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The sixty-second, and final house of my "1920s Series" - inspired by 62 Beautiful Vintage Home Designs from the 1920s - is the "Crockett," a Tudor Revival cottage with three original bedrooms (plus a fourth one I added in the finished basement,) two full baths and two half baths (one of each of which I added - in the finished basement,) a finished basement (obviously ) and a workshop garage. The brochure points out it has, "An irresistible front, culminating in the artistic face brick entrance." Which, I must clarify, my version uses the Maxis brown timbering, not the 'irresistible' white that the original architect had access to. The brochure continues, "Such features as a butler's pantry and a toilet off the hall makes the downstairs arrangement perfect. The spaciousness of the chambers should be noticed." ...Your sims will find a beverage bar in the butler's pantry, the *ahem* powder room is conveniently by the front door - as is a coat closet, and the upstairs bedrooms are indeed spacious.
The last words of the brochure assure us that the "Roof and walls will last as long as the building itself." Yes... That is very reassuring. LOL!
This house was planned as the last of the series for sentimental reasons... Crockett is a family name of mine going back to the same family as Davy; though this looks nothing like the "Crockett House" pictured hanging on the wall in my mom's genealogy room. None-the-less, it is a fine house. The Goodies have decided they are done moving, this is where they are going to stay. As was part of our deal, their aging has been turned off. They are eagerly awaiting the arrival of their soon-to-be-created extended family.
I hope you have a family that will enjoy living in this house too!
Thank you so much - those of you who have followed along on this whole series. When I started this back in January, I've had no idea it would be such a big project! I've had a lot of fun learning architectural styles of the 1920's, new building techniques, and reading all y'all's comments. Thank YOU
Please take a tour through all the above pictures to see everything this house has to offer. This house is fully furnished and decorated - though there's probably room to add more in places... Furniture/decos are all EAxis in-game stuff. The only CC items are build items, and they're all listed below.
All appliances, plumbing and lighting are included. The telephone is in the front hall. The front door is burglar alarmed. The range, fireplace, and grill all have smoke alarms.
This is a clean copy of this house/lot; no sim has ever lived here. The package has been cleaned with Mootilda's Clean Installer. Pictures were taken with Invisible Fire Alarms in place, but the lot is packaged without that mod. So, you will see the fire alarm over the range in the kitchen, and over the fireplace in the living room, and over the grill outside the back porch. Pictures were also taken with the Invisible Driveway, but the lot is not packaged with it. I highly recommend both invisifying options! .
There is parking available for three vehicles: two on the brick driveway, and one in the garage.
CC list - used but NOT included - so, GO get it:
- Unlevel Wall - #90 by Numenor @ MTS2 - used to fix wonky wall issues. Some people weren't sure how to install this wall... Click the info button down below to see how I did it
- Lifestyle Build Bundle - It's the second link in the top post - extracted from Lifestyle Stories by Argon @ MATY. Many of the wallpapers used in this 1920s series come from this bundle.
- Nooks And Niches - Niche 1 MASTER by Buggy Booz - without this the front door brick arch will flash blue!
- From that same file, you also need: BB Niche Arch
- Nook Folly MASTER by Buggy Booz - without this the brick bits will flash blue!
- From that same file, you will also need:
.....BB Nook Folly Garden Rounded Step Shelf Leftside
.....BB Nook Folly Garden Rounded Step Shelf
.....BB Nook Folly Garden Step Cover
.....BB Nook Folly Flower Border Med Low Straight
- "Fawn Stucco" Chimney REC by Kimsie @ MTS2
- Moocha Paintings GoS/Store Items Archive
- Freetime Ballerina Poster GoS/Maxis Pre-Order Incentives Archive
- Hobby Poster MaxoidMonkey @ LiveJournal
Standard mods I use that are not necessary nor included - but were probably used whilst building/photo-ing/prepping this house for upload...
If you need help installing Numenor's Unlevel Wall #90, click this info button:
If you don't already have it, go get and install the Scriptorium by Numenor - it makes it super easy to install Modular Stairs, Fireplaces, Custom Walls, Lights/lamp mods (You can read about the what/why/how of it on his post) To sum up - all these items use scripts to work properly in the game - and that means they have an extra .txt file along with the regular .package file. And, you don't just dump it all into your Downloads folder. Once you install the Scriptorium, it will install all the other stuff for you.
Then - go get 90_UnleveledWall also by Numenor. (This wall is amazing!) Numenor cautions on his post that some people have experienced problems with this wall; but, I've used it since he first released it in 2006, and I have NEVER had a problem with it - I've used it through various EP/SP disc installs on XP, Vista, 7, 8, and now on Windows 10 with UC.
Unpack the zip file and find two items:
90_UnleveledWall.txt
90_UnleveledWall.package
In your DL folder, find the Scriptorium shortcut labeled "Scriptorium_Walls-Fences-Arches" and drop the .txt file into it.
(If you open the shortcut, you'll see it's path goes to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\Double Deluxe\Base\TSData\Res\Catalog\Scripts\Scriptorium_Walls-Fences-Arches - if you have the UC)
Numenor advises that you put BOTH the .txt and the .package in the shortcut folder. However, my 90_UnleveledWall.package file is in my documents/Downloads/zHacks folder - always has been, and, like I said, I've never had a problem with it.
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I use Niol/Moi's Roof Shader for brighter roofs
And, HW/Honeywell's A Little Greyer: Roof Trim Defaults
Then, if it's a Bespoke Roof recolor - it will be THESE adjusted versions by The Llama Park/Tumblr that you see used in the pictures. (However, what you get in the packaged file, will either be the plain EA roof or the straight, un-modified Bespoke roof from the set here on MTS2.)
Maranatah's White Wall Top texture replacement
Moo's Turn On/Off Lights
Menaceman's Lunatech Lighting Fix
BeosBoxBoy's no-red-pause-mod
Nopke's Go Under Spiral Stairs mod for proper spiral stair usage
And, of course, everyone needs Numenor's CEP and SEP!
I also use FRAPs to take in-game pictures, and PhotoShop to clean/collage said pictures.
And, I highly recommend using gummilutt's Invisible Medicine Cabinet to add features to any mirror - as per her policy, it's not used or included in this lot.
Lot Size: 3x3 Lot Price (furnished): $142,546
Additional Credits:
Thank you EAxis for this wonderful game
And, MTS2 for this terrific website!
For a detailed look at individual files, see the Information tab.
Key:
- File was updated after upload was posted
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1. Download: Click the download link to save the .rar or .zip file(s) to your computer.
2. Extract the zip, rar, or 7z file.
3. Install: Double-click on the .sims2pack file to install its contents to your game. The files will automatically be installed to the proper location(s).
You may want to use the Sims2Pack Clean Installer instead of the game's installer, which will let you install sims and pets which may otherwise give errors about needing expansion packs. It also lets you choose what included content to install. Do NOT use Clean Installer to get around this error with lots and houses as that can cause your game to crash when attempting to use that lot. Get S2PCI here: Clean Installer Official Site.
I mostly "build" - houses, apartments, recreational, and community lots - but, I also create walls (and murals), floors, terrain paint, and various other recolors. And I've written a few tutorials too. :luff:
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