Semi-Attached Apartment House

Many of the houses in Glendale & Ridgewood, Queens, & in Brooklyn, NY are attached multi-family style houses. Most of them are in the style of whats considered "railroad" or "box" room style - meaning you walk from one room to another to another - no hallway separating the rooms, kind of like walking from one train car to the next. I actually used to live in this style of apartment with my husband and our children - and I HATED it lol. My inlaws actually own a 2 family house just like this - and it's always been a dream of mine to update their home and give them the separation of rooms & privacy I know they'd love to have. Of course this would cost more money then they or I could afford. So I decided to make a Sims model of how i'd love to renovate their house for them.

This is actually more of an example of the type of building I used to live in - my inlaw's house is smaller and has light blue siding as opposed to a brick facade

Their house is actually in the middle of a block that contains 10 or 12 connected houses aka "Row Houses" but because lots in the Sims 2 aren't big enough to properly build this many houses, I recreated their house as a semi-detached house connected with their next door neighbor directly to the right's house (which badly needs a full reno).

As I mentioned there is two houses "connected" - each one has 3 apartments, the basement apartment is large, has a nice kitchen, 1 bathroom & 3 bedrooms. The main floor and 2nd floor apartments each have 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, nice eat in kitchens, large living room, dining room space, and plenty of closet space. The rents aren't exactly cheap - but thats true of rents in NYC too lol. Rents are between $4,932 - $7,359. Each backyard has a pool, (the house to the left has an inground pool, the house to the right has a semi-inground pool), the house to the left also has an outdoor kitchen with bbq grill, plenty of room for guests to sit and eat, the house to the right has a bbq grill on the deck, as well as plenty of seating, and a small produce garden. To the sides of each house, there's fruit trees.

Also included in this lot is some recolors of Tinkle's Grant Park Conversion Set + I retextured the Unique Separator Door (apartment door) using BauFive's Grant Park door texture (with his permission). If you just want my recolors/retexture you can download it HERE.

And for the sake of space, I created a few "fake" closet doors - which are basically walls that look like doors. There's 8 doors in this file - which includes doors not used in the lot. These are found in Walls - Paneling section. You can download them HERE

Download The Glendale-Semi Attached Apartment Building

There's also a few new walls & floors I created included in this lot. Some of these walls & floors you can download HERE I might have missed a few, but whatever I made for this lot is included in the lot.

Pictures

Front View of the house - couldn't fit the entire 2 houses in this one picture. They look exactly the same from the front. My inlaw's original house does not have a bay window, this is something I added to make it look more appealing. It has a flat roof which is common in in this area, with a glass skylight above the hallway stairs.

This is a closeup of the windows I recolored. The frame & windowpane design I made completely white to match the theme I was going for in this house.



Notice all those garbage pails outside? In NYC you are required to recycle - separate pails - one for plastic/glass/metal, another for paper/cardboard, and the newest thing my mother-in-law told me about is another one for the sake of composting foods + one more pail for all other kinds of trash.

These are some images of the backyard for the house on the right. Both actual houses have much deeper backyards but of course with TS2 we're severely limited on space!

Backyard to the left - I designed this one with my inlaws in mind. They have a very large family - so a lot of seating is a must! And for my father-in-law who's king of the grill, I created an outdoor kitchen.

And now we find ourselves inside the basement of the house to the left - the actual (real) basement is dark and unfinished - which to me is quite a scary basement. This basement is fully finished, which includes an apartment, laundry room, lounge & the boiler room (don't worry, I converted to gas, no expensive oil heating to deal with lol).

This is the basement apartment - you can see in these images my "fake" closet doors and my retexture of the Unique Separator Door. Since the basement apartment only have one bathroom, what I done was separate the toilet + a sink into its own separate room with a 2nd door to access the tub, shower & additional sinks.

The basement of the house to the right - the apartment in this basement is nearly identical to the one in the other house

The first floor apartment of the house to the left. My mother-in-law's twin sister actually lives in this apartment. In both apartments in the "actual" house when you walk into the entry door, the bathroom is immediately to the left, right off the kitchen - of course I had to completely remedy this situation by replacing the bathroom with a coat closet, and moved two bathrooms to the center of the apartments next too the bedrooms, where they belong.

The 2nd floor apartment of the house to the left. Its near identical to the 1st floor apartment, except I changed up the kitchen style a little bit, again with my inlaws in mind, I created a little coffee bar with extra cabinetry + changed up the bathrooms a little bit to more or less reflect what they really want in a bathroom.

These are from the house to the right - the apartments are identical again to the house to the left, except the kitchens have white cabinetry with a different color granite, and the bathrooms decor slightly differs.

I've yet to show my remodel of my inlaw's house to them, I'm sure they'd get a kick out of it once I do. Eventually perhaps I'll recreate their house again, this time leaving it in the true "railroad" style its in now. BTW it's up to the Sims who move into these apartments to fully furnish them! Enjoy!