Short Street - Really Tiny Apartments

[HomeschooledByTards]

I'm working on a series of tiny apartments built on a 1x1 lot I downloaded ages ago. This series was inspired by witch's lovely Poncy Promenade. These lots have not been extensively playtested and I would appreciate any feedback you might have.

These lots have one apartment building each and are designed for either a single sim or a couple with no children.

Edit: I have all expansion packs, and all stuff packs except Teen Style Stuff and IKEA

You will need 7-zip or WinRar to open these files.

129 Short Street
Outside:


Ground Floor:


Second Floor:


Third Floor:


Download

Rents for: §2,006/wk

Custom content included in download(I don't know how to clean up a packaged lot after it's been packaged):
Phone line controller from MATY
Invisible outside trash can recolor and game object from Targa at MTS2: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=92088
"Trashy" recolor of the Teak Tansu dresser by CycloneSue from the booty
"Community Quilt" recolor of the Teak Tansu dresser by Darts at MTS2
Merrokan chair by Windkeeper from the booty

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137 Short Street
Outside:


Ground Floor:


Second Floor:


Download

Rents for: §1,659/wk

Custom content:
Phone line controller from MATY
Invisible street trash can recolor from Targa at MTS2: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=92088

[witch]

They're cute! Pity the sims don't get body points from using stairs.

If you need to clean up the packaged lots, this is what I do. I have a sims 2 folder that is just for testing. I install the lot there. I load the game, go into the lot, save and exit to desktop. Then I empty the downloads folder altogether. Load up the game again, load the lot, save. Back to hood view and package for uploading.

The reason I ended up with hitch-hikers recently was because I built the lot in my ordinary hood and although I didn't use any CC, the hitch-hikers lurking in my downloads folder hid themselves in the packaged lot.

[Emma]

The little apartments are adorable!

[Zazazu]

FYI - Lot Adjuster was updated for AL in record time. Faux party walls and one-cell buffers are possible again.

[nekonoai]

These are ADORABLE! MOAR!!!

[HomeschooledByTards]

@witch - Sims should get body points from climbing the stairs! Thanks for the tips on cleaning up my lots. I'll redo my first two lots tomorrow night after work.

@zazazu - Thanks for the heads up about the Lot Adjuster. Now I just gotta figure out how to use it to give me one-cell buffers, those extra squares on each side would make a huge difference in these tiny apartments.

@nekonoai - I should make you wait until you give us MOAR MATYTOWN! Preferably with SimJesslla in it However, seeing as I'm not that mean...

I present to you: 136 Short Street!

This lot is custom content free.

We would call this a "studio apartment" here in the US. The entire apartment is made up of two rooms: the bathroom and everywhere else. This would be perfect for lower class sims or college students.

The garden outside is usable, but I was unable to enclose it in with greenhouse walls. The landlord will tend the garden daily, but after just one day of not having my sim garden all of my plants were pretty sickly. Rely on the landlord at your own peril!





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[witch]

You could actually squeeze a tad more space for kitchen benches by downsizing the bathroom. You can make a functional 3x1 bathroom with the shower at one end and the toilet at the other, and the door in the middle. Or even a 2x2.

However, this lot is good, all the essentials in a tiny box. It's lovely.

He, it's the opposite end of the scale from where I build! 

[HomeschooledByTards]

I thought about a 2x2 bathroom, but I was concerned about stuck sims. Part of me still wants to go by Sims 1 style building, where you needed to allow about 2 squares on each side of things. Perhaps on the next apartment I make, since it's going to have to fit two apartments onto this tiny lot.

My computer won't run with huge lots like yours! I need a new computer. 

[nekonoai]

Most of my bathrooms end up being 2x2. With BUY no one goes in there that doesn't need to!

There WILL be moar matytown, but I'm having strange issues with the game, and I need to delete more stuff before I can seriously play again. Don't worry, it's coming! Plus the fact that I've been uber busy cleaning out the front section of my house so that I can haz roommate again. 9.9

[HomeschooledByTards]

Real life sucks like that sometimes, and roommates suck too. I have never had good luck with other people sharing my living space, other than my husband anyway. He and I get along wonderfully, but I can't seem to live with other people.  I had too many years of sharing a room with my mother, as an adult I have to have my own space.

I hope you get your game sorted out again soon, and not just because I want MOAR.

I like large bathrooms with lots of counters and plants, but most of the time I end up building a 3x2 bathroom.

[cwieberdink]

Jessla, that one room teeny one is almost exactly like the place my husband had in college!  Wow, the memories!  *downloads

ETA:  They unzip fine with Winrar

[HomeschooledByTards]

Jessla, that one room teeny one is almost exactly like the place my husband had in college!  Wow, the memories!  *downloads

ETA:  They unzip fine with Winrar

A friend of mine had a place like this when I was in college too.

Thanks for the heads up about WinRar, I edited my main post to include that bit of information.

[Zazazu]

@zazazu - Thanks for the heads up about the Lot Adjuster. Now I just gotta figure out how to use it to give me one-cell buffers, those extra squares on each side would make a huge difference in these tiny apartments.

Start with a bigger lot. You want a buffer on each side you plan on breaking the rules for. So if I want a 1x1 with just a one-space buffer on the back and a faux party wall on the right and left, I'd start with a 2 deep, 3 wide. Mark off the areas that are going to be cut when you shrink. I just use some random garish floor tile to mark the border. Build with one space buffer. You can have a wall meet the edge of the lot, but it has to meet perpendicularly. Delete marker tiles before exiting the game. Then go into LotAdjuster and shrink (you have to choose Advanced Options). It'll give instructions from there.

They do make a huge difference. I have some brownstones I made a couple EP ago that I absolutely loved. At that point, "we" were testing if walls could be on the edge and parallel. Not so much. They were crashtastic. Better computers took longer to crash, but crash they would. Looked awesome from 'hood view. You can still get the same look with party walls.

[lowbart]

What's a party wall?

Once I get AL I'm going to be uploading some nice scuzzy townhouse lots for your enjoyments.

[Zazazu]

It's where you get your party on.


It's a shared wall. In major metros, it's common for buildings (especially apartments) to be built so close together that there's no discernible space between them.

Example of a sim house built like that by Plasticbox (so you can see the buffer)
One of mine I had to pull because they used the earlier crashtastic method

Internal view of a party-walled complex (old method, but totally doable with new)

Link if the photo's not showing

[Emma]

What's a party wall?

Once I get AL I'm going to be uploading some nice scuzzy townhouse lots for your enjoyments.

Hey, it's Ratbowl! Where ya been?

[rufio]

We would call this a "studio apartment" here in the US. The entire apartment is made up of two rooms: the bathroom and everywhere else. This would be perfect for lower class sims or college students.

Hee, reminds me of my apartment.  *Downloads*

[Annette]

I've played 137 Short St for a sim week now and it plays very well. The house is plenty big enough for one sim.
The Saturday landlord party was interesting on such a small lot. One landlord and a pizza in a corner as my sim was at work. It might be worthwhile having an extra tile space in the yard for this to avoid sims getting stuck. (Not that they did). The landlord here was slack at tending the plants as well, but eventually got to them on the Friday. There was no shortage of passerbys so my sim made plenty of friends and even scored a plasma tv from one.
The invisible trashcan is a new toy to me. I haven't decided whether I like it or not. It works well here, however having no trash can outside another house I was playing was shock. Had a couple of moments wondering what I'd stuffed up now till I worked it out lol.
This house is going to fit into odd little spots so I can see it being very useful, thank you. I put it in the middle of the Road to Nowhere in Strangetown, just because it fits.
 

[Emma]

These 1x1 (and the 2x1) lots are really great for filling up spaces in your hood-I have lots of them just filled with trees and bushes to fill in the gaps!

[Zazazu]

Yup, I have a bunch of 1x1s - 1x4s done up with trees, plus I have a few faux plaza things and some boardwalk ones for beachy areas. They come in really handy. Tiny houses are good for fillers too. Even if you don't see yourself ever playing on a 1x1. I have the 2nd one as it matches pretty well with the medium-income section of my 'hood and I had a few tricky spots.

[Emma]

Yes, I stole the idea from you

[HomeschooledByTards]

138 Short Street

Download here

No custom content.

This apartment building has TWO apartments! Prices range from §730 - §941.

Outside:


Common area on the ground floor:


Second floor apartment:


Third floor apartment:

[witch]

These tiny apartments are just terminally cute. Man, I'd have trouble fitting a kitchen in the total size of these flats. They're just so dinky, like matchbox cars. 

[HomeschooledByTards]

These tiny apartments are just terminally cute. Man, I'd have trouble fitting a kitchen in the total size of these flats. They're just so dinky, like matchbox cars. 

I'm glad you're enjoying them. I would never want to live in one of these, but they are so much fun to build!

Normally I have huge rooms with furniture all around the outside walls and empty space in the middle. It's quite the challenge! How much stuff can I cram in here and still have a usable, attractive apartment? I find I'm decorating more and using objects I don't normally use when I build.

I think my next tiny apartment will be for a family of four. That should be quite interesting.

[Emma]

Ooh! This one is gorgeous! I love the exterior.