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I ended up with about 350 screenshots again. Eep. Fortunately, they span a few lots and not all of them are going to end up in entries. I have three Maxis families to update on, and then one long entry from Midgar.
Ajay Loner's place is being combined with the Ottomas' for the simple reason that there aren't all that many shots of it. Might as well try to condense my inbox spamming just a little.
Being a Maxis sim from the family bin, Ajay doesn't have a house to be demolished and rebuilt. So instead, he's moving into a 2x2 made just for him:
This house is based on the floorplan of one that was uploaded to MTS not long ago, but since the plan was posted and I was building on a hill, I thought it'd be easier to do it myself than to mess up the street's flow. I was somehow working under the assumption that Ajay was more Mexican, but looking at the names in his family tree, I think he's meant to be Indian. Hrm. Well, it's my game, and I can consider him Hispanic if I want to. This is the same street the Beakers live on, but closer to the Road to Nowhere intersection.
There's going to be a fountain and maybe a bush or two in that front inset, once Ajay can afford them. I think he had $20,500 in the bin, and I don't recall having to cheat him a loan to move him in. He had about $300 left to tide him over until his wanted job is available. Now, if I could just remember what that job was...
Oh, well. There's a 3x3 foyer that leads into the main part of the house. The only real 'rooms' are the bath and bedroom, and the rest is mostly open.
A wee galley, but what more does a single sim need? Since the patio is covered by invisible tile and Strangetown is set to never get colder than Autumn, the dining table is out on the side patio.
Enough technology to keep in touch with the outside world, of course. I love that damn white lamp. It's cheap, it's understated, and it throws light like you wouldn't believe. I think it came with the Ikea pack. I must make a note that it needs more colors the next time I have SimPE open.
See? Two lamps, opposite corners - whole room is lit up for under $40. Awesome, I tell you.
Oh, and a Matilda mural. That's awesome, too.
The patio, naturally. It has an easel now, and maybe room for some exercise equipment later on, but again, Ajay needs to build up his cash first. I'll get you into the lot, but I won't cheat you funds after that.
There's a bathroom immediately to the right of the foyer, and the bedroom door is right next to it. There's space for a dresser later, but he has the important part.
Despite appearances, Ajay himself is doing much better. His enviroment's high, he's got a swingin' bachelor pad to rope in the honeys (of which gender, I forgot to look,) and is scheduled for a nice, manly makeover. What once was a meh specimen in a bad bowling outfit and another of my most hated Maxis hairs...
... somehow turned into a long-haired Harry Potter. Wicked.
I really should've saved him until after the Ottomas tribe, though. Gah, after some of those faces, Ajay would've made a far nicer cap-off. But I didn't, and so the scars of the horror linger on...
'Cause come on, you know this ain't getting much better.
I keep forgetting their names, but I think this is Dora. Damn, but I was so tempted to break my own standards and haul out the plastic surgery machine. I mean, really, her eyelids are lower than her friggin' lashes! What. The. Hell?! Did no one notice this when she was put together?!? But, meh, it is an improvement, at least.
Peter, by all accounts, should look much better, but there's still this oily, slimy quality about him that just reads as ugly to me. Being a romance sim probably doesn't help the perception.
Samantha reminds me greatly of Renee Zellwegger in Chicago, so I sort of stayed with the idea that someone once told her as much, and she decided to play up resemblance.
Mudfence Ottomas (seriously, I can't remember his name right now - Mike? Stan? Olaf?) was my proof that not every Maxis sim can be knocked out of the ballpark. Maybe when he hits adult, makeup will help a little.
Sharla turned out much better than I expected, and I don't think it's unreasonable for a more rural family to use the occasional Kool-Aid rinse.
Pinswiggle Ottomas (what do you want from me?! I've never let this family live before!) also turned out pretty cute, although he obviously inherited the curse of Dora's eyelashes.
They now live in this pile of mish-mashed parts, which some might soon recognize as the set house for my Death by Crayon pictures. It's around the corner from Ajay's house, and like that one, I wanted to keep some of the hilly-ness intact. Hillside lots are annoying enough to spin around without blocking the entire rear with a wall of dirt from leveling the lot with the sidewalk.
I only found out that guatla made rounded bay windows for her Fusteria set a couple days ago and sort of abused them here. I might go back and put regular windows in the attic dormers.
I love the front yard garden for some reason, and I'm thrilled to have a legitimate use for the beer can light. Maybe that's something else that needs to meet with a recolor or two. Hmm.
The front door opens into the living room without much ceremony.
That leads on to a simple dining room, although the family is often confused over whether they should be eating there, or outside.
Around the dining room are the stairs and a small bit of hallway.
Archway goes into a kitchen that I think turned out well, given the overall look of the house.
The other side of the dining room goes off into a small office space.
Upstairs, there's a lot of hall where all of the toddler toys and dresser drawer crib are. Pinswiggle sleeps on a toddler cushion on the floor just because I like my sproglets to be able to fend for themselves in the event that their parents are too busy/stupid to drop everything and let them out. There's also no high chair in the dining room because of the cereal bowl up here.
I don't expect Granny Dora to have any gentleman callers *gag* so she has a daybed and a sewing machine up in her room.
Ma and Pa have the only baby-making station in the house, and damn it, that's as it should be.
A ladder in the hall accesses the attic, where there's a second bathroom no one uses behind the door, and where Sharla's toys are.
She and Mudd sleep up there, too.
That cigarette cracks me up, and I don't know why.
Pancakes and ashes in the shade the (not so) ol' apple tree.
The welcoming committee came by, consisting of Ajay and a made-over Jenny Smith. I've already redone the Smiths' house, but somehow all I have are the makeover pics and one 'before' shot of the house, so I'll be back with their shots another night.
Sharla's just about at friend level with Ajay. If I didn't know better, I'd suspect she's got designs on someone far above her age range. Not that I blame her, mind you.
That's all the photos I have for this pair, but I'll return shortly with another dose of neighborly sleaze, courtest of the Singles girls.
Ajay Loner's place is being combined with the Ottomas' for the simple reason that there aren't all that many shots of it. Might as well try to condense my inbox spamming just a little.
Being a Maxis sim from the family bin, Ajay doesn't have a house to be demolished and rebuilt. So instead, he's moving into a 2x2 made just for him:
This house is based on the floorplan of one that was uploaded to MTS not long ago, but since the plan was posted and I was building on a hill, I thought it'd be easier to do it myself than to mess up the street's flow. I was somehow working under the assumption that Ajay was more Mexican, but looking at the names in his family tree, I think he's meant to be Indian. Hrm. Well, it's my game, and I can consider him Hispanic if I want to. This is the same street the Beakers live on, but closer to the Road to Nowhere intersection.
There's going to be a fountain and maybe a bush or two in that front inset, once Ajay can afford them. I think he had $20,500 in the bin, and I don't recall having to cheat him a loan to move him in. He had about $300 left to tide him over until his wanted job is available. Now, if I could just remember what that job was...
Oh, well. There's a 3x3 foyer that leads into the main part of the house. The only real 'rooms' are the bath and bedroom, and the rest is mostly open.
A wee galley, but what more does a single sim need? Since the patio is covered by invisible tile and Strangetown is set to never get colder than Autumn, the dining table is out on the side patio.
Enough technology to keep in touch with the outside world, of course. I love that damn white lamp. It's cheap, it's understated, and it throws light like you wouldn't believe. I think it came with the Ikea pack. I must make a note that it needs more colors the next time I have SimPE open.
See? Two lamps, opposite corners - whole room is lit up for under $40. Awesome, I tell you.
Oh, and a Matilda mural. That's awesome, too.
The patio, naturally. It has an easel now, and maybe room for some exercise equipment later on, but again, Ajay needs to build up his cash first. I'll get you into the lot, but I won't cheat you funds after that.
There's a bathroom immediately to the right of the foyer, and the bedroom door is right next to it. There's space for a dresser later, but he has the important part.
Despite appearances, Ajay himself is doing much better. His enviroment's high, he's got a swingin' bachelor pad to rope in the honeys (of which gender, I forgot to look,) and is scheduled for a nice, manly makeover. What once was a meh specimen in a bad bowling outfit and another of my most hated Maxis hairs...
... somehow turned into a long-haired Harry Potter. Wicked.
I really should've saved him until after the Ottomas tribe, though. Gah, after some of those faces, Ajay would've made a far nicer cap-off. But I didn't, and so the scars of the horror linger on...
'Cause come on, you know this ain't getting much better.
I keep forgetting their names, but I think this is Dora. Damn, but I was so tempted to break my own standards and haul out the plastic surgery machine. I mean, really, her eyelids are lower than her friggin' lashes! What. The. Hell?! Did no one notice this when she was put together?!? But, meh, it is an improvement, at least.
Peter, by all accounts, should look much better, but there's still this oily, slimy quality about him that just reads as ugly to me. Being a romance sim probably doesn't help the perception.
Samantha reminds me greatly of Renee Zellwegger in Chicago, so I sort of stayed with the idea that someone once told her as much, and she decided to play up resemblance.
Mudfence Ottomas (seriously, I can't remember his name right now - Mike? Stan? Olaf?) was my proof that not every Maxis sim can be knocked out of the ballpark. Maybe when he hits adult, makeup will help a little.
Sharla turned out much better than I expected, and I don't think it's unreasonable for a more rural family to use the occasional Kool-Aid rinse.
Pinswiggle Ottomas (what do you want from me?! I've never let this family live before!) also turned out pretty cute, although he obviously inherited the curse of Dora's eyelashes.
They now live in this pile of mish-mashed parts, which some might soon recognize as the set house for my Death by Crayon pictures. It's around the corner from Ajay's house, and like that one, I wanted to keep some of the hilly-ness intact. Hillside lots are annoying enough to spin around without blocking the entire rear with a wall of dirt from leveling the lot with the sidewalk.
I only found out that guatla made rounded bay windows for her Fusteria set a couple days ago and sort of abused them here. I might go back and put regular windows in the attic dormers.
I love the front yard garden for some reason, and I'm thrilled to have a legitimate use for the beer can light. Maybe that's something else that needs to meet with a recolor or two. Hmm.
The front door opens into the living room without much ceremony.
That leads on to a simple dining room, although the family is often confused over whether they should be eating there, or outside.
Around the dining room are the stairs and a small bit of hallway.
Archway goes into a kitchen that I think turned out well, given the overall look of the house.
The other side of the dining room goes off into a small office space.
Upstairs, there's a lot of hall where all of the toddler toys and dresser drawer crib are. Pinswiggle sleeps on a toddler cushion on the floor just because I like my sproglets to be able to fend for themselves in the event that their parents are too busy/stupid to drop everything and let them out. There's also no high chair in the dining room because of the cereal bowl up here.
I don't expect Granny Dora to have any gentleman callers *gag* so she has a daybed and a sewing machine up in her room.
Ma and Pa have the only baby-making station in the house, and damn it, that's as it should be.
A ladder in the hall accesses the attic, where there's a second bathroom no one uses behind the door, and where Sharla's toys are.
She and Mudd sleep up there, too.
That cigarette cracks me up, and I don't know why.
Pancakes and ashes in the shade the (not so) ol' apple tree.
The welcoming committee came by, consisting of Ajay and a made-over Jenny Smith. I've already redone the Smiths' house, but somehow all I have are the makeover pics and one 'before' shot of the house, so I'll be back with their shots another night.
Sharla's just about at friend level with Ajay. If I didn't know better, I'd suspect she's got designs on someone far above her age range. Not that I blame her, mind you.
That's all the photos I have for this pair, but I'll return shortly with another dose of neighborly sleaze, courtest of the Singles girls.
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