This challenge looks interesting. Is anyone still running it?

Challenges are not run by anyone. They are simply presented for the user to guide them to challenge themselves in their own game.

Yeah. I be happy if more people contribute to it, since I love to see how creative members are

Better late than never?! This is the conversion of Maxis Ranch Retreat that I promised back in July 2018. I made a start on it soon after. I changed the zoning to Community and I provisionally gave it the name Capital Clothing. I relaxed the rules as I always intended to do -- basically making the structural changes that I felt were necessary to fit the building for it's new purpose. Basically I would (if the budget permitted) make the same changes if it were a real life building.

I put Maxis Match plate glass shop windows, with matching double doors, all along the frontage of the building. I replaced the door into the front bedroom with a single arch, to ease access, and to make it easier for the cashier to keep an eye on the whole shop. And I put a dividing wall inside the original long bathroom, diving it into 2x2 toilet cubicles, each with a wash-hand basin. The rear bedroom was retained, redesignated as a staff mess room. And then my inspiration deserted me, and I left it uncompleted for the next couple of years. I couldn't think what to do with the internal decor and the actual shopfitting. Only when I shifted my game to my new laptop at the beginning of October last year did my Muse return, and I finally completed and opened the shop.

In the end I fitted it out as a boutique specialising in lingerie, swimwear and suchlike items. The name "Capital Clothing" no longer seemed appropriate so I changed it to "Hotties". If you're familiar with teenage Romance Sims, you'll know they're called "hotties" when they're in Gold Aspiration. (And I'm sure a lot of mine -- boys as well as girls -- like being called hotties!)

So here it is, Hotties boutique in Monopolis:
First some general views of the building's exterior:

Now a couple of pictures showing the general layout of the shop:

Now some pictures taken inside the shop:



@SneakyWingPhoenix : I hope you don't mind that I've built this, inspired by your challenge, but with the rules significantly relaxed. I think it still fits in with the spirit of your challenge, and the shop still has much of the look and feel of the original Ranch Retreat. I wouldn't have said anything, but I see that child_of_air got very upset because TadOlson was playing her Homesteader Challenge by different rules, and in the end got so upset that she completely deleted the thread (which I honestly think was an over-reaction). I hope you're happy with the way I've done this, but if you are upset by me not playing by your rules, please let me know. If necessary, I can delete this post, ad re-submit it as a new variant of the challenge. Whatever you do, please don't delete the whole thread like child_of_air did. Amongst other things that would mean deleting gazania's submission, which would really be a loss, as I fear that gazania is no longer with us.

Anyway, thanks for thinking up the challenge and starting the thread!