I have greatly enjoyed the "show me your Oasis Springs" thread and get so much inspiration from seeing all your versions of the worlds. So I figure it's time for another:
Once more, this forum gives me too much inspiration!
I thought I was more or less done with Willow Creek when I started this thread, then I got new inspiration and built some more. Then I started the Show me your Magnolia Promenade-thread, and was inspired some more about how to create offices. So of course I had to try. And of course I liked pretending that the work from home careers are actually done in an actual workplace and all of a sudden I need offices for all the work from home careers.
So much building from starting one (well two) threads.
After going to the "office" with my Social media sim, and building several other work places, I thought my Trend Setter needed somewhere to work, and obviously it needs to be above a fashion store, and so suddenly I'm removing the museum in Willow creek to build a mall instead by using the basic shells from base game as a model for how it might look. And here is the result:
I present Manicipal Muses Retail https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgljh6TyvzEam5GvsisAzBWuJ4R6VI1Lqq6ZBnxlJqQ-EB1KUIOi3qF8xV3_y-C06qimk6K55ae1--k7C-zleXCNsSND6xB-pkNMYTFmu9s1zFKTBApvd4lTXRsRc-DIyOBE3s4uSludvVBfS0EzcUe_PSHI_3prse4pi4wITh0mtKPfRJCiQGXbW7FiQ=w640-h364
I wanted it through to the feel of Willow Creek, a bit NOLA inspired thanks to everyone here, and a bit high end, with a lively square with vendors so those tables on the promenade could actually get some use. https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXUHKtnyK0eSstQcWFIAXAoZSu-_6uQkARkzlr7Uw2bmV_QCklIwKM5EQYSxLF0PnPW1jsOTFEDK-xdZDzMJZxPNkkNFMMsWBYHM3YUDRjBUEdpp2QjxzEnLfkt5azRGSADISWjH3bbxjQZG6zDblIYPjrxYE_HIdOJy2cjfF4lTv5uZm8GKo5j8_qkA=w640-h366
The shops obviously feature a clothing store (it had to given the office above), but also a flower shop, a nail salon (with LMS autoemployee-mod both that and the vendors actually work as intended) and a pharmacy for serums and medicine and crystals. https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjH7d0ydrga1hAjItzrEqFiqDbD3QObqCckLbMiOrTz4cftTQbYkDROFXMbUNvm2ZBildUwq1q7O3yTVROXj27q-E5CBDN_9Sm-Qb3Q8WgHQPq-anKrhBkI7x4SfYTMkXEXIUEtnZ7waDUnzWq-YtREgtUjPibuUkKqVkSXW_2Qrl--w32nMmsI7hUCKg=w640-h374
One tough I really like is the kiosk I manage to make. I have used Ravasheens retail mods to add things like fish and produce to the things sold, so that Anita can pick up some food on the way home: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2Qr3BndHSG9HEkEB7VsRIHipt4LOcDJPxMEtHl_dxzaVMYdFhuB20jdXxx5eaM0WHacg_Xqf6A2w6liCagwjvp1w83Yw5RzMgL0mKcFg7YJh0P1U9t5qm0UvhalEbZAPxMr-TYC-Ggc3BtpEF4zB-AjZHkfCqzqbjT11KUsPoNQ2bPa6Tj50YP_mf3g=w640-h450
I have built one other grocery store, but there is little reason for my sim to go there other than to buy food, and that means that I just don't. I hope this will be more useful.
Finally, there is the office, complete with a photostudio, dressing room, a table for meeting clients and an office to write blogposts and style guides: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwP9gRd_idXoZj0fWB6fw0FKRN4UIZf5bTLD1RZFWJTAhORDN8260V0pBmoBpIBG6h3i6oVxavh2fhkziSq9Y270WsurK046u_llwYwYpnBHPUYpyTxhHG0ECwaxMav9NjzWa-z8aEGUCxQZQ6vHJbKTN-F0lN38poW83xzFHl5zrn_IZEYeuI_lr-lg=w640-h340 https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjzkGCNLApFVxYlegbw3uoOeuhIbpbgMs0IsC4YU6vzL2EWBGRu6kcPNkiTms2yTHq7aoVXZXjVekdGR9wQLgssp84XHMj8qBByHCAyGr2NlGr7xTzj_XAo3H5KYt61EAWZFvJ8geDyj1NHmYmQiRMOzGlhYOUr7eRh4Qo90gPZmjmzf2D0NWelMVFvQQ=w640-h350 https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg21CvkjpW-q6WopowfKRVg-Qx_CBl4T6NDRYccgI5THwMptOaWOiZeLDoDRgivuc1azRdWab6e0QnCdRRp-SGpgbWGE2GLhUl_QFZbR71JZrIkMSAdulni5yj5F04m_Ny8oRPfnMJ9CqWYHnq8IEAXD95hdIV_DGJ_TzYPnIoKxsjaTbdvU9zfcZcjDg=w640-h354
Now I can't wait to bring Anita and her co-workers to work for the first time!
https://i.imgur.com/4F6mKqn.png Not much has changed, but I just wanted to share my new Foundry Cove that I renovated a couple of weeks ago or so with new gallery finds :blush:
There's a small park with bunnies, grill and pee bush. I kept that green starter home and the lovely outdoor restaurant, but replaced the other starter home with a haunted house caravan (I already have plans who will live there at first :lol: ) and then I combined two lots from the gallery and now I have a park and a secret hang out for kids. I'm still happy how it turned out.
I think I'd like my Willow Creek to be kind of a somewhat magical place. I have the style in mind but it is hard to put it into words and also hard to find lots that would be useful for it.
"haisin;c-18150922" wrote: https://i.imgur.com/4F6mKqn.png Not much has changed, but I just wanted to share my new Foundry Cove that I renovated a couple of weeks ago or so with new gallery finds :blush:
There's a small park with bunnies, grill and pee bush. I kept that green starter home and the lovely outdoor restaurant, but replaced the other starter home with a haunted house caravan (I already have plans who will live there at first :lol: ) and then I combined two lots from the gallery and now I have a park and a secret hang out for kids. I'm still happy how it turned out.
I think I'd like my Willow Creek to be kind of a somewhat magical place. I have the style in mind but it is hard to put it into words and also hard to find lots that would be useful for it.
The house (or building) on stilts in what is/or used to be the park - did you make that or get it from the gallery.. Either wat, do you have the link to it in the gallery?
I hope you don't mind me bumping this thread JAL :blush: These show-and-tell threads are great. It's always inspiring to see how others have customized their worlds.
Now that I'm just a smidge better at building it's really inspired me to backtrack. Starting with Willow Creek community lots and keeping with the New Orleans theme. I either reno an existing EA build or bulldoze to rebuild. Nothing beats looking down at a row of lots you built yourself.?
I couldn't figure out what to do with this lot. I thought about a Wedding Venue but I honestly hate weddings and I've already built one in Oasis Springs. Then I found someone through Google Images who turned the other half of the museum into a cemetery. Perfect idea! The platforms can be used for urns. https://i.imgur.com/CpSorCx.png https://i.imgur.com/kn6hri0.png https://i.imgur.com/ZAS5wzv.png https://i.imgur.com/0vyOrVe.png
https://i.imgur.com/vajtQ4I.png https://i.imgur.com/4usuoE6.png This is a Gym lot type so the café section doesn't automatically hire a barista. https://i.imgur.com/0IcZbMC.png https://i.imgur.com/h9uB2xw.png
https://i.imgur.com/rNdWNr3.png https://i.imgur.com/ZXAY3ZK.png https://i.imgur.com/fpR4buQ.png https://i.imgur.com/zqkSTp1.png The small "attic" up top has a séance table just for fun. https://i.imgur.com/47G6YKG.png
The building is meant to mimic the San Sequoia: Gilbert Gardens shell... Turned into a functional community greenhouse. https://i.imgur.com/9wtmYBQ.png The community greenhouse has all plants needed for grafting. https://i.imgur.com/0eB3heU.png
Now to gather the courage to start my own builds thread over in the Creative Corner: Lots section. I've slowly started sharing to the Gallery.
Of course I don't mind! I love seeing everyone's build, and yours are beautiful! So well done. I have my botanical garden in San My, and have settled for a café in the old toilet building (which I find quite beautiful). I really love your outdoor space to the blue velvet night club.
@JAL That botanical garden of yours is gorgeous. It's been years since City Living came out and I never knew of that large lot until I started rebuilding SM. I feel silly but I have no clue what you mean by "old toilet building" if you don't mind sharing. lol
there has been some changes since my last input not huge ones though (yet) just lots of thinking I guess :lol:
https://i.imgur.com/eGXZXv5.png
I couldn't get into Pendula view much cause well, Lothario. but I am thinking of somewhere between RoM and the original Queen Anne thing
with the commercial area I added ''bank'' and ''court'' from which court is still empty rip and banks just so so I'm not sure what other lots there should be but I think maybe art gallery cause theres lots of painters in this dang neighborhood now that I look at it
and I flipped park and house lot for Courtyard Lane
now I am next looking to be inspired to build the original park into festival grounds
and the other empty big lot maybe into graveyard which actually I might build something more Goth for the house up there too if I can find new house for Spencer Kim Lewis elsewhere
or maybe it will just be spooky colonial I guess hmm dunno. something suitable for living next to a huge graveyard
oh yes and I do still have some of them very empty inside so I haven't shared any of it to gallery welp
"SimplyJen;c-18267087" wrote: @JAL That botanical garden of yours is gorgeous. It's been years since City Living came out and I never knew of that large lot until I started rebuilding SM. I feel silly but I have no clue what you mean by "old toilet building" if you don't mind sharing. lol
Thank you so much! I'm really happy with it though I took a lot of inspiration from other builds I had seen on the gallery before I finally made my own version when the greenhouse pack came out. And I can see how my comment was confusing, I meant the toilet building in Magnolia park in Willow Creek, which I turned into a small café in my version of the park.
"Simmingal;c-18267095" wrote: there has been some changes since my last input not huge ones though (yet) just lots of thinking I guess :lol:
Thinking is good! Sometimes it takes time to get it right. I keep going back and changing mine too, though now I believe I have gotten a good version of it. I might just post my latest here soon to show off the changes.
So I just needed to see how much my Willow Creek has changed since I started this thread and this is my first picture of the Willow Creek I thought I was more or less done with:
This, on the other hand, is what my Willow Creek looks like now: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIrvlZ6v6VqLEjAnfoUEygNehCp14NLN0KsVOjCffefAepGJjvZlxdSe8YexdvNzUF7diE6c6ZLGDJk-8HPowLdV50R6y514RKpDlhL0Oq4B33qYpVixo7NvzUOqEJGchkccYe_H8FXbMoa8qvFwkHEur4MwKRjGyPjWlNcNUxgpMVoGCJIoovP2VS_g=s16000
Thanks to this thread I'm much more inspired by the NOLA look, and since I never used the museum it is now a mall that I use quite a bit. I remade the nightclub to a jazz bar (seemed to fit). The oaksted is changed into a wedding venue, the gym removed and the the library is a youth centre, and I have thought about turning it into a rec centre, but I'm not sure if that will draw too many old people and families, as I have no wish for either at the lot but want it to be a teen hang out more than anything. Unfortunately club-gatherings aren't allowed for generic lots, which is annoying.
