A good house for an extended family? I've been meaning to do this for ages. My Toussaint family started out on a 4x3 lot and I pushed 'em pretty hard and they're now coming to end of their lives (both aged 75) They have 3 daughters so the family name is dead in the water unless Jean Luc fathers a male heir by first outliving his belle femme Clothilde and then wooing his way into the bed of another eligible woman. Anyway I build their home in stages as their wealth grew ... always working to a plan and I have often wanted to share it with other simmers because as it has grown it has been gently and often remodelled to improve traffic patterns and general usage. So today I dumped my downloads folder on the desktop to get rid of all hacks and loaded up Veronaville to build a new Toussaint mansion from scratch (working to some plans I scribbled on the back of electricity bill ... ) So I offer The Vicarage, a double fronted traditional home with a large cellar, 3 downstairs reception rooms currently serving as a billiards room, a study, and a lounge. The spacious entrance hall has a convenient homework nook to prevent younger sims with muddy feet tramping thru the house after a hard day at school. Leading off from the entrance hall is a downstairs cloakroom, leading on to stairs accessing the cellar. There is also a separate downstairs toilet. The kitchen at the rear of the property is well proportioned for a good balance between ergonomic cooking and dining and pleasingly spacious proportions. Upstairs there are 4 large double bedrooms each with its own en-suite bathroom. These may be protected from marauding visitors by using the FFS Authorized Personnel Only Security System (available separately from Pescado) The attic is floorboarded and contains a number of items that most families will find useful. It is not windowed by design. No-sim needs that much accomodation the stairs leading to the attic are for show and also to allow idiot townies to get lost ... All for $178,000 it is entirely free of mods, hacks, custom content and downloaded items and is a very reasonable 1.75MB download. The grounds include generous pool and a sunken pond but no planting as I believe that planting schemes (and decor) are a matter of personal taste and rearranging a garden takes a lot longer than just buying a new one from scratch. http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/lot_detail.php?asset_id=206982
I like the house. I don't have University; so, it's downloaded into a "hold em" folder for now. I'm trying to hold out until the end of summer to buy it since I just got Sims 2 the beginning of June. If I get University now, I'll NEVER want to leave the house and my husband will flip!
Oooh, Mirelly, you loaded it on the official site. Groan. I can't access it because I have never bothered to get my password/serial number problem resolved. I get my Sims fix on this site just fine ... any chance that you can load it here? Otherwise I shall have to admire it from a distance. Sigh.
The_Vicarage.Sims2Pack zipped up and ready. I actually have upload authority to the main database but I can't find the details to log in ... they're packed away on another puter and until I unpack I'm stuck with this. (Don't let Josh know ... he thinks I'm organized )
A More Contemporary Version I haven't gotten around to making any screenshots and it isn't at the exchange yet. It contains the FFS phone hack and authorised personnel only mods. It has been slightly remodelled internally making some of the rooms slightly smaller and some slightly larger however the same basic floorplan as seen in the more Victorian lines of the Vicarage, remains. The homework station is closer to the front door and the cellar can be locked with the security system to prevent visitors playing with stuff (move items before a party ... just like in real life ... visitors thinking of messing with whatever will be found looking puzzled in the middle of the spacious entrance hallway. The staircases are now built with the connecting stairs. It has a fully-fitted kitchen with all appliances plus 4.5 bathrooms and full electric lighting. Outside is a pool. The walls are decorated with in off-white paint, the floors are bare pine planks. Its ready to occupy and for only $142,490 it'll be moving faster than a Malibu Heights condo in a mudslide.
