chez le cavalier ~ wip #2
[willow creek rebuild, house no. 1]
day twooooo!! things got fun today - I feel like I really got in the groove of this style and my imaginary couple 🤸🏽
also added some scandinavian-adjacent elements and got nitpickey with furniture & clutter & color choices !
here's an update on the dining room on day 2!
switched out the stairs, added some color and diff decor!
these red chairs (s/o midnight manor from @bostyny) gave me a great new of 'oh yeahhhh this is gonna be good' but also before that doing this dark olive-y green version of the white paint I started with (from @harrie-cc copenhagen part 1) also made me say 'oh yes please.'
also omg I'm dying to get my hands on part two and three of copenhagen it's everything I didn't know I was so desperate for from queen harrie!
like I could just die it's so pretty!
cabinets and their matching countertop/shelf situation is mcm kitchen from @pierisim, pretty much all the other clutter, appliances, etc are @harrie-cc @felixandresims and other @pierisim sets!
the level of detail in color and thought with the copenhagen set is just SO GOOD - there's a swatch in the painted wallpaper with the same green molding as the dining room and the cream wash in the living room, plus a greige kind of baseboard that of course is perfect. I did in fact squeal when I saw this swatch and how well it brought the two rooms together.
ALSO - let's talk about the sink. the sink! pierisim's mcm kitchen didn't come with a sink that worked well with the shelf situation, so I hunted around my other options. the winner was felixandre's chateau prep sink! the way it looks like the knobs come out of the marble is just chef's kiss. I need to fiddle around with TOOL to make the sink a bit wider so it fits better.
trying to help it all come together:
(did you notice I finally fixed the stair shelving to finally line up properly?)
that little corner in the kitchen is gonna be a bistro table/morning coffee spot, I'm just avoiding it because I want it to tie things together nicely.
after finishing the kitchen and looking down that hallway to the living room, I realized I needed to bring some of that red into the living room to break up all the warm wood and brown tones.
started with a little red end table, wasn't quite doing it...
so I pulled everything red out of the entire @bostyny cc catalog and put it next to the chairs to try to find my winner lol
couple different coffee table options with the new red accents in place...
a chair switch out, different lighting, decorations!
adding the details of this space is when my house's imaginary owners really started building a personality. the little tapestry below the sconce I imagine was from their first date at a festival; the lamp in the bay window was in one of their apartments when they first started dating and the other one hated it so much but it's still around; the little dog sculpture is of their future dog; the tiger painting hung up by a ribbon because they couldn't find nails the first night they moved in so they hung it on the wall hook left behind.
do you think I'm crazy yet?
so much for I'm not creating actual sims for these builds - apparently I am (at least in my head).
rain boots - they lived in a rainy city before moving to willow creek and have gotten in the habit of leaving their boots out right next to each other.
just like real life - curtains bring everything together! the bay window got the same roman shades as the entryway window.
ignore the fact that I haven't decorated out the little media shelf, but I love the little corner!
not sure how functional this really is - but man is it cute.
okay that's all see you for day 3!