Sims 4 Legacy Challenge, Part 5: Weddings Are Profitable Dontcha Know

(If you missed Part Four, you can find it here)

(If you’re new here, make sure to read Part One)

This is Part 5 of my Sims 4 Legacy Challenge. I highly recommend going back and reading earlier parts, linked above, if you are new here, but the basics of this challenge are that I play a single family in the Sims, and create a matriarch. This matriarch starts with no money and an empty lot and has to build a house that will support ten whole generations of Sims, and then make a legacy that will last after her death.

In Part 4, we saw our heir, Magnolia, get married to her true love Leah, and Leah moved in with Magnolia. I mentioned that Leah had sold all her furniture, but since she wasn’t allowed to bring any money to the family, I had to use a cheat code to restore the family balance to pre-Leah numbers. However, I received a significant amount of furniture and household items from completing a Goaled Wedding, and since these were in-game rewards that I’d earned fair and square, I figured I could sell/use them.

After Magnolia’s wedding, I sold all the furniture we got as rewards for the wedding event itself, and then because we had so much money and were about to expand the family, I figured it was a good time for a house remodel. I spent a good few hours (and a whole lot of Simoleons) on it, and then ended up with this:

I am so proud of this house; it’s not the prettiest, but it’s nice enough and I’ve always preferred practicality over beauty when building in the Sims. When building this, I had three keywords in mind: functional, practical, and windows. Lots of windows! I love placing windows all over the place and letting lots of natural light into my builds!

The front door is recessed from the street, to give the family a bit of privacy. In the front garden is a cute little sitting area with a fountain, and then you enter the main living space:We’ve got a piano, an easel, a VR video game system that Magnolia brought home from work, a fireplace, a TV, and lots of seating. When I think of “living room,” I think of “family hanging out together in the same space and having fun” so I put in a bunch of activities to support the hobbies of various family members (there is also a bookshelf offscreen, of course)

Just off the main living space is a bathroom, then the kitchen and dining area:

Whenever I’m making a build and I find a color swatch or something I really like, I tend to just use it in every single build thereafter. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! This is kind of my “standard modern bathroom” that appears in pretty much every Sims house I’ve ever made, whale shower curtain included.No matter what I do, the chess boards in the Sims 4 seem so awkward to place, so here I just made it a moment and gave it a full-on nook. I know I am not the first Simmer to wish for a smaller chessboard that goes on top of a table–I mean, there already exists a “clutter” item that’s a board game your Sims can play and interact with that just goes right on top of your dining room table, so it’s not like the functionality for something like that doesn’t exist.

On the other side of the kitchen is this room, which I won’t even tell you what it’s for because it’s fairly obvious:

This nursery actually sleeps four babies at any one time; there’s several cribs and a toddler bed hidden behind the dollhouses. The weird brown house thing in the corner is actually a window; it’s showing the house next door but there’s no frame so it looks more like a painting.

Just off the kitchen we’ve got a little hallway with a bedroom and a bathroom.

The bed exists, I promise, it’s behind the half wall in the right hand photo. The blue lamp is basically right next to the bed, if you’re trying to figure out where it is.As we’ve established, I like what I like and why change it if it’s not broken? And yes, you will be seeing that painting a lot in this build because it is my favorite painting ever. (there’s actually a few places in this build where I’ve used it and it just doesn’t show up with the camera view I’m using)

Then we’ve got a whole other hallway off the kitchen where that painting makes a reappearance:

I take bathrooms very seriously in my builds and I always make sure to include several of them, so we’ve got another one here:

Then we’ve got two more bedrooms–since this family is a matriarchy and only girls can be the heirs, I’ve decorated them in anticipation of having girls:

One important feature I wanted to include in every bedroom was a bookshelf, since the Bookworm trait is so important in this challenge. Though there is no bookshelf technically because there just wasn’t space for it, the books on the desk function as a bookshelf and the Sim who sleeps here can actually read them.

The another bedroom, this time in green in case one of our girls is less girly and prefers more gender-neutral colors:

Then we get to one of my favorite rooms in the house, which I officially call the “Heir’s Bedroom.” For each generation, when we have a daughter who becomes the Heir to the legacy, she will be moved into this bedroom, which is the biggest one in the house (aside from the master bedroom) in accordance with her status. It’s also big enough for two people so she can have a spouse live here with her, as well (there’s also an en suite bathroom, but it’s identical to the blue tiled whale bathroom I’ve already shown you in the above photos, so I didn’t see much point in including it here)

Of course, being a family of Bookworms, we have to have a library. At the opposite end of the hallway from the kitchen is the library:

I’ve found that when I play, I absolutely hate having more the one floor of the house, because it makes it harder for gameplay (Sims walk so slow already that it just takes more time for them to do stuff) but with a family this big, I couldn’t justify not having a second floor.

This house is also so big that I wanted to add in a little back door here that goes right out onto the street in case I needed my Sims to rush off to work or school in a hurry.

Onto the second floor, we have the cutest little reading nook:

I ended up making the second floor smaller and just putting a few things up here. Namely, the master bedroom with an en suite bathroom, a private office for Magnolia, and a deck.

I was thinking that Magnolia and Leah might come up here sometime to have some private time for themselves to sunbathe and chill out to some tuneage, but then there was extra space on the deck and I felt bad that we didn’t have any outdoor activities for the kids, so I tossed a set of monkey bars up here, too.Master bedroom with a walk-in closet. The door you see in this image leads to Magnolia’s office.En suite bathroom. Nothing really worth noting here, except I did want to get them a nice fancy tub with a separate shower.

And finally, a private office:

In case any fellow Simmers are reading this and wondering how expensive this house is, I don’t remember how much I spent building it, but the lot information values it at 266,000 Simoleons (yes, I did use a lot of debug for the clutter/decorations to cut down on costs) Without any tax breaks, I’d have to pay 12,000 Simoleons every tax cycle, but because several of my adult Sims have the “frugal living” trait (best trait ever, BTW, definitely worth getting) I get a good amount of tax breaks and only pay 5,000 Simoleons each time. And if you’ve been following these posts since the beginning and remember how I mentioned I didn’t want to pay 6,000 Simoleons per tax cycle in my 100 baby challenge, it’s because in my 100 baby challenge, I only had one adult who was only able to do part-time freelance work from home, whereas here, I have three adults who all have full-time jobs, s I can easily afford it. Man, this challenge is way too easy, I thought it was supposed to be hard! xD Or maybe I’m just not doing it right?

So to recap, at this point in our challenge, we have the following Sims in our household:

Thom Perry – Primary spouse, works full-time as a comedian

Rose Perry – Founder, works full-time as a web designer

Magnolia Perry – Gen 1 heir, works full-time as a game designer

Leah Perry – Gen 1 Spouse, works full-time as an assistant dishwasher

Ryll Perry – Gen 1 neither heir nor spare, as she did not get the Bookworm trait, but we’ll let her stick around.

This post has gotten a little bit long, so I’ll stop it here. Next time we see how Magnolia and Leah get on with being married to each other! (spoiler alert, they get along very well). Make sure to follow my blog so you don’t miss the next part!