Cambridge House

[lanie]

Have you landed your first job teaching at the university?  Want to purchase a starter house with style?  Then this charming Queen Anne home located on a small lot in town is just for you!



Designed with a "shotgun" layout, this home has 2 bedrooms, 3 baths, a formal living room, plus a kitchen/dining area.  Perfect for reclusive academics and mad scientists.


Main level floorplan



Upper level floorplan


Home comes finished inside and out but unfurnished.
This is done to keep down the house's file size.

Custom content included with download:
Chic Porch Set (columns and decorative trim) from ModTheSims2
Abiding Elegance Door by Durabliss
Independent Expressions Double Arch from ModTheSims2
Walnut Door in white, found at ModTheSims2
Nengi's Big Bougainvillea
"Zoysia" wall from Margierytka (I downloaded this with a lot on MTS2)
Interior Paints, the Behr series from Danikat at ModTheSims2
"True" Black and White Flooring by me (because I hate the dark-blue-as-black Maxis tile)
Sea Foam Green Marble Tile by me
Limed Oak Flooring by LilyMayRose



Lot type: Residential
Lot size: 1x2 (reduced using Mootilda's Lot Adjustor)
Price: 15,672

 


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[Krabaten59]

Very cute little house! 

- what does "shotgun" layout mean? 

[grodan2859]

Adorable house.. 

[Marbi]

Thats a nice little house. Shotgun = long and narrow??

[John1946]

Yeps, long and narrow...the style is/was popular in New Orleans. There are a few different styles, single, double and Camel-back. The single is the norm, but then you have the double which of course is double wide, and the camel-back has an upper level on part of the house.

[fredygr2]

it looks very nice and cute!!!!!

[lanie]

- what does "shotgun" layout mean? 

As John said, it's a style which was/is popular in New Orleans, but many townhouses and rowhouses built in the Northeast United States (like in New York City and Boston) have similar layouts with a hallway with staircase to one side and then rooms laid out one deep down the length of the house.  In some cases, there isn't even space for a half bathroom on every floor!

My house is designed to be a stand-alone, rather than a rowhouse, but it's the same principal.

BTW, in the Boston area, which Cambridge is, you have to pay taxes for garden space, so many homes don't have them.  Most lots are so small that there wouldn't even be space for a garden, anyway.  This would be one of those houses...

Finally, this house, like so many I do, is based on a real house -- found a picture online, on a real estate website.  I had to modify the roofline somewhat, since the Mansion and Garden roof sections don't go into walls down view.  (Wish EA had done a better job with that expansion pack, as I really love Second Empire style...)

I'll be adding some pictures of the room layouts later today, just to give everyone a better idea of where everything's located.

[enrosadira]

What a nice little house 

[Krabaten59]

Thanks for the architetural info, guys - very enlightening, now I've learned something new today   

[ArtfulOne Jill]

What a good job you did on this!  Brings back memories of my years of living on the east coast in PA and NY.
Nicely done!  Hugs; Jill