Sims 3 Lucky Palms
It is total rip off to pay full price for Lucky Palms all these years later, but ... I am not in great place mentally this week, so I splurged. In this IRL world that has gotten so much crazier since ...
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I took inspiration from some RL homes in areas of Palm Springs, and Vegas, and mixed them together.
Because just like on one side of Lucky Palms is the fancy modern architect dude houses, but apparently they're like the 50's/60s .. but anyway, on the other side of Lucky Palms is older type houses that are trying to be ... one is like a converted old theatre, another is an old ... diner or gas station, something like that. Anyway, so ghost-town, saloon, old Western ... as well as maybe what you'd see in the Mad Men episodes that were in California with Don's second wife, can't remember her character name, anyway ...
So. I like my sims there to start in the little starter house next to the military base, because the military career pays well and has shifts every day straight away, and the house is next door to the base, and the sims, if they leave before the carpool arrives, just run across the road to it. I got my sim to marry in the older lady ... the one who is modelled off of Ginger from Gilligan's Island .. I haven't played it for over a year and I forget her name - anyway! She's got a bit of money, and she's nearly elder and childless so he married her into the house and knocked her up before she couldn't. Then I liked my sims to stay there for a while and try to challenge myself in converting the shack into something a bit fancy.
So the front half of the house became an old Western style cabin looking thing, but it became three or four storeys with a huge roof, and the back half became like rustic stucco, square box maybe industrial but ... something! I don't know what to call it.
Watch out for that house though because whoever originally made it did so on a 'flat' ground, joining it up in the middle, uneven. So when building the upper floors and whatever, it gets problems aligning and placing windows and things. So you have to stand back, knock it all down, flatten the ground properly and then re-build it, or replace the lower level with a foundation. Once they've got some money, plenty of.
I'll see if I can put some pictures here simply. If its too much mucking around I won't worry, I have an assignment on Ancient Rome to get on with and I'm procrastinating! I really don't like the question in it.
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Maybe later I'll post something about the family.
As their family grew and accumulated wealth, they bought a spare lot on the other side of town, and built a really fancy house, near the police station where their dream job was. The style of that one was from some Palm Springs photos too, a mixture. Anyway, so that's some info and ideas for it for you.
Because just like on one side of Lucky Palms is the fancy modern architect dude houses, but apparently they're like the 50's/60s .. but anyway, on the other side of Lucky Palms is older type houses that are trying to be ... one is like a converted old theatre, another is an old ... diner or gas station, something like that. Anyway, so ghost-town, saloon, old Western ... as well as maybe what you'd see in the Mad Men episodes that were in California with Don's second wife, can't remember her character name, anyway ...
So. I like my sims there to start in the little starter house next to the military base, because the military career pays well and has shifts every day straight away, and the house is next door to the base, and the sims, if they leave before the carpool arrives, just run across the road to it. I got my sim to marry in the older lady ... the one who is modelled off of Ginger from Gilligan's Island .. I haven't played it for over a year and I forget her name - anyway! She's got a bit of money, and she's nearly elder and childless so he married her into the house and knocked her up before she couldn't. Then I liked my sims to stay there for a while and try to challenge myself in converting the shack into something a bit fancy.
So the front half of the house became an old Western style cabin looking thing, but it became three or four storeys with a huge roof, and the back half became like rustic stucco, square box maybe industrial but ... something! I don't know what to call it.
Watch out for that house though because whoever originally made it did so on a 'flat' ground, joining it up in the middle, uneven. So when building the upper floors and whatever, it gets problems aligning and placing windows and things. So you have to stand back, knock it all down, flatten the ground properly and then re-build it, or replace the lower level with a foundation. Once they've got some money, plenty of.
I'll see if I can put some pictures here simply. If its too much mucking around I won't worry, I have an assignment on Ancient Rome to get on with and I'm procrastinating! I really don't like the question in it.
http://www.bobbiedivsworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screenshot-894.jpg
http://www.bobbiedivsworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screenshot-895.jpg
http://www.bobbiedivsworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screenshot-896.jpg
http://www.bobbiedivsworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screenshot-897.jpg
http://www.bobbiedivsworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screenshot-900.jpg
http://www.bobbiedivsworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screenshot-901.jpg
Maybe later I'll post something about the family.
As their family grew and accumulated wealth, they bought a spare lot on the other side of town, and built a really fancy house, near the police station where their dream job was. The style of that one was from some Palm Springs photos too, a mixture. Anyway, so that's some info and ideas for it for you.
