Living Sims

LivingSims is moving to: mackat.dk/livingsims/ – please update your bookmark!

It has now been over a year since we officially closed LivingSims, it is now time for the magazine archive to move to a cheaper server. I have been paying the cost of the servers over the last 1½ year by my self. We are keeping the magazine archive live and we are moving the downloads with it – but not fixing any dead…

Thank you for everything and goodbye

After many years of running and hosting LivingSims I am now saying goodbye and closing LivingSims. My life has moved on from Sims. I do play a bit every now and then, but my heart isn’t in it in the same way anymore. It has been almost two years since we released the last issue of LivingSims, so I think it is time to close the site. I am planing to move the hosting of the magazines to my private…

It’s that time of year again.  LivingSims is pleased to offer you our Holiday edition, full of exciting ideas to help you decorate for the winter season.  All of us at LivingSims wish you and yours a wonderful holiday! Read online Read the pdf

We are moving our main stream tumblr to this domain, so that all of the staff can help macthekat find awesome content for you! Here you will find forum and magazine announcements. Info about our challenges. And what you will all come back for, curated pictures by all the awesome sims photographers out there! We will probably also feature take outs from the magazine as we tend to get way to many great picture to feature them all.

Check out: Decorating Design Style: Eclectic

Beyond the Box

One of the things many sims find hard is building houses with interesting roofs. However we know that the auto-roof feature doesn't do a much better job, so there is only one thing for it: We gotta get better at it - so lets practice making really neat roofs - or at least roof that does not make our house look like a boring box.

Lets see how interesting we can make a simple house just by playing with the exterior.

The Task Pick one of the floor plans below and turn it into a beautiful house with a great roof. You know you can do better than the auto-roof feature! Use the roof tool, add wall details, use texture, add some plants, a foundation and perhaps a neat little patio. You can do what-ever you want to the house as long as the outer walls stay the same. It can be a residential house or a community lot. You may do what-ever style you want, even historical ones. Have fun with it!

Challenge: Design Style: Eclectic

It's time to get eclectic, matching old with new, luxe with humble, showy with quite. The trick is finding a balance between the mix of design elements and not just throwing random bits of everything in a room. Check out this great article on the Eclectic Style

The Task Research the style before you start and decorate any room you want (residential, commercial or garden) in Eclectic.

I don't know about you guys, but to me art is one of the most inspiring things, and sometimes I wish I could step into the paintings. Lets make that happen! Today I challenge you take a piece of art with an interior in it and create that room in your game!