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hat_plays_sims) wrote2023-01-16 10:38 pm
hat_plays_sims) wrote2023-01-16 10:38 pm
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Buy Mode Blitz: Ninipupucea "Ancient" Crib with canopy
Ninipupucea's "Ancient" canopy crib was graciously separated into two subsets by Darkmoon-- referencing the bedding to the Maxis crib bedding (find my recolors of that here) and letting the wood be separately recolorable. I used Piggi Wood 03 on it, as it was an early bit of Buy Mode Blitz recoloring and I hadn't yet hit on my Piggi 03/SDA Kitchen blend, so. I may do these again sometime! But I was always kind of considering that, as there's scope for decorative woodwork.
I'd've uploaded it sooner, but I really felt like the title card needed an actual baby.
As usual, not every Project Mayhem natural is equally useful, but maybe you need Time Bomb wood, or Dynamite for a very goth baby, I just make the color options, I don't figure out how to use them.
Is this a historical piece?
Yes, but not really for my period.
... Maybe as a special-occasion presentation sort of thing, but the overall design of this crib is not "ancient" as Ninipupucea described it, but more "antique." The half-canopy thing is... Okay I have seen those, in the Middle Ages, but usually as part of a backdrop thing for the top table at feasts, and not so much on a crib or cradle. On a bed, the half-canopy is a Victorian affectation, though, because-- okay.
Medieval canopy beds were totally a thing, but the canopies were full on bed curtains. You closed them for privacy (because you might have other people sleeping in the room, relatives or servants) or for warmth (a lot easier to heat up a bed-sized area with just your body heat than a room-sized area), and it was all very practical. And it stayed practical even as household heating evolved from 'there's a hearth or a brazier in this room, and we've left the window cracked to let the smoke out' to 'okay, so we've learned chimneys work, but you have to build them out of fireproof materials, and with very specific angles inside' all the way up to Victorians using enough coal to invent the carbon footprint to heat their homes. Bed curtains were always pretty, but the Victorians kept their houses snug enough that bed curtains could also be decorative.
Or just be decorative.
And that's what this crib looks like to me.
That said, I like it, and there aren't enough cribs anyway, and I'm gonna use it, despite its other issue.
The mesh does date back to 2008, and at least with these big glassless windows, there's a weird shadow box... thing happening. It looks fine in the middle of a room, or against a solid wall, but put it up against a window and you get a square of shade.
But again: Hardly any cribs, and if I weren't taking pics in a weird little hut implied to be open-air in the woods, I'd never have noticed because why would I put a crib this tall and fancy up against a glassless window in ordinary decorating?
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I'd've uploaded it sooner, but I really felt like the title card needed an actual baby.
As usual, not every Project Mayhem natural is equally useful, but maybe you need Time Bomb wood, or Dynamite for a very goth baby, I just make the color options, I don't figure out how to use them.
Is this a historical piece?
Yes, but not really for my period.
... Maybe as a special-occasion presentation sort of thing, but the overall design of this crib is not "ancient" as Ninipupucea described it, but more "antique." The half-canopy thing is... Okay I have seen those, in the Middle Ages, but usually as part of a backdrop thing for the top table at feasts, and not so much on a crib or cradle. On a bed, the half-canopy is a Victorian affectation, though, because-- okay.
Medieval canopy beds were totally a thing, but the canopies were full on bed curtains. You closed them for privacy (because you might have other people sleeping in the room, relatives or servants) or for warmth (a lot easier to heat up a bed-sized area with just your body heat than a room-sized area), and it was all very practical. And it stayed practical even as household heating evolved from 'there's a hearth or a brazier in this room, and we've left the window cracked to let the smoke out' to 'okay, so we've learned chimneys work, but you have to build them out of fireproof materials, and with very specific angles inside' all the way up to Victorians using enough coal to invent the carbon footprint to heat their homes. Bed curtains were always pretty, but the Victorians kept their houses snug enough that bed curtains could also be decorative.
Or just be decorative.
And that's what this crib looks like to me.
That said, I like it, and there aren't enough cribs anyway, and I'm gonna use it, despite its other issue.
The mesh does date back to 2008, and at least with these big glassless windows, there's a weird shadow box... thing happening. It looks fine in the middle of a room, or against a solid wall, but put it up against a window and you get a square of shade.
But again: Hardly any cribs, and if I weren't taking pics in a weird little hut implied to be open-air in the woods, I'd never have noticed because why would I put a crib this tall and fancy up against a glassless window in ordinary decorating?
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?'