This house was made with all SPs and EPs for Sims 2, including Apartment Life, Kitchens and Bathrooms and Mansions and Gardens.
This was originally inspired by the house my RL husband grew up in, not so very many decades ago, and I have been inside the house next door to his, where a family friend lived until about five years ago..
In RL the house was so small that when the Geography teacher asked us to make a scale plan of our houses, she could not believe his house could really be that small. Sims 2 also will not allow me to make it small enough, but it's a decent approximation. It was a very small, terraced, back-to-back house.
The original houses were in a block of 12, 6 houses front, 6 houses back. Each pair of houses shared a toilet; this was in the basement, and could be reached from within the house or from outside. (An improvement on some slightly older houses where six or more houses shared the toilet.) And, of course, there would be row upon row of the tiny terraced houses.
In the case of these Sims houses, I have left one house laid out as close as possible to the way he remembers it. There was a family of 2 adults, 2 children here. The other houses in the set are renovated to greater or lesser extent, with the two houses at the end formed by combining of the little back-to-backs each, and so are much larger and what we would nowadays regard as a reasonable size for a house.
This is a view of the back street, showing the nearby football pitch on the "recreation field" - resources that were terribly rare in the real-life versions of these places.
This Siminized version is built on the largest size Lot, but as more than half the land it taken up with the Recreation Ground, should not be too demanding on most computers - it plays well on mine with 8 Sims and a dog.
Game play note: I made this as a single "house". With the lockable doors available ingame, a Sim can be assigned to each door, so one Sim can have a whole house to himself, or, with a bit of work, only that Sim can be allowed to use this kitchen or that basement.
I have tried to make an Apartment version of the house, but it simply will not allow me to do so. If you can, please let me have a copy!
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Sita 29 06 2010