The White House
I'll probably never get to visit the White House in Washington, but I sure can visit every corner of it in the game!
I've spent considerable time searching the internet for house plans and pictures of the White House. I still had to make lots of modifications, as not even the biggest Sims2 lot was large enough to house the Residence, West Wing and East Wing in their actual shapes and sizes.
My White House residence has 2 floors and no basement, and both wings have one floor only. As there are no descriptions and very few pictures available of the East Wing, I transformed it into a recreation area. The bowling alley that should be in the basement of the residence is moved here, as is the game room that should be in the residence top floor. The movie theater should be in the east corridor but did not fit there, so it was also relocated to the East Wing. Another problem is that the East Wing entrance should face east, but as there wasn't space enough, I had to turn it north instead.
The West Wing is compressed and includes only the central features: the Cabinet room and, of course, the Oval Office. The Press briefing room is in the west corridor. I couldn't fit in the palm room, so it is moved to the east corridor instead.
Have you noticed that the Residence is 2 floors high from the north side and 3 floors high from the south side (not counting the top floor on the roof)? I simply kept the 2 floors that are seen from the north. My ground floor includes the entrance hall, the cross hall, the East room, the Green room, the Blue room, the Red room, and the State dining room. The family dining room is moved upstairs. Other rooms upstairs include the Truman balcony, the west and east bedrooms, the Queen's bedroom (now the family gym), east and west sitting halls, the Lincoln bedroom (now a study), the Yellow oval room and the master bedroom. The presidential living room and the Treaty room are missing.
I've tried to keep to the actual color schemes (even though these seem to change with each president). At times I couldn't find Maxis walls and floors that were close enough to the original ones, so I made my own.
The main reason as to why I didn't build the top floor was that it didn't look good in the game. The actual roof balustrad is so high so you hardly see the top floor, but in the game I couldn't find a solution that would work. However, I but an elevator here so that your simmies can visit the roof anyhow. At least your Secret Service simmies will like to keep an eye on the surroundings from the roof top.
As for the exterior, I did make the Rose garden, but not the Jacqueline Kennedy garden, for the simple reason that your garderner would be overworked. I put a dog house both front and back, in case you want to have Bo in your game.
I re-zoned the lot because I first tought it should be a public lot, men then changed it back, losing the mailbox. Sorry about that...
PS: You can find the Barack Obama sim here at TSR, thanks to Jirka, and Michelle Obama at MTS2, thanks to Vera Marina. Just follow the links.