I put more detail into the backyard. The Have-Nots would only be able to use the outdoor kitchen and wouldn't be allowed in the indoor kitchen until nomination ceremony, kinda like the Rich/Poor House that Brekkie had. The pool has a roofed sitting area next to it.
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Figured as much, just bustin balls. :joker:

Haha okay.

Another good effort, though I'd switch the Have Not bedroom with the storage room and create a bit of a Have Not Zone there with the bedroom inside and a outdoor kitchen and perhaps shower next to it. The back half of the house could then potentially be opened up as a luxury Have Zone - so it won't be so much a Rich/Poor divide, but they'll be a Have Not Zone, a Have Zone and then a communial area including the lounge which is used for ceremonies etc.

Also notice you seem to like making the kitchen-diner a separate room - not sure I like that personally. I also think this latest design is a little bit too much corridor, but open up the kitchen and create that zone like I suggested and it kind of solves the problem.

Yeah for some reason I just can't picture the kitchen not being a room. And I like the idea of switching the Storage with the Have Not.

I wanted to make a house that's u shaped with a central DR , but I wasn't sure if it would be too similar to the current layout.

well I'm working on a Sim Big Brother house right now. I'm halfway there right now, So I'll show it soon

Those usually come out really good. I'm excited to see it.

This is the only house that I've done with a theme that affects the design, but somebody asked me if i could do a house that was inspired by The House Nextdoor. My response would be The Guesthouse. The Guesthouse made the rest of the house a little smaller, but I think that I fit it all in well.
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I put the Gym outside, because i just couldn't find room for it inside.

I would love to see a guesthouse twist. But the only problem is that there is no outdoor area

Yeah I couldn't figure out how to give it a garden, without putting The Guesthouse in the studio instead of the actual house, but having The Guesthouse be so small could lead to friction.

I can see it working as some sort of Halfway house twist. Four new hgs are sent into the house next door. And a previous evictee selected by a in studio competition about 3 weeks in enters with them. At the end of the week the previous houseguest selects two new hgs to move with them back into the main house

i would like to see 3 new possible HGs move into it week one. Then have america evict someone from The Guesthouse every week before the evicted HG enter The Guesthouse.This way 3 possible HGs would always be in The Guesthouse. Then on week 4 or 5 have America vote on which one or two to send back into the game.

Or just having two new HGs enter The Guesthouse on day one. The first two evictees enter as soon as they're evicted. At the end of the 3rd or 4th week have America vote to send in one evictee and both new HGs. Having three more HGs enter the house.

I really like that guesthouse idea and you don't seem to have stolen too much space at all from the main house to accomodate it - they wouldn't really know it's there. I've long thought they could do the Bedsit twist, which would play out over two weeks, beginning with the newly crowned HoH being told they'll nominate three people for eviction and two will be evicted. As a result the Veto becomes the Super Veto, allowing the winner to name a replacement for any nominee they save. On eviction night the HoH will evict one person automatically then the second will be voted out in the usual manner - but both are fake evictions to the "guest house". They get to spy for the week as America votes on which one should return in the next live show.

And where it's positioned you could probably have secret access from the HoH room to do a Secret Garden style twist.


And although the gym is fine outside it could easily go on the balcony you've created. My only quibble is I'm not sure about the positioning of the Diary Room - might be better switched with the storage room or just have the one DR shared by both the house and the guest house (have it accessed off the entrance corridor).

I see what you're saying. Make the eviction hall shorter and put diary room in it's place. That would make more room in the Guesthouse.

Brekkie, they already have a super veto. It's called the Diamond Power Of Veto

This is the House with Brekkie's suggestions and a few tweeks to The Guesthouse.
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The Guesthouse can now accomodate six possible HGs and it shares a DR with the main house.

That works rather well Donovan - improves both the house layout and the Guest house.

I want to make a layout to show the potential of the house if the folks at CBS ever wised up and realized how big the studio actually is. The BB house/interview-room really only take up a third of the space that the whole studio has. If they doubled the size of the space they use for BB and used half of it as an American Idol style stage they could make more money for the show by selling tickets to eviction night and have more room in the house.

I wish the eviction studio was partially outdoors. With Evictees walking from the house on a runway to the actually studio with a medium sized crowd welcoming them to the outside world and in the eviction interview studio there's a small crowd and it can be used for a spinoff show or something

I would like to see an American Idol or X Factor type stage with a big screen on a stage (where a few couches can be set up) infront of a large seated crowd.

I would like to see an American Idol or X Factor type stage with a big screen on a stage (where a few couches can be set up) infront of a large seated crowd.

I could actually see something like that. and it's decorated to fit the theme of that year's house.

I could see that, but CBS being stingy i don't think it'll happen if the fans buy tickets

Yeah but I mean it's CBS it's a big network they have the money to do it. They just need to be creative.