My grandma lived in a house which was built in the 1920s. When I was younger, I always played tag with my siblings and cousins there. It's layout looked something like this:
See? No corridor. You could access a room by going through another. Perfect place for tag! When I build, I imagine kids playing tag and running around the rooms.
MY RULES:
❗ Walls:
Straight & logical.
Keep in mind that they are made of bricks
Therefore they are heavy
So if you build more floors, the main walls should be in the same position in all floors!!
❗ Fireplaces
Every fireplace belongs to a chimney, but there aren't as much chimneys as rooms
Every important room must be heated! ...but how? With logic!
RED DOTS shows where to put a fireplace
Every fireplace should be on the same position in all floors!
in modern homes, you can have radiators: place them under the windows!
❗ Plumbing
Kitchen, WC, Bathroom
These rooms should be next to each other!
Sinks, toilets and bathtubs should be as near to each other as possible
BLUE DOTS shows where to put them
HOW TO PLACE ROOMS? ~ Detailed description
👞👠 Hall
first place you see when you enter
a lot of cabinets for random stuff, clothes, shoes, clothes hangers and boxes, etc...
👪🛋️ Living room:
the center of the composition, representative
sofa and armchairs, piano, radio & gramophone, etc...
in some cases there was a table with 4-5 chairs for dining purposes, if there was no individual dining room.
it's always facing to the street as well as the bedrooms
🥂🍰 Dining room:
radio
representative cupboard with luxury plates
wasn't very common, but sometimes there were place for it
Originally, bigger apartments had 3 representative rooms: one bedroom, one living room and one dining room, but since ppl had children, they made the dining room into an other bedroom
Therefore most of the time the dining table was in the living room.
🛌💤 Bedroom:
usually a master bedroom and one for the children
You could mainly access it trough the living room
The doors were open most of the time
since an average apartment didn't have space for a study, the desk was close to the windows, and behind it, there was a bookcase
facing to the street always!
🛁🚽 Bathroom:
Sometimes you could access it trough the hall & the master bedroom too
the toilet was always separated from the bathroom
usually had no windows, or a small one which opens to the side of the house
🧹🧽 Maid's Room:
Lot of households had maids. They were young unmarried girls from the country, or old poor lower-class widows
wasn't the best job, but it provided a great opportunity to break out of poverty
they had a separate room with a bed and a cupboard, but sometimes they slept in the kitchen
this room opens to the hall or you can only access it trough the kitchen
🔪🧇 Kitchen
it was a separate and small room facing to the inner garden
besides the stove & basic kitchen furniture, it had a small table in the middle or next to the wall with 2-3-4 chairs.
If the home was small, this could be the dining area. In this case, use a pretty table here
If the dining area wasn't here, it was for the maid, and was used for cooking. Then use an average boring table here.
HOW DOES A WHOLE BUILDING LOOK LIKE?
Representative rooms are facing to the street!
STAIRCASES, HANGING BALCONIES:
Main features of old tenement houses & my sources
🌸Arcades, corridors, hanging balconies
every apartment can be reached trough them
use your imagination
ppl often decorate it with flowers
others use it for a terrace
🏵️ Staircases & Elevators
there are two types of staircases !
One of them is the main representative staircase that almost opens to the street. It's richly decorated with tiles and frescoes. At the end of the stairs there is corridor. You can find at least 5 trashcans and a lot of mailboxes & bicycles there.
In many houses, the stair has a square or oval shape, and in the middle, there is an elevator.
The other one is for the maids. It isn't decorated at all, and as small as possible. It opens to the inner garden.
🌹 Maids & Families ~ Keep in Mind
I marked the route of the maids with BLUE, and the family's with RED
They tried to meet the maids as little as possible. That’s why the maid’s room is next to the kitchen, and that’s why a separate staircase was built for them. Many times they had a separate door to the hanging balcony and to the street.
PLACING THESE INTO THE GAME
❗ Wall thickness
Brick walls in real life are thick, and somehow EA thinks we only need thin paper walls. Well, no...
The angle of the walls sometimes not 90 or 45 degree,
❗ Wall height
Medium is the best for upper floors, high for ground floor if you have no living area there
❗ Size
The biggest lots are 64x64, but they are in the middle of nowhere
You'll always have to edit the original layout and add a staircase
The big corridor can be in the center, or the corner of the house
Sometimes there was enough space for cars and carriages, but it was more common to be used only by humans.
When these houses were built, there were no cars! Just keep in mind. If you don't have enough space for a car there, it's okay, since ppl used taxi or public transportation. A small, 3 tiles wide corridor is accurate as well.
Flower shops , restaurants, and various other stores operated on the ground floor.
❗ Some ideas for ground floor layouts:
~ MY SOURCES AND INSPO ~
FORTEPAN ~ best for furnishing. Type 'interior' to the search bar.
Typing "ELADÓ NAGYPOLGÁRI LAKÁS" ~ (upper middle class apartment for sale) They include blueprints!
This Facebook Goup ~ in Hungarian as well, but you can see the inside of these gorgeous tenement corridors.
Memorizing each house I enter ~ yeah, I do this for fun. Best way to understand their logic.
omg this kind of thing is SO HELPFUL TO ME and we're about to have the new pack with the ability to have apartments anywhere we want sooooo i'll probably come back to this often haha
Today I bring you 7 new items, using the functionality of items from the Eco Lifestyle (oops, not Eco Living lol) pack, styled to match Horse Ranch.
All require EP09 Eco Lifestyle (Except for the 2 BGC version Silos)
All LODs + maps
Custom thumbnails
Windmill: Functional Eco Lifestyle windmill. 1,676 polys, 1 swatch. Use bb.moveobjects and size up once using the "]" key to make it the same size as the Chestnut Ridge town windmill.
Well: Functional Eco Lifestyle water producer. 845 polys. 5 swatches.
Water Pumps: Functional Eco Lifestyle water producers. Standard version - 2,296 polys. Fancy version - 2,348 polys. Both versions - 7 swatches.
Storage Silos: Functional storage objects. Eco Lifestyle version has separated storage, BGC version has shared storage. Silo 1 - 358 polys. Silo 2 - 362 polys. Both versions have 1 swatch.
Initially starting as a couple hairs for a regular months release, I kept seeing more pictures on Pinterest and videos on TikTok of hair inspiration that I ended up making 6 hairs, and so what’s better than the make a little collection with them!
Information about the hairs are under the cut.
Download Here - Early Access, Public Release 24th May
Its finally here, the nursery collection!
In case you didn’t know I’ve been away living in Bali this month while I create this set . As I only have my laptop to create on, the thumbnails on the items may look a little strange on the items. Unfortunately my game graphics are glitched and all items have a very strange outdoor lighting on them. I can correct this once I’m home, but please bare with the ugly until then! 🙏🏾
The set includes:
Classic Crib (w/blanket and plushie deco slots)
Modern Crib (w/blanket and plushie deco slots)
Crib Blanket
Classic Toddler Bed Frame
Modern Toddler Bed Frame
Toddler Bedding
Changing Table
Dresser
Wardrobe
End Table
Swing Arm Floor Lamp
Rug
Spindle Accent Chair
Spindle Accent Foot Stool
Short Panelled Wallpaper
Tall Panelled Wallpaper
You can find the majority of the items by searching COASTAL in the BB catalogue search bar, however the 2 wallpapers will have to be found manually in the panelled wallpaper section.
All items are Base Game compatible, including the changing table!
As per usual textures are linked between similar items, so if you download the unmerged file, make sure to include all items from that family, so the textures appear correctly in your game.
Remember Nail It! Set from the last year? Well, it’s about to get bigger and better! I remade all the old meshes, improved the textures, added the new colours and made the new shapes and lengths available both for female and male frames. The set is finished with some options for kids and some pedi options for children, male and female sims. Oh, and just like in the old set, everything comes in 2 finishes (sans pedis) - glossy and matte.
New shapes: extra long almond, extra long ballerina, extra long square, long square, oval, extra short oval.
!Delete any old nails from me you have in your Mods folder to avoid bugs!
Enjoy and happy simming 💅
BGC
standalone
40 swatches (+ extra 10 swatches for toddlers and children)
not allowed for random
custom thumbnail
my TOU
Download - Patreon (Public Release - April, 15)
Grab the updated versions of the old set HERE (Free)
Its been a labour of love during the shorter month of February, but I’m excited to finally be able to share the second instalment of the Coastal Collection! This part focuses in on the Coastal outdoors. There were so many build items that I wanted to include in part one, that I actually decided to dedicate an entire extra month to get all the items on the original list…I still didn’t achieve the goal, but I came pretty close!
The highlight of the month for me was the creation of the playhouse. It took 5 days to complete from start to finish, but I was so happy with the end result and its just one of those once in a lifetime items that shall never be repeated again, so its worth putting all that effort into.
There are quite a few items that do have pack requirements this month as there are mostly activity items for you toddlers, kids and soon to be introduced infants. The Sand Pit works just like a rug and can be placed anywhere you wish. Sand can be painted on the terrain to add the functionality of a real sand pit if you own the Island Living EP or if you only have Base Game it can be a great decorative piece for story telling. The Playhouse requires Dream Home Decorator as it works just like the play tent that was introduced in that pack. Lastly the Fire Pit requires Outdoor Retreat for full functionality.
You can find the majority of the items by searching COASTAL in the BB catalogue, however these will not show the column & 2 wallpapers that are included in the set.
The set includes:
Arbour
Wedding Arch
Bucket & Spade
Chippendale Fence (1 tile, 2 tile, post & stair railing)
Lattice Fence (2 tile & post)
Lattice Gate
Functional Column
Exterior Trim (middle, inner corner, outer corner, left & right endings)
"Magnolia Botanical Garden is a historic park where Willow Creek inhabitants from all walks of life can come together to enjoy nature in a lush, green environment."
Finally finished a park lot for Willow Creek for my legacy save! Made with picturesque gameplay in mind, the park includes:
a topiary hedge garden
fountain water features
a conservatory filled with plants
a playground for children & toddlers
a gazebo perfect for a birthday picnic
table games
and other little 100% functional corners to play and take pretty pictures
Playtested with no CC.
This park is perfect for photoshoots. Every corner you turn is full of lush greenery and flowers, without too much visual clutter. It works just as intended, with visiting townies using all amenities and benches.
P.S. Looks gorgeous in the evening light and at night! Could easily be transformed into a indoor or outdoor wedding venue.
I’m super excited to be able to share the first part of the Coastal Collection with you all. This has been an absolute labour of love over the course of January to get this first set completed. Never before have I had so many ideas that I wanted to fit into a set & although I couldn’t fit it all into this month I can safely say that there are many more months to come with the set, so I can keep ticking more and more items off the list.
This first month focuses on build items, however there will be a 2nd part to the build items coming next month along with activities for the garden. There are also plans for of course a kitchen, but also a kids set to add to the much anticipated infant patch & new EP releasing in March.
I usually list out all of the items included in the set individually, but there are 55 items and we would be here all week!
Here's a mini cc set for your Sims to enjoy this Valentine's Day! (or for any other special occasion)
This mini CC set comes in two parts:
MadameRiaVelvetValentineDress: Found in Long Dresses, tagged for Formal
MadameRiaVelvetValentineSuitJacket: Found in Suit Jackets, tagged for Formal
These pieces come in 40 swatches, a combination of colors I've used in the past and a healthy dose of colors from the Dark Romance palette by @needleworkreve.
Download Link below the cut!
Fun fact! When I was going through my own selection of colors and adding swatches from the Dark Romance palette, a *bunch* of our colors ended up being incredibly similar- no wonder I fell in love with her palette!
Happy Valentine's Day! This month is flying by for me and I didn't realize it was today until I saw other people's reblogs! I've been focusing all my time on a pretty big project, so I hope you don't mind me reblogging my only Valentine's-specific cc!
(It's also really funny to me that it is a Valentine's set because the dress is inspired by one from White Christmas)