MrsFlynn's Tacky Shell Challenge #4

[Lapaige46]

I base my houses and decorating on wether or not I would like to live in/with it. I have a lot of favorited CC bits and pieces that I use a lot and it also depends on the era of the house and whether it's been updated. Some I like to keep vintage and others I'll modernize the kitchen. Not much help I know. I get a lot of ideas from decorating websites, and also just from doing a room search in TSR.

I'm at that point in my house right now and trying to get motivated. I just loaded up the game and realized that I need to go out and get a prescription. Ergghh. 

[Cheeseweasel]

Sometimes it helps to either create a household or randomize the household who would live there, then use their traits and favorite colors as a guide. This is also why I like the Random House Generator thingy as it give a description for a guide. Right now I've emptied Adventureland (the Sunset Valley "empty world") of all its buildings except the two with the adventurers living in them and the one where I   placed a couple from the bin to get me started in the game. I will eventually move them into some houses I build myself and bulldoze where they are living now. My goal is to have nothing but my original builds in this world - even creating walk-in rabbithole venues using rabbithole rugs. Like MrsFlynn, I've also created homes with just the bare necessities in them. Then I placed them in empty worlds that I let Story Progression populate. Then I wait to see who moves in and decorate according to their personalities and needs.                   

[Lapaige46]

I've never seen/heard of Adventureland. I'll have to check it out.
I'm doing a very similar thing with Riverview. I took out all the houses and many of the community buildings. I now have small subdivisions with similar houses, the island has a lot of leisure areas and across the river where the hospital is, I've made into the business district. Someone on the FB board said they were going to do an album. I think I might do that.

[MrsFlynn]

Thank you for the suggestions. I usually find it harder to build a house with Sims on the lot. lol This might be due to me first learning how to build a house via Edit Town, but more importantly the lag it brings with having a family on the lot or being in a played state.

I've tried several times (building with family on the lot) since then and go back to building the house via Edit town usually in a new save to get rid of the lag.

I usually build houses/community lots in an emptied version of Sunset Valley, but this time I'm building my house using Builder's Island.

Steam players may not have Adventureland by default. It was offered to those who registered WA with Origin, or purchased the game via Origin. It only has two households. It looks to have all the original houses and community lots, but no community lots. https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Adventureland

[Cheeseweasel]

I actually didn't have Adventureland until I switched to the EA App, and mine had the community lots too, but I deleted them all. I think I'll furnish this house - at least the upstairs with the Glover household, whom I moved from the bin to a starter home, in mind. I left Story Progression on while I developed background stories for a different family I created for this world. In the meantime, it seems the female got herself preggers, so I need to make sure the upper floor has a nursery. I'm going to work on it a little tonight.

[Lapaige46]

I've been in the ER again most of the day so I'm not getting anything done. My whole left side is numb from my scalp to my toes. More follow-up appts to come. I'm probably not even going to get the FB S3 Build shell challenge done.

[MrsFlynn]

I'm sorry to hear that Lapaige. You don't have to finish the build if you don't want to or can't. I understand.  You take care of you.

[Cheeseweasel]

So, I designed the upper floor of my house with Gwen Glover and Holden Wonzy in mind. They are a household from the bin. The description said they were friends but very different: she is artistic and outgoing while he is an absent-minded bookworm. They have some common ground as they both have a good sense of humor. I dropped them off as Mosquito Cove and set about building some challenge houses. The description of the household ended with the question about whether they would just remain good friends or become something more. I left story progression on while I was building and situating other families, and they opted to be "something more" when I checked on them, they had gotten married and were expecting a baby boy. Gwen's favorite color is yellow, and Holden's is green, which explains the color scheme in the upper floors. There is a master bedroom with en suite bathroom, a nursery, a kids' room, and a rather generic guest room. It also has hobby spaces upstairs. I don't have pictures of the common area or guest bedroom in this photo-drop.

[MrsFlynn]

You did a great job on the house!!

I'm getting so frustrated with the custom content I'm using in this house. Hopefully you don't mind if I borrow your idea of possibly using the the long windows from Dragon Valley as well?

I'm not sure what I'm going to right yet. Thinking of testing a little more. I'd rather be able to keep the windows I have if possible.

[Cheeseweasel]

Of course you can use them! I have no claim on them. Sorry you are having trouble with your CC, I know that can be very frustrating. I'm looking forward to seeing your house.