Work in progress...

[simgaroop]

I've discovered that building "themed lots" is extremely fun and relaxating. Right now, I'm working on a matching lot for Belladonna High, where the students and their families can hang out and do some specific shopping. I've just finished the "shell" of the mall (which will be one of those open air shopping centers), so now I'm gonna start furnishing and decorating the interiors.

So far, I've planned a hair salon, an H&M store (gotta make use of that stuff some time!), a bridal shop (story purposes), a fast food court and a cinema. But there's still some space left and too many ideas to fit in it. By the way, this is going to be a functional community lot, the kind you just place in any neighborhood and can send your sims to without need of someone owning it. I know there are some options that won't work unless a sim owns the business (like all the craftables and bakery), so if I set one of these stores, it'll work only as deco for pictures.

It's probably gonna be a bit heavier in CC than my earlier lots, because I want every store to be unique on the inside (and I've just found some neat maxis match store sets), but as always, I'll first try to furnish it with as much Maxis content as possible, then use recolors, then free custom content and just in case there's no free equivalent available, I'll use pay stuff.

So I need your input, please. If you were interested in downloading this lot, which of the following options would you prefer?



[Poll #1384297]

A couple more shots of what I have so far:






Thanks for your help!

Comments

[naughtydolphin.livejournal.com]

that looks great!

[redikolous.livejournal.com]

Will some of these options be going into the story?

[simgaroop.livejournal.com]

The only businesses I have planned are the food court, the cinema and the hair salon as mentioned earlier.

As for the options in the poll in particular, well, I'll let my sims decide where they want to hang out or shop for the story. Who knows? maybe they'll surprise me! :)

[dutchess-axel.livejournal.com]

It looks amazingly good. :D

I can't wait to place it in my neighbourhood. <3

[simsforaranya.livejournal.com]

:D This will be WIN.

[simsinthecity.livejournal.com]

IAWTC :D

[simsinthecity.livejournal.com]

Looking very nice! I'd certainly go here if it was a RL shopping plaza.

Seeing H&M stuff there would depress me — not because I don't like it, in fact I love H&M Stuff, but I just accidentally deleted all the data for that from my computer, along with IKEA Stuff which was another fave. :(

(And, er, it would seem that some people didn't notice the max# for votes you asked for)

[simplode.livejournal.com]

This looks like it'll be very interesting! I've never tried to work in the parking lot around a community lot (too lazy) but it does make it more realistic, for sure. Looking forward to seeing the finished product!

[redikolous.livejournal.com]

Whee! This is really great, btw~

[sarahsuke.livejournal.com]

I envy your building skills! I never had the patience for it. :P

[blackrosesredxo.livejournal.com]

That is awesome!

[showercapfrog.livejournal.com]

Yay for the H&M store!

I'm excited, I love your lots.

[petalbrook.livejournal.com]

It looks great! Very realistic.

[eien-herrison.livejournal.com]

"Gym and Spa (if I can confirm I can add the massage tables to a community lot)"

Yes, you can put the massage tables in to a community lot: I've got one I made myself in my lot bins and they generated a mauseuse per table when I visited with a sim. Mine was in the main 'hood with no problems when I played with it.

[blueberrylatte.livejournal.com]

I love this! It looks fantastic. I'm terrible at building large community lots so I envy your skill. :)

[catpaw87.livejournal.com]

I don't have the H&M pack (I don't even know if it would work with my video card), so maybe you could use custom objects instead? There's a lot of objects for clothing stores at RetailSims.

Also, I should have read through the poll more carefully :( I meant to pick toy store and gift store as well as the two I already picked.