Bay Tree Drive 07 [OfB] -- Starter Home Business

OfB required (nothing else, thanks to Numenor's BaseGameStarter).
No custom content.


Bay Tree Drive
is a couple of starters and other small houses with gardens (or rather, space for gardens-to-be in most cases). They're built with both Seasons and a bit of city planning in mind: just like Backdoor Lane, all houses are based on the same templates (trees, driveways, pavement) and will make a well-formed alley when put next to each other.

Common features:
- Sideways driveways: realistic looking (to me) and space saving. Tested, found to work reliably in-game and won't block any carpools (not even on a 1-tile wide lot).
- Pretty trees in front, along with enough public space for visitor maintenance / yard sales / private rubbish dump / regular driveways in case you like those better
- Fenced-off gardens with gates: I've grown very fond of those as a gathering point for visitors (no chasing them across the lot while they're hiking from front door to back door). Also prevents kicking of trashcans, stealing of gnomes, and other forms of harrassment.
- Less minimalistic kitchens: I tried to provide some more space now that there's officially clutter (and juicers)
- The usual minimum equipment: lights in all furnished rooms, toilet, shower or tub, fridge, kitchen sink, trashcan, phone, burglar alarm, smoke detector, bookshelf, at least one double bed and seating for two. Compost bin too in most houses.


Bay Tree Drive 07:
A small starter home business for a toy maker. Access is from street level, with the store in the basement and a lockable living area upstairs. Very sparsely furnished, the "garden" is just an empty piece of land, has room for 1-2 sims the way it is now but you can subdivide the livingroom in order to have one more bedroom (those walls would have exceeded the starter budget). Alternatively, the niche in the livingroom is an excellent spot for a fireplace or for an extra toilet.

1 x double bedroom
1 x bathroom
1 x mini kitchen/dining
1 x living room (unfurnished)
1 x store with extra bathroom (unfurnished)

The space behind the counter is easy to make lockable if you add a fence+gate (and lock the door to the garden as well), I only didn't see an urgent need for that since there's nothing there that would attract customers.

No driveways included with this house, as it was made with OfB only (between the expensive store+manufacturing equipment and the relatively large lot, there wouldn't have been any money left for driveways anyway). The last screenshot shows where the driveways usually go in Bay Tree Drive; you can add them like this:

1. moveobjects on
2. remove sidewalk opposite the street
3. place driveway extensions
4. put back sidewalk where it belongs
5. moveobjects off

An invisible recolor (e.g. roddyaleixo's) is muchly recommended.


Households: 1
Played: No
Tested: No

Lot Size: 2x3
Lot Price: 19.986§