Today we’ll take a look at the final building on the Franklin Market lot (originally Franklin Apartments), located on 3 Main Street in @one-plumbob‘s custom world Pleasant Isle. For visual reference, that’s the grey building to the left:
It’s in this section of the lot, that I built, what I’ve decided (decided as in as I’m writing this, lol) to call The Pet Stop, because it contains a pet store, pet grooming area, and a veterinary office. I mentioned in my post for The Nectar Shop & Formagore that The Pet Stop was actually set up before I worked on the Nectar shop. At the time, I remember feeling a combination of boredom and anxiety, and thought working on a shop I’d never attempted before would better feed my creative needs. It worked, although, do to the space, and my own limited abilities, there were some things I was unable to achieve with this store.
Here’s the front entrance:
If you recall, back in July, I put out a post requesting assistance with finding deco puppies and kittens. Those were for those little window box displays beneath the cat and dog signs.
I have these memories from family movies I saw during my childhood of people taking their children to get a family dog or ending up with a new pet because the kid saw puppies through the display window and the parents couldn’t resist the child’s pleading. So when I saw how One-plumbob had set up their deco pet shop, I recalled those images from tv, and they inspired my reno.
As a quick aside I want to thank @murfeelee, @browniecap, and especially @omedapixel for helping me in my cc search for this reno, and the latter, for converting some objects for my personal use.
Okay, now we move inside. Here’s a shot of the main shopping area from just beyond the entrance:
I don’t think I’ve ever used that fire hydrant (or any really) in any of my builds or renos until now. I’m pretty sure, it was the last thing I placed, either because I felt the spot right be the corridor was too bare, or because I came across it in buydebug and thought this would be a good opportunity to throw this in. In hindsight, I wish it was red, or red and white. I can’t remember if this hydrant can’t be recolored, or if red wasn’t an option among the others or if I went with blue and white on my own when setting this up. The point is, I am not happy with it now that I look at this image.
Here’s another shot from the entrance turned just slightly.
At this angle you can see where I’ve placed more deco animals.
I came across those cages awhile ago. don’t remember where they came from, but as soon as I knew I was making a pet store I was excited to use them. I had to do some shrinking and placement fandangoing to get those dogs (and wolves, but pretend they’re dogs ok, lol) in there, but I think the end result is pretty nice.
Here are some more shots of different sections of the store:
If you haven’t guessed by now, I went on a pet download binge for this. I had a lot of items already, went ahead and got the rest of the items in @aroundthesims‘ pet store collection, and Omedapixel’s pet item set (I think those things are yours). I was also lucky that around the time I was finishing up @phoebejaysims had completed their Pet Bowl Requires Food mod. I’ve stashed the bags for that on that shelf (see the pic immediately following) to the far right with the kitty litter boxes beneath it.
Here are more angles of the shop:
You can kind of see the area where I’ve got toy boxes, and dishes set up as like my doggie section. I didn’t realize it until now that this little section as well as the one for cats (just beside the kitten and pup display), can’t really be seen well from any of my photos. Sorry about that.
Going back to when I mentioned that there were some things with this build that I was unable to accomplish.
I didn’t have enough space to put in cages and terrarium’s for minor pets. As an alternative I tried to create a wall display of tanks as I’d downloaded a custom terrarium that has been removed from the base. Unfortunantely, I couldn’t figure out how to raise those tanks as they don’t work with OMSP, and I don’t have experience with some of the other tricks using cheats and other mods that allow one to raise objects. For now, I just have to be satisfied knowing minor pets can be purchased from the pet store register.
Speaking of which, here are the shots of the sales floor near and from behind the registers:
I might try to figure out how to use those build tricks later on, or expand the pet shop to include what I had to leave out in the future. Perhaps I’ll make a more specialized pet place, for minor pets and edit this for just cats and dogs.
So if the steps didn’t clue you in, this is a multistory shop. I’ll share the shots of the second floor next week!
