Rue de Medici now available in the Gallery

I’ve loved building this so much. It is classified as a Retail Lot as it has a Parisian style bakery and a Tuscan inspired farmhouse built on the same 20×30 lot:

Cover Shot Rue de Medici

The gardens are lavishly planted:

And there’s an established vegetable and fruit garden to supply your bakery:

With a lovely peaceful seating area:

SeatingVege

The upstairs terrace has beautiful views over the gardens and bakery:

Terrace

The bakery has great curb appeal and will attract a lot of customers:

Bakery

Now for the interiors. The house has two bedrooms, one double and one twin. An open plan kitchen and sitting room, two and a half bathrooms, a study and a workshop in the basement:

The bakery is all ready to stock and open:

As always I’ve fully play tested it and there is absolutely no CC anywhere in the build (I have none in my game). Don’t forget to select the lot you want to place it on and enter build/buy mode BEFORE you place it as I’ve used MOO and enlarged some objects. If you place it in town mode these items will be lost. The only problem with a home business at the moment is your customers wandering around your residential area. As soon as EA introduce lockable doors you won’t have this problem but for now, you could just place an object in front of the gated entrance to the house using MOO. Don’t forget to remove it after you’ve closed up for the day!

You can find Rue de Medici here on the gallery.

 

Rue de Medici Bakery

So my little bakery has now turned into a Parisian/Tuscan mishmash:

MediciBakery MediciNightNot finished yet, quite a bit of fiddling still to do but I’m loving the look of it so far.

Inside2 Inside

 

Run your own business from home in The Sims 4 (kind of)!

So you know how everyone’s been screaming about home businesses in The Sims 3 and The Sims 4 since EA gave us these wonderful opportunities in The Sims 2 Open For Business? Well, with a little jiggery pokery and the Get To Work Expansion Pack, you can!

Jonalin, over on the official forums, has written a post explaining how to do it. Your Sim buys a retail lot then you build a living space as well as a retail space. And don’t leave. This does obviously mean that you effectively have a redundant lot, your residential lot, but who cares when you can live amongst your customers all day?

I’m just about to start up my game and give it a go 🙂