Hello,
New to the forum but a Lego builder since childhood.
After reading the thread "Bricklinking Modular Buildings" I have been... well, you guessed correctly.
At first I decided to use brick-bricks instead of the groove-bricks and the choice of color was sand yellow.
However the original design had some alignment issues which meant that brick-bricks would look out of place, since you would be able to see the ends of the bricks which doesn't look too nice. To correct this I moved some elements one brick to the left (particularly the door was a little bit difficult to move) and created a new vertical column to keep things balanced. On the right side the windows have been replaced and there are some other modifications here and there.
Roof is curved and can be lifted away:
Third floor has a bedroom and a bathroom:
There's a nice area by the windows:
Third floor also had a kitchen before the construction guys moved it one floor down:
The curtain color was changed due to the fact the dark red inverted slopes are kind of expensive. Also purple looks nice.
The dining table can be lifted up so that it's easier to clean under there:
On the first floor the inside of the shop has seen a couple of structural changes and some changes in the backyard as well:
I have been actively fiddling this for a couple of weeks now and I'm on the edge of ordering the bricks I'm missing (which is a large stack), but I'm not entirely convinced I like the sand yellow brick-brick front and would like some opinions what do you like best.
First option is with sand yellow brick-bricks:
Inverted brick-bricks with the masonry profile on the inside of the building:
(Unfortunately the change is a bit hard to see because of the poor resolution of the rendered image...)
Tan groove:
I'm beginning to re-like the tan groove more and more, but the sand yellow brick-brick has good qualities as well. Which do you like best?
Any other opinions about these modifications?