Gingham Place Album
by Linda A. Wingfield (linarwing)

This lot is only available here on Neighborly Sims, as a pared-down, unfurnished version. There are NO buy items on the lot. Emily is wearing the green dress. A good number of the walls, floors, doors, windows, and other build items ARE included with the download, but the full sets are not there.

THE DOWNLOAD LINKS FOR THE FULL SETS ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE.

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This is the lot as it looks in my own game. It showcases my Gingham Series. The series contains recolors of enough Maxis items, to furnish the entire house--inside and out. There are five main colors used in the series: Blue, Green, Purple, Red, and Teal. The accent is Knotty Pine, which originated from the cheap bed frames. The solid colors are shades taken from the pattern colors.

You'll see build items as well as buy items. Also, Emily is wearing a recolored Maxis dress (one of the ones that came with NightLife), that I created in BodyShop to match the rest of this series. She has five dresses in her bureau drawers--one in each main color. I plan to add a man's western shirt, and other types of clothing, as well.

Note the recolored fireplace chimney. The one recolored fireplace is packaged with a full set of recolored chimney pieces. The only ay to recolor the chimneys is to put the fireplace in place (choosing which one in the general manner), then go outside the house and click on all the chimney pieces with the Design Tool, and recolor each section individually. If you move the fireplace, you'll have to recolor the chimney all over again. The colors of the windows and doors reflect the colors of the rooms inside. The plants outside the front windows are ensconced in pots and boxes that match the rest of the items on the lot. Check out the new outdoor lamps! The garage is covered in one of the new cinderblock styles I created in HomeCrafter Plus. There are recolored lamps by the recolored garage door, which has just opened for Emily to go to work. The interior of the garage is done in Knotty Pine paneling. The driveway is the brick one, recolored, and the extension is the concrete one, recolored. Emily is wearing her green gingham dress in the last picture, to get hot dogs out of the pine-paneled fridge, for grilling on the teal-colored barbecue that sits out behind the garage, on the patio area.

Here's the patio. The red door opening from the back of the house, leads to the red gingham kitchen. (Well...the red is more like a dark coral, but it goes well with the other colors.) If you're like me, you've been wanting to have a different swing set since the beginning. Here's one in pine. It also comes in all five main colors. There's an assortment of tables on the patio, along with one of the bars that's also been recolored. I looked at the "Whatay Buffet, but decided to leave it alone for now. "The trash can is the new one from OFB, as are the outdoor lamps.

These are the two balconies above the 1st floor. The whole top floor is done in various combinations of the purple gingham creations. The balconies compliment the rooms within. See Emily dancing to the music from her little purple boom box? That rubber tree plant has a purple pot.

The living room is another teal area. Upon entering the recolored front door, Emily can go to her left, light a fire in her beautifully-renovated fireplace, sit down in one of her recliners, and enjoy the ambience. Every item in this room (and 99% of the ones in all the other rooms) are brand new recolors--all made just for this set. Behind the recliners there's a little reading area, from which Emily can look into her "red" kitchen. Here's Em studying mechanics. To her left, is one of the two little computer areas. Note the new bulletin board in front of her as she answers the phone on the desk. Even the computer has been recolored. The staircase is one of the large ones, but it has been TOTALLY recolored to fit in the series. It comes in all of the main colors, with pine accents. At the bottom of the stairs, to the right of the front entrance, is a lovely little conversation area. Emily doesn't have any company right now, so she is taking advantage of the loveseat for a little lounging and enjoying her new curtains, potted plant, table lamp, and other teal items, all behind the pretty room divider.

Going back across the living room, Emily has stepped into the red gingham kitchen. All the counters, chairs, appliances, rugs, and curtains sampled here can be totally mixed-and-matched with solids, patterns, and pine. I just realized I didn't represent one of the totally pine counters or islands, but that can be done. Most of the appliances have pine kick plates, though I couldn't figure out how to get anything other than black kick plates on either of the two refrigerators I made. The microwave and the food processor have been recolored but I didn't try (yet) to mess with the Espresso machine or coffee maker. The kitchen sink comes in both solids and patterns. Notice that Em is wearing her green gingham dress here. She eats her lunch at another one of her newly-recolored tables. The chairs and stools match, and they are also mix-and-match. After lunch, Emily decides to check in on her business, so she settles in at the red computer station.

Looking into the downstairs hallway, you can see a picture on the wall that is perfect for the teal rooms. Each color (even the pine) has one corresponding painting or photograph. The blue suite is the next set of rooms off the living room--the bedroom is to the left of the grandfather clock (which has been recently wound). It contains a double, blue-covered bed, a recolored dresser (from OFB), two new paintings, a very nice little children's stove, and a blue toy bin. Across the hall is the blue bathroom, which is handy to the rest of the lower-floor rooms as well. Note the recolored towels (from OFB). The "yellow" color in the floor tiles is knotty pine. These tiles come in a mixture of the pine grain (one set for each direction) and either the solid or the pattern colors. The floors in the living room and hallway are plush carpeting. The tub/shower combo can be mixed any way you like. The tub will always be white, but the rims and the curtains come in all the main colors (solids and patterns), and the rim also comes in pine.

This is the Green and Purple Suite. The room at the left is a baby and child room, with a pine dresser and baby furniture in pine with green bedding. The single bed is covered in a green gingham coverlet, and the pine nightstand has green gingham curtains. At this time, the nightstand is not available in the either the solid colors or the patterns, though those will probably be added at a later date. Note the coordinating curtains in this room. Those nice mirrors, by the way are from OFB. In the shared bathroom between the green and purple bedrooms, Em has mixed up the two color themes for a fun look. The sink and tub can be mixed-and-matched any way you like. This is JUST the tub. The sconces on these walls (and the others) are covered in the gingham patterns, and have the solid colors as accents (you can mix-and-match them at will), which I SHOULD have done in this bathroom. The purple bedroom belongs to Em. She has just changed into her green gingham dress, in front of the purple dresser. The dresser comes in both pine and the solid colors, and you can choose either patterned knobs or pine knobs. The floor lamp in this room is the one that usually has hippy colors. The stand colors can be mixed around with the shades. Those are the sectionals with arms. They come in all the solids and all the patterns, and you can choose the pine bases if you like...or not.

The entire upstairs is coordinated in purple hues. This first area is accessed by the door that is just to the left of Emily in the first picture...see it? Not surprisingly, the picture Em is painting is turning...you got it...purple! The chairs beside her are easy chairs (not the loungers). The loveseats and sofas take their color from these chairs, as well. I absolutely love the pine and purple pool table (which comes in the other colors, too, of course). The exercise machine is the multi-press, which now has colored cushions to match this set. I didn't get any of the other machine's cushions recolored...yet. The bookcase here is in pine, with purple accents up on the top scrollwork (hard to see, but it's there). The bookcase also comes in the solid colors with pine accents (like the one in the living room). That lamp (used in several places in the house) is the new floor lamp from OFB--no longer only available in (shudder) brown or black! The balcony that holds the telescope is through the doorway to the left of the sectionals in the third picture.

This second part of the upper story (through the archway) is Em's favorite place in the house. She likes to sit and read on the sectionals lining the left side, while enjoying the lovely re-potted plants. Next to her purple piano is another purple boom box (sitting on one of the little round coffee tables). She loves to play that piano, while my little grandson loves to watch her and listen to her. :-) The poker table now comes in pine, with colored felt to match the pool table. The hanging lamp above Em's head comes in all the solid colors. In the upstairs bathroom, the tile is another mix of the pine-and-colors. The window shades come in all the solid colors. The mirror does, too. At the far end of the bathroom is another of the pretty tubs, with the cheap shower just beside it, in purple here, but it also comes in all the solid colors (the shower curtains are in the patterns). The other balcony is right outside this bathroom...see the hall to the left in the last picture? There's a phone in the hallway. Unfortunately, I haven't delved into recoloring the phones yet. That can be done, and it will happen later.

Em is now headed back downstairs to welcome some friends and have a good meal. She surely has been enjoying her new home. I hope you will download Emily, her house, and at least some of the Gingham Series. The house is unfurnished, because otherwise it is MUCH too large of a download. The links below will provide everything for you, in manageable pieces.

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