Julianesøhus

And of course I´m giving you the house, where the von Dickmeisses live, as well.
One this small 15x15 lot I´ve managed to get room for this:

The garden is decoration only, even though the family gets lost in it every now and then,  I wonder how they manage!

In the basement you´ll find a small pool and some training equipment. The´re´s also Johannes´ room and a very small puritanically decorated room for a butler. He gets gis good salary and don´t have time for relaxation anyway, the family seems to think!

On the ground floor you´ll find a kitchen, a diningroom, a livingroom and a toilet.

 The childrens´ bedrooms are on the first floor along with a bathroom and a tv-room.

And finally on the second floor you´ll find the master bedroom, and granny´s premisses each with a bathroom.

Dybesøhus

Today you are going to get another townhouse from around 1900. This one is carefully restored with respect for the original materials, but the interior decoration is as modern as EA allows :)
By the way, I´ve been taught a lesson about bragging: I use to write that my houses are free of store items. NOT TRUE, I´m sorry! Some times I just don´t see stuff. But at least I´m sure there is no CC!
As for this house I believe there is only 1 store thing: The not-so-private-study door!

To give some variation this time you´ll be presented to the three floors of the house:

 

Christianesøhus

The previous couple of houses I´ve uploaded are made for Roselil89 new neighbourhood: The City.
I have actually built this one for her as well, but who knows, maybe she thinks that other people should have a go as well, so I don´t know yet, if it´ll be there or if I just have to save it for the rest of the world :D
You can have it if you like:

It´s a town house inspired by the ones in Ebert´s Villaby I have mentioned before. Built around 1900, I guess, and supposed to house a family from the upper middleclass.
As I write, I realize that I have forgotten to build butler´s or maid´s quarters, you´ll have to add them for yourselves if you can´t live with a maid who lives elsewhere.

Go to the next page if you´d like to see the whole house. I´ve made a slideshow for you!

Parish Clerk Cottage

It´s been a while since my last upload, it seems I can´t keep up with new houses every other day, not because I don´t want to, but because I have become a small reminder from my shoulder, telling me, that I would profit from not sitting in front of the computer all the time. So I have bought myself an elevation table and now I can stand up building! But I guess, I have to slow down a bit, anyway.

I have build this small house an made three versions of it: a shell, a no CC version and a version with CC.
Have a look:

Parish Clerk Cottage ( All in )

Ground Floor

First Floor
CC by: Garden Breeze 3, Khany Sims, BPS, ATS3, SimplyStyling, Parsimonious, b5Studio, Sims3Models, Sims3d, TSR:  Cyclonesue, Mutske, Pilar, Ziggy28, Alex Stanton (Get links by clicking Read more...)

Parish Clerk Cottage ( Shell and no CC )

Old doesn´t always mean oldfashioned

Here for instance is an older house totally restored and up to date.
I do try to decorate my houses in a taste, that I would ascribe to the sims I imagine would move in. So most of the time it´s not necessarily what I would like in my own house. Years of playing with this game has also taught me some about cultural differences: things, materials, colours that are totally hot in the States are not the same as here in Scandinavia. The longer distance in kilometres the bigger difference in home-decor. But that is just the charm and fun about it all.
Here is Hvidbjerghus:

Baghuset, get authentic!

This is a copy of a real house, I found on the site of a real estate agency. It is actually a back premises from the very old Copenhagen, when you, like in all bigger cities, I suppose, would build as dense as possible in order to get housing for all the previous farm-workers who came to the city to get work as a consequence of the industrialisation.
The houses were built in quarters with the most expensive and attrative in front and then back house after back house behind the first. The cheapest and poorest houses were of course those in the very back were the sun hardly even reached the roof. It was perfect nests for rats, rot and decease, no wonder the workers and their many children lived a short and sad life.
And then have a look at this baby!

Baghuset
No CC

Today this house has become throughout renovated. At least one, but more likely two taller houses in front of it has been demolished, so all of a sudden this tiny, lopsided building lies in the back of a wonderful yard with trees and playground and all the sun and fresh air you can ask for, who would have ever thought that was possible. 
Hardly more than 60 m2, but rather attractive ones, + the stairs and the roof terrace, which of course was not exploited as a special treat back then either.
Actually I´m not entirely sure, that this house would have been for residence, it could as well have been workshop for a carpenter or a tailor or something. At least there is no sign of it having been a drivers premises with the coach in the ground floor, the horse in the first and the coachman in the second. But just imagine, people used to live like that once!

Svalereden, a cute starter

I can´t blame you if you get a bit confused because of the lac of continuity in my row of builds.
I guess they just show a perfect picture of the inside of my head: A total mess, but at least with tiny spots of usefull ideas here and there.
Today I have made a new starter on a tiny lot. It´s called Svalereden (The Swallow´s Nest) because swallows always like to build their nests beneath the eaves of old houses like this.

Svalereden

Applefield Old Baths

The daily shower is a must to a lot of people in the industrial world, which is in a way funny because most of us use our bodies less than ever when we work. We have to go to the gym in order to get a little sweatty. We also change our clothes everyday and are all together just less needing the same shower than we have ever been before. Yet we consider it a human right to have at least one bathroom per home fully equipped with a shower as a minor or a tub, maybe, if you are wealthy enough, you even have your own spa! But one thing is missing: The social aspect! I Copenhagen a 100 years old public bath, Sjællandsgade badeanstalt, has recently been scheduled as a historical building, and thus been saved from closing down. The plan is that it will be rented and run by volounteers, who have worked very hard against the closing and now organizes free working hours. Probably close to none needs the old bath for actually bathing but the many users enjoy the atmosphere and the social connections across bounderies between age, ethnicity, gender and education or whatever. So we have seen very happy faces in the news!
Applefield Old Baths is not close to be a copy of the one in Copenhagen, at least not from the looks, but I´m sure the social functions of this community lot is the same. Have a look:

Applefield Old Baths

Vævergården or maybe the Weaver´s lodge

Weaver´s Lodge is at least what the name meens. This house will be so far the last in the row of old stone houses from around th 1770´ies. I guess I´m in the mood for something more uptodate next.
Vævergården is today used as a kindergarden which is why I have made it a place, where children are welcomed, where the garden is a place where it´s allowed to climb in the trees, where things don´t have to look tidy all the time.

Vævergården
CC: Cottage thatch roofing by Apple, TSR

Stenhuset alias Entréhuset

This is the first stone house I got to know, and in the way the name says why: Entréhuset meens the house where you enter, and indeed it was back in the 1770´ies. Entréhuset was namely the porter´s lodge at the estate Aldershvile Slot. Slot meens manor or even palace in danish. The manor house have actually burned down so there is only a ruin left, with it´s own rather interesting story, but I´ll spare you from the Countess of Bagsværd and just offer you the houses of her subjects.
My best friend at school used to live at the old avenue that lead to the manor, as today there are private lots all the way. And Stenhuset is privately owned as well. It is in rather poor shape, sadly, and I think it must be almost impossibly expensive to restore, and difficult as old, scheduled buildings are protected by a vast number of rules and such.
Anyway it is very charming. I would like to show you an old photo of the real house and offer you my sims 3 version, which is shamelessly restored without any hesitation or respect of legislation:

Stenhuset for real and for sims 3
CC: Cottage Thatch Roofing by Apple, TSR

Enghuset

Meens the Meadows or the house at the meadow. Another of my historical stone houses from around 1770. This one used to be the gardener´s house in a large estate called Aldershvile Slot. I´d never heard of it until I started digging, and unlike the two previous lots I don´t think this one still exists today. But I can show you an old photo I´ve found:

Enghuset

At the gable you can see that electric power has been connected to the house and the oblique window  in the thatched roof tells me that the lot has been in habited up untill at least maybe the 1950´ies or so.
Here is my version of the lot:

Enghuset 2011
CC: Cottage thatch roofing by Apple, TSR

As you can see, I´ve chosen to use a custom content roof this time. I suppose it´s the english version of a thatched roof, the top trim on danish thatched looks a bit different. On the other hand I think that Apple at the TSR has done quite a nice job with this one, and frankly the roofs born with the game doesn´t look half as good on these old stone houses, if you ask me.

As always I have made an empty shell of the lot as well, and this time actually two: one with thatched roof and one with normal EA slates. That´s called service I should say :)

Søgården

It´s really difficult to teach you how to pronounce the name of this old main building, but think of the vowel sound in the french number 2= deux you´ll be very close to the danish ø. And that, my friends makes it: Seuxgoren, well, sort of... :) It is far easier to tell you that it meens the farm by the lake.
It was build in 1770 in the same area as the previous Højgården and was owned by the same man, Theodor Holmskjold, who, when he wasn´t busy owning houses, were an expert in mushrooms and fungi of all things. He even gave name to quite a few and was very well known in mushroom circles all over the world.
Like Højgården Søgården is owned by my town today and used as a course property. But I have stolen it for you, so now you can move into this little pearl if you like with or without my cc-free-furniture-selection:

Søgården

And maybe you´d like to see the source as well:

Pretty, isn´t it!

Højgården

This should be pronounced something like this: Hoygoren.
I got inspired by an old main building from 1770 for this house. In 1963 it was bought by the town counsil and carefully restored and ever since it has been used as a course property. Though being proud of my house I must admit, that it doesn´t really do justice to it´s source being all straight and regular in contrary to the real building, which is very beautiful and quit a lot bigger. I owe to the house to bring a picture of the real thing:

I used to have a lithography of Højgården by the danish artist Ib Spang Olsen that showed the house very well, but it was removed, so I was obviously not entitled to use it, sorry Ib! I submit this photo as well, but it doesn´t show the yellow front which is so special.

Højgaard i Bagsværd, 1770

My version of the house is also smaller than in real life and has a grey roof as I found the red ones in the game too can you say obtrusive about a colour? But then, it´s just inspired by not a copy of. In my town there is a few houses of quite a number in the same style left and all of them are used as public institutions today.

Let me show you my version:

Højgården

And here is what you´ll get: Ground floor: hall, diningroom, kitchen with old stove, large, angled livingroom with stove, toilet. 1. Floor: Upper hall, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. The garden is very well decorated with oceans of flowers and sweet scents. Fully decorated, no CC.

You can of course choose to take the empty shell in my Helter-Shell-ter section if that is what you prefer. But befor you make a decision have a tour: 

Kosamo

This is the last swedish house for now. It´s a small country house and holds 2 bedrooms, 1 open kitchen/diningroom and a small tv-room and bathroom under the roof. That´s it. Except of course the fact that the small garden also contains a few vegetables to supply the housekeeping money.

Kosamo

Morkullan

Well, I´m not entirely done with Sweden yet. They have yellow houses there too, you know, and the picture I would like to paint of my swedish community wouldn´t be right if I didn´t submit some of the yellows as well.
So here´s a tiny  swedish cottage. 2 bedrooms, kitchen/livingroom, 1bathroom. Small decorated garden. A lovely little place for the young family of 4.

I´m really struggleing to get these photos nice and describing, but it´s really difficult. And I don´t make things easier with all the small rooms I build, I guess. Or maybe that is just a bad excuse :-)
You´ll have to bear with me, I suppose. Maybe I´ll improve.

Kolvasstorp gamla skolan

I have been wondering why some lots are very popular and others not when you "shop" in the Sims 3 Exchange. Maybe it is because of the names they get. Kolvasstorp gamla skolan means something like: Scirpus Croft Old School!
And this is indeed an old swedish school renovated and converted to residence just like I have seen it several times in real life.

Kolvasstorp gamla skolan

The house holds: Ground floor: hall, livingroom, diningroom, tv-room/study, kitchen, and the former pantry altered to bathroom. 1.floor: large landing with possibilities, here used as a cosy family room, 3 bedrooms and a bathroom. Beds for 5 + a baby. Lovely garden with fruit trees and vegetables. Old barn with room for 1 horse, hayloft and a boxroom organized for the children to play in. Lot-size: 35x25

Tomtebo

Tomtebo was my entry to a challenge given in my danish favorite site: Sims 3 Byggeforum
The conditions was to build a micro-lot, sized to fit either the bistro-lot or the spa-ditto in Sunset Valley. I.e. the lot-size could be at most 21x22 tiles. The house was to be inhabited by a family of 5: parents, teenagedaughter and a couple of young twin boys. And the costs could be max. 21.500 for everything, house, furniture and garden. Store-items were allowed but no CC.
I was actually quite satisfied with my entry but of course it was only my one shot among a lot of very interesting entries from all the competitors. I don´t think the winner has been announced yet, but last time I had a look, I was not number 1, though, but that´s ok. With the cost-limit of course there is still a lot to be done at the lot, when the inhabitants have earned enough :)

Tomtebo

Swedish low budget cottage, slightly modernized but room for further renovation. 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, livingroom with open kitchen. Small garden for playing and relxation. price: 21.488     

Ny Heimdal

NB!! The observant guest will notice that I have made a few changes to the house: I´ve added the danish word for new (Ny) to the name, replaced the roof on the tower of the house with a one that fits better and during that proces even changed the tower-walls on the top floor. The picture here has been altered as well as the link if you´d like to get Ny Heimdal.

And now to something completely different, I guess I should learn how to sort my stuff a bit better!
Heimdal is a neoclassical (I think), danish townhouse, from around 1915 I guess. Like the ones owned by the upper middleclass.The village doctor probably lived there once.

Ny Heimdal

Krösabacka

Here is a tiny cottage for a single person, an old grandmother probably.
Krösabacka holds a single bedroom, a living/diningroom, a kitchen and a small privy in the backyard.

In the garden you´ll find a few fruit-trees and som vegetables as well.

Krösabacka

Björklund

You don´t need a palace to hold a big family.
Björklund is inspired by my own family´s  summer cottage although it wasn´t possible to build quite as small as it really was.
We certainly didn´t have a bathroom inside or even water or outlet. All water was fetched in buckets from the well. It was ice-cold and sligthly brown from the high level of iron and it tasted so amazingly clean. The calciumlevel in the water was very low so it was almost impossible to get rid of soap and shampoo.
In the kitchen was an old iron stove with an enormous kettle on it always filled with hot water for cooking and cleaning.
In the livingroom of this version you´ll find a pretty tiled stove made by Lisen. It is very typical for the swedish cottages but definately not for a rather simple place like Björklund, which would have been inhabited by a smallholder with his family; they would have had an iron stove.
For toilet there would have been a small privy next to the barn.
But enough talking, let me take you to Sweden once again to visit Björklund:

Björklund

Björklund is build on a 20x20 lot
2-3 bedrooms, kitchen, living/diningroom, 1 bathroom