January 2013 Challenge – Part 1

[LadyAngelKeymaster]

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As requested, I’m going to give this one another month. 🙂 I’ll change the title to show the new end date.

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[ekrubynaffit]

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Thankyou thankyou Angela!! Will be finishing Julies house then getting stuck into this!!

[triciamanly]

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Your texturing is amazing on this, the way the light is shining on the base and the top is a bit in the shadows. The decorative border is fantastic! The slight blurriness makes the pillars look ancient. You are getting to be an expert at meshing. What an accomplishment!

[triciamanly]

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Frieda and Frank Fickle of USA sim world won a quick pick lottery and now can fulfill their dream of living in Italy. Their budget is 150,000 and their wish list includes, “typical Italian style”, rural location, and what they call “comfortable bathrooms.” Their realtor found 3 properties for them to look at: a large, rambling fixer upper which was well under budget, a fabulous, opulent villa with formal gardens that was 10,000 over budget, and a restored ancient Roman villa with pool, atrium, peristyle, repainted frescoes on the wall, simple, adequate furnishings and lots of “typical Italian style”. (Not to mention comfortable bathrooms). Though coming it at 8,698 over budget, the Fickles quickly chose the restored villa and are now living there soaking up the sun and eating grapes.

If your sims go to Italy, look up the Fickles. They love to show off their new villa and they have plenty of guest rooms.

[TheDeadSim]

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Very authentic Tric!! Love the items you have used to bring that roman feel to this villa (not that I would call myself anywhere near an expert though). Great work 🙂

[karen lorraine]

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Love it Anne 🙂

I particularly like the courtyard with the pool and plants and your paintings/frescos are beautiful 🙂

[Anonymous]

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Beautiful entry.Love the way you decorate the interior. 🙂

[karen lorraine]

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Here is my entry into the Roman challenge, I hope you enjoy looking at the pictures and reading the information text 🙂

Balineum Lux Aeterna – A Roman Bath House

Translation: Eternal Light Bath House

Roman Baths
The Romans loved going to the baths. They went not only to swim but to relax, chat, enjoy a hot sauna, make a business deal, or to gamble. Roman baths were sumptuously decorated places of health, pleasure, and socialising that stood for the Roman way of life.

Many Roman towns had baths, as well as army camps and rich men’s villas. Mixed bathing was not allowed, so usually women visited in the morning and men in the afternoon. Everyone from rich to poor and even slaves was allowed in the baths.

The toilets in Roman times were communal, everyone sat together and did what they had to do whilst chatting with their friends.

A Visit to the Baths
A trip to the baths meant getting gradually hotter.

• Palaestra: an open courtyard for exercising.
• Changing Rooms: where he left his clothes.
• Frigidarium: the cold room. Here the visitor had a cold bath to wash off most of his sweat and dirt.
• Tepidarium: the warm room.
• Caldarium: the hot room. The hot room was filled was very hot steam, which opened the pores of the skin.

Here a slave would scrape off the last of the sweat and dirt with a bronze scraper, called a strigil,
and he could soak in a bath of hot water.

• Laconicum: an alternative to the caldarium this was like a sauna – hot but dry.
• Frigidarium: the cold room. He would revisit this room and be rubbed down with oil.

The Tour

As you enter the baths why not stop to admire the ponds and fountains.

The impressive entranceway leads into the Palestra, an open courtyard for exercising. As you can see there are statues and fountains to gaze at and
plenty of seating areas, including a balcony at each end to rest and watch the world go by.

There are three exits from the courtyard. The two at either end lead onto the patio areas where you can admire some more statues, sit,
play a game of chess, warm yourself by the fire pit or even grill yourself some food, with ample seating areas, all surrounded by
beautiful plants and some secluded seating, why not go for an explore?

This is the patio area on the right side

This is part of the patio on the left side. The building at the end is a toilet block for those that do not like communal facilities

And now to take a walk through the baths themselves. Through the doorway and immediately to your left you will find the
changing rooms and communal toilets, one side the for the men and the other side for the women. No pictures as they were too small.

Then through on into the Frigidarium (cold bath) with plenty of seating areas to lounge around on.

Then on through the archway into the Tepidarium (warm room), again plenty of seating areas to lounge around on.

Next is the Caldarium (hot room) (think this might be my favourite of all the baths).

To represent the area where the slaves would scrape off the sweat and oil from their masters I have added some massage rooms.

Between the two massage rooms is the Laconium (sauna) (no pictures of this room – too small).

Overhead images
Courtyard showing the balconies

Courtyard below the balconies

Layout of the baths

For those that like to see the roof, here it is

Back view

The End
I hope you enjoyed your tour 🙂

[ekrubynaffit]

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What a wonderful job Karen, you have pilled off the challenge to a fantastic extent! I especially love those archways with the vines, they look so effective!

[LadyAngelKeymaster]

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Awesome job Karen! I love that you’ve researched all that info to go with your pictures, it’s amazing! You’ve really captured the era beautifully. 🙂

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[Anonymous]

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Wow!Such a lovely entry Karen. 🙂

Love it especially the yards.:cheer:

[karen lorraine]

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Thanks girls. You can’t do something like this without a bit of research and it interests me anyway. Have visited plenty of Roman villas in my time. I’d love to go to Pompeii sometime as well.

[TheDeadSim]

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This is extremely awesome kaz 🙂

You’ve done a great job with it and it looks really good! I love the courtyard and gardens mostly. The custom content you have used works really well with this lot too!

[karen lorraine]

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Thanks Cam, it wasn’t as easy as I thought it was going to be, but hey that’s part of the challenge 🙂

[triciamanly]

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What a great idea, the perfect community lot for ancient Roman sims! The exercise courtyard is so inviting and the baths the perfect way to get refreshed and washed!

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