It's that time of year again when TS4's Father Winter emerges from his cave to spread the Winterfest spirit, handing out presents and drinking all the orange juice...
But in his old age, the cold weather gets into Father Winter's joints - why do you think he's always breaking into people's houses to hang out near the fireplace? Sure, a nice glass of mulled wine helps, but sleeping in a cold, damp cave all summer is really getting stale!

So here is where you come in!
Design a new home by January 1st, ready for Father Winter to settle down in comfort after the excitement of the Winterfest Holidays. Remember to style it to his taste - he's a festive man! And a new workshop for making toys would surely be appreciated. The challenge is open for all games, not just TS4, so no sim gets left out!

Bonus Category: Get the spare room ready! Mrs. Crumplebottom will be visiting soon. And don't think a blow-up mattress will suffice - she demands that her accommodations should meet her exact specifications. If you need some inspiration, check out some of the builds from our Mrs. Crumplebottom's Hideaway Challenge.

Bonus Category: Father Winter isn't a materialistic guy - he loves to give; not to take! He would feel much more comfortable in a more modest accommodation - consider his feelings and build with a budget of 30k simoleons.


Hopefully Father Winter will have a nice place to live soon and won't have to hang around your house all day!

And special thanks to Site Helper zoe22 for writing up this wonderful intro post!

Never having played TS4... Am I right in reading Father Winter as a Santa Claus / Father Christmas type character?

That's right. He wears light blue instead of red. Just in case you were to want to colour co-ordinate an entry with that in mind.

@Zarathustra - Here's a picture of the very dapper man himself, courtesy of Hellfrozeover!

I remade OuneOuas' North Pole house as a mansion for Krampus and the Horrorday Gang (Jerry the Psycho Reindeer and Luca the Snowmobster). Probably wouldn't count for this contest though, right?

Is this like the Mrs. Crumplebottom challenge in that we're just posting photos in this thread, with actually uploading the resultant lot left up to the discretion of the creator? Or is it more in the line of a theme where there's an expectation of upload?

@BulldozerIvan - I kind of want to see that though

@Zarathustra - It's like the Crumplebottom Challenge, although anything you want to upload is totally welcome

Hard to resist a setup like that. But I'd have to show side-by-side pics of the Krampus version with OuneOas' more jolly version for the joke to make sense. Like a series of before and after pics. May have to link a lot of pics to do it. I'll look into it.

Well, you wanted it, you got it! OuneOuas' North Pole for Santa, versus the Krampus corruption!

A true masterpiece.

I've actually started making Krampus corruption lots to the tune of a new one every year. On a more recent one, I got a little more creative. He replaces a merry massive town clock in the town center with a winged pig demon statue, wearing a creepy clock on its collar.

He also turns one of the homes on that lot into an OCD sufferer's worst nightmare, as well as replacing a friendly meeting room with a house of mirrors. He adds a basement to one home he vandalizes... that leads to a lava chamber. Basically, a portal to Hell.

He steals the arcade machines from the arcade, replacing one with a coffin and leaving the rest of the arcade desolate. He changes the fencing around a once-festive music stage, to make it look like Gangland, USA. When not eating naughty children, he is a prolific vandal. Who looks at street taggers and arsonists and thinks: "Rank amateurs!"

He leaves one building festive...on the outside. As a mockery of what the town center used to be. He also replaces most fencing and the big snow hill display backboard with prison walls.

Never underestimate an angry goat-man vampire in a dingy Santa suit that has his own twisted magic. He's now effectively the Grinch on meth.

My version of Father winter's house:







"Cat stuff?!" You might say, but Mrs Winter wants the best for her cat baby. Currently she isn't home though :p. 

The house itself is quite based off, from those lemax miniature Christmas houses (Which I adore!) And I figured that this definitely would work perfectly for Father Winter and his wife.

Can I ask where this hat and robe are from?

Zaruthastra gets my vote. I'm so impressed, I think I'll spare it from Krampusification.

Well, did you know that the Father has another home in the Southern Hemisphere? Apparently he liked the idea of spending some time in a summer somewhere.
It is a modern home too! With a swimming pool and a hot tub and plenty of other entertainment - but he has a workshop too, and makes toys as diligently as when he is in Lapland.
There are plenty of sleeping space for the elves when they come to help.
Enough bathrooms for everyone as well!
And, while the home is ultra modern and a bit minimalist, the Crumplebottom quarter is more old-fashioned; because she still insists to visit. Having a bubble blower outside her front door on the way to the pool helps - she tends to get distracted by it and leave the swimmers in their swimwear alone.

Of course there are a number of Christmas trees.


And a BBQ Lapa


As wonderful interior




A neat workshop


And here is Crumplebottom's place:



All the pics are attached, I have not inserted all of them into the text - had a lot of fun, thank you

Was there going to be a sticker associated with this challenge like the other recent ones? Or did I just somehow wrongly assume that after the Mrs. Crumplebottom one? I just noticed none seem to have been awarded...