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#BnS201 -The Hawthorne Project Part II
Challenge deadline: 1st May 2018
“I can’t believe it’s been three months since I met Ms Hawthorne” You think to yourself as you open the email from The Hawthorne Legacy on your laptop. You still had Rose sitting in the foyer being her ultra efficient self, now, the foyer looks a little like a bomb site, with papers and folio’s littering most of the surfaces.
“I really miss Rose. She's only been on holiday a week and it's like she was never here!.” You ruminate on this as you read the email.
Hi, my name is Karl Hedges, I saw a flyer for the Hawthorne Project and had to email in for my sister, Julia. She is new to the area and is stuck in a small one room apartment in a shady area of town. It’s a shame she’s so much of a loner, she barely leaves her apartment. She deserves better than this, I would love to help her myself, but my husband was recently made redundant and we have three wonderful children to support. She moved here to be closer to us and I feel just awful that things haven’t turned out as planned. We were planning on building an annex to our home for her to live in, so that I could return to work as a Personal Assistant. Julia is a nanny, she is so family oriented, we were going to provide room and board for her services. I have attached a link to her Simpinterest account so that you can see the sort of decor ideas she has.
You click the link and you are taken to a page that shows a real love of shabby chic, lots of baby pinks and blues and creams. This girl has taste you think to yourself. As you continue to browse Julia’s Pins you notice that there are lots of Yoga poses and clothing, as well as healthy recipes. You continue to read the rest of Karl’s email.
She doesn’t know that I am doing this for her, she is quite proud and would hate to think that she was being given ‘charity’, but I want her to be safe and have a home she can love. Everyone deserves at least that. She is so cheerful about her situation, insisting that something will turn up.
Thanks for taking the time to read this email and I really hope to hear from you soon.
Regards.
Karl Hedges
This is perfect, you think to yourself, you start up your design programme and start beavering away on ideas for your new project.
Brief
Optional challenge:
Create Julia and include 3 pictures of her enjoying her new home.
Entry List
Beginner
NAME: Kesminlix
LINK TO LOT: https://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=9210380
LINK TO MEDIA: https://imgur.com/a/mIyQ5Vn
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: N/A
LEVEL: Beginner
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: $29,986 451 Riverview Road, Riverview 20x30
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: The Julia is a quaint little home. It is very shabby chic inspired and contains the client's favorite colors: baby blues, pinks, and creams. While it is technically a 2 bedroom home, one bedroom is decorated as an office/art studio. Meaning guests are welcome to visit, but are not allow to stay. There is a large backyard so that the nieces and nephews can run around and play. While there is a small garden, there is enough room for the garden to expand (as well as the house).
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: No
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED: N/A
Intermediate
OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM #201 - The Hawthorne Project Part II
NAME: Kgaff
LINK TO LOT:
LINK TO MEDIA: https://www.flickr.com/photos/154029363@N06/albums/72157665976199427
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: if you entered the optional challenge, include a link here
LEVEL: intermediate
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: 25 x 25 Somewhere in Moonlight Falls on a lot placed by me, 29,977
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: This is a one bedroom cottage built for Julia who loves the shabby chic decorating style. I used pink, baby blue, cream and a very light turquoise for the wall coverings and rugs and such. She has a large eat-in kitchen, a small office area with her computer, a chess table and her favorite guitar. The living room is full of mismatched, ruffled furniture with several keepsakes scattered around.
There is a starter garden and a chin-up bar for exercise and a comfy bench under the tree.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: "yes" if you'd like suggestions for improvement, "no" if you'd like only positive feedback
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED: n/a
OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM #201 - The Hawthorne Project Part II
NAME: AlphaFen
LINK TO LOT: https://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=9212617
LINK TO MEDIA: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/13864878/#Comment_13864878
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: Not entered
LEVEL: Intermediate, due to the fact that I’ve been building for a while now rather than any form of competence. I will not be offended if you feel beginner is more suitable
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: Size: 15 x 20. Address: plonked by me in Hidden Springs. Cost: 29,998 blood, sweat and constant redecorates
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS:
Client traits: Loner, Virtuoso, Family Friendly, Artistic and Eco-Friendly
Thinking behind the build: An old cottage that provides solitude in the countryside for Julia while being a plumbob’s throw from the Hedges. The cottage was in a run down state and needed a complete overhaul giving Julia a chance to not see it as “charity” but as a project to give new life to a piece of sim heritage. She spent many happy hours scouring flea markets and craft fairs for second hand furniture to upcycle and personalize her new home with. This allowed her to combine saving money and the planet, while hopefully giving an element of shabby chic that is in keeping with the cottage’s original features. Plus all that furniture painting provided a fun family activity (and a lot of mess!).
Though this is very much meant to be Julia’s haven the downstairs is large and open to provide space for when the kids do come round. Upstairs is her private sanctuary where she can do yoga on the balcony or invite close friends up for tea. All items required are included. However, the athletic item is a kicky bag (on the end table in the lounge, where one of the kids left a frisbee) which you may not be able to see.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: Yes please, any pointers would be appreciated
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED: No CC was used or harmed in the making of this build
Advanced
OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM #201 - The Hawthorne Project Part II
NAME: creativemetaphor
LINK TO LOT: not uploaded
LINK TO MEDIA: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOHafoG4ojECDb_mFxb7jc5pppqRhn5i2P7RKbevZDi5mxZ62IfaPyEZcvNHkBacg?key=OTNZSnNXUTUzenhLTzkzX3FrYjlhVTJIREpXbDFR
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: included in above
LEVEL: advanced
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: custom placed 20x25 in Riverview - Final cost 30,000
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: I had originally tried to build this in France but it caused some issues and I realized I couldn't have Julia move in there so I ended up moving it to Riverview. But that ultimately inspired my story for this build.
Julia Dubois grew up in the lush countryside of France. Her brother married and moved away to his new home with his husband, and Julia soon followed after, missing him too much and longing to be around her niece and nephews.
Coming from such an open, friendly area, being stuck in a small city apartment was torture. This little cottage is the perfect home for her. It was just like the small cottages of her home town, cozy and small but still giving so much space for her loves.
It has two bedrooms, and even though she is usually a loner, it offers space for family to visit. The living room has a fireplace, comfortable seating, and her computer. The quaint kitchen feels just like being at her grandmother's house, and the tea set for relaxing after an afternoon in the garden.
The bathroom has delightful vintage fixtures, and a storage cabinet for linens and her toiletries.
There is a full attic bonus room which offers space for her yoga and ballet practice, a little reading nook, and place for her art overlooking the countryside.
It is situated out in the country near a river, not far from her brother's house but enough to give them both ample privacy when needed and yet close enough for even the children to walk between them.
Julia Dubois herself is a family-oriented loner who is a natural cook, has a green thumb, and enjoys exploring her artistic side.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: yes, please
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED: n/a
OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM No.201:The Hawthorne Project Part II
NAME: Mederouin
LINK TO LOT: https://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=9206983
LINK TO MEDIA: https://imgur.com/a/4rhsS
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: N/A
LEVEL: Advanced
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: 20X30; 451 Riverview Rd, Riverview; Final Cost: 30,000
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: As is probably obvious by now I enjoy reclaimed or found architecture and so when I read the prompt and found out that Julia liked shabby chic design I thought about designing her a cottage or a mini Victorian that would complement the romantic aspects of the shabby chic, but in the end I guess I wanted something more organic and less predictable if that is the right word. So I built a Victorian inspired greenhouse. I tried to reason that it had been some forgotten part of a long time gone estate that had been left to the woods and had been found and converted into a cute little home. I left the front lawn a bit overgrown to enhance the sense of privicy that could be missing from living in a glass box and I wanted to leave some of the "planting benches" and the stone floors inside to give it a more old world feel like someone had wanted to preserve that which had endured for so long. Hope you enjoy.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: Yes, please
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED: N/A
NAME: ElleDaes
LINK TO LOT: https://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=9213072
LINK TO MEDIA: https://www.facebook.com/pg/ElleDaes/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2050766151830323
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: n/a
LEVEL: advanced
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: 10 Hinkley Road, Los Aniegoes, $30,000
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS:
A 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath home custom built for Julia Hedges. I hope she likes to garden. This shabby chic home comes complete with extensive fruit and vegetable gardens, art easel, large back deck, fire pit, and parking space. The interior is spacious with an eat-in kitchen, spa like ensuite, laundry/half-bath, living, working and creative space. Built on a custom placed lot in Los Aniegos World.
*You can't kind of see the garden in the link to lot, but the upload is weird, half the pictures are missing.*
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: yes
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED: n/a
OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM #201 - The Hawthorne Project Part II
NAME: aricarai
LINK TO LOT: n/a
LINK TO MEDIA: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/16457465/#Comment_16457465
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: n/a
LEVEL: advanced
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: placed 20x25 lot in Moonlight Falls, §29,995
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: A small, yet quaint coach house makes for the perfect one bedroom, one bathroom cottage for a Sim that loves a cozy space decorated in a shabby chic style. With colors of baby blue, pinks, and flower patterns throughout, The Coach House is very feminine in its décor. It features an open main floor plan with an elevated sun room that looks out onto the small pond, back deck and vegetable garden. Even though it is a small home, there is plenty to do from playing chess, playing piano, painting or simply curling up with a good book in front of the fireplace.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: Yes, please
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED:
- Doors & Windows:
- Asarina Build Set
- Maxime Build Set
- Flooring:
- Cakenoodles
- Patterns:
- omfgingers
- omfgingers
- peacemaker-ic
- peacemaker-ic
- Pralinesims
Results
Beginners -:
Comments
1st Place: @Kesminlix
Optional Challenge: N/A
Intermediates -:
Comments
1st Place: @Kgaff
Optional Challenge:N/A
Advanced -:
Comments
1st Place: @aricarai
Optional Challenge: N/A
Challenge deadline: 1st May 2018
“I can’t believe it’s been three months since I met Ms Hawthorne” You think to yourself as you open the email from The Hawthorne Legacy on your laptop. You still had Rose sitting in the foyer being her ultra efficient self, now, the foyer looks a little like a bomb site, with papers and folio’s littering most of the surfaces.
“I really miss Rose. She's only been on holiday a week and it's like she was never here!.” You ruminate on this as you read the email.
Hi, my name is Karl Hedges, I saw a flyer for the Hawthorne Project and had to email in for my sister, Julia. She is new to the area and is stuck in a small one room apartment in a shady area of town. It’s a shame she’s so much of a loner, she barely leaves her apartment. She deserves better than this, I would love to help her myself, but my husband was recently made redundant and we have three wonderful children to support. She moved here to be closer to us and I feel just awful that things haven’t turned out as planned. We were planning on building an annex to our home for her to live in, so that I could return to work as a Personal Assistant. Julia is a nanny, she is so family oriented, we were going to provide room and board for her services. I have attached a link to her Simpinterest account so that you can see the sort of decor ideas she has.
You click the link and you are taken to a page that shows a real love of shabby chic, lots of baby pinks and blues and creams. This girl has taste you think to yourself. As you continue to browse Julia’s Pins you notice that there are lots of Yoga poses and clothing, as well as healthy recipes. You continue to read the rest of Karl’s email.
She doesn’t know that I am doing this for her, she is quite proud and would hate to think that she was being given ‘charity’, but I want her to be safe and have a home she can love. Everyone deserves at least that. She is so cheerful about her situation, insisting that something will turn up.
Thanks for taking the time to read this email and I really hope to hear from you soon.
Regards.
Karl Hedges
This is perfect, you think to yourself, you start up your design programme and start beavering away on ideas for your new project.
Brief
- §30,000 budget
- A 1 or 2 bedroom home, you have free reign on how the house is built, landscaped, laid out etc.
- Must include: a computer, a vegetable garden, a chess table, an easel, at least one musical instrument, at least one piece of fitness equipment and a book case.
Optional challenge:
Create Julia and include 3 pictures of her enjoying her new home.
Entry List
Beginner
NAME: Kesminlix
LINK TO LOT: https://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=9210380
LINK TO MEDIA: https://imgur.com/a/mIyQ5Vn
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: N/A
LEVEL: Beginner
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: $29,986 451 Riverview Road, Riverview 20x30
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: The Julia is a quaint little home. It is very shabby chic inspired and contains the client's favorite colors: baby blues, pinks, and creams. While it is technically a 2 bedroom home, one bedroom is decorated as an office/art studio. Meaning guests are welcome to visit, but are not allow to stay. There is a large backyard so that the nieces and nephews can run around and play. While there is a small garden, there is enough room for the garden to expand (as well as the house).
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: No
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED: N/A
Intermediate
OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM #201 - The Hawthorne Project Part II
NAME: Kgaff
LINK TO LOT:
LINK TO MEDIA: https://www.flickr.com/photos/154029363@N06/albums/72157665976199427
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: if you entered the optional challenge, include a link here
LEVEL: intermediate
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: 25 x 25 Somewhere in Moonlight Falls on a lot placed by me, 29,977
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: This is a one bedroom cottage built for Julia who loves the shabby chic decorating style. I used pink, baby blue, cream and a very light turquoise for the wall coverings and rugs and such. She has a large eat-in kitchen, a small office area with her computer, a chess table and her favorite guitar. The living room is full of mismatched, ruffled furniture with several keepsakes scattered around.
There is a starter garden and a chin-up bar for exercise and a comfy bench under the tree.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: "yes" if you'd like suggestions for improvement, "no" if you'd like only positive feedback
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED: n/a
OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM #201 - The Hawthorne Project Part II
NAME: AlphaFen
LINK TO LOT: https://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=9212617
LINK TO MEDIA: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/13864878/#Comment_13864878
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: Not entered
LEVEL: Intermediate, due to the fact that I’ve been building for a while now rather than any form of competence. I will not be offended if you feel beginner is more suitable
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: Size: 15 x 20. Address: plonked by me in Hidden Springs. Cost: 29,998 blood, sweat and constant redecorates
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS:
Client traits: Loner, Virtuoso, Family Friendly, Artistic and Eco-Friendly
Thinking behind the build: An old cottage that provides solitude in the countryside for Julia while being a plumbob’s throw from the Hedges. The cottage was in a run down state and needed a complete overhaul giving Julia a chance to not see it as “charity” but as a project to give new life to a piece of sim heritage. She spent many happy hours scouring flea markets and craft fairs for second hand furniture to upcycle and personalize her new home with. This allowed her to combine saving money and the planet, while hopefully giving an element of shabby chic that is in keeping with the cottage’s original features. Plus all that furniture painting provided a fun family activity (and a lot of mess!).
Though this is very much meant to be Julia’s haven the downstairs is large and open to provide space for when the kids do come round. Upstairs is her private sanctuary where she can do yoga on the balcony or invite close friends up for tea. All items required are included. However, the athletic item is a kicky bag (on the end table in the lounge, where one of the kids left a frisbee) which you may not be able to see.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: Yes please, any pointers would be appreciated
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED: No CC was used or harmed in the making of this build
Advanced
OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM #201 - The Hawthorne Project Part II
NAME: creativemetaphor
LINK TO LOT: not uploaded
LINK TO MEDIA: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOHafoG4ojECDb_mFxb7jc5pppqRhn5i2P7RKbevZDi5mxZ62IfaPyEZcvNHkBacg?key=OTNZSnNXUTUzenhLTzkzX3FrYjlhVTJIREpXbDFR
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: included in above
LEVEL: advanced
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: custom placed 20x25 in Riverview - Final cost 30,000
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: I had originally tried to build this in France but it caused some issues and I realized I couldn't have Julia move in there so I ended up moving it to Riverview. But that ultimately inspired my story for this build.
Julia Dubois grew up in the lush countryside of France. Her brother married and moved away to his new home with his husband, and Julia soon followed after, missing him too much and longing to be around her niece and nephews.
Coming from such an open, friendly area, being stuck in a small city apartment was torture. This little cottage is the perfect home for her. It was just like the small cottages of her home town, cozy and small but still giving so much space for her loves.
It has two bedrooms, and even though she is usually a loner, it offers space for family to visit. The living room has a fireplace, comfortable seating, and her computer. The quaint kitchen feels just like being at her grandmother's house, and the tea set for relaxing after an afternoon in the garden.
The bathroom has delightful vintage fixtures, and a storage cabinet for linens and her toiletries.
There is a full attic bonus room which offers space for her yoga and ballet practice, a little reading nook, and place for her art overlooking the countryside.
It is situated out in the country near a river, not far from her brother's house but enough to give them both ample privacy when needed and yet close enough for even the children to walk between them.
Julia Dubois herself is a family-oriented loner who is a natural cook, has a green thumb, and enjoys exploring her artistic side.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: yes, please
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED: n/a
OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM No.201:The Hawthorne Project Part II
NAME: Mederouin
LINK TO LOT: https://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=9206983
LINK TO MEDIA: https://imgur.com/a/4rhsS
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: N/A
LEVEL: Advanced
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: 20X30; 451 Riverview Rd, Riverview; Final Cost: 30,000
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: As is probably obvious by now I enjoy reclaimed or found architecture and so when I read the prompt and found out that Julia liked shabby chic design I thought about designing her a cottage or a mini Victorian that would complement the romantic aspects of the shabby chic, but in the end I guess I wanted something more organic and less predictable if that is the right word. So I built a Victorian inspired greenhouse. I tried to reason that it had been some forgotten part of a long time gone estate that had been left to the woods and had been found and converted into a cute little home. I left the front lawn a bit overgrown to enhance the sense of privicy that could be missing from living in a glass box and I wanted to leave some of the "planting benches" and the stone floors inside to give it a more old world feel like someone had wanted to preserve that which had endured for so long. Hope you enjoy.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: Yes, please
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED: N/A
NAME: ElleDaes
LINK TO LOT: https://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=9213072
LINK TO MEDIA: https://www.facebook.com/pg/ElleDaes/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2050766151830323
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: n/a
LEVEL: advanced
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: 10 Hinkley Road, Los Aniegoes, $30,000
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS:
A 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath home custom built for Julia Hedges. I hope she likes to garden. This shabby chic home comes complete with extensive fruit and vegetable gardens, art easel, large back deck, fire pit, and parking space. The interior is spacious with an eat-in kitchen, spa like ensuite, laundry/half-bath, living, working and creative space. Built on a custom placed lot in Los Aniegos World.
*You can't kind of see the garden in the link to lot, but the upload is weird, half the pictures are missing.*
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: yes
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED: n/a
OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM #201 - The Hawthorne Project Part II
NAME: aricarai
LINK TO LOT: n/a
LINK TO MEDIA: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/16457465/#Comment_16457465
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: n/a
LEVEL: advanced
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: placed 20x25 lot in Moonlight Falls, §29,995
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: A small, yet quaint coach house makes for the perfect one bedroom, one bathroom cottage for a Sim that loves a cozy space decorated in a shabby chic style. With colors of baby blue, pinks, and flower patterns throughout, The Coach House is very feminine in its décor. It features an open main floor plan with an elevated sun room that looks out onto the small pond, back deck and vegetable garden. Even though it is a small home, there is plenty to do from playing chess, playing piano, painting or simply curling up with a good book in front of the fireplace.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: Yes, please
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED:
- Doors & Windows:
- Asarina Build Set
- Maxime Build Set
- Flooring:
- Cakenoodles
- Patterns:
- omfgingers
- omfgingers
- peacemaker-ic
- peacemaker-ic
- Pralinesims
Results
Beginners -:
Comments
1st Place: @Kesminlix
Optional Challenge: N/A
Intermediates -:
Comments
1st Place: @Kgaff
Optional Challenge:N/A
Advanced -:
Comments
1st Place: @aricarai
Optional Challenge: N/A
