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Computer models of an early 1900s working class house

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Sims model of the outside of a working class Victorian/Edwardian British house, created by 'Missroxor' and influenced by childhood recollections described on http://www.1900s.org.uk/ 1900s-victorian-terraces.htm, small image

The house - influenced by the webpage 'housing estate'

Sims model of the outside of a working class Victorian/Edwardian British house, created by 'Missroxor' and influenced by childhood recollections described on http://www.1900s.org.uk/ 1900s-victorian-terraces.htm

Sims model of a working class Victorian/Edwardian British parlour, created by 'Missroxor' and influenced by childhood recollections described on http://www.1900s.org.uk/1900s-parlour.htm, small

Parlour - influenced by the webpage 'parlour'

Sims model of a working class Victorian/Edwardian British parlour, created by 'Missroxor' and influenced by childhood recollections described on http://www.1900s.org.uk/1900s-parlour.htm

Sims model of a working class Victorian/Edwardian British scullery, created by 'Missroxor' and influenced by childhood recollections described on http://www.1900s.org.uk/ 1900s-scullery.htm, small image

Scullery - influenced by the webpage 'scullery'

Sims model of a working class Victorian/Edwardian British scullery, created by 'Missroxor' and influenced by childhood recollections described on http://www.1900s.org.uk/ 1900s-scullery.htm

Sims model of a working class Victorian/Edwardian British kitchen, created by 'Missroxor' and influenced by childhood recollections described on http://www.1900s.org.uk/ 1900s-kitchen.htm, small image

Kitchen - influenced by the webpage 'kitchen'

Sims model of a working class Victorian/Edwardian British kitchen, created by 'Missroxor' and influenced by childhood recollections described on http://www.1900s.org.uk/ 1900s-kitchen.htm

The Sims 3 is a simulation computer game with simulated people and surroundings, and Mod The Sims is one of the largest Sims sites which provides help and free downloads so that visitors can create their own Sims models.

'Missroxor' - not her real name - chose to use the Sims resources and the Victorian/Edwardian house floor plans and room descriptions on this site to model a typical Victorian/Edwardian working class home.

For the reasons given in the box below, she acknowledges that there is not a perfect correspondence between the models and the rooms as described here by my mother. Nevertheless, her models do give additional insights into what living at home was like for ordinary British people in Victorian and Edwardian times. So I asked permission to show them here, and am delighted that she agreed.

She asked that the following information be displayed alongside the models.

The models do not exactly follow the descriptions and illustrations in the 1900s site for the following reasons:

  • The competition for which the models were designed required that the house had to be functional for the Sims people, which meant I had to include some things that wouldn't have existed in the early 1900s, such as the record player.

  • There was a strict deadline for the competition, so I could not finish the upstairs - and sadly, as my computer has now lost my work, I can't now do it.

  • Limitations of the decor and build tools provided by The Sims 3 meant that I had to substitute some things described and annotated in the 1900s site with things more readily available in the game.

  • I had to use artistic licence for the decor.

See: http://nene.modthesims.info/showpost.php?p=3333987&postcount=339

                                                   Missroxor

Sims model of a working class Victorian/Edwardian British bedroom, created by 'Missroxor' and influenced by childhood recollections described on http://www.1900s.org.uk/ 1900s-bedroom.htm, small image

Sims model of a working class Victorian/Edwardian British bedroom, created by 'Missroxor' and influenced by childhood recollections described on http://www.1900s.org.uk/ 1900s-bedroom.htm

Bedroom - influenced by the webpage 'bedroom'

Sims model of a working class Victorian/Edwardian British bathroom / offroom, created by 'Missroxor' and influenced by childhood recollections described on http://www.1900s.org.uk/ 1900s-bathtimes.htm#bathroom, small image

Sims model of a working class Victorian/Edwardian British bathroom / offroom, created by 'Missroxor' and influenced by childhood recollections described on http://www.1900s.org.uk/ 1900s-bathtimes.htm#bathroom.

Bathroom - influenced by the webpage 'washing facilities'

Sims model of a working class Victorian/Edwardian British washing alcove, created by 'Missroxor' and influenced by childhood recollections described on http://www.1900s.org.uk/ 1900s-bathtimes.htm#washing, small image

Sims model of a working class Victorian/Edwardian British washing alcove, created by 'Missroxor' and influenced by childhood recollections described on http://www.1900s.org.uk/ 1900s-bathtimes.htm#washing

Scullery alcove - influenced by the webpage 'scullery'

Sims model of a working class Victorian/Edwardian British garden shed, created by 'Missroxor' and influenced by childhood recollections described on http://www.1900s.org.uk/ 1900s-back-garden.htm#shed, small image

Sims model of a working class Victorian/Edwardian British garden shed, created by 'Missroxor' and influenced by childhood recollections described on http://www.1900s.org.uk/ 1900s-back-garden.htm#shed

Garden shed - influenced by the webpage 'garden shed'

Sims model of a working class Victorian/Edwardian British back yard, created by 'Missroxor' and influenced by childhood recollections described on http://www.1900s.org.uk/back-garden.htm, small image

Sims model of a working class Victorian/Edwardian British back yard, created by 'Missroxor' and influenced by childhood recollections described on http://www.1900s.org.uk/back-garden.htm

Back yard - influenced by the webpage 'back yard'

Sims model of a working class Victorian/Edwardian British lavatory, created by 'Missroxor' and influenced by childhood recollections described on http://www.1900s.org.uk/ 1900s-lavatories.htm, small image

Sims model of a working class Victorian/Edwardian British lavatory, created by 'Missroxor' and influenced by childhood recollections described on http://www.1900s.org.uk/ 1900s-lavatories.htm

Loo - influenced by the webpage 'outside lavatory'

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The 1940s and 1950s are also written as the 1940's and 1950's.

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