Alright, I announced earlier that I would turn Vlad's mansion into a residential rental for vampire households, and started working on that a couple of days ago. This is what I have so far:
Shared space + ground floor apartment
https://abload.de/img/01sharedspacegroundfl6lf46.jpg
The shared space consists of the entrance corridor, the former living room and the room with the stone floor where the stairs leading into the basement used to be. The latter is now the laundry room for the entire house. The basement stairs were moved to the entrance area, which will also get a planter box for a plasma fruit tree and a juice fizzing station for all tenants to use. This is because I'm using a mod that makes plasma juice an effective alternative for quenching vampires' thirst. The mailbox will go in the empty area to the right of the front door. I'm currently thinking about what else to add.
The ground floor apartment (outlined in blue) will be home to a female medium and her child sister. The adult is not a vampire, but the child is, which explains why her room doesn't have windows. I've never played with vampire children before because knowing TS4, they won't have any actual vampire powers or weaknesses before becoming teens, but maybe there's a mod for that.
The basement apartment ...
https://abload.de/img/02basementapt76eu5.jpg
... is meant to be a crypt of sorts, for an attractive male vampire obsessed with Lara Croft and archaeology. His human maid, who is based on a former co-worker I couldn't stand, does his chores and even lets him drink her blood because she's in love with him, but he's just using her while waiting for Lara to come raid his tomb.
The upper floor apartment (outlined in green) ...
https://abload.de/img/03upperaptdkecu.jpg
... doesn't have a proper floor plan or furniture at the moment because I don't know who is going to live there yet – probably a bigger vampire family to contrast the smaller ones in the other apartments. Or someone with a hobby that requires a lot of space. There's certainly enough room for either.
The two-story attic apartment (outlined in purple) ...
https://abload.de/img/04atticaptgardend1ep7.jpg
https://abload.de/img/05atticaptxndew.jpg
... belongs to a single male vampire-witch hybrid, the only future tenant who already exists as a played sim in my game as I'm writing this. He's currently living with another vampire in Newcrest, but never really felt at home there. As you can see, the sheltered roof area has a garden where yet another plasma fruit tree will be planted among other things, and this will be a shared space, too.
And now I'm going to stop building for today, because it has driven me nearly insane once again.
