Chatwin Court Build Set: Part One - Garden of Roses Boiserie - Now with Furniture!

[Gabihime]

So I've been working on this for a little while now. It's a project I've been intending to do for a couple of years, but it took a little convincing until I was ready to buckle down and do it.

So this is the first part of my build set for affluent terraced houses in the City of Westminster.

There are seventeen wall tiles in this build set, all hand painted by me. with two exceptions, everything in this set was created wholly from scratch, texture wise. [The exceptions are the floor set, which uses illustration source files from a beautiful flooring company, and the tiles around the fireplace, which I found were so beautiful I wanted to use them.] There is also a recolor of the Gentrific Fireplace as well as Nanisim's matching overmantle. Additionally there is a set of parquet and marquetery floors. I need to double check, but I think there are eight tiles total in this set. There are also two ceiling tiles to choose from.

These are not supposed to be photoreal. <3 I was definitely going for a maxis-matchy look in my own illustration style.

http://stchristophersonthehill.org/gallery/angels/angels%20scraps/sims2/creation/objects/GardenofRosesLiving5.jpg
Furniture custom to this set currently: Curvaceous Love, Eloquent Living Chair, Mysterious Bookcase, Sung Gyu Rug, Voice of Music Record Player, Four Legs and a Disc, all recolored to mahogany wood.

The carving on the wall panels (and thus the theme of the set) is based on some woodwork at the Petit Trianon at Versailles (and also a little from the Tuileries, I think, and some Flemish Boiserie).

My aim when creating this part of the build set was to create a beautiful woodworked interior set that is filled with carved panels, is eminently mix-n-matchable, and contains all the pieces to do a two story room in most any conceivable design, handle windows nicely, and provide design freedom (you can have a highly carved room with this set that matches a very minimally carved one, if you like). I know seventeen wall tiles may seem excessive, but I also plan to offer a download of the five most basic, for people who don't want the extreme extensibility and design freedom. Eight tiles for the floor is the minimum you need to create that floor pattern with the maquetery border and handle interior corners as well as exterior ones.

Right now I am trying to decide what pieces to do additionally to match. I was thinking of recoloring the Socialite Set from Apartment Life as furniture (not in the same shade and saturation as the walls, but to nicely coordinate). I'm also thinking about doing a couple of rugs and maybe an interior door (I don't need 'em for the terraced houses I'm building, but someone else might appreciate them, and this set is supposed to cover whatever sort of boiserie room you want to build). Maybe some modular stairs?

So what are your thoughts?

More [apparently not so] fabulous pictures:

http://stchristophersonthehill.org/gallery/angels/angels%20scraps/sims2/creation/objects/gardenofroses2.jpg
Mostly the whole set of wall tiles is visible here.

http://stchristophersonthehill.org/gallery/angels/angels%20scraps/sims2/creation/objects/gardenofroses1.jpg
Here is the fireplace so you can take a look at the carving and tiles.

http://stchristophersonthehill.org/gallery/angels/angels%20scraps/sims2/creation/objects/gardenofroses3.jpg
And with the overmantle.

http://stchristophersonthehill.org/gallery/angels/angels%20scraps/sims2/creation/objects/gardenofroses5.jpg
Some closeups of the wall carvings.

Here are a couple of pictures with better lighting so you can see the furniture objects I've been recoloring for this set. So far I've done one rug, the two smaller pieces of socialite living room furniture, the end table, and the bookcase. I have already spotted one seam error that I need to fix XD.

New Pictures

http://stchristophersonthehill.org/gallery/angels/angels%20scraps/sims2/creation/objects/rosefurniture2.jpg

http://stchristophersonthehill.org/gallery/angels/angels%20scraps/sims2/creation/objects/rosefurniture.jpg

[Deluxe Designs]

Looks great, apart from the overmantle is darker than the rest of the panelling, just a texture issue though :)

[Gabihime]

It's actually not, I think that's a lighting issue with the bright-bright sun in that picture, either that or something with the material of that object and the way it reflects light, maybe? The textures are an exact match, hue, saturation, and shade wise.

I need to build a better set with interior lighting and take some pictures I think. Hmmm~

http://stchristophersonthehill.org/gallery/angels/angels%20scraps/sims2/creation/objects/sidebyside.jpg

See here's part of the texture of the overmantle with one of the wall textures right beside it. I think it must be the lighting.