Artist "Golden Hour" Home | 3 Packs* | No CC
Description
"Filled with plants and art supplies, this house is perfect for an artist and their family."
Gallery name: Artist "Golden Hour" Home
EA ID: Cowcolate
Type: Residential
Price: 171,640 Simoleons
Size: 30x20
Summary: Two-story family house with 2 bathrooms and 3 bedrooms (1 for toddler)
Packs Required: Backyard Stuff + Artist Studio + Blooming Rooms + Reaper’s Rewards + Cozy Celebrations
Location: Oasis Springs ━> Parched Prospect ━> Vista Quarry
I was a bit lost in what to do next, but Oasis Springs was calling me. I tried making a park, and considered doing a museum, but after recording the stop motion of my treehouse filled with plants, I decided to make a home for an artist, with their sim and plant family! I wanted it to be a cheerful home with lots of colors, but in no way overwhelming.
For inspiration, I used Google Maps around LA and looked around until a small house spoke to me. I really liked its color scheme, but planned to turn it into a loft. As I figured out the floor plan, the loft idea was scrapped in favor of one additional bedroom, but I managed to add a basement! I wanted to call is just Golden Hour, but artist and home are more common used search terms for people looking for builds in the gallery, so I did both!
I try to make the most of the packs I'm using, and in this case I had some really good clutter. I wanted to do something silly combining them, and after trying a bunch of different heads for the headless statue, the hanging plant was the best candidate. I ended up extending the roof so it's not flying, used two sized down pens? from debug for the eyes, and a love arrow for the mouth.
Had to rush to finish this before Behind the Sims came out. On hindsight I should've added a staircase connecting the balcony to the backyard and turned the garage into an office instead of an unnecessary art room (there's like 6 easels in the house).
By the way, the objects from the reward events used to show in a build regardless if you claimed them or not, but I recently found out it was fixed. The floors from the upcoming Blast From The Past Event are the exception to this, but I doubt it'll last. I'll return to only using them while the event happens, and already added them to the packs required/used. Keep in mind the Happy Login Reward objects were added to base game, so I'll still use them.