Sims 4 - Building another Small Home

Remember that I built a slightly larger home for a sim last time? Ever since doing that, the location right beside him was looking so so lonely. Someone had to step up and build something on that empty plot!

Base

So that's exactly what I did. Here's the base for the home, already at 89 of 100 tiles. It loses two whole tiles somewhere in the next few hours of building but nothing's really lost. For a tiny home, this is a perfect size!

Bedroom, Study, Bathroom

I don't know what it is about the ceiling fans, but they're always so fun to put in a bedroom. And this one had been begging for something from the top so this fit out perfectly. The Sim to live here is lucky to have a full bathroom beside the bed and a nice little study right below where they'll sleep. Nothing to stop the guests from wandering all around but isn't that the case for all Sims? Better keep that laptop locked up tight!
And threw a garden area in the yard because it was asking for something. Fits perfectly!

Living Room, Kitchen, Bathroom

Still in love with how that little dining area in the kitchen worked out. And the kitchen was surprisingly cheap for how I normally do everything. That small bathroom works perfectly as a small step-aside for both the kitchen and the living room so...hopefully that'll keep most of the nosy guests out of where they shouldn't be. (Hah! Such is the hope, anyway.)
Living area worked out perfectly too. There's a small stereo on the bottom right corner, a television in the center of the room, with a gosh darn comfortable couch and love seat surrounding the tv.

Roof and Garden

And here is the final shot of this whole location. Metal roof with a couple wind generators to help keep the price low. Isn't it such a steal at 34,331 simoleans! I'm sure that the line must be out the realtor's door, so who knows. Maybe you can nab this place as a second home with your sweetheart or it'd be perfect for a sim who is just learning to go around town.
Realtors are just waiting!

Sims 4 Tiny Living build

1st Floor bathroom

To show the first floor's bathroom, I added lights and made it dark so you could see details of this 2x3 bathroom. Yes, I put a wall to sink window here...Sims won't care about that, right? And since you no doubt see the ladder to the second floor, let's hop up there for a moment.

2nd Floor bathroom

Have I mentioned how much magic bb.moveobjects on is? Because without it, I could never get away with a shower in front of a door. Makes a perfect small bathroom for what is going to be a bedroom!

1st Floor finished

Got a little carried away with this so just took the screenshot after painting and settling everything. This floor has the kitchen and living room area, along with a table and laptop on the left. The painting job is a bit odd but I like it more than I should, so it gets shared. And this is almost the first time a rug doesn't have to be fought with just to make it fit!
...as terrible as the Sims can be for the characters, isn't it so great that it's cheap to get to repaint everything to their liking when they move in? XD So at least I get to share my painting choices.

1st Floor second angle

Took this shot since, for some reason, I decided that the desk and laptop wasn't well seen. Really glad to that it shows the entry that I finally settled on! This floor just didn't have enough windows, really. Thank goodness that the Sims is good at taking care of that for me.

2nd Floor finished

Here's the second floor. Bed and outdoor area settled nicely, plus how that 1x3 tile bathroom looks now that there's stuff actually sitting by it.
You'll also notice that a couple trees seem to have sprung up in the backyard. Decided that they look pretty nice so let them hang out there...especially that they did this without my permission! I was busy looking to the neighbors' houses to see what kinda plants lived there and, when I returned, these two were just in place. Tsk and tsk, right? XD

House and Yard

Pretty happy with how all of this fit! Couldn't decide what else to put in the yard, so maybe the sim that'll live here will enjoy the extra space. There's plenty of other places in Willow Creek for someone to actually go if they feel up to it.

So, the first thing I realize after finishing this build? I need to stop making houses out of boxes and just leaving them as boxes. XD Houses don't always just look like squares, after all! We'll see if I do this next time I build. Do I know why I'm so addicted to Tiny Living, by the way? ...nope, not at all.
I'll probably add this to the Gallery so you guys can fix it up properly--keep an eye out for CeraNecci to add Hollow Slough, if you're interested!

If you do this, please let me know. I'd like to see what y'all do with it!

50x40 Lot in Henford-on-Bagley (Cottage Living)

It Starts

 
Have to admit that I've been eyeing this lot for a bit. It's one of the biggest spaces in Henford-on-Bagley and it was more than ready to be built on!
For this image, that's the bathroom nice and lit up--all of three tiles (thanks for bb.moveobjects on!) The Sim will be able to walk over the chosen shower instead of having to go through anything and can reach the toilet and sink. And of course the place has to be Off The Grid, right?

First image is just to share the excitement of finding a light that is bright enough for Off the Grid madness. Yes, a one floor Tiny House is only 32 tiles but it can be oh so hard to find a decent light source! Some of those that hang from the ceiling can be so gigantic, it's madness.
On the second picture, you can see the Murphy bed and two bookshelves, the bathroom, and the kitchen. There's a television hanging on the wall close to the bathroom that I *wonder* about, what and the place being off the power grid, but bah. At least there's a small chance.

The floor near the bed is carpet, it switches to tile for the kitchen and eating nook, then goes to a dark wood for a few tiles because I couldn't decide. It was still a fun thing!

 

This is the full size of the lot, since I realized that I'd forgotten to share that earlier. Even with the chicken coop and the cow's barn, along with even the little farmland space, there was still way too much empty area to just leave undone.

Doesn't it hold a lovely little lake? I forgot to stock it in my version but I'm certain it'd be a great fishing area if your sims enjoy playing at the water!

This lot is shared on the Sims 4 Gallery, if you're interested in playing with or editing this
in any way; just look up CeraNecci and find 2 Olde Mill Lane.
Important to this lot: I have a Custom Content mod from Icemunmun in place to keep a Murphy Bed from fully killing a Sim. (icemunmun_MurphyBed_NODeath_override)

Creating in Sims 4

I was unprepared with my artwork that I should have been ready to show, so let's have a trawl through what happens when I go build in Sims 4!

Decided that I was going to build with Tiny Homes restrictions and this is the general size of the house that I stayed with. Rearranged some of the stuff inside this living room/sitting area on the right where it could be a more bearable living area. 

As you can (barely) see in this image, I changed that huge brown loveseat for something that fit the smaller area a little better. What I was mostly proud of at this point was forcing a television and stereo in this house--a thing I have far too much an issue with for Tiny Homes. (And if I'm going to be able to stand playing in the place, I have /got/ to have noise in it. Thank you stereos.)

Have to thank the Dream Home Decorator pack for this. In the bedroom, I was able to fit what I hope is a comfortable-enough bed with a little area for a laptop. Because everything works on the internet, even in this game, so that was very exciting to get to fit this area in that small room. It's not such a wasted area in this case. (And I was still riding the high that fitting the television in the living room gave me at this point.) So I decided to go upstairs and set up a roof that would fit that small place.

If you were at all shocked that everything was running so well up to this point, here would be why. For some reason, the game decided to cut out a whole section of the room ceiling. ...at my best guess, perhaps it's cause I removed a platform that I considered putting the kitchen on and decided it looked odd?
That oddness doesn't change that the wall design outside was Barnyard Beauty paneling that fit perfectly with the Soledad Square Columns I decided to use last minute. At least the place was starting to come together! XD

Roof amazingly worked out despite the hole that had been right there. For the heck of it I threw a large chimney and some solar panel roofing on top. Thank goodness for the Half Gabled roof sections that worked out so quickly and so well!
For a quick sidewalk, I just grabbed some terrain paint with a square brush--that theme will continue til the yard is complete.

At this point I had some fun putting a hedge row all around the house and, since the hedges were too square, I grabbed some longer grass to throw in at points. Outside looks great, I would definitely do that again since the hedge rows worked out great.
Does anyone have suggestions for shaving a wall though? They seem to have been waiting for me so long that they've started to grow a beard in more than one space.

After testing and playing around with the outside area, this is what I finally settled on. Thrilled how well the pond came out by the end of everything and the whole area is ready for a little messing around by whoever is fortunate enough to live in the Sims and needs a place. Just be ready for a little farming and fishing before you decide to stick around

Oh my stars, I just looked at the clock a second ago. Building all this took me three hours? Does this look like a 3 hour build to you? It was so fun to do that I set up an individual save just for this little place when I need another pause between artwork or whatnot!
Thanks for sticking by for this run through of madness.