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chez le cavalier ~ wip #1

[willow creek rebuild, house no. 1]

a lovely little sneak peek of house no. 1 in my willow creek rebuild - from 'crick cabana' to chez le cavalier.

I'm starting in the neighborhood foundry cove, as it has the smallest houses and what I'm thinking will be the most simple of my other plans. sims markets this neighborhood as 'modest homes' with 'lots of characters.' I'm spinning this into an up-and-coming young people & starter family neighborhood, with more spacious houses and some family-friendly amenities.

to me, it seems that houses on a canal like this would be worth more, and the generous green space would attract people wanting to be close to downtown crawdad quarters, but starting to explore suburban life.

crick cabana is a classic new orleans shotgun-style home. I kept the existing footprint and added a second story to add more bedrooms and increase value.

below is some before shots and what it looked like after day 1.

before:

post-demo and down to the drywall:

second-floor addition & new millwork:

from here, I started playing around with the floorpan, trying to establish where stairs/dining room/living room/kitchen would be. after that windows went in.

new windows going in & first shot of the interior:

walls painted & ceiling lights in:

I always start with white walls as I try to figure out what direction the interior style will go in.

living room:

foyer:

dining room:

you can a snippet of the kitchen after day one - I just had cabinets down to play with color/style.

& that's where I finished with the day! the style is kind of taking shape as eclectic midcentury with some traditional elements to pay homage to the original architecture of the home. I'm imagining a young couple who collects furniture from facebook marketplace and are super excited to decorate their first home after moving out of their city apartment.

super excited to share how it changed on day 2!

huge huge credit to @harrie-cc @pierisim @felixandresims @charlypancakes @bostyny @thecluttercat for creating such beautiful cc that makes it so easy to build spaces that reflect my own style so well 💌

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sneak peek | chez le cavalier, willow creek rebuild

have not been able to play since the new update came out and clashed with better build buy :/ when I deleted the mod sims took away the build catalog so I've been working on fixing that.

finally have it all squared away, though, so I'm back with my chez le cavalier build today 🫶🏼

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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 !

dining room:

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!

oke next is kitchen:

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.

seeking red:

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

living room adjustments:

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).

more fun details!

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.

adding curtains:

just like real life - curtains bring everything together! the bay window got the same roman shades as the entryway window.

filling in a corner:

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!

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Chez le Cavalier, Willow Creek.

Here we go! House number 1 of my Willow Creek Rebuild is finished. From Crick Cabana to Chez le Cavalier.

This is the first build that I've fully finished (exterior & interior) in a looong time, so I'm pumped to share it!

There is SO MUCH cc is this build I'm not sure it's worth posting the tray file, but I'm just gonna post it and say if you have ALL of @harrie-cc, @pierisim, @felixandresims, House of Harlix (collabs between Harrie & Felixandre), @charlypancakes and @bostyny cc you should be good. Anything else should just be small little clutter pieces that are easily switched out.

I did make a Patreon page, but it's totally free to download! You just have to select free membership. I'm going to try to list all the cc and links to direct downloads there in the next couple hours.

ANYWAYS, more pictures!! the study can easily be transformed into a children's room/nursery if needed.

Ok so link to Patreon: https://patreon.com/AccidentallyCurated

& ig that's it! Okay be nice bye!

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chez le cavalier [willow creek rebuild no. 1] is complete!

more pics of the interior to follow

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willow creek rebuild

in the process of putting my game on an external hard drive so my laptop would hopefully stop combusting every time I play sims, I lost my previous save file and all my builds.

so, yay me.

now my laptop only combusts every tenth time I play (do we see the improvement??) and I have a brand new save file that I'm choosing to see as a happy accident.

first up, willow creek. I'm rebuilding her from top to bottom, but trying to use some of the existing framework - more of a renovation than a complete bulldoze.

willow creek is based off New Orleans, so that's where I'm going with this rebuild. I want to honor as much nola architecture and history as possible.

I pulled a lot of inspiration for my new map layout from this post on pinterest, but I couldn't find the original creator - so sorry!

here is the initial sketch pulled from my iPad:

my more fleshed out descriptions and house names:

if this project isn't a perfect example of me taking things too detailed and insane, I don't know what is!

I'm starting in Foundry Cove, as I'm less comfortable with the residential lots that will be coming with Crawdad Quarter - but I'm pumped for the challenge!

stay tuuuuuuuned