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Here we are, one Sims 4 house on a hill. It's not quite like I imagined it in my dream as the driveway wrapped more around the house, and the house itself had more of a 1800s stone/brick exterior, but unfortunately I didn't discover that the land that I chose was WAY too small until I was already 30 minutes into working on the terrain and the hills. But oh well. The house itself is quite narrower than you'd imagine, but it's tall and has a lookout tower like the Sims 4 house I build in my dream. It is also not done yet, but hell, I've spent like 2 hours getting this far. It'll probably be another 2 or 3 hours worth of playing until it's finished.

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Why thanks! It still does need some work though. I actually forgot to extend the upper roof when I extended the dining/kitchen room, and I need to put a ceiling on the covered front porch. The house, interior wise, is actually quite a bit smaller than the pictures would have you believe. The floorplan is already done though, and the walls are textured with paint, tile, and wallpaper depending on the room. It's a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom house with a living room and a kitchen dining room combo (and of course the lookout tower.) I just barely got that squeezed in with reasonable room sizes.

You'll have to remind me to take some more pictures of the doggo. It was a base Malamute, but I slimmed up the face on her, changed the tail on her, and made her ears larger and more pointy. I also made her hips wider and added a little cookie with the paint tool in the Sim editor, because I'm a perv! Lol

I guess the price depends on where you are in the world. At least as far as the U.S. is concerned a house like that would indeed probably go for $1.9 million around the L.A. area of California. But in somewhere like, say for example, rural Louisiana, that same house would probably only go for $320,000 in the current market. The idea is basically a completely remodeled 1800s house.
 
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FloofyNewfie said:
It's a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom house with a living room and a kitchen dining room combo (and of course the lookout tower.) I just barely got that squeezed in with reasonable room sizes.
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That's enough space for at least eight to nine further dogs. (y)

FloofyNewfie said:
I also made her hips wider and added a little cookie with the paint tool in the Sim editor, because I'm a perv! Lol
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The more realistic, the better. (y)

FloofyNewfie said:
I guess the price depends on where you are in the world.
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Absolutely, but you don't find such houses in this quality and neighborhood in rural regions that often. I was judging from the neighborhood. That looks like "rich people buy things they never can use wholly" area with quite high prices.

In a rural area afar from cities.. no, then it would be expensive as well due to being "a remote villa". But in rural areas with cheaper surroundings such a building would probably go for less than 300.000$, on the other hand it's questionable how well cared for it would've been.

There are some castles and comparable in Germany which are on sale and they cost almost nothing. The problematic aspect with this is: there's Denkmalschutz in the laws.

Monument protection. It states as example that necessary renovations have to keep the original construction type and design, you can't just change a wall, resize a room or comparable. You would have to renovate it very cost-intensive and: to keep it well maintained. This is going to cost ways more than to just "build such a building on modern isolation standards new", as example.

As such they will probably never find buyers for those.

Same goes for "usual houses", if they're either quite old, quite unique or with a relevant story / past. You can't just re-do it or modernize it, as such they're not worth the effort for most people.

One of the reasons why people in possession of monument protected buildings sometimes decide to actually leave them to rot / fall together naturally or even wait for some "accident" which blazes the whole thing into ground. 🤷‍♂️ As if it ages and breaks due to natural aging as well as low investments into renovating, that's not protected - and if it falls together, you can build a new one after your own ideas. Mostly.

We had some cases where there was a blaze in such protected buildings and afterwards it was found out that this was staged. And the owners were judged to re-build it with the same quality / material in the same shape. :ROFLMAO:
 
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Oddly enough, remodeled 1800s houses are actually not a very uncommon sight in the U.S., especially in the southern half. If they are brick and in a plantation style they usually don't get knocked down to the ground, as they pretty much last forever as long as they're reasonably maintained throughout the years. Often they get remodeled and remodeled and remodeled again but keep the same general exterior. We don't really have "castles" here in the U.S. though, except for ones that were specifically built to be tourist attractions. So even though these 1800s houses are often rich with a lot of history, as long as the property is your property, and as long as any work done to them is up to local code, you can pretty much do whatever you want to those old 1800s houses.

A house like I built in the Sims is actually not very hard to fine. There are of course getting rarer and rarer as new housing is built over the ones that haven't been maintained and have begun falling apart. But, they aren't exactly super rare either. You'll often see 1 or 2 of them scattered amongst all the newer housing.
 
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This style of construction is more prone to the US, that's true. We have comparable designs in Germany, but they're very rare nowadays and more in one of the "era"-affine concepts.

Regarding renovation, this is a quick look-in into the requirements:

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Depending on the region and related outer design expectations, you can be even fobidden from adding modern light designs, outer isolation and comparable. 🤣 You see, it's really a hassle with German laws, partly. Lots of grey areas, but if you unwillingly break one, you often lose everything you invested in such a project and are enforced to restore it.

This region had a big restaurant planned (ex-monastery building) which was renovated and partly built at one location, but after being at the beginning of a forest, there was some grey area law existing. This stated basically that "after being without use as a building / home for X years, the ground type gets changed from construction land to forest land" and as such forbidding to build on there without extensive bureaucratic works.

The owner actually restored it and began work and investments privately prior to getting an allowance for the land related concept, while he had the build plans already accepted.

After building for a year around.. city / country told: Nope, it's now forest. You can't build here. Stop all work immediately.

Since then it's falling together without any work or caring for being established. That's around 150.000$ which were thrown out of the window, basically.
 
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Hello @Mare Lover 1975 , I hope you have a good time without stress and anger applied by your fellow humans. ❤️

I'm going to drive to complete grocery shopping, get myself some food and enjoy.. (not).. the rain.
Usually I would enjoy the rain somewhat. But at the moment it's just another unfortunate symptom on a whole mountain stack of those.

Let's hope there are better times for all of us coming rapidly and all those unnecessary burdens search for another planet. ☁️☀️
 
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Back from gro*RAIN!*cery sh*RAIN!*opping. And *RAIN!*. Prices are going through the roof for some household accessories. Did I mention *RAIN!*?

As I mostly don't use the car.. there results direct frontal contact with *RAIN!*. :ROFLMAO:

Welcome to the counting madness! I hereby wish the big devil, caboose and ManuMare the best experiences in this (at the moment) six-digit-confusion! ❤️

(Don't worry, caboose. All is fine as long as you don't stop to exist.)

By the way: Carmageddon II was hell of a funny game. There exists actually an uncut and a cut variant, I loved playing the uncut one. Unfortunately there were as well dogs (if I remember correctly) which somehow ended in the gory mess.. even if you tried to "just" eradicate humanity, haha.

Mjum, some Yuki and Yasu sushi, lots of salad, cheddar-filled meatballs.. well, well. A good start in the evening.
 
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Had a very rich variety of food today evening, now I'm quite "full" and preparing to work further on my Li-battery project which I need for a mobility concept. (y)

Ah, beforehand brushing teeth - important! 🦷 🪥

Else all is acceptable, as usual. Life's a bitch, unfortunately not a canidae one. 🤷‍♂️

And how are you, my good mountainfloofer?
 
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I finally got to take a breath from work. Also, yay! The 4TB hard drive came to my door today! I'll install it into my gaming rig once I get off of work. Fingers crossed that it isn't DOA. It was not shipped with a lot of bubble wrapping, although the box doesn't look damaged at all.
 
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Yeah, I figured it was smarter to only pay $83 for a 4TB HDD instead of like $200 for a 4TB SSD. My OS, Windows 10, is on an SSD, but pretty much most of the programs, games, and porn are on an HHD and they all run fine. I figured that would be the smarter way to go for external storage.
 
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