Sims 2 building a apartment

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Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. By Courtney Marchelletta Courtney Marchelletta. Courtney Marchelletta is a former freelance contributor to Lifewire. Tweet Share Email. The lot must be empty and can't have an occupant. Was this page helpful? Thanks for letting us know! Email Address Sign up There was an error.

Please try again. To create this article, volunteer authors worked to edit and improve it over time. This article has been viewed , times. Learn more It gives you just what the title says; Apartments and Apartment Life. If you have this game and want to know how to make a great apartment like the premade ones, then this article is for you.

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Learn why people trust wikiHow. Download Article Explore this Article Steps. Tips and Warnings. Things You'll Need. Related Articles. Author Info Last Updated: May 22, Decide what kind of apartment you want. There are 3 different kinds of apartments you can make. They are condominiums, townhouses, and connected apartments. Condominiums are separated apartments. Townhouses are connected, but have a garage and a separate roof for each apartment.

And connected apartments have a building with all the apartments inside. Make a lot for your apartment. Connected apartments can be 3x3 in size, condos can be 3x4, and townhouses can be 5x2.

These are just suggestions, but the sizes really make a difference. Enter cheats to build it. Press Ctrl, Shift and C to activate the cheat box. If the apartment is built correctly, the lot will be changed to an apartment, and will appear as an apartment building when seen from the neighborhood. Make sure all architectural and structural changes are made before the conversion to an apartment.

Because of the Build Mode restrictions in apartments, making major changes to the structure requires all existing households inside the apartment to be moved out and the apartment converted into a residential lot.

The player may occasionally wish to edit an existing pre-designed apartment, or edit another custom apartment to suit their own needs. In order to do this, the lot must be vacated completely — all households that have moved into the apartment must be moved out. Changes to furnishings in apartments and communal areas can be done here, but major structural changes, such as walls, fences, stairs, and elevators, are locked.

Save the lot, exit to the neighborhood, and reload the lot. Any desired changes can be made then. Once any changes are made, convert the lot into an apartment base, as shown in the paragraph above. Before sharing a lot, it should be tested for issues. Move the apartment lot into the lot bin , move it out into a test neighborhood, and move a Sim in to "check out" the lot. All apartment furnishings, with the exception of a few, should not appear within apartment units.

The mailbox should be the "apartment mailbox" and not the suburban curbside mailbox. Sims should be able to get around in the communal areas with no trouble. If there are issues with the lot, bulldoze the apartment lot that was used for testing, move another copy of the apartment out of the lot bin, and make the necessary fixes. Do not share or move a lot into the lot bin that has been moved into by a Sim. The Sims Wiki Explore. Recent posts Game news Community news.

Deletion discussions Development discussions Admin discussions Admin's noticeboard. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Game guide:Building an apartment. Edit source History Talk 0. Incorrect - wrong door! Looks nice, but it won't work!

Correct - we're using the "Unique Separator" door, and the doormat is facing outside. Incorrect - apartment unit has two doorways leading in and out of it. Correct - apartment unit has the two acceptable doorways in - the Unique Separator door and the garage door. Correct - this apartment unit spans multiple floors but does not have any other doorways leading in or out see also next photo. Note how the second floor of the apartment doesn't have any doorways leading into the communal area.

Incorrect - same apartment unit as the previous images, but the roof has access to the communal area. Incorrect - backyard is open counts as an apartment with more than one entrance. Incorrect - backyard has a gate leading into the communal area. Correct - backyard does not have access to the communal areas. Correct - balcony does not have access to the communal area. Incorrect - an apartment balcony on a foundation may not have access to the ground at all. Correct - apartment balcony does not have access to the ground.

Correct - this apartment unit does not have any other doors leading outside to the communal area aside from the Unique Separator and the Garage Door , and all rooms inside the unit are connected via a door. The apartments do not have a door or pathway connecting them like a "suite". Incorrect - step-over fences cannot be used to divide areas in an apartment.