Buy Mode Blitz: Ja's Esther Minifridge
Jan. 13th, 2023 12:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hat_plays_simsJa's Esther Minifridge comes in 20 Pooklet Project Mayhem Naturals over the same combination of Piggi 03 and the SDA Castle Kitchen textures I first used on, well, the SDA Castle Kitchen and promptly fell in love with. This is now one of my favorite pieces to use all over the ding-dang place.
The Esther minifridge is cloned from the basegame cheap fridge, only it's even smaller than the Uni minifridge-- it has JUST enough room to hold the tray of ingredients Sims pull out of a fridge, and no more, even though it holds as much as a full-sized refrigerator. It can sit on the floor, a counter, a table, a desk, and even some shelves. Wanna see?
It just saves ALL the space when you're working with a very small lot. So if you have something like a campaign tent or a tiny, tiny cottage or an outdoor market stall with a fenced-off "break room" or a Dragon Wagon or Apothecary Cart, this might just be the ideal fridge for your situation! Or stick it on a shelf in a nursery to get bottles without having to truck the baby all the way to the kitchen.
I can't believe it took me until starting Buy Mode Blitz to get around to making simple wooden-box recolors of the dang thing. There are two subsets, "innards," which is the sides, back, and inside of the fridge, and "materials," which is just the front door. They use the same (512x1024) textures and I figured nobody would, for instance, hate having a Pipe Bomb door but still want Pipe Bomb sides and back, so each package contains BOTH subsets.
... And fair warning, no matter where you put it, your Sims will animate like they're using a full-sized fridge. For me, that's worth it, but I've been throwing together some really teeny tiny Baby's First Owned Business lots where 'Tiny Fridge On A Shelf" is a lifesaver.
Also I DID originally want to make the fridge fancier-- maybe throw painted details on there, or carvings-- but because it's mapped like a fridge, there's some odd stretching and doubling and weird repeats. I figured if I was going to have to stick with simple woodgrain, I'd use something that coordinates with the kitchen sets I like best.
Is this historically accurate?
It is not, no, it was much more common to store your food in specific-to-that-food places-- cheese and milk in the dairy or larder, bread in the pantry, grain or flour in raised arks to keep the mice out, root vegetables in string bags or braids on the wall, meat in salt barrels or the chimney (for smoking) than it was to have a specific Food Box, most of the time. But I can claim it's inspired by a Society for Creative Anachronism re-enactor! When I was considering "painted" art to put on the sides (before finding out that fridge mapping wasn't gonna allow for that) House Greydragon's Cooler Chests were a pretty big source of inspiration.
But hey, Sims require a Food Box, no matter what it looks like, and if you're playing with the idea of tiny housing or cottagecore, your Food Box might as well be conveniently small.
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Behold the Tip Jar!
In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'
The Esther minifridge is cloned from the basegame cheap fridge, only it's even smaller than the Uni minifridge-- it has JUST enough room to hold the tray of ingredients Sims pull out of a fridge, and no more, even though it holds as much as a full-sized refrigerator. It can sit on the floor, a counter, a table, a desk, and even some shelves. Wanna see?
It just saves ALL the space when you're working with a very small lot. So if you have something like a campaign tent or a tiny, tiny cottage or an outdoor market stall with a fenced-off "break room" or a Dragon Wagon or Apothecary Cart, this might just be the ideal fridge for your situation! Or stick it on a shelf in a nursery to get bottles without having to truck the baby all the way to the kitchen.
I can't believe it took me until starting Buy Mode Blitz to get around to making simple wooden-box recolors of the dang thing. There are two subsets, "innards," which is the sides, back, and inside of the fridge, and "materials," which is just the front door. They use the same (512x1024) textures and I figured nobody would, for instance, hate having a Pipe Bomb door but still want Pipe Bomb sides and back, so each package contains BOTH subsets.
... And fair warning, no matter where you put it, your Sims will animate like they're using a full-sized fridge. For me, that's worth it, but I've been throwing together some really teeny tiny Baby's First Owned Business lots where 'Tiny Fridge On A Shelf" is a lifesaver.
Also I DID originally want to make the fridge fancier-- maybe throw painted details on there, or carvings-- but because it's mapped like a fridge, there's some odd stretching and doubling and weird repeats. I figured if I was going to have to stick with simple woodgrain, I'd use something that coordinates with the kitchen sets I like best.
Is this historically accurate?
It is not, no, it was much more common to store your food in specific-to-that-food places-- cheese and milk in the dairy or larder, bread in the pantry, grain or flour in raised arks to keep the mice out, root vegetables in string bags or braids on the wall, meat in salt barrels or the chimney (for smoking) than it was to have a specific Food Box, most of the time. But I can claim it's inspired by a Society for Creative Anachronism re-enactor! When I was considering "painted" art to put on the sides (before finding out that fridge mapping wasn't gonna allow for that) House Greydragon's Cooler Chests were a pretty big source of inspiration.
But hey, Sims require a Food Box, no matter what it looks like, and if you're playing with the idea of tiny housing or cottagecore, your Food Box might as well be conveniently small.
DOWNLOAD
Behold the Tip Jar!
In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'
