I was experimenting with the 4318 garage. This first house-with-garage I based on a real house I once knew, but it didn't come out very well.
Maybe it would have looked better if I had taken more time and trouble with the garden, but really I was a bit fed-up with this house by then. The garage is quite deep, and combined with the shorter (two levels of system-X holes) walls, it was very difficult to get my clumsy hands into the kitchen/sitting room to furnish it. I endlessly knocked things over, I had trouble putting anything on the walls, and I cursed short walls quite a lot.
Furnishing upstairs was fine, of course.
And I had fun with the adjoining stables.
The next house had the taller (three levels of system-X holes) walls, and looked much better with more shape (and landscaping care).
I put a utility room behind the garage, so the house did end up as deep as the first one.
But with the higher walls and more hand space, it was much easier to furnish.
What I
really wanted to do, though, was to see if I could combine the garage with the 5574 villa. And, yes I could, though the colours didn't match.
And because the garage is shorter in height than the villa's downstairs walls, the bedroom above it had to have its own staircase.
It seemed unlikely to me that the parents and their young daughter would have bedrooms accessible by separate staircases, so I moved in an au pair to inhabit the over-the-garage bedroom.
