Bianca's Apartment Tour

Bianca Monty currently lives by herself in 1c of Bichelli Street Apartments.

As she's just finished unpacking everything, she invites her parents over for breakfast and to have a look around her new place.

Isabella isn't amused at her husband and daughter gossiping about her RIGHT in front of her. lol. Anyway - on with the tour! The front door opens on to a small corridor with a staircase up, and Bianca's apartment is on the first floor.

There is a modest-sized living room. It's a little bare and the furnishings are cheap at the moment as Bianca's savings went into buying the apartment.

A small sunny kitchen, perfect for Bianca to practice her love of cooking.

The bathroom is small, but functional... she could really do with a mirror in here =/

Bianca's bedroom is very serene and calm.

And there is a second bedroom to expand into.

Finally, a roof terrace just off of the kitchen is the perfect place for Bianca to share breakfast with her parents.

Here's the floorplan. It's not a large place, but as it's Bianca's first 'real' home, she is very happy with it and looks forward to being able to redecorate, furnish it properly and really put her own mark on the place.

 

...her boss, Connie, however, does not like the TV. hehe.

Veronaville - Bichelli Apartments

Another Eastside lot. This is partially copied from a maxis-built house in Monte Vista for the sims 3.

I came across this picture when I was looking for inspiration for the 'urban' part of Eastside Veronaville and really liked the way it looked with the roofs and terraces, so I decided to do a sims 2 version:

You can see the left side of this is a very close copy. On the right side, I improvised, leaving space for one car parking and widening the building to fill the lot up. I think my lot ended up being deeper than the sims 3 version as well.

For address purposes (which probably matters to no-one but me lol), the cream/yellow part on the left is 'number 1' and the cream/putty part on the right is 'number 3'.

Number 3 has an external staircase to one of the apartments.

As I only had a picture of the front of the building, the back and the floor plan were completely improvised. At the back I tried to get a sprawling urban Italian feel that looked like bits had been added on in time. There are a couple of back entrances round here too.

The ground floor holds three apartments.

The main entrance at the front of number 1 (with the blue door) leads to two small 'bedsit' apartments, 1a and 1b, a toilet and the staircase up.

The apartment on the left of this picture, 3a, is accessed by a door from the back yard of this lot. It's a medium sized, potentially two bedroom space.

The apartment accessed by the external staircase, 3b, can be seen here on the left of this picture. This apartment also includes some of the floor above. The rest of this floor is apartment 1c which currently belongs to Bianca Monty, the lot's only resident at the moment.

And the top floor has the rest of 3b, and 1d.

I don't have Apartment Life, so this is just a regular residential lot with the apartments designated using Myne doors (from University).

Veronaville - Pentameter Plaza

This blog entry needs to be updated with more recent pictures as I've rebuilt this lot since the great crash of 2012 and changed a couple of things.

Pentameter way was one of the original community lots in Eastside Veronaville. It used to sell groceries and magazines. I decided to change this lot to a coffee shop and clothes shop.

Here are some before shots:

I hate these huge pointless car parks.

I decided for this lot to use Mexican inspiration as well as the Mediterranean feel.

As you can see, I changed the two buildings a lot, adding floors and expanding the floor space of both sections. The white side is the coffee shop with outside, covered, seating area. The orange and blue building is a cheap fashion store.

 The upstairs of both these buildings are accessible, but not currently in use.

Fairly simple inside. I didn't really touch the toilets section at all. The fashion shop sells clothes, perfume and jewelry, and has a large changing room.

Veronaville - Stratford Strip Gym

This was one of the original community lots in Veronaville. It was initially half grocery, half games shop - both of which I already had elsewhere - so I decided to remodel and turn it into a simple gym and pool.

I use a community skilling mod so my sims can improve their body skill on this lot.

I did expand the middle bit forwards a couple of squares, and I joined up the center gap. Otherwise it's pretty much the same as it was before. The large empty space beside the building is now the pool with two sunken hot tubs.

I redid the courtyard a little, just to match the style of my Eastside buildings elsewhere.

The main entrance can be seen bottom left, with the front desk. Along the back are the changing rooms with toilets and showers. The gym is on the right side with a variety of equipment for customers to make use of. In the hallway area there is a small coffee stand and a couple of tables to sit and have a coffee at.