I built a house!
No. I didn't. I'm a big fat liar.
However, I'm in the process of drawing it for Chasing the Trail because I realized that now that Ed's more mobile, I need to understand more clearly how Roy's house works. I still haven't got it figured out completely. I realized that the way I had it pictured when I first started writing it, did not match the way I initially drew it. AT ALL. So I started thinking about how it was shaped and how things fit together, and since Roy has said at least a couple of times that his house is actually connected to the building he works in, I have to work out how that works too. Obviously, the house was at one time the house of some official or another. Now it's Roy's, but his house is a private residence that is somehow directly attached to an official building. So now I think it is attached, but it is not directly attached exactly. Roy has a finished basement. That's established in story, as he has some kind of workshop down there, and I think his house also has a garage under it. So it must sit into a hill where part of the house is more underground than another part. That MORE underground part is where a long hallway runs completely below ground from the private home, to the office building attached to it. I haven't sorted out what official would have used the house before. I probably won't unless some other official mentions it in passing. It's not important to the story in any way anyway. (snicker).
Okay... So anyway, (snicker) I have been working on the floor plan of his house for a couple of weeks in the scant spare time I have because HOLIDAYS YO! I do work retail after all. I need to understand how the house works before I can get my head around the next chapter. I know what is going to happen. It's outlined in my head. I've been writing this chapter in my own head for YEARS now. I'm excited to finally be to this point. I can't wait for Winry to say "Is that for me?" lol. I just hope she actually says it!
The point here is: I built a house. No... I'm lying. I didn't built it. I just took my first floor plan which is more or less complete now, and played the Sims 3 all day making the floor plan into a kind of stupid looking version of the house in my head. However, I'll share it with you. I'll draw the house later on now that I am starting to understand it. I can't really draw for very long on the computer or do it for days in a row like I want to, or my shoulder will ache, so I have to pace myself. (Plus working retail during the holidays! lol) but since I did this thing. I'll share it with you all. It's a big house, but probably not as big as it looks. It's bigger than Ed's house though for sure. Probably twice as big. I made some comparisons, and I'm drawing to the same scale. Ed's house has a two car garage on the back half of which is converted to living space, but his basement is only under half the house I think. It only contains the mechanicals for his house and doesn't have any finishing. Also, Ed's house is a story and a half with no attic space at all. All the upstairs rooms are right under the roof and dormers. Roy has two full stories plus a pretty big walk up attic. Still trying to understand the upstairs and how/if the attic stairs are stacked. The main stairs are stacked over the basement stairs, but I"m not sure if the attic stairs are stacked. or not. I'm not sure I want to loose the aesthetic of the stair rail in the wide upstairs hallway by stacking the attic stairs on top, but I know that architecturally speaking that's probably the best way to have them run. I'll look at it some more when I can. In the mean time. Look at the house I built (not! Honestly I hardly ever actually play this game. I just use it to build houses. Also, I don't care for the dynamics of Sims 3 gameplay with the characters. Sims 2 was better for that.)
Roy's House
Thanks for reading my ramble. Oh yeah. the front fences are incomplete because I was being petty about there not being any gates wide enough for a driveway or even the wide walkway that would work if I decided to actually USE the house in actual game play, so I just left big gaps. I also wasn't able to capture the concept of the garage being under the house on the low end of the yard because DERP I chose a flat lot! lol But I made the driveway out of MARBLE. LOLOL. It's probably not really made of marble.
However, I'm in the process of drawing it for Chasing the Trail because I realized that now that Ed's more mobile, I need to understand more clearly how Roy's house works. I still haven't got it figured out completely. I realized that the way I had it pictured when I first started writing it, did not match the way I initially drew it. AT ALL. So I started thinking about how it was shaped and how things fit together, and since Roy has said at least a couple of times that his house is actually connected to the building he works in, I have to work out how that works too. Obviously, the house was at one time the house of some official or another. Now it's Roy's, but his house is a private residence that is somehow directly attached to an official building. So now I think it is attached, but it is not directly attached exactly. Roy has a finished basement. That's established in story, as he has some kind of workshop down there, and I think his house also has a garage under it. So it must sit into a hill where part of the house is more underground than another part. That MORE underground part is where a long hallway runs completely below ground from the private home, to the office building attached to it. I haven't sorted out what official would have used the house before. I probably won't unless some other official mentions it in passing. It's not important to the story in any way anyway. (snicker).
Okay... So anyway, (snicker) I have been working on the floor plan of his house for a couple of weeks in the scant spare time I have because HOLIDAYS YO! I do work retail after all. I need to understand how the house works before I can get my head around the next chapter. I know what is going to happen. It's outlined in my head. I've been writing this chapter in my own head for YEARS now. I'm excited to finally be to this point. I can't wait for Winry to say "Is that for me?" lol. I just hope she actually says it!
The point here is: I built a house. No... I'm lying. I didn't built it. I just took my first floor plan which is more or less complete now, and played the Sims 3 all day making the floor plan into a kind of stupid looking version of the house in my head. However, I'll share it with you. I'll draw the house later on now that I am starting to understand it. I can't really draw for very long on the computer or do it for days in a row like I want to, or my shoulder will ache, so I have to pace myself. (Plus working retail during the holidays! lol) but since I did this thing. I'll share it with you all. It's a big house, but probably not as big as it looks. It's bigger than Ed's house though for sure. Probably twice as big. I made some comparisons, and I'm drawing to the same scale. Ed's house has a two car garage on the back half of which is converted to living space, but his basement is only under half the house I think. It only contains the mechanicals for his house and doesn't have any finishing. Also, Ed's house is a story and a half with no attic space at all. All the upstairs rooms are right under the roof and dormers. Roy has two full stories plus a pretty big walk up attic. Still trying to understand the upstairs and how/if the attic stairs are stacked. The main stairs are stacked over the basement stairs, but I"m not sure if the attic stairs are stacked. or not. I'm not sure I want to loose the aesthetic of the stair rail in the wide upstairs hallway by stacking the attic stairs on top, but I know that architecturally speaking that's probably the best way to have them run. I'll look at it some more when I can. In the mean time. Look at the house I built (not! Honestly I hardly ever actually play this game. I just use it to build houses. Also, I don't care for the dynamics of Sims 3 gameplay with the characters. Sims 2 was better for that.)
Roy's House
Thanks for reading my ramble. Oh yeah. the front fences are incomplete because I was being petty about there not being any gates wide enough for a driveway or even the wide walkway that would work if I decided to actually USE the house in actual game play, so I just left big gaps. I also wasn't able to capture the concept of the garage being under the house on the low end of the yard because DERP I chose a flat lot! lol But I made the driveway out of MARBLE. LOLOL. It's probably not really made of marble.