you will stay for a dance

(there are not many apartments (that i know of???) which have a concierge, so i wondered for a while if this idea should be a hotel rather than an apartment)

and idk maybe simon thinks the random hot stranger is all kinds of confusingly adorably pathetic because idk MAYBE concierge people can see the security cams and he can see what this guy is doing (or the security guy bitched to him)... but he doesn't say anything because it's not like anthony talks to him either (just stares at him and thinks he's being discreet about it) and also, simon stutters. he's just going to hand anthony his large parcels and his uber eats orders and someday (never) work up the courage to say something

!!!!!!!! simon would know his name long before anthony knows his... he'd probably stalk him on socials

*can you imagine the body corp minutes just being like 'we remind residents to NOT use the carpark ramp as a pedestrian access' and anthony may or may not be on the EC and he's just wildly blushing and wanting to kill himself but knowing that later today he is absolutely doing the walk of shame again

DOES HE ASK SIMON OUT OR IS HIS SELF-ESTEEM TOO LOW FOR THIS

i think i might make the courtyard a bit smaller... i think i had it as 2.4m wide or so? maybe we could go... 2.1m... perhaps... althoughhhh... idk, i don't like that there's a big gap in the middle of the house with nothing in it. hm. maybe i should put the bookshelves against the outside of the stairs... actually you know what i looooove. the built-in shelves under the stairs. one could probably squeeze in a tiny little powder room toilet thing under the stairs too, i saw how tiny one of the sinks was. but i also feel like the game would REBEL

eta or maybe i should just move the sofa and have it face the stairs and plonk the tv there... or do i not have enough room

if i do manage to get back in, i want to do another house, i think i saw a sloping downward block, which i'm hoping has a nice view. because i want to do like, two square/rectangular blocks, slightly shifted from each other (or do i want a connecting bridge-type piece?) and the set back piece (or however you call it) is the bedroom and bathroom, and the other piece is the living/dining/kitchen. yeah it's one of those houses for one person which is usually an airbnb in a remote location lol. and this is 'split level' as in the bedroom/bathroom piece is higher, and then maybe three steps down is the living/dining/kitchen piece. sooomething like that.

eta forgot to mention, i would want these blocks to somehow appear to 'hover' (i.e. stick out far enough from the downward slope)... or at least appear to be the pod design, but on a slightly larger scale

for yearsss i've had this um idea/mental image of a downward sloping block, so sloped/sloped enough such that you can't really see the house from the road. and it would be neat to put grass on the roof so it camouflages in even more. and the house is brutalist with a bit of timber thrown in to soften it, ofc.

on that note, i did see this interesting airbnb (studio, sigh) in NZ with this same sort of concept, made out of stone iirc, with grass on the roof, and the glass walls were like a mirror such that you could see the surrounding landscape reflected in it, and so the house blended in with the surroundings, which were all grass/sea/bay/no other houses. i liked it, i just wished it was a 1 bedroom so that i could pretend it would be somewhere you could stay in for a substantial amount of time/possibly live in if you could handle the remoteness

WIPPPPPP

yeah i haven't done the upper levels yet lol

ground floor:

i'll probably put a pillar thing there with the kitchen to divide the wall... i thought i saw someone do a half wall for the kitchen though... if i can just do a backsplash i'll do that. i'll have to check if i didn't just imagine it

vvvvv WIP

i have hardly done live mode and i haven't really gone into ... create a para or whatever it's called

anyway, internal courtyard!!!

i haven't taken off the roof yet, that's why the sun isn't coming in

it's pretty buggy ngl...

i'm considering using the whole basement...

anyway i'm getting better at stairs, maybe. maybe i would be even better at it if the game didn't fight me lol

anyway that's the layout of the downstairs so far...

yeah i should use the whole basement, actually

the basement is REALLY buggy btw. the walls. aggggghhhh

i kinda wanted to pile on the stairs on top of each other like a stairwell but the game FOUGHT me so in the end i just did some simple stairs skjfngkfg

so anyway there'll be two bedrooms here and a bathroom (with the internal courtyard going through the whole building)

and then another floor on top of this for the main bedroom... and that's when i have to work out roofs

oh this is the place at night!

the internal courtyard is neat imo

and idk i just think this looks cool

more lighting shots...

anyway. MASSIVE wip. now let's hope it saves properly... fuckkkk

eta... ah... well, it certainly saved... i think... but it crashes on opening. hm. lemme... do a copy of the save... idk if that'll help but...

well at LEAST i did save the lot >.> maybe it's crashing because i didn't smash all the terrain down?

eta2 okay no... i opened yesterday's save and that also crashed on opening. oh well?! lmao. wait lemme try new game... ugh it's like nearly 5am

eta3 okay that's WILD, i started a new save, took my previously created household, got rid of two of them because i was always going to, brought them to the same lot... and the game crashed. huh. so it's not really me then. well, i probably did something, but it's not fixable on my end, huh

man i'm so glad i took screenshots before leaving SLFKGFLG