I really do love that word, huh... Anyway, here's a colourful apartment for an artist who likes to experiment with different styles, both in their art and their furnishing.
One Bedroom - One Bathroom
Apartment: 1310 21 Chic Street, Fashion District, San Myshuno
It's been 84 years, but I finally finished furnishing my Britechester apartment building(s). Yes, I can hardly believe it myself.
Honeydew Houses, in the heart of the old town, offer six units with different layouts, decorated in different styles.
There's a small shared laundry room on the groundfloor, and the apts. include:
Seven Bedrooms - Six Bathrooms in total
(so one bedroom - one bathroom per apartment, only the one on the first floor has two bedrooms)
Basement, left: Grungy Apt.
Basement, right: Musician's Apt.
Groundfloor: Caretaker's Apt.
First Floor: Single Mom's Apt.
Second Floor: Dark Academia Apt.
Third Floor/Attic: Painter's Mansard
If you prefer to furnish them yourself, you can download an (almost) empty version of this build from the gallery as well.
Lot Type: Residential
Lot: Honeydew Fields, 20x15, Gibbs Hill, Britechester
Lot Traits: (honestly I forgot to add them to the finished build, but considering the lore, I would have probably gone for) Homey, Study Spot, Great Acoustics
Playtested (I found two minor issues which I decided to ignore for the sake of the backstory and/or aesthetics, and a bigger one that drives me insane but I don't know how to fix; more info under the cut)
Available on the Sims 4 gallery!
Tray Files: Google Drive
Heads-up: this build might be a little bit heavy on older pcs as it's very cluttered and detailed. The file size is ca. 503 KB, so pretty high for a 20x15 lot, and my laptop was taking ages to load when I placed the build in a new save for some last playtesting, so please keep that in mind and make sure to save your game before adding it (and bulldoze the lot before you do), just in case. Sorry for the inconvenience!
And I also made some sims for this build...
Gallery ID: LaTalpaVolante
You can find a playlist with the speed builds for all the six apartments on my Youtube channel:
Decorating the six units of an old Britechester apartment building.
More info and floorplans under the cut!
As you can tell from the list of packs, I haven't used For Rent for this as I don't have this expansion yet, so the apartments technically aren't separate units. I just added all the tenants as one household and assigned them their apts. by locking the other doors; or you could of course play around with the roommate system as well, or turn the apts. into proper rental units if you own For Rent.
Known Issues (I'm sorry, I know these explanations shouldn't be that long...)
In the grungy basement apt., the access to the right side of the bed is blocked by the punchbag.
Sims can still get into the bed from the left side without problems. Because I had intended the apt. to be for one single sim anyway and it was more important for me to keep the punchbag, considering the hobbies and backstory of this sim, I decided to just go with it. But if you want to move two sims in, you'll either have to make one of them scoot over in the bed or delete the punchbag.
In the caretaker's apt. on the groundfloor, sims can't remove dirty dishes from the dining table.
Otherwise sims can interact with that table perfectly fine (they can sit down and eat, do homework, read etc.), they just can't take dirty dishes from the table.
This is apparently caused by the decorative shelf in the corner because its footprint slightly overlaps the one of the table. Easiest fix would be to either completely delete the shelf or just move the table away from it.
However, because moving the table away from the wall looked a bit weird, and in my gameplay, I tend to just manually drag the dirty dishes into the sink anyway, I decided to ignore it.
The Interrupted Cooking Interaction in Basements Desaster
Yeah. I basically made a whole post about this, but to sum it up, there seems to be a general issue where sims refuse to autonomously complete a cooking interaction in the basement when there are other cooking opportunities (=stoves, counters) available on the lot.
If you play this build with the locked doors method, like me, and you want your sim to cook in one of the basement apts., they will take out the ingredients from the fridge, then behave as if the stove/counters were blocked (although I made sure they're accessible) and put the ingredients down. If you then click on the ingredients and choose to continue cooking, sims will however complete the interaction as if nothing happened. (If you don't lock the doors to the other apts., sims from the basement will automatically go upstairs to cook and ignore the basement kitchen.)
I spent a ridiculous amount of time playtesting it over and over again and trying to figure out what exactly causes the problem, but I really couldn't find a solution and I'm extremely sorry for this. Maybe if you've got For Rent, turning the apts. into proper rental units might fix this issue?
Please let me know in case you encounter any other problems (or if you know a way to fix the last one...)!
Honestly, I don't really know how to call the style of this apartment. It's sort of mid-century modern furnishing in a warm colour scheme combined with some pieces of Renaissance (and Renaissance-inspired) art. Mostly I just felt like decorating with cc for a change. Thanks to all the creators for their amazing work!
Time has left its marks, but Honeydew Houses are still are charming place to live. These old Britechester townhouses come with six apartments on five floors for you to furnish to your liking, as well as an (already decorated) laundry room on the groundfloor.
There are two apartments with two bedrooms, the others only have one. The one on the top floor also comes with a balcony. The kitchen and bathroom of every apartment already have some very basic furniture, but it's mostly meant as a placeholder, you don't have to stick to the suggested floorplan, do whatever you want with this.
If you share your version on the gallery, please credit me (#LaTalpaVolante) so I can see your creations! :)
Eight Bedrooms - Six Bathrooms
Lot Type: Residential
Lot: Honeydew Fields, 20x15, Gibbs Hill, Britechester
(**the most important ones for the exterior are DiscoverUniversity and then also CottageLiving and GetTogether. The others I used mostly for the placeholder furnishing I did and decorations (and the laundry room). Vampires and BasementTreasures were mostly used for the stains and cracks in the walls for example**)
noCC
MoveObjectsOn cheat required
Playtested
Available on the Sims 4 gallery!
Gallery ID: LaTalpaVolante
Floorplan and more information under the cut!
I know the staircase situation isn't super realistic, but I wanted to place the stairs as space-saving as possible because some of the apartments were already rather small, and I really wanted the one on the first floor to have two bedrooms, so...yeah...
Also for some reason I couldn't place any banisters on the stairs (except for the one on the groundfloor), so I had to close them of with walls, which really bugged me out, but I couldn't find another solution. I hope you don't mind too much...
I'm also planning to upload a furnished version of this build at some point, but who know when this is going to happen... lol
Starting off 2025 with a starter home.
This small mid-century modern house is actually surprisingly spacious and well-furnished and -decorated for its price, and already comes with everything your sim needs to begin their story. And it even has a pool! And a bonsai tree!! Yay!!!
Just…make sure to get some money before the first bill arrives.
One Bedroom - One Bathroom
Lot Type: Tiny House Residential (Tier 3, Small Home, 82 Tiles)
For some very small tweaks (mostly lowering the fence to the right height and resizing some plants) TwistedMexi’s T.O.O.L. mod was used, but you don’t need the mod in your game for this to show up the way I built it.
This charming, half-timbered house in the oldtown of Windenburg belongs to two elderly ladies who rent out their spare bedroom to tourists or students. If you're willing to lend them a hand in the garden, they might even grant you a little discount🌱
Two Bedrooms - 1.5 Bathrooms
Lot Type: Tiny House Residential (Tier 3, Small Home, 97 Tiles)
For some small tweaks TwistedMexi’s T.O.O.L. mod was used, but you don’t need the mod in your game for this to show up the way I built it.
You can watch the speed build on my YouTube channel:
It's not set as a rental lot because I haven't got For Rent yet, but if you own the pack and want to stick to the backstory I had in mind, I guess you can easily turn the spare bedroom into its own unit.
Or you could use the roommate system from Discover University.
Or add a third sim to the household and just lock some doors.
Or literally do whatever you want, obviously. Hope you enjoy! 😊
After basically not building anything for five months, I felt like furnishing some random apartment (and trying axiisims's cool custom balcony idea!). The result was a colourful, cosy home for a single writer and booklover. Nothing special, but it was fun spending more time in build mode again!
One Bedroom - One Bathroom
Apartment: 1313 21 Chic Street, Fashion District, San Myshuno
Price: § 51,873
Packs: GetFamous | Seasons | CityLiving | GetToWork | Parenthood | TinyLiving | LaundryDay | MovieHangout | Booknook | EverydayClutter | DecorToTheMax
(the last one and GetFamous were only used for one item each, that is the wall decoration and that one plant on the balcony, so you won't miss a lot if you don't have these packs)
noCC
MoveObjectsOn cheat required
Playtested (except for the objects related to the "needs TLC" lot trait because you never know when they start "misbehaving", but I tried to make sure they're all accessible. One of the mouse holes has a plant standing rather close to it so this one might turn out to be blocked, but in this case you'd just have to delete the plant. Please let me know if you find any other issues.)
