Renovations: Complete (barely)

The renovations are complete! They will be detailed below. I'm getting much more back into the swing of things now, with all the shortcuts and little cheats coming back to be. I'm getting comfortable enough with the camera that I'm tempted to look for some modelling competitions! I know there are still some running for Sims 3, I've seen them around. I can't get too deep into anything right now because I won't be around for the month of August, but I might start hanging around those corners of the internet again :)

Before I could start into the renos, Caitlin needed to finish their sculpture so I could move the sculpting station into the family inventory, so while she did that, Lucy made a small painting, as one of her first wishes as a child was to learn how to paint.

Renovations!! Here is my remodel of the first floor. I added some new furniture, but not a lot. Pretty empty but I didn't want to overspend on furniture since I tend to go wild with frilly details. The puddle there is because the sink broke right before I started renovating and I just said fuck it and renovated around it. The biggest changes are of course the new wall placement with the bigger kitchen and bathroom, each with new floor and wall patterns because fuck the teeny-tiled monstrosities they were before. I also changed the carpet colour to blue and made the couch pink, bringing some new colours into the general scheme of the house.

Here is the second floor, complete with three bedrooms, a bathroom, and an activity room! Still very very bare bones, but again, I was being cautious with myself on the details. The bathroom I just decided to keep the same on both floors for simplicity, but I do intend to make them nicer and different from each other with further changes. The bedrooms are noticeably very empty, but I will add move furniture and decorations as more funds are built to buy nice things from the get-go instead of wasting money on cheap crap because it's cheap. The foosball table near the stairs was a wedding gift, as are the two pieces of wall art downstairs.

All in all I think I did okay? This was certainly a much more ambitious project than I've ever take on in live mode with an actual household and limited budget, as opposed to building a random lot for the fun of it. I tend to only modify premade houses in terms of furniture placement and decor. Building is not my strong suit. It was a good experience to toy around with the structure of the place as well as the decorating in creating their new home!

Living Room

Dining Room (high chair seat pattern)

Dining Room (other angle)

Kitchen (wall tile)

This room could probably use the most work out of all of them. I didn't CASt the counters or appliances because I was kinda tired of CASt-ing things by this point but they're pretty clashy and definitely need to be changed :/ Maybe next time I play.

Downstairs Bathroom

Second Floor Landing

Activity Room

Lucy's Room (border pattern)

Upstairs bathroom

Rita's Room (wallpaper, border pattern, crib fabric pattern)

 Master Bedroom

There's not a heck of a lot to say about most of the upcoming photos. I just took a lot of family moments type pics that I thought were cute and there they are!!

Plates!! I downloaded default replacement plates to spice things up.

Rita's birthday!! She looks just like Caitlin, whereas Lucy looks just like Suzy.

I won't do a run down of her outfits because I wasn't in the mood to CASt something special so Rita just got Lucy's hand-me-downs lol

Her becoming a toddler obviously means the traditional skills montage.

Other than preparing Rita to face the world, the household was pretty calm.

This is a default replacement to make the bottle and formula white instead of green, because if milk is green it is very bad.

And that's all I got for today! The house still looks a bit empty, I know, but they're in super-saving mode right now, aiming to save up for really nice things to replace all the junk and fill all that empty space. I already busted 3600 Simoleons for them to replace both ever-breaking toilets with top of the line models lol, so they're basically back to no cash after that plus purchasing the activity table to satisfy Lucy's wish. They won't have any more kids 'cause I don't think I could possibly make any more space for them, as much as I love playing with large households. Third floor? Basement? Maybe one day, but right now all I'm seeing is dollar signs. More family pictures tomorrow!