I haven't played in a long while, but I have been trying to get everything set back up with my new system and the new ep's and in doing so i became aware that they added some new content that will make this lot much closer to "reality". The hot spring they added makes for a closer koi pond and they can get in it. as well as some new doors that fit in the the japanese style.
I also updated the the signs at the front gate using the kanji. now if I can manage to make the right kind of doors (looks like the new ones I used with the rice paper but in a sliding door style and not the swinging doors) it will be perfect lol.

This will require up through the Vacation expansion and probably even freetime, I have all of them installed right now so the way this game works i am assuming....

with that in mind the only custom content in here are floors and walls and its all maxis or mine. with mine, I don't really cae what you do with it, if you reuse it for something kewl, if I get credit, also kewl, if not, whatever, this house has been reposted as others on other sites as I have seen recently so whatever. all I care about is that there are people out there who are enjoying my work, hate to think I was wasting everyones time and space lol

lets see, tech details,
its $162,382, on a 5x5 lot, I did minimal decorating but some of the rooms have a few things to fit in, for the table in the living room I recomend Peggysim's cushion chair, its a cushion that sits on the floor and will allow the sims to sit on the floor. I used to have some swords and stuff to decorate the dojo walls but I can't remember where i got them i am sure ill find them again soon though but i can't include them if I wanted to because i can't remember who made them. So this will have to do.

well thats about it, so I hope you enjoy it =)

P.S. - The left sign says "To defeat owner in savage combat, use rear door."
and the right one says "Tendo Dojo - Musabetsu Kakutō Ryū"

well probably (as usually tends to be the case) everything I had at the time, so I am guessing up to pets, but I can't say for certain

other than the tendou house I usually build them for either fun or a need i have so I dont uninstall the other ep's to build, and I am an item whore so i try to keep up to date on the ep's so I can have as many items as possible lol

some things I like about it, same for all the ep's {though pets should have been part of the base game}, my biggest complaint with freetime is that every time I start to do almost anything the phone rings and someone wants to tell me about this new activity! um, I have to stop attempting the activity to answer the phone and if it is a group activity the group has broken up by the time i get back from the phone
I am also not too sure I like the game picking the "favorite" hobby for me either, I am just glad my self sim got one that I don't hate, like sports...
those are two things I would like to see a hack for. I am getting to where I hate phones in the sims almost as much as I hate them in real life. I start to play pool, the phone rings, I start to paint something, the phone rings, I start to dance, the phone rings..... always something like we at club bla see you are doing XX hobby, well I say GET YOUR CAMERAS OUTA MY HOUSE!!!!!! QUIT SPYING ON ME!!!! lol who wants to join a club that uses paparazzi and CIA techniques to spy on me, thx to sim-bush and the sim-patriot act our sims are now wired up to be spyed on!!! AAAAHHHH!H!!!! RUN AWAY! and  drive my sim-car to my sim-dentist for my sim-root canal {I've got news for you, putting 'sim' in front of everything dosen't make it hurt any less!}
I do really like the computer from mr. humble (when I have a place to put it, tyvm prebuilt family designers) or is THAT how they are spying on me? DAMN YOU MR HUMBLE! now I want to kill him too! lol I need to work on my tinkering so i can fix that system! the music dosen't bother me because I have never heard it, i keep the music off in almost every game I play, so annoying {thx lewis, I'll have to see if I can find it in that list}
speaking of annoying music, anyone know a way to auto-bypass all that noise from the intro stuff? its so loud and i am usually starting up the game when people are sleeping.

and seasons, just wonderful, now my sims can sit in the hot tub in their basement and spontaneously cumbust! great addition to the game, catching fire while sitting in water, good planning. :blob6: maybe if they wanted to add sim-body temp, they should have added sim-central heat and air!

but its still alot better than what I have heard about sims3 if I wanted to play the entire neighborhood at one time I would play sim city

a change I would like to see is to be able to build underground, and I dont mean like a basement that is poking its head above ground, but more like a bomb shelter, where you have earth above your head, or underground tunnels kind of thing. thats something I have been trying to do since ts1 all those years ago, kinda got close once, but not really... {foundation bridge over top of an basement level walkway} but it was a neat house lol

Stunning, truly stunning, I cant wait to look it over in game, thank you

I also liked the addams family better, odd I was just talking about this to someone tonight, but it will be kewl to get to go to 1313 Mockingbird ln. Simtown
It looks great, I cant wait to see it in game

I cant wait till I can look at this in game, but unfortunatly, i will have to, time for bed

wow, very nice, now (other than the real pic for comparison lol) we need to know what her stats are =)
If I am going to put her in my game I want her to be right im kinda funny about that with self sims

Thank you, very nice
I've never tried a restaurant home business before, just shops, intresting idea, I will have to try it

thank you for the lovley comments =)
and thank you for the sign, I will have to see about making a sign with that =)

yes, it is supposed to be a dojo, or at least one of the buildings in there is the dojo, and the rest is the house and storage shed, it was taken from one of my faveorite anime's, Ranma 1/2.

http://files.tagworld.com/dab040bd43fb40abba2d67f11f0d99b1.jpeg">

they practice the Tendo and Saotome schools of indiscriminate grappeling or in the dub, Anything goes martial arts.

If I knew how to make objects myself I would have made the sign they had in the show, along with sevral other things to go along with it, like the shrine to the Tendo Okasan (mother) they have in the dojo, I attempted to include it in the wallpaper but was not sucsessfull and eventualy gave up =(

I am a big otaku (yes i know thats in insulting term in japan, here too realy, but us geeks take that as a compliment here usualy hehe) and I spent about 9 years studying an off shoot of a korean form of martial arts when I was younger, I was about a year away from my black belt when I moved away from the school, though that was about 20 or so years ago.

and agian, if anyone has hair or clothing that would be apporprate for those charactors please let me know, I have been looking for them since sims2 came out. too bad I couldn't transfer the ones I had from sims1 into 2 =( lol

If you haven't seen it yet, the one I called Onegai Twins is also (loosly) based on a house from an anime by the same title. tho I had trouble with the stairs the way I wanted and didnt have a very good floor plan, like i did for this one.

again, thank you Tetou, that is a real compliment comming from somone from (I assume) japan

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Thanks to Tetuo, I have made a new wall cover for this home and desided to upload it here.
I am still going to work on it but this is what I have done so far...

I love to build, and from that  can tell you spent countless hours on this, it's truly beautifull. I saw Osaka and had to check it out, I love Japanese style (as is aparent from some of my uploads lol) and I have to say this is the first time I saw the japanese vertion of the game in a screen shot, very cool =)
I only download a few houses, mostly for ideas, but this is too nice to pass up
thank you

thank you very much guys =)
I have been using the underground garage alot lately because it's the only way I can connect it to the house and still have a basement(foundation). again if anyone has another idea for how I would love to hear it variety is the spice and all.

this is the part of the game I love the best. my dad was a wanna be archetect turned draftsman/engenier so I guess it runs in the family. and to be able to share them with others makes me a happy camper, I live for making people smile 8^D

Here is my contribution for the day.

One of my Only "Starter Homes"
It's a 2x2 lot, and almost unfurnished, but there are 2 floors, a (nother underground) garage, 2 bedrooms, a kitchen/dining room, and a living room/den. and lots of room for expantion when the funds and family grows.

 as it turns out I wound up including, a stair recolor by http://www.modthesims2.com/member.php?u=4407">Numenor, that I was not aware of (no *) untill I exported and ran it in CleanInstaller. The rest of the decor was mine. I used these to keep the cost down as low as I could.
 
I went with a wooden tone and look and there for called it a cabin not a house

I need to make more floor and wall coverings to keep the varity going, but for now this is what I have, I felt bad enough including what I have, its hard to keep the costs down. and for some reason I desided to try for the nicest starter home I could. a rather new experiance for me.
I am used to making huge houses, on big lots. but not every sim can afford such a thing, at least not at first, and some never.

as I said it is mostly unfurnished but you will have over $6000 left to fix it up before you start working.

there is also room to put in a bathroom in the master bedroom area or something else if you like =)
my idea for that would be like picture 4 (not in the actual house)
or if you are single then prehapts turn one of the b-rooms into a hot tub room, or game room, I also considered putting a hot tum on the roof, but will need more stairs for that

I just realized that not only did i not put windows but also no lights, but these are not critical and will only help keep your bills lower heh

Small Lot, Big House

Cost $100,516
5 floors

Basement, 3 floors + unfinnished attic

Required EP's - Nightlife, Uni, Pets, Glamour, possibly more, not sure anymore lol

It actuly turned out bigger than I had planned, the third floor was effectivly unnessisary, but when I started I didn't want to put in the wonderfull assention stairs so I used the One Tile Staicase trick, and it had been a while, so I did that first off, once in place they are very difficult to move, but that makes this perfect for a big family, or lots of roommates. can you say party house? good, I knew you could =)

you might also notess that once again I used the underground garage (hence nightlife ep) I have been doing this alot lately, because (pirmarily) I like basements. in order to make a proper basement, you must have a foundation, if you have a foundation, then you can not attach the garage to the house unless you make the garage line up with the basement. to me its not a real garage unless it is part of the house, otherwise its just a car port. So, unless one of you imagenitive people knows a better way to go about this please let me know this was just the best option I have come up with on my own and I think it looks neat.

you may also notess that I am not the best at decorating, usualy I tend to just make every room in as dark a color skeem as I can get, because hey, thats what works for me, i am a dark person, but I have been trying to get away from that on some of the ones I have intentions of uploading, and it makes it easier to see the rooms in the pictures. and I also try not to do too much in the way of furnishing the houses becuae that takes away from you being able to fullfill easy starting wants for your sims. easy way to get your want meater up a good ways right off the bat

I like to start the kitchen off with a buffett tho becuase usualy a starting sim has a bad cooking skill and will set fire to the house trying to cook for the welcome wagon, and I hate pizza, someone needs to make a chinese delivery mod!!!

speaking of setting fire to the kitchen, there is a fire alarm and extinguisher over the spot for the oven in the kitchen (extinguisher is from uni)

the counters are from pets, they look kewl and are 2 enviroment each.

the fence and stairs might be from glamour life, although you may not need that to load the house, i am not sure.

I try to do most of my stairways and hallways 2 tiles wide so the there is not a trafic jam, it alwase seems to be an issue in my homes.

on the 2nd floor I made my usual toilet rooms big enough for just a toilet, and 2 shower rooms, for just a shower, again so there is less of an issue with sims getting on other sims way, if one needs the can while the other is showering, or whatever. there is room for 3 toilets and 2 showers in that area, and other places you can put them if desired.

Enjoy =) and if you do any major remodeling or redecorationg I would love to see it. Other than that, I don't care what you do with it, I dont even care if you upload it somewhere else (though I prefer it not be a pay site) if you give me some of the credit that would be cool though heh
took me longer to lay carpet and hang wallpaper than build the house.

and if you want a variation without the required ep's let me know I will strip it of those items and reupload, just let me know.

frankly this is the reason I stil play this game, I love to build. I have 2 others that came to me in a dream and then I forgot them in another dream, but they are still kind of 'inprosses' but I will upload them soon, I hope...

the small bit of custom content is all by me and should be included, if not you can get it from my other post, the tendo(u) dojo (still the one i am the most proud of heh and the only one I have uploaded to any site other than this one, becuase I like you guys the best)

very nice, thank you,  I look forwared to checking it out, and figureing out a way to get more people in it heheh
maybe a basement.... lol

Where to begin, I started making the house from Onegai Twins, an anime, semi-sequel to Onegai Teacher. (Onegai = Please) although I was not able to get it to come out the way I wanted (stairwell and a few other things) and I added a basement (because I like them) I still think it came out fairly cool.
Some of the plants pictured are not included because I am noste sure where I got them exactly, probably from MtS2...
I origonaly had it decorated with some alternate wooden flooring and walls (most of witch came from PeggySims) but I didn't want to include tihngs I didn't make. I did include some of the walls and one floor that I made for the http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=23608">Tendou Dojo
http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=23608

I have all of the expantions and suplements so you may as well need them for it to work. I used Clean Installer to remove the few things that still got stuck in the file so hopefully it ill work fine. I have also checked each items I can tihnk of to make sure it was supposedly compatable with base game, I hope I checked them all.

If you haven't already been I can't recomend http://www.peggysims2.net/index.htm">PeggySims2  enough.
In my first arangement of this house I had used alot of the wooden floor and wall covers form her site and she has some great hair and other tihngs.
You can see some of them in the 5th picture and the last one is a closeup of the floor I liked.

The main character drove a scooter bike so i was going to use a motercycle i found on mts2 but its better to wait untill the sims wants one to buy a vehical anyway, same with things like shower, toilet, etc so I left it mostly empty other than the hot tub in the bath room, because they share a bath in alot of these anime's I use the hot tub to represent that and usualy include  the open shower that came with Uni. but again I was attempting to make it useable by as many people as possible, I figured you could add what you wanted. oh well enough of my rambleing, here are the pictures...
I hope you enjoy

oh and it costs about $44,000, not quite a starter home, but not a mansion either, with a good bit of room to improve if you feel like it. and as is its got alot of room, intended to have 2 bedroom, 1 office, bathroom, kitchen, livingroom and den + basement, but it can work sevral difrent ways.
I should also mention I origonaly used the ascention stairs, I removed them also incase you didnt want them. I personaly love them, but they are kind of cheeting.
http://forums.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=97367">Targa's Ascention Stairs
as it is I forgot to replace the stairs when I took them out
the ladder is a good one too...