(This picture has nothing to do with Build Mode, but I needed a nice pic to put here!)

Happy Late Night Day, folks! I took pics of clothing, hair, and build items, but I’m only posting build items tonight because I’m a tired puppy with a crappy cold. ;-p I hope to post clothing/hair tomorrow and perhaps Buy Mode the day after. There’s just a lot of STUFF. And yet, it never seems like enough. Why is that? Oh yeah! Because I am a greedy little monkey.

Anyhoo, here we go with Build Mode…

Walls
Most of the new walls can be found in the Wall Sets category. Kind of an odd mix — some art deco, some grungy/industrial, some modern.

Windows
There seem to be two sets – a slightly grungy “dive bar” set and a gleaming modern set.

Doors
…to match the windows.

Flooring and Fireplaces
New items include a lone tin ceiling tile which will look awesome in old Victorian buildings, and a bunch of oddball floor tiles which are all found in Miscellaneous. There’s also a new fireplace which is enormous and takes up four tiles.

(I put that light in there to highlight the tiles – you’ll see it again when I get to Buy Mode.)

(Looks like a crazy quilt!)

(This one includes two tiles from the previous pic because they seemed to “match” with the ones I had left.)

Fences and Gates
We have three new fences and one gate. The cool thing about the gate is that it has a fancy little security box attached to it. Perfect for celebrity mansions and such.

Half-walls
Yay, we have half-walls in Sims 3! OK, so we had some lovely custom content versions we could use before now (I used Flabaliki’s, myself), but I really like the variety here.

Pools
Using a variety of convex and concave shapes that can be resized via a slider, we can now build curved pools. My pool is kind of lame, but it gives you an idea of what can be done. Still no diving boards, though. *heaves a sigh in EA’s direction*

Fountains
I’ll have to play around with these some more, too, but it’s very much like the new pool tool – you place concave and convex shapes in a pattern to create the fountain. (I think you can just make a square one, too, as with pools, but I forgot to check.) Then you place fountain objects to make the geysers and such. A few are pictured below, but there were many more in the catalog.

Plants
There are three new trees – a Very Tall Fir Tree (which is, as you can see, Very Tall indeed), a Scotch Pine, and a Young Maple (which has some leaves turning yellow, how purdy!). There’s also a yellow version of the base game heather plant. That’s it for foliage.

And that’s it for Build Mode!