#the brio bachelor pad

[prince--thomas]

BDRPwrimo -- Day 22

Get together with your employees/coworkers and create a floorplan for your business! (If you don’t have a business, do your character’s house, make sure to do it with the people you live with!)

The Brio’s Bachelor Pad

Overview:

The Lad’s house is a 2 ½ bath, 3 bedroom house that was built in the 1970s sometime most likely. It has a lovely spacious back yard. Very typical house: wood floors, carpeted bedrooms. A good space for parties. There isn’t really anything special about it, which is kind of the point. I figured this would be a good house to layout for everyone, since we’ve held a few parties there, and probably will have more! Also, it was funny because a few weeks back we were discussing the layout and all three of us drew versions of it--and I used that as the basis for the final version! (Credit to Pet for all the awesome Sims pics!)

**note: pictures in the aesthetic are to give an overall #feel of the house, but don’t necessarily indicate the exact furniture/decorations/floorplan. the floorplan, on the otherhand is not quite to scale but i did the best i could.

@knightley--phillip​, @captain--john​

1. Living Room

The living room is a decent size, very normal. The one piece of “art” they have is a football banner. The couch has a lot of crumbs. The couch cushions slightly askew as well because they just fall all over it and Gilly will jump up there, especially when someone comes home and she is excited and wants pets. They have a massive telly, of course. There is one stain on the carpet in the living room that John has never been able to get out, so they moved the couch onto it so John didn’t have to stare at it anymore. The door to the right from this view is the coat closet (included because it’s where Jane and John were locked, lol.)  They also have a ping pong table which is like smack in the middle of the floor between the living room and the dining room. (Terrible.)

2. Dining Room

You can see where the keg is stood up here. Though, it’s normally put in the mud room between parties (though, it can sit out for a few days without anyone doing anything with it.) The table is pretty normal, but as you can see in the far corner, this is where Gilly’s food/water bowls are, because she eats with the boys whenever they are at the table. 

3. Kitchen

Phil has broken three coffee makers at this point. The window that they use as a makeshift bar (which you can see better in the above dining room picture) houses Phil’s beer can (and energy drink can!) pyramid most of the time, but they dismantle it every party so it can be reborn. The kitchen is actually kept decently clean, unless John hasn’t been home all day. Tom probably leaves out like mustard and ketchup from when he makes sandwiches all the time. Also, there is another keg, also stored away usually. Sometimes this one lives on the back porch too. 

4. Mudroom

Not very exciting, but we had some weird extra space so we gave them a mudroom. TBH -- they probably store some Order stuff in her amongst the kegs and the other random stuff they put in here.

5. Back Porch/Yard

The back porch! Of course they have those shitty fold up chairs instead of real porch furniture. Lots of space for Gilly to run about. Also, a grill, for when they have parties and such. 

6. John’s Room/Bathroom

John’s room is always ship shape with never a book nor drawer out of place. He doesn’t have much in the way of personalization side from a couple staged family holiday photos and one photo of his father shaking his hand at an award ceremony for completing training with high marks. He does however, have a four picture photo frame hanging on the wall with photos of him with each of his lads and two photos of them all together, grinning like as kids and also grinning as adults. On his dresser he has a large model ship that he completed because he was urged to find something that relaxed him (it didn’t really). On his desk, binders and books and various papers are neatly organized. In a locked drawer in his desk are hanging folders filled with Order information and various request and report forms. 

His bathroom is the same as his room, immaculate with only very few products. His medicine cabinet is even organized. His closet is organized from coats to jackets to dress shirts to short sleeved shirts to the various pants he has and racks for ties belts and even shoes are also found in there was well.

7. Tom’s Room

Tom hasn’t decorated much. He has photos on his dresser of his family and like one painting of a stormy sea and a lighthouse or some shit like that. One of his sisters picked it out for him and he’s toted it from place to place dutifully. His bed is actually always made (habit left over from the Navy) and his room is always clean because of the same reason. He actually doesn’t spend much time in his room. A lot of the time he sleeps over at the fire station while on shift. Even when he’s home, he hangs out mostly in the living room watching telly, or is outdoors until it is time to sleep.

Gilly’s bed is also in his bedroom, but she usually sleeps with him, unless he has Rose over or something. Then she is banished to the dog bed. :(

8. Tom and Phil’s Bathroom

Phil is the worst about not cleaning up after shaving. The toilet is kinda gross too. He picked out the shower curtain here though. Tom is actually rather neat, so he makes up for a lot of Phil’s grossness, but Phil’s grossness also doesn’t bother him, so he’ll clean if he knows he has someone coming over and will complain @ phil for not cleaning up after himself, but it doesn’t really bother him.

9. Phil’s Room

The bed is rarely made completely, though he’ll sometimes tug the comforter up. He does at least have a full bedsheet set, which he did pick out on his own, though he could stand to wash it more. The floor usually has a pile of laundry scattered around. Across from his bed is his desk, which is full of papers and books and notebooks. He also has a lone cactus on there, courtesy of Aurora, as well as a framed picture of his family from long ago (pre-Rosie’s death) and a picture of the three lads together. Hanging over the desk is an sketch of an old estate that he found in a thrift store bin. He decorates a little more than the other two – over his bed is a Pride U pennant and next to it a Kill Bill poster. He has a bookshelf in his room, with an ever growing collection. His dresser usually has shirts that he needs to put away – along with more books and some cologne and toiletry stuff because he does put effort into his appearance, thank you very much. Also has a trunk of stuff, also with books around.