Today marks four years since I posted the first chapter of my legacy on the exchange. Each year

since I've tried to get a chapter ready to post on the same day, but that's not happened this year.

I've been spending more time faffing around making cc for my game, or improving cc I already

have, or building than I have playing. The good news is that I am playing at the moment, and I'm

nearly a third of the way through my rotation already. This does mean that there will be picspam

coming your way in the near future too so look out for that if you like such things.

Today though, I thought I'd give you all a tour of Regalton and the surrounding areas of

Simfordshire and Simdon as it is at the moment, and of some of the houses therein. It’s not a

definitive tour, as if I showed you every single house, we’d be here all week, and I’ve also not

included bathrooms, because, well bathrooms are a bit boring.

So, here we go with a tour of some of my favourite houses in Regalton and the sub hoods.

So, this is King's Square, the main part of Regalton. There have been many changes since I

started this four years ago, but the main difference is that at the end of last year, I got rid of the

lots I'd downloaded for convenience, and replaced them with lots I've built myself. These lots are

much more in keeping with the era and the country, and I'm finally pleased with how this part of

the main neighbourhood is starting to look

Another view of King’s Square, showing the rest of it. You can see the Skinner House now, a

couple more shops and just make out Ezrany’s future house in the background.

This part of Regalton is Simself Avenue. You don’t need a degree to work out who lives along

here, but there are two other families here as well. The two houses right at the top of the hill,

belong to Timothy and John. Yes I put them opposite each other.

This final part of Regalton is home to the Nosferatus. That’s Anne’s castle in the background,

and her son’s cottage in the foreground. This is also where the prison used to be, until the lot

glitched so much I couldn’t enter it, and I had to demolish it. The clones of Ramen, Dorian,

Jessica and Gordon now live on that lot opposite Richard.

1 King's Square.

This is the main house. I've got plans for this house, so apart from in the next chapter, and any

picspam from this rotation I post, this is more than likely the last time you're going to see this

house looking like this.

It started off based on a typical late Victorian terraced house (late because it has a bay window

on the top floor as well as the bottom floor. Interestingly you can roughly date a British terraced

house by its bay window. Early Victorians have the bay window only on the lower floor, late

Victorian and Edwardian have it extending up on the top floor, and by the 1930s, the windows

had become curved, rather than angular), but George extended it in the second generation so

that it looked like two terraced houses knocked into one. William further extended it in his time as

heir, but it was a little bit inexpertly done, since his focus was the garden he wanted to build for

his wife. My plans for Eddie and Bertie's alterations are centred around making the house look

less like a terrace of lower to middle middle class homes, and more like an upper middle class

gabled mansion. The back of the house and the rooms on the top floor especially will be getting

major makeovers, while the exterior will be getting new windows, doors and brickwork. Part of

me would like to bulldoze the entire house and start again, but I do also like the idea of being

able to look back as the generations pass and see aspects of the house that each heir has built,

so I'm going to alter the existing house.

Entrance Hall.

Drawing Room.

Library/Study.

Dinning Room.

Kitchen.

I hate this room.

I decorated it before Silent lucidity released his wonderful OMSPs which allow you to have sims

prepare food on any surface, so I had to use counters. Victorian kitchens didn't have counters,

they had tables, but since I've been planning on altering the house, I've not been bothered to get

in here and sort it all out. I've now got to the point where I cannot wait to get into this room, gut it

and redo it.

Games room.

Another room I don't like. I've tried a few things

already, but still don't like this room very much at all.

I'm thinking of moving it to another room when I

remodel.

Music room.

One of my favourite rooms ever. I love it.

Morning room.

Hobby/crap room.

Room built to put the FT hobby stuff in, but never

really used. I've now shoved the dog beds in here,

buuuuuut yeah, not one not one of my favourite

rooms and it will be being improved upon when I

remodel.

Nursery.

Master bedroom.

Gym thing.

Not very Victorian, even if my simmies do love to work out. This is going.

Elder bedroom.

Hobby room.

William's hobby room. This is also going, but the

train set and hobby benches will be staying in some

capacity.

Boy bedroom 1.

Bertie's old room, this is the room for the oldest male

child in the house.

Boy bedroom 2.

Currently Stuart's room, this was also Eddie's room,

because Charles was still at home when he became a

child.

Girl bedroom 1.

Currently Emmi's room, again this is the room of the

eldest girl in the house.

Girl bedroom 2.

Alexandra's old room. Again, she moved into this room

instead of the room next door, because Evie was still at

home.

Garden.

Wedding Chapel and Mausoleum.

I want to do something with this too. This is the least authentic thing on the lot and I want to get

rid of it, but I run into the issue of where to get my heirs married.

The Skinner House.

This house was based on a line drawing in one of my books of Victorian architecture and interior

design. I'm pleased with how it looks from the outside, even if getting the roof line right from the

front was a bit of a nightmare.

Hall.

Morning/Music Room.

This may look familiar, because I used this

house for the legaversary celebration and Emmi

and Robert's pictures, and I'm seriously

considering altering a copy to them when they

graduate.

Library.

Dinning Room.

Kitchen.

This is much more the sort of thing I want to build in

the main house when I get to redoing it.

Drawing Room.

I kinda love this room, but I can't really explain why.

Landing.

Bedroom 1.

You'll have to excuse the lumps on the beds in the

houses. I installed a hack which caused the game to

reset in between the last time I played the house and

taking these pictures.

Bedroom 2.

Attached Dressing room.

Bedroom 3.

Nursery.

Garden.

6 King’s Square.

The home of the Harrisons, this house was inspired by a house I passed on the way to

Cambridge one day. I love how the exterior looks, but the top floor interior isn't my best, at least

in terms of the layout of the rooms. I like how I decorated them all.

Hall.

I'd just finished building my dorms when I started on this, hence the familiar looking hallway.

Drawing room.

Library.

I do love how this room looks, even though I might have to

put a bit more lighting in.

Conservatory looking out at the garden.

Morning Room.

Kitchen.

Dinning Room.

Elder Bedroom and Dressing Room.

Celly's Room.

A little bit girly for her perhaps, but it works as a continuation

of the fact that she inherited Vi's old room in their original

house. I kinda like the idea that Theo had the room

decorated for her, based on her old room and then looked

puzzled when she expressed disappointment with it.

Nursery.

A tiny, tiny room, but I like it anyway, since cots can be put

into other rooms.

Child bedroom.

So you can tell that Andrew and Peter had gone to uni

before I moved the family here, since there's only one bed in

here.

Master Bedroom.

I love this room too. Also, Doc is apparently sharing hobby

tips with Theo downstairs at the moment. Not quite sure

how that's working, but it seems to be.

Dressing Room.

Garden.

8 King’s Square.

Home of Charlotta’s descendants, I also refer to it as the Belfour House, since Hannah Belfour

was the first sim to live on this plot of land.

This house I feel almost the opposite to how I feel with the Harrison house. I love how I've laid

out the rooms inside (it's quite small and compact, yet also interesting and spacious), but don't

like the exterior very much. I know what I was trying to do, and yet it just seems off to me.

Hall.

I just love the shapes I got here, it feels real to me.

Drawing room.

A small room, but it's cosy and feels nicely cluttered with all

of the items Charlotta and Hannah brought back from their

trips abroad.

Dinning Room.

Possibly one of my favourite dinning rooms, even if it's

decorated in an unconventional way for a Victorian. The fact

that 95% off my dinning rooms are decorated in crimson?

That's because it was the colour recommended for dinning

rooms at the time.

Master bedroom.

Bedroom 2.

Bedroom 3.

Bedroom 4.

One thing I decided to do with the single rooms, was to use

more exotic bed covers than the double rooms, again as

souvenirs of Charlotta and Hannah’s trips.

10 King’s Square.

Also known as the Wrenworth House after Cecilia’s family name.

I love this house. The shell is that of the asylum, but I completely gutted the interior and rebuilt

all the rooms, and I not only love how I laid the rooms out inside, but also how I decorated and

furnished them.

Hall.

The hall actually continues both to the right and the left into

other little vestibule type rooms, one of which has the

staircase in it.

Drawing room.

I adore this room, and you've seen it several times before,

because of it.

Study.

A nice cosy little room.

Kitchen.

Another decent looking kitchen.

Dinning Room.

This is a really cosy room. I'll probably have to put more

lights in if I ever want to shoot in it at night, because it is a

bit dark, but I do love it.

Morning Room.

A light and bright room. This really suits Cecilia's character

well, and it was her I had in mind when I decorated it, rather

than Rosie.

Nursery and Separate Playroom.

Leonora's Room.

Master Bedroom.

Dressing Rooms.

I rather love these matching dressing rooms, and actually

Rosie and Stephan are the only married couple to have

separate dressing rooms in the neighbourhood. Everyone

else shares.

Elder Bedroom.

Dressing Room.

Bedroom 4.

Regalton Cottages.

I recently finished building a series of little cottages that I can put together as a terrace for both

Regalton and Simford. I've been wanting to replace an apartment block I downloaded from

Parsimonious for ages, and with these, I can. They're small and sparsely furnished: the idea is to

use them as starters for the cousins who I don't want to motherlode or won't be moving back

home, but I'm pleased with them, and will be furnishing them to the families who live in them as

time goes on.

Parlour.

Kitchen.

Front Bedroom.

Back Bedroom.

All Saint's Regalton.

Those of you with long memories may remember that the original version of Regalton had a

parish church in it, where Vi and Thomas got married. It was a lot I downloaded, so I found it

again, and placed it in the neighbourhood and discovered that something very odd was going on

along one side of the lot, causing the land to distort completely. I bulldozed the lot, and started

looking for a replacement.

I have to say a huge thank you to Lark who let me borrow her small family chapel as the base of

this lot. It's a lovely little Medieval chapel, and having it as a base really helped me to visualise

what I could change to get it to look like the sort of parish church I had in mind, even if in the end

I left only about one wall untouched. Of course, it also helped that I attended a wedding a few

weeks ago, in a small parish church, and also managed to find a Victorian photograph of the

nave looking towards the chapel of one of my local churches. So armed with that knowledge, I

went looking for a suitable gothic arch, did some serious mesh altering to the one I found (I didn't

need the portcullis that the original had) and altered the lot to look like this

Pleased doesn't really begin to cover how I feel about this

lot.

Yes, I would like the arch separating the nave from the

chapel to be wider and taller, but I've not figured out how to

do that yet without it distorting completely, and yes, when I

gave it a trial run for a wedding, the sims ended up getting

wed at a weird angle, which I think might be due to the

wedding arch (love the invisible recolour) being in front of a

real arch, so I need to figure out a way round that, and yes

I'm disappointed I couldn't build a pulpit due to the

placement of the arches, but I just love it to bits.

I wish I could get everyone married here, and might have to

have a serious think as to whether that would work or not,

(even if I only manage to do it in the story) and look for a fix

for the ring glitch if one exists.

Stone Cottage.

This is the cottage Marielle lives in. I didn’t build it, I downloaded it from MTS, and it could

perhaps be prettier. However, it works fine for just her.

Kitchen.

I absolutely love this room. It sums up how far she’s fallen, but also that she’s not given up.

There’s a certain amount of pride present in how things are set out, and I think it fits her and

where she is now, well.

Bedroom.

Parlour.

And that’s all there is to her cottage. There’s an outhouse with a tin bath and toilet in, and that’s

it.

Simdon!

Let’s move onto the capital of Simland now, Simdon. This is what the residential Simdon

neighbourhood currently looks like. Well, most of it anyway, it’s so huge I can’t get it all in one

picture. It’s the only sub hood that I consider to be finished (even if I do need to go and hide lots

of postboxes still), and so I’m very, very fond of it.

I unfortunately lost my maps of Simdon with all the street names on them, when I had to have this

pc reformatted earlier in the year, but I can tell you that this is Simford Road, where the Smiths

live, and that park just up the road is where Stuart and Elle first met.

The junction of Shepherd Street and Sierra Street. The Whedonberrys, Fitzhughs and

Roselands live here.

Simmington Crescent (yeah, yeah I know it’s not actually a crescent). This is where Evie and her

family live, as well as Vicky and Patrick.

This is the poorer area of city, but still middle class. I won’t be taking you into these houses, but

thought I’d point out the area to you. You can see that the terraces are of the same design the

original part of the main house was when I started the legacy.

1 Simford Road.

We’ll start with the Smith townhouse. It’s huge, and I love it. This is actually the sixth version of

this lot the Smiths have lived in. They’ve lived in three apartment versions of the house, in two

different hoods, one larger version of this lot in a different hood, a larger version of this lot in this

hood and this version. The moves have been due to my desire to redo Simdon, glitchy

apartment controllers, and then me trying to stop the crashing and glitching which was occurring

when playing first this lot, and then Simdon as a whole. I’m hoping that this is the last version of

this house they live in.

Entrance hall.

I adore the entrance hall, and knew that it’s just the place Alexandra would want to display

pictures of her family. Actually she loves to have them on every surface possible.

Stairs.

Again, I love this space. It feels so right to me.

Study.

I think all of my comments on this house are going to be the same. I love this room.

Dinning Room.

Anthony works for the Foreign Office, hence the souvenirs

from around the world, which he’s picked up, either on his

travels, or were given to him as gifts by various ambassadors

and cultural attaches.

First Floor Landing.

I LOVE the landings in this house, and had to restrain myself from taking loads to share with you

all.

Drawing Room.

I’m contemplating changing the wallpaper in this room, but

other than that, I really like it.

Morning Room.

There’s also a sewing area off to the left, but since

Alexandra doesn’t have much truck with sewing with a

machine, it doesn’t get used often.

Master Bedroom.

Dressing Room.

Another room I really like, small though it may be.

Sarah Jane’s Room.

(Second Bedroom).

As you can see, it’s big and pretty and Sarah Jane takes a

lot of pride in the fact that it’s hers.

Sarah Jane’s Dressing Room.

Top Floor landing.

Bedroom 3.

Bedroom 4.

Playroom.

Nursery/Bedroom 5.

This is the room which was once the nursery, but is now Mickey’s bedroom. When David comes

home and starts to give Alexandra those hundreds of grandchildren you know she’s going to

want, this will become the nursery again.

3 Simmington Crescent.

This is one of the terrace townhouses I’ve made to make Simdon feel more like London. I’m

actually really fond of it, and I can tell you that you will be seeing one of the cousins move into a

version of this in the future.

This particular house is lived in by Evie and her family.

Hall.

You'll notice that this paper doens't follow the line of the stairs, like quite a few of mine do now.

This is a fairly old paper, and I seem to have lost the original files with my various computer

moves and the reformat over the past year. If I wanted to make it follow the stairs, I'd have to

rebuild the willow pattern from scratch, and I don't feel like doing so at the moment. If I decide to

use it in one of the more important houses this generation, I will, but not at the moment.

Dinning Room.

It’s a bit of an awkward shape this room, but you can fit a table and chairs in.

Study.

Drawing Room.

Master Bedroom.

Bedroom 2.

There’s also three rooms in the attic of the house, for use as nurseries and other bedrooms, but

since they’re completely empty in this house, I didn’t take pictures of them.

2 Shepherd street.

This is the second version of this house and the neighbouring house I’ve built. The original

versions, were actually built as apartment blocks, and that’s the version of this house you saw in

Viridian Child. However, apartments are really glitchy (at least in my game), so I decided to

rebuild the houses as fake terraces. Those terraces were used in the original Simdon too, so

this is actually the third copy of this house that has been placed at 2 Shepherd Street.

Since it is a base house, designed to be repeated loads of times in the neighbourhood, it’s fairly

sparsely furnished so that I can put each family’s stamp on it as I play

This house is home to the Whedonberrys, and they’ve lived in it for only one roation.

Entrance Hall.

Last time you saw this hall, the walls were bedecked with

photographs of the Whedonberry family. Unfortunately I lost

them all when I had problems with AGS eighteen months

ago, and although I have the original png files, I’ve not

remade them. Perhaps in the future.

Dinning Room.

Erm, excuse the dirty plates. I snapped these pictures quickly last night and didn’t realise about

the plates until just now.

Music Room.

Drawing room.

Master Bedroom.

Bedroom 2.

Bedroom 3.

The attic contains bedrooms 3 and 4, which are really

glorified box-rooms.

Bedroom 3 is the room that Dean and Derri shared before the

latter went to university. In the original of this house, each

boy had a shelf of toys and goodies which reflected their

personalities, but since Derri was so near to leaving when I

moved them into this house, I didn’t bother to redo them.

8 Shepherd Street.

This is the companion house to 2 Shepherd Street, and is currently occupied by the Roselands.

It’s slightly smaller than the other house, since it doesn’t have attic rooms.

Hall.

I admit, that this particular house looks very sparse. Up until

the move to the new sub hood, the Roselands had been

living in an apartment building, so I gave them just enough to

buy this house, but not furnish it. I’ll do that as Cyd earns

more.

Dinning Room.

Study.

You can see how Louisa, Cyd (and the children) are trying to

help bring in a bit extra money here. They all tend to want to

paint at once.

Drawing Room.

As with the other house, it’s an L-shaped room, and there is

also a sewing machine behind the camera in the first

picture. I’ve also just realised that Cyd’s portrait doesn’t

have a frame. I must fix that.

Master Bedroom.

Bedroom 2.

With no attic space, there are only two bedrooms in this

house.

2 Sierra Street.

As with the houses in Shepherd Street, the houses in Sierra Street were originally apartments,

which I remade into fake terraces. These houses are much smaller though, since I designed this

one with the Fitzhughs in mind and then made the companion house to match.

Every family or sim who comes from another story, and ends up playing a significant part in my

story, retains their backstory (or most of it) from their home universe, and ends up here due to a

different decision being made there. The Whedonberrys moved to Simdon due to the anti-green

sentiment happening back home, and the Fitzhughs moved here because Ivy chose one of

Harry’s siblings to be hair, instead of him. Mya still had to wait for him to make his lift before she

could make a start on what she wanted, and Harry, knowing how much it hurts not to get what

you’ve always wanted and loving her as much as he does in Sierra Plains, still puts her needs

above those of their children.

The time shift is just an unfortunate side effect of the move.

Hall.

Anyway, because this house was built with the Fitzhughs in mind, it’s rather small (8x12), and

I’ve tried to restrict decoration and furnishing to what would have been allowed in Sierra Plains at

the time they left. I think there’s one exception, which I’ll talk about when I get there.

Dinning Room.

The dinning room is actually situated in the basement, with

French windows opening out onto a sunken patio.

Patio and Gagren.

Drawing Room.

The big not “I don’t think that this is Apoc legal” thing is the

easel in this room. I don’t think Marina’s lifted the career

which allows it yet, however in my world it’s not legal to

have computers to raise creativity, and I built this before the

hacked notebook was made, so the easel was placed and

will stay.

Master Bedroom.

Bedroom 2.

I rather love Azula and Elle’s bedroom.

Bedroom 3.

This is such a dear little room, and I actually really love how

it all works.

Simdon Commercial.

That’s it for the house tours, but I thought you might like to see how the community lots of

Simdon are laid out too.

Above is the Natural History Museum, the Dance Hall (including the restaurant where Bethany

and Ezra got engaged in the story) up by the bridge, and some shops at the bottom of the

picture.

Those shops are now to the left of the picture, and you can see the domed Simdon Opera

House, with a hotel next to it, and some space off to the left where I’ve started to block out

another lot.

Moving the camera slightly, you can see the coaching Inn from Viridian Child next to the empty

land, with Azula’s Azaleas opposite, and a cemetery near the top of the screen. The occupied

house near the bottom of the picture belongs to the Gavigans.

Moving the camera again, and swinging it round to face in the opposite direction, you can now

see the front of the coaching inn, and the shops and market next to it, which again appeared in

Viridian Child. Next to Azula’ Azaleas, is Londoste, which is where the Legacys and Sophia

dined in the last chapter. In the distance, at the top of the screen, are some more shops, which

includes the milliners where Beth got her new hat.

Finally, we’ve now moved to those shops. That thin building at the crossroads, is Vicky’s office,

with Gil’s patisserie opposite and Beth’s Boutique next door to the bakery. Possibly my favourite

lot is in the middle of this lot, and has many building on it, and right near the top of the screen is

the cathedral.

Simminster Cathedral.

Yes I know that this looks more like Westminster Abbey than the cathedral, but I prefer this

name.

This is a lot I downloaded aaaaaages ago, because I could see the potential of the shape, but

didn't do anything with until recently.

Maybe I should sit and think on things for years more often.

I’m pretty proud of the interior of this lot, and already know

who’s getting married here.

The Nickel.

This is the Nickel as it currently stands, but as you can see by the lot with lots of blank walls on it,

I’m making some changes.

Alfie lives in the owned lot in the right bottom corner, the large owned community lot is the lot I

tend to use for shooting here, and disused warehouse where the child were held in Viridian Child

is up in the left corner of the screen.

That’s really all there is to see here at the moment.

Sneak Peeks.

That’s it for the tour, but I thought I’d leave you with some sneak peeks of houses and things to

come.

Above is the sub hood which is going to become Simford and Simmingfordbury. I’ve placed the

Board school, and the new Beth’s Books, as well as making a start on the shells of two new

houses. There’s a lot to do, but I’m looking forward to getting to grips with it.

Andrew’s House.

The shell’s done, and I’ve put the wallpaper up, but not

started furnishing it yet.

Celestia’s House.

Again, the shell’s done and the wallpaper’s up, but nothing

more has been done.

Dargent House II.

This beautiful, beautiful house was built by Cait, who very kindly gave it to me, for Ezra and

Bethany to live in. This one is furnished and decorated, with several new wallpapers by me.

And this really is the end of the tour. I hope you enjoyed it, and until next time, happy simming.