House makeover- Garden Photos

[joandsarah]

Rules:
1) Required shots: Please provide one overhead shot showing the layout of your room and one shot of each wall.
2) You may sharpen your pictures slightly or add text but please don't over photoshop them. We want to see how it really looks in your game.
3) Please post the pictures of your room on this thread under a spoiler.
4) If your pictures are huge please make them a little smaller. If it goes off the page and needs a slider to see it all- it’s too large.
5) Make sure to state which category it falls under. TS3, TS2 with cc or TS2 cc free.
*If the first room is cc free all the rooms of that house must be cc free. Please don't have some rooms with cc and others not. You are free to place the house a second time and do one house with cc and one house without.
6) If you are entering more than one category please make each one a separate post.
7) You may post up to 10 pictures per entry. We all love to see close ups of special areas. As many as you need this last round to show it all although keeping close to about 20-30 would be good. We don't need to see a flower from 3 different angles, but if you have included a shed//garagge etc we will need to see each wall and an overhead of it.
8) You may keep your defaults in if you have them so long as everything isn't default. Just mention what it is and what it replaces.

Addition: Just for interests sake, take an overhead to show where you placed your room. This can be posted at the end of your entry but doesn't count as part of the ten picture limit. This is more to do with my own curiosity then anything.

Once all entries are in a poll will be made that can be voted on. The number of votes cast will be kept tally of. If you should not post a room for some reason you will simply score zero. If you have good reasons for being late please pm either amylu or myself and we will see about an extension.
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This round will be open a few weeks due to members being busy and away.

[joandsarah]

Finally got my cc free garden photos up. Phew! Sorry for the neighbouring houses (normally I think to turn neighbours off) and the one shot where I didn't add the second story of the house and another with a chair back to front! *slinks away*

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The front right


The front left


carport


Front garden bed.


Gazebo/Summer House










Towards the pool and barbeque area










The playground area


The overhead

[esmeiolanthe]

TS2 with CC entry

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As you can see, not too many changes.



The placement of the double windows bothers me, but they look right(-ish) from the inside.



The multiple layers of fencing seemed to fit the Pleasant family, what with all their facades and denials and stuff.





The pool is now completely fenced in, to avoid lawsuits.



Daniel sometimes likes to pretend he knows how to cook by grilling a few things that Mary-Sue has marinated and otherwise prepared.



Even their outdoor furniture is for show.



Naturally, this is Mary-Sue's favorite area.

Jo, your gardens are always so much nicer than mine! I have no imagination in that respect. And the carport came out very nicely! Well done!

[joandsarah]

Very classy garden Esme. As for mine being better, your Rose garden at MTS is beatiful. I tend to think where can I toss down some flowers? And go for it.
If I was playing those houses I'm sure I'd be saying what idiot put all these plants that need looking after!

[esmeiolanthe]

Well, if by "classy" you mean "unimaginative," I'll agree with you.

The one on MTS is actually based on the garden that my parents maintained for a significant chunk of my life growing up -- my dad would do the vegetables, bushes, and trees, and my mom would do the flowers. The lot layout is different, of course, and the plants available in the game are different, but the backyard isn't all that far off, all things considered...

I will say that I'm very glad I don't have to play that house!

[joandsarah]

Hope you don't mind that my garden on that one will be quite similar. Not that I am copying you I already had in mind that Rose had an extensive vegetable garden. Inside is very different though. I would have liked to add fruit trees but right now my place is running at 51,000!

[amylu1988]

Jo I love the summer house, and all the colourful flowers everywhere, it looks really welcoming.

Esme the brick and the shuttered windows are a great look for the house, and I love the little bushes out the back. The brick wall looks really good too, I just left the original fencing in mine. Mary-Sue's favourite area made me chuckle too. ;D

My entry, With CC

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I'll start with the overhead. Not much changed at the back really, I've just added stuff to it.


Front of the house as you're looking from the other side of the road.

The house is meant to be mock-Tudor, which we have a lot of here, and it matches Mary-Sue's parents' cottage, which is next door. You'll see that in a couple of shots.

And the front of the house on an angle, because I like that sort of shot.


Right, we'll start from the front and go round left.

The empty bits of roof were filled with flowers to look like big window boxes, hope that's ok. Technically they shouldn't be up there, but move_objects let me.

That's Mary-Sue's work car, by the way.

And the gardener can sort out the upkeep of the trees and massive amounts of flowers.

View from path height down to the pool


And out back round the pool area.

The pool would be wider, I'll probably change it back later.

Opposite angle, looking back to where the camera just was


Moving left to look at the gaming area and the back of the house


More detail of the gaming area next to the loungers


And swinging the camera round to the barbeque area. Lots of space for dancing to the tiny radio.


Looking from the barbeque back to the house.



Right, back to the front again. This is Daniel's 'car'. It looks a bit out of place in the tidy garden, but I wanted to have it next to his tinkering/robot room inside.

Just don't ask for a specific tool!


Anyway, to the right of Daniel's 'car', are some random trees (two of which were originally on the lot), and the rest of the garden. Two areas are in the background, the rose garden and the zen garden.


Rose garden, looking back to where the camera just was.


Zen garden from above


The bench to the left, which will no doubt have a moses basket for the baby next to it in my game soon.


Final shot looking at the whole of the back together.


Hope all that makes sense, I swung the camera around a lot by the looks of things.

[joandsarah]

That's lovely Amy I love the Zen garden. It's fine that you put flowers up there, it's a ridiculous area and you came up with an idea for it. The only things we can't do is make structural changes, the kind of changes that would require a team of construction workers.

[amylu1988]

Good good, I wasn't sure if it counted as needing builders to get them up there!

[joandsarah]

Only if Daniel broke them trying to heft them up. I'm sure Mary-Sue would have soemthing to say about that!

[lorinsv]

Garden - TS2 No CC:

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Overhead front


Overhead back

Front:





Back:




















Finished upstairs overhead (from left side)

[joandsarah]

Welcome back Lorin, love your garden.

[esmeiolanthe]

Time to comment!

Amy, you made those weird Tudor-panel-y bits work and make sense. Well done! The hedges around the Zen garden keep outside influences away, too, which can only be to the good.

Lorin, I love your entry! I wish I could come up with something that manages both elaborate and attractive at the same time like that. It all flows together so nicely.

Both of you, how do you come up with ideas for gardens/backyards? I never know what to do...

[lorinsv]

Jo, I love your entry! The additions of a carport and the gazebo are awesome! I love your flower beds too. Layering plants is what I've noticed really makes gardens look pretty, but they also lag the lot way more. For screenshots, though, you can't beat it!

Amy, I REALLY like your rose and zen gardens. It would be nice to have someplace like that to go to after a stressful day, or to START the day.

Esme, again your entry seems to fit the Pleasants perfectly. I envision the Pleasants as being too busy with their own, er, pursuits to want to spend time maintaining an elaborate garden. I love brick homes (I almost did mine in brick too) and I like the brick planters you used. I love Mary-Sue's bar, and the setup for entertaining.

As for my ideas for gardens: I have no ideas beforehand, I just spend hours upon hours trying this and that. I do prefer yards with lots of shade and I love park-like settings (thanks to my grandmother's, while I was growing up).

Because I have no idea what the finished product will end up being, I've just come to the realization that's why I prefer no CC - way less stuff to weed through! I was relieved there was already a template with the fencing, borders and paving, and all I would have to do was embellish. If it had been a blank slate, it would have taken days, and I probably would have Googled some images for ideas. And now I wish I had thought of a barbeque and small eating area... (was there one before?).

[esmeiolanthe]

Well, your "trying this and that" method works very well. You've got a good eye. I think there was a grill originally, but nowhere to eat what you cooked...

I used planters? :/ Do you mean the bits near the house? Those are just really short fences. Which would be one of the reasons the house is brick, so that they blend in.

Amy, the more I think about your rose garden, the more I like it.