Bayview Mobile Home Park

I grew up poor, bouncing from place to place with my parents, who struggled to hold jobs. When I was 7 they separated, and from there things got worse. I lived all over the place, from remote cabins with no running water to rundown suburban-outskirts shacks, the kind of borderland holdover that only stands out when towns begin to creep closer. At times we lived in trailer parks, and when we didn't, we often visited them. I have vivid memories of the flimsy walls, the springy floors, the thin carpet that was too old and worn to really have a color that could be named and identified.

I remember too the ways some people would try to beautify the space, lining their trailers with plants or replacing stairs and scrubbing windows. I remember how clean so many of the homes were inside, so desperately clean, as though cleanliness would make anything less shabby. I remember so many people collected crystal figures or even rocks - heavy things that felt out of place in a home that felt so fragile.

The base game doesn't have a lot of room for this kind of life. Even the cheaper things, cracked and peeling as they are, still look more at home in a designer showcase than they do inside a trailer home. More shabby chic than shabby that has been carefully preserved, since it's all you have. I struggled to try to capture the look of the places I remember, and I also didn't want to overload with clutter on such a big lot. So it's not quite right, but using base game items only, I worked to produce something with the spirit I remembered from my childhood. The floorplans are based on or inspired by real mobile home plans (the diamond-shaped trailer had pullout sides! I imagine it here made permanent) that showcase the strange divisions of rooms. The dedication to open living/dining/kitchen areas for the illusion of space; the insistence on multiple bathrooms even when it shrank the bedrooms. Those rooms, dense with humidity, the air wet, the walls too close. The way kids grew up too fast - girls who were still children rushing to put on makeup, to squeeze into tighter clothes, to be grown, because that was one of the only ways to have any agency. Choosing what was already inevitable made it at least feel like a choice.

The narrow spaces between trailers, and the way we pretended we couldn't see into each other's lives. The feeling of being alone but also never unseen.

Yes, this is definitely a sanitized version, clean and sparse, and much more "together" but I did what I could with repeated cabinetry and carpeting, though I think the end result is more "summer getaway" than everyday life. Expansions offer more options there, and CC too, so I left things pretty spare for anyone to use. Always room for more clutter.

In my head canon, things aren't quite what they seem. Posters were slipped out of magazines at the doctor's office - so lucky to be the first to open that one! Paintings were garage sale finds, or liberated from motels; just a picture of a landscape no one is connected to, existing only to fill a space otherwise empty.

The memories make me sad, but I am happy with this build, because it feels like a part of me shared with all of you. Available on the gallery under simulacrum_blds, though I think I'm going to redo with CC. There were so many times I wanted more options, but I enjoyed the challenge of the base game. We'll see. I really want to play through a game with this lot. I may make it the home for my first generational game.

surface (shadows) // #bayviewpark #concord #canadabay #ourlivingriver #paramattariver #nature #environment #naturephotography #winter #sydney #australia (at Bayview Park ferry wharf)

Just the view from the dock at Bayview Park in Pensacola at dusk! #pensacolabay #pensacola #pcola #bayviewpark #bayview #bay #water #dusk #calm #calming #relax #relaxing #nwfl #florida #floridalife #beachlife #beaches #fishing #fishingspot #fishingspots #nightsky #pensacolalife #pensacolavibes #pensacolapride #escambia (at Bayview Park , Pensacola Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxhwNYhj7Jw/?igshid=139qjwogsplnb

#港の見える丘公園 ー ー #山手異人館 #横浜 #bayviewpark #minatonomieruokapark #yokohama (Minato-No-Mieru Oka Koen)

New Bayviewpark 7 Piece Dining Set Latitude Run

New dining room set has been added on https://delanico.com/dining-room-sets/bayviewpark-7-piece-dining-set-latitude-run-gmlb1065/

Bayviewpark 7 Piece Dining Set Latitude Run

#diningroomsets #diningsets #diningfurniture

My poopies love the slide at sunset, Service Dogs they may not make? But my babies they will always be😍 #rescues #labrador #love #lbi #sunset #playground #bayviewpark #beachhaven #beachlife (at Beach Haven, LBI - NJ)

winter shade (crustaceans) // #winter #sydney #australia #naturephotography #environment #ourlivingriver #naturegram #coast #parramattariver #canadabay #bayviewpark #river #estuary #innerwest #wetlands (at Bayview Park ferry wharf)

My poopies love the slide at sunset, Service Dogs they may not make? But my babies they will always be😍 #rescues #labrador #love #lbi #sunset #playground #bayviewpark #beachhaven #beachlife (at Beach Haven, New Jersey)

Don't forget that this Saturday's MCC will be held at Bay View Park!  If you have never been to an MCC, don't worry! Your first is FREE! Join us at: 3500 South Lake Drive Milwaukee, WI 53235 https://g.co/maps/cqrdt