From the Serenity Point news bulletin:
In the mid-1800s, the Japanese government hired a European firm to build lighthouses to make the waters around Japan safe for shipping. The lighthouses built near the end of the 19th century were European in design while the lighthouses built in Japan before this contract tended to be traditional Japanese architecture and smaller.
Needing a lighthouse for our growing community, the Serenity Point town government has decided to pay homage to the traditional Japanese lighthouse with the unveiling of Hachimenreirou Toudai (Serenity Lighthouse). This lighthouse has been constructed on Asian Cliff overlooking the main town. A traditional-style yet updated home has been constructed with it so that the lighthouse keeper may live in comfort and stay rested and focused on this important job. As a lot that will be open to tourists and a showcase to visitors, the home is larger than others in Serenity Point with room for entertaining guests and completing needed repairs.
While intended to honor the asian members of our community, delight all townspeople and to teach visitors about the history lighthouses and of Serenity Point, this lighthouse will still be fully functional and will protect both the town and passing ships by keeping us all a safe distance apart.
Special Features:
- The lighthouse beam effect in the top floor of the lighthouse is enabled and disabled by a floor switch that is supposed to look like the sim is bending down to pull the lever next to it.
- The top floor also has emergency flares (fireworks) and a telescope for viewing distant ships.
- All sinks (home and lighthouse) have been upgraded to self-cleaning and the tv in the home is unbreakable.
- The living room in the house is sunken.
- The lighthouse has its own bathroom and bedroom as well as various activities for both the lighthouse keeper and tourists.
- There is also an area outside the home intended for repairing lighthouse gadgets. It has an inventing bench.
The design for Hachimenreirou Toudai was based on the old Shirasu Lighthouse and on Tomonoura Port.
If anyone would like to read about the project to build lighthouses in Japan, here's the link to the wiki page on Richard Brunton. Until I found a page that linked to this information, I wondered why old and new Japanese lighthouses were so incredibly different in design and decoration.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Henry_Brunton
Lighthouse and Asian Culture Study Area
Asian Activities to Entertain Guests
Screenshots of the home:
Birds Eye View (top floor to bottom):
Download link: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=4113793
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It's lovely Gouka!
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