{"id":42,"date":"2019-03-10T06:28:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T06:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simmichele.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2019-03-10T06:35:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T06:35:32","slug":"a-bookstore-for-oxfordsplice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simmichele.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/10\/a-bookstore-for-oxfordsplice\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bookstore for Oxfordsplice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I can sometimes go a bit…overboard. When it came time to complete a subscriber reward for Oxfordsplice and she requested a bookstore<\/strong>, all restraint went right out the window. I’ve been so lucky to have Oxfordsplice as friend, Twitch channel moderator, and someone with whom I seem to have a ridiculous amount in common. #teammichele\/michelle!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First things first, I needed inspiration. I finally settled on a historic bookstore in St Andrews Scotland, J&G Innes Ltd<\/a>. The store sprawls across three formerly separate properties with connections to Scottish publishing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo credit here<\/a>. Creative Commons non-commercial license.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When it came to my Sims 4 version, I couldn’t possibly replicate some of the elaborate window and fa\u00e7ade details. I relied heavily on the Get to Work and Get Together packs, as well as a *whole lot of debug*. Club emblems replaced university seals, a lion fountain replaced St Andrews, and I did the best I could to show both the historic site and the continuing, modern use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fancy sepia filter, ooooh
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The second floor of the existing bookstore is a gallery, and brighter and more open than this. But I was in a woodwork fugue by then, and there was no going back. A gathering space, modern art, and a coffee corner followed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I’ve no idea if the bookstore contains an actual kids’ section, but children often get short shrift in the Sims, so here they get a space just for them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I could spend a lot of time in a place like this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’m genuinely pleased with how it all turned out. I filled the empty corners of the lot with a narrow old clinic and a coffee\/tea stand, as well as a few back gardens. It *feels* like a high street, which is what I wanted to give Oxfordsplice, and I’m now hoping I can visit St Andrews someday to see the beautiful inspiration building in person. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Available on the EA Gallery as “O&S Booksellers,” ID michele_blue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can sometimes go a bit…overboard. When it came time to complete a subscriber reward for Oxfordsplice and she requested a bookstore, all restraint went right out the window. I’ve been so lucky to have Oxfordsplice as friend, Twitch channel moderator, and someone with whom I seem to have a ridiculous amount in common. #teammichele\/michelle! … Continue reading A Bookstore for Oxfordsplice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,8,7,5],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-subscriber-build","tag-build","tag-clinic","tag-retail","tag-subscriber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simmichele.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simmichele.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simmichele.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simmichele.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simmichele.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simmichele.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/simmichele.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simmichele.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simmichele.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simmichele.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simmichele.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}