#greenacre

And for the heck of it, an overview of the neighborhood as it stands right now. It has six houses, the church (in the center, naturally), and a school (the building off to the right-hand side of the pic). The latter two lots are recycled (and slightly redecorated) from my first stab at this concept. I posted pics of the newly-redeco’ed church, and the school looked like this in its original incarnation. It doesn’t look too much different now except that it doesn’t have a road anymore, and I swapped out the clapboard siding for log siding.

Oh, and there’s also the waveless beach lot. That’s down at the bottom (sort of) center of the pic above, cut off. It now has a second lot next to it on one side, and I’ll probably build a similar one on the other side as well. Just to make pics look better, basically. They’re just decorative, not meant to be visited/used.

Got my Simming computer up and running. Did some stuff in Greenacre. 

Greenacre’s little “commercial area,” in lot view and neighborhood view. This is the place where stuff can be sold to outsiders. (Meaning, townies. All other lots are visitor-controlled so that only playables can visit or walk by them.) The little chalet-style shops (because chalet-style = cute) are 1x2 lots and are for individual crafting families to sell their wares. More identical-but-for-colors ones will be added as the neighborhood grows and trades are added. The big undeveloped square at the end of the “road” will be a farm market. That won’t be built until there’s been a harvest or three, so that the merchant family who’ll own it and buy harvests from the farming households to resell at a profit will have something to sell. 

OK, so I lied. One more house for Greenacre because I decided to make the preacher-type Sim who’ll own the church and (eventually) the cemetery a real playable instead of an immortal player-made “NPC.” So, a house was needed, and there it is.

And I think I’m going to make the “priesthood” female for this scenario. Seems appropriate since the object of worship is female (the Gray Lady of the statue of the same name) and fertility and having large families are seen as virtues.  

EDIT: Oops, forgot the floor plan. It’s behind the cut below, to save space.

Moving in Family #1! :)

Spam of the no-waves beach lot, which I’m calling a riverside lot. It’s community, has a cabin on it (might add another one), so that it can be used for some overnight camping trips, especially when I want to get teens/kids out of the house for few days. It has a swing, a limbo bar, a campfire thing, and a grill. And there’s fishing and, of course, swimming in the river. So, you can camp, catch fish, and grill ‘em up, all on-site.