Jes

DINA & NINA CALIENTE'S CONDO

Firstly thank you so much my love!!! this is so nice to hear and I appreciate it so much <33

The main cheat i use is "setquartertileplacement on" I always use it for lights, 3 seater couches so I can allign them with the tv, and decorations. I try not to abuse it though. My other two are "move objects" and occasionally for outside garden I use "snapobjectstogrid false" but that one I moved away from and haven't used in awhile. I know people use the degree cheat but I avoid it as I try to make it vanilla as possible and for everything to be usable and have no routing issues (gameplay friendly and all that)

I think the most important thing with building at least for me was to realise that not everything has to match and to find beauty in the "ugly" things. When I was younger I used to make everything black and white and modern as possible but sims 2 is an early 2000s game so alligning with it's time did the trick for me.

Before I started renovating Pleasantview I did go on pinterest and just google images to find what aesthetic I'm going for. I had an idea but I actually went to visualise before I started. I created essentially a mood board with real life houses and cities and even tv shows and games (like life is strange, tvd, teen wolf, stranger things...) for each wealth class. So when I started building I knew exactly what I'm doing. I'm not a great builder by any means though! But don't copy everything 1-1 because with sims it'll never be possible. Take inspiration from it and then just play around with what looks good - this is where I also realised that sometimes simplicity actually makes things look way better and "realistic". So i keep it simple.

Another thing is don't be scared to fail and try again. I've built lots and completely scrapped them in the end when I thought of a better idea. With the poor street where Brandi lives I ended up going back and changing the inside of all those houses completely. So my advice is don't be scared to do that even if it feels like a waste of time.

I'm at work right now so I'll end it here but if there is anything more you'd like to ask or me to be more specific about feel free to ask and i will try my best to answer!

The rooms are all quite similar with just a few differences. Although it's an apartment building (I debated wether I should make it a woohoo community lot or go apartments) it's built like a motel. Even with the double beds in certain rooms. If anyone actually does go live here they can always redecorate or sell the extra bed.

Not sure if anyone will care for this since it's a bit different. It's basically only the shell, since I want to leave the setting up shop for gameplay; and to get cars in i'd need to own this lot with a sim anyways. Also with the shop area there's so many possibilities to go down with so I really wanted to leave it all.

There's an upstairs apartment - in my personal game Dustin is going to be cheating on Angela so I feel like the apartment is going to come in handy lol, at least when it's renovated.. (yay somewhere to spend simoleons on)

Not my best build but I wanted to switch it up a little bit so the houses on this street don't end up looking all the same. I struggled a lot with the interior and layout tho lol. As always kept it pretty simple as these builds are not for any families specific