#ea makeover ts4

[spoonsthings]

To celebrate getting a new laptop (and returning to simming soon, hopefully), some screenshots of the rental lot in Selvadorada that I’d been making over before it all went kaput.

I had a lot of fun keeping things maxis-match (or close enough, anyway, that seashell decor item doesn’t strictly pass muster) while also reinterpreting the lot closer to the kind of establishment that the original EA build was meant to replicate.

It involved:

Getting rid of a lot of the fancier furniture and decorations (including the glass-and-ornately-carved-wood sink and the hipster refrigerator) in favor of homelier, more rough-hewn and less finished looking furnishings.

Removing all sinks, and instead installing a “water pump” in the front yard, in orderto simulate a property with only minimal access to running water... this being the cheapest rental in Selvadorada, I felt that fit much better.

To that end, I also added a (CC) washtub and clothesline, because rough-and-tumble adventurers don’t tend to have a lot of spare clean clothing lying around.

Unfortunately, there were limits to how "realistic” I could really make things... I kinda had to provide ready plumbing in the form of an actual toilet (though I tried to use one that looked like it could belong in an outhouse) and a bathtub. I suppose I could have insisted on going hard-core and not had either (replacing their functions with a toilet bush + showers-in-a-can), but I decided it wouldn’t be much fun to try and push things that far.

Also added stains and cracks to the walls, since they’d mostly come with expansion content that wasn’t from JA.

I was pretty pleased at how it all turned out. Not only did the lot feel far more realistically grimy after my edits, but it actually became even cheaper to rent than the original EA build had been. Not bad work for an evening’s (re)decorating.

CC attribution below the jump:

I used a lot of items from these two camping set by Sandy @aroundthesims. At the very least, the kitchen “stove”, small “folding” table in the kitchen, and the washtub come from there.

The stand-alone countertops can be found here, from @zx-ta.

The folding chairs in the kitchen come from @pictureamoebae, as well as her recolor of the deco leaning folded chair by @stefizzi.

Most of the clutter on the kitchen shelves is by BrazenLotus, and were probably all separated out from Jungle Adventures. The only exception is the conch shell, which can be found here (warning: T$R alert).

The bed frame is from this set by @peacemaker-ic.

I replaced the expensive-looking end tables with these considerably rougher-looking ones from zx-ta again, from this set. (I could have probably used the frame from the same set for the bed actually, and I was severely tempted to just because it’s a great piece of furniture... but for whatever reason it just didn’t look right.)

The mirror I placed over the dresser comes from @naturalsimmster, and can be downloaded here.

Lastly, the outdoor water pump is by artrui and can be downloaded here. (Marion / OhMySims has also done a slightly different version of the same idea, though it might be a pain to track down a working download link.)