Crystal Creek High School: Redone!

Welcome to Crystal Creek High School, home of the Tigers!

Man, this took me entirely too long to do but I kept having to stop due to real life stuff. Anyway, last year sometime I had another high school that I used at the very beginning of my blogging days but once I started to get into blogging and taking better pics, that old high school wasn't cutting it anymore. It was too small and cramped and I couldn't really get nice pics in there. Hopefully this new and improved version will fit my needs.

Note: I apologize now for the craptastic lighting. I tried brightening some of the pics with photoshop. Click the pic if you want to enlarge it.

Here is a view down the main hallway. I have no idea how I ended up with orange being the school colors because I don't even care for orange other than on tigers. So that's why I chose the tigers as their mascot. This way down the hall takes you to the cafeteria, science classroom and gym.

Snaps of the cafeteria. I've changed the layout probably 4 times and I'll probably change it again. One time I had long tables, another time I had booths, another time I had a combination of those lol. I'm still not 100% satisfied with this set up but I'll keep it this way for this round at least.

Across the hall from the cafeteria is the science classroom. I showed part of the classroom in the Hu's last update.

Connected to the science classroom is a small greenroom for those career objects I completely forgot about.

Pics of the gym. I was going to make a workout room but decided not to. There were other things I wanted to add.

The bathrooms are pretty narrow so here's a top down view. Male and female bathrooms are identical with toilets, of course, shower stalls and lockers for their gym clothes.

And on the right when you enter the school (cafeteria and science classroom are to the left) there's an auditorium. I could have put the 2 or 3 additional classrooms I wanted in this space but I really wanted an auditorium. I may put on some plays, have graduation and have the principal give important announcements here.

There are 2 more bathrooms through that door in the back. I had to put those in because I didn't leave any room for bathrooms upstairs LOL. Thank goodness for cheats or my sims would be pretty ticked having to walk all the way downstairs to use the bathroom!

Outside, there is an area for activities. I have a soccer net there now but may switch it out occasionally for that obstacle course. I remember in my gym class we had fitness tests which I dreaded and while we didn't have an obstacle course to run, we had to run a mile around the track, do stretching exercises and other stuff which I blocked out. If I hated anything more than science in high school, it was gym... except volleyball, dodgeball or kickball. Oh and history. Didn't like history. And because I had to suffer through it, my sims will too lol.

There's also a little courtyard where the teens can hang out during lunch or before/after school. Or during class... whatever lol.

Moving on. Here's a top down view (which got a little stretched because I haven't found my old camera mod). If you couldn't tell, all the landscaping was done by yours truly. Landscaping for me equals using the same 3 or 4 plants along the edges of buildings and sidewalks ;).

Going upstairs, the hallway looks just like the one downstairs but up here we have the trophy case. The town hopes they can bring home a gold trophy one of these years ;).

Up the stairs on the left, we have the library, art classroom, counselor's office and principal's office.

First up, the library with built in computer lab and work stations.

Next is the art classroom.

Here is the counselor's office. I downloaded the Counseling Psychology career from Pine Hollow (thanks Shana!) and one of the levels is school counselor, so I decided to make an office for the sim whenever I find one who will fit in that career. It'll most likely be empty for a while but some lucky teacher can use it for now. Teens that are 15 years old can find job postings in the counselor's office, too.

Through the teacher/counselor's office is the principal's office.

At the other end of the hall, we have geography class, literature class and workshop. First up, geography.

Literature class. *thanks Carla for your chalkboard recolors!*

And lastly, workshop.

Top down view of the second floor.

Hope you enjoyed the tour! Feel free to ask where I got stuff. I'll try to track it down for ya.

*fingers crossed that the game doesn't implode once I get a bunch of hyperactive teens running around in it*

Notes:
-The design of the high school was inspired by the American High School made by twoflower at MTS. That one was way too big for me and I don't like some of the building cheats used so I just rebuilt it.