I had Tamlyn's shell


The theme was Victorian (Victorian Gothic as opposed to late Victorian, but not the darkness and gloom of modern Gothic), which I found funny as the Victorian Gothic Revival looked back at the Medieval era for inspiration in a reaction to the austere and geometrically correct classical period - and Tamlyn has my shell with the medieval theme!

I'm seeing this as the master bedroom for an affluent family (due to the size) for a newly wed couple keen to use the latest styles in the bedroom but sharing the house with the extended family - so a desk for private letters and keeping household accounts is needed, but the bookcases are downstairs in the study or library. I think the family made their money with the East India Company, hence the bedside tables from Kashmir. The painted furniture is the latest style from London though! The sketches by the bed must be family members, as the lady with the turban looks more Georgian than the other two images.

I used all three colours on everything - sometimes I needed a forth colour so used a lighter or darker shade of one of the three colours. It shows how different colours look on screen and in game as I'd seen the brown as a rusty red till I started to use it and the greeny-creamy shade (eau-de-nil, maybe?) looks more green on some things than on others.

The required item was the Fern Keeper Delux, which is on the side table in the seating are by the door and on the chest of drawers at the other end of the room.



It is all routable except one thing, I checked Jameel could change his clothes using the wardrobe and the chest of drawers without the chair (for the lady to sit on while her maid dresses her hair) getting in his way, he can get into bed without the screen blocking him, two sims can sit together to talk in the seating area and use both mirrors. The only thing that isn't 100% usable right now is that Greaves' writing set would block use of a laptop or writing pad at the desk, so would need moving or replacing with an anachronistic computer - this does not impact on the use of the desk chair of course!

I wanted the view from the windows to be that of a upstairs room, so the hard landscaping is trompe l'oeil walls with what seems to be climbing roses growing up between the windows. The well established chestnut and magnolia are perhaps a little close to the house when seen through the windows! Which is why this must be a newly decorated room in an existing house, as a new house would not have been built so close to the trees...