{"id":55026,"date":"2022-12-09T11:47:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T16:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55026"},"modified":"2023-10-05T12:34:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T16:34:18","slug":"sims-4-overthinking-two-maybe-three-bedrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55026","title":{"rendered":"Sims 4 Overthinking: Two, Maybe Three Bedrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week three! Finally, we can get the interior shape done and get started on moving forward in the years.<\/p>\n

Last week<\/a> I actually made a mistake Gasp. I know, right? I thought I was the first infallible 24-year-old too. We will have to press on.<\/span>. I mentioned that my ‘outlet cover’ in the kitchen (pictured below) was deserving of praise from future inhabitants.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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Later, the inhabitants will cry because there is only one outlet by the kitchen counters. They should be instead rejoicing that the old homeowners needed a place to plug in the home phone.
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My bad. This mistake, funnily enough, came from a childhood memory misfire. I know that home phones didn’t plug into the wall! I might be a zoomer, but I am only a year too young to be a millennial by most accounts. Plus, my dad collected junk electronics and refused to move into the 20th century.
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\nThis isn’t a case of ‘haha child only see phone wireless’, this is a case of simple misremembering. Why were my parents rejoicing that the prior inhabitants needed a place to plug in the phone?\u00a0 To plug in the router. <\/em>Not an electrical outlet, a phone line, dur. Our router needed to be in dads office and we didn’t have wireless. So we used the kitchen phone jack to cobble together a solution using CAT 3 extensions.<\/p>\n

Maybe later, if our future home dwellers are similarly demented, I’ll try and find an object that looks enough like a router and modem to stick on that countertop, that’s something I’ve never attempted before.<\/p>\n

I suppose I should mention some of the perspectives I’m working from for this build. Because it’s what I know, this house is going to be set pretty well in the New England region of the US. What does that mean for it? Cold winters, clay underground, fireplace, attic, and possibly a basement. The plants will be lush, but difficult to control, and water damage is inevitable.<\/p>\n

The biggest decision will be who will actually buy and furnish the house at the end of the project. We have three major contenders there. We could have a landlord buy it and split it down the middle to make a duplex, making the future inhabitants actually two different households. We could have the place get deeply damaged over the years, forcing the price down and giving it to a lower-income family sometime in the 90s. Or, we could have some blogger-influencer-flipper type get ahold of it and either ruin a lovely piece of history or try to preserve it while still bringing up the market value. Lots of options, for now, though, we need to finish the interior.<\/p>\n

The stairs there are in the 'back left' quadrant of the building, or would be, if this screenshot was right-side-up.<\/div>
The stairs there are in the 'back left' quadrant of the building, or would be, if this screenshot was right-side-up.<\/div><\/p>\n

I’ve already thrown in light fixtures and outlet covers like I did with the downstairs. Two bedrooms, a bathroom, and a study. By today’s standards and where we are fictitiously building this place, the study could legally be called a third bedroom, and likely will be in future listings to drive up the price. They wouldn’t be able to do it without any loopholes, though. It could only be called a bedroom if it has a window, a single-entry door, and a closet. Obviously, the study doesn’t have a closet(Well, neither do the actual bedrooms, yet, I haven’t gotten that far.). ‘Closet’ can technically be translated to ‘place that holds clothes’ in the law of where I grew up.<\/p>\n

When my parents lost our house, we had to go to see dozens of apartments to find somewhere pet-free and on our strapped budget. You wouldn’t believe the number of dining rooms\/walk-in closets\/studies that got listed as ‘bedrooms’ because the landlord threw a giant old dresser in the space and called it a day.<\/p>\n

The house we’re building here is gigantic, so I hardly think anyone is being ‘scammed’ by calling the study a bedroom, but it happens.<\/p>\n

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Up in the weird little attic, we’ve actually got two spaces. To the left is an unfinished space intended to be used for storage. It’s a weird and oblong room, which will make putting things away a pain, but that seems plenty realistic. To the right, we actually have a half-finished area. During building, an extra room like that would be the lowest budget priority, so it did get finished floors, but not insulated walls. Unfortunately, The Sims doesn’t allow me to put a ‘pull down’ ladder that should actually be there, so I guess that staircase is very drafty. I suspect that due to this, the attic space will not remain unfinished for long.<\/p>\n

Off even further to the right, we have the balcony. If I’m truly honest, I just thought it looked nice, but given the time and era, let’s say that the husband of our building couple really wanted roof access to put up Christmas lights in the winter, it’s a vain little project but so is the rest of the house, really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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