Friday, December 17, 2010

Lone Wolfe Manor

Lone Wolfe Manor is very...not lone wolfish? Haha. When I think of the name, I think of a slightly creepy old gothic/victorian house - you know, wrap around porch, tall windows, etc. However, as you can see from the images below, I wanted to do a Mediteranean inspired house - so that's what Lone Wolfe Manor is.

While I looked at various Mediteranean and Luxury house-plans, the design for the house and layout are my own. I wouldn't say this is my favorite house, however I do find it easy to use/play in.

Currently the Sekemoto Family lives in this house and the house was built with them in mind (you can also see all the hole from where my eccentric inventor, Sam, has been drilling with the Miner, haha).





Foyer
The house starts with the Two-Story Foyer. Twin staircases lead to the second level of the home, flanking an elevator that leads to the basement level. At the top of the Foyer is a small music alcove with a sweeping view of the bay beyond, catching both the ocean and the lighthouse.

Although I tried to get a shot of the view, the piano kept getting in the way (which you see Everard playing on)


Lower Foyer
This is a view of the front entrance within the first floor of the Foyer. All paintings in the house are done by Everard and Aurora Sekemoto, whereas all sculptures are done by Elizabeth (their mother).
The Foyer opens into the Formal Dining Room

Formal Dining Room.


And the Foyer opens into the Family Room

Family Room

The three glass doors in the Family Room open onto the Patio, again with a sweeping view of the Bay.

The Dining room and Family room both open into the Kitchen.


Which has its own Breakfast nook or Informal
Dining room.


Off the Kitchen is the Mud Room.
Which also houses the Utilities. This space also has an entrance form the driveway and in the future may have another to the Patio and garden area as Sam extends his orchard.

Mudroom also has a Petite Lou ->

The Formal Dining is also the entrance to the Study. Sorry for the dark picture - I was taking these in Sim mode and it was night. For some reason the light in tihs room weren't on.




The three regular bedrooms; Aurora's, Everard's, and Alfred's. Since the Triplets just turned into children, I haven't had a chance to upgrade the house with their bedrooms. I think I will simply give them their own wing - a hallway that opens into their three rooms and their own bathroom. Not sure where I will put it yet, may just have to add it as a third story (which I don't really like doing. Takes them too long to long to walk. I may instead create a third story and move Everard and Aurora up there, since Everard is an adult and Aurora will be one in a day or so. They will be moving out, but I want to get their relationships up and everyone to have the LongDistance Friends reward before they do.)


The Art room, where most action takes place. Everard spends the majority of his time in here either at the easel or on the drafting table. I wanted him to become a Drafter,  however for some reason my game is misisng the textures for the drafting images so I had him up his painting skill instead. (I noticed he tends to paint abtract art more than anything. strange). Aurora is also an artist, however she has an easel downstairs that she and Alfred use.


Master Bathroom
The master bath is split into two rooms - this is the Bathing room (the camera is right above the claw-foot tub).

Master Bathroom
And this is the Toilet Room. (you can see the toilet in the mirror).

Again  - super dark image for some reason (wasn't that dark in-game, *shrugs*) of Master Bedroom. Rather unMastery if you ask me, however...

Nursery attached to Master Bedroom.
This is the insanely pink Nursery attached to the Master Bedroom. I may just knock downt he wall and expand the Master into this room to really give it that grand-waste-of-space feel. Not that they spend ANY time here. Almost all their time is spend in the Basement. I should just put rooms down there..

Speaking of which:

The Basement
Sam's Workspace
This is where Sam does (or did) his inventing. His daughter (er, one of the Triplets...Raea? I think) has started dabbling in here as well.

A peek at his greatest inveniton: The Time Machine
Which is behind a secret door.

Elizabeth's Art Shop
Next door is Elizabeth's work room, where she does all her sculpting ^_^ As you can see, she's hard at work.

Doing Mining and even Stone Carving can lead you to a lot of gems - but then what are you to do with them?
Have a Collection Room of course! So here it is, just off Elizabeth's workshop is the bathroom and then down the hall is the Collection room, with all their Plumbob shaped gems and a nice cozy coffin for Everard (since he's a vampire now). After all, what better person to guard your valuables than your undead son, right?


Well, there you have it Lone Wolfe Manor and the Sekemoto House.


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