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I dreamed a bedroom a couple weeks ago, and this one is not it. On paper it’s quite similar: layout, texture, color, etc, but in effect it’s much different. It’s got a lot more accessories than the room in my dream had, and the patterns are a lot louder, and the wall mirror in my dream was a closet door, but I like this.

The lighting is not my favorite, though. I’m struggling with lighting.

This was originally intended to be part of an apartment project, but I was so annoyed with how the kitchen turned out that I scrapped the project after finishing the bedrooms. 

why did i make a simblr if all i do is reblog my own stuff?

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This bedroom was part of the same apartment as the previous one. I only started it because the layout of the apartment necessitated a second bedroom. It works, because it seemed like a space for a pair of roommates. Both bedrooms are quite small.

This one is 4x4, which is really, really hard to do. I also struggled with colors in this space more than in the other, because I didn’t enter it with any preconceived ideas of what it ought to look like. Still, I like it.

The apartment, in my head, was to be shared by a good witch and a bad witch (but which witch is which and which room is whose?), who had attended the same small, liberal arts school of witchcraft and wizardry and decided to be roomies after graduation. I didn’t focus a lot on witchiness, so it doesn’t matter.

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I wanted to attempt some low-impact use of the “constrainfloorelevation false” cheat, so I used it to build a couple of simple split-level stairs and friezes to make the exterior look cute.

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So this was my quickly frustrated attempt to emulate the room I linked to (this room) off of the Living Sims forum.

What I did was I did the walls and floor tiles in a gradient from black to white, with the neutral texture, and then I painted the furniture in shades of grey, so that the lighter colored furniture was mostly in the black corner of the room and the black furniture was mostly in the white corner of the room, again using the neutral/miscellaneous texture. 

An interior design site had this color psychology article, about which colors to use in which rooms, and I used that to determine what kind of lighting to use to define the spaces in the room: blue for the office, green for bedrooms, white for the bathroom, and lavender/red (which I made pink) for the living area.

Initially I wanted the custom light colors to be the only sources of color in the room, but it got a little bland, so I CASted the presumably soft-textured (couch cushions, bedding, etc) aspects of certain furniture to make it a little more interesting.

I tried not to use too much clutter, because I have a tendency to cover every surface with crap, but I think I could have developed this further. 

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The blue apartment is on the ground floor and I like it more than the other one. It is bigger and fancier and involves a lot more CC. 

In my head, the resident is someone well enough established in her career (note the abundance of curtains), and in a field where she’s able to work from home a fair amount. She entertains a lot, but prefers solitude.

It was an exciting challenge to figure out how to get a sofa and two chairs into the quite narrow living room

The desk/office I guess? It’s part of the living room. It bothers me ever so slightly that none of the electronic equipment has wires coming out the back, but someone somewhere must have developed some CC electrical cords. I don’t want to look for them, though.

The lounge chair, for soliloquys in repose.

This fantastic dining arrangement is in the poorly planned kitchen. The rest of the kitchen is not cute. The kitchen is really too big for an apartment this small. I’m proud of how I did the cushions on the dining chairs, and my use of something that wasn’t flowers as the centerpiece on the table.

The bedroom oh my god. So majestic. I’m really, really happy with how it turned out. Really, really, really happy.

So pretty, so nice, so smart and well-rounded. I would sleep in that bed so hard.

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I have to go to sleep goodbye.

I really should go to sleep

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Of the two, the orange apartment is my not-favorite. It is on the upper level of white house, and it is smaller, and I had a harder time laying it out, and I did the decorating for it last, after I’d already fallen in love with the blue apartment.

A cursory view of the living space (from the kitchen). My idea going in was a tiny first apartment for someone who gets the tingles thinking about Matisse. Part of the ‘first grown-up apartment’ thing is that I didn’t do curtains on most of the windows, so that’s an interesting insight into what I think life is about. I also wanted to use a bit more green, because I never use green.

It seriously bothers me that when I first start being a real adult I may not be able to afford to put curtains on my windows. They look so bare.

Kitchen and dining table. This kitchen isn’t as nice as the one in the blue apartment, but I imagine the orange apartment’s resident does a lot more involved cook. 

Another view of the dining table, as well as the desk. 

I had such a hard time trying to get an undistorted shot of the bedroom I wanted to scream. I put curtains in here because I’m not about waking up with the sun.

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Fun fact: I had such a hard time with bathroom accessibility (when I’m simming I always like to think of how long a trail of water you would leave if you walked from the shower to your bedroom, and in this case it was the length of the entire apartment), so I did something I never do, which is put an extra bathroom entrance. It sucks, but I understand now that sometimes it’s necessary.

i wish there were a better way to integrate text and images in tumblr posts.

i also don’t know why it’s necessary for me to reblog my own shit.

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One of my meta-Sims projects is to limit the amount of CC in my game so maybe it will crash less. The big piece I want to get rid of is my CC neighborhood, which is where I originated my eight-generation legacy, the Peron family. So, I started a new Sunset Valley game to move the Perons into, and have been relocating a bunch of my build projects there as well. To decompress after the ordeal with the pictures in my Space Place, I did a quick makeover on the EA lot, Mosquito Cove.

Here’s the original. It’s like one of those houses at the edge of a suburban neighborhood, that’s like right near a field of wild grass and turkey nests, and you can’t figure out if anyone lives there, even though it’s pretty obvious no one lives there, and then you steal mail from out of the mailbox. That’s my simself standing in front of it. 

I like the lot, and I like the architecture, but the insides were grotty to the max. I forgot to take screenshots of the inside, but look at the porch! There is a fudging fridge on the porch even though there was plenty of room for it inside!

And an exterior of the finished product. I was watching a Let’s Build the other day, and the guy made a good point: EA needs to provide some walls and floors to match the roof tiles!

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My idea building this was that it would be for a pair of people living fairly isolated from others. So, maybe a vacation house on the shitty part of the Lake, or maybe the house inherited from a random unknown relative, that heirs are required to live in for at least a year before they are allowed to sell it. And then it’s haunted! No, it’s not haunted.

A little office nook under the stairs, with a great pair of windows for cross ventilation during work sessions.

The dining area. I struggled with lighting in this house. I feel like I put a million lamps everywhere, and it’s still a bit too dim.

Look at this kitchen! There is plenty of room for the fridge. There is even room for tchotchkes.

The porch, sans fridge.

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The upper floor is open concept, and pretty much just the bedroom. I think in the original house it was both bedroom and office space, but I’ve recently started working on separating bedrooms from work areas, because if you work where you sleep, you can never relax properly.

I am dipping my toes in the more involved bedroom accessories. I picked up a few sets of throw pillows and rumpled throw blankets for the bed, and I really like how it turned out.

A somewhat pointless view of the dresser and armoire.

A reading nook by the stairs. I forgot to put window treatments there, but it doesn’t really matter. The bedroom has seven lamps, and it is still dim as fuck. The rug is a new find.

And this is how I blocked the staircase so I wouldn’t have to put up a wall, because I wanted it to have more privacy without sacrificing the sense of space. Not gonna lie I think it’s perrrty cute.

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I wish I had screenshots of the house at another time of day, but I had to get SimNia a job. 

This was a fun little thing! I really like doing Maxis redesigns.

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This house has a lot of backstory. Lord, it has a lot of backstory. So, I was thinking about Space, probably on account of watching a lot of Doctor Who, and I got to thinking about the type of housing you might find in a sort of frontier community on a distant planet. Really, I was interested in low cost, prefabricated housing developments. I think the best way to say it is space trailer parks.

Now, I realize space colonization would probably be hugely expensive and involve government subsidization, so the best-funded expeditions would corporate-state megaliths, really fancy space bases with all the luxuries of Earth, fairly unlikely to have dangerous technical malfunctions.

But what of the small-scale endeavors? Little towns at the outskirts of larger bases, where the residents might work at the base or they might be affiliated with smaller, private organizations, or unaffiliated and funding their own work. That’s the kind of housing I was looking to build.

And I was specifically building for a university fellow, doing research on this distant planet (probably ethnographic work), funded by grant money, with a very small stipend from the university for living expenses and equipment, and this is the sort of housing she could afford.

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So, the interior: I thought the pre-fab houses would be pre-furnished as well, very sparsely, but the anthropologist (and anyone else living in one of these houses) would be bringing some of her own home comforts, things like rugs, tchotchkes, pictures.

 

The upper level features the living and kitchen/dining spaces. It’s my preference for communal spaces to be the most immediately accessible upon entering a home, so this is it. I had a lot of trouble finding suitable furniture, and I’m still not too satisfied with a lot of it. 

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I did something that isn’t recommended when I did the lower level. I won’t go into the technical details, but the reason what I did isn’t recommended is because it fucks with the lighting. So, almost all of my screenshots of the lower level of the house are fucked up in the light department.

Here, at the foot of the stairs, a closet, adjacent to a hallway with stuff. Below, more of the hallway, with the bathroom sink and a file cabinet.

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I actually really like how the bedroom turned out. I enjoyed searching for the wall lights and the suitcases.

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This is the only decent shot of the workspace. I tried really hard to find more appropriate computer equipment, but that didn’t happen. If I didn’t run a Mac, I might have resorted to building my own CC! 

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Finally, some night-timey exteriors. I had fun with the landscaping.

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That’s it!

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I am going to scream if stupid reblogging doesn’t work properly.

I’m finished with this thing I did!

WIPWIPWIPWIP

I really like that Lunar Lakes terrain paint

I was super nauseated on my flight from San Francisco to Chicago, and reading made it worse, so I drew a rowhouse. This is it. I didn’t draw it attached to its neighbors because of reasons, but it’s not really supposed to stand alone. 

This only took a couple of days to complete, and except for the landscaping, which is just to fill space, I’m feeling pretty good about it.

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I don’t know that I went into the decorating with any ideas except REALLY BRIGHT COLORS. I almost made the house entirely pink, black, and white, but for some reason changed my mind.

I think I need to get rid of all my furniture and find new stuff. I feel like I’ve taken this picture a million times.

The balconies turned out to be too small to put much in, but I liked how these chairs turned out outside the living room.

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I adore that painting. It’s probably the most useful wall hanging I’ve downloaded. I also adore making dining chairs that aren’t identical. I wish I had a glass table though.

I got a new set of potted plants for around the house, so watch out for those!

Kitchen, pots and pans, done. I love the curtains. I think they’re the only curtains in the house, so they represent their kind well.

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Bedroom, whatever. I don’t usually CASt lamps and mirrors that much, but I did here. I dipped my toes in the icy waters of an accent wall. I’m not feeling it, but I’m glad I tried.

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Not shown: bathroom, which is quite nice, home office, which is not nice, the basement, which is serviceable and grants access to the garage, and the back patio, which is not supposed to exist.

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The house in the evening, from an angle I wouldn’t usually use.