either side, hence why I have the poplar trees, to provide privacy from the imaginary neighbours.

I've been working on a lot inspired by the house used in 'The Woman in Black' and also the kinds of architecture seen in the videogame 'Skyrim'; I've come up with a Jacobean manor of medieval origins with a hint of gothic, but there's also a further twist; I'm making it to be the home of a Coven/School of magic. The interior's quite dark. Originally it was a whole storey taller, but I lopped it off and dropped the roof as I felt it was a little too ambitious.

Hey Guys Im back on but still working on whats wrong with my game but I gotta say all you guys works looks fantastic! UGH!!!

I think I'm gonna hafta lose the fake chimney wall.
 

Either that, or put it further in so that it pops out of the top of the mansard...I'm not liking what it's doin' to my roof. It's just too thick, I think.

Or should I go with a column, instead? I've tried a CAStable chimney, but it keeps making a gap - chimney, open space, chimney.

Is it something to do with all the CFE?

Update on my attempts...

Okay, so I finally figured out how I was screwing up the roof.
But I still couldn't fix the chimney, so I've settle for a couple of 2-story doric columns.

For the life of me, I can't figure out what it is I'm doing wrong with the chimney.

Anyhow, I went to CAS, and made a couple of wives for the evil Maledict Simon, and force-killed them for the house.
I took all my screenshots, so this one is now ready*. 2 more to go. :D

*except now that I see the screenshots, I realize I will have to darken the wood on spiral staircase...

New Update (and I have uploaded this version):

I must say I really like what you've done with this house too. I would have maybe darkened up the exterior wall coverings a bit, but I actually thought the chimney looked fine as it was. I look forward to seeing it uploaded.
P.S. Sorry I wasn't able to give any feedback sooner, I've been busy with Uni.

I'm going to try darkening the outside walls. I think you're right.
It's supposed to be a creepy place, and pale yellow (even a desaturated yellow) is a bit too cheery.

I may well revisit that [expletive-deleted] chimney, too. aaargh!

I've been working on the third haunted house, and I'm probably going to make it an upload of its own.
I got a little carried away with the "décor." I think it's probably gonna need 30 screenshots of its own.

Thank you for helping me. Especially given how busy I know you are.
I remember university. All I did was eat, sleep, read, and research.
I spent more time in the library than I did at home. I both envy you and feel sorry for you.
I think it's probably the hardest work I ever had in my life...maybe because it meant so much to me to get it right.

Wait a minute. I just realized, all this learnin' is gonna to cut into your building time. This won't do at all.

Since moving back to Uni in early September to start my second year, I've probably wracked up a grand play time of just under two hours. So progress on any of my projects has been very slow...

Le me just cusually leaning in.



Damn gotta love dDefiner's lightning mod.

Villa Andrei

A Palladian villa, based on Villa Emo (designed in 1559).

Andrea Palladio developed this type of villa for rich landowners, living (a lot or all of the time) on Venetian terra ferma. The family would live on the first floor. house servants on the second. (People who actually worked the land lived in houses - or, rather, shacks - of their own.) Cellars would be used to store produce, wings for kennels, stalls, coaches, farming machinery, etc. The basic design was excellent and therefore much copied, above all by English 18th century landed gentry and consequently in Americas (think Tara from Gone with the Wind).


Built on a 60x60 lot in Riverview. I wanted to have a mannerist fountain at the back (there is none at Villa Emo; I got the idea from the beautiful Nymphaeum behind Villa Barbaro) and since lots larger than 64x64 are not possible I added a 60x20 one and built the fountain there.


I found it impossible to copy the Palladio's Nymphaeum well so I improvised. I don't consider the fountain to be finished, yet it already cost 90.000 minus some change. But the family is filthy rich so they can afford it.


The first floor. The first and the second floor are organized along androne, the central corridor from which rooms and staircases are accessible. This feature was sometimes used by Palladio but is most typical for Venetian renaissance and baroque palaces. - In this case the first floor contains, on the left, a studio, a transit room with a spiral staircase to the ground floor, a room which is mostly occupied by dog and cat stuff and a TV room; on the right, the dining room is followed by the kitchen and a bedroom with bathroom. All of this is, of course, completely wrong - e.g., animals would never be kept inside the house, the kitchen should be out of the way on the ground floor, and so on. - The ground floor contains garages, stalls, a workshop, an atelier, etc. There are four bedrooms (each with a bathroom) on the second floor.


Androne was always richly decorated, either with frescoes or, more often, with large paintings by Venetian masters. Sadly, in this case only Sim masters were available; they also painted family portraits displayed on the second floor. - I made the first floor "transparent", therefore enabling the vista of the Venus statue on the fountain. This is really a 17th century idea but what the heck.


A night view, just for good measure. I have other (more or less) informative shots but no idea how to post those additional small screenshots that everybody else here seems to be using without a problem.

Edited to add screenshots, with thanks to Johnny_Bravo.

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OMG, that fountain is phenomenal - the blues and golds of it are beautiful.

I agree that fountain is AWESOME.

And Johnny_Bravo, I love that sprawling home. So very... wealthy Long Island.

I've been away from the Sims for a while, mostly due to the save I was building on breaking. Made me very sad, and all I had were earlier versions saved in the bin. So most of the decorating and landscaping all needs redone. So sad.

First up is a collection of homes inspired by ones in the neighborhood where I live.

This brick house with a gambrel roof was the only one in a completed stage from the bin.



The green Craftsman is mostly done, as is the little blue one. Just landscaping touches. The sage farmhouse was the least completed of all lost on that save. The floorplan was never working out right.

I had a series of Dutch Colonial Revivals I was working on as well. All five were done except ground-painting and testing. THAT BROKE MY HEART. All of these were inspired or recreated from catalog homes. 'Course simifying anything requires certain liberties.



The previous five were all on 20x30 lots. The three big Dutch Colonial Revivals are on 40x30, and the two little ones are 30x30.

Lastly, some miscellany...

I've worked on these two the last couple of days. The house is inspired from one on oldhousedreams. In reverse though, and not at all the right floorplan. :P



Then someone said they were having problems finding an old style bank. I saw that as a challenge of course.



Still lots of work to be done, but I have crazy fun doing community lots. I'm not super keen on lots without a defined purpose in the Sims, but I guess you can slap a RH rug in there if you wanted. I was inspired by a bank in Creston, Nebraska. I love triumphal arch influenced designs.

I kinda love them all! Especially the Craftsman and Colonial Revival style homes. That Bank is gorgeous... All that unpainted woodwork... *drools* I love how creative you've been with CFE. And the way you've used all the different wall coverings to achieve that fine level of detail on the ornamentation that I covet your creations for.
P.S. To be considered Dutch Colonials they had to have been built by Dutch settlers, and they didn't all build their homes with gambrel roofs. So technically your darling houses are just Colonial Revivals rather that Dutch Colonial Revivals. But that's by no means a criticism. Your work is as amazing as usual. I just love it.

Eh, I don't make up the terminology. In current usage (and throughout the 20th century), at least in the States, "Colonial Revival" and "Dutch Colonial Revival" are distinctively identifiable from each other. Colonial Revivals are Federal/Georgian in influence, whilst Dutch Colonial Revivals have gambrel roofs and often shed dormer--because those are the bits that were most associated with the Dutch colonists in America. Why am I trying to explain this? That is just what they are called.

So instead of finishing anything up, made headway last night on a close recreation (like my Olana) of a Mission Revival style home (probably zero a thing to do with actual missionaries, but, once again, I'm not the guy that comes up with the names).

Sorry if I've angered/annoyed you. I was just going by what I've read in essays by American architectural historians and style identification books such as "A Field Guide To American Houses" by Virginia and Lee McAlester. A true Dutch Colonial wouldn't have dormers which was a key defining aspect of the original style and hence why many Colonial Revivals are commonly miss-labeled as Dutch. The addition of dormers to the gambrel roofs on 'Dutch Colonial Revival' homes is an idea commonly thought to have been influenced by the Victorian Shingle style. Having a gambrel roof is by no means a defining feature of Dutch Colonial either as most early Dutch Colonials were built with side-gabled roofs, which were later altered in to gambrel roofs as a method of creating more usable space because it was easier to expand upwards than outwards due to the fact that what separated Dutch colonist apart from English ones was that the Dutch mostly built in stone rather than wood.
I don't want to argue,I was merely showing why I thought differently to you. I'm more than happy to agree to disagree and forget all about it. I admire your beautiful creations too much to have any intention of upsetting/annoying you. I look forward to seeing your next creation. Thinking of Olana reminded me that I found an old photo of a house in Los Angeles that might inspire you. I'll see if I can dig it up.
The Paul De Longpre House, Los Angeles, CA

Ah, I understand the confusion now.

Unlike a lot of revival styles, Dutch Colonial =/= Dutch Colonial Revival. I am in no way making homes used by Dutch colonists in America. I am recreating homes from the early half of the 20th century with gambrel roofs in a distinct style called Dutch Colonial Revival. I'm not responsible for any informational inaccuracies the name of the style may suggest. I guess I was a bit flabbergasted that you seem to deny a style from existing because the term is weird or misleading.

On another note, the Mission Revival recreation is shaping up. A slight bit bigger to accommodate stairs and windows and the such (and center the roof). Added a couple of bathrooms and split a bedroom, but pretty darn close to the neglected original.

Edit: The de Longpre house is gorgeous. After following the link to the pictures, I immediately noticed there were no modern pictures... gah, so sad. But then, at the time of the demolition the house was only about 25 years old. But yes, that will definitely inspire me, thank you!