Gratzie both of you.

I'm about to wrap up the Wentworth Woodhouse project. I just have a couple of walls to finish, and TSR uses a couple of weeks to approve 2 sets of walls? Looking at it I uploaded on aug 2'nd so perhaps I'm just being impatient. I still have 2 walls left to upload on TSR and it's ready for the house to go up. I'm going to use some time wrapping all the content used on the house. I just hate that part of the job ... The walls are uploaded on my simsfileshare as well, in case you would like them.



Then I just suddenly went on to something modern and don't quite like the style of it, so I went brutalisme. For some reason I thought it was appropriate.



It just looks so much better with an intense angle lol



It's on one of ts4's best lots in my opinion. This last development has not been posted on my blog yet.

Instead I have been focusing on this:



Do I really dear doing this insane yellow with gold for the Jacobean part of my Wentworth project?

It's a good thing I don't need to make a profile to sell, because it would be quite the confusing thing for a potential customer

I left you with the finished floorplan of this massive downscale.



I liked the tower with bigger and higher windows. The tower roof with more simple shape in post 376, screenshot 870 perhaps, but then 869 is also quite nice me thinks. It can be too complicated too, but then I'm a sucker for simplicity ... most of the time.



I like that detail above the 3 windows on the front upper floor ... and the hole house is quite lovely. As long as it looks good together, hybrid can be very nice ... or fusion as I like to call it.

How do you get rid of floating ceiling tiles again? I'm having this big overhanging roof with a few spots without any support, and I haven't had these floating shits out of reach for a very long time.

Blocking the skylight.

Can't you hold down shift or something and right click on the roof it's attached to. You may have to use testingcheats as well.

Tsyokawe said to remove tiles and export to the library, then replace 3 times. Then it should be stable.

No more floating ceilings, I did something different in my frustration, but it it worked lol

absolutely amazing work!!!

Quick question: what program do you guys use to do quick edits of ll your screenshots?

@TudorMan23
I use Irfanview (Free). Just for compressing pictures so I can upload them on MTS without losing too much quality or having to resize.
Other than that you can do plenty with it.
GIMP is good and free, too.

I use Lightroom to make a preset and then save it ready made with logo accoring to project. There's nothing fast about learning it though, and it costs. Probably not what you're looking for.

Bravo, anything to learn from your frustration with the floating tiles?

Hmmmno not really, because I have no clue what I did.

Thanks I'll give them a try!
and then post pics of my courtyard chateau im finished I just need a good name for it!

I'm surprised to see my latest upload in trending

And here are a few shots of my courtyard chateau inspired by the Gilded Age!

Just need a good name for my Chateaux

Placing and then deleting the corresponding floor tiles should also remove the floating ceiling tiles.

Looks cool! Have you considered doing all of the external wall coverings in the lighter coloured covering?

OMG, yes! I adore that yellow/gold wall-covering. :lovestruc
The whole place looks amazing!

Hi TudorMan
This is a very fine chateau. You are an excellent builder. I have one suggestion, building on what Fergus said. The multicolored bricks that you have used on the exterior may look good in game, but they don't show well in pictures. I am assuming you are considering uploading this gem, and pictures are the only thing downloaders have to go by, so pics are what really sell the lot. I would consider swapping out the bricks for something that photographs better.

@Fergus' Mind and @attuned
I have thought about making the house all the lighter brick! It just does not look right to me!
I might change it just for the pics and let them know which one they are downloading

So I have another unfinished masterpiece to add to my collection, Netherharrow Hall, this time very much inspired by Volvenom's upcoming Wentworth Woodhouse project and cutsocks' Kedleston Hall and also my own personal grand tour of English country houses such as Haddon Hall, Hardwick Hall, Chatsworth House and Belton House. I wanted to create an expansive country house with all the luxury you'd expect from one, although I soon realised in game that it was going to be too ambitious so I decided to scale back my ambitions and instead chose to take inspiring from the design and story of a house I've yet to visit; Claydon House, once a much larger mansion with two flanking wings, the majority of it was demolished leaving behind one of the flanking wings which was then adapted for continued use.



I'm also going to try and figure out how to do a more convincing glass dome/roof for the main stairwell. On the back of the house I'm going to bolt on some later additions to show how it has evolved after the central portion and other flanking wing were demolished and this remaining wing was altered for permanent residency rather than being just for guests.
Then going back to Polstuart, I've finished the garderobe bathroom, long galleries and ballroom, and pretty much the rest of the interior, I just need to test it and take more pictures

Lurker here again:P

Hope you will remember the miracolous trick for floating tile destruction one day and share it with us Johnny_Bravo:D.

I absolutely adore your houses Fergus' mind. I cant decide which one I like more, they are both really gorgeous I was wondering though that the ceilings on the interiors are a bit too light. Is it your preference or is this a specific feature of the architecture style you are going for? At first glance I thought you actually forgot to paint them. Could you maybe consider making them a bit darker or add some darker ornament to the sides where it meets the columns or in the middle?

I was on a stroll yesterday with a group of people interested in old buildings in Oslo. An historian did the talking. He showed different decorations on regular usually neoclassisme apartment buildings at Bislet, around the stadium. Some buildings were also very nice funkis or modernist buildings from around 1920-30. He showed us how buildings that looked dirty and unloved were sometimes the loveliest examples of period architecture. Once they start doing them up, they lose lots of period features. It lastes for 2 hours, I was exhausted. For that reason I would prefer the one where you have tried some period features above the windows etc. I would have given it a more lively color though, or at least some contrast.


This might not work at all. If you have used the biggest lot though, perhaps it still will. Blooms dome? ... have you heard about it?



The video is ancient and the size of the house I'm building is gigantic, just turn the music off and watch what it looks like. I updated the description for the video, so the link should now work.

PS: @Crowkeeper did I mix up you and Tsyokawe? I keep doing that

I managed to get on with another laborintensive farm project on an industrial style, modernized. It started with Icemunmun's canning station. It of course had to be released when I just had to get on with finishing up and upload Wentworth.



This is the room for canning. The farm will be VERY big. It has 3 floors.



Lots of plants from chocolate etc, etc. Should save me having to actually eat it, as it would make me real plumpy



It's looking very industrial, but at the same time I want it to look like a luxurious place.

You had to go and poke the bear...
I've been round and made some a bit darker, but the trouble is the lighting; it seems very changeable and so in some lights them seem too light and then in others they seem too dark, so I'm trying to find a happy medium, which as you can see still isn't quite there yet. (if that makes any sense?)


In a place like Oslo that sounds like it would be very interesting indeed. If you're interested, those "period features above the windows" are called Swag(s) or Festoon(s).

Thanks for the suggestion, although that particular example is too big for my needs in this case.

Ha! Well isn't that always the way? Just as soon as we got close to finishing and uploading one creation we're swept away by a new project altogether.
It's looking very good so far, certainly has a luxurious vibe.

I couldn't help but laugh and think of something like 'Thanks ObamaCrowkeeper'. I'm sorry.

Oh did that happen after you tried to change the colour? I am so sorry But I think my game punished me for this:

Edit: I know what you mean with the lighting changing on the ceilings even though I never had that happen on interiors. But I am constantly figting with it at CFED roofs too:

Before and after
I think i like the after better! It was too much of the red/brown stone

Hey all!

So I'm trying to hit up the bi-monthly theme again. And it's maternity... ew... babies...

So to pair this up with my ongoing goal of making RH rug friendly community lots, I'm making a hospital! And it'a a Victorian/Second Empire monstrosity! (To be honest, I wasted all of August trying to come up with an Art Nouveau thing, inspired by MackIntosh's School of Art in Glasgow. But that went nowhere, and I came up with nothing despite many, many attempts.)

Anywho, some backstory about previously being one of those convent hospitals where they sent unmarried mothers-to-be to have their shameful sin babies or whatever--hence the prominent chapel and cloistered quadrangle part and possibly because it could pass for a prison or lunatic asylum. And I can't tell you how many times I've looked at a hospital and thought, "this needs more gargoyles," 'cause nothing establishes faith in recovering like winged demons looming over porticos.

That octagonal room with the cupola is the operating room operating theater operating theatre. It's my favorite bit. :D

Oh! @Cutsocks ! Go'n check out the ts3 discussion forum. Nitromon has been testing combining residential and community with rabbitholes. You could have a boardingschool, that would make your big lot so much more useful. Elynda is working with it too.

... or a hospital on a residential lot.

@Cutsocks I'm fascinated by the octagonal + cupola bit. Won't the roof pop up or down after placing/replacing the building?