@Fergus' Mind
The OHD community appears to like your contributions of old English homes.

Well I love trawling the property listings online in search of my dream home/inspiration/homes to recreate in the Sims; you never know what's out there till you look!

I recently felt inspired to create another southern Victorian cottage, this time with a 'lived in' feel.



As I was building it, the house kind of developed its own history; initially built as a Victorian cottage with a 'wedding cake' style to it, a century of additions, alterations and being lived in as a generational family home have left it feeling more like a pound cake than a wedding cake.
And so I've christened it 'The Pound Cake House'.

Fergus' Mind- love the house, love the name. How can you envision a house that has had a century of renovations? Do you build it as it was originally, and then rebuild it for each change? Or can you see each revision in your mind and then build it as it is now?

I find it''s best to study real-life examples; when you can see which parts of the house are the original, you then see how the house has evolved. The more you see, the more you realise how common certain kinds of alterations are; i.e. lean-to extensions and enclosed porches to the rear for kitchens and bathrooms in later decades.

Hey guys you do realize we are on page 33 and have over 800 posts on this one thread! This thread is still going! WOW!!!

Thanks for the reply, Fergus' Mind (that is a strange sentence). I guess in the US we tear down rather than renovate in many cases, so we don't see the usual renovations over time. My local paper even has a feature: "Tear down of the Week". If the house is listed on the historic registry, it's safe from tear down, but then repairs and upkeep are impacted. I have a friend who owns a Colonial style house that is 150 years old, and she is only allowed to paint it white with hunter green shutters.

Well I actually take almost sole inspiration looking at US homes on a blog dedicated to you all your numerous historic properties called Old House Dreams. I love seeing so many wonderfully preserved homes and homes with excellent restoration potential.

Thanks for the link! Some of those homes, my oh my... :lovestruc

You're welcome! I absolutely adore that website and recommend it to almost everyone. The lady that runs it is like superwoman in the way she manages to find all these amazing homes, and with such good taste too! :lovestruc

Meanwhile, I recently tried to build a Romanesque style home, although it quickly began to look like a hybrid of the Munsters' House and a Shingle style home:



Although I was soon able to redeem it, although unfortunately not to the extent of looking like its intended style:

It's a while ago @Fergus' Mind recommended that site. I still check occasianally.

I've recently been working on a Scandinavian townhouse to fit into FagerSims' Dronningslund. The only trouble is that despite using houses from Stockholm, Osle and Copenhagen as references, I keep drifting back to my time in Amsterdam, so my attempt probably looks more Dutch than Scandinavian.



I feel like the facade could probably do with a little more ornamentation, and I'm going to need to re-think my fireplaces as none of the bedrooms can hold a double bed due to the chimneys, unless I make the house wider or change their orientation.

In Denmark that probably could work, not in Oslo. I'm not sure about Stockholm, but probably not. I know the tendency to just do as you please though

If that is a harbor building, they often had openings on the top floor for the lift, and then you could withdraw the area below it a bit in, just to prevent the lift from crashing into the lower floors.

I just have to put th final touches on this masterpiece! Dang this house is huge! I didnt realize it until now! Just have to finish the family bedrooms!
My recreation of The Breakers mansion in Newport Rhode Island

This home has pretty much in common with mine..
I don't know if I should be stunned about the houses' similiarities or not.

and mine

I don't know, Johnny. Perhaps you both used the same inspiration pictures? Maybe she used yours as inspiration. I do like your house better, though. The lots are different enough that she didn't just slap her name on your build. If she was "inspired" by your lot, take it as a compliment. I once saw a world available for download on the exchange that was the EXACT same world as someone else had available, including the original creator's name on the photos. Now that is plagiarism, and nerve, taken to a whole new level.

Hopefully just ignorance. People often needs to be told it's not ok, especially if they come from other places in the world. The Chinese has been copying other peoples work for ages.

... and that house has plants on the decoration friezes. I'm surely not going to water those.

I'll just take it as inspiration then I haven't used an inspiration picture for the build, it's more of a patchwork plan. I've seen a lot of Floridian home pictures and everything I've remembered went into one design.

I'm also pretty annoyed that I can't find the damn flagpole in buy mode. (I've installed Lisen's mod)

It looks great so far! It's actually not as big as I thought it would be, which is nice as that makes it easier to load/play. But I still dread to think how long a house of that size would take to furnish.

I wouldn't have said that they were similar enough to cause any worry. Especially given nature of the architectural elements you've both used in order to conform to the desired modern style. And personally I much prefer the landscaping of your design, it greatly compliments the home and accentuates its grandeur.
Also, I was inspired by your recent upload to put unpainted beadboarding in my 'Poundcake House':



Although I've also had to rearrange the fireplaces in the front rooms to be able to accommodate double beds in the bedrooms above, so the arrangement of the chimneys on the roof is much more disfiguring. It's made me consider scrapping the lot altogether. But for the meantime it has given me the opportunity to finally experiment with decorative iron fretwork between the two chimneys like you'd see on a real life Queen Anne style home:

I really adore the fretwork!

Thanks! Although for the life of me, I can't find the darn house I saw online with the fretwork still in situ on the chimneys. It would seem that fretwork on the chimneys is the first thing to be lost and very rarely replaced.

That feeling when you start building a house with cfe and then realise that you've built it too close to one side of the lot so you have to shuffle it back across the lot, floor-by-floor...



Also, my Pound Cake House has found itself on the back-burner once again as I attempt another Victorian- Adobe/Peublo Revival/Territorial Revival hybrid inspired by one I found online in Santa Fe.



And then I tried jazzing up the exterior of that townhouse, but I'm not sure I like what it's become more than what it was.

Well, recently I started creating a few smaller homes, starting with an 1860's Greek Revival-Italianate hybrid home inspired by a house I found for sale in Kentucky:



I'm calling it the "Little Brown House". Although the inspiration home was shades of green/ochre.

Looks great, Ferg. I especially like the roof on the back porch. I instantly thought of you when I saw this video showing the roof (and the metal supports for the chimneys) of the Seiberling mansion in Kokomo, Indiana.

Thanks, yes, that metal work is similar to some that inspired me. The house is stunning and watching the video with its soundtrack is so therapeutic. :lovestruc