Mod The Sims - Fix It or Flip It - a Sims 2 building/decorating contest

Sitting Room - 1
These are the boys who have bought this house: The first thing they had to do on moving in was to learn something about basic cooking! Left to Right they are Thomas Tait (aka Tom), Graeme Macsporran, and Archie Forsyth. Archie's full name is Archibald, but nobody calls him that. In keeping with the idea of the Crack House being a place of entertaining conversation, they are all Popularity Sims with high Nice points. They want to make their house a place where other Sims will want to come and enjoy the "crack". Downtown Veronaville is famous as a centre of young gay culture, so it isn't really a surprise that they're all teens. I'm pretty sure they'll all turn out to be gay, or possibly bi. Why else would they want to come and live in downtown Veronaville?

Sitting Room - 2
This picture was taken much later in the day -- in the evening, and Tom and Graeme have changed into their underwear in readiness for going to bed. Left to right the Sims in this picture are Jerome Usher, Tom Tait, Ravi Bertino, Graeme Macsporran and Jihoon LeTourneau, who is just going upstairs to use the toilet there. The routes that Sims choose to get from one place to another are sometime, to say the least, interesting: Graeme decided he wanted to play kickybag with his new friend Ravi. Instead of going straight to Ravi, he walked all the way round the foundation that supports the stairs. (You can see it on the floor plan.) When he finally got to Ravi by this circuitous route, he changed his mind, and decided he didn't want to play kickybag after all. To be fair to him, it was getting quite late by this time, and he was getting tired.

Upper Floor Sitting Area 1
The boys' very first visitor on Monday morning when they moved in was Fay Briggs from Monopolis who was passing around 10 a.m., and whom Tom invited in. While the boys were studying simple cooking recipes, she went upstairs and sat on the sofa there. I immediately spotted that there were two sections of wall that the painters had missed. That would undoubtedly have cost me points, had I been a genuine contestant. So it had to be fixed!

Upper Floor Sitting Area 2
Six Simoleons worth of 'Beachy Keen' paint however, sufficed to fix the problem. It was this that brought the final price of the house up to §19,988.

Ground Floor Bathroom 1
Like the rest of us my Sims have to use the toilet. Archie is just about to use the downstairs WC.

Ground Floor Bathroom 2
This is now a full bathroom as I have added Numenor's rather naughty shower that used to be available on Sexy Sims and probably on his own website. I often use this in houses for poorer Sims, as it costs only §25. I have slightly modified my copy (I think by changing a BCON) so Sims get clean as fast as in the normal Maxis §625 shower. In Numenor's original it takes a bit longer -- probably to give Sims more fun.

In this picture, taken quite late on his first day in the house, Graeme is taking a shower in it, before going to bed. Normally my Sims shower and bathe naked, but I asked Graeme to keep his undies on to keep the picture decent for you.

Kitchen 1
Archie is preparing lunch meat sandwiches for Fay Briggs and the Welcome Wagon visitors. Note the waste bin in the corner behind him.

Kitchen 2
The main purpose of this picture is to show the (required) fire alarm above the cooker, but it also shows a problem with this little kitchen -- too many Sims crowding into it and getting in each others' way! Left to right the Sims in the picture are Graeme, Jihoon LeTourneau, Tom and Sienna McGonagall. Jihoon was originally one of the Veronaville townies, but he's been playable, and Living with a friend in Mendoza Lane since 2013! Somehow though, in my Aging off game, he's still a teen! I'll introduce Sienna later.

The problem with this kitchen layout is that, if there are more than four Sims in the house, the Sim who has prepared and served the meal, takes the serving plate back into the kitchen, and then eats his own food, standing just inside the door. This makes it difficult for other Sims to reach the serving plate, and, even if they succeed, they'll then eat theirs while standing in the crowded little kitchen too. It's a problem that I fear the boys and I are going to have to deal with.
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Dining Area 1
After preparing the food in the kitchen, Archie is now serving it at the table. Half hidden by the 'Holy Smoke' stairs, visitor Fay Briggs from Monopolis (the wife of Val Briggs, Millburn Pennybags's head of city planning) is waiting patiently for her food. I thought this arrangement with the stairs over the eating area might be a problem, but I have now learned that Sims can walk underneath base game 'Holy Smoke' stairs, without any mod or cheat.

Dining Area 2
Minutes later, Tom, Bernice Proudfoot, Fay Briggs, and (I think it was) Jerome Usher are enjoying their food. This picture gives a good impression of the "open plan" area showing both the telephone and the stairs, with a view right through to the sitting room.

Pond
Considering how quickly I made it, it doesn't look too bad, and Graeme and his new friend Sienna McGonagall are enjoying hanging out beside it. The plants round the pond (except the tree) are CC by Kativip. Some time ago I edited them to make them cheaper to buy, as they really are just weeds.

Upper Floor Bathroom 1
With 9 Sims in the house by the end of the first evening, both toilets were in near-constant use. Here Tom is just going into the upstairs bathroom to use the toilet. The upstairs bathroom is only slightly changed from Catherine's original design. The basic layout is unaltered. I've only changed the wall- and floor-coverings to make it look a bit cleaner and brighter. It still lacks a washbasin, but there is one just outside it in the adjacent bedroom. So Sims don't have far to walk to wash their hands.

Upper Floor Bathroom 2
Archie is getting a bubble bath before bed. The bath is HugeLunatic's backless version of the AquaPlus Shower Stall. When I first built the house, I put this bath in the wrong way round, so my Sims couldn't use it. So I had to turn it round the right way, to let Archie get his bubble bath. Fortunately, turning it round doesn't cost any money, so it didn't change the price of the house.

Main Bedroom 1
Tom is washing his hands in the bedroom after using the adjacent toilet. This bedroom is little changed from Cat's original. The double bed is in the same place (with new CC bedding) and still requires Lamare's Inaccessible Beds mod. I've got that though, and I know it works.

Main Bedroom 2
Archie is playing red hands with his new townie friend Sienna McGonagall. They had spent much of the day hanging out together beside the pond. There are about 200 townies in our Veronaville, but Sienna is unique amongst them: she is the only one generated by the Townie Tree. All the rest are either original Maxis townies, or ones I made in CAS. Her name was also generated by the game. She has been in my game for several real years, but Archie is the first playable to befriend her. It will be interesting to see how this develops in the future.

Main Bedroom 3
Graeme and are sleeping together in the double bed -- proof that Lamare's inaccessible beds mod does work in my game! Getting into the bed however was not all that easy for them -- they had to shoo two "squatters" out of the bed before they could get into it. Earlier in the evening two of their Welcome Wagon visitors, Bernice Proudfoot and Jerome Usher had decided to sleep here. (An unintended side effect of Numenor's "Sleep on Community Lots" mod). If you look at the upper floor floor-plan you can see Bernice and Jerome in bed together. It was all a bit ridiculous since their own house is so near! Since Tom and Graeme are clearly quite happy to share a bed,. . I can't help wondering if they might turn their friendship into a something more. I rather like seeing Sims snuggling up together in bed.

Small Bedroom
Archie seems to have claimed the small bedroom. There is no room for a wardrobe in this tiny room, so Archie's wardrobe is outside his room, at the end of the upstairs sitting area. I can relate to that, since I had a similar sleeping arrangement as a teen myself -- a tiny single bedroom, with my little wardrobe on the landing outside my room.

Telephone
I have already shown the telephone in the background to the second picture of the dining area, but this picture shows it in use. Archie is 'phoning Ravi Bertino as he wants to be friends with him. A good choice IMHO. Ravi, a Pleasure Sim, who likes to give pleasure to others, is one of the most dependable Sims in my game.

'Crack' House by Night
Sienna McGonagall is just leaving to go home.

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