Bianca Monty

 

Game-play Note: In Veronaville (and also Monte Vista for sims3) there are some age discrepancies as to the ages of this generation of Montys. In my game, I just adjusted ages to make Bianca 31 and Antonio 35... Claudio would have been 33 or 34 and been very young when he and Olivia had Mercutio... I just can't think of Bianca as any older than that so this is what makes sense to me. =)

Bianca has just moved in to a new apartment in the urban part of Eastside Veronaville. Rather than living in a poky little bedsit, she now has a two bedroom apartment. She's still desperately hoping that one day soon there will be a baby for the second bedroom, but she's starting to think that, at 31, perhaps her chances of the family life have passed.

Age: Adult (31)

Parents: Patrizio & Isabella Monty

Spouse: none

Children: none

Family Loyalty/Status: Monty

Personality:  4 Sloppy, 5 Shy, 6 active, 4 Serious, 6 nice.

Interests: Culture, Food, Fashion

Traits: Loves Animals, Bookworm, Hopeless Romantic

Aspiration: Family (Education Minister)

School:

Career: Veterinary Technician (Vet)

Friends: Kent Capp, Titania Summerdream, Oberon Summerdream, Connie Puzo

Enemies: Consort Capp, Goneril Capp, Tybalt Capp, Regan Capp 

Romance History: yet to have her first romance!

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.

Veronaville - The Monty Family

I've played Veronaville so many times that each time I come back to this hood, it's like greeting old friends. hehe.

Last time, I didn't make too much of the family feud. This time it's WAR!

Patrizio Monty

Patrizio was working for Contessa Capp's father and fell in love with her. He was heartbroken when she left him for Consort and never forgave the man for not only stealing his girl, but also persuading Contessa's father to force Patrizio out of the company.

Age: Elder (69) 

Parents: Valentine & Silvia Monty (d)

Spouse: Isabella Monty

Children: Antonio, Bianca, Claudio (d)

Family Loyalty/Status: Monty Patriarch.

Personality:  8 Neat, 5 Shy, 4 Lazy, 4 Serious, 4 Grouchy.

Interests: Politics, Money, Work

Traits:

Aspiration: Family (marry off 6 children)

School:

Career: Retired Chef (culinary)

Friends: 

Enemies: Consort Capp, Goneril Capp, Kent Capp, Regan Capp 

Romance History: Dated Contessa until she left him for Consort and her father fired him to boot! Turning his back on them both, he met and married Isabella.

Isabella Monty

Age: Elder (60)

Parents: Vincentio & Francisca Pantalone (d)

Spouse: Patrizio Monty

Children: Antonio, Bianca, Claudio (d)

Family Loyalty/Status: Monty Matriarch.

Personality:  4 sloppy, 6 outgoing, 5 active, 5 serious, 5 nice.

Interests: Food, Culture, School

Traits:  Natural Cook

Aspiration: Family (education minister)

School:

Career: Retired Chef

Friends: Oberon Summerdream

Enemies: Consort Capp, Goneril Capp, Kent Capp, Regan Capp 

Romance History: Patrizio was her first love.

Antonio Monty 

Age: Adult (35)

Parents: Patrizio & Isabella Monty

Spouse: Hero Monty (d)

Children: Beatrice & Benedict (twins)

Family Loyalty/Status: Monty.

Personality:  6 Neat, 4 Shy, 7 Active, 3 Serious, 5 nice.

Interests: Paranormal, Food, Crime

Traits: Natural Cook

Aspiration: Knowledge (criminal mastermind)

School:

Career: Chef (culinary)

Friends: Titania Summerdream

Enemies: Consort, Kent, Regan, Tybalt, Goneril

Romance History: Hero was his first and only love.

Mercutio Monty 

At one point it looked like Mercutio had managed to put the past behind him. The Capps had taken his parents, and he'd never forgive them for that... but his crush on Hermia was making him view the family in a different light. Maybe they weren't all bad? One night, however, Mercutio walked in on Hermia making out with Puck Summerdream. He was furious! Apparently all the Capps were the same - worthless, cheating scum! He wouldn't rest until Veronaville was Capp-free - and having Crime ring leader Anthony Puzo on side seemed like a good place to start...

Age: Teen* (17) 

* My teens can leave school at 16 or 18 and either go to college or not. Whilst still a teen but no longer at school, I use inTeen to allow the teens to get a job if they wish. When he turns 20, I'll manually age him up to adult.

Parents: Claudio & Olivia Monty (d)

Spouse: none

Children: none

Family Loyalty/Status: Aggressive Monty.

Personality:  3 sloppy, 7 outgoing, 3 Lazy, 7 playful, 5 nice.

Interests: toys, animals, environment (to be altered x.x)

Traits:

Aspiration: Popularity (become Hall of Famer)

School: Veronaville High School (left at 16) C

Career: Bookie (Criminal)

Friends: Anthony Puzo (boss)

Enemies: Tybalt Capp (archrival), Juliette Capp

Romance History: Mercutio was head over heels for Hermia Capp and he had thought she returned his feelings, but she broke his heart by going out with Puck. Miranda Capp has long had a crush on Mercutio, but he remains oblivious to this, and since breaking up with Hermia, he hasn't been in contact with Miranda either.

Romeo Monty

Romeo doesn't care much for the family feud at the moment - he's more concerned with having fun and spending his time with pretty girls, including Juliette Capp. He knows that his family won't approve, but it's not like he's planning to marry her or anything. He works for the family after school and quite enjoys the restaurant business, so would like to carry on with that when he leaves school.

Age: Teen (15)

Parents: Claudio & Olivia Monty (d)

Spouse: none

Children: none

Family Loyalty/Status: Monty

Personality:  3 sloppy, 6 outgoing, 5 lazy, 5 serious, 6 nice.

Interests: Food, Environment, Entertainment

Traits: Perpetual bachelor, Natural Cook, Flirty

Aspiration: Romance (woohoo with 20 sims)

School: Veronaville High School (current) B+

Career: Part-time dishwasher (culinary)

Friends: Juliette Capp, Bottom Summerdream, Puck Summerdream

Enemies: Tybalt Capp

Romance History: Romeo is currently dating Juliette Capp, but he's pretty sure that he's not really the one-love-forever kid of guy...

Beatrice & Benedict

Age: Child (9)

Parents: Antonio Monty & Hero Monty (d)

Spouse: none

Children: none

Family Loyalty/Status: Monty innocents XD

Beatrice

Personality:  3 sloppy, 4 Shy, 7 active, 3 Serious, 8 nice

Interests: Crime, Entertainment, Sports

Traits: Athletic

Aspiration:

School: Veronaville Primary A+

Career:

Friends: Bottom Summerdream

Enemies: 

Romance History:

Benedict

Personality:  2 sloppy, 3 Shy, 8 active, 6 playful, 6 nice

Interests: Paranormal, Weather, Sci-fi

Traits: Genius, 

Aspiration:

School: Veronaville Primary A+

Career:

Friends: Bottom Summerdream

Enemies: 

Romance History:

 

Veronaville - Monty Ranch lot tour

An update from my Veronaville hood today. Well, I say my Veronaville hood, but when I had issues with crashing earlier this year, I lost most of this hood. Luckily I had detailed floorplans and images of my lots and so I've been able to rebuild... and I'm restarting the storylines there with some different matches, just to see what happens ;)

This is a lot that I've rebuilt differently though. Monty Ranch is one of those lots that in its original state just leave me wondering what the guy who built it was thinking. It's a HUGE lot and yet 80% of it is totally unusable with tiny tiny rooms and wasted space in the form of endless corridors. Now I love covered walkways as much as the next Mediterranean architecture enthusiast... but this lot needs WORK to be usable for a family.

quick 'before' shot. Stupid wrap around walkways, plain and useless courtyard, 3x3 living rooms!!! I mean... come on maxis...

Before I post the pics of my end result, I just want to say that I was heavily inspired by Galialady's makeover of this lot and some parts are very similar, if not copied. That said, on with my pics! =D

Externally I made a few changes. I added a 'fake' first floor over the front part, just to give the front facade some interest. I took out all of the arches, knocked the rooms through into the walkways, and then added some connecting pillars around the front. The annexe, where the master suite is, got a bit of an extension.

I added a garden wall and entrance gate like Galialady did because I really liked the way hers looked. =) The area to the front of the annexe is car parking for up to 4 cars. These mini pools at the front are purely for decoration.

 The main entrance of the house. =)

Behind the annexe part of the house, there is a proper pool and sunken hot tub.

The layout of the main part of the house - with the outside corridors knocked through, the two front rooms are now a decent size - I've made one the living room and the other the dining room. I haven't really done much with these besides change the wall colour and add some extra windows. On the left side, beside the dining room, is the kitchen. The area which used to be the dining area is now just a walkway through to the annexe. Beside that, opposite the kitchen, is a bedroom, currently used by twins Benedict and Beatrice (I moved Antonio and his kids back in with his parents so he can continue working). A small corridor leads from that room through to the memorial room, which I pretty much haven't touched, and also a bathroom shared by Antonio and the twins. The other side of the memorial is Antonio's room which is very small and basic.

The right side of the house holds Mercutio's room, Romeo's room and the boys' bathroom.

The center courtyard now has some plants and a fountain which makes it a much nicer place to sit and contemplate!

The annexe is a little larger than before and now has a walk-in closet as well as the en-suite bathroom. The steps lead up to a small room and the balcony, which Isabella uses as a hobby area for painting and flower arranging.

Mercutio is currently 17 in my game and working in the criminal career track (hence the suspicious dagger on his desk). He has a sofa-bed, so it can become a sofa if he has friends over (I have a matching sofa which I swap in and out of his inventory).

Romeo's room is pretty plain, filled with cheap furniture and, much to his dismay, he doesn't yet have a double bed. Mwahaha.

The twins have a very colourful room with lots of toys and posters =)

Veronaville - Summerdream Family

I am back playing Veronaville, and slowly going around the old families, making them over and sorting out the neighbourhood.

I've been making over the Summerdreams to look more fairy-esque:

Here's Titania and Oberon - looking youthful thanks to lots of elixir (hey - fairy magic!). They married and had two children, who are pictured here - Moth (on the left) and Peaseblossom (on the right).

Moth is a popularity sim, and Peaseblossom is a family sim.

They live in a treehouse that I built (I tried remodelling the Summerdream Mansion over and over and eventually gave up and bulldozed it).

 Puck dated Beatrice Monty as a teen and they married young (neither went to College).  They had two girls - Maria (in the black) who is a Romance sim, and Rosaline (in the purple).

They live in one of cyclonesue's industrial buildings in the industrial section I created in the Monty side of town.

And here's Bottom. She's a pleasure sim working towards being a games designer. She lives with her chihuahua Pixie in the Monty side of town.

Library D'Livre Remake

The third building of Academie Le Tour to be remodeled. Internally, not much has changed here, but I didn't like the externals, so redid them to match the other two remodeled buildings... and banished the huge amount of concrete (and barbeques, why does EA put barbeques everywhere??)

You can click the pictures to view them larger.

The toilet block out the back is completely unchanged. I toyed with the idea of trying to include them inside, but decided to leave them out there. Externally here a lot has changed. The bay/oriel windows add a bit of character and help this building to match the others. I like the domed roof =) and I got rid of the pointless dormers-with-no-windows.

Inside, I've just moved the staircase and divided the space of the ground floor up a little. I've put a front desk in the middle, between the stairs, along with a pointless cash register, simply because I like the structure that a desk and 'employee' gives a public building. The back section becomes an enclosed study room for groups working on a project or wanting a little privacy. Half-walls separate study booths with desks and computers, and the rest of the space is bookshelves and seating.

Upstairs I've just replaced the seating and the fences around the gallery level. I think the layout works a lot better with the stairs in the middle like this and two staircases helps prevent sim traffic jams when playing.

King's Music Hall remake

Another ALT remake, although this one is a mixture of King's Music Hall by EA and this theatre here - the externals and dressing room set up especially are inspired copied from Stoffelsim's theatre.

I've always been disappointed by the King's Music Hall, and again it's a lot that I really didn't use that much. However, I really wanted a place for my musical and drama simmies to practice and perform and would love to be able to hold a graduation ceremony each time a class graduates. So after drawing a lot of inspiration from Stoffelsim's theatre, I gave King's a huge overhaul to make it more playable.

The basic arrangement of stage, auditorium and entrance lobby are the same. I replaced the toilets from the original building with a proper dressing room and backstage arrangement. The toilets have been moved to the wings of the building. I created a top level of seating on a stage with steps up to it. The lobby has ticket desks on one side and a lounge area on the other.

This screenshot shows the stage set up with a concert piano, but I can switch this to whatever I want to use the space for - a band's performance, a play, a lecture or a ceremony. The curtains at the back could be swapped out for scenery.

Upstairs, I stripped out the centre of the floor to make the stage and auditorium double height. There are three 'boxes' along the back of the auditorium for private viewing. Above the lobby are two balconies, one with a bar and the other with some seating. The rest of the upper floor remains as practice rooms, with instruments and seating.

I use a mod which allows community lot skill building, which makes this lot a ton more useful! My sims that can't afford instruments of their own come here to practice, or to perform and try to earn a bit of cash.