The Craftsman

I am back with a new project after a rather long and very unintentional hiatus. I will start by saying it is by no means finished as I do have every intention of making lots and lots of thing for all sorts of rooms. Some of you may remember my Charles Rennie Mackintosh set of yesteryear;  I love Arts and Crafts so skipping over the Atlantic with this follow up is pretty logical. This is honest, unpretentious, simple and yet beautifully styled furniture from around 1900.  I have put my stamp on it with a light wood texture rather than quarter sawn oak which makes some pieces look quite modern but I am working on a darker oak recolour with pretty stencilling. You may not realise it but the Sims 2 games are choc-a-bloc full of American Craftsman things, there is even an endtable called the "Gustav Stickler"  in honour of Stickley himself. However I find much of it rather chunky and too clunky for my liking and frankly fuglified (although both sets of their craftsman windows are pretty nice).

 So, this first lot up for grabs is mainly living and dining orientated and so far there are 14 new meshes. The grandfather clock and fireplace are in perfect working order although the addition of the copper hood has sims poking and prodding through it and that cannot be helped. There are deco slots on and in many of the items where I saw fit to add them, the coffee table has 3 on top,2 under for stashing magazines and the china cabinet is ready to be filled with books and curios. The only piece of furniture pictured but not included yet is the high back Morris style chair which still isn't to my satisfaction so that will be for next time hopefully.

As a sidenote this project in it's entirety is dedicated to Judith who helped testing and gave me many useful suggestions.  Polywise there is nothing vaguely outrageous here, it'll all run smoothly on older machines).

Happy Simming!

PS: Only if you downloaded this before 17.30 (European time) June 8, the two slave files BB Craftsman Plantstands tall and small were not recolourable:  DOWNLOAD FIX
There is no problem with the master BB_Craftsman_Plantstand_Medium and all recolours should now work across all 3 files. 

For those of you wishing to recolour you can download a set of psd templates  here.