Sims 3 House on Stilts

On sims 3 island paradise you can now have houses on stilts. A house on stilts is basically where you build a normal house on a platform that has stilts which is partly on land and partly on the water. It gives you much more room to build.

I reccomend making sure that you dont make your house too big. I made one recently and i only ever have a study, bathroom, living room, kitchen and a dining room downstairs in houses I make, and I made the platform with the stilts too big and ended up having a huge hall, and the upstairs was way too big aswell, and it made my house look bare. So to avoid this try to start the stilts further to the edge of the land you have available. Then try to set your mind to making smaller rooms. To help you do this, zoom in a bit. When you are zoomed out rooms seen smaller and that is where i made the mistake. Then when you are happy with the size and have decorated the inside to your liking, you can start on the outdoors. If you want a hottub, you can only have them on land, so use the land you have behind the stilts to put it. Try to leave room at the front or back of the house on the platform with stilts so that helps you make your house look less bare. Decorate it to the way you like. I reccomend having a fire pit, sunbeds, bbq, and some playing things for kids. Unfortunatly swimming pools cant go on the foundation, they can only go on land. Rugs are great to fill up bare spaces.
If you leave room to the side of your lot then you can put a mor to hold your boats. Also you can have different levels of stilted houses and link them by stairs.

 BTW: If you like having big houses then i would suggest trying to add things to make it less bare e.g shoe rack, coffe tables, rugs.