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Build-n-Share Challenge #169 - A Patchwork Family
Challenge Deadline: Monday 31st of August, Midnight CMT.
You pull up to Central Park, scanning the expanse of green grass for your next client. Crossing the footbridge over the pond, you see a tanned handsome man jogging toward you, his face split in an easy smile. “Hi! I'm Miguel Salvador. I recognized you from the article in the Sunset Gazette about the new orphanage.” He shakes your hand warmly.
“It's so nice to meet you, Mr. Salvador,” you say.
“Please, call me Miguel. Let me introduce you to my family.” He leads you across the field to a red and white gingham picnic blanket spread beneath an enormous shade tree. A beautiful mocha-skinned woman with short, tight curls sits crossed-legged, her very pregnant belly covered in a pool of flowing bohemian fabrics. Twin Asian toddlers sit with her, busily playing with a xylophone and peg blocks, their cherubic faces furrowed intently beneath their pig tails. “This is my wife, Serena, and two of our children, Lihua and Liling.” Serena extends her hand up to you, metal bracelets jangling as they slide up her slender arm.
“It's wonderful to meet you,” you say, shaking Serena's hand. “Your family is beautiful!”
“Oh, the twins are not our only children,” Serena says with a chuckle. “Our eldest son, Nketi, is over there playing frisbee with our younger son, Tuyen.” Her voice drops to a low whisper, “Our other daughter, Aleela, is hiding behind this tree. She's shy.” Two dark eyes peep out from behind the tree, catch your gaze, and then disappear. Serena pats her belly gently. “And last but not least, we have Maya here, who should be making her debut in a few more weeks.”
“Incredible,” you breathe.
Miguel motions for you to have a seat and then sits beside Serena, looping an arm over her shoulders. “Serena and I have a special place in our hearts for kids in the system. We were both in the foster system and aged out before we could be adopted. So we've made it our mission to bring as many kids into our home as we can handle. Which is why we need your help. We are currently living in a tiny apartment with five children. With a sixth on the way, we're really bursting at the seams.”
“I bet! What do you need in your new home?”
“We need three or four bedrooms plus a nursery, and at least two and a half bathrooms,” Miguel says. “I teach middle school at the Community School for the Gifted and have lots of papers to grade, so I need some sort of office space. If it could double as study space for the kids, too, that would be great.”
“Meal times are hectic, so we'd love a large, open kitchen with plenty of prep space and enough places for everyone to have a seat at the table,” Serena adds. “We generate an enormous amount of laundry, so a laundry or mudroom is a must. The kids also need some decent green space to play in. There is nowhere for them to play at the apartment complex, which is why we're at the park today.”
“Okay, that all sounds feasible,” you say. “Is there anything else you need?”
Miguel touches the bangles on Serena's arm. “Serena makes jewelry and sells it at the consignment store. She also likes to paint and teaches youth art camp at the Sunset Institute of Modern Art, so some sort of art space would be good for her.”
“What style of home did you have in mind?” you ask.
“We like contemporary and prairie style homes, but casual and family friendly rather than cold and museum-like,” Serena says. “Our family is a patchwork of different ethnicities. Nketi is from Kenya, Aleela is from Zambia, Tuyen is Vietnamese, the twins came from China,and Miguel is Puerto Rican. I'd love for the interior of the home to have things that remind each child of their own heritage. We like a warm color palette – reds, oranges, and yellows – but it shouldn't be garish. Does that make sense?”
“Absolutely! We can have your home finished by the end of the month. Will that work?”
Serena puts a loving hand on her belly and says with a smile, “Just in time.”
The Brief:
*30x30 lot
*3-4 bedrooms, plus a nursery (the home should have 3 cribs for the twins and the new baby)
*at least 2 ½ bathrooms
*laundry/mudroom
*large open kitchen
*warm color palette
*contemporary or prairie style home
*comfortable, casual interior
*items that honor the family's varied heritage
*office/study space
*art space
*a green space for the kids to play in
*$110K budget
Optional Challenge:
Make the family and show them living in their new space. Miguel is a teacher who is family oriented, nurturing, and charismatic. Serena is family oriented, artistic, and handy. Nketi is a clumsy child who loves to read. Aleela is a shy child who loves animals. Tuyen is a perfectionist child who is over-emotional. The twins look identical, but are very different. Lihua is a budding virtuoso, while her sister, Liling, is athletic. Maya's traits remain to be seen. Or you can download the family from the exchange and show them in their new home. http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=8720544
Entry List
Beginners
N/A
Intermediates
NAME: SimLover48702
LINK TO LOT: Not Included. If you would like one, please ask on my wall.
LINK TO MEDIA: http://smileyfxce.blogspot.com/2015/08/build-n-share-169-patchwork-family.html
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE:
LEVEL: Intermediate
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: 30x30, 1057 University Drive(sims university world), 98,013 simoleons
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: I was going for what the Salvador's asked for, warm color palette, hence the oranges, browns, and greens throughout the home. Including 2 full bathrooms, and 1 half bathroom, three bedrooms, one for Tuyen and Nketi, one for Aleela, and one for Miguel and Serena. Aleela's bedroom has lots of wood incorporated to her room, since being from Zambia, it has lots of woodland, and based on my 'research' Zambia themed bedrooms have a wood theme going on. Nketi and Tuyen are from Vietnam and Kenya, so I included in an animal rug, nothing much included in here , the twins are from China, so I included toyboxes and cribs with pandas, since the Giant Panda originates from China, including little generic nursery things for the new baby to use.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: Yes
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED: http://www.TheSimsResource.com and the Sims 3 Store.
Advanced
NAME: Mederouin
LINK TO LOT: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=8743562
LINK TO MEDIA: http://s1380.photobucket.com/user/mederouin/slideshow/Build and Share 169
Password: Prairie (Note: is case sensitive)
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: N/A
LEVEL: Advanced
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: 30 X 30; 17 Sweetwater Loop, Twinbrook; Final Cost: 109,948
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: The prompt for this one said either a prairie or contemporary style and instantly I thought of Frank Lloyd Wright considering his most famous designs are done in a prairie style. Anyway I'm not saying that I can design on the same level as Wright, just that I wanted to nod my hat to him on this one. His homes, as beautiful as they are were always intended to be comfortable family homes and that was the direction I wanted to go. I tried to stick to a warm color palette (even though personally I prefer cool colors) and make the spaces, although quite large, feel intimate and cozy with groupings of furniture and easy seating areas. I actually found meshing cultural pieces to be quite challenging because I wanted to stick with built-ins that were period specific and other furniture to match, but I tried to fight against that instinct and make the cultural pieces something less obvious, like a piece of art or sculpture. Though I'll admit I did have fun with that upstairs office. That office I thought could be just for Miguel whereas the kids could have the one downstairs. I know he said he didn't mind sharing, but honestly who wants to share an office with kids expressly when work actually needs to get done. I also tried to make most of bedrooms on-suites just so there wouldn't be that much of a bathroom fight and there is plenty of porch space should the kids need a rainy day play-yard. Alright I think that's about it. Hope you enjoy.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: Yes, please
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED: N/A
Results
Beginners -:
1st Place:
Optional Challenge:
Intermediates -:
Comments
1st Place: @SimLover48702
Optional Challenge:
Advanced :
Comments
1st Place: @mederouin
Optional Challenge:
Challenge Deadline: Monday 31st of August, Midnight CMT.
You pull up to Central Park, scanning the expanse of green grass for your next client. Crossing the footbridge over the pond, you see a tanned handsome man jogging toward you, his face split in an easy smile. “Hi! I'm Miguel Salvador. I recognized you from the article in the Sunset Gazette about the new orphanage.” He shakes your hand warmly.
“It's so nice to meet you, Mr. Salvador,” you say.
“Please, call me Miguel. Let me introduce you to my family.” He leads you across the field to a red and white gingham picnic blanket spread beneath an enormous shade tree. A beautiful mocha-skinned woman with short, tight curls sits crossed-legged, her very pregnant belly covered in a pool of flowing bohemian fabrics. Twin Asian toddlers sit with her, busily playing with a xylophone and peg blocks, their cherubic faces furrowed intently beneath their pig tails. “This is my wife, Serena, and two of our children, Lihua and Liling.” Serena extends her hand up to you, metal bracelets jangling as they slide up her slender arm.
“It's wonderful to meet you,” you say, shaking Serena's hand. “Your family is beautiful!”
“Oh, the twins are not our only children,” Serena says with a chuckle. “Our eldest son, Nketi, is over there playing frisbee with our younger son, Tuyen.” Her voice drops to a low whisper, “Our other daughter, Aleela, is hiding behind this tree. She's shy.” Two dark eyes peep out from behind the tree, catch your gaze, and then disappear. Serena pats her belly gently. “And last but not least, we have Maya here, who should be making her debut in a few more weeks.”
“Incredible,” you breathe.
Miguel motions for you to have a seat and then sits beside Serena, looping an arm over her shoulders. “Serena and I have a special place in our hearts for kids in the system. We were both in the foster system and aged out before we could be adopted. So we've made it our mission to bring as many kids into our home as we can handle. Which is why we need your help. We are currently living in a tiny apartment with five children. With a sixth on the way, we're really bursting at the seams.”
“I bet! What do you need in your new home?”
“We need three or four bedrooms plus a nursery, and at least two and a half bathrooms,” Miguel says. “I teach middle school at the Community School for the Gifted and have lots of papers to grade, so I need some sort of office space. If it could double as study space for the kids, too, that would be great.”
“Meal times are hectic, so we'd love a large, open kitchen with plenty of prep space and enough places for everyone to have a seat at the table,” Serena adds. “We generate an enormous amount of laundry, so a laundry or mudroom is a must. The kids also need some decent green space to play in. There is nowhere for them to play at the apartment complex, which is why we're at the park today.”
“Okay, that all sounds feasible,” you say. “Is there anything else you need?”
Miguel touches the bangles on Serena's arm. “Serena makes jewelry and sells it at the consignment store. She also likes to paint and teaches youth art camp at the Sunset Institute of Modern Art, so some sort of art space would be good for her.”
“What style of home did you have in mind?” you ask.
“We like contemporary and prairie style homes, but casual and family friendly rather than cold and museum-like,” Serena says. “Our family is a patchwork of different ethnicities. Nketi is from Kenya, Aleela is from Zambia, Tuyen is Vietnamese, the twins came from China,and Miguel is Puerto Rican. I'd love for the interior of the home to have things that remind each child of their own heritage. We like a warm color palette – reds, oranges, and yellows – but it shouldn't be garish. Does that make sense?”
“Absolutely! We can have your home finished by the end of the month. Will that work?”
Serena puts a loving hand on her belly and says with a smile, “Just in time.”
The Brief:
*30x30 lot
*3-4 bedrooms, plus a nursery (the home should have 3 cribs for the twins and the new baby)
*at least 2 ½ bathrooms
*laundry/mudroom
*large open kitchen
*warm color palette
*contemporary or prairie style home
*comfortable, casual interior
*items that honor the family's varied heritage
*office/study space
*art space
*a green space for the kids to play in
*$110K budget
Optional Challenge:
Make the family and show them living in their new space. Miguel is a teacher who is family oriented, nurturing, and charismatic. Serena is family oriented, artistic, and handy. Nketi is a clumsy child who loves to read. Aleela is a shy child who loves animals. Tuyen is a perfectionist child who is over-emotional. The twins look identical, but are very different. Lihua is a budding virtuoso, while her sister, Liling, is athletic. Maya's traits remain to be seen. Or you can download the family from the exchange and show them in their new home. http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=8720544
Entry List
Beginners
N/A
Intermediates
NAME: SimLover48702
LINK TO LOT: Not Included. If you would like one, please ask on my wall.
LINK TO MEDIA: http://smileyfxce.blogspot.com/2015/08/build-n-share-169-patchwork-family.html
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE:
LEVEL: Intermediate
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: 30x30, 1057 University Drive(sims university world), 98,013 simoleons
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: I was going for what the Salvador's asked for, warm color palette, hence the oranges, browns, and greens throughout the home. Including 2 full bathrooms, and 1 half bathroom, three bedrooms, one for Tuyen and Nketi, one for Aleela, and one for Miguel and Serena. Aleela's bedroom has lots of wood incorporated to her room, since being from Zambia, it has lots of woodland, and based on my 'research' Zambia themed bedrooms have a wood theme going on. Nketi and Tuyen are from Vietnam and Kenya, so I included in an animal rug, nothing much included in here , the twins are from China, so I included toyboxes and cribs with pandas, since the Giant Panda originates from China, including little generic nursery things for the new baby to use.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: Yes
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED: http://www.TheSimsResource.com and the Sims 3 Store.
Advanced
NAME: Mederouin
LINK TO LOT: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=8743562
LINK TO MEDIA: http://s1380.photobucket.com/user/mederouin/slideshow/Build and Share 169
Password: Prairie (Note: is case sensitive)
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: N/A
LEVEL: Advanced
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: 30 X 30; 17 Sweetwater Loop, Twinbrook; Final Cost: 109,948
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: The prompt for this one said either a prairie or contemporary style and instantly I thought of Frank Lloyd Wright considering his most famous designs are done in a prairie style. Anyway I'm not saying that I can design on the same level as Wright, just that I wanted to nod my hat to him on this one. His homes, as beautiful as they are were always intended to be comfortable family homes and that was the direction I wanted to go. I tried to stick to a warm color palette (even though personally I prefer cool colors) and make the spaces, although quite large, feel intimate and cozy with groupings of furniture and easy seating areas. I actually found meshing cultural pieces to be quite challenging because I wanted to stick with built-ins that were period specific and other furniture to match, but I tried to fight against that instinct and make the cultural pieces something less obvious, like a piece of art or sculpture. Though I'll admit I did have fun with that upstairs office. That office I thought could be just for Miguel whereas the kids could have the one downstairs. I know he said he didn't mind sharing, but honestly who wants to share an office with kids expressly when work actually needs to get done. I also tried to make most of bedrooms on-suites just so there wouldn't be that much of a bathroom fight and there is plenty of porch space should the kids need a rainy day play-yard. Alright I think that's about it. Hope you enjoy.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: Yes, please
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED: N/A
Results
Beginners -:
1st Place:
Optional Challenge:
Intermediates -:
Comments
1st Place: @SimLover48702
Optional Challenge:
Advanced :
Comments
1st Place: @mederouin
Optional Challenge:
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