#brhd: build progress

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Access Eq staff member Lia enjoys only the finer things in life: plants, plants, and (killing her) plants. 🌱 (Early-stage WIP!)

Please excuse the absence; I recently lost my still-quite-new housing placement, dead in the middle of a blizzard and the emigration process with a very broken wheelchair and nowhere to go.

I have been scrambling to figure out what to do. My laptop is with me, but not much that I'd be doing with it is a huge priority right now. I plan to queue up some of what little I have been working on for the next week or two to fill in some of the gap while I continue to make my US exit plan.

Credit: The unfurnished lot shell is The Eklund, created by @fakehousesrealawesome and then heavily restructured, gutted, and decorated by myself. While I prioritize building my facility lots & worlds all from scratch, I find a bit of sweet realism and charm in moving my sims into pre-built houses. Thank you so much to FHRA for sharing your beautiful houses!

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A little scenery update from both sides of my world: small tweaks I've made while getting back into CAW that didn't feel BigTM or special enough to warrant a dedicated post with multiple angles, but do make me feel a little happy to look at.

Of note: the middle (largest) image is a preview of where the paradressage arenas are set to go. Peeking through those trees will eventually show the back of one of the accessible viewing pavilions.

The left-side image below that is eventually going to be the Counselor-in-Training pool/clubhouse spot for summer camp.

Progress is slower than steady, but looking at these really makes me feel like I can see the finish line: distant still, but imaginable. 🌱

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Still here; still trying; still suffering. ✨

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Say goodbye to the old back-and-forth of gathering tack before your lessons: the new boarder lounge in Access Eq’s side barn is taking shape. Equipped with an ADA-compliant mini kitchen, laundry machines, a small sitting area, plenty of shelf space for boarder and lessee belongings, and multilevel tack hangers, this convenient and accessible lounge will be the one-stop shop for all of your horse care needs—just in time for the summer heat! The days of crossing the yard to fill buckets and haggling over golf carts to shift heavy gear between barns are soon to be a thing of the past. ✨ [Projected to wrap construction Summer 2025.]

Angles are bad because I didn't intend to share these when I took them, wall colors aren't real, and clutter is still a massive WIP!

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Fiona (of "scratching at the 2024 Olympics with a mule who mysteriously went lame for about two and a half hours on trot-up day" fame) recently moved into a new basement apartment at 25 Lakeside Dr., and has been settling in quite nicely! Would you believe me if I told you this is barely 35% of what she's bringing with her?

If it wasn’t clear by the empty shelf space, non-recolored stuff, no ceiling, and room to walk around, this is a massive WIP!

Credit: Much thanks to @mystery-pixels for listing their unfurnished Ender Falls houses up for download. As I've said before, after literal years of building all my facility lots, club lots, and associated worlds up from scratch, it always feels nice to move my sims into houses that only need decorating and cluttering. It's a relief for me, as well as a touch of sweet realism to see my sims in the houses that I've seen others live in with their own setups and styles before. I would not have this escape from building and CAW and club prep without the wonderful creators who are still sharing their stuff with our community after all these years. Thank you so, so much!

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As if being mired in the moving process, several recent hospital stays, and suffering a house fire in August wasn't LifeTM enough for life to be, I was hit by a car the other day while crossing the street.

My wheelchair, as broken as it was before this, undoubtedly saved my life, but neither it nor I are in very good shape at the moment.

I haven't been able to sit at my desk for too too long, let alone get out of the house as often for wi-fi, but I feel like I deserve a little extra sims time when I can!

First views of the #IN-STRIDE show jumping and marathon driving warmup rings, plus a little sneak peek at the marathon course. 🌱

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I thought that it would be a good time, while I’m working on last-minute imports and markings for our own horses, to show some WIP facility shots. On the eastern half of the Barrhead School property is our Access Eq facility, where riders with physical, psychiatric, and/or intellectual disabilities are met with equitable opportunities to enjoy all that the vast world of horsemanship has to offer. The top pic is our main Access Eq boarder barn, still under construction, and the bottom two show the primary schooling barn for students and IN-STRIDE members. (Our landscapers are still hard at work, so expect plenty of changes by the time it’s ready to welcome guests!)

Special thanks to Sandy @aroundthesims for the pieces used in our makeshift wheelchair charging stations by the benches, which I’ve poorly strung together with OMSP resizers, Dara’s phone jacks, & various electrical bits and boxes from Sandy’s wonderful utility sets.

Stay tuned for some side barn interior/exterior previews, CAW progress, and summer clubhouse decoration queued up for later in the week!

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Facility World Previews ✨

I couldn't even venture a guess as to when the last time I actually got to work on my facility was. More goes into planning, building, and building for a club than anyone who hasn’t done it could possibly imagine!

The Barrhead & Access Eq facilities have officially divorced the IN-STRIDE map, and both are now happily situated in their own worlds!

I can finally finish developing both sides without worrying about file size or item density, and hopefully some of the facility-side lots I’ve been preparing in my crappy studio world will start making their way over in the coming weeks!

I’m actually pretty happy with the way things are shaping up. :)

Under the cut: scenery around the barn driveway that wasn’t *pretty* enough to be included.