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

Main Bedroom 1
The only bookcase in the house is here, so Darren had to come here to get the recipe book, so he could study cooking.

Living Area 1
He then took the book to this sofa beside the back door, so he could have a little bit of comfort as he studied.

Decking 1
After midday the Welcome Wagon visitors arrived. They were Kenny Marley, Harris Maclean and Diana Silke, all of whom live quite nearby in Monopolis. (@Justpetro, I think you know Diana.) While Beckie was preparing lunch, Jimmy hung out for a while with Diana on the decking in the porch.

Kitchen Area 1
Beckie is making lunch meat sandwiches.
When I looked at the kitchen, I immediately spotted two glaring omissions: Neder's Variable Meal Servings, and a kitchen sink. I regard the Variable Meal Servings as a near essential. I know, if you have Seasons, Sims can eat leftovers, but I don't have Seasons, and, even if I did, I still think it's healthier to make the right amount of food in the first place, than to constantly live on leftovers. The Variable Meal Servings object looks exactly like the Maxis Fire Alarm, but I always know which is which, because I place the fire alarm over the cooker, and the Variable Meal Servings object over the fridge.

Kitchen Area 2
So I added both the Variable Meal Servings and a cheap kitchen sink. The Variable Meal Servings is free, but the sink cost §250, bringing the total cost to §23,568, as shown above.

Living Area 2
Darren is going to join Jimmy Parrat, eating their food on the sofa, while Janis Stout, Andrew Jones-Moltke, Meylan Veitch and Beckie Fleming are sitting round the table. You can see the bottom of the Variable Meal Servings above the fridge.

Main Bathroom
Jimmy Parrat is washing dishes after lunch, while Beckie is getting into a bubble bath. My Sims normally bathe and shower naked, but Beckie is wearing her bikini to keep the picture within MTS guidelines.

Back Yard and Barn
Visitor Diana Silke is bouncing on the trampoline; while Andrew is chilling on the swing. He appears to be thinking about Diana, for whom of course he (and I) built a theatre last year.
You can now see a bit more of the interior of the barn than you could easily see in the floor plan.

Decking 2
Darren is walking across the porch decking near the back door. (He came out of the front door.) He is on his way to look at the barn.

Barn 1
Darren is sitting on the folding chair that he found inside the barn, which is open to the fresh air at both ends. You should now be able to see the bales of hay and straw more clearly. This barn is inspired by "Mr McBain's barn" in Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Klara and the Sun, which I have been reading recently.

I put a cheap folding chair inside the barn, because Klara found such a chair in the barn in the book; she sat on the chair, because she felt it more appropriate than to have the presumption to stand in the presence of the Sun. Darren is quite happy to sit on the one here.

My suspicion is that the barn described in the book may be bigger but not so tall as the one I have built. I'm not sure why anyone would want a barn as tall as this. But it was interesting to build, and I did some practice building barns on a lot in my building 'hood, before building this one. The hardest bit was placing two wooden posts on top of each other to support the roof at the completely open end. Those posts are CC ones from Phaenoh's playground set; All my Maxis pillars are in the centre of the tile -- Phaenoh's are the only ones I have at the corner of the tile, and therefore the only ones that line up with walls. I would really have preferred to build the barn at 45 degrees, so the sun could shine directly into the end of the barn, and to use a different pattern (thatch perhaps) on the barn roof, but neither 45% gable roofs, nor different roof pattens on different roofs appear to be possible with my game engine and configuration.

Barn 2
There is a Mr McBain in Veronaville -- Pleasure Sim Bill McBain of 84 Via Veronaville, husband of Jenny McBain, and father of Gerry, Glenda, Peni Jo and Peregrine. But this isn't him! This is Welcome Wagon visitor Harris Maclean of 72 Bow Street, Monopolis, father of Remus Maclean, and boyfriend of Mary Love. Harris is admiring how well-made the straw bales are. It looks like rosaline_10 cloned them from a picture.

Back Yard 2
Jimmy is pushing Andrew on the swing as their friendship deepens.

Living Area 3
In the background Beckie is dancing with Darren, as Welcome Wagon visitor Kenny Marley looks on. In the foreground is Harris Maclean, another Welcome Wagon visitor. Beckie wasn't too impressed by either of these male visitors. Both the Variable Meals Servings object above the fridge, and the fire alarm above the cooker are visible in this picture.

Small Bathroom
Jimmy is getting a shower in the small bathroom. Like Beckie, he has kept his swimwear on, so you don't see anything that you shouldn't see. As he showers, Andrew is having a conversation with Harris Maclean in the doorway. Privacy can be hard to come by in my game.

Kids' Bedroom 1
Darren is tired and is going to bed. That's a Merola dresser beside him, for Priscilla's and his clothes.

Living Area 3 - Telephone
The telephone has appeared in some other pictures,but here it is actually in use. Jimmy wants to be friends with Meylan Veitch, the boy who came with Andrew in the morning. So he talked to him on the'phone.

Jimmy Parrat's Bedroom
Jimmy has a Merola one-tile dresser too. I chose the colour scheme for this room by looking at Jimmy's various outfits. It seems he likes reds and greens.

Main Bedroom 2
Beckie had to dive athletically across the bed, in order to sleep next to the wall. (Lamare's Use Inaccessible Bed mod)

Kids' Bedroom 2
Hush! Darren and Priscilla are both sleeping soundly.

Monopolis Flatts Ranch by Night
Andrew, the last of their first day guests, is going home,just after midnight. Here he is lit up by the light from the open back door he has just come out of.

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