Others offer a thicker, more dramatic way to emphasize your construction:. As with the roofing textures, you have the freedom to apply different colors to the different roofing sections. Try mixing different roof colors, textures and trims to get a unique look for your creation. You can also apply a different color to the base of the roofing section if you want to emphasize the gables of your structure.
Just click on the base of your roof where it connects to the wall below it to add another design element. TIP: when using the hipped roofing, you might have noticed there seems to be a bit of a gap between the roof edge and the wall below it. Use a roof trim to cover the gap and tidy up the look of your structure. Even if your structure is a basic box, breaking up the roofline by combining two or more different shapes can make things more attractive to the eye.
Adding a roofed porch can also keep your home from looking too boxy. Experiment with raising and lowering the height of your roofing until you find a level that looks harmonious. When covering a side section or room addition, avoid roofing that makes it look like a separate structure. Choose a roof that connects the addition to the main body of the house. Look at from all angles. In the example below, the section on the left stops too soon and looks cut off. Extending it until it blends with the main body of the roof gives a more complete, polished appearance.
Try combining more than one roof section. To get this look, apply a hipped roof section and pull up on the ball shape to give it more of a dome shape. Then cross it with another roof shaped the same way. Step 1: Place a gabled roof so that an angled edge faces the direction you want to place the windows.
Step 2: Place a room unit where you would like the windows to be. Make sure the room extends back to meet the roof. Step 3: Place a roof on each dormer and make sure the height of the dormer roof is not taller than the main roof. TIP: Dormers look best when they are spaced evenly and in proportion to the rest of the building. If the top of your house looks too busy, you might need smaller or fewer dormers.
Another way to accent your roof is with roof sculptures. Click on the image of the chimney to access this menu. In addition to the chimneys, you will also find several other decorations and accents such as vents, air conditioning units, cupolas, and parapets.
It is important to know that all of these roof sculptures may be placed anywhere on the lot, including the ground. Chimneys are now completely separate items from fireplaces. What you see is what you get: placing a chimney on the roof does not auto draw anything through the rest of the house. This gives you the freedom to place fireplaces wherever you like without fear of a chimney cutting through a room. You may place a chimney anywhere you like including on the ground or inside a room. Regardless of where you place a chimney, when a fire is lit in a fireplace, smoke will come out of any chimneys on the lot!
Click on the picture of the column to open the column menu. Even though your porches and balconies no longer require columns for support, they are a great way to accent you build. Select a specific style to access the various color choices that are available. You might notice that there are no height choices for columns.
This is because they are all one story in height. As you place them, they automatically adjust to match the wall height you have selected for that level. If you adjust the wall height up or down, the columns will automatically match. This means the other half of the pillar will not show through the other side of the wall. To do this, select the deck option in the room catalog and place the deck where you want the balcony to be. The result will be bare floor tiles on the exterior of your structure.
Now you can place your columns and add a fence railing to complete the look. If you are wondering what the heck is a spandrel, the official definition is the space between two arches or posts. For the Sims 4, the definition is a decorative element that sits under the roofline and can be applied to the edges of any room. Still confused? Click on the image of the beam like thing connecting the post to the house and see what pops up. Spandrels are a lovely decorative touch that can add an extra bit of color and design to your structure.
Select the design you want to check for alternate color combinations. Spandrels work particularly well under the edges of porches. The room unit does not have to have walls, it can be a deck. If you apply it to a wall, the spandrel will take the place of the wall as demonstrated in the left side of the illustration.
Click on the dark gray areas you want to apply the spandrel and it will appear. You will need to draw a deck or other room unit under the place you want the spandrel to go. To get a curved spandrel, you need to place a curved deck unit.
If you move the walls up or down, in or out, the spandrel will adjust accordingly. Unlike most other things in the catalog, what you see is not exactly what you get when it comes to spandrels.
The presence or absence of a post or corner will affect how the same spandrel looks for most spandrel styles. In the above example, the corner of the spandrel looks one way when a post is there and a completely different way when it is not.
Experiment to get the exact look you want. Step 1: Mark out the place on the wall you would like your doorway to be and place a column on each end. Step 2: Add the spandrel across the top. The spandrel will replace the entire length of wall.
Step three: Replace the walls you want to keep, leaving just the doorway open. Since the columns and spandrels both auto adjust for wall heights, you can do this on any size wall.
Experiment with different spandrels and columns to get interesting looks for your creation. It also gives you the freedom to make your doorway as large as you would like.
You can use this method to divide a large room and define spaces. Other decorative element you can add to your structure is a frieze. A frieze is a band of sculpted or painted decoration usually at the top of a wall. In the Sims 4, it is definitely at the top of the wall, as that is the only place they can be applied! Friezes will only be applied to the exterior top of a room unit.
You are free to experiment and get creative. To open the Frieze menu, click on the band around the top of the wall in the image. The first thing you will notice is that some of the selections are grayed out. These styles require a taller wall height and you will not be able to use them without adjusting the wall height of your structure. Friezes are applied to the upper perimeter of a room unit only. The entire exterior of the unit will be covered and if you delete the frieze, the entire thing will disappear as a unit.
Some other things to know about using friezes:. Click on the style you want to see which options are available. The same color will be applied to the same room unit, but you can have multiple colors on the same structure. Draw a deck room unit where you want to apply a free standing frieze.
If windows are placed where the frieze will go, the window will be deleted. You will have to redo the windows at a lower level. Otherwise known as a string course, the exterior trim might looks like a thinner version of a frieze. It is actually quite different. Open the exterior trim menu by clicking on this symbol in the frieze menu:.
As you can see, the exterior trims are thinner and less ornate than the friezes. They make a fantastic polished edge for flat roofing and porches or a more modern way to emphasize the different levels of your structure. Like friezes, they are applied and deleted as a unit per room.
The most important thing you need to know about using the exterior trims is that they are NOT applied to the top of the room units. They are actually applied to the bottom of a room unit. This can be confusing because it is opposite of the friezes. To apply around the top of the first floor, you must place a walled room unit or a deck room unit on the second floor. Then, click on the floor of the deck to apply the trim to the edge. Add the trim by clicking on the floor of the deck, and THEN place the roof.
You can place the deck after placing the roof, but you might find it easier to see what you are doing without the roof in the way. Wall sculptures are another decorative element available to make your structure more interesting. These objects do not have to be applied to exterior walls.
You can use them anywhere you like so experiment and try new things. Now that we have our building constructed, it is time to add some landscaping. Click on the big tree to open the menu of plants, trees, and rocks that are available. To use: place the object you would like to resize. Grab the object and hit Shift and ] and the same time. You can repeat this process multiple time until the object is the size you desire.
A variety of sizes can make your landscaping look natural and more realistic. Click on an individual plant to see if there are alternate colors available.
The rocks also come in 3 different shades, so you have a nice variety to work with. Make sure trees and other plants are not blocking the best features of your construction from view. Fountains are a fun way to add a splash to your landscaping with a water feature. Click on the image of the fountain to open up the menu of options available. Step 1: Design your shape. Fountains behave similarly to rooms. Once placed, you are able to pick them up and move them, push and pull them into shape, and rotate them.
They must be placed on the ground and will not apply to room units. Fountains cannot intersect room units but they can be placed directly next to foundations and walls. Want a castle with an actual moat? You can do it with fountains. You can combine several units at the same, so you are not limited to the shapes in the menu.
Be aware that once fountain sections are joined together, they become one unit. This means that if you make a mistake and want to delete a part of your design, the entire fountain will be demolished. Step 2: Add trim. Once you have your shape in place, you can click on fountain trims to add a lip or edge around the perimeter. Each trim style comes in a variety of colors.
The trim will automatically be applied to the entire perimeter of the fountain and deleting it will remove the whole thing. Step 3: Add water emitters. Water emitters are animated water effects. Click on the emitters to see the large selection of sizes and effects. The footprint of the emitter will show you the area covered by the effect.
The footprint must fit within the edges of the fountain pool in order to be placed. There are small, medium, and large effects. Once you select an effect you want, choose the color of the lights by clicking on the swatch. The default is a neutral white light, but you can pick a different color for each emitter if you would like. TIP: Emitters will not be active in build mode, so to see what your fountain will look like in action you will need to have a Sim on the lot while you are building and switch to live mode.
Step 4: Add fountain decorations. If you still feel like your fountain needs a little something extra, check out the items located in the decorations menu. You can add lily pads or a spitting fish sculpture. There are also some pre-made fountains.
If you want to get really creative with your fountains, consider using the MoveObjectsOn cheat. It will enable you to add anything you want plants, statues, furniture to your fountain. Read all about MoveObjectsOn here. The premade fountains are a fast and easy way to add a water feature to your lot without going to the trouble of designing one yourself.
Best of all, these fountains may be placed directly on the ground or on any room unit which means they can be used indoors. Unlike the emitters, you are not able to select lighting colors. TIP: Tip: Apply wall and floor textures to the sides and bottom of your fountains for added flair. While there is currently no way to sculpt the terrain in The Sims 4, you can paint it. Terrain paint can enhance your landscaping and add additional decoration to your build.
Terrain paint can only be applied to the actual ground. It cannot be applied to a room unit. Click on the small patch of grass near the fountain symbol to open the terrain paint menu.
Here you will see a variety of different effects and ways to apply them. Click on the brush symbol to activate the terrain paint brush. The circular shape is great for making worm spots under trees and plants, patches of flowers or for softening edges. The square shape comes in handy for making straight edged shapes such as patios, planting boxes, or formal walkways.
The slider controls how much paint is applied in a single click. Slide it to the left to solidly fill in areas with paint with strong definition on the edges. Slide it to the right to get a lighter touch for subtle effects. On the softer settings you get more blurring around the edges, allowing you to blend and layer more effectively. Click on the eraser tool to…you guessed it…. The brush sizes and the strength sider also apply to the eraser tool. A large brush size on full strength is the fastest way to completely scrub clean a large area if you want to start fresh, while a smaller brush on a softer setting is better for cleaning up edges or softening an effect.
To get precise control, move to the area you want to paint and then single click the mouse slowly until you get the look you want. Overlap the footprint of the tool slightly with what you have already painted as a guide to keep lines straight. Once you are done, you can go back with the eraser and gently clean up any edges that are out of place.
The same goes for the areas under flowers and plants. There is often mulch or compost under them. Mimic this effect by using dirt like terrain paint on a soft setting and shading in the area around trees and plants. Consider doing the same thing under kids play equipment to give the effect of high traffic areas. This allows you to create a more natural look and it makes it easier to correct mistakes along the way.
TIP: Anything not covered in terrain paint will be the default texture of the lot you are using. This means that when you take a lot constructed on grassy lot and place it on a sandy lot, the terrain paint might need to be adjusted or things could look weird.
Access the Pool tool by clicking on the image of the pool in Build Mode. The Pool Tool allows you to draw a rectangular shape of any size by dragging the cursor out in any direction. Unlike walls, you cannot draw a pool free hand; you must use the tool or place one of the shapes.
Once you have placed a pool unit, you will find that they behave exactly like rooms. Select the pool unit to activate the sub menu of controls and manipulate the pool much as you would a room unit.
You can rotate it, pick it up and move it to a different location and push or pull the walls into the desired shapes. TIP: The shaped pool units are very small and must be pulled into the correct shape. If you find that the submenu is blocking your view or making it hard to grab the arrows, rotate your camera to a top down view.
This makes it much easier to see what you are doing and to grab the walls. You are not limited by these shapes. Once you connect two different shapes or room units, they become one solid unit. By combining them in different ways, you can make just about any form you can imagine and get a unique look for your pool! While you are experimenting with different shapes, you might decide you need to delete part of the pool. If you use the sledgehammer tool, it will delete the entire pool.
You will be able to delete sections of the pool one square at a time, enabling you to further sculpt the shape. You can place your pool in a variety of locations including in ground, on a deck, indoors, and on rooftop.
You can even make your pool free standing. There are some limitations depending on the location you choose. Adding a deck foundation for your pool will make everything else on the lot automatically have a foundation as well. Add your pool. Cap off the ends of the wall with a column for a polished look. You can also have both on the same lot, but you may not have a pool on a foundation and a pool in the ground touching each other.
There must be a one unit space between them. If you start drawing a pool next to a foundation, the game will place the pool on a foundation automatically. If there is a pool on the first floor, you may not place a pool on the second floor directly over it. You may place windows and other objects on them.
Only objects found in the pool section can be placed on the inside walls of a pool. Note: If you place windows in your pool walls, you will not be able to see the sims swimming though the interior windows…only the exterior windows.
From the outside of the structure you are fully able to see your sim swimming, but oddly enough, the pool will appear empty when viewed from the inside. Same pool as seen from inside, but no sim! Pools can be added to basements just as any other room unit. You may draw them right up to the edge of the basement, but not beyond.
Just be sure to give your sim a way to access the space, since conventional stairs cannot be placed inside a pool. Here, windows in the pool wall act as a skylight for the basement room below. You can place a pool on any level of a home, including the roof.
A pool on the first floor can be placed directly up to the edge of a pool on the second floor but no farther. To get rid of this, the gap must be filled in with a room unit…either by drawing a new one to replace the space or by pulling the nearby walls over to cover the gap. Handle this the same way as if you deleted the whole pool: either draw a new room unit or pull a nearby wall over to cover the space. To get the look of a free standing pool, place a deck the exact size of the pool you desire, aise the height of the foundation to the appropriate level, and place a staircase.
Remember, if you place a raised deck on a lot, every structure on the lot will have the same foundation height. Next, draw the pool all the way out to match the edges of the deck. They will not, however, be able to sit on the edge of the pool. You will need to leave at least one unit of deck space around the edge of the pool for sims to be able to sit on the edge.
TIP: If you are the sim killing type, removing the stairs from a free standing pool will effectively prevent your sim from being able to exit the pool. This means only the foundation textures can be applied to the exterior. There are currently no hot tubs in The Sims 4. But a small free standing pool with a low foundation will give the appearance of a hot tub and your sim can still swim in it.
Plants and fencing can help create the look you want. As you are manipulating and shaping your perfect pool, you will notice that the submenu also gives you the ability to choose the depth of the pool!
Select short wall for the shallowest depth, medium wall for a medium depth, and tall wall for the deepest pool. This means adjusting the pool depth will change the height of the walls for that level of your structure. After making a pool depth adjustment, take a moment to check the exterior of your home and replace any windows if needed.
Sims will not drown faster in a deeper pool and children are able to use all pool depths. It is strictly an aesthetic choice. Now that you have placed your pool, check out the Pool Objects category in the pool menu.
Here you will find several different objects that can be placed in and around your pool. NOTE: the objects in the pool objects category are the only things that can be placed inside a pool…with one exception: Lily Pads. Sims will simply swim around them. Learn more about the MoveObjectsOn cheat here. Your sim can and will pull themselves out of the pool from any edge. All of these lights can be placed anywhere on your lot.
Just as with other lights, clicking on them in Live mode opens up a submenu that allows you to choose the color and intensity of the lights. Even at full strength, the color and intensity of these lights are strongly muted by the water effects. Because these are objects, and not room units, the mosaics cannot be pushed or pulled into shape.
But they can be layered over each other. They can be used to decorate any area of your home. TIP: Consider using pool mosaics as an accent for your bathroom or kitchen floor. They also work great on patios or any place you want to add special flair. Get creative! Just be sure to leave space for your sims to get in and out of the pool. Unless trapping them is part of your evil plan! Perhaps your nature loving sim would like to take a dip in a hidden glen pool surrounded by trees and lush landscaping?
This is a great choice if you want a more natural or softer looking pool surround. The pool update came with several new wall and floor textures to use in your pools, but you are not limited in any way. All floor and wall textures may be used on the sides and bottom of your pool. You can have a stone pool or a pool covered in wallpaper if that is what you desire.
The update includes new walls and floors! Even the most vivid walls will lose most of their appearance below the water line. In the image below, you can see how the bright red wallpaper with spots is barely visible in the pool.
Experiment to come up with an interesting design that enhances the look of your pool. TIP: because the colors underwater are so muted, your custom mosaic will have more impact if you pick tiles with a lot of contrast. A black or red tile against a white, for instance, will show your design more clearly. You can also create your own custom design for the edges.
They must be placed on land. There must be at least one unit of space between the edge of the fountain and the edge of the pool. If it does, the game will not allow you to place the jet in that location and the footprint of the item will be red and not green. To get a water jet in the middle of your pool, you will need to create an island by holding down the Pool Tool and CTRL at the same time. Next, draw in your fountain shape using the fountain tool. Make sure you allow a one unit buffer between where you want the fountain to be and the edge of the pool.
Select a water emitter and ensure that the water does not land into the pool. The more upright jets work especially well for this. TIP: There is one fountain that can be placed right on the edge of a pool. It is the Spitfire Fountain, which is located in the Fountain Decorations section of the catalog.
You can save and share a lot that has a pool on it just like any other lot. When you select and highlight a pool to save or share on the Gallery, just the pool itself and not any of the surroundings will be saved. Any textures you applied to the interior of the pool will be saved and transfer.
Placing a pool on a deck does not allow you to save the surrounding items. The game considers the deck and objects one room and the pool itself a whole other room.
In this example, clicking on the deck to save the room results in everything except the pool being included. That is because the pool is its own room. If you come up with a really cool pool area that you want to share on the Gallery as a room, you will need to do it as 2 parts: one for the deck surrounding the pool and one for the pool. Consider naming them part 1 and part 2 to make it easier for people to find them and mention the other part in your description as well.
Remember to experiment with different shapes and textures to give your pool a fun, unique look. And be sure to have a sim on the lot to test the routing. Switch over to Live mode and ensure sims can get in and out with no problems.
Come on in…. Step 1: Before getting started, check to be sure your structure is located on your lot properly. Do you have enough space for a back yard? Is the house too close to the street? You can pick up and move the house, but not the landscaping, so it will save you a lot of time and hassle if you are happy with the location of your building before you start landscaping. Step 2: Place your largest objects first to allow enough open space for them.
Think trees, fountains, decks and any other large scale features. Step 3: Add your high traffic areas. Create a way to get to your structure from the sidewalk by adding a walkway with floor tiles or terrain paint. Draw a path from the front to the side yard. Define an outdoor patio area if you plan to have one Step 4: Add some flowers and shrubs. Try to choose an arrangement that is in keeping with the style and location of your structure.
A modest starter might have just a few bushes while a fancy mansion calls for more elaborate gardens. The idea is to enhance what you already have. You can draw the eye to your front door with a mix of brightly colored flowers.
A clean line of plain bushes might emphasize the strong lines of your modern structure. TIP: for a more formal look, enclose your flower beds with low edging from the fencing catalog. To keep things casual, use rocks or just terrain paint to indicate flower beds. Step 5: Add some finishing touches with terrain paint. Fill in flowerbeds with mulch or gravel textures or soften the edges of your path with a border of flowering grass paint.
Now that you have the outside of your build taken care of, it is time to go inside and check out all of the great objects and items you can use to furnish it.
Using Objects by Room is a convenient way to quickly gather all of the objects you need for a specific kind of room. Click on the room symbol in the lower left corner to open the Objects by Room. There are symbols for each type of room such as kitchen, bathroom, or bedroom. Selecting a room type opens an illustration of the types of objects you might find for that room function. For better immersion, while reading this article, we highly recommend listening to this Sims soundtrack on a different tab.
If you do not want to waste hours on measuring the right calculations of a bedroom to entertainment room ratio, then the easy mode tool is your best friend. This is the latest feature in The Sims 4, which greatly streamlines the building mode. The easy tool also has a bunch of other options, including premade houses and premade room measurements. It even has a bundle that includes items inside already. These are perfect for when you just find this mode tedious. Walls are the foundation of building your house here, and you gotta start somewhere, right?
So if you want to get started already, go to the very middle part of the lot and make a square. Simple, right? Okay, now make a larger square that surrounds it. Now, maybe you have an outline of how you want to start your house.
You ARE going with the basics first, right? While this is a bit subjective, it always helps if you can either expand or narrow down a specific room. The easiest option is to go for houses and apartments that already exist, and just move the new family into such a home. However, if the player enjoys building and decorating houses and wants to have fun making a personalized house for each family, they can start from scratch.
Building a new house in The Sims 4 can take a lot of time and effort, especially if the player wants to make it look spectacular. Luckily, there are ways to make certain the end result looks like a place that Sims would actually want to live in.
While the house is still the most important part, having lovely surroundings can help a lot with the overall impression. This works very well in houses, not so much in apartments, though. The Sims can use the outside space on their lot to create a beautiful garden, a maze, a playground for their children No matter which option the player chooses, anything will look better than just an empty lot surrounding the house, with no trees or other greenery.
Another outside detail that can bring a lot of charm to the build is a porch. This will especially look great if the player is going for more rural, countryside gameplay, such as the one with the Cottage Living expansion. Once the porch is there, not only will it give the visitors a place to stand when they're ringing the bell, but it will also allow the player to put some furnishing there if they choose. A grill, a bench or maybe even a chess table are perfect deck furnishings. Using a large variety of colors can work, but in practice, it's usually better to pick a color scheme and follow it.
Each Sim has different priorities and a personality, so it's possible to add a little personal touch to their rooms and make it their own, even if the color scheme is the same for all of the house.
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