@SyddyB206 Does a pastel goth theme ever not work?
Great looks!
@popettypop2012 Love your wall treatments and the lovely deep colors on the exterior! And the little flower beds around the trees.
@folala Love how you handled the little second floor overhang by turning it into a side door with a sitting nook. Great flower borders and the car is a great touch!
@meaganjo What a large kitchen! Lovely country feel and wonderful backyard! Terrain paint looks great!
Great modern home @LizGoBucks
Thanks @withlovejulien your home is so Grand looking inside & out. Love the stone wall treatment.
Thanks @MeaganJo love the homey, country feel of your home @popettypop2012 Wonderful decor, love the front porch @FoundMarbles love the pretty seatin area in the garden & the soft blue decor @SyddyB206 goth pastel sounds amazing! I can't wait to see
ENTRY DETAILS: I wanted to do something different- so I went with the traditional floorplan stylings of an ancient Roman villa but designed for a more modern empire. I used the pastel sun to represent the rising sun that the owner of this home feels their empire to be experiencing but I also leaned heavily on deeper orange throughout the decor to represent the setting sun as most Empires are already in decline when they perceive themselves to be at their height. In traditional Roman villas doorways were often just covered with curtains rather than true doors and that is the tact I have taken here as well- so yes, the curtain hung doorways are on purpose, lol. The fourth bedroom in this build is for a live in servant and is in the basement attached to the kitchen- it has an ensuite bath. There are more notes with the pictures on Facebook.
SIM: NA
SIM ENTRY SLIDESHOW: NA
ENTRY DETAILS: NA
ROOM: NA
ROOM ENTRY SLIDESHOW: NA
ENTRY DETAILS: NA
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: Yes
CREDIT FOR CC/RECOLORS: None
@MeaganJo Thanks- I really wanted to do something different since there weren't a lot of specs this time and plenty of money- I didn't even spend it all! LOL!
I managed to take a few pictures, but since most of it is still unfinished, I will not be entering this time. It was great fun while it lasted. That'll teach me to start late. I look forward to seeing what the next challenge will be.
OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM (please copy and paste into your entry post)
CHALLENGE #: 68 - Pastel Equinox Designer Showdown
FORUM ID: e1990r
ORIGIN ID: e1990r
LEVEL: Starting Out
LOT: BnS68 Spring Challenge
LOT COST: 2500
BUILD COST: 198816
TOTAL COST: 201316
LINK TO ENTRY SLIDESHOW: BnS68 Spring Challenge ENTRY DETAILS: This is a wonderfully, cute, and charming traditional home with a semi-detached single car garage that has access to a basement with loads of storage. It includes 4 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, and a powder room upstairs. Downstairs is a formal entertainment room, a study, a tv room, a dining room, and a kitchen. Outside the kitchen is a covered patio that leads to a small garden with a wedding arch and a pool. The Master Bedroom has its own large, partially covered balcony that sports a hot tube, a small table, and a yoga area. This home is perfect for a small family and can be extended if you need more space. This home has Good Schools, Natural Light, and Penny Pixies. It even features 3 of the pixies that have been seen in this home before by wonderful paintings of each.
@JasonAnthonySterling Absolutely Breathtaking! I am so glad you do these challenges because I am inspired every time you post one. I have learned a lot from you already and I will continue to study your works. You are amazing!
"Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now." Jack Kerouac
CHALLENGE #: 68 - Pastel Equinox Designer Showdown
FORUM ID: SyddyB206
ORIGIN ID: SyddyB206
LEVEL: Established
LOT: Goth Pastel House
LOT COST: 5,500
BUILD COST: 146,549
TOTAL COST: 152049
LINK TO ENTRY SLIDESHOW: imgur.com/a/9dJyP
ENTRY DETAILS: I had a really hard time doing this. Originally I was going to make it a very traditional bright pastel. Then I thought about Pastel Goth. It had 4 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: Yes Please
CREDIT FOR CC/RECOLORS: N/A
"I'm sorry. I must have misheard you. The person who wants me to build them a house is...deceased?"
Michael Ryunoten, attorney and happy client, nods a bit ruefully.
"I know this seems a little odd. And normally, its not a case I would handle. However Mr. Boddy was my very first client when I was starting out in law and I continued to handle his transactions even after I transitioned to business law. When we made out his will, he was very specific about what he wanted. And very insistent."
"Ok. And what exactly is it he wanted?" you inquire, feeling more than a little hesitant about this.
"He wants a mansion built to some unusual specifications." He pulls out a document. "Mr. Boddy demands that his mansion be at least 2 stories. The first floor is to contain an entrance hall, leading to a central foyer. Off of this central foyer he requires a kitchen, dining room, lounge, ballroom, conservatory, billiard room, library and study. All of these are to be separate rooms. There is to be a fireplace in each of these rooms except the kitchen and conservatory. The conservatory must contain a pool. It doesn't have to be big, it simply has to be there and useable. The kitchen must have low end appliances."
You lower your pen in astonishment and disappointment. "Michael that doesn't make any sense!" you protest. "Why low end appliances?"
He gives you a regretful smile, "I am not at liberty to explain. I'm truly sorry."
He clears his throat and resumes reading. "Upstairs there are to be no less than 6 bedrooms with adjoining bathrooms, to be outfitted accordingly. However there is to be only 1 single bed in 2 of the rooms."
Suspicious now, you ask "Really Mike. You're pulling my leg now. You cant be serious."
"I'm very serious." He hands you the pertinent section of the will so you can read it for yourself.
"Each bedroom is to be decorated in one of 6 colors: red, purple, blue, green, yellow, white."
"It doesn't mention here what kind of style he wants the house built in," you observe.
"He didn't care." Mike response, leaning back in his chair a little. "You have free reign. The total budget for the house is 300k."
"Nice." You say, dubiously. Such a strange list of requirements is more than a little...disconcerting.
"And of course there's your fee." Mike gives you a number that makes your jaw drop. The amount of money being offered would pretty much leave you debt free for the next five years, and pay for that trip to Al Simhara you've been wanting! Even if you are suspicious, its hard to say no to that kind of freedom.
"Well..."
Brief:
Budget: 300k
Any architectural style you wish
6 bedrooms, with baths
Each bedroom decorated in either red, blue, purple, white, yellow or green
2 story mansion
Landscaping
Ballroom
Kitchen with low end appliances
Dining
Lounge
Study
Entrance Hall
Library
Billiards Room
Conservatory with pool
All rooms must have doors
All first floor rooms must have fireplaces except the conservatory and the kitchen
Bonus points for additional methods of potential death from the other expansions.
Room Challenge
Create any of the rooms listed on the brief in whichever style you wish. You have $16,000 to play with.
Sim Challege
Play clue with Mr. Boddy's guests!
Mr. Boddy is a vengeful ghost out to get the sims he feels had a hand in his death. So he invites them to the newly built mansion. Rules are simple: First determine order of play. Miss Scarlett always goes first. Then roll a dice to determine who goes next. Once order of play is established, roll for the room Miss Scarlett is sent to. All doors are to be locked between dice rolls. No wandering sims. You have 8 sim hours to kill the sim in that room with the rooms method of death. Example: Miss Peacock gets sent to the observatory. You have 8 hours to drown her in the pool. After the 8 hours, you can let her out of the pool but she must stay in the observatory until her next turn.
After the 8 hours of potential death are up, each sim can amuse themselves or fill whatever needs are available to fill in that room. They may not leave the room till their next turn though. You may have turns concurrently. Example: Miss Peacock has to drown, so you lock her in the pool. You can then roll for the next sim and send them to the room of their potential death. You may have multiple sims in the same room, attempting to die the same way. If you wish to drag out the game play, you can insert a bonus round and give 1 sim the chance to recover their needs to keep them going longer.
The winner and inheritor of the estate is the last surviving Sim. They just have to live with the ghost of the murderous Mr. Boddy for the rest of their lives.
@WiggleyTuff - Glad you are happy that we bought this challenge over, it looked so fun!! All I can say is be creative with the billiards table And as for the appliances, we'll leave that up to you.....
Comments
Great looks!
@popettypop2012 Love your wall treatments and the lovely deep colors on the exterior! And the little flower beds around the trees.
@folala Love how you handled the little second floor overhang by turning it into a side door with a sitting nook. Great flower borders and the car is a great touch!
@meaganjo What a large kitchen! Lovely country feel and wonderful backyard! Terrain paint looks great!
I had so much trouble trying to make the front of the house into something I'm happy with. I wish I could add more windows:)
Thanks @withlovejulien your home is so Grand looking inside & out. Love the stone wall treatment.
Thanks @MeaganJo love the homey, country feel of your home
@popettypop2012 Wonderful decor, love the front porch
@FoundMarbles love the pretty seatin area in the garden & the soft blue decor
@SyddyB206 goth pastel sounds amazing! I can't wait to see
I keep coming back to see if there are any new goodies to check out.
CHALLENGE #: 68 - Pastel Equinox Designer Showdown
FORUM ID: JasonAnthonySterling
ORIGIN ID: TonySterling
LEVEL: Expert
LOT: House of the Rising Sun Gallery Link: https://www.thesims.com/en_GB/gallery/5C3E121F35E311E789CCC26B009BB2A4?category=lots&searchtype=item_name&sortby=newest&time=all&searchquery=&max=50&maxis=false
LOT COST: 2500
BUILD COST: 182,652
TOTAL COST: 185152
LINK TO ENTRY SLIDESHOW: https://www.facebook.com/pg/MyWorldofSims/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1270516293063792
ENTRY DETAILS: I wanted to do something different- so I went with the traditional floorplan stylings of an ancient Roman villa but designed for a more modern empire. I used the pastel sun to represent the rising sun that the owner of this home feels their empire to be experiencing but I also leaned heavily on deeper orange throughout the decor to represent the setting sun as most Empires are already in decline when they perceive themselves to be at their height. In traditional Roman villas doorways were often just covered with curtains rather than true doors and that is the tact I have taken here as well- so yes, the curtain hung doorways are on purpose, lol. The fourth bedroom in this build is for a live in servant and is in the basement attached to the kitchen- it has an ensuite bath. There are more notes with the pictures on Facebook.
SIM: NA
SIM ENTRY SLIDESHOW: NA
ENTRY DETAILS: NA
ROOM: NA
ROOM ENTRY SLIDESHOW: NA
ENTRY DETAILS: NA
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: Yes
CREDIT FOR CC/RECOLORS: None
CHALLENGE #: 68 - Pastel Equinox Designer Showdown
FORUM ID: e1990r
ORIGIN ID: e1990r
LEVEL: Starting Out
LOT: BnS68 Spring Challenge
LOT COST: 2500
BUILD COST: 198816
TOTAL COST: 201316
LINK TO ENTRY SLIDESHOW: BnS68 Spring Challenge
ENTRY DETAILS: This is a wonderfully, cute, and charming traditional home with a semi-detached single car garage that has access to a basement with loads of storage. It includes 4 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, and a powder room upstairs. Downstairs is a formal entertainment room, a study, a tv room, a dining room, and a kitchen. Outside the kitchen is a covered patio that leads to a small garden with a wedding arch and a pool. The Master Bedroom has its own large, partially covered balcony that sports a hot tube, a small table, and a yoga area. This home is perfect for a small family and can be extended if you need more space. This home has Good Schools, Natural Light, and Penny Pixies. It even features 3 of the pixies that have been seen in this home before by wonderful paintings of each.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: Yes
CREDIT FOR CC/RECOLORS: Mutske, SimFabulous, Pralinesims, SIMcredible, AdeLana, Fovv, Severinka,Kansascityrose, NynaeveDesign, Ann.W, MadHox, Pilar, Angela, KariAngelova, kurdofe, Lulu, Plasticbox, BuffSumm, Spacesims, Soloriya, AdonisPluto, Devirose
SPACE FOR PICTURES:
@JasonAnthonySterling Absolutely Breathtaking! I am so glad you do these challenges because I am inspired every time you post one. I have learned a lot from you already and I will continue to study your works. You are amazing!
FORUM ID: SyddyB206
ORIGIN ID: SyddyB206
LEVEL: Established
LOT: Goth Pastel House
LOT COST: 5,500
BUILD COST: 146,549
TOTAL COST: 152049
LINK TO ENTRY SLIDESHOW: imgur.com/a/9dJyP
ENTRY DETAILS: I had a really hard time doing this. Originally I was going to make it a very traditional bright pastel. Then I thought about Pastel Goth. It had 4 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: Yes Please
CREDIT FOR CC/RECOLORS: N/A
@e1990r great garage! Lovely CC!
@SyddyB206 The darker colors complement the pastels nicely! Love the black and white look of the front!
You stare at your current client in confusion.
"I'm sorry. I must have misheard you. The person who wants me to build them a house is...deceased?"
Michael Ryunoten, attorney and happy client, nods a bit ruefully.
"I know this seems a little odd. And normally, its not a case I would handle. However Mr. Boddy was my very first client when I was starting out in law and I continued to handle his transactions even after I transitioned to business law. When we made out his will, he was very specific about what he wanted. And very insistent."
"Ok. And what exactly is it he wanted?" you inquire, feeling more than a little hesitant about this.
"He wants a mansion built to some unusual specifications." He pulls out a document. "Mr. Boddy demands that his mansion be at least 2 stories. The first floor is to contain an entrance hall, leading to a central foyer. Off of this central foyer he requires a kitchen, dining room, lounge, ballroom, conservatory, billiard room, library and study. All of these are to be separate rooms. There is to be a fireplace in each of these rooms except the kitchen and conservatory. The conservatory must contain a pool. It doesn't have to be big, it simply has to be there and useable. The kitchen must have low end appliances."
You lower your pen in astonishment and disappointment. "Michael that doesn't make any sense!" you protest. "Why low end appliances?"
He gives you a regretful smile, "I am not at liberty to explain. I'm truly sorry."
He clears his throat and resumes reading. "Upstairs there are to be no less than 6 bedrooms with adjoining bathrooms, to be outfitted accordingly. However there is to be only 1 single bed in 2 of the rooms."
Suspicious now, you ask "Really Mike. You're pulling my leg now. You cant be serious."
"I'm very serious." He hands you the pertinent section of the will so you can read it for yourself.
"Each bedroom is to be decorated in one of 6 colors: red, purple, blue, green, yellow, white."
"It doesn't mention here what kind of style he wants the house built in," you observe.
"He didn't care." Mike response, leaning back in his chair a little. "You have free reign. The total budget for the house is 300k."
"Nice." You say, dubiously. Such a strange list of requirements is more than a little...disconcerting.
"And of course there's your fee." Mike gives you a number that makes your jaw drop. The amount of money being offered would pretty much leave you debt free for the next five years, and pay for that trip to Al Simhara you've been wanting! Even if you are suspicious, its hard to say no to that kind of freedom.
"Well..."
Brief:
Budget: 300k
Any architectural style you wish
6 bedrooms, with baths
Each bedroom decorated in either red, blue, purple, white, yellow or green
2 story mansion
Landscaping
Ballroom
Kitchen with low end appliances
Dining
Lounge
Study
Entrance Hall
Library
Billiards Room
Conservatory with pool
All rooms must have doors
All first floor rooms must have fireplaces except the conservatory and the kitchen
Bonus points for additional methods of potential death from the other expansions.
Room Challenge
Create any of the rooms listed on the brief in whichever style you wish. You have $16,000 to play with.
Sim Challege
Play clue with Mr. Boddy's guests!
Mr. Boddy is a vengeful ghost out to get the sims he feels had a hand in his death. So he invites them to the newly built mansion. Rules are simple: First determine order of play. Miss Scarlett always goes first. Then roll a dice to determine who goes next. Once order of play is established, roll for the room Miss Scarlett is sent to. All doors are to be locked between dice rolls. No wandering sims. You have 8 sim hours to kill the sim in that room with the rooms method of death. Example: Miss Peacock gets sent to the observatory. You have 8 hours to drown her in the pool. After the 8 hours, you can let her out of the pool but she must stay in the observatory until her next turn.
After the 8 hours of potential death are up, each sim can amuse themselves or fill whatever needs are available to fill in that room. They may not leave the room till their next turn though. You may have turns concurrently. Example: Miss Peacock has to drown, so you lock her in the pool. You can then roll for the next sim and send them to the room of their potential death. You may have multiple sims in the same room, attempting to die the same way. If you wish to drag out the game play, you can insert a bonus round and give 1 sim the chance to recover their needs to keep them going longer.
The winner and inheritor of the estate is the last surviving Sim. They just have to live with the ghost of the murderous Mr. Boddy for the rest of their lives.
My questions is does sims 4 have a billiard table, cuz I couldn't find one, and does the low quality appliances have to be THE worst or pretty bad?