Functional Victorian Washstand

This is a washstand by Kerrigan House Designs, and since released, I dreamed of it being a functional wash basin. I imagined how I could do it, but I lacked the know-how.

NOT ANYMORE!

With the help of Serinion's "Ablution Chamber Basin", I have managed to make this function as a proper bedroom basin, for your sims to do their daily wash!

There's a misconception that Victorians and previous generations didn't bathe at all - the truth is that they didn't sit in a bath, or a stand in a shower on a regular basis; what they did do, is WASH. This is where they would have a basin and jug in their bedroom, and they would use this to wash their smelly parts - or any other part of their body they wished to clean.

This basin functions as a sink - you can brush your teeth, wash your hands, shave your face; as well as take a "sponge bath" OFF THE GRID.

I have added the "Sponge Bath" interaction by connecting the basin with Cepzid's "Sponge Bath at Sink" Mod - so it is required in order for this to work.

Another feature is the mirror; it's impossible for the functioning sink to be in the same file as a mirror; and KHD's washstand did not feature a real mirror. So, I have created a separate mirror that just slots into place. Once placed, it will move with the stand, so you don't have to move things separately.

In Build/Buy, I have put the washstand and the mirror in the plumbing category, right next to each-other, so that you don't have to search around, and go different places to put it all together:

There's six different swatches, which will hopefully fit nicely in whichever room you want to place it!

I have also put lots of slots by the water jug, so you can place soaps and towels or other knick-knacks as you please.

To use this wash stand, you will need:

The file included in this post - Download from my Patreon Here XML Injector Sponge Bath Mod

You can also download the whole "Linen" set by Kerrigan House Designs, which the basin is a part of, here~ (but, not required for this item)

Enjoy!!

Final Note: A huge thank you to my friends on the Sims History discord for all their help and support!

Update 24/02/2026: Remade uv_1 and no longer shows transparent when MXAO is enabled within ReShade. Reduced polycount. If you want to keep the HQ file, and don't use MXAO, feel free to keep using the old file.

Victorian Range (functioning stove and oven)

Ladies and Gentlemen; Servants, Cooks, Maids, and Kitchen Hands; finally we have the latest in Victorian cooking technology for your big homes, mansions, halls, abbeys, palaces (or, just busy kitchens!): The Range.

IRL I want a range so badly. If I were rich enough (one day 🤞🏻) to get a Victorian house, I will make sure there's a functioning range!

There are other Victorian-style functioning ovens on the Sims 4 cc market, but none of this style (that I have found); and it was something I really wanted for my palace; we have a very big kitchen, but only small sized ovens!!

I am really not good at building from scratch, so attempts were quickly abandoned.

THEN I saw @baumgarten-sims had released a small, deco range in their Thyme Kitchen set, and I thought it was beautiful! But I lacked the knowledge to make it functioning, and it wasn't quite as big as I wanted (as pictured below).

One of the issues I thought was a big problem, was that the oven doors for these style of oven all open vertically, and there is no Sims 4 animation for oven doors to open that way. THEN Felixandre released a big oven in their Estate set, which had similar doors, but opened HORIZONTALLY (as pictured below)

DING 💡 I got the idea that I could make it work.

So began the long and arduous, and frustrating, and complicated journey to make a functioning Victorian range in the size and style I wanted for my kitchens.

One of the first features of the oven that I wanted, adding to the realism, is that you shouldn't be able to cook anything unless the fire has been lit!!! In Victorian kitchens, the first thing done in the morning was lighting the range fire - it can take a while for the cast iron oven to heat up, and maintain a constant temperature. In The Sims, however, you can cook whenever.

BUT, in comes @littlbowbub! Littlebowbub has a Medieval Cookbook, and accompanying ovens where you have to light the fire before you can cook! Thank you LBB for saving my life, I don't think I would have been able to do it without you (or at least until I learn waaay more about writing tuning).

SO, Littlbowbub's Medieval cookbook IS REQUIRED in order to use the oven. You can download individual recipes (as labelled as part of the Medieval collection), as well as a starter pack; these recipes are actually very accurate for Victorian game-play, I love them. There's also a new "fine-dining" category, which has even more dishes for your rich sims.

With the Medieval cookbook, you also need to download Homestead Helper, this allows you to make some of the ingredients for cooking; I also recommend you download the Hunting & Foraging mod, so that your sims can go out to hunt for their meat, and forage for other things.

Now to the oven itself 😋

Like other ovens, there are two functioning elements on the top (these are the front, right-hand elements). All other elements have slots for you to put deco pots/pans, or anything. The far right oven door is the functioning one - the other two, unfortunately due to constraints, are just decoration. The fire in the centre is a real fire animation, and will turn on once the sim has lit the fire!

There's three versions: short, medium, and tall

There are five mantle colours, and eight brick and stone colours - so 40 swatches in total.

And, like everything I release, it's Off The Grid!!

I feel like this is such a big achievement for me, and it's really one of my favourite things!

Thank you again to Baumgarten and Littlbowbub for graciously giving me permission to release this - I am so, so glad I am able to share!

Download my Victorian Range from Patreon here!

Download the new tea towel accessory here!!

Required: Littlbowbub's Medieval Cookbook AND Littlbowbub's Medieval Oven

You can download (but not required for this oven): Baumgarten's Thyme Kitchen set here Felixandre's Estate Sets here

FLY, MY PRITTIESSS!!!

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Functional Victorian Wash Basin

Your new favourite basin and jug!

While working on some Sims 2 > Sims 4 conversions, I found this deco wash basin by Parsimonious, part of their "Monte Carlo" bedroom set, and fell in love with it!

So, once again, with the help of Serinion's "Ablution Chamber Basin", I have made this a functioning wash basin for The Sims 4!

This basin functions as a sink - you can brush your teeth, wash your hands, shave your face; as well as take a "sponge bath" OFF THE GRID.

I have added the "Sponge Bath" interaction by connecting the basin with Cepzid's "Sponge Bath at Sink" Mod - so it is required in order for you to wash the body.

There's five different porcelain colours, each with five different towel colours:

I just love the texture of the light coloured ones; in case you aren't aware, there can only be one "normal map" per .package file - the normal map adds extra 3D texture in game; so, even though the details aren't coloured, you can still see outlines, like it has been made a part of the porcelain. Very beautiful!!!

Originally I had just done the top four colours, then realised I also HAD to do a blue porcelain as well.

The basin slots onto any surface, so you can place it on a counter; a table; a dresser etc. HOWEVER, annoyingly, the animation location can't be changed - so in some instances the sim's hand will go through the bowl itself (If anyone knows if I can actually change this, please reach out!!!).

Just like my Functional Victorian Washstand, to make all this work, you need:

The file included in this post XML Injector Sponge Bath Mod

And, of course, if you want to shave your face, you can now use my Automatic Beards mod - fully base game compatible.

Functional Victorian Wash Basin available free from my Patreon~

YUSSSSS baby~~~Have fun!

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Functional Rocking horses - conversions

I love the Functional Rocking Horse mod by Pandasama, they have several very cool things for the little'ns!

Naturally, I wanted a more Victorian-style rocking horse; and I found one by Destruam, in their The Witcher 3 furniture set.

BUT, it's not enough to make just this one functional, I decided to make two others functional as well:

This Griffon by StoryBookHawk, a part of their Rook's Mementos set:

And Linzlu's Simsmas Rocking Horse (right):

There's one swatch of the first horse, and three of the Griffon:

And a whopping 15 swatches of Linzlu's one:

hese are so cute! You can name the horse, and toddlers can nap on them, very cute!

Make sure you download Pandasama's Rocking Horse mod here, in order for these to work!

I made this rich playroom to take pictures, and the rocking horses are just in a corner 😂

You can't even see that I made this big circus-style canopy, and in the middle a second canopy (which you can see some of).

Download the new functional rocking horses from my Patreon here!!!

Anyway, I hope you love these, and take pride-of-place in your nurseries and playrooms!

Victorian Scullery - The Sims 2 Conversion

When I first started playing The Sims 4, I had been looking for Victorian cc, and I found this set by Cashcraft, and was disappointed to see it was only for The Sims 2.

Recently @simstomaggie added it to the wishlist, and I decided to convert it!!! (now that I know how to do that 😂)

My set has 18 items: 1/ DECO Flour sacks 2/ DECO Butter churn 3/ DECO Bucket of pegs/clothes pins 4/ DECO Broom & bucket

5/ DECO Wall mounted ironing board 6 & 7/ Wall Cabinet - one with the original deco cans, and one empty with loads of slots 8 & 9/ Wall Shelves - one with the original deco wash boxes and irons, and one empty with loads of slots

And finally, 10/ Wash table in two colours 11 & 112/ Two types of counters (one of which was a trash compactor for The Sims 2, but we don't have that in The Sims 4, so made it just a counter) 13/ DECO Wash tub with washboard (three tub colours, two board colours) 14/ FUNCTIONAL Wash tub with washboard (three tub colours, two board colours) (Laundry Day pack required) 15/ DECO Washing machine (this was also functioning in The Sims 2, but one would need to make animations from scratch to be able to make this functioning, so I've left it as a deco item; it has retained its dirty swatches - two main colours) 16/ DECO Basket of clothes - two basket colours, and three clothes colours; the original had two clothes colours, but I have added a white/grey one as well 17/ Empty basket - the two basket colours as above, but I have added deco slots inside, so you can add your own clutter! 18/ Laundry table (set as a desk with more deco slots)

I have some more Sims 2 conversions to do, plus some other things I've completed that I'm mulling on releasing.

Anyway, I hope you like these!!

Download the Victorian Scullery set at my Patreon here!!

Update 14/04/2026: Updated empty wall cabinet - shelves now have correct deco slots inserted.

Update 08/02/2026: Added uv_1 and no longer shows transparent when MXAO is enabled within ReShade. Merged File added.

Timeless Elegance Candelabra Set

友達 の こんにちは!!

I have been in and out of different projects lately; a whole lot of Sims 2 conversions on a to-do list (one set is ready to be released, shortly!); some 3D models I've downloaded to convert to cc; plus I've also been working on fixing some not so nice/broken/too big cc from another creator, which I probably won't release publicly (sorry!).

Anyway, for Hallowe'en @snotra902 released the Raven Manor set, and I loved the candelabra that they included, and wondered what I could do with it. I decided to add some of my own candles, AND I made different versions!

We now have three different versions: single candlestick; and candelabras with three, and five candles. Each have a gold and silver swatch.

I'm continually surprised at how things turn out for me; believe me, I have A LOT of failures, and discarded projects, but I am proud of where I've gone!

I've also been having random game issues, which I feel de-rails me a bit. Infinite loading is a constant random issue, which drives me crazy!!!

I had so much fun making these tableaux for these pictures 😂 and I used pose player to allow the sim to look like she's holding the candelabra. I don't normally use poses, but I really wanted this look! If only sims could actually hold them 😭😭

Anyway, hope you like them!!

Download the Timeless Elegance Candelabra Set for free from my Patreon here!!

Hat hair!

Hat hair is where you join both hair and hat together, so that when the sim puts it on, the hair is perfect in the hat! What makes it special is that the hair stays the normal colour your sim has, and you can select the swatches of the hat; if made the traditional way of making cc, you would have to choose either;or - you can't have both hair swatches and hat swatches.

I've always been frustrated with hair and hats not working together how I want! My good friend @inlovewithregencyera has made several hat hairs, and was gracious enough to teach me how! (thank you so much 😭) Theirs are, of course, fully from scratch, and I'm not quite at that level yet 😂:

Today, I present two popular bonnets - @linzlu's Birthday Bonnet, @moon-simmers' recolour version of this; as well as @lilchamomil's Regency Bonnet; all of which I have paired with hair by @buzzardly28.

The shape of these bonnets are just like ones really worn in the 19th century, which I have seen in photographs (daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes &c.), as well as paintings.

In the Linzlu bonnet, I have used Buzzard's "1860s hair", and in the Lilchamomil bonnet, I have used both the "1850s hair", and "Peggy hair", by Buzzard.

I spent quite a bit of time moving and shaping flowers in the Linzlu bonnet, and I ended up putting in a few more!

I really love the Lilchamomil bonnet; it's definitely Recency - not Victorian - I have seen it in some paintings; but, I know in the Victorian era, similar ones were worn - which is why I wanted to put a Victorian hair style in it.

There's 34 swatches in the lilchamomil bonnet, half with white inside, half with cream. There's 22 swatches in Linzlu's original "Southern Birthday" bonnet, and 41 in Moonsimmers' "Harriet Birthday" bonnet.

You can download all the originals here, if you want them as well: Regency bonnet - part of the Isolde set by lilchamomil Southern Birthday bonnet - by Linzlu Harriet Birthday bonnet - part of the Britechester Square Collection by Moonsimmers 1850s Hairs - by Buzzard 1860s Hairs - by Buzzard Peggy Hair - part of the Margaret Hairs set by Buzzard

Download my new hat hair at my Patreon now!!

Update 26/07/2025: Corrected hair colours on Peggy hair - sorry I didn't pick this up ages ago! Greys and Blondes should show correctly now - please redownload the Peggy file.

Update 29/05/2025: Fixed some embedding issues, please re-download and replace previously downloaded files.

Amusez-vous!!!

The Yellow Wallpaper

Based on the short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper is short story, written as first person journal entries. The narrator is experiencing severe depression after the birth of a child, and her husband rents a home for the Summer, with hopes she can recover. She is confined to an upstairs nursery, where we find The Yellow Wallpaper.

As a form of treatment, the husband forbids the journal writer from working or writing, and encourages her to eat well and get plenty of air so that she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency", a common diagnosis in women at the time. (wiki)

Of course, she still writes; as she descends into madness, obsessing about the wallpaper, which appears to pull her in. Seeing a woman creeping through it.

At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be. I didn’t realize for a long time what the thing was that showed behind,—that dim sub-pattern,—but now I am quite sure it is a woman... It is always the same shape, only very numerous. And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern.

SO; here, we have the beautifully created pattern by @femmefatalegoth, inspired by the wallpaper described above. See if you can find the women in its intricacy.

I have added cornices and wainscotting, and a version with cornice and baseboard only.

I really didn't want to change the colour of the wallpaper , because it's The Yellow Wallpaper. So; sorry, not sorry, to those who want it in different colours - but feel free to do it yourself if you know how!

Unfortunately, due to limitations on how the wallpaper is made up in the game, I've had to do separate files to each type of cornice & wainscot:

I added the feature to make Sims tense when they're around the wallpaper!

Anyway - I hope you like these as much as I LOVE them! The colour is very bright, and it really helps you feel like the narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper.

I highly recommend reading the story. Maybe you can relate it to how you have felt at some time - I certainly have.