Short Street - Really Tiny Apartments

[Chinchillagrl]

Finally some nice sized apartments for my single sims.
Now I've got to try and find my NL again.

[rufio]

I've been playing around with jesslla's studio apartment, and I really like it - I play with no20Khandouts and make my sims pay for college so they usually graduate with not much money and wind up having to live with their parents.  The studio apartment worked great for ex-college students, though, and I wanted more of them in my hood, so....

This is the absolutely first house I have ever uploaded, so be gentle, or as gentle as it gets here, anyway.  I am fail at decorating, so the only things I put in were the kitchen and bathroom stuff that will actually stay when the apartments are rented out.  Basically, I stole the floorplan of 136 Short Street, made it one square wider, and built an apartment complex with eight of them.  It's on a 3x5 lot, so it's obviously not on Short Street, but it's still really tiny apartments, right?  The overall design of the building is based on the building I live in, so rest assured that absolutely no creative thought went into this one.

Changes made since I took these pictures:
- added grill near the outdoor tables
- add sinks (Doh!)
- changed the style of the stairs
- added some bathroom fixtures that I apparently forgot the first time around

There is no CC and nothing hitching a ride.





Download: http://www.4shared.com/file/67209240/51a4a97/Studio_Apartments.html

ETA: Forgot to mention - I have all EPs except BV and FT, and no SPs.

[HomeschooledByTards]

rufio, I'm incredibly flattered and your little apartment complex is so cute! It's a welcome addition to Short Street.

Can you embed your images in the post instead of leaving them as links?

[rufio]

Yeah, sorry.  I couldn't get it to work before (or maybe the preview was just not working right) and I thought it might be an issue with imageshack and left it alone.  Fixed now.

[Bugger]

witch and I must have similar building habits; my average sim house takes up most of a 3x3 lot or larger.  I am *trying* to create smaller homes that are more useable for my sims (esp since very few are breeders).  I get so pissy when trying to make a home on a 2x3 lot...  just not enough room for me!  How you did this is beyond my comprehension.  Your tiny apartments are uber cute, and I applaud your abilities.

[PirateFaafy]

I thought I would contribute, too. I made a little teeny apartment complex of two, with Inge paintings for Fun and Social.

http://www.box.net/shared/e0j50gaj44

It was rather small, so I had to take a few shortcuts, like sticking the phone overtop of the trash chute. The bathroom is also rather small. I didn't package BUY with the apartment, since that can be put in after moving people in, but I did package it with the Macrotastics launcher and the lot debugger. There is every kind of the 7 basic skill building items scattered about the common area except for charisma, which can be done with a mirror (or a parrot if you like that kind of thing.) The only other CC is a little TV from Numenor that I thought I'd see if it would work on one of those little bohemian shelves.

Now, for happyfunscreenshots!


The view from the outside. There's no door, but I liked it that way so that's how it stays. :3


The main part of the apartment. The bathroom is nothing but a shower and a toilet.


I put in a little open area where you can see down to the communal area. Again, totally unrealistic, but it doesn't affect how the sims see their privacy/soundproofedness, and I like it like that. One could get rid of it for more room, if you decide you want a dinner table or something. As though they're necessary.


The public area. It's where you'll find most of everything necessary for skill-building and fun.

Also, I forgot dishwashers in the apartments. You can just add those in quickly, right? It's not like a bathroom or anything.

I'm too pessimistic about my houses.

[HomeschooledByTards]

Oh that's adorable! I love it. That tiny TV is just perfect.

[HomeschooledByTards]

I'm home sick today, so you get not one but TWO new tiny apartments.

* jesslla  pauses for thunderous applause.

Both of these lots are CC free and have been modified with the Lot Adjuster. Compared to my previous 1x1 apartments, these two are palatial.

The apartments are designed to be placed next to each other in the neighborhood to create the illusion of party walls.



Thanks to Mootilda for the Lot Adjuster and to Zazazu for helping me figure out how to use it.

127 Short Street

Price: §266/wk

Three bedrooms, two bathrooms. Can sleep up to 6 sims.

Download here







128 Short Street:

Price: §2,425/wk

One bedroom, one nursery, and one and a half baths. The half bathroom only has a tub for bathing babies and toddlers.

Download here

[Emma]

Oh, they are gorgeous! Are they 2x1 size? They look big compared to your other ones

[kutto]

404'd on the second one. Wrong extension.

http://www.linuxbit.net/Sims2/Lots/Apartments/Short_Street/128_Short_Street/128_Short_Street.rar

I yoinked 'em.

[HomeschooledByTards]

Oh, they are gorgeous! Are they 2x1 size? They look big compared to your other ones

Nope! Still 1x1, but they have an extra square of space on three sides (each side and the back). It's amazing how much extra space that gives you!

I started on a larger lot and used the Lot Adjuster to shrink the lot down to a 1x1.

404'd on the second one. Wrong extension.

The .7z file has been uploaded now, so the second link works. Thanks for catching that.

[rufio]

Thanks - grabbed those too.  Should it be 127 and 129, though?  128 would be on the other side of the street.

[HomeschooledByTards]

Thanks - grabbed those too.  Should it be 127 and 129, though?  128 would be on the other side of the street.

Probably. I'm just trying to number my lots in sequential order, which I have also phailed at. I have 127, 128, and 129. Then I skip to 136, 137, 138. I clearly need to make apartments 130-135.

The street I grew up on was numbered very oddly. Odd and even houses were on the opposite sides of the street, but I grew up at 110 XYZZY St, and 111 XYZZY St was down about five houses or so.

[rufio]

But I bet you could always travel around easily enough by saying "plugh" and "plover", right?

[HomeschooledByTards]

@rufio: Not really, the neighbors hated it when we dropped in unexpectedly.

MOAR tiny lots!

This lot is not actually an apartment, because I'm not sure if an apartment dweller can have a home business or not. This lot is also a pseudo townhouse.

130 Short Street

Download here

Price: §68,183

The first floor is a year round Winter Holiday store. The family lives on the top two floors.




1st Floor:




2nd Floor:




3rd Floor:

[Emma]

*Squee!*

I will grab these all later. I'm currently starting a new hood so these will come in really handy!

[PirateFaafy]

*thunderous applause can has* I lurve these! You have a way with colours.

*downloads lot adjuster for moar room*