Strangetown: Trading Places (Makeover Contest)

Additional Pictures

View from Rear of Property by Night
In some previous contests a rear view was a required picture, and I still think it best to let people see what the place looks like from the other side. A three quarters view lets you see two sides at once. And I always like to include a view of my houses after dark. This picture does all three at once! It was actually taken in the evening of the Singles' first day. Two of the Welcome Wagon guests (Cameron Mackintosh and Nervous Subject) are soaking in the hot tub, and Kristen (in the red one-piece swimsuit is coming out to join them. Once there she invited the third .Welcome Wagon visitor (Ajay Loner) to join them. She then spent much of the rest of the evening in that hot tub monopolising the company of their three male guests. Well, a girl's got to take her chances when she gets them!

One of the Upstairs Bathrooms
The rest of the pictures appear in more or less chronological order. The first thing that Kristen did was go and admire the new combined bath and shower. Meantime Lola sat down to study cooking, and Chloe and Erin got into a long conversation with each other in the front garden. Initially Chloe wanted to poke Erin, but I don't care for that sort of thing, so I suggested that she try chatting with her instead. They quickly discovered that they had a lot in common, and their friendship developed from there.

First Floor Passageway and Loft Ladder
Seeing that Kristen had already come up to the first floor, I asked her to go up to the attic to check that everything worked there. I was very relieved to her climbing that ladder: I had to use MoveObjects to place it, and wasn't sure if it would work there.

The Attic
As mentioned before, Kristen had to move the computer out of the narrow alcove to its present position opposite the bed before she could use. She tried everything else in the room and it all worked, Here she is watching sport on the little TV.

The Kitchen 1
Erin used the 'phone in the kitchen to ring her brother Loki to tell him that they had moved in, that they liked the house, and that, maybe somewhat to her surprise, she was starting to make friends with Chloe.

The Lounge
Lola took a recipe book from the lounge bookcase and started to read it almost as soon she arrived, so that she would know something about cooking before trying to entertain any guests. After a long chat in the garden, Chloe and Erin achieved much the same purpose by sitting down together in front of the widescreen television and watching The Yummy Channel. Kristen did her studying upstairs alone in the attic, first with the small TV, and then with her favourite recipe book.

The Activities Room
Soon after midday some neighbours arrived to welcome them to their new house. This is part of the Welcome Wagon initiative, which functions in Strangetown. They were Ajay Loner and Cameron Mackintosh from further along the road, and Nervous Subject, who had come down from his eyrie above the Beakers' new house in Cover Up Road. Here two of them, Cameron (playing the guitar) and Ajay, are in the Activities Room with Lola (back to camera) and Erin.

The Kitchen 2
In the event it was Kristen who came down from the attic to make a meal of lunch meat sandwiches for the guests.

The Dining Room
There are only 6 chairs round the dining room table, so, having served everyone else, Kristen quickly ate her own food in the lounge. Then she brought one of the chairs down from the attic so she could join the rest in the dining room. She is seated on her own on the left of the picture. Clockwise round the table are Lola Curious (back to camera), Cameron Mackintosh, Erin Beaker, Ajay Loner, Chloe Curious and Nervous Subject. Chloe is almost completely hidden behind Nervous's Mohican haircut.

Erin's Bedroom
Erin has chosen a Japanese style 4-poster bed. Her wallpaper features interesting but abstract patterns, and the room is lit by a modern BeamOLite Compacto wall light augmented by a traditional lamp on one of the bedside tables. But the strange fact is that Erin hasn't slept in her bed yet. If you're wondering why not, read on!

Chloe's Bedroom 1
Despite her liking for green, Chloe has gone for pink as the dominant colour in her bedroom. Of the 3 lamps that light up her room, two are pink and one is green. The green light shining on the pink wallpaper can produce an -- er -- "interesting" effect. Alone among the 4 girls, Chloe has chosen to put curtains at her windows. But Chloe's bedroom isn't just for sleeping in. She anticipates that some of the best moments of her life will happen in this bedroom and in that bed. Chloe's bedroom is designed for seduction! She has 3 of those pictures on her walls They cost Â§4,000 each!

Lola's Bedroom
Lola's bedroom is sensible and practical. She has a coffee machine in a corner alcove. Here she is setting her alarm so she won't sleep in for her new job. She has embarked on a medical career, but she plans to switch to politics at a later stage

Kristen's Bedroom
Red Light District? I had forgotten just how lurid the light from the Lunatech Light Disc can be. Kristen quite innocently chose these red and white wall lamps as sporty colours. Please be very careful, Kristen, if Chloe ever comes into your room when you're dressed in your undies. She may have difficulty controlling her urges!

Chloe's Bedroom 2
Another view of Chloe's bedroom. The biggest surprise playing this lot is the close friendship that is developing between Chloe Curious and Erin Beaker. Yes, I said "friendship". That's what Chloe says it is. She's explained to Erin that, "On the planet my people come from, it's quite normal for friends to strip to their underwear and get into bed together." If Erin spoke to Lola, then Lola might well tell her, "Don't believe everything my sister tells you." But Erin likes Chloe a lot and wants to please her. Earlier in the day Chloe went to 88 Road to Nowhere to buy some sexy underwear, which she's now wearing. She also bought undies for Erin which is only slightly more demure than her own. And now they were relaxing together on her bed in their new undies. A little later they both slipped under the covers and slept together -- still dressed like that. They didn't do anything naughty. They are after all, as Chloe says, "just" very good friends.

You don't think Chloe is taking advantage of Erin do you? I just have a slight fear that Chloe might go on to tell Erin that making out and woohoo are also quite normal ways for friends to bond on "her" planet.

The Garden
Chloe does seem to keep thinking of things that she and Erin can do together without many clothes on. Here, on the Tuesday morning, while Lola and Kristen are at work, they are playing together on the trampolines in the garden. Which usefully gave Erin the Body point she needs for her first promotion. Afterwards they swam together and had a little soak in the hot tub before Erin had to leave for work (in the Athletic career). All perfectly chaste and innocent. Chloe hasn't got a job. With her sister and her new friend both working, she really doesn't see the need.

I'm afraid that Erin has, completely unexpectedly, fallen for Chloe big time. And she may not be the only one: I think I may have fallen for Chloe too!

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