Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Unfortunate Apartment (LollySims)

Yay, finally finished my first apartment! This is not a high-rise, but rather a regular house, broken up into 5 apartments. I call it the "Unfortunate Apartment" because this is not a nice place to live. It's for Sims down on their luck who just need a roof over their head. The idea came to me of a sleazy landlord with a studio apartment to rent out that happens to have a walk-in closet, which the landlord converts into a bedroom in order to collect more in rent. So your Sims are left with a tiny bedroom, and basically a coat closet to act as their closet for their entire wardrobe. Yeah, I really am tormenting the Sims with this one ;)

I realized as I was designing this building that I was drawing inspiration from Silent Hill, so you might see some similarities in the sort of rusted out, unkempt design.


Front View - 
The entire lot is asphalt so would look better in an urban city.

Side View - 
There's a junk pile to collect scrap from, and this is also where the trash can is.

Floor Plan - 
Your Sims live on the second story, in the left-side apartment.

Lobby Floor Plan

Basement Floor Plan -
This area is public, and offers a washer & dryer, and an inventor's table.

Lobby -
The door to the basement is behind the stairs, across from the door in this picture.

Apartment - living room area

Apartment - kitchen area

Apartment - bedroom

Apartment - bathroom and closet
The clothes rack is decorative but you can put a dresser in there instead, to make it functional.

Apartment - doors to closet, bathroom, and bedroom (left to right)

Basement - washer/dryer

Basement - inventor's table 
(made the basement intentionally dark to make the place seem even more bleak)

Back of House - 4 Parking Spaces
(you can buy and place cars without needing cheats, just fyi)

Front Entrance


So, that's it! I didn't put a hamper into the apartment, because there really wasn't much space for one, and also I thought it added to the whole feel of the place to have the Sims just throw their laundry on the floor.

There's a callbox in the lobby across from the stairs, I just forgot to get a picture for it. There's no trash chute, because it didn't seem realistic in a house like this. (Actually callboxes aren't either, but I wasn't sure if Sims could visit without one...I should test that for future reference).

NPC's will move in to the apartments, and you can ring their doorbells. All the apartment features were tested and work fine :)

I used no custom content on this lot!

**Requires: World Adventures, Ambitions, and Late Night**

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If you have any questions or run into any problems, please leave a comment. 

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