Some things are just strange. But well, the Sims is a big game, I don't expect everything to make sense :P
Oh my doll houses were for barbies too. I'd go to the local supermarket and pick up product boxes from there. I'd usually cut a door in one of the boxes too, maybe even draw a door knob on. I'd read hobby books or watch tv programs where people would make stuff out of cardboard. I was a very active child when it came to crafts, although I always seemed to be jumping from craft to craft (I did origami, parchment stuff, quilling, clay, plaster casting, that.. coloured rubber stuff, drawing and painting, knitting, needlework, etc etc). I was always up to something, drawing and painting (and sometimes clay modelling) are the only ones that stuck :P
Well, it's the small side room (and yes, neon green), it's not high priority. Between the poo-brown and baby blue master bedroom with one wall covered in floral wallpaper (which prompty took the plasterwork off when we tried to remove it), the "prison grey" woodwork in the halls and the sort of reddish clay brown (like, trying desperately to be terracotta, but failing) in the living room (which also peeled off the walls) we've had our hands full. The apartment isn't really anywhere done with renovation work, it's liveable though, most of the living room and master bedroom are atleast done.
The pole building here (where they stick really really long poles in the ground for the foundation) is done because cities like Amsterdam don't have a strong soil to build on, if they didn't put poles in so deep that they actually hit solid soil (like, 13 meters down or something) all the houses would start sinking and sagging and falling over (and some still do that, some of the really old ones, because they would use wooden poles in the past)
(ooh, having to catch them yourself, lots of fun. Something to really thank the cats for! I'm afraid my husband is immune to kitten videos. You see he's the sensible sort, the "we'll get cat hair all over the place and the smells" type.)
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Oh my doll houses were for barbies too. I'd go to the local supermarket and pick up product boxes from there. I'd usually cut a door in one of the boxes too, maybe even draw a door knob on. I'd read hobby books or watch tv programs where people would make stuff out of cardboard. I was a very active child when it came to crafts, although I always seemed to be jumping from craft to craft (I did origami, parchment stuff, quilling, clay, plaster casting, that.. coloured rubber stuff, drawing and painting, knitting, needlework, etc etc). I was always up to something, drawing and painting (and sometimes clay modelling) are the only ones that stuck :P
Well, it's the small side room (and yes, neon green), it's not high priority. Between the poo-brown and baby blue master bedroom with one wall covered in floral wallpaper (which prompty took the plasterwork off when we tried to remove it), the "prison grey" woodwork in the halls and the sort of reddish clay brown (like, trying desperately to be terracotta, but failing) in the living room (which also peeled off the walls) we've had our hands full. The apartment isn't really anywhere done with renovation work, it's liveable though, most of the living room and master bedroom are atleast done.
The pole building here (where they stick really really long poles in the ground for the foundation) is done because cities like Amsterdam don't have a strong soil to build on, if they didn't put poles in so deep that they actually hit solid soil (like, 13 meters down or something) all the houses would start sinking and sagging and falling over (and some still do that, some of the really old ones, because they would use wooden poles in the past)
(ooh, having to catch them yourself, lots of fun. Something to really thank the cats for! I'm afraid my husband is immune to kitten videos. You see he's the sensible sort, the "we'll get cat hair all over the place and the smells" type.)