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A special little project we cooked for you ! 🖤

A while back, @anxiousarchitect approached me about turning some of my pictures into in-game art. I had no idea it would turn into a full-blown collaborative project, but I'm so glad it did! Today, we're releasing a set of 10 decennial portraits to adorn your walls (for an appropriately devilish sum, of course), and we're hoping this is just the first in a series of vampy art to come.

I've had the idea of finishing this portrait collection in the back of my mind for a long time, and with Sarah's help it's finally happened! I created all the portraits, including three which are as yet unseen, and she edited and fit them to best suit the frame. Vampires is required for the mesh. It's quite large by default, but it also looks great sized down. The three new swatches are meant to be a fun little surprise if you put these in your game, but I'll also be revealing them in their full glory very soon! Thank you again to @anxiousarchitect for working with me to bring these to life. 🖤

TOU: Please do not alter the images used for these paintings without express permission or redistribute behind a paywall for any reason. Please do feel free to tag us if you use them; we'd love to see!

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Hi, I just discovered your attempt to recreate Spellman Mortuary (this one: SPELLMAN MORTUARY - CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA’S HOUSE IN THE SIMS 4 ) and I was wondering if the video you've mentioned at the end of the article is available, because I love how you did it and would love to try to recreate it.

Hi there ! 🌟 I haven't made a video showcase for the house yet, but if it helps you can find the downloadable version of the house I made here : https://anxiousarchitect.tumblr.com/post/763804296803467264/the-spellman-mortuary-light-cc-v1 Happy simming !

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Hey, can we download Sabrina’s house from the gallery yet? I can’t seem to find it? Thank you!

Hello there ! The house isn’t on the gallery, but you can find it on my downloads category 😊

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I've rarely seen a more validating sentence in my entire life.

[anxiousarchitect]

Welcome, night wanderer. I'm a french/queer/neurospicy/insomniac ghoul (and occasionnal TS4 creator) with a unexplainable love for lore and pixelleted architecture, as well as a recovering CC-addict. Slowly shifting to Maxis Match ✨ My favourite things to make are spooky builds with backstories, retextures, art and cinema replicas. I sometimes disappear for months and then reappear and publish something...so don't let yourself be fooled by the appearance of inactivity ! The ghoul always lurks near 👻 Right now I'm hyperfixating on Forgotten Hollow lore and sims makeovers, expect future related content ! Also I don't usually do mature content but hey, why not - and things can get pretty occult here though, i warn you.

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My content will ALWAYS, always be free. I have a Patreon but that's only if you want to reduce my productivity-related anxiety and offer some creativity fuel 💜

Do whatever you want with my content as long as you credit me and don't put behind paywalls. I WILL GET ANGRY IF YOU DO

Requests are currently open because It's inspiring to build for others from time to time. Ask away and we'll see if your projects sparks my interest !

Be nice and spread the love.

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The Spellman Mortuary (Light CC) - V.1

I did promised I would share this lot, didn't I ? Now then : the house is playable, but isn't 100% furnished and polished. I have many projects for this lot, but that involves more time than I currently have, so in the meantime I'm sharing with you this first version. Expect updates !

LOT INFORMATION :

Size : 50x40 Original location : Copperdale CC included with this lot : My Rêverie Macabre set, my John Bauer Set, and a few new creations I made for this lot. CC !NOT! included with this lot, and required : - Vintage phone by Around the Sims - Vintage sewing machine by Around the Sims - Grandma stairs by kirsicca - Jaipur fringed rugs by Brazenlotus - Solid colors candles by Brazenlotus - Pillow Galore Collection by simsi45 - Vintage gramophone by Lonelyboy - Buncha books by Magnolian Farewell - Single candle holder by plasticbox - Fanciful dome by Ruby Bird - Magic tomes and spell tomes by myshunosun - Simmify speaker and stack of LP by myshunosun - Lamps of many hats by Kris - Brick fireplace by silverhammersims - Scallop firescreen by mycupofcc - Skelly planter by Nolan-Sims - Tassle lamps, Botanical wall art by Anachrosims - Spring and sparrow double bed by faded-springs - Gently draping lace curtains by Peacemaker - Dark academia wall art by Sims4Luxury (sorry, just realized it was curseforge, feel free to pass on that one, i'll replace it asap) - OMSP Shelf by amoebae - Vampire lamps recolour by amoebae - Divinify tarot cards by MADLEN - Palm reader from the Drifter's Wonders set by Jools - Cottage windows by Severinka (a recolour is included in the lot file) Recommanded : Photographic memory by Ravasheen, if you want the polaroids in Sabrina's bedroom.

Future projects for this lot : finishing the furnishing, polishing everything up, making new CAOS CC, writing an article on this house, making a partnership with Lisa Soper (a girl can dream, right ?)

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John Bauer - Art Set

In my endeavor to recreate the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina's house in TS4, I brought some of 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐮𝐞𝐫's art into the game - as it ornates many walls of the set. I'm a big admirer of his work, and I needed the vintage/fairytale touch ! The set contains 4 different frame style and plenty of swatches each. I tried to represent the diversity and onirism of Bauer's art. Hope you like it ! Base Game Compatible.

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Surprise coming soon...

Hello my lovely friends of the night. I'm here to say that I heard you, and I'm currently reworking the Spellman Mortuary lot to make it available to the public. Yay ! The final lot with be lighter on CC and more alike the original - I am right now doing massive researches to track art, wallpapers, details used on set... to get the house JUST RIGHT because I'm C.R.A.Z.Y. A few of you asked for the shell version of this lot, but I won't be sharing it right now, as I'd like to offer you the fully furnished version of the house instead. Please bear with me a little longer ! See you soon, and praise Satan 🦇 !

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House of Voodoo - A CC collection

I finally re-worked my House of Voodoo set ! In the process of remaking my Voodoo shop lot, I got inspired to make some new recolours to decorate the lot and give you more voodoo/vodou original content. This set is required for the lot to function as intended.

Set info & Download ⬇

This is a set of 7 objects (recolours only).

- 1. Powerful religious figures portrait. 10  swatches. I think you need Living Together for that one. I’m working on more swatches, stay tuned ! - 2. Vodou flags/drapo. 10 swatches. Pretty sure it’s BGC.. - 3. Vodou posters. 10 swatches. Requires University! These are the ones you can spot on the shop’s wall ! - 4. The Book of Voodou. This is a bit of an experiment, I wanted to try myself at retexture non-flat objects. MESH REQUIRED *find it here* (you only need the botanical book open book) - 5. Entrance sign (’Strange gods, strange altars’). Base game compatible. - 6. Marie Laveau’s shop neon sign. Requires City Living ! also it’s a bit big but ya know, just shrink it. It’s not perfect especially when it lights up at night but I like it the feeling of it! - 7. Vévé (traditionnal Vodou sigil). Requires Realm of Magic! 5 swatch, find it under ‘rugs’. I’m working on more swatches ! I’m also trying to transform it into a meditation spot, if anyone knows how to do that...

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Rêverie Macabre - A dark academia set of paintings

This is my come back on tumblr! I'm a bit late, but let's say it's a late Simblreen gift from me to you! I use lotusplum's Reverie Paintings very often but I wanted something a bit moodier for a lot that I'm working on, so I went on and creating this one. I plan to add more swatches in the future ! Hope it gets you in the mood for the dark season. Enjoy !

ABOUT THIS SET : · 20 swatches : 10 with a brown frame, 10 with a gold frame. · All recolors, mesh is from Maxis. · Fully base game compat....wait, i'm not so sure. You may or may not need Live Together for that one. Sorry, I'll check this out. All of this paintings are normally in public domain, which make it safe to share. PREVIEW : -sorry these are poor quality images-not representative of how the set looks ingame-hey this is just a preview after all-

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Moving forward...

Hello fair people of Tumblr ! I took a little (long) break from the Sims 4, I also mod for Skyrim and tend to alternate my obsession between those two games 😅 Anyway, I apologize to everyone for not publishing links for my builds. The way I play the Sims shifted, I changed computer, and I now use way less CC (if not at all) ; plus it was a HUGE work to track down all the CC I used for builds and I simply don’t have time for it. I’d love to focus on new builds now (which you’ll be able to DL this time), so there won’t be any new updates for my previous builds. Sorry ! The CC will remain online on SFS though. THAT SAID, due to popular demands I might work on a new version of the Spellman Mortuary at some point, still true to the original, but with much, much less CC. Some of you asked for the unfurnished version of the house, I might release that as well in the meantime. I can’t promise anything, but I’ll do my best. Maybe I’ll do the same for the voodoo shop at some point but I have other plans for now ! Take care and keep simming. See you soon !

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Marie Laveau’s House of Voodoo (With CC)

Hello lovelies. Due to popular request, I share with you today one of my favourite lot : the House of Voodoo. To build this little shop, I got inspired by the real Marie Laveau’s in Bourbon Street, New Orleans. It is not a replica, but I tried to reproduce the atmosphere while creating a functionnal, aesthetical space in the meantime. Enjoy !

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⚠ Important Disclaimer : I am not a vodou practitionner nor am I ethnically connected to or from a lineage of vodou practitionner (as far as I’m aware). I’m just a french lady witch interested in all religions, myth and folklore around the world. However, I tried to educate myself as much as possible as I was building the lot, to make sure I was being respectful to Vodou -and other related religions/practices like Hoodoo - culture and history, and wasn’t perpetuating any offensive clichés - while keeping the lot visually fun. My goal was only to celebrate New Orleans culture and Vodou, and maybe get you interested in learning more about it, as it is a very complex and incredibly interesting topic ! Also, I understand there are different spellings for “vodou”, not necessarily meaning the same thing everytime. For the lot, I chose “voodoo” as it is the actual name of the shop that inspired me, but I used “vodou” for everything else. To all vodou practitionner/New Orleans natives out there, please let me know if you find my content inappropriate or offensive, and I will correct it ASAP. 🌷

LOT INFORMATION

Lot size : 30x20 (shop) Original location : Willow Creek

CC required: - From me : The House of Voodoo Set - From other creators : Get the full list here ! PS : As I was reworking the shop I remade some of the rooms, so it won’t exactly look like in the picture. But I didn’t change too much though, don’t worry. I’m too lazy to take new pictures though......

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SPELLMAN MORTUARY - Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’s house in the Sims 4

[DOWNLOAD THE NEW VERSION OF THE HOUSE HERE]

This is my first post ! Yay !! Let’s be honest. After season 2, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina started to be...weird. But the show had some amazing sets like the Spellman Mortuary, that I decided to reproduce in the Sims 4 !  I like to dive into the history and symbolic of movie sets so we’ll have a little chat about this too.

The mortuary

The original house set is amazing and full of details, art, symbolic and occult secrets. It’s a perfect vintage Halloween decor, with it’s granny chic and spooky vibe, and all the vibrant, dark colors.

The interior of the house is a labyrinthic set of rooms inspired by the notorious Winchester haunted house in San Jose as well as H.P Lovecraft aesthetic. The exterior in particular was inspired by the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion, a gabled house in Salem, Massachusetts, also known as the ‘House of Seven Gables’ in the Nathaniel Hawthorne’s book.

The set was created by Lisa Soper, a real-life pagan who infused the house with her magic. She was born on Halloween, which is just one of the many coincidences she ran into while working on the house. She indeed put a lot of her personal power in it like a protection spell on the house, calming sigils, carved runes... You can read more about this there, there, or there.

Exterior at night - the fog of Forgotten Hollow suits the house perfectly !

The mortuary itself was built for the show and the exterior doesn’t exactly match the interior sets (which are bigger), which makes it impossible to reproduce it perfectly in game. I had to make some sacrifice to keep the exterior look close to the original, like reducing the size of the kitchen and add some rooms.

The house was built in a shape of a spiral (every room you enter leads to the next one) and get more magical and magical as you go deep into the house.

I wanted to get as similar as possible to the original to make it a truly witchy place, even in the Sims. In every room in the set we can find several pieces of occult  and fantasy art which participates a lot to the atmosphere. I reproduced some of them like the big Francisco Goya’s painting above the fireplace in the living room. We can also spot a lot of John Bauer’s paintings, or other famous artists.

The main hall

The entrance was a challenge because of the stairs. It was hard to make and I used multiple platforms and modular stairs to get the feeling right. The decor crew said they wanted to represent the choice between the mortal world and the magical world that Sabrina must face, and made the stairs split in two to represent the two possible options. 

 In here we can see a representation of the medieval tapestry “Unicorn in captivity” that we can also see in Harry Potter in the Gryffindor’s common room. There’s also a lot of art in this hall but we don’t see the details of all of them, so I chose some pictural representation of famous witches like Circe, Medea or Morgan le Fey.

Zelda and Hilda’s office

The office is where the ants receive customers (and also where my sims go to play on the computer when they’re bored). Zelda and Hilda share a chair here. Lisa Soper said that she had a theory about them being siamese twins in the past, which also explains why they sleep in twin beds. We can spot two John Bauer’s painting in it, as much as multiple death-related objects, like old urns, and the amazing auntie’s metronomes. I couldn’t get it for the game, but here’s a picture from Tv Addict.

Foyer

This is probably my favourite room. It’s so inconic and there’s just so many different things to see in it.  I think the multiple doors make it the true magical center of the house. The wallpaper is actually a representation of the Gibson Girls. The main painting is Francisco Goya’s ‘El Aquelarre’ (The Ritual). Satan is everywhere in the house as we will see ! On the left of the painting there’s a John William Waterhouse painting of Medea that I added. I love the vintage TV and obviously the wonderful Tiffany lamp. In the original set, there’s a big stained glass ceiling which is a nod to the 1978 horror movie ‘Suspiria’. Obviously it was impossible to reproduce it in game, which is sad !

Conservatory

It’s too bad that we don’t see more of this room in the show as it is beautiful. It was hard to reproduce, I wanted to get that lush, vegetal, oppressive feeling as if you were in the forest - which is hard to do in the Sims if you don’t want to overwhelm a room and keep space for you sims to walk. This is a place where the Spellman keep some magical herbs, and even if we don’t really see it in the show there’s a cute reproduction of a Baby Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors.

Kitchen

The kitchen is full of plants and jars, like a proper witch’s kitchen. This is where Hilda spends most of her time cooking. The room is divided in two parts and has quite a symetric vibe, which might be another metaphor for Sabrina’s difficult choice. There’s a lot of porcelain and rabbit imagery in it, which is the Spellman’s totem ! It represents both innocence and fragility as much as witchcraft and occult mysteries, which is a perfect choice in my opinion.

There’s a small potion cabinet next to the kitchen. In the original set, there are real potion ingredients that Lisa Soper created herself or got from her own personnal collection.

Living-room

This is the big living room, where the Spellman came to celebrate Yule. Its main color is yellow, a symbol of cuningness and wisdom, and the original chinoiserie wallpaper in the set is incredibly beautiful and looks like the garden of Eden. We can even see an apple tree near the left exit, maybe to remind us of the episode of the Genesis where Satan tempted Eve. Maye the fruit of knowledge is a metaphor for witchcraft ?

The shoe corridor

In the show we don’t see this corridor very much, but it’s very, very cool. There’s a collection of shoes here that holds one of Zelda’s secret. Everytime she puts a hex on someone, she steals the shoe of her victim and put it here to keep the hex going (or maybe as a trophee !). There’s a beautiful nature’s themed wallpaper, with trees and pines all over (mine is quite plain, helas).

Zelda and Hilda’s bedroom

In the show, there’s two luxurious and beautiful victorian lamps in this bedroom. Two bad I couldn’t get some as pretty for the game... The dominant color of this room is blue and purple. Lisa Soper said every character had his color, a symbol of his personnality. Blue is for Hilda, as she’s a gentle and calming creature, and purple for Zelda, which shows her mystical traits and her strict personnality. There’s also a John Bauer’s painting in this room, an illustration of the fairy tale ‘Coronation of the Sea Queen’. It would be interesting to study the links that can be established between this tale and the personnality of the sisters.

Sabrina’s bedroom

This is my second favourite room ! The original bedroom is a perfect teen witch fantasy, and have a less antique feeling than the rest of the house, probably to express youth and passion. 

Even if the shows deliberately doesn’t tell in which years it all takes place, there’s a big 70′s and 80′s vibe in Sabrina’s room with horror movies posters (like Nosferatu or Häxan), pictures of musicians like David Bowie, the Beatles,The Monkeys...but it is indeed the bedroom of a young witch, and we can see magical artefacts here and there, like tarot cards on the mirror, Henry Fuseli’s Weird Sisters on the wall, and of course, rabbits. 

The bedroom’s color is mostly red and white, the two Sabrina’s color. They represent her dual nature, as innocent and pure as she’s fierce and dangerous. The doll’s house that we can see on the show is actually a miniature of the set, and contains a replica of Sabrina’s bedroom. It’s a nice touch and suggests, like the spiral shape of the house and the many doors in the foyer, some kind of a neverending place where we can only go deeper and deeper... Later in the show the two mirrors also reveals itself as portals to other worlds. 

 There’s a very cropped version of a John Bauer’s painting near Sabrina’s bed call ‘Inge by the Dark Lake’, a beautiful alias to the Narcissus myth, which adds to the mirror symbolic as a door to the unconscious, magical worlds and identity. I wanted to get the “under the roof” feeling right, so I made my own wallpaper to get the “old red” color and retexture the ceiling decor to match.

Sabrina’s bathroom

Who never dreamt to have its own bathroom next to the bedroom ? Sabrina has the most beautiful one. This is where she actually cooks a lot of different spells including the one she casts on her boyfriends ! The bathtub itself is glorious and has this kind of sensual, dramatic atmosphere.

Ambrose’s attic

This was a pain in the a** to build, because of the mess and all the objects ! But it’s a beautiful attic in the set, I especially like the booknerd feeling in it. It was designed like a onion, with multiple layers of objects from different era, to show how long Ambrose have been stuck in here and accumulated stuff ! It’s much more messy than Sabrina’s bedroom, because Ambrose is more of a crazy scientist and hippie.

Other rooms

There’s more little rooms a little bit everywhere like the morgue and a red entrance in the back where we can see John Waterhouse’s ‘Magic Circle’ (also sometimes in Sabrina’s bedroom or in the kitchen), and also more bathrooms since logically nobody else than Sabrina uses Sabrina’s. I’ll showcase the whole house in a video when I have time ! Well, here it is !! Thank you for reading this long article, I hope you enjoyed this discovery of Spellman’s mortuary. I really fell in love with this house, there’s truly something fascinating about it and it’s really cool to play in it.