Apartment Hall Overrides - Download
Hello! So, we agree that a significant number of the apartment halls are a travesty, right? They're unfinished, don't make any sense, etc? Cool, so I made overrides to help fix this!
I wanted to keep everything base game/City Living compatible so I only used in game assets from those two BUT you can absolutely change out the texture file and make it anything you want, for your personal use. If you want to make your own version of this and make it available for download, please create your own new files but, no link backs or anything is necessary. Shout outs and links are always appreciated though. At the bottom of the post is a link to a tutorial on how to make your own, as well as the wall and floor names for the ones I made overrides for to help make things easier for you.
First up, Alto Tower. Alto Tower is one of the tallest buildings in all of San Myshuno with two HUGE apartments that have windows all around and you want me to believe THIS is what a hallway would look like in that kind of building????
And that some random storage room would be bright green????
Absolutely not. I've replaced the wall on both of these.
You can download the overrides here. There are two package files per override. One is an override, meaning everywhere the original dark blue is being used, it will now be this paneled wall. The second file adds the dark blue back as a new additional swatch so that you can go around and paint any wall back to the dark blue you intended it to be elsewhere. This is true of every wall and floor override I've created here.
Next up: Chic Street Apartments
I understand these apartments are meant to be cheaper starter apartments BUT they're in a nice building in the trendy FASHION District. I've changed the whole vibe of this one. The original look:
And with my overrides for the wall, floor, and the elevator:
You can download these here.
I actually think Culpepper House has one of the least offensive hallways. I went ahead and just picked a dirty swatch to match some of the apartments a bit more.
You can download it here.
Jasmine Suites. This place is UNFINISHED and you can't convince me otherwise. The only reason I didn't override the floor is because it's the DEFAULT CONCRETE floor. It's used in waaaay too many other places. At least the wall isn't as offensively bright now.
You can download here.
Landgraab Towers. I missed taking a proper before picture. You can kinda see the ugly brown wall here:
And then I did get a picture showing the floor during testing. I only just yesterday realized there's actually two carpet prints being used in this foyer:
This is Landgraab Tower. The Feng's live here. This is supposed to be luxury and eleganzaaaa??? Here's the after:
You can download here. Floor 1 is the plain carpet, floor 2 is the patterned carpet.
Spire Tower. This is ANOTHER ONE that uses the friggin cement flooring so I've only changed the wall here. The before isn't the worst but it doesn't exactly scream "three story condo at the top of a tower in expensive ass Uptown." Hopefully my override feels closer to that. Again, I was just working with Base Game and City Living though so please don't tell me there are better options in other expansions.
Paired with TOOL and clever use of rugs and other items, you can really overhaul these halls to be so much better. For instance, here's the Jasmine Suites hall again, in its original state:
And here it is with my wall override, using pierisim rugs that look like tiles to cover the whole floor, and then regular rugs, new lights, new doors, and better decor:
Here's a link to the folder with all of the downloads. Simfileshare
If you find any issues, please let me know! These will conflict with any files that override the same swatches. If you use littlemssam's elevator mod, I am unsure if the elevator override will cause problems, I don't use that mod. Just keep that in mind and remove if it does conflict.
And if you'd like to make your own overrides, here's a link to a tutorial that also has the wall and floor names, here.