ALT 9 - Casteroff to Rothschild Dorm.pptx

The 9th remodel of various properties around Academie Le Tour in The Sims 2

1. asteroff

Do + Rothschild

[he difference is

2. As to the question of why start at night??’
The answer is simple: we'll test the dorm (partly) to get it back to daytime anyhow.

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Rear Right (from the street)
& Back of Casteroff Dorm

Rear Left (from the street)
& Back of Casteroff Dorm *,

3. Welkhow abotit that!
You DID get to re-visit the facade, in aux

Nowet’s continue inside,
where the r.

u

We've clearly been in this dorm before
andeven thenwercould not resist the urge to
ftweak things a little. .

Yustas clearly, we may-or-may-not have. *
“liberated” the most useful items from the dory
before we left. \ :

„ The layout and shape of the building are very
much orginal, as I'm sure others out there
(who’ve also used this dorm) can attest,

4. Turning left throug
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nthe table popes the
bits ofsolid pro0) ME rats ‘am
home from classes an actually did

homeworkhere.

that appealing,

Part of it is because a little new flooring and
wallpaper justisn’t enough! 0.0

Naturally amassive gutting and floor plan
overhaulis predicted for this dorm.

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5. + Idetested that there was only one way in or out of the cafeteria,
| «aside from the door to the back staircase (not shown here), for eight Sims.
| Here we are-back in the front room, ready to turn left and see the first of the old dorms.

a a a

6. Blah-biah, gray carpet &white walls with tan
wainscoting and/or baseboards.
It’s cleqr I bore myself just talking dbout it -,
how can anyone have designed this dorm interior.
and not needed a cup of espresso ti
themselves awgke for the job:
It’s not terrible

ore try-hard.
It could makeyou le in your shoes

butit does#’t.
Who in their mane mind builds a “meh” dorm?
Whojn their right mind builds a “meh” anything ??

Glancing through the individualdorm interiors
(from whichTover zealously sold off all of the

Could it be that thi
carpet-colors were abi
Let's see: *

7. At the opposite end of the hall (or turning right from the second doorway) was a double staircase.

Shalltve ascend to the second floor, as it was? The better to see the rest of it my dears!. .
* Ohoboy! This tint on the pictures, and some of thespooky noises around there,
were really starting to give me goose-bumps- I don’t know how you can all standit!
Us that thescratch-scratoh of tiny clawsI hear? Zhe wind howling outside? Nos it’s probably nothing

8. 3

At the top of the stairs we enterged into a
kind of commnalyecreation room, or

maybe I shouldgay what used to be a rec
+ room.

One lone book was hind somehow,
= without its bogkshelf-

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Next door to the stáífwell the mens”
and womens’ shéftoegg and restrboms

It wasa kin S &S” setup, and I
wouldn't be all surprised to learn
that all three were being done in the
showers here.

9. Tfyou should decide to go careening out that

two-story window at the end of the hall

+ (presumably fromyour astoundingly severe

case of the doldrums or decorator’s malaise)
„ Youwould have been convenient

‘pet color Mere again:
The po Perte cheap looking
grass green, then blue again, and lastly a
„rather muted autumnalorange. I-Zzzz.
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Across the hall from there

(gr to the right of the staifwell you like) was the
other fou sat Casteroff.

Try to eee
wel have no mob-scenes here!

10. Lastly, we must explore these doors at either end of the second floor.
Iwas going to say “mysterious”, but two doors preferred to spoil it.

11. „and pay!

12. Meca ace Ress angles of the nan facade of
our dom.

A you can dee, exe is lola of atone and
dtained glass and those multi-story aindoaa!

13. Gora to take cial bout the quounde? Of consta you would Rara!
Citer aay you talk around Lo the left os cight sides, you'Waind up aith a view of the trees.

Bern EN ne ee NR O ee
The cightRand aall alse became a discesst place to Ride ana the Leash can.

14. + + and here ia the new ceac-rier of Rothachild doom.
IT ks sage af AA TN ADORA POR

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It may interest you lo ee ahat’s new inside ove dou as well.

15. Bio axe la oide-entrances La Rothachila Dom, on either side of the main front door.
As il Ras said in one of my farorile movies: “Which aay do you @antlo go?"

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White you may Rave known that, 312 you also Know that Here ace tro secret enteances ?
We'll ceriail thal momenlauily; firet re muol come in Ihe front doow! Puotn’t be cude.

16. a a |]
immediately into a sunken firing-coom . .

Fin thie care it has actually aided me
in gelling there beautiful views
aight and Left, of the front entrance.
indoned parliliona reparale the entrance

fom the coat of one large, open concept

zoom.

Ta to ahat in in the middle...

17. Peering in and following the entuy-aay aperlure lo it ‘a bottom,
We discorer a tree planted there.

Theis a lovely tree planted in the enley ray
ath decoralite acought-icon oes around il.
Let's celwen lo the g

18. On the other side of the glass pactilions ia the firing coom/ communal oludy area,

Chandelier

Coffee Tables

Bookshelf A F Bookshelf

Phone

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Re used 2 more of the same tables as Ihose used in the entry, and Lao of the same ug.

19. There's the view of the silling area as

« you come in from
the main door & enley ray.

| NA gala macble aall in a college dorm? |
|The macble cuna all the aay to the top

of the building,

Tere io ahat you would see

coming into the silting area
and looking ight.
There are alle marble columns
Reringbone-pallerned Rood floor

& the ralla are covered in gota alucco.

20. < tl exe is what you vould see
if you came into the sitting area
ana Cooked left.

Domsone ahoula really put añay
those booka!

This io a better rien of the cheso
Board near the left alain,
»
The elevator ia behind us

and out-of-ahot.

21. On either aide of the zoom, Beyond
the main staircases, >

ia a nator falleay leading lo the

à À

Basement alaiza.

“Weich aay do you «ant to ga?”
You “Which way?”

“UP oc DOWN?”
Obrioualy ve hare lo choose “Joan -
but before ve de that
thece's just one move thing .. .

22. What otheraire may be mistaken fox broom-closels are Ihe door La aux first Lio dou,
also on either side of the main ent. You hare all been srom lo secrecy, 0.0

23. If you choose one of the
private dou, you have your
own batheoom-

But there's only one Ray

in oc out of the auite,

Lors axe A A
ders of both douma,

On each floor, the bathrooms
are color-coded
by the floor they xe on.

Ground floor bathxooma:
while aalh E While towel.

Outer Door w

Outer Door 4

24. basement!

25. Going down the vightfha
| rel of barenvent atepa,
you ll find yourrelf. in a
small t.2; area vith mare

yela marble & stucco wal
vith flagatone floors.

(as, there a. no time
to atop here and see

aus shows axe on,

26. J ul across rom

the foot of

<: À
Walk this way! the basement alepa
ia the door into

the gym.
With ita white bei:

Le

land a combination

St hos the chic,
exclusive feel of a
gym that only a
prisileged fer are

allowed into.

27. hat coordinados with the gy, | AND includes toi!

BE out toilet osatlabihty you shaoulan’t Gs just yal)

floor and white, patterned stucco walls.

28. Coming through the affice doorway, Re diacover, ia one Ray lo acces the kitchen.
With ita gold marble & stucco walls, ana flagatone floor, il coordinates with the 1.2. com.

29. {Passing through the kitchen doorway,
Bl) = tenon coma fall-civcle in the Basement
aa we enter the dining area.
She floor ia a mix of several culo
and kinds of stone; the walls are a combination

eg a

ose

30. as we land at the left-hand eleratow as wellas another left-hand staircase.
Shall ve meet on the second floor? We must - it’s the only day Lo continue aux towel

31. irst Floor Den/Study

bre f , 4 e a
Uf oe Computer Desk (Second Floor View) Computer Desk Elevator nl

MA mil

S D Bookcase E huir Bookegse & Chair tit
Toilet Toilet

6 HITS Lt Dua 15

J Toilet Showers Shee Toilet
® Dorm#5 A a Dorm#6

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Balcony
=
irst Floor

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32. *Dorm#5
*Toilet

loikerise, this ia the vien >

aa you come onto the landing
from climbing the left-hand ataica
to the second floor.

* dorm-doors hare been edited/ not piclured Lo
protect the i3entil of zandom students
currently staying Reve *

€ Tec ia the view

aa you exil the elevator and come
onto the second floor landing.

Thia floor ia subtly, tartefull,
color-coded green.

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34. As ath the fiat floor:
Re toilets Shomer sont

are color-coded green here:
. green aalls
“gra flou
* green tonel,
Shere ia green maxble in tro
semi-public toilets Lo being

sonlinuily ta the desiqu.
unifying them aith the gola marble accent-vall

35. With another tucn to the left re axcive al the vight-hand elerator!

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*Dobi#6
"Toilet

We're not going to board il juat yel Roweree-

there's one more area Left lo ace on this floor.

36. Tuening to the left once more brings ua full circle:

option to

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Titan tement us
from the second-floor to the tiza, should the elevator get bury ox break down,
Let's continue up to ree the third floor, shall ac? FU meet you there!

This should atact to feel familiar, ar though you ve acen il Before became you hare!

38. = *Sofa

*Bookcase
| Toilet

Computers(2) computers (2)
Cea (25

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(Third Toor View) ig

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*Shower,

Dorm#7 a 4 i
# FrontBalcony#1 FrontBalcony #2!
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Dorm#8

39. Tlece's a close-up ahot of the thica floor, from the front of the dorm.

40. In the center of the third floor balcony

silualeà belacen lao exterior Joor and behind the statue

isa second, smaller gym -aith an incredible vier

that’s far more conreniently located for those staying on the tied floor

41. No matter ahich Ray you enter from the front balcony

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1

there are laa more computers lo greel you, far a total of four an thie floor.

42. ur ; Pedi

Let's volun inside 00 Re can Ram up and de fl continue to look around.

43. Doan sither side of the computer coom $ cea Balcon Zoos ace hallaays aRich give access to:

(and tae tal pen cide,

There's not much that's noue for a Sim than having
“the urge” & Being on the third floor aith no toilet!

44. On the other end

of the hallaay,
just down from the

Private Bathroom

wading and oludy nooke Elevator

on either side É
Private Dorm
a Access Door
axe douns 7 & 8.

Ra vith Ihe ficat tro doums,

leve are
ae Private Dorm
(Roerer lesa aecrelive) Fa
douna which afro

come aith theit own Private Bathroom

rivale bathroome. 1) im
d ‘io: à MN

Shall we now ventarg to the roof?
Let's board the elevators for the last stop on this tour of Rothschild Dorm!

46. You've seen all there IS to see
of the transformation of Casteroff Dorm into
Rothschild Dorm!

If you climbed the stairs from floor to floor,
you got all of your steps in for today! ;-)

Thank gou for joining us on dorm-tour #9
at fleademie be Tour!

- Modelmgt