Steph's Constructo Challenge - Intro

[andavri]

Alice Kirk
Aspiration: Family
Traits: Neat, Moderately Outgoing, Lazy, Playful, Nice
Favorite Color: Sepia (soft, faded brown, think "black" aged black and white photographs)
Style: Tragically Romantic: florals, soft colors, poetic, old wood.
Least Favorite Color: Red!!
Style Antithesis: Ultra modern: Cold hard edges, the overuse of stark white and black with red accents.
LTW: Have 6 Grandchildren.

Ophelia Kirk
Aspiration: Knowledge
Traits: Moderately Neat, Moderately Outgoing, Moderately Active, Very Playful, Moderately Nice
Favorite Color: Bright pink. (Like bordering on neon.)
Style: Tomboy: Vaguely masculine, clean lines, not overly matchy, thinks band posters are a good substitute for art, slightly gothic leanings.
Least favorite color: White
Style antithesis: Anything involving faux outdoorsy stuff, Specifically tiki, but also kinda mountainy and certain types of country. If she wanted to be outdoors she'd be outdoors.
LTW: Minister of Education

Stanley "Skip" Lewis
Aspiration: Grow-Up
Traits: Somewhat Sloppy, Outgoing, Active, Moderately Playful, Moderately Nice
Favorite color: Mango (Slightly yellow orange)
Style: Kid Friendly Modern: Brightish colors accented with black, likes plants, and anything that reminds him of food.
Least Favorite Color: Anything girly: Pink, purple, soft "girly" blues, etc.
Style antithesis: Anything girly: If it can be described as romantic or feminine he hates it.
LTW: Currently trying to live to see adulthood with two icky older sisters.

Note: Don and Charisma exist because the game says I need to have a parent in the game to get out of CAS. They have already split for Vegas. "Storywise" Charisma ran off with Don leaving the kids alone. Which is why I didn't do a little write up for them. They don't count. Also, technically according to the game Skip, Alice, and Ophelia have the same father. (The game lies. )

10 11 random facts about Skip:
11. Skip hates being called Stanley.
10. Skip also hates Star Trek, too many jokes about his dad being Captain Kirk.
09. Skip actually isn't a Kirk, he's a Lewis. Which makes him hate Captain Kirk jokes even more.
08. Ray Lewis, Skip's father, ran off with a barely legal dental hygienist. He's currently spending a few years behind bars for trying to pick up a girl who turned out to be neither a girl, nor over the age of consent.
07. Mentioning any of this increases your likelihood of getting hit.
06. Despite all the time that Skip spends fighting, he's not very good in a fight.
05. His sisters could teach him to fight but they're girls and therefore distasteful to him.
04. Skip's worst day was when he wore his favorite Spongebob Squarepants briefs to school, and ended up having them run up the flagpole. After that he never again wore briefs nor cartoon character underwear to school. (He however does wear both at home.)
03. Sadly his father leaving, learning that his father was in prison, and his mother do not even rank in the top ten of bad days for Skip. (17,11, and 23 respectively.)
02. He hides his Spongebob undies and jammies under Ophelia's bed whenever he has a friend stay the night so they will never see his cartoon character pajamas.
01. Skip swears there is a monster who looks like Greg Brady living under Ophelia's bed.

10 random facts about Alice and Ophelia
10. Despite the fact that Alice is a romantic she doesn't like Romeo and Juliet or Twilight.
09. Ophelia wants to be a teacher, but doesn't really enjoy going to school.
08. Alice and Ophelia are identical twins, Alice is elder by one hour and six minutes.
07. Alice and Ophelia's father, Barry, was a divorce lawyer by day, but would come home, slip into his old bell-bottom jeans and no shirt and listen to Cheech and Chong while tending his bubble plants in the basement... with the door locked... and the fire alarm turned off...
06. All of the money Barry made selling bubble plants he put into a trust fund for his daughters.
05. Barry died tragically, crushed by a piece of falling space debris while watching the clouds after a long day in the basement with the bubble plants. His last words were "Whoa, man!"
04. Even though Alice is the more "girly" of the sisters she actually gets along better with Skip than Ophelia does. Skip thinks that Ophelia is trying to act like a boy because boys are naturally cooler than girls and that makes her a poser. She should just be a girl and be lame and be proud of being lame like Alice.
03. For all of their dissimilarity, Alice and Ophelia get along very well.
02. Alice wants to get a tattoo of the White Rabbit and Ophelia wants to get a tattoo of the Cheshire Cat, because she thinks that Alice in Wonderland is much cooler than Hamlet. Less people ending up dead, more drug references.
01. Upon meeting the girls, Don henceforth referred to them as "thing one" and "thing two."

Why no, no I don't have too much spare time at all...
~Steph
Edited: Forgot to put in Ophelia's least favorite style

[Kiri]

I love the backstories for them - it's going to be fun seeing the house that gets built

[Theachen7]

This looks like an interesting family Steph! I love all the backstory you have for them, it's very thought out

[silverlining]

Wow, intricate backstory you have there! Very pretty family, I love Ophelia's hair, it's so funky!

[Jenni Rose]

Awesome characters! Love your creativity!

[andavri]

Thanks, Kiri, Thea, Emma and Jenni. I think this will be an interesting house and family to build around.

Well, I have my Step One done. I had a little trouble with it, honestly.



Two overview shots. I didn't get one with the walls cut away, but as there are several from inside the bathroom, I don't think it will matter that much.


This is definitely not a "Skip room" I was originally going to try to balance the influences, but it didn't work exactly. The seating area.


Baby area and big old collage of paintings. It'll be a while before anybody's gonna be having a baby in this family, but it was a requirement so there it is. There is "celebration area" in a bit of floor space and a box of noise makers.


View into the bathing part of the bathroom. I had the layout for the bathroom done four days ago.


I like segmented bathrooms. They're fun.


View out into the baby area again.


Last shot, Alice and Ophelia using the seating.

I didn't get a shot of the floor but you can actually use the bathroom part of the bathroom even if people are sitting in it. (I used the edger fence to separate the two sections cause I figured that if/when I play this house for whatever, somebody would inevitably be sitting there reading the newspaper or a cookbook or something while I was trying to get someone else into the bathroom before they had an accident or stinky green clouds.

I'm looking forward to seeing what's next. Indecisiveness aside these are really fun.
~Steph

[Jenni Rose]

I love this bathroom. Especially the chairs. May I ask where you got them from?

[Felicity]

Steph, as always your sims are gorgeous. And I just loved the backstories too!

That bathroom is amazing! It is gorgeous!

As always your attention to detail is no surprise! Your photo shoots are also proof of that!

Felicity

[Kiri]

Steph - the day you don't have a little trouble with something, I'll personally give everyone in the forum chocolate! Your attention to detail, and ability to make whatever you do extraordinary and beautiful is something that creative struggle is all about! It's a good thing you know! I love that you make the effort to make things beautiful!

And boy! Is you bathroom amazing! There are so many gorgeous touches to it and I'm gobsmacked!

My WCIF's are all about the paintings.

[silverlining]

Nice job on the bathroom, very detailed. I like the colours you picked =)

[andavri]

Aw, thanks, guys! You really made my morning when I logged on. I'm even sniffly but that's cause my neighbor is mowing his lawn (who mows at 7:30 in the morning anyway?! )

But seriously, it really did make me quite like this --> to see your comments, especially as taking and squishing my "vision" into my game.

Ah, WCIF's! Oddly I think they're my standard for orginality and doing a good job. Of course you can ask, Jenni. I never mind WCIF's.

Those chairs are a recolor by AnimeFemme at Black Pearl Sims. If you're a member you can go here if not, you have to go here and join up, then it's Downloads -> Sims 2 Designers Inc. -> AnimeFemme -> Recolors -> Vivid Antionette Part One: Seating. It's about midway down the first page.

I thought you'd stopped downloading for TS2, Kiri? But hey, if it's getting your downloady finger back into TS2, I'm happy to hunt up links. Most of the paintings are collages, they come in the grouping, even that big old grouping on the one wall is only two objects. However, be forewarned looking through some of these sites might make your downloads folder explode. (Like mine.)

The set of pictures on a line over the stripey chair are from limelove: here

The big collage is a recolor at Betsy's Little Sim Shoppes: Get it here Of note, it is a recolor of a Cassandre mesh, so you have to be a member of BPS to get the mesh as it's not included.

The paintings over the line of photos, the baby paintings on the wall with the big collage, the wallsticker over the bathtub, and the painting over the back of the necessity are all from Simply Styling (So no direct link, sorry.) But I did hunt up the pages for you. Main Page here You can go Objects -> Objects on our meshes -> Page (or you can just cheat, cause one of the paintings is in the last update and it's got a direct link at the top of the page, then you can just hit the back link on the page and get there quicker.)

The painting over the back of the necessity is on Deco Page 25 (That's the one that's in the latest update, along with the mirror that's over the pink chair.)

The baby paintings are on Deco 16

The wallsticker is on Deco 11

The painting group over the photos on a string over the stripey chair is on Livingroom 15.

Oh, I don't know if you wanted them or not, but the little pictures on top of the dresser are part of the dresser object and from one of Sunair's TSR sets. I don't feel like trolling TSR for which one though.

I think that's everything for everybody though!
~Steph

[Theachen7]

That bathroom is gorgeous! As the others have said, the details are incredible. I love how it's sort of mysterious. If I were a kid playing hide and seek you'd most likely find me in there