Country Corner Church Lot (shell for your deco, no-slope basement, corner lot)
I really like the classic country look of twoflower’s Apple Grove Wedding Chapel, but I wanted it to be just a little country church, not a wedding venue. I also wanted a residential lot with a modern straight-walled basement for the clergy to live in and a real corner lot, with use of both roads, so I rebuilt this lot from the ground up and adjusted the proportions on the steeple while I was at it.
I left off the reception hall area and rebuilt the lot with a straight wall basement.
I added a second road so the church sits on a functional corner.
I’ve included HugeLunatic’s straight passage stair that is needed to make the basement door work (use the invisible recolor), but there is no other CC. This is an undecorated shell for you to customize as you like. I’ve just done the fussy technical building with Grid Adjuster and Lot Adjuster.
For a real “church” experience on my own version, I use the Opportunity Lectern, Meeting Controller, and Need Freak to keep the sims there happily, autonomously, listening to the “sermon.” (There’s no actual sect associated with this in my game. There are icons from various world religions in my lot. All are welcome.)
I use Ailias’s pews because they are the best size I’ve seen for this layout, 2nd story OMSPs to raise the lights to the second story while still lighting the ground floor, and a white recolor of the large window in back. I have also used OMSPs to place extra shrubs where the ground slopes. I’ve put a small graveyard in the space beside mine where you could have an admin building, house, parking lot, etc.
Built in a clean, empty game. Cleaned with SimPE, Lot Cleaner, and Clean Installer.
Known issue: Lots manipulated with Grid Adjuster can lose their thumbnail in the lot catalog. I’ve given it a nice one, but if it turns blue, that’s why, annoying, but harmless.
