Wednesday, July 13, 2011

A Little Bit of Southern Charm

I have a soft spot for old houses.  Whether it's the boxular coziness of old Colonials, the spookiness of Gothic Revival, or even the striking half-timber walls of a Tudor, I love it all and will take it any day over a vanilla suburban home.

There's one style of house that makes me swoon more than any of the others, and that's the old southern plantation houses.  The kind with big shuttered windows hiding away behind a veil of wrap-around porches, and old twisted trees hanging with spanish moss.

So when I got a craving to build a few days ago, I decided to make one.

Enough flowery gushing, though.  Here are the relevant details:

- Lot size:  30 x 30.  Would look great on a larger lot, too.
- One spacious master bedroom with a small connected nursery, which could easily be converted into an en-suite bath.
- Two children's rooms with gender-neutral decor.  One with a bunk bed, one with a single.
- 3 full baths and laundry room.
- 3 fireplaces, upgraded to be Fireproof so they can actually have stuff within fifteen feet of them.
- Tree-shaded backyard with a tree house and gnubb field
- Covered parking for 2 cars.
- Self-watering kitchen garden, with 9 Perfect quality plants
- Workshop shed with inventor's table and chemistry set.
- No third-party CC.  Store and Expansion items are everywhere, including both decorative objects and necessary stuff like doors and windows and beds.  The most immediately necessary are Ambitions, Generations, and the Old Town set, but check the Exchange download for a complete list.

The lot has been playtested at full capacity.  Everything is accessible with no undue bottlenecks encountered while going about an average day's business (if you send 5 sims to interact with the same object at once, however, that's your own problem.)

Exchange Download
(Includes list of Store/Stuff objects used.)

Mediafire Download

Pics are below.  Click to embiggen.





















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