VJ Development

Here is another luxury house to add to your downtown neighborhood. I hope I got the dimensions right this time. There is one discrepancy. I placed the gates that lead into the house in front of the stairs. They open and the sims will go through, but they will never close. You can leave them if that doesn't bother you, or move them off to the side of the stairs. I moved them in my game.

I also forgot to take pictures of the 1st floor bedroom.

I wanted to make a house with a rooftop garden. I used to live in an apartment with one and I used to love playing up there. I thought for the sims, a nice area to lounge and throw parties would be nice. Hope you like it. But the stairs, I used the new ladder stairs that you can find featured at MTS2. They are nice and do the job, but if there are several sims trying to use them at once, they whine about it being blocked. If this bothers you, you'll just have to redesign or forget about the roof.

There are 3-4 bedrooms. For the time being, I set it up to have an office because the stairs to the roof are in that room. It isn't uncommon for a house to have stairs to the attic in a bedroom in Chicago, though. It would be a good nursery as a family grows...and I was very surprised to be able to fit 4 bedrooms and 2.5 bathroom (1 is very big). I should probably think about redesigning the others.

This is one of my favorite pizzerias in the world! I tried to stay true to the architecture of the original building, which is located on 31st St. in Chicago. That neighborhood has gone way downhill, but I'll brave it for my favorite pizza!

I tried to use as much recolors as I could, to keep the file size down, but it's still pretty big. I had some trouble running this place as a business, but not just going there as a customer. There is a bed inside, in case anyone wants to try running it as a business, though. Home Run Inn has pictures of baseball stuff all over the place, but I was feeling a bit lazy and didn't want to do a ton of recolors. Maybe I'll upload them at a later time. I also only had the option of using a deep dish sign, but Home Run Inn is famous for it's thin crust. Ah well, at least your sims can have pizza...

Chicago Pizza

Chicago is mostly famous for it's deep -dish pizza, but it is also the creator of the thin crust pizza. The crust is thin and firm enough to have a noticeable crunch, unlike a New York-style pizza, yet thick enough to be soft and doughy on the top. They use Italian style tomato sauce, which is heavy on the spices and is thin with no chunks of tomato. Traditionally, the pizza is cut into squares and that alone distinguishes it from pizza places around the country. The consistency of the crust and the quality and quantity of the tomato sauce and cheese are what separate this style from East Coast-, Roman- and St. Louis-style pizzas, and it makes the pizza from neighborhood pizzerias immediately distinguishable from that offered by national chains such as Papa John's or Pizza Hut.

This lot is the same as all the others, but with a slightly different floor plan. To me, it seems a little more spacious and much more playable.

*Note: I have been trying to remove all the excess recolor files from the furnished version of the lot, but whenever I do, something gets corrupted. I'm not really sure what to do about it, but the only sure thing is that I can't remove the files. I think it may be because I compressed the files using the compressorizer. I'm sorry about this, I know it's a huge inconvenience.