Lot tour: New Draper house

I mentioned in the comments on my last post that my next update would be delayed because I needed to decorate a huge house. I thought it would take me a long time to finish but I got into a bit of a groove with it and basically finished it the same day I started, apart from a couple of minor finishing touches. The backyard still isn't done and I will need that for the update too...but I'm not planning on going crazy with it and don't anticipate it taking too long!

So here is the house! It's been sitting empty in my hood for ages and I no longer remember where I downloaded it. I changed the doors and windows (still might change the roof colour) and made some changes to the layout inside as well. It is now the new home of Lake, Kendal, Rose, Joanna and their sons Levi and Will. 

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Born secular

Round 37: November 2046

Mitchell Carmody is 27 and Eddie Gentry and Tim Lane are 26.

Malcolm is 36, Marius is 26, Lauren is 25 and Caitlin is 23. 

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Quick update

 Hey everyone! I am currently awaiting an email telling me I can pick up my new hard drive. My secondary drive (where all my Sims content is stored) is dying and is making everything on my computer incredibly slow. With the help of my BIL, we tried a new SATA cable, a different SATA port and a spare hard drive and the one thing we figured out is that everything works fine as long as this damn D drive is not connected!

The D drive is actually fairly old. It was the secondary drive before I did my big upgrade last January, so it's really old - 7 or 8 years old, probably. That drive was a 3TB HDD and I'm replacing it with a 4TB SSD, which is pretty exciting! I was going to replace it with another HDD but I found a great deal on the SSD, including a cashback, so I went for it. 

I ordered it on Friday night, with the distant hope it might be ready for pick up sometime on the weekend! Unfortunately, it was not and it's now Tuesday morning and the order is still "processing", even though it's in stock. I can't pick it up until the weekend anyway, so I'm going to wait until tomorrow and chase it up if I still haven't heard anything. Hopefully, I will be able to get set up this weekend!

No need to worry about any of the sim stuff on the D drive, by the way! It's all backed up on my external HD. I was even able to do a quick backup on Scrivener and get that on there too (unbearably slow but it got done). The actual game is installed on the C drive, so once I get my new drive, I should be able to just drop in my folder and go!

You say it's your birthday, November 2046

November 2046 (Spring)

Jeremy Halmi wasn't supposed to turn one until February but with his early arrival, his birthday is now in November. 

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Gray

Round 37: October 2046 (Spring)

Noah Gottlieb is 28 and Brigit is 27.

(Wade is 56, Maia is 44, Anthony is 29, Annabel is 22 and Michael is 15)

Narrated by Noah Gottlieb

We had been scraping by on just my salary and Brigit’s occasional shifts at the campus coffee shop all last year and most of this year but now, Brigit has a permanent part-time job.

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You say it's your birthday, October 2046

October 2046 (Spring)

Colin and Gwen Lachance are turning two just as mum Lucy is entering her third trimester.

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Catch hell blues

Round 37: September 2046 (Spring)

Gentry-Moretti 1 household profile

Justin Moretti is 25 and Louisa Gentry is 26

(Evan is 57, Ione is 50, Xavier is 25 and Georgina is 22)

Narrated by Justin Moretti

Things are so much better now than a couple of years ago, when Louisa was hating her job.

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You say it's your birthday, September 2046

September 2046 (Spring)

It was always a possibility that Chris and Veronica would choose to move to Exeter when they got a place together but Caleb and Cara are glad they found a home in Sullivan.

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Bring it on down

Round 37: August 2046 (Winter)

Nihill 1 household profile

Steve Nihill is 51, Olivia is 49, Jacinta is 16 and Theo is 11. 

(Ramona and Jon are 19, Grace is 16, Thomas is 15 and Andrew is 10)

Narrated by Jacinta Nihill

At the beginning of the year, Mum got me a job at her work. Ramona worked there too, when she was in high school. 

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The (new) Kirby farm house

As you'd know if you've read August birthdays, the Kirby family has a new house! I decided they needed a new one in the middle of my last play session with them. As you would also know, this house basically resulted in poor Trent's death!

But let's work through our grief with a house tour!

So this is the house. I don't think I changed a ton on the outside, apart from the siding and roof colour. It took me ages to decide what roof colour to use with this siding but as soon as I landed on this one, I knew it was the right one! 

I changed quite a lot on the inside, particularly upstairs. The layout wasn't working for me, so I got knocked down a lot of walls and redid them to suit. 

The house is by melethana at MTS.

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