#tirsdenflipper

More work on the Scooby Doo forest palace o' colors using the "In harmony with nature" property, where I still have grey catwalks around the structure in case I screw up textures out there. Fred and Shaggy's bedrooms are pretty much done, as is Scooby Doo's crash pad. Puppers has a custom bed partly-using and partly-hiding a real bed. I also finished the Jack & Jill bathroom that Shaggy and Fred share, then copied the design scheme into the main-floor half-bath and finished it too. Daphne's room is in progress, which is where my brain died for the day.

I think doing all those Melody Banerjee eyebleed builds have really helped me stretch my design boundaries. Yay for learn-inating!

Cheeseball gold-star quick-guides for Gary Hood, Mr. Bylowe, and Polly and Henry Spring can be found in a separate post: clickie!

NOTE: The wiki is now much more fleshed out for buyers (thank you to whoever is doing that!) and as such I may not do much more updating here. I'm also aware that some of my base profile images are outdated due to devs updating the profiles in-game; the wiki reflects the new information from what I've seen so far. Plus, tumblr is horrible for hosting large images as they compress sizes down after a certain point, so my apologies on how hard it can be to read some cheat-sheets here.

Base Game Standard Buyers:

Base Game "Weird" Buyers:

Scooby Doo DLC Buyers:

Sakura DLC Buyers:

Japan travelers: The HEX Girls will happily buy a place in Japan. All other buyers have relevant comments in their profiles or haven't said anything about it to me yet.

Most recent update: June 14th 1pm. Georgiana and the Williams now have proper profiles. Updated Reina, Melody, the HEX Girls, the Marstons, Tom, Layla, Kenichi, Bylowe, Offerman, Karry, Sven, Van Ghoul, and Kota the eternal whiny-banana.

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Presenting my collection of House Flipper 2 buyer cheat-sheets, based off the comments I've screenshotted during various property auctions. A few are still missing comments but have the basic info unlocked, and this should be all of the buyers as of the Sakura DLC.

I'll be adding to this as I get more comments, especially anything major... but I'm too nervous about editing the game wiki(s) to add the info there. I'll include a list of keywords at the end of this post to help the infos disseminate across the 'nets better, and I've thrown the link for this post into the comments at what I assume is the main wiki.

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Verdant View is available for download at mod.io: clickie!

Finally, a custom build made for a specific buyer actually worked out properly without having to change a thing. Layla Farah zipped right into the auction list and bought herself the end result of this "keep the roofs" challenge using the "Woodland Hostel" property in House Flipper 2. Initial work involved coming up with a new structure to expand the a-frame's square footage, and finally feeling like I'm comfortable working with the color orange.

Let's pop inside and check out the first floor. Shoes off, please!

The entryway shows us the first hints of the color palette in use all over the hallways and stairwells in this place. I usually go for open floor plans and lofts in my builds, so actually forcing myself to use a more standard room setup was a legitimate challenge and I'm glad I stuck with it. From the entryway, we turn right into the living room, with a storage closet in the back...

...and down the hall past the dining room and kitchen, we have the small first-floor bathroom.

Dipping back out into the hall, we venture into the kitchen which has its own herb garden and a little project on the counter: orange soda ice cream floats, mmm.

Over in the dining room, we've got eclectic furnishings and another nook to one side serving as the pantry. There's also the back stairs up to the second floor, where we'll be going next but not via that route.

Aaand yep, we've got a two-parter happening here due to too many pictures for the post limit, but first, let's see what madam forest gym-rat paid for this woodsy abode:

Well! That's a lot of pastel for what was the "Bohemian Apartment" in House Flipper 2. I simplified the floor plan a bit, moved the bathroom, and kept the three buckets of paint left by the original owner. Paint went on the walls and became the inspiration for the rest of the palette. Honestly, the starter paint looked better in the actual paint buckets, as all three shades were deceptively pastel before they went on the actual walls. The green doesn't really match the pink and blue when on the walls either... but if we ain't takin' risks, what are we doin' here?

Now, would I do it this way again? Nope lol. But I do like the end result, especially the bathroom, and how the kitchen looks at night. Meanwhile, I should stop lollygagging on the Fallout Enclave-eque project that's still waiting for further attention... or I could start on my second attempt at one of the beach houses... hmm.

Holy high hell in a handbasket, it's done! A complete and total redo of the Blue Bungalow in House Flipper 2, in which I hid the original roofs (since you can't delete them, same with original stairs) and obliterated all traces of the old floorplan. The only thing that's really left is the old driveway, which has been repaved to match the building's new look. And that beautiful mesa red finish? Dyed cork lol. It works!

What was once an open-air garage became the pink-ish office, purple bedroom, and ensuite bathroom with shower. The tiny bathroom that barely fits in a screenshot is by the dining area, and the custom spiral stairs are a very tight fit in the corner (they exit upstairs near the lower large balcony). The yellow bedroom and other bathroom are all the way upstairs off of the room that connects three balconies and the stairs coming up from the lower large balcony and the downstairs of the house.

In the end, I spent almost three times the amount of the original property purchase on the renovation, and was happy to see a profit considering I wasn't sure if this much work would be a plus or a minus for such a tiny lot. The sale also snagged me the Millionaire achievement. Now if only we could cut down trees...

Part 1: The middle floor (normies allowed) Part 2: The top floor (ghouls and guns) Part 3: The bottom floor (you are here)

Landing solidly in the final part of this Vampire: The Masquerade fan build ala House Flipper, we have arrived at the bottom level, accessible down the bouncer-guarded stairs by the lounge where we first started out. There's another way down too... the secret passage behind the locked door in the barracks bathroom upstairs. But we're getting ahead of ourselves, and there's a lovely elysium court to totally not start drama amongst. The door just to the left of the potted iris is a mini ritual room for Tremere, and the door on the right leads to a posh office better suited for Ventrue, Toreador, and the like.

By far my favorite part of this build is the hidden Nosferatu security room and tunnels, the latter of which drop down from the top floor to the bottom, as well as run a very snug circuit that goes allllmost all the way around the outside of the bottom floor (it would go around the entire thing but the original stairs that come with the property can't be deleted and they're in the way). So yes, the walls literally have ears... pointy, misshapen, possibly-flea-infested ears, but who's counting?

There are two other secret entrances into the tunnels as well, which don't actually open in-game but I made them anyways: one behind the bookshelves in the posh office, and one behind the bookshelves by the dance floor upstairs (enters the drop-shaft on the level with the chainsaw). There are security cameras all over the club-level floor, and while there are no cameras on the top or bottom floor, there are an odd amount of little golden hamster statues sitting around oh-so-inconspicuously. Nossie listening devices? Nahhh... I mean... they wouldn't... would they? Of course they would.

The rooms visible in this post include one living room (elysium court), one dining room (Tremere ritual room), two offices (posh version and hidden Nossie security room with tunnels), and two storerooms (the hidden stairways). Stats below are for the entire build.

Part 1: The middle floor (normies allowed) Part 2: The top floor (you are here) Part 3: The bottom floor (elysium secrets)

Continuing this Vampire: The Masquerade fan build ala House Flipper from part 1, we've made our way through the employees-only door behind the bar and slipped upstairs to a fully-equipped apartment with two guest rooms for VIP non-kindred... and a barracks for ghouls, security, and anybody else with clearance and need for sleep or a shower. While the building is technically an elysium, the management is taking no chances and has stocked the floor with an impressive amount of firepower. Huh, what's this door doing in the back of the main barracks bathroom? It won't budge... but we'll take a peek through it in the final post.

The rooms visible in this post include one kitchen, one balcony (dining area and huge-arse pewpews), three bedrooms, and four bathrooms (the two with tubs are ensuites for the guest rooms and the other two serve the barracks). Stats below are for the entire build.

Hoooo doggy, the monster post arrives. As mentioned in Part 1 aka the manager's house segment, this is the “garden after building the house" property, and my 40th sale. And boy oh boy did it suck some serious time. But I'm happy with the end result, and while I probably could have cluttered it up with more stuffs, by the end I kind of couldn't even see it anymore. That means it's done.

So! Welcome to the cyberpunk bath house now owned by the Jonson family. They're branching into the for-profit businesses, look out Smoths! At some point my headcanon is going to be "everybody just buys everything" but for now, it's mildly amusing to imagine that the Jonsons, Smoths, and Raphael are all tussling over some poor town's retail economy while everyone else amasses residential properties to become rental barons.

But who cares about that? Grab a towel and shed your insecurities, these baths ain't gonna take themselves! :D