I started an unofficial legacy just to see if I could cope with a start-with-nothing scenario. Basically, the whole point of this post is picture of the dining room as it is now. I'm so thrilled with it. There's some tangible satisfaction in creating something beautiful when your sim family has had to wait and work for it. I just feel like sharing it. I know the rules say a 50x50 lot, but I couldn't be bothered with editing the town so much, and this is on a 30x40 lot "Arid Ridge". Founder is Miss Hayley Guthrie - I took the first randomly generated names.
The first picture is in the first game week of the legacy. Having a painter is a great way to get some walls up. That's the founder's husband, Harvey, at work on Mrs. Guthrie's easel. She married an elder. Somehow they managed get a golden first date, hence the champagne bucket, but their romantic bar took a huge hit. Turns out Harvey is non-committal. Still, I got their friendship high, and then used the flirty ice bucket emotion to paint some flirty pictures, and under the influence of that Miss Guthrie soon overcame his issues. Because Harvey was old (and older than I hoped) I didn't bother getting him a career. The not-yet-enclosed room is what becomes the dining room. He filled the hours doing the gardening or plumbing that needed attention, and then painted when he could:
Next is Harvey's first attempt at dying. The room now has four (double-volume) walls! Huzzah. That's Mrs Guthrie on the left, who pleaded with Grimmy and spared Harvey. She's nice like that. Besides, his dying was happening a bit too soon. They had one child, a boy, Saul (again, the first random name), and getting him through his whiz kid aspiration as a single mom was something to be avoided if possible. Because then all the gardening, plumbing, cooking has to be done by her as well as taking time to read to Saul and filling her own aspirations and job requirements. So pleading for Harvey to stick around a bit longer was a Good Move.
Next is Harvey's third, and successful attempt at dying. (Second time, he was outside. I think he might have just paid the bills. On that occasion, Saul was around to plead for him.) Saul, who is here playing chess with a friend, had nearly done with his being-read-to-by-an-adult, and had some time with papa (you must pronounce this as Miss Bennet would in Pride & Prejudice) in the park. Anyway, Harvey dies. You'll see we now have three (!) rooms. I cut a little bit of the kitchen off for a bathroom when Saul arrived - embarrassment emotions and such. The bed, rather thrillingly, was upgraded too as you see. There are some tulips growing in the bottom left corner, and some monkey bars for Saul were put next to them for a bit. Tulips give the engergized mood.
That is the same room now. At some point in the remodeling the Mona Lisa was moved, and Girl With a Pearl Earring is now in that spot just in case someone (of the two people who read this) gets their bearings confused by that. I wish there were more of a choice of curtains for those massive windows. Saul is a teenager. The mood of this picture is what makes it. The lighting in Sims 4 is so much better than 3. But who is the quiet individual with her back to the camera? Ah. Well. Maybe I could document the journey of the Guthries (and friend), and maybe I'll start a thread to do that just because I've got way more screenshots. Of the inspiration room. Of the drawing room. And so on.
