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Earlier this year I got into building on the Sims. I’ve had every gen and had built my own houses several times, but only small, boring, half-done houses. It’s amazing what a decent reference photo can do for build quality. This is my most complex (and most downloaded) build.

I built this Victorian style mansion with the intention of a vampire I had made moving in and building a coven.

This was my attempt at a skeleton pre-reference photo. I wanted some type of tower, maybe two, and the layers you see in the bigger Victorian houses. I feel like it looked like a cheap and poorly designed castle with an awkward roofing situation.

With the help of Google Images I was able to create something much better. At this point I had decided not to build interior walls until the outside was finished. This turned out to be one of the things that has really helped me improve the quality of my builds.

Windows, dormers, awnings, siding, and some foliage brought everything together. I tried a lot of new things (for me) like the friezes and spandrels with this build.

Leaving the kids to their own devices, the adults had completely lost any sense of responsibility. They were in a perpetual party state.

Sleep schedules were non existent. It wasn’t uncommon to find someone passed out somewhere or snoozing on some random furniture.

Poor Claire having to return to find things in such a state and poor Liliana for having been so suddenly abandoned by those closest to her.

Thankfully there were a few responsible souls left to help her life from completely stinking. (Puns intended heh.)

The sterile, empty childhood of Krysta’s youth made her approach things differently once she had her own. She had memories of white and gray. Drywall, concrete, white dresses, white shoes, everything plain and empty. They were poor and didn’t have all the things they needed. Because of this, she chose to allow more fun and color into Liliana’s life.

While she chooses to wear a simple white dress most of the time, after all this is what she’s used to being around, she does have other outfits (like her pj’s) with a bit more color. Krysta made sure her communication skills developed early and she grew up to be a very social and confident little girl.

Always surrounded by love, Liliana has never known any hardships. Her life is happy and leisurely. With no possible competition she would of course one day succeed her mother and become the Fellowship’s next leader.

After Claire’s portrait had turned out so well I decided to make it a traditional thing for the leaders to do. Sometime during their reign they will all have a portrait painted and hung in the grand hall.

I start getting excited when the painting is finally in progress. This looked promising!

I feel like the paintings really capture the difference in personalities and style. I think the wall is going to look really cool in a few generations and it’s a cool way to keep track of the timeline as things progress.

The inside of the mansion took me a while to figure out. I wasn’t sure where I wanted to put anything or how to fill so much space. Like I said, I had only built small half-done houses prior to this build.

You enter the mansion and are immediately facing a set of stairs and a hallway. Turn left and you find the living room, open to the rest of this area. On the right there is a small study.

Go down the hall and you will find yourself in a large, yet somewhat narrow feeling dining area with some concerning wall damage. If you hadn’t felt uneasy about this place yet, you would certainly start to realize something was wrong now. Outside of this room is a sort of hobbies room with another staircase that leads to the basement nestled behind a half-wall.

Connected to the hobbies room is also a rarely used kitchen inspired by the traditional Victorian style. (Thanks again Google.) I felt like the minimal cookware and lighting really gave the effect that these people don’t eat like everyone else.

Upstairs you will find yourself in between a library and a decently sized sitting area. The coven could never have enough community space and I felt like a library was a great way to bring some character to the house.

There are three bedrooms, a few bathrooms, and a den upstairs as well. I tried to give each bedroom it’s own color palette so that they could be more personalized to the future occupant.

The stairs to the basement led to only one room. A simple sitting area with a chess table and a secret door to the head vampire’s lair.