How do you want your Pets lot looks like? Which do you prefer, EA or custom lot? Where would your sims live in Appaloosa? I hope you post your favorite ranches, farms or cottages so we can compile a beautiful list of Pet and App-friendly lots.
I fell in love with Appaloosa Plains right at the moment I set eyes on it in game and officially declare myself its loyal resident for an indefinite time (with the convenience of Twallan Traveller, I hope there won't be much to miss in the outside worlds. )
Do you think EA deserves to be praised this time for their effort with the gorgeous rabbit holes, interesting community lots and lovely landscaping (despite the rumour that they outsources the whole design)?
Optimist aside, down with the reality that we have been spoiled by our amazing builders around the community for a long time, so considering how picky I have become, EA building standard for residential lots cannot satisfy my desire for spacious ranches and cozy farmhouses for the new Appaloosa Plains, here I am on the desperate lot hunt (40x50 is the new popular lot size in the neighborhood), at the end, I must admit I fail to find a decent ranch and end up with more cottage.

First off, if you want to save your bulldozing time:
Emptied Appaloosa Plains Saves, with and without Community Lots
http://customsims3.com/forums/thread-824.html
Then the real deals:

The first lot is from Ung999, my favorite builder of all time
Timber Living


Ung999 - Lavender


Lhonna - Sunflower



The BrandyWine


Armiel - Heat of Summer


Armiel - Happy Sunset Pub


The Heritage Orchard


Pond Farm


Farm Gymnich



Ung999 - Villa Flora


Ruthlesskk - Petite Family Vinyard


Ruthlesskk - French Country Farm


Romagi - The Mill House


Romagi - Gavin's Glen


Romagi - Lil' Country Vineyard


Ninotchka - Puggle Farm


Hill Country House


JarkaD - Farma – pro dva koně


JarkaD - Farma – pro 4 koníky / Farm for 4 horses


JarkaD - Western House


JarkaD - Western Farma


Cottonwood Meadow


Austin Retreat


Hortensia House


Appaloosa Plain Real Estate


Dalia - Rancho


NeonSims - Project Him Piccadilly Ranch


Windy Mill by Tanitas8



Sookielee - Woodglen Homestead


Pomona Stables


Fortune Tellers Caravan



COMMUNITY LOTS
Saloon Wild Horse


Red Cow Club


Red Stallion Saloon


Hog's Head Pub


Lawrence Equestrian Center

Thank you, I am going to nab all of these

Oh my, someone's been busy.

I think I have to add Flora, I was hesitant because it totally looks like Mediterranean/French than a Western farm, but it's too lovely to skip and Ung999 is always my favorite builder. There are also some more irresistible vineyard here in MTS.
Though I'm more than excited to have horse, cat, dog, bird...I really wish EA included some cows, chickens, ducks...to make these truly farm-ish.

Woodglen Homestead by Sookielee looks perfect for Appaloosa Plains and it has a perfect garden.

Good choices, got quite a few of them. Being lazy but these lots look fun. Thanks for the information.

Three more Community Lots - Perfect Pubs for Riverview and Appaloosa, I think the Late Night club that EA provided us with Pet release is too modern to put in countryside:

marvelously helpful list here, thanks people

Awesome, thanks muchly for this compilation!

Put it in Les Champs as a vacation home.

Sims Crossing has another good residential for AP.

http://www.simscrossing.net/smf/ind...c85&topic=659.0

As a lazy simmer from way back, I would like to say kudos for those of you who spend the time to make my neighborhhods look lovely with your lot creations . Excellent work nox

My sim family is currently living in JarkaD's farm for 4 horses (farma - pro 4 koniky) and it's lovely house. Two things, though. First, she (Jarka is a she, right?) put single storey doors for the horses. They need two storey door, sho I had to delete part of the roof and change the walls to get that door there. Secondly, when my simmies moved in, there were dirty dishes and spoiled food on the table and on the counters. Not very nice. Also had to remove a lot of plants from the yard.

Villa Flora is very, very nice, though.

I think the leftovers is from the house testing process. Other than that, JarkaD western farm series is really awesome.

I know but I never leave dirty dishes behind. Minor thing, though. And yes, Jarka's houses are wonderful. Shame that the roof looks bit different now on some parts but that's a minor thing, as well. I really do like this house, especially after I planted it on a 64x64 lot, instead of 50x50. I needed the extra space.

lol...you are using 64x64 :D. I used to download 20x30, 30x40... as they look cozy and I want my sims to got to their pool car as fast as possible...but with Pets arrival, 40x50, 50x50, even 60x60 are the new norm, it seems I can't get enough space for my horse to gallop around, and I don't even have time for the office job. My sim brushes the horses all day and race at night now.

Yeah, they're quite a handfull, that's for sure. I needed the 64x64 because I had to fit two large horse pens (is that the right word?), a vegetable garden + fruit trees and a two storey hay barn (took down the original since it was nearly in the middle of the yard). I think this is the first time I'm actually playing with lot this big. I like it, though.

The problem with placing lots specifically designed for keeping horses is the jumps take up SO MUCH SPACE OMG. Place a couple jumps and suddenly half your lot is training area for the horse.

Well, corral.

How about building a common jumping community lot surrounded by smaller residential lots who share the common jumping lot.


Need more time, use Twallans Relativity mod.

Can I recommend a lot? It's called Pamona Stables and it's by auntielynds - available in the link below..really nice lot. It's not really set up for a family but players could make some changes to allow that. It includes seed spawners so if you turn the lot several times before getting it oriented where you want it, don't forget to use buydebug to delete the extra spawners. Oh, and it uses the spiral staircase so you might have to delete it and replace it to get it to work.

Link:
http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail...assetId=4746522

A visit to Pomona Stables is really worthwhile, I haven't checked up on autielynds' creation for a while so I'm glad you linked it here.

I'm so glad someone did this. I've been looking everywhere to fill up AP. Thanks so much!!

Thank you for this. :P