Desert Sports

Am I the only one who think EA´s lots very often takes up more valuable space than neccessary and even most of the time with only few good things?
In Lucky Palms forinstance they have placed an enormous fitness center on what may be one of the most prominent spots in town. I just had to replace it and thus I made a smaller but far more interesting one in a more appropriate place. I´m sure the millionaire sims will approve of it as they have now a large lot to build on right by the sea!
And regarding Desert Sports I´ve actually just give my "Simslille Fin Form"- fitness center an exterior makeover to make it fit the desert better. And frankly I expect more people to like this new version than the older scandinavian one. But be your own judge:

Before:

After:

The kids will probably enjoy this

if their fathers will get out of the way:

Inside you can still get really sweatty



 but after the hard work you can get a cold drink on the roof terrace

 

Lot-size 30x30. No CC

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Simslille Fin Form

My acrobat sim needs a place to work on his muscles, so I have created a fitness center for him, with dojo, climbing, walls and pool.
I actually had nice deck chairs along the pool, but the conditions are quite narrow in Simslille, so I chose to take them away again in order to make traffic of people run smoother:

The lotsize is 25x22. Store-items may be used, but no CC.

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Simslille bibliotek, Rådhusvej 2

Here´s a story for you guys:
The citizens of the small island Simslille have been left in severe speculations.
An old islander, who left for the mainland 70 years ago and made a fortune, has passed away. She had no heirs and as she never forgot her beloved hometown she wrote a will in which she left a very large sum to improve the cultural development in Simslille. Her only criterias were that the poor old library of the island should be made a lot better and that her money should be of use and joy to all the islanders, young and old, rich and poor.
So now the islanders have to chose between two possibilities: Do they want a perfectly new concrete library with a cafeteria and everything and spend the whole amount on getting it OR would they prefer to save the charming old buildings of the existing library, give it a total makeover and still have a few simoleons left for other options?
Which would you choose?
Here´s the new library:

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Simslille gamle bibliotek

The cheaper solution would of course be to keep the beautiful old building. Give it a total makeover and fill it up with the newest computers and board games.
There will, of course, not be room for at cafeteria and a roof terrace is also not available, but the old building do have a lot of charm which maybe fits the sorroundings a lot better than a shining concrete square. The citizens of Simslille are placed in two corners: those who want the new, but most expensive library against those, who prefer the charming old building with is smaller facilities but then still a few simoleons left for the island budget.....to benefit the children and the old people maybe?
Which of the two would you prefer?
Simslille gamle bibliotek (Simslille Old Library)

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Hello everybody, how about a cup of coffee...

I have made this romantic coffee shop for you in 3 versions. It´s called Sophies Minde after the british painter, Sophie Anderson (1823-1903) and is the danish name for something like: In the memory of Sophie.
Especially earlier it was quite normal to name places after beloved or famous persons even though the places were not exactly monuments but more like residentials or public places like parks or small manor houses.
My community lot here is actually an entry to the May Challenge on the danish site Sims 3 Byggeforum that I have mentioned quite a number of times. By clicking the link you´ll be brougth to the site and the painting by Sophie Anderson that should inspire to an entry of any kind, and mine was this coffee shop.

I´ll show all 3 versions to you and the first one is the original with quite some CC, especially flowers:

 Sophies Minde (CC included)

Thank you Simply Styling for among others the clematis from your Landscape3 set: http://www.simplystyling.de/Sims3/homesims3.html
Khany sims 3 for variuous flowers: http://www.khanysims.be/conversions3-1.php
Camillecc for Murray curtains and lavenders: http://www.camillecc.com/2011/06/18/hobbies-blog-train/
Sim_man123/TSR/ Hawthorne Flower vase: http://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/browse/category/sims3-objects/search/hawthorne/
MV Blossom vase High level by Sorry, I don´t know from whom
b5studio for the Antique Venetian Mirror: http://www.b-5studio.com/search/label/mirror

Sophies Minde (Less CC)

 

 

Thank you Simply Styling for the clematis from your Landscape3 set: http://www.simplystyling.de/Sims3/homesims3.html

Sophies Minde (No CC)

Dizzy´s Dimple for all party sims

From outside it doesn´t look like much, but when you enter the building you can just feel that your feet start to live their own life and your butt starts shaking. Dizzy´s Dimple is  the place where respectable citizens would never let their children be seen. The risc that they´ll spot their parents dirty dancing is far to big! This is the hottest dance-club in town, 3. floors of party and two hot tubs in the basement, what more do you want! No CC  and built on a 15x10 lot.

                      

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Smallville Police Station

Smallville Police Station
CC: Oldham curtains by Mutske/TSR
Kate Bathroom curtains by Angela/TSR
Prison cell windows by Cyclonesue/TSR
Rabbit hole replacement rug by Jynx/ Custom Sims 3

There aren´t many villains in a small town like Smallville, at most a teenager who have forgotten to go home at night or the worst kind, people who spit on the sidewalk and steel candy from the little children. But a town needs a police station anyway, not the least because of the good jobs that follows.

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Well, it turned out that I had to make a light version as well, if I wanted the thing in the Exchange, so you can get that one here. Basically I just replaced all CC with EA-stuff, except the rabbit hole replacement rug by Jynx/Customsims3.com.

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Style & Tattoo

Today´s offer is a beauty parlor with a tattoo salon upstairs. I´ve tried to differ the two having in mind that they could be owned and run by two friends or siblings. The style is rather brothel-like, I think, and that was exactly what I was heading for. Before tattoos hat such a rennaisance they were considered really poor taste, it used to be naked women on the sailors´ arms or a heart with "Mother" written in it. And when I was a child hairdressers often hat this, well, in danish we would use a word like sultry, I have no idea if it can be used when in english? The meaning would be something like a bit (or actually very) common. I think, I have hit that pretty well.....no offense!

Style & Tattoo

Villa Ville Kulla Daycare

"Is this place a residence or  a community lot?" You might ask. And to that I can only answer: "Both"
The ground floor is the commercial part where the owner of the house can run a kindergarden for a living. And after work, he or she can just go upstairs to the private rooms. Up there is a whole apartment with two bedrooms, a bathroom and a kitchen/living room.
The kindergarden part contains a nursery, a childrens´ bathroom, a kitchenette and a large daily room with all kind of toys for kids of all ages. Even the garden has become a playground so this is just the perfect place for the simmiebabies when their parents are busy. It is build on a 15x20 lot and holds no CC but some Store-items.

Fitness Friend

Isn´t it  a fantastic antigram for Torture Chamber, I just figured the latter would attract the wrong sims.... My decision to make a whole bunch of community lots on very small pieces of land really became a trial with this fitness center. It´s build on a 15x10 lot and as I needed more floors I also had to add either stairs or lifts and that caused me some severe thinking. A single staircase is a no go for community lots in my opinion, sims will get out of their mind because others are blocking the stairs all the time. Only one lift gives you problems as these are actually the slowest lifts ever seen, so you need at least two. And both stairs and lifts need lots of space. Now you can judge for yourselves which one you prefer if you wish to visit this fitness center, you can always change things in your own game, remember.

Fitness Friend....Well, looking at these pics won´t cause you sweat or tears

Brasserie Celine

Even the owner of the smallest hotdog-stand wants people to know, that her stand is something special. We all like to be told that people appreciate what we are doing, but lets face it, some lines are more fashionable than others. If for instance you own a diner, deep inside you know, that running a michelin-restaurant is a bit more fashionable. so why blame a few sims if they overdo the place they are working or their title a bit! They just realize, that we are all too easy to impress. I would like to introduce you to Brasserie Celine, the "poshest" diner ever:

Brasserie Celine
CC: rabbit hole replacement rug by Jynx/www.customsims3.com

Cyprinus Put and Take

Some time, all on your own with a fish rod ....Sims need entertainment just like the rest of us, and to some of them a fishing expedition is the definition of fun. Now not all anglers are fond of travelling but they want to catch all possible kinds of fish anyway, and now they can, if you have the World Adventure-Expansion that is. Because I have made a "put and take"-fishing park and larded it with all kinds of fish from the foreign destination. And your sim can even stay for days, as the place has a bed and breakfast as well:

Mini, mini, mini

I love mini lots in case you didn´t notice. Today I have two small provincial town shops for you, one of them, The Three Little Fishes is a rabbit hole for grocery store, dressed up as a fishmonger. The other one: Pets and pud, well, the name says it, it´s a pet shop and not a rabbit hole.

The Three Little Fishes, a grocery store dressed up as fishmonger.
CC: Rabbit hole replacement rug by Jynx/ www.customsims3.com

Pets and Pud, at cute little pet shop

Smallville City Hall

I´m pretty proud of myself today. Can you imagine, I have managed to build a whole city hall in just a few hours! But then of course, Smallville is indeed a small town, so they probably don´t need much more than a couple of desks to run the whole business :-)
I´ve tried to find an english word for a place with the function of a city hall but in much smaller scale, but I didn´t succeed. In danish we used to have a municipal office in the smaller towns and  city halls in the bigger places only, but now a days everything has to seem very important, far more important than for normal peolpe to understand and at best we try to give everything an english name, which kind of make things sound modern and fashionable. Thus a cleaning woman has become a renovation assistent! Posh, huh!
I have used a  City Hall rabbit hole replacement rug by Jynx (link under picture) and of course you can put other rug inside the house if you like. For instance you might want the policestation in the same building, as it sure is a small town. Just remember to leave enough space around the rugs in order to avoid problems  with crowds that tend stop everything!
Besides the rug, there is no CC, and the lot is only 20x20!

Smallville City Hall
CC: Credits to Jynx/ www.customsim3.com  for rabbit hole replacement rug

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House of Culture

This lot has an alarming resemblance to the previous Smallville Centre of Culture, you might think. And you are absolutely right. I detected an issue that I didn´t know how to fix, namely the fact that the basement was inaccessable.
Therefore I have made a brand-new " Culture Club", and this time everything works just fine:

Goods and Gold, Consignment Store

"Even small towns with only small lots need an active business life in order to really bloom".
That was what old Missy van Haflinger thought when she woke up one morning and just knew, that she could do something to prevent her beloved town from withering away. She also realized that there were no heirs to her big collection of things from trips and interests through a whole long life, and she decided to sell it all and donate what she got out of it to the town. So she simply put an add in the newspaper and converted her birth home to a consignment store. And even though dear Missy past away some years ago her cosy (and dusty) little shop still runs. And thanks to her, so does the town.

Smallville Centre of Culture/ Please read the correction note at the download link

On a new small lot 20x20 I have build this quite luxorious centre of culture. It is a mixed library, book-outlet, café, practice room for your musical developement, actually there is hardly a thing you can´t do here, except having a swim.

Smallville School

As you might have read on an older entry, I have been planning to make a series of small lots. And doing that, I of course also need small community lots. So here is my first, a public school. Being a teacher in real life I consider public schools one of our most important joint obligations. I believe that the best schools should be for everybody not only those who can pay!
But building on a small lot kind of puts restrictions on you, and I have found, that without much space my schools tend to be kind of old fashioned. The playground on this one certainly is too.. And mind you, this is a rabbit hole, so I can´t even brag about how creative the place looks inside as it is actually empty :) But still, I think the place looks rather friendly,anyway:

Smallville School
CC: Rabbit hole replacement rug by Jynx/ www.Customsims3.com

You should get the illusion of the gymnasium behind the high windows

The school is build on a 15x20 lot and the cost is around  29-30.000 S.

There is no CC but the rabbit hole replacement rug by Jynx, find the link under the top pic.

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