I had a good look at the lots on MTS yesterday and it seemed to me there were lots of really stunning houses but not so many starters. I know I'm usually looking for something <§20k so I challenged myself to make one. This lot is also available at Laverwinklesims. (Link in sig).
This is my first try at a house in Sims 3. Some things I like, for example dragging a whole room bigger or smaller, taking foundations and roof with it and there are other things I loathe.
For instance, I couldn't take a picture of the house in build mode with no gridlines showing. When I used Gadwin, a third party printscreen app, it took pictures of the house and
also the immovable UI and corner price notifications. The pictures using Gadwin turned out very dark and I've tried to lighten them up without much success. They now glow.
So from now on it looks like pictures will be taken with the ingame app, meaning they're always saved as jpgs.
I used the terrain view to get some shots without the grids, but it didn't work everywhere.
The outer siding was a warmer cream/tan, matching one of the bricks, but it seemed to vanish between one save and the next, leaving boring old white. Sigh. At least the custom chairs/tables and kitchen colours seem to have stuck.
So yeah, lots to not like with taking pictures; plus it's a huge pain in the butt to save. I like to save frequently when I'm building and I was annoyed enough when the Ctrl + S was removed for Sims 2 - NOW we have to go to bloody Edit Town to save! How ludicrous.
Anyway, annoyances aside, here is Tiny and Tasty, a starter home valued at §19,918 furnished. Two 4x4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. Will be easy to expand as need arises.
Front
Back
Sorry about the glow. Did I mention the camera was an over-reactive sod as well?
Downstairs
Upstairs
Kitchen / Dining
Lounge end
Downstairs bed and bath
I don't appear to have a picture of the upstairs bed and bath but it's pretty similar. There is room for a desk or chess setup on the landing. Or TV nook or whatever.
Download Tiny and Tasty