Stormwench ∙ Feb 16, 2011

Adorable starter with a great amount of class.  Its the perfect starter for a Sim starting out that does not look like  they live one step away from being homeless instead of being a upwardly mobile Sim.  A Sim living in this starter wants to go home and relax and enjoy their home instead of visiting a dive juice bar or club after work to avoid going there because of how it looks and feels. 
 
This is such a great little cottage that my Sim really did not want to leave even after she became a bit more famous and had more gifts of furniture then she had floor space.  She decided to add on rather then move and this starter is a great as a core to an enlarged floorplan when your Sim needs more room.  Its easy to expand upwards as well as out the sides to do that.   This cottage should be in everyones bin for addition to every neighborhood as an opition for a starter home.
 
The use of space is well thought out and provides room for all the essentials a Sim when starting out needs as well as room for a few extras as they start moving up in a career.  The layout of the rooms is such that the traffic flow is easy and there are no places that a sim will get stuck or blocked by another sim going the same or opposite direction or to the same room  - which is great when entertaining.  Not enough thought is put into that with most starter homes and its important as entertaining at least one, and sometimes more Sims, is important to a Sim on the way up!  Having to always meet people at a club or as a date at a public place does not always suffice but many starter homes are laid out with only one Sim living there in mind and this can often result in areas that will roadblock when objects are placed or more then one Sim is inside.
 
Because of the size and layout things like cleaning up is efficient and something the Sim can do without cutting into there time too much so that they hire a maid to do it.  A Sim can wisk through this home in less then a half hour (game time) and turn it from dirty to clean quickly.
 
I also placed this house as a 'consolidation living space' for a Sim that reached their elder years and no longer had a spouse or extended family having to live with them or to help them care for the home.  I placed it on the lot next door to the large family home they had lived in up tim now and once they moved I could then moved their children and grandchildren - with number 6 children (meaning no longer space for grandma) back into the family home.

oldmember_xx-katieisted-xx ∙ Feb 8, 2011

I appreciate your comment, it was the first house I built so im glad you like it