Third (and finally) my Wild West lot, or basically, Saloon and surroundings Trail's End - Bar; 40x30; 294.125 (slightly more expensive in game due to food items in grocery store); GTW, GT, OR, SD, PP, CK, SpS; No CC; minor usage of MOO but can be placed without activating the cheat; play tested.
Exterior (selection of images of interior in next post) - again the same pictures as in the presentation
Sheriff's station
Under the old oak - porch for sheriff's station, milliner's and grocery store/post office
Blacksmith
Train
Station/cafe/library/dance hall
Saloon
Bank
Sheriff's office (and prison)
Milliner's shop (dreadful outfit )
Grocery store
Blacksmith (with makeshift anvil )
Station cafe
Waiting area (with lots of luggage)
Library
Dance hall (put your Sims in cowboy/cowgirl outfits and do a group dance, looks just like line dancing! )
Saloon
Bank
And then I still left out the most things on the higher floors, like the gym above the prison, the house above the shops, the clandestine den where the Blacksmith plays the illegal "Don't Wake the Llama" game, the "Inn" above the saloon and the art studio/art forgery facility above the bank - and the vault in the back of the bank of course
Bohemian Movie Hangout is such a very nice room! @MDianaSanders The new movie stuff pack items look so very nice how you have used them in the room! The new sofa , armchairs and stoold seating look very nice how it is placed in a curved direction. Sims will enjoy sitting there watching movies on the screen. The new curtains look so pretty in the room! The wall decor are nice touches on the walls.
The exterior design of Future Flow is very nice! I posted about it in the earlier post. The glass roofed outdoors dining gazebo is very nice! Sims will enjoy cooking on the BBQ and eating the food with the sunlight coming through the glass roofing. Very nice furnishing and layout of the interior of the home! The dining area is a very nice light filled area for sims to enjoy looking at through the windows at the outdoors views whilst dining. The grey and blue colour scheme of the interior looks nice. Very nice design of the bathroom! The shelves with the plants, tissues and crystals on them either sides of the mirror looks nice. The blue wall tiling and the window used in the room looks nice. The pink and the blue colour schemes of the bedrooms looks nice. The DJ booth and dance floor room looks great! Sims will enjoy dancing to the music there .
Trails End is a very detailed Wild West Town! Each of the areas of the build look very great! The exterior of the buildings and the furnishing of them to suit the type of building looks so great! The train is very nice! It would have involved a lot of Simming hours and work to create this very nice town!
The builds are very nice!
Ack! I'm sorry I'm late to this, my wall didn't show your link until this morning. (Silly wall, stop eating my friends posts!) Love love love love love love love it all! So awesome Diana!!! I really like that the bedrooms are also hobby rooms for the sims who inhabit them. I've already gushed about both builds on the activity feed, but seriously, they're awesome! The atmosphere in your Wild West build is on point, and just rocks! (That jail, oh baby!)
Future Flow is very amazing!
I like your architecture, really reflects the futuristic theme to it! Love that cantilevered feel and the roofing is so superb with a futuristic curves! Your landscaping is very pretty! Love the elevated gardens! The skylight patio looks very cool too! Awesome idea on using the a debug alien tree from Get to Work! And your interior, so superb! The color scheme looks wonderful and you really nailed the futuristic theme to it even without having much futuristic items in game, which I'm also hoping to add these in game, much like Into the Future from The Sims 3.
I love it! I'm adding this to my faves!
I'm glad you finished your Wild West WIP! Trail's End is
I already commented some of your parts form my WIP thread, and now, the rest. Really love how you decorated and very well! Your furnishing really reflect from the Wild West very well!
I love it! I'm adding this to my faves!
I have a new build to share! This time it's a café - and it's sort of tailor made to my own needs (I intend to use it in the story I'm working on), which, I feel, makes it a bit "harder" to share (because other people have other plans for a certain type of build) - I may however make a more generally "accessible" version of it some day
Also massive thanks to @flubber32c4 who helped me come up with a suitable name for it Sam's Coffee Cottage - Café; 30x20; 153.408; GTW, GT, OR, SD, LP, PP, CK, SpS, MH (it only uses CAS items from the LP and SpS packs - they're part of the mannequins outfit) - no CC, can be placed without activating MOO and play tested
This café is the home of two clubs, the Painting Peacocks and Gorgeous Glamour - I'll show some pictures of their hangouts in the next post.
^ Ground Floor plan
^ First Floor plan
^ Front outdoor seating area
^ Side outdoor seating area
^ Ordering a coffee (I really wish the game hadn't assigned Don as barrista though )
^ Making some cupcakes for restocking
^ Sims can sit at the bar by the stairs
^ Or use the tables or couches
^ And there's a separate boho style seating area (which kind of reminds me of "Friends")
The club hangouts (none of these Sims are in the actual clubs, they're just the Sims I used to playtest the build):
The Gorgeous Glamour hangout has mirrors (and lots of make-up), wardrobes, drinks and a comfortable seating area with a special chair for the Glamour Queen. And there's a mannequin showing off the club outfit.
The Painting Peacocks have a bit more space, the studio is upstairs:
In the downstairs area they can sit at the table (while making plans)...
Or on the sofas/chairs/poofs for casually discussion art
Sam's Coffee Cottage is so very nice! The design of the build , both the exterior of the building and the areas of the interior looks so very nice! Very nice Tudor style exterior of the building! The exterior looks so very nice! The dormers, flower box wibdows and awnings look very nice in the build, The flowers and water fountain feature is so very pretty! Nice outdoors dining areas in the front and side patios of the build for sims to enjoy eating and drinking in the outdoors air at the tables. Very nice furnishing of the interior of the venue! The cafe espresso bar area is very nice! Sims will enjoy ordering food and drinks from the espresso bar and enjoy eating and drinking at the bar stool counters or on the sofas. The green and brown colour schrme of the cafe areas looks very nice. The menu board and teapot wall shelves on the espresso bar wall, and the fruit and coffee pictures on the walls in the cupcake machine and dining areas add vdry nice looks to the venue. The boho style sitting alcove looks so very nice! The items from the movie stuff pack look great there! Sims will enjoy sitting resting there on the boho seating having a chat. The floor rug adds to the nice look of the room, and the curtains look very nice. The floral wall pattern is pretty! Very nice hangout areas for the clubs! The pink colour scheme of the Gorgeous Glamour hangout is very pretty! It is nice that the mannequin is showing the club outfit. The glass windows clothes and shoes rack closet looks very nice! Very nice art studio room for the Painting Peacocks club. They will enjoy painting on the easels there. The art decor items are nice touches there. Very nice boho style sitting area for the club members to enjoy sitting at the tables or resting on the sofa and armchairs, talking about club activities. The furnishing of the room is so nice!
It is such a very nice build!
And, I never believed it would happen, Sam's Coffee Cottage has been favourited by Maxis!
This is my first ever Maxis fav and it really brightened my otherwise dull work day
Sam's Coffee Cottage looks so pretty! So full of character! Love the way you have decorated inside. Congrats on Maxis fav! Your rooms looks lovely too! I especially love the bohemian style room. Looks great!
I haven't really been building lately (did a spot of time travel and played Sims Medieval) but I do have some ideas ready Also, I must have mentioned participating in a building competition on the Dutch forums, I shared a lot of those builds. Anyway, I won! Which means I have to host/organise the next season/installment of the competition, looking forward to is, but also something I will be busy with for some time to come.
Anyway, I do have a little something to share, it's not a build (not really, it does feature one), see it as some kind of interlude, it is about the Sims "behind" the builds I make.
I've always been an avid builder, even way back in TS1, but in TS2 I seriously built an entire town (several neighbourhoods) from scratch. It also featured the offices of Sanders Architects (sadly I don't have a screenshot of it). So when I was building in Sims 4 and started using #sandersarchitects I decided to give my architecture firm a new office building (which I've shared). It wasn't until starting my second build save (the Neighbourhood Redevelopment Project) that I created the architects to populate that save, a set of talented young adults - it is about them I'd like to tell you something
These are the offices of Sanders Architects, an old mansion converted to suit the architects' needs:
There's a more modern expansion at the back of the building (a profoundly hideous one, if you ask me, but I liked the idea at the time...)
This is my team in its current setting:
Having a meeting
So, the director/creative visionary of the firm is Stephanie Flynn (you'll know her from my profile pictures, she's the closest I have to a Simself. Although this is slightly inconguous with a story I'm writing, let's call it alternate universe - it is a different save after all ).
The CEO, planning expert, who is also an architect (just doesn't spend that much time as an architect anymore), is Gareth Alleyn.
(I know the offices are a bit bare, but I made this with basegame only, before I had any packs, and well, I've learned a lot since then )
Master architect, and someone who doesn't mind getting his hands (or jeans) dirty, is Trevor Warwick.
Nadia Sambora, interior designer, is there to add some flair
Then there's Andreas Valentine, landscape architect, who is really excited about a new shipment of flowerbulbs coming next Tuesday.
This is the original team (I did give them makeovers), but since business has recently been booming (the Maxis fav ), they've decided to expand, first of all with a communications and human resource expert, Claudine Connor.
Who then, after a series of interviews, decided to hire the excentric but genius young architect Demetrius Ballantine.
Latest addition to the team is Beth Holmes, apprentice - currently manning the reception and a very tech savvy young lady.
This is where a lot of the work is done, where the architects and designers all have their own desk:
Congratulations on winning the contest on the Dutch site! That is very exciting!
It is very nice seeing pictures of the Sanders Office and the sims who work there! Each of the sims are very nice! It is nice reading the background details of each of the office workers and seeing the pictures of each of them at their study desks. It is a very special picture of them together attending a meeting, and all of them sitting around the boardroom table discussing building issues . The furnishing of the office areas looks very nice! Very nice study desk nooks for the sims to sit and do their work at the desk tables. It is nice that you took a picture of the landscape designer outdoors. I am looking forward to the new stuff pack as well! The exterior design of the office building looks so very nice! Very nice back area of the office building. It looks very nice! Very nice roofing on the building! The water fountain features look very pretty! It looks very nice how you have taken the photo of all the architects team together outside the office.
The office and workers are very nice!
Thanks @rosemow and @StSciurus and yeah, it is quite fun to actually have a team of architects, then again I love staging screenshots, I think they'd be pretty dull/useless for someone who doesn't like doing that.
I have another little something to share (I do actually have a build (as good as) ready, I just haven't shared it yet, or taken any screenshots of it). I often mention around here, though not on this thread, that I like to work from "blueprints". I happen to have made a picture of one in order to explain something in another thread, so I thought I might just share it here.
It's probably just a bunch of lines to you, but to me, this is a Sims blueprint:
Which is this house:
The home is very nice! It looks great how you designed a blue print then created a sims game version of the home based on the blueprint. The dormers look very nice in the build and the open shutter windows add a nice look to the home. The design of the home is very nice!
I actually have two builds I need to share right now, one I uploaded yesterday, the other about an hour ago. Of the first I don't have pictures, so I'll share it more extensively later on, because I'm way too excited about my latest build!
Romantic Garden Park
Park (and wedding venue); 30x40; 183.978; GT, RG - NoCC, NoMOO, play tested.
General view from the front:
General view from the back:
The entrance to the park with symmetrical fountains surrounded by flowers:
The central area with the large fountain:
The rest of the "tour" we'll take anti-clockwise from the entrance, so right of the entrance is a quiet little, somewhat secluded, corner that is perfect for private conversations (there's only one bench):
Further down the path is the chess garden, also quiet and secluded (for extreme focus ):
By the end of the path is the dining area, which has seating opportunity for the wedding guests and a bar (I tried hard to think of all the possible wedding requirements and the things needed for that, so I hope I haven't left anything out. So far I've only had few weddings in TS4 and always at home, I expect the requirements on a community lot to be the same though):
Taking a turn to the left, we get to the back of the park, where we find the (notorious ) Wishing Well - (and the even more notorious "WooHoo" bush ):
At the rear left of the park we find the wedding area, complete with seating (I still don't know if guests sit down on weddings again or not, but in case they do...) and some floral arrangements:
Going down the path (back towards the entrance) we find a nice little cheerfully coloured area where the kids can play on the monkey bars:
Between the monkey bars and the left front corner of the park, we find a small dancefloor with jukebox (again for the wedding) and in the corner is the grill with picknick tables (for the "ordinary" park visitors):
At the back, behind the wishing well, we find a couple of stairs going down, which lead to this little place:
From there, you can go inside (to the basement) where you find the closet and toilets (plus one shower) on the right and the kitchen on the left (to make that wedding cake ):
Should you venture further into the basement, you'll find the children's indoor play area (I needed to hide the jungle gym ):
I put the enlarged toys behind "bars" because Sims kept picking up and moving the robot toy to inconvenient places ):
And then I've still got several close-ups because all the flowers are so pretty!
The fountain and the statues:
One of the paths, with lots of flowers of course:
The small fountain in the outdoor basement, viewed from the indoor basement:
One of the front fountains with all the colourful flowers surrounding it:
The statue opposite the wedding arch:
Romantic Garden Park is so very, very pretty! It is a very special and lovely park build! The flowers and plants through the build look so very, very nice! The flowers look very pretty around the edges of the water fountains at the entrance to the park! It is a very nice venue for sims to enjoy an outdoors wedding in such a very nice floral setting! Each of the areas of the park look so very nice! Very nice reception dining area for sims to enjoy sitting at the tables having a drink from the bar after the wedding. The wedding arch area is very nice! The pedestal flowers look pretty, The seats look very nice how they are placed there for wedding guests to enjoy watching the marriage take place. The hedging and arches look vdry nice how they are placed through the build areas. Very nice chess nook for sims to have fun playing chess outdoors in the air. Kids will have fun playing on the monkey bars. Very nice outdoors dining alcove! Sims will enjoy cooking meals and eating them at the picnic tables in the sunshine. They will have fun dancing to the jukebox music on the dance floor! Nice curved shelter area for sims to enjoy sitting and chatting. The section where the big water fountain is in the middle of the area looks so very nice! The curved shelters look nice there with the statues in them. The way you have used the new stuff pack items in the build looks so very nice! Very nice layout of the basement level. Kids will will have fun playing on the space ship or enjoy playing the llama tabletop game there. The enlarged toys look great and the animals look cute! It is nice that there is a kitchen there to prepare food.
The build is so very pretty!
Romantic Garden Park is very lovely and beautiful park!
I already some of your details from my WIP thread, now onto the rest! Love your colorful flowers everywhere! The water fountain at the entrance is very pretty! It is great that you added a wedding area too! The outdoor dancing area looks very fun!
I love it! I'm adding this to my faves!
Comments
Entrance
Dining area
Bar and kitchen
Living room
Gaming mat
Blue bathroom
Pink (girl's) bedroom
Green bathroom
Blue (boy's) bedroom
DJ and dance room
Trail's End - Bar; 40x30; 294.125 (slightly more expensive in game due to food items in grocery store); GTW, GT, OR, SD, PP, CK, SpS; No CC; minor usage of MOO but can be placed without activating the cheat; play tested.
Exterior (selection of images of interior in next post) - again the same pictures as in the presentation
Sheriff's station
Under the old oak - porch for sheriff's station, milliner's and grocery store/post office
Blacksmith
Train
Station/cafe/library/dance hall
Saloon
Bank
Sheriff's office (and prison)
Milliner's shop (dreadful outfit
Grocery store
Blacksmith (with makeshift anvil
Station cafe
Waiting area (with lots of luggage)
Library
Dance hall (put your Sims in cowboy/cowgirl outfits and do a group dance, looks just like line dancing!
Saloon
Bank
And then I still left out the most things on the higher floors, like the gym above the prison, the house above the shops, the clandestine den where the Blacksmith plays the illegal "Don't Wake the Llama" game, the "Inn" above the saloon and the art studio/art forgery facility above the bank - and the vault in the back of the bank of course
The exterior design of Future Flow is very nice!
Trails End is a very detailed Wild West Town!
The builds are very nice!
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase
Love it!
I like your architecture, really reflects the futuristic theme to it! Love that cantilevered feel and the roofing is so superb with a futuristic curves! Your landscaping is very pretty! Love the elevated gardens! The skylight patio looks very cool too! Awesome idea on using the a debug alien tree from Get to Work! And your interior, so superb! The color scheme looks wonderful and you really nailed the futuristic theme to it even without having much futuristic items in game, which I'm also hoping to add these in game, much like Into the Future from The Sims 3.
I love it! I'm adding this to my faves!
I'm glad you finished your Wild West WIP! Trail's End is
I already commented some of your parts form my WIP thread, and now, the rest. Really love how you decorated and very well! Your furnishing really reflect from the Wild West very well!
I love it! I'm adding this to my faves!
I have a new build to share! This time it's a café - and it's sort of tailor made to my own needs (I intend to use it in the story I'm working on), which, I feel, makes it a bit "harder" to share (because other people have other plans for a certain type of build) - I may however make a more generally "accessible" version of it some day
Also massive thanks to @flubber32c4 who helped me come up with a suitable name for it
Sam's Coffee Cottage - Café; 30x20; 153.408; GTW, GT, OR, SD, LP, PP, CK, SpS, MH (it only uses CAS items from the LP and SpS packs - they're part of the mannequins outfit) - no CC, can be placed without activating MOO and play tested
This café is the home of two clubs, the Painting Peacocks and Gorgeous Glamour - I'll show some pictures of their hangouts in the next post.
^ Ground Floor plan
^ First Floor plan
^ Front outdoor seating area
^ Side outdoor seating area
^ Ordering a coffee (I really wish the game hadn't assigned Don as barrista though
^ Making some cupcakes for restocking
^ Sims can sit at the bar by the stairs
^ Or use the tables or couches
^ And there's a separate boho style seating area (which kind of reminds me of "Friends")
The Gorgeous Glamour hangout has mirrors (and lots of make-up), wardrobes, drinks and a comfortable seating area with a special chair for the Glamour Queen. And there's a mannequin showing off the club outfit.
The Painting Peacocks have a bit more space, the studio is upstairs:
In the downstairs area they can sit at the table (while making plans)...
Or on the sofas/chairs/poofs for casually discussion art
It is such a very nice build!
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase
And, I never believed it would happen, Sam's Coffee Cottage has been favourited by Maxis!
This is my first ever Maxis fav and it really brightened my otherwise dull work day
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase
I have to check and follow you for sure, if I´m not doing already.
Hugs xxx
I haven't really been building lately (did a spot of time travel and played Sims Medieval) but I do have some ideas ready
Anyway, I do have a little something to share, it's not a build (not really, it does feature one), see it as some kind of interlude, it is about the Sims "behind" the builds I make.
I've always been an avid builder, even way back in TS1, but in TS2 I seriously built an entire town (several neighbourhoods) from scratch. It also featured the offices of Sanders Architects
These are the offices of Sanders Architects, an old mansion converted to suit the architects' needs:
There's a more modern expansion at the back of the building (a profoundly hideous one, if you ask me, but I liked the idea at the time...)
This is my team in its current setting:
Having a meeting
So, the director/creative visionary of the firm is Stephanie Flynn (you'll know her from my profile pictures, she's the closest I have to a Simself. Although this is slightly inconguous with a story I'm writing, let's call it alternate universe - it is a different save after all
The CEO, planning expert, who is also an architect (just doesn't spend that much time as an architect anymore), is Gareth Alleyn.
(I know the offices are a bit bare, but I made this with basegame only, before I had any packs, and well, I've learned a lot since then
Master architect, and someone who doesn't mind getting his hands (or jeans) dirty, is Trevor Warwick.
Nadia Sambora, interior designer, is there to add some flair
Then there's Andreas Valentine, landscape architect, who is really excited about a new shipment of flowerbulbs coming next Tuesday.
This is the original team (I did give them makeovers), but since business has recently been booming (the Maxis fav
Who then, after a series of interviews, decided to hire the excentric but genius young architect Demetrius Ballantine.
Latest addition to the team is Beth Holmes, apprentice - currently manning the reception
This is where a lot of the work is done, where the architects and designers all have their own desk:
It is very nice seeing pictures of the Sanders Office and the sims who work there!
The office and workers are very nice!
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase
I have another little something to share (I do actually have a build (as good as) ready, I just haven't shared it yet, or taken any screenshots of it). I often mention around here, though not on this thread, that I like to work from "blueprints". I happen to have made a picture of one in order to explain something in another thread, so I thought I might just share it here.
It's probably just a bunch of lines to you, but to me, this is a Sims blueprint:
Which is this house:
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase
I actually have two builds I need to share right now, one I uploaded yesterday, the other about an hour ago. Of the first I don't have pictures, so I'll share it more extensively later on, because I'm way too excited about my latest build!
Romantic Garden Park
Park (and wedding venue); 30x40; 183.978; GT, RG - NoCC, NoMOO, play tested.
General view from the front:
General view from the back:
The entrance to the park with symmetrical fountains surrounded by flowers:
The central area with the large fountain:
The rest of the "tour" we'll take anti-clockwise from the entrance, so right of the entrance is a quiet little, somewhat secluded, corner that is perfect for private conversations (there's only one bench):
Further down the path is the chess garden, also quiet and secluded (for extreme focus
By the end of the path is the dining area, which has seating opportunity for the wedding guests and a bar (I tried hard to think of all the possible wedding requirements and the things needed for that, so I hope I haven't left anything out. So far I've only had few weddings in TS4 and always at home, I expect the requirements on a community lot to be the same though):
Taking a turn to the left, we get to the back of the park, where we find the (notorious
At the rear left of the park we find the wedding area, complete with seating (I still don't know if guests sit down on weddings again or not, but in case they do...) and some floral arrangements:
Going down the path (back towards the entrance) we find a nice little cheerfully coloured area where the kids can play on the monkey bars:
Between the monkey bars and the left front corner of the park, we find a small dancefloor with jukebox (again for the wedding) and in the corner is the grill with picknick tables (for the "ordinary" park visitors):
At the back, behind the wishing well, we find a couple of stairs going down, which lead to this little place:
From there, you can go inside (to the basement) where you find the closet and toilets (plus one shower) on the right and the kitchen on the left (to make that wedding cake
Should you venture further into the basement, you'll find the children's indoor play area (I needed to hide the jungle gym
I put the enlarged toys behind "bars" because Sims kept picking up and moving the robot toy to inconvenient places
And then I've still got several close-ups because all the flowers are so pretty!
The fountain and the statues:
One of the paths, with lots of flowers of course:
The small fountain in the outdoor basement, viewed from the indoor basement:
One of the front fountains with all the colourful flowers surrounding it:
The statue opposite the wedding arch:
The build is so very pretty!
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase
I already some of your details from my WIP thread, now onto the rest! Love your colorful flowers everywhere! The water fountain at the entrance is very pretty! It is great that you added a wedding area too! The outdoor dancing area looks very fun!
I love it! I'm adding this to my faves!