The hardest thing for me right now is to find industrial & steampunk style furniture & clutter to use. I've got nothing in my game that will fit and there's very little here on MTS. I'll admit to not really knowing much other sites - except for TSR which I really don't like to use.

Well, for steampunk there are a few databases out there that could help you find what you need. Simply google for sims 2 and steampunk. As for industrial, it normally relates to old industrial buildings turned into houses/flats where one keeps things like the original walls and windows. But you can find those decorated in all different kind of styles (kind of grungy/old, modern, minimalistic, etc.).

Sorry. Round 3 ends Friday June 6th. Added timer to the first post.

samantha-kathy, adele's stuff can work great with steampunk. Steampunk isn't all about cogs and such. Also, here are some painting recolors Tiff made me for Secret Scuba at Leefish. There are steampunk ones in there

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...

Thanks for the helpful hints TheFlyingRaccoon and Jones!

Thank you all who posted CC links or replied to the WCIFs I'm not sure my downloads folder will still like you at the end of the contest, but this is a great way to find new CC I never knew about!

If we have objects bleed through the wall to outside will we lose points?

I'm assuming the answer is yes but you never know.

I wouldn't do that, cos it's unrealistic and if I was judging I would dock points.

Good point. I probably would too.

I already changed my mind about what I was doing, but I thought it would be useful to know.

Rowena that is lovely!!! It's crazy how I had envisioned this shell in a very similar style! and of course you did even better than i couldve done!! u did a great job. 5 stars

:D

Round 3 - Master Bedroom

Shell by RowenaObsidian
Style: Boho
Colours: Purple, Brown, and Jade
Item: Anytime Candles

I actually ended up enjoying this style, so thank you Jones for pushing me out of my comfort zone. I'm still not 100% sure that what I've put together is bohemian, but I hope so.

I love it! WCIF the rug under the dressing table, the hanging seat and the little tables either side of the door?

Glad you like it. :D

The hanging chair is from this 3 to 2 conversion set. http://verounique.livejournal.com/25492.html

The tables are part of the boho chic set off the Graveyard. http://sims2graveyard.com/download.html

I think the rug is from MTS. Here:http://sims2palette.blogspot.com.au...orful-rugs.html

Joandsarah77, that is amazing! I'd love a bedroom like it in real life :-)

If that's not boho Jo, I don't know what is Great job!

Ditto!!! You nailed it Jo. :lovestruc Lovely

Judge 2 wanted to know where the kitchen and long picture came from. Both are Shoukeir, Sims2Play, Granada Kitchen and Painting 28.

Thanks guys. That's all to Google and the creators who made the items! I think once I had finished panicking and decided to just use the jade and purple on the walls things fell into place.

I was looking at the swap list, and saw that my name wasn't there. I posted my shell, you can see it here
What should I do?

Have you pm'd Jones?

I don't know how I missed it. I looked several times to double check too. I haven't been feeling well recently Give me a few hrs, and I will make you a shell So sorry. Everyone in my house has been sick, including myself. I'm still not quite up to snuff.

Hope you feel better soon, Jones :hugs:

Ok. sorry again, IrishJJ. Here's your shell :D





You may have until Monday, June 9th at 11:59:59 PM EST to finish. Again, so sorry I somehow missed your shell

Just got back from my trip so I haven't had time to be on - fortunately I'll have time now to do the shell for the bedroom ^^ Country won't be that bad - I made a country bedroom when I turned my kitchen into a sort of house.


For this judge, my sims always go through arch ways with curtains o.o (it is a frequent design style for me) I play tested it and it worked fine. Maybe it was because I had on moveobjects? I can take a picture with a sim walking through it if you want. The high chaiir you are correct but not because of the toy, that was placed with snapobjectstogrid false and it doesn't cause any movement issues. However the boxes are what blocks my sim from placing a toddler in the high chair.

Will read through the past couple days to catch up with what is going on ;p

Oh! Also I'll try and send the bonus point feedback to you Jones by the end of the day. Done!

Just realized that I got karen lorraine who made my shell utterly gorgeous for the kitchen round. Eep, the pressure to make it just as perfect!

I'm struggling for time with this one - the weekend was already over by the time I saw the list and so half the countdown was gone (which is standard for me, but I normally still have the weekend ) - but hopefully I'll have some time this evening. I generally need days to build because I'm so slow!

Edit: Found some inspiration and am going along nicely, but had a question for LucyBorgia - is the little bit outside the arch part of the bedroom?