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Kitchen and small hobby area

Living room

Top view main floor

As soon as Cyril and Regina were done with their bedroom, they continued with finishing the main living area.

Regina is very happy on how the living room turned out, as she wishes to entertain their friends here.

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Another bedroom

Cyril and Regina finally had the means to continue decorating their home. First room they fully finished was their bedroom. They were able to make it look quite spacious and even integrated a small office corner.

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Another tiny kid's room

After spending money to buy their house and both of them still very far down on their career tracks, they were not able to go spend plenty of money on decorating their home. And once their child was born, they started saving up in order to be able to pay for college tuition fees.

But as soon as their son grew up to be a child, they wanted to give him a nice room.

A short while back, I was searching for some nice bunk beds, as most of my sims live in small houses. I came across Michelle's Kinder Upper Beds (MTS) and since then have been using them often, mainly because the space underneath is fully usable.

#simblr #ts2 #sims 2 #ts2 interior #children's room #mainstreet 3

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Still playing the game and so far, only occasionally stayed away for a longer period of time.

Reblog if you are a simblr of either the Sims 2 or the Sims 3 (or both).

I wanna support more simblr accounts despite have being retired from Sims role playing myself, especially since they're overshadowed by the Sims 4 nowadays. I have nothing against those who enjoy the Sims 4, but as a long time simmer I still wish to support other fellow simmers who are active in the same simblr as the one I grew up with. 🫶🏻

And yes, you're free to reblog this even if you're retired but still love the Sims!

#simblr #ts2 #sims 2

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Chris and Ina's kitchen

As soon as Chris and Ina were done decorating their living room and lobby, they decided to continue with the main floor, as they spend most of their time there.

Therefore the next room they worked on was their kitchen. which they wanted to be light and quite modern too.

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A girl's bedroom

As soon as Deshan and Dora's daughter grew up to be a child, they decided to give her a nice girly room.

#simblr #ts2 #sims 2 #ts2 interior #children's room #forrest view vilas #fvv2

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WIP

As Deshan and Dora pay rent (did not have to spend all that money on buying a property), they were left with quite a bit of household funds.

Therefor, as soon as they moved into their home, they started decorating the kitchen and living room with some bold colors.

#simblr #ts2 #sims 2 #ts2 interior #wip #kitchen #living room #forrest view vilas #fvv2

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Bedroom with reading nook

Downstairs bathroom

Basement top view

Although Benjamin and Maria have gotten very old by now, they decided to at least finish decorating their bedroom and the downstairs bathroom.

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Very useful for the future. Thanks for explaining :)

Differences between DXT5 / DXT3 / DXT1

The images above are all imported with SimPe's Built DXT... option, and then exported for previewing. The short version is:

You can't go wrong with DXT5 :)

I'll go through the differences under the cut.

DXT5

Supports transparency (alpha channel)

Preserves texture details well

Smooth gradient transparency

Filesize of the vase texture: 25 KB Filesize of the plant texture with gradient alpha channel: 26 KB Filesize of the plant texture without the gradient part: 20 KB

Useful for: textures that are solid or have a complex alpha channel.

Shouldn't be used for: –

DXT3

Supports transparency (alpha channel)

Preserves texture details well

Causes stripes on alpha channel gradients

Filesize of the vase texture: 25 KB Filesize of the plant texture with gradient alpha channel: 20 KB Filesize of the plant texture without the gradient part: 19 KB

Useful for: textures that are solid or have a well-defined alpha channel.

Shouldn't be used for: textures with alpha channel gradients.

DXT1

Doesn't support transparency (no alpha channel)

Pixelates texture details

Filesize of the vase texture: 21 KB Filesize of the plant texture: 14 KB

Useful for: solid one color textures with no details.

Shouldn't be used for: detailed textures, textures with transparency.

Both textures l used are 256x256. They came from TS4, thanks to @tvickiesims for extracting the textures! I added the gradient bit to the plant one.

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Bedroom

After having finished decorating the main floor, they continued with their bedroom. They are glad, it's large enough so they could have a small desk and a cozy seating group.

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Forecourt

Living room

Small study / Reading nook

Kitchen

Top view

At 70, Maria closed down her gallery and sold all the art back to the providers.

As they now had plenty of cash and time, they were able to finish decorating all of the main floor (except for the 2nd bath room) and the forecourt.

#simblr #ts2 #sims 2 #ts2 interior #ts2 exterior #mainstreet 22 #outdoors #living room #kitchen

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WIP

As with all families, that moved into a rented house, Doug and Dulcea Slater had enough household funds to start decorating their new home right away.

They decided, contrary to her parents house across the courtyard, to use the smaller part of the main floor as living room. Main reasons being, that it had more windows and that a smaller space would make it more cozy.

One thing both of them always had wanted, was a nice fireplace. Otherwise, besides getting some nice loveseats, a living chair and a TV, they could not afford much more. Mainly as both of them do not earn much money yet and they already started saving up for tuition fees for any future kids.

#simblr #ts2 #sims 2 #wip #ts2 interior #living room #the lovebirds #tlb4

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Just to be able to find this again. Thanks very much :)

Hi, long time no see. Once upon a time I was re-uploading all my old cc on my dw with updated filenames/nice preview pictures. Well that hasn't been updated in literal years (time flies when you're having fun?) so I have finally just uploaded everything left to a folder at simfileshare. Some of this stuff is 10+ years old so don't judge anything you find in there too hard lol.

Here it is!

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From tiniest kid's room to larger teen room

Dave and Alexandra's home has two rooms on the top floor, one meant to be a small bathroom, the other the kid's room. When their boy grew up to be a child, they wanted to be able to give him enough space for toys and a desk for homework.

They decided to use the small room as a bedroom for the child, which is just big enough for a bunk bed and a few toys beneath.

As soon as their child grew up to be a teenager, they moved the bed over to the larger room, where there is enough space for his desk and clutter.

#simblr #ts2 #sims 2 #ts2 interior #children's room #forrest view vilas #fvv4

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Living room

As soon as Dave and Alexandra moved into their rented house, they started decorating the living room, as it's the room they intend spending most of their time in.

#simblr #ts2 #sims 2 #ts2 interior #living room #forrest view vilas #fvv4

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Wanted to participate in January's MOMR contest at SimPearls (but was too late)

Assignment:

Build and decorate a nursery for a baby or a toddler (not older than 3), using a eaxis crib/bed, dresser and painting.

The room is 5x4, windows and doors are up to you. You can use recolors for the eaxis items and all the cc you want. The style is also free to choose.

Show us 1 picture of the before situation and up to 5 pictures of the newly decorated room.

Maxis items

Next time I will have to make sure to post my entry at least 24 hours prior to final date.

You can check out all the entries here.

#simblr #ts2 #sims 2 #ts2 interior #build contest

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Last 3rd generation couple to turn into elders

Chris and Ina Cain had a nice party while turning into elders.

Chris had turned perma platinum already at 34 and fulfilled his lifetime want of getting to the top in the law career track at 50.

Ina turned perma platinum the day after their birthday, when she reached the top in the law career track. But so far, she has not yet been able to fulfill her lifetime want of earning 100'000. Not sure, if she will get there by the time they will retire.

#simblr #ts2 #sims 2 #ts2 gameplay #ts2 neighborhood #family tree #cain #mainstreet 26 #3rd gen