{"id":55415,"date":"2023-04-14T15:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T19:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55415"},"modified":"2023-10-05T12:32:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T16:32:27","slug":"sims-4-overthinking-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55415","title":{"rendered":"Sims 4 Overthinking: Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our family has two months left to entirely finish the house in time for the baby to arrive. The bathroom is next, then the kitchen, then the laundry room if they have time. The bathroom is not bad, and Lorretta is tempted to keep the vintage fa\u00e7ade…except for the moldy grout. The Sims has no good way to show it, but that pink tile was put in nearly a century ago, without ventilation, with only one bathroom to the entire house. That grout is black<\/em>.<\/p>\n

They try to save the tile by removing it carefully, but by the time the fifth one disintegrates in their hands, it’s clear that won’t be happening; this is a reno.
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Let’s get one last look at the bathroom in its former glory. Lorretta and Michael aren’t seeing this, they’re seeing a water damaged mold castle, but we can still appreciate the old build one last time.<\/p>\n

Lorretta salvages the old claw-foot tub, only having to replace the fixtures and give it a good clean. She is trying to find some tile she doesn’t hate at the hardware store, when she laments to Michael that she hates all the sensible options. Michael asks why they aren’t going with something less sensible, then, since she hates them so much.<\/p>\n

They go back and forth for quite some time about it, Lorretta trying to point out resale value, and Michael trying to get out of her what she actually<\/em> wants. He is young and idealistic, she knows better, but, still…she has been decorating her new house with a future buyer in mind. Michael delivers the final argument to the conversation when he pulls the baby card. If she’s decorating for a future buyer, she’s not thinking of the place as her own, to have and live with her daughter and future grandchild. She tries to argue after that, but no, he’s won and she knows it. She picks out some tile samples she actually likes and she and Michael spend the afternoon on Craigslist trying to find some pieces to accent the claw-foot tub without spending a fortune.<\/p>\n

Many Walmart-parking-lot meetings and DIY projects later, they have a space that Lorretta actually likes. She doesn’t know it, but she’s keeping up a tradition, of sorts, started by her grandmother. That bathroom had been the one space in the house that Mrs. Smith had any real control over when the house was originally built. By deciding to do as she damn well pleased, Lorretta has kept the spirit of the space the same.<\/p>\n

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The style might age well, it might not, but unlike Jimbo she didn’t decorate the space just to suit a fad, and so the value will be higher either way. Not the sell value, mind you, but the one of cost-to-reward ratio. Lorretta loves the space, and so it gives more reward inherently in the form of that enjoyment of it.<\/p>\n

Up next, the kitchen, and Lorretta is dedicated to actually making it something she likes, or at the very least doesn’t hate.<\/p>\n

She is finding quickly that she has a love for vintage and the color black, but every design she mocks up for the kitchen using those things makes it look badly dated in a way even she hates. So, instead, she tries to picture a space she’d like to have holiday meals cooked in, one where a highchair might go, and imagine if there’s space to cook together. She decides, in her pursuit of that, to rip out the kitchen island. Kitchen islands are trendy, and bring property value up, but she’d much rather put a kitchen table in the middle of the room for kid-driven science experiments and the occasional cookie baking.<\/p>\n

She’s opting for pastels to complement her vintage vibe instead of black, her second favorite mix. She gets almost everything for the room second-hand, except for the high-chair, which Kelly has been given at her baby shower. She wanted to keep the hardwood in the room, but underneath the kitchen island it’s been badly damaged. And, if she’s honest with herself, cheerios fit between the old slats and that sounds like a nightmare. She switches out for a more functional linoleum she hopes will be easy to clean.<\/p>\n

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Sidebar: What sociopaths leave their chairs out that far from a table when no one is sitting in them?! You physically cannot push them closer without a modpack that allows you to push things on the X-Y-Z axis with cheat codes! Which is an unbelievable sentence to need to say! If my family left their chairs out like that every time we got up from a table I’d throw out the chairs! And the family! Gah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our family has two months left to entirely finish the house in time for the baby to arrive. The bathroom is next, then the kitchen, then the laundry room if they have time. The bathroom is not bad, and Lorretta is tempted to keep the vintage fa\u00e7ade…except for the moldy grout. The Sims has no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[639],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thesimsoverthinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55415"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55427,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55415\/revisions\/55427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}