What better way to beat the summer heat than to sit on your ass in your air conditioned single-wide trailer and lazily create pastiches of notable robber baron mansions of the gilded age? Not to mention being inspired to do so last night by my viewing of the season finale of The Gilded Age as I recognized one of the mansions used in the show as Newport's Marble House and remembered that, yes my darling, I've been there.
Indeed Sims 4 is certainly showing its age and even though I bought the similar InZOI, I'm reticent to use it since it pales in comparison to the older game in recreating classic style grand houses. So we use what we have. And of course, not wanting to shell out a fortune to the robber barons at EA Games, I deal with the fact that I have very limited in-game assets due to my lack of DLCs. I mean I'm practically coasting along with little more than maybe one or two "stuff packs."
Today I whipped up this little gem. It's again a pastiche since both my lack of a vast array of building and furnishing options, and the limitations to what the game can actually do, keep things that way. It's supposed to be in the guise of this real world construct, the Armour-Stiner House, built in 1859 by financier Paul J. Armour overlooking the Hudson River in Irvington, New York.
A funky house indeed. Naturally there was no way I could recreate all those architectural details but I'd say I did a fairly okay job with what I have to work with.