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[elviestardewdream]

Just decorated my tea shop!

Finally stopped procrastinating and built HxW Tea Shop! I've been wanting to decorate one of their maps for now, but inspiration hasn't struck me until today. Since this is built in my flower farm, of course I added lots of flowers and plants deco. And a pond is a must-have for my builds at this point lol.

Design thoughts and musings below:

For the entrance I've added display shelf for the tea products (WAG loose tea leaves, Bauble's teapots, and some incense) as like, a merchandise.

For the pond area, I actually have a lot of personally edited mods. I've been thinking about how nice it would be to be able to have diagonal paths, or paint a ground/terrain texture like you could in the Sims 4. At first, I was going to edit a lot of paths into their diagonal versions but gave up due to the sheer amount of paths design.

Then, an idea came: if the paths can't be diagonal, just let the grass be the one that's diagonal! Thus, the diagonal grass rug is born. I only need to make 4 seasonal variants, ready to grab from the outdoors tilesheet and voila!

I made several shapes so technically I can make a round pathing too, but they're not perfect yet.

Color scheme for this build: pink, green, dark brown, white, with hints of red. The purple wisteria is built on the map itself.

The 2 signs near the cashier and counter say "In" and "Out" respectively, so people know where to start queuing.

I will probably add a PIF HxW small business kitchen for the door behind the counter, and mayyybe add the outdoor dining area PIF too for the door on first floor's left side. But geographically speaking the outdoor area doesn't make sense (exterior WIP photo below) so I should save that for my HxW Bakery build.

Although I say this, my farmhouse is even more of a monstrosity geographical-wise HAHA with at least 2 backyard & patio

I think, I will revert the tea shop exterior to its original texture. This is HxW's tea shop AT retexture, but I want to compare between the original design and this one (I legit just realized the AT isn't just a simple recolor but a different layout altogether ToT)). This one is pretty too, but the original one I think is more flowery and would fit the aesthetics of the farm better.

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[elviestardewdream]

Behind the Scene: Planning and Visualization Step

This is before I (very recently) found out how to use Stardew planner v3... (instead of clicking upload picture, I always clicked upload save, and get very confused when the picture doesn't load)

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Backyard

Cat Cafe Sunroom

Teashop

Flower Garden

Christmas room

But drawing it like this on my phone gallery, I think, has more freedom than just using the planner, especially if I am going to incorporate a lot of modded items/structures. That said, I admire people who can masterfully and creatively decorate in the planner! I've seen inspiring works posted in the community.

Usually, I start by going "shopping" through my Happy Home Designer catalog, and place the items I think would suit the area, but not in an organized way yet. After that I freestyle the placement a bit, before actually planning out my layout. And sometimes, I scrap or alter the design. I'm still struggling designing my cellar... Send some links to your favorite cellar design please heheh. For the areas I didn't like after actually putting it in-game, I usually paint the screenshot over and sketch over it.

For bigger maps I can even make a gif of the progression, because I draw and progress bit by bit 🫡 it's not done yet though, just a bit more to go!

Did I do a good job in bringing the vision to life? 😅

[elviestardewdream]

Flower Garden - Apiary

This is the beekeeping area of my flower garden. I plan to use the building to make a small cafe/bakery serving honey-based tea and snacks from Wildflour's Atelier Goods! I'm still choosing the interior map though, should it be a large map, or a small map?

In front of the building, I put some jars (of honey) and a let's say honey lemonade. The sign says free tester ^^ in the hopes of encouraging visitors to enter the bakery and taste more honey-based delicacies~

I am trying to go for a warm atmosphere here, so the honeybees can live comfortably and the honeys taste more refreshing~ the global God rays really helped a lot with this.

In hindsight, I should have added the Bees' Knees Apiary from Rose and the Alchemist mod 😳 but I ran out of space. Well it can be placed somewhere else then!

Let me just add the version with a little bit more sunlight, she's a bit bright though hehe

[elviestardewdream]

Waterfall Pond: Multi-level Design

Proud owner of the best garden in Pelican Town ✌️🫡

I explored a little bit more with my previous waterfall pond design and it got upgraded like this.

It's so fun trying to place the bushes and rocks to create the illusion of a more elevated terrain, while in reality it's just a flat ground xD

Gif version:

It feels more alive with the critters (and junimos) around 🫡

Like in my previous post, the waterfall is added by using Map Editor Extended. I found out if you hold shift button while selecting a tilesheet, you can choose multiple tiles and hence, animation works!

The swan is actually a crab pot and not an actual livestock animal, let's pretend she lives there on the pond.

I wish there were more mods which include large rocks and stones to diversify the look, but so far I only found Cherry Lake Tilesheet (personally converted), and CP Some Furniture. I also converted the big rock from Simple Resources.

Times like these I miss the debug objects from TS4 and the cheat to giganticize or minimize the objects. The rocks, bushes, and the ability to paint the terrain... save me sims 4 landscaping tools

Progress pictures below:

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Small Floral Workshop

Welcome to my humble plant/flower studio. Here we arrange flowers and plants in a variety of pots and vases to fit your aesthetic~

This is actually a Ginger Island Farmhouse map, with the kitchen or mini fridge removed. Shoutout to Rebekah Tiny Island Hut! The ceiling window (with animated bird) is a really unique touch and I love all the flowers visible there. Be sure to check out their other mods too, I'm going for the Greenhouse next~

Also the lovely panels on the wall are from Lovely Wall Panels. With this mod, you can create the illusion of a unique wallpaper, dynamic and suited for your needs.

Furniture and flowers are mainly from HxW Florist Furniture and CocumiT (imucocT on Curseforge)'s Plant Dreamer set. Highly recommend for adding more flowers to your home!

Adding a sunlight version down below.

I love Global God Rays mod. I've been thinking about getting the Dynamic Shader mod too, but I'm afraid it'd be too heavy. Has anyone used this mod before, how was the experience?

Because this is a small build, I can make a mod list yay! Famous last words. Listed below.

Rebekah Tiny Island Hut

Lovely Wall Panels for all wallpapers and wall panels

HxW Florist Furniture

HxW Greenhouse Furniture

HxW Fairy Garden Furniture (for the gnome)

Plant Dreamer

PC's rattan furniture

Lumisteria Furniture (small rectangle pond)

Kisaa's Kitchen (sink) and restaurant furniture (menu/price list on the wall)

Quaint Living Fence (bottom right flower grass)

Jiaojiao's classic furniture (sofa)

Orangeblossom cute chic furniture? For green rugs

Orangeblossom basic wallpaper and floors (for the wood flooring)

Yellowslime's 3 big windows (floor length window on the right)

Orangeblossom's windows for the curtained windows

Recolor decorative pots and plants by sirrobertsmom

Dustbeauty wallpapers and floors (for stone floor on the bottom right room)

Aster Festive Kotatsu (for the flower floor cushion upstairs)

Molamole's kitchen counter, for the big table at the center of the left room

Adorable bathroom furniture (drainhole)

Th3fishh blue furniture (white fence upstairs)

Orchid and light orange flower vase -> Xiaohongshu exclusive mod by SongKe

I'm still missing some stuffs like the wood floor, coffee table, white sandals, and a flower vase somewhere there but it's complete enough. Why is it so long 😫 when I think it's done I keep seeing an item from a different mod, oh right I used that, oh wait I also used this... and so on.

[elviestardewdream]

Building an Aquarium in Stardew

I don't know what possessed me but I started building this aquarium while waiting for the 1.7 marriage candidate announcement! Willy failed to come home (It's okay Willy can still come and hang out here as friends), but Clint is honestly an interesting choice and I can't wait to see how CA will write his story-line. I also wanted to build some kind of pottery workshop area to complement my tea cafe and tea workshop, so adding a smithy too isn't too difficult!

This is a 3-story building. The first floor is an entrance, and it is beach-themed. There are aquariums in the wall, the concept is that's the bottom of the aquarium seen on the second floor.

The second floor is a full aquarium. There is a big fountain on the center, and the aquarium is filled with all sorts of rocks, reefs, and decoration to imitate the feeling of a rich ocean ecosystem. I hope I conveyed this well.

The uppermost floor leads to a sitting area overlooking the aquarium below, and also a special see-through glass window floor!

There is also a deck, or balcony, overlooking the seas, and visitors can enjoy the nice breeze of wind while sitting there. Occasionally, some seagull friends also visit so beware the (potential) sandwich thieves ^^)

Since the building is semi-outdoor, I find it fitting to turn on the Global God Rays mod for ambiance. Here are the lighting at different hours.

Today's building is actually from HxW Buildable Brewery! I was browsing for more building types to add to my farm, and when I saw this layout, inspiration struck. Tbh I'm running a non-alcohol run so the repurposing of a Brewery fits my farmer's lore just fine.

I had always wanted to use the Water Ripple Furniture because you can also put fish here, but when I tried to put them outside, it always seemed off (my own skill issue, not the author's). That's why I designed this indoors! Coupled with Global God Rays, it looks absolutely stunning!

I also have my eyes on Aqua Link (to connect fish tanks) but I'm not sure if it works for this Water Ripple furniture since this technically isn't a fish tank? Because right now my fish are confined in 4x4 tiles area mostly.

[elviestardewdream]

A Sunny Backyard

Besides for hanging the laundry, this provides a space to chill around the bonfire, and a space for the kids to play and camp.

The backyard which is accesible from the laundry room (now that I think about it, that doesn't seem very convenient haha). Pictured below for visualization~

I wanted to add a slide or more toys but I ran out of space (again!!) Never a map where I say this fits just right haha! It's always either too small or too big.

I also need to find ideas for how to fill my cellar if I'm going for a non-alcohol run. The only thing left is cheese, but how should I do the layout hmm.

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Flower Garden Farm - Stardew Valley Diary

My farmer's flower-focused farm! Should I call her a florist?

The layout is LNH's another small farm. I thought it would be enough for a flower garden, but surprisingly it doesn't fit my other ideas for a flower garden 🥀 Hence, the arch on the upper left leads to an additional area (not yet done).

Closeups below 👇

The interiors are, sadly, also not done. So far there are flower shop + cafe, greenhouse, and a shed for displaying/selling artisan goods! Other buildings, such as workshop and maybe a wedding venue are planned to be in the additional area (spoilers: starry cliff PIF).

Me: chooses a farm called "another small farm" Farm: is small Me: Surprised pikachu face

Oops shadow edit strikes. Minor tweaks happened. Old version below for my archive.