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Victorian fireplace - recolour №7 (??)

Here I present another amazing fireplace that I have recoloured!

Part of the Boreal set by @sundays-sims - I, personally, don't like exposed brick - so I wanted to change this to black cast iron; and so, naturally, I had to darken the wood as well!

A comparison of the original below, you can see I also coloured the firebox brick - originally golden:

My recolour has a total of 9 swatches - three different mantle/surround colours, with three different marble hearth colours.

I am so happy with how this came out! I hope you all like it!

Please remember to download the Boreal set here~

Download my recolour here!!

Cheerio for now!

Tsar Alexander III, Empress Maria Feodorovna, Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich of Russia, and Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark in Fredensborg, 1891

Head of a Statue of the God Sobek Shedeti

Egypt, Middle Kingdom, ca. 1859-1802 B.C.

In this Roman mosaic, the Greek phrase for 'know thyself' is written beneath the skeleton figure.

The mosaic once decorated the floor of a tomb on the Via Appia in Rome. It was discovered in 1865 near Santa Maria Nova, in the vicinity of the Villa dei Quintili. Dating back to the 2nd century AD, the artwork is currently on display in the Terme di Diocleziano section of the Museo Nazionale Romano.

The inscription at the bottom, ΓΝΩΘΙ ϹΑΥΤΟΝ, is the Greek phrase γνῶθι σαυτόν, or gnōthi sauton. It translates to 'know thyself.' This saying was one of the ancient maxims associated with the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.

In a Roman context, this phrase didn't just mean knowing your character. It also carried another meaning: know your limits, know that you're human, and know that you're mortal.

That's why the reclining posture of the skeleton is significant. Resting against a cushion, the figure evokes the tradition of reclining that we recognize from Roman banquet scenes. However, this mosaic doesn't come from a dining room, but from a tomb setting on the Via Appia.

The concept of death wasn't foreign to Roman banquet and dining culture, either. Two silver goblets adorned with skeletons from the Boscoreale treasure serve as a similar reminder: conveying to the drinker that life's short and death is inevitable...

Dinner dress, c. 1895 by L.P. Hollander & Co. Boston

This dress is made of pink silk, decorated with black satin, overlaid with chemical lace

Bedside Oil Lamp & NightLight

A couple of weeks ago when I posted about lighting, follower Perfect Cyan asked about nightlights. At this point, I had never actually used a nightlight in game, and I couldn't find a candle or oil lamp which has the functionality (let-alone Off-The-Grid!).

I decided to take a crack at it, and I went about it a little differently than I usually do - and I shaped the glass from an EA item, and it included all this shinyshiny, and so we have it!

I have to keep myself busy; and, although I have already got a long list of things to do, as well as unfinished projects - this one captivated me enough to dedicate my time to it right away.

SO: I have done three glass colours: grey, white, and a frosted, sortof speckled glass. Each one has four swatches - one without a shade, and three with a shade:

This is Off-The-Grid and utilises my new lighting tuning - with 12 different interactions for all your lighting customisations! Completely Base Game Compatible!

If a child sleeps in a Single bed, there's a chance a monster will come out and wake them up. Usually they scream a bit, and then try get an adult to spray under the bed, but with a nightlight on, the monsters stay away completely!

Once they wake up, they'll get a Happy Buff!

I hope you like it!!!! I made like 7 or 8 different versions, and this is the final one - I am very pleased with!

Download the Bedside Oil Lamp & NightLight via my Patreon HERE!

BAHBAIII!!

Update 29/04/2026: Updated posts confirming this is completely base Game Compatible

The decomposition of light by a prism. La lumière et les couleurs. 1874.

"Châteaux Charm" Fireplace Conversion +

Update 25/01/2026: Corrected large occluder shadows when lit from above; added 12 swatches originally in the Secret Sanctuary fireplace file.

This lovely fireplace was included in the Secret Sanctuary kit, but I didn't like how modern the firebox looked, and I needed to put some WOOD there!

So, I have modified the firebox, added brick, a little stand with the firewood, and recoloured it for you!

It's base game compatible, so no need to buy the kit!

I've done eight different swatches - six wood, and two marble:

These pictures look really bad 😭 (they were really dark, so I tried to brighten them up better) I hope you like it, anyway!

Download now, from my Patreon HEREE

Cheerio~

Victorian Fireplace Recolour №9

(I think it's №9? why haven't I numbered these the whole time? who knows)

This one has been on my to-do list for quite a long time. By AnniQ, I always thought it was too dark, and you couldn't make out its features too well. When I started working on it, I finally could see the grate, and thought it looks so beautiful! I really tried to make it look realistically aged - but not sure if it worked: you decide!

SO: I changed the top mantle to white marble, and the back of the firebox into white tiles. I also accentuated some of the carving features, and tried to smooth some bits, and tried to tidy things up a little.

There's actually 11 swatches in total. Four of these I've done completely, and two of these are wood. The rest are AnniQ's original body colours, but with the new mantle, backing, and grate. There's a short and a tall version!

You can download AnniQ's original fireplaces here.

You may also ask about the shiny marble tiles I've placed under the fireplace in my home picture, I love these so much for in front of fireplaces; unfortunately it's in Chinese, and I can't figure out where the file is in my mods folder. Here's the information I have:

Download my recolour from Patreon here!! Enjoy!

Beichtzettel / Andachtsbild mit Bild der Hl. Kunigunde von Luxemburg, Graz, 1853

Devotional card with picture of St. Cunigunde of Luxembourg, printed in Graz (Austria), 1853

Fashion plate 4471 from the Journal des Demoiselles, engraved by A Chaillot after an illustration by an unknown artist.

Toilettes de Melles. Vidal, 104 rue Richelieu. Modes de Mme. Boucherie, 16 rue du Vieuz Colombier.

Parfumerie de la Mon. Guerlain, 15 rue de la Paix.

Machines á coudre de la Cie. Française, H. Vigneron, 10 Boulevard Sebastopol.

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Description from page 24 of the fashion supplement:

GRAVURE DE MODES, N. 4471

Toilettes de mesdemoiselles Vidal, 104, rue de Richelieu. — Modes de madame Boucherie, rue du Vieux-Colombier, 16.

PREMIÈRE TOILETTE. — Jupe composée de hauts bouillonnés en étamine écrue. Tunique en gaze écrue frappée de velours marron; elle est courte devant, drapée de côté, longue derrière et ornée de côté d'un revers en étamine. Corsage en gaze, découpé à dents sur un gilet plissé en étamine, collier plissé; manche demi-longue avec bracelet formé d'une patte bordée de dentelle (1). — Chapeau de paille écru foncé, à revers plat en velours marron; draperie de velours marron et touffe de plumes de teinte champignon.

DEUXIEME TOILETTE. — Toilette en faille changeante unie et à semé de dessins peluche. Tablier relevé sur une jupe droite en faille à dessins, découpée à dents aiguës sur un plissé uni. Corsage uni avec gilet à double pointe; basque rapportée à pointes écartées derrière sur un pan tombant très froncé en faille unie. Une sous-basque en dentelle contourne le corsage devant et se perd derrière. — Capote en gaze changeante brochée; double plissé tombant sur le front, touffe de nielles grenat mélées de feuillage de fougère, brides grenat.

COSTUME DE FILLETTE. — Polonaise en batiste de laine prunelle à chemisette bouffante et tablier très relevé sur une jupe de batiste de laine mouchetée de pois cerise (2); col et parement de manche en batiste mouchetée; nœud de velours loutre au bas de la chemisette. (Voir ce modèle de dos, page 3, de l'Album de ce mois.) — Chapeau à calotte pointue en paille prunelle, avec revers coquillé de velours loutre; double jarretière de velours et gros nœud mélangé de coques de velours loutre et de satin prunelle.