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It's back! Love this webcomic, story looks great and a big fan of the posing and pictures!

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A/N: I’m officially back. Need to adjust my posting schedule again, since I’m home from work a lot later now. Today’s double post (I figured you earned it for your patience) is a bit late, because my toddler was in a mommy-only mood. Enjoy!

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Very useful reference

Fantasy Guide to A Great House (19th-20th Century) - Anatomy of the House

When we think of the Victorians, the grand old Gilded Age or the Edwardians, we all think of those big mansions and manors where some of our favourite stories take place. But what did a great house look like?

Layout

All great houses are different and some, being built in different eras, may adhere to different styles. But the layout of certain rooms usually stayed somewhat the same.

The highest floors including the attic were reserved the children's rooms/nursery and the servants quarters.

The next floor would be reserved for bedrooms. On the first/ground floor, there will be the dining room, drawing room, library etc.

The basement/cellar would be where the kitchens and other food related rooms would be. Servants halls and boot rooms may also be down here too along scullery, where sometimes a maid would clean.

Rooms used by Servants

Boot Room: The Boot Room is where the valets, ladies maids, hallboys and sometimes footmen clean off shoes and certain items of clothing.

Kitchen: The Kitchen was usually either in the basement or the first floor of the house, connected to a garden where the house's vegetables were grown.

Butler's Pantry: A butler's pantry was where the serving items are stored. This is where the silver is cleaned, stored and counted. The butler would keep the wine log and other account books here. The butler and footmen would use this room.

Pantry: The Pantry would be connected to the kitchen. It is a room where the kitchens stock (food and beverages) would be kept.

Larder: The larder was cool area in the kitchen or a room connected to it where food is stored. Raw meat was often left here before cooking but pastry, milk, cooked meat, bread and butter can also be stored here.

Servants Hall: The Servant's Hall was where the staff ate their meals and spent their down time. They would write letters, take tea, sew and darn clothes. The servants Hall would usually have a fireplace, a large table for meals, be where the servant's cutlery and plates would be kept and where the bell board hung. (these bells were the way servants where summoned)

Wine Cellar: The wine cellar was where the wine was melt, usually in the basement. Only the butler would be permitted down there and everything would be catalogued by him too.

Butler's/Housekeeper's sitting rooms: In some houses, both the butler and the housekeeper had sitting rooms/offices downstairs. This was were they held meetings with staff, took their tea and dealt with accounts.

Scullery: The scullery was were the cleaning equipment was cleaned and stored. The scullery may even also double as a bedroom for the scullery maid.

Servery: The Servery connected to the dinning room. It was where the wine was left before the butler carried it out to be served. Some of the food would be delivered here to be carried out as well.

Servant's Sleeping Quarters: All servants excepting perhaps the kitchen maid and outside staff slept in the attics. Men and unmarried women would be kept at seperate sides of the house with the interconnecting doors locked and bolted every night by the butler and housekeeper. If the quarters were small, some servants may have to share rooms. Servants' bathrooms and washrooms would also be up there, supplied with hot water from the kitchens.

Rooms used by the Family

Dining room: The dining room was where the family ate their breakfast, lunch and dinner. It was also where the gentlemen took their after dinner drink before joking the ladies in the drawing room.

Drawing room: The Drawing Room was sort of a living/sitting room. It was mainly used in the evenings after dinner where the ladies would take their tea and coffee before being joined by the men. It could also be used for tea by the ladies during the day. The drawing room was seen as more of a women's room but any of the family could use it. The drawing room was a formal room but could also be used for more casual activities.

Library: The library is of course where the books are kept. The family would use this room for writing letters, reading, doing business with tenants and taking tea in the afternoons.

Bedrooms: The bedrooms would take up most of the upper floors. The unmarried women would sleep in one wing with bachelors at the furthest wing away. Married couples often had adjoining rooms with their own bedrooms in each and equipped with a boudoir or a sitting room.

Nursery: Was where the children slept, usually all together until old enough to move into bedrooms. They would be attended to be nannies and nursemaids round the clock.

Study: The study was a sort of home office where family could do paperwork, chill and write letters.

Dressing room: Dressing Rooms where usually attached to bedrooms where the family would be dressed and their clothes would be stored. The valets and ladies maids would have control of the room.

Hall: The hall was where large parties would gather for dancing or music or to be greeted before parties.

Furnishings and Decor

Most of these Great Houses were inherited which means, they came with a lot of other people's crap. Ornaments from anniversaries, paintings bought on holiday, furniture picked out by newly weds, all of it comes with the house. So most of the time everything seems rather cluttered.

As for Servant's Quarters, most of the furnishings may have been donated by the family as gifts. Most servants' halls would have a portrait of the sovereign or sometimes a religious figure to install a sense of morality into them.

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Please help!

Hello everyone! I was wondering if anyone encountered this problem before with the game, everytime I take a screenshot (in CAS, in a lot, in the NH...), the camera flashes but no picture is saved in the screenshot folder. The same thing happens when I try to do a ‘still life’ painting. It seems that it might be linked to my recent forays in installing Reshade, I may have changed a game file which shouldn’t have been touched! Has anyone encountered this problem? What could be some ways of solving it?

Thank you very much!

#ts2 #screenshot #gamehelp

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I’ve been so busy with building lots for my MCC over at @ts2mortalswar, I haven’t spent much time playing with my Mernoc ‘hood. But when I saw the gor-geous new accessories created by @esotheria-sims and Maya and @cupcakeyysims, I knew I had to slap them on a Morleigh, stat’! 

#ts2 historical #ts2 victorian #morleigh

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The plot thickens for our rival Gentry families!

Introduction III: No Such Thing As A Free Drink

“Well, look at that little brother, while we’re busy attending to our tenants, these two have been having a nice little drink!”

Bertrand Ysengrin chortled, while Berthe raised her glass in a toast to her husband Raoul and her sister-in-law. 

“It’s good stuff! Arbor red, your mother’s favorite, Raoul!”

“You’ve been raiding her wine supply? Gods help you,” said Raoul, attempting and failing to look stern.

“Ahhh… Don’t worry about it son, nothing stolen here, this fine bottle was left as a gift with one of our servants,” answered Bertrand, “I would guess it’s from someone trying to gain favour with our family, but the servant said that he left no name. A most mysterious benefactor.”

“See love? A victimless crime”, noted Berthe, taking one more sip.

#ts2 historical #ts2mortalswar

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What can I say... I’ve been bitten by the Medieval CC bug! I blame the wonderful MCC tumblrs with their amazing pics :P

Starting my attempt at an MCC challenge!

Mortals’ War- Introduction

Géantes ces murailles, bâties de pierre et de sang

These giant walls, built of stone and blood

Plus hautes que les batailles, défiant le poids des ans

Tower above battles, defying the weight of time

Aujourd’hui, quatre vents feraient s’envoler ses tours

Today, its towers would crumble with a gust of wind

Et l’on jurait avant

And we used to swear

Que ça durerait toujours

That it would always last

Lyrics from “Les Murailles” by JJ Goldman

#ts2

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With my police station underway, I needed an uniform for my police officers! Modeled by Virgil Caraway, who for now represents the entirety of the Mernoc police department.

I finally bit the bullet and decided to try my hand at creating something. I grabbed the Glamour Life uniform and edited out that terrible sash, but I did keep these gloriously shiny boots.

#ts2 #ts2 victorian #mernoc #caraway #madesomething!

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Day 20 of the October build challenge by @clouseplayssims: Inn

A hotel is a fancy inn right? Slowly building up a fancy palace to host Mernoc’s future graduates and rich second sons.

#ts2 #ts2 historical #ts2 victorian #ts2 bacc #mernoc #challenge #clouseplayssims

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Day 16 of the October building challenge by @clouseplayssims: Apprentice quarters

Skipping ahead once again to try and catch up! This is Mernoc’s first university, built just in time for my high-class teenagers to get a proper tertiary education. I had a lot of fun making the dean pose in different hats and hairstyles to create a wall of ‘dean portraits’ to make the university look more respectable.

#ts2 #ts2 historical #ts2 victorian #ts2 bacc #mernoc #challenge #clouseplayssims

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Day 10 of the October build challenge by @clouseplayssims: Tailor

Oops, I’ve fallen behind so much, I’m going to have to skip a few days of the challenge if I want to keep up! I was in the mood for an industrial building, in order to use those huge two-story windows and lamps. Here is Mernoc Manufacturers Inc., churning out the latest fashions! Complete with a guard’s booth, a covered area for stocks, and a washing/ironing area. 

Not yet sure whether to turn this into a community lot, or keep it as residential and add some living areas to make it into a workhouse for poorer sims...

#ts2 #ts2 historical #ts2 victorian #ts2 bacc #mernoc #challenge #clouseplayssims

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Day 6 of the October build challenge by @clouseplayssims: Barracks

I haven’t managed to keep up with the daily builds, but here is a work in progress, Mernoc’s new police station!

#ts2 #ts2 victorian #mernoc #ts2 historical #ts2 bacc #challenge #clouseplayssims

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Day 5 of the October build challenge by @clouseplayssims: Political House

This is Countryside’s town hall, a place to discuss, debate, and get married in front of sacred stones.

Also an excuse to use these two-story banners, love them so much *__*

#ts2 #the sims 2 #ts2 historical #ts2 victorian #ts2 bacc #countryside #challenge #clouseplayssims

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Day 4 of the October build challenge by @clouseplayssims: Noble House

I don’t really have any nobles yet in my neighborhoods, so this is the next best thing, the house of Countryside’s pastor, Marcus Lovelace.

Fun fact: As I was rolling the alignment for Mernoc’s new pastor, I rolled a 6-6: chaotic evil! So I just kind of went with it and it’s been lots of fun. Marcus Lovelace has opened a store fronting as a charity but selling everything marked as ‘expensive’, became wildly rich and even became the owner of Mernoc’s notorious Gentlemen’s Club! Not to mention the two illegitimate sons...

#ts2 #the sims 2 #ts2 historical #ts2 victorian #countryside #lovelace #challenge #clouseplayssims

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Day 3 of the October build challenge by @clouseplayssims: Peasant House

The family home of the Darling clan.

#ts2 #the sims 2 #ts2 historical #ts2 victorian #ts2 bacc #countryside #darling #challenge #clouseplayssims

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Day 2 of the October build challenge by @clouseplayssims: Merchant House

I’m hoping one of my poorer/farmer Sims will one day get enough cash to ascend to the merchant class. This would be their first home, a grocery shop downstairs and the family home upstairs!

#ts2 #the sims 2 #ts2 historical #ts2 victorian #mernoc #challenge #clouseplayssims

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Day 1 of the October build challenge by @clouseplayssims:  Peasant House

This is the home of Aramia Roots. Now that her brothers are off, one to make a fortune in Mernoc, the other living in the forest, Aramia lives alone with her goats and her plants. She sells medicinal teas and is so far the only witch of the neighborhood.

#ts2 #the sims 2 #ts2 historical #ts2 victorian #ts2 bacc #countryside #roots #challenge #clouseplayssims