Tinker, Tailor, Architect, Gamer?

I said previously that I struggle sometimes to keep track of where things are, how they are accessed, how things work and so on.

Hence all my maps for Peak Fiction, and hence my need to also plan out buildings that have a lot of scenes taking place in and around them. Which way was it to the study again, where was that bookcase holding the all important tome?

As a result, here is the first of what I expect will be multiple house models.

Unfortunately, architectural software for building modelling is rather expensive or difficult to find/use, especially when looking to depict locations with such particular aesthetics.

But I'm not just a writer, or a building-modeller, I'm also a gamer.

Thanks to the advent of Curse Forge my Sims 4 mods are now kept automatically updated (bar one, but that's a different story). Including the exception FAYUN and Kyoto build-mode item mods. FAYUN is a traditional Chinese architecture-inspired set, with Kyoto then being the traditional & modern Japan-inspired set.

Using these, a bunch of random plants and a random Mt. Komorebi lot, I recreated a very simple, and approximated, version of Meishen's cottage in the Thicket.

Picture this surrounded by even denser, more gloomy plant life; lots of climbing vines etc., and with more cottages peeking through gaps in the greenery.

The main room doubles up as the bedroom, with Meishen sleeping on a futon and moving the table to one side at night to make room. There's a small bathroom (please ignore the too-modern sink) and then rear room which in some cottages is another living/bedroom where there are two occupants or is used as a workshop or similar by artisanal types. In Meishen's case it's obviously used as a kitchen.

Little Verdure has a den under a pile of leaf litter and mulch out back and Meishen keeps her potted plants on the front porch so she can make sure they don't get too waterlogged by rain or battered by winds.

Her later homes may be a bit different but I shall do my best to model those too, closer to the time! I'll also try to snap a shot or two of the amazing roof details that the FAYUN set includes, it's a really good look but I wanted to showcase the interior layout most so that can wait.

Till next time, then