Sims 4 Rococó

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Petit Trianon The Dining Room ready for christmas dinner.

Louis XV - who dined here for the first time in 1769 - had a very special idea for the dining room. He wanted a mechanism installed that would make it possible to raise a filled dining table through the floor - in this way the royal party could dine in complete privacy without having to worry about being overheard by servants. However, the project was never completed but the first mechanisms for it can still be seen.

From the windows the French Pavilion is right across from the dining room. The décor of the room is less delicate than the rest of the mansion - dark wooden chairs offers a place to sit and the crimson silk curtains hangs at the large windows. The decoration consists of flowers and fruits carved into the panelling (by Honoré Guibert) and adorning the blue chimney (Jacques-Francois Dropsy). These decorations reflects Louis XV's fondness of nature and his desire to bring the lovely gardens into the house as well. Two large mirrors hangs on the walls but not merely for the decoration's sake; the dinners were held by candlelight and the mirrors would reflect the glow and hereby lighting up the room. In front of one of the mirrors (above the chimney) is a pretty, white bust of Marie Antoinette gazing out into the dining room of the retreat she used to inhabit.

A chandelier hangs from the ceiling with crystals hanging underneath the candles. The large paintings depicts mythological gods and characters such as Adonis and Flora. Some of the portraits refers directly to food: the hunting, the harvest and the fishing.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Simmers !!

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The Belvedere Pavilion at Versailles was built for Marie-Antoinette, who made use of the octagonal building as a music room. Under her instructions, the pavilion was designed in the newly popular neoclassical style, with its landscaped garden reflecting the passion for English gardens at the time. The pavilion’s architectural lines show a classical balance of proportion, and its interior reflects a studied refinement with its sculpture and the richness of its paintings. Over the centuries, the interiors and exteriors of the Belvedere suffered from aging materials and lack of maintenance. In recent decades, the exterior was threatened by impaired drainage systems that allowed rain to stream along the façade and reach the lower parts of the building. Moss and lichen grew on the surfaces and some elements of the decorative balustrades were lost. The interior also showed cracks along the walls and on the floor.

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Summer days in the Hameau de la reine.

Marie Antoinette's court having a picnic in the gardens.

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The Queen wakes.

A woman of the wardrobe arrives carrying a basket with what are called “offerings.” Offerings include two or three chemises, some handkerchiefs, some towels.  

First waiting woman arrives and presents a book known as gazette des atours, which contains fabric swatches of gowns. Each season has twelve toilets, twelve demi-toilets, and twelve rich dresses with panniers. The Queen selects the garments she will wear for the day by marking the swatches with pins. 

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Happy Birthday to Marie Antoinette, who was born on November 2nd, 1755.   

Thank you @felixandresims and @goldensanctuarysims and @acanthus-sims​  for this amazing cc <3         

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The queen’s bedchamber. (updated)

The Bedchamber is the most important room in the apartments and is where the Queen spent most of her time. It was where she slept, often with the king, and in the morning she received guests here during and after her toilette which, like the King’s getting-up ceremony, was a courtly affair controlled by strict etiquette.

It was also here that the queen gave birth, in public, to the Princes and Princesses of the Realm. The word “public”, however, is misleading, since in reality very few people were admitted to the bedchamber while the queen was giving birth. Only doctors, ladies in waiting, the governess of the Princes and Princesses of the Realm, the Princesses of the royal family and a few members of the church were allowed to enter. The rest of the Court waited in the other rooms in the Apartment, whose doors were all symbolically left open.

The decoration in the room still reflects the three queens who once occupied it. The partitions on the ceiling date back to the reign of queen Maria-Theresa, while the greyscale painting by Boucher and the wood panelling were added for Marie Leszczyńska. These elements survived the reign of Marie-Antoinette, who replaced the furniture and fireplace and put up paintings of her mother Empress Maria-Theresa and her brother, Emperor Joseph II.

Thank you @felixandresims and @goldensanctuarysims  for this amazing cc <3

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Working on my Heaume de la Reine!! 

Thank you so much for this wonderful CC @felixandresims and @thejim07 

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Happy Birthday to my Queen Marie Antoinette, who was born on November 2nd, 1755.

@acanthus-sims​ @thejim07​ @felixandresims​

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Marie Antoinette Robe de Coeur Court Gown (1778-79)

by: @acanthus-sims <3

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La reine en gaulle, by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1783. 

The gaulle, or chemise a la reine, was made infamous by Marie Antoinette in the early 1780s. In contrast to the highly structured garments worn by the French court and society at large, the gaulle was incredibly light and simple. The gaulle consists of layers of thin muslin, loosely draped around the body and belted around the waist with a sash. It was the perfect garment for lounging in the country in the spring, and the fashionable ladies of France and England quickly took up the trend. However, when Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun painted Marie Antoinette in her new clothes, the portrait launched a scandal and helped to solidify the peoples’ hatred for their queen.

Thank you so much @acanthus-sims for this amazing chemise a la reine  <3

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My Petit Trianon is almost finished, the four facades and the gardens are ready to play!

Thank you so much for this wonderful CC @felixandresims and @thejim07 <3

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Thank you so much @acanthus-sims for this amazing cc <3

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I can definitely say that I’m good at procrastinating, hence, I was able to spend so much time on The Sims 4 and made enough progress on my WIPs. (Work has been really demanding as of the moment and I’m trying to escape those.) Here, I present my pièce de résistance - Château de Versailles.

Due to the limitations in the game, I focused on the Aile Centrale. This blog has been a heaven-sent for me; it has rooms of almost all the rooms.

https://berdom.skyrock.com/

As you can see from the photos above, the Galerie des glaces or ‘Hall of Mirrors’ still look magnificent despite the size of it in the game. I can’t thank @felixandresims and @thejim07 enough for their efforts in creating the CCs. (Also, there were other CCs I got online. Please do tag yourself if you see your works.)

Does this room look familiar? It’s the Salon de Mars!

Well, here is my version of the enfilades of the post I reblogged weeks ago.

Now, on to the other rooms: Marie Antoinette’s bedchamber and the King’s Bedchamber.

I also made adjustments in the other rooms for playability purposes.

The room above was supposed to be the Antichambre à l'oeuil de boeuf (the room before you enter the King’s Bedchamber) but it was just hard to recreate.

For the first photo with the dark columns, that is the marble vestibule before the Galerie Basse (the hall below the Hall of Mirrors).

Another recreation of Madame Victoire’s Bedchamber.

Finally, here are some exterior shots:

I built this on the Hound’s Head lot in Brindleton Bay, hence you can see the beach and the sea gulls. Most of my other 64x64 lots are occupied by my *other unfinished palaces.

Now, my target is to complete the others but first, I need to find some royalty CCs for my Sims to actually live in these palaces. They just look like tourists in museums without the regalia. I might start posting Sim Stories soon.

Again, I can’t stress enough how grateful I am to all the CC creators out there that made this possible. Hearts out for all of you.

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Sunset in the Trianon gardens.

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The queen’s bedchamber.

The decoration in the room still reflects the three queens who once occupied it. The partitions on the ceiling date back to the reign of queen Maria-Theresa, while the greyscale painting by Boucher and the wood panelling were added for Marie Leszczyńska. These elements survived the reign of Marie Antoinette.

Thank you so much @felixandresims <3

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Finally! My queen has the room she deserves. <3

Thank you so much for this wonderful Versailles CC @felixandresims

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My Dragonestone castle in progress...