Tour of Dunnavant Mansion

Here is the servants’ hallway. The various doors lead to the kitchen, bathroom, nursery, nanny’s room, and dining room.

Dunnavant Mansion

On to the nursery!

Here’s the youngest Dunnavant, Carlyle, entertaining his best friend, Teddy Bear (not to be confused with Charles’s best friend, Teddy Fonnesbeck).

Dunnavant Mansion

Sidenote: For many years the Dunnavants couldn’t have children, and they didn’t expect that to change when they moved to Annabel Island…but it did. Could it be the island’s so-called “magical” properties? Or did the Dunnavants just luck out finally? No one knows. But they have three healthy children now – Lucas, Phoebe, and Carlyle (you can see Phoebe standing in the sunroom in the opening pic).

Lucas and Phoebe are troublemakers, but Carlyle’s a little sweetie.

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The children are very close to their nanny, Miss Emily Trescott, who went to a picnic in the park for her day off. When she’s home, however, she stays in this room, which is right next to the nursery:

Dunnavant Mansion

A back stairway leads up to the other servants’ quarters and the bedrooms of the Dunnavant family. First up is Dr. D’s room:

Dunnavant Mansion

He doesn’t spend too much time in there, but he does like to go out onto the balcony in the morning and inhale the fresh sea air. (In his pajamas. Sometimes he even shouts, “I’m the king of the world!”)

The Mr. and Mrs. share a bathroom which isn’t accessible to anyone else. This allows them to meet in each other’s rooms for, um, quiet conversation. Here is Mrs. D’s bedchamber:

Dunnavant Mansion

She has her own little foyer and dressing area, just for kicks:

Dunnavant Mansion

(Lily is a sweet lady, bless her, but she is quite spoiled. And she was so happy to finally have children that she’s spoiling them as well.)

Speaking of the children, here is the room that Phoebe and Lucas share:

Dunnavant Mansion

And here are some bird’s eye views of the whole shebang:

Dunnavant Mansion

Dunnavant Mansion

Thus concludes our tour of the Dunnavant mansion. Next up: something smaller!

NOTE: I’ve created an Annabel Island Credits page which lists the custom content I’m using in this ‘hood. Since I’ll be using a lot of the same items over and over, I figured this would be easiest. I have literally thousands of pieces of CC – I bet I used at least a couple hundred in the Dunnavant Mansion alone. If you’re looking for anything specifically and the credits page isn’t helping, feel free to ask in the comments, and I’ll do my best to help. A huge thank you to all of the custom content creators! Without you, Annabel Island wouldn’t be possible. Seriously.

24 thoughts on “Tour of Dunnavant Mansion

  1. Wow … this house is BIG! And it’s got so much DETAIL in it!! It certainly is something wonderful to look at and explore. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could step through our computer monitors to check it out?! I think it would be neat to wander around. Great job!!!

  2. Holy SMOKES! That is AMAZING WORK. Does your lot lag a lot when you play on it?

    I love your ability to make amazing houses. That really is a wonderful mansion!

  3. Wow! Truly beautiful, very very nice. I know what you mean about a fully cluterized house though. I finally had to move out a family in one of mind :(.

    The house itself is a marvel too though!

  4. I think these are some of the, if not the prettiest pictures you’ve ever taken. And you know what a fan I am of your shots, Jen! My jaw literally dropped at the intro one, if you give it a bit of cloth roughness and add a frame it’d look like a perfect Victorian-era painting. Too gorgeous! @.@

  5. ((faints))

    ((wakes up and fans self))

    My GOODNESS! That is GORGEOUS… W-O-W! I am in awe, envy, and all sorts of things right now. I wish I could build things like that.

    Truly a sims 2 masterpiece. Dang.

  6. OMG!!! JEN THAT HOUSE IS AMAZING! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! WOW! THIS WAS SO WORTH THE WAIT!

  7. Wow Jen, you’ve outdone yourself. This house is amazing! It is gorgeous, the CC is absolutely awesome!

  8. That is the largest and most realistic house I’ve ever seen in the Sims! Way to go Jen! I bet it is so much fun to play!! I’m so jealous! I can’t wait to see Annabelle Island in action!

  9. Oh, goodness! What a house! Everything is so gorgeous.. and so much detail put into the decorating. Although I hear you on the clutter. I think my computer groaned just /thinking/ about having to load that sort of lot, haha. :D

  10. Jen! That’s GORGEOUS. Of course you’ve never built a house that is anything less, but I sit gaping at every last detail. WOW. Then Dunnavants are very fortunate to have you as their architect and interior designer. Thank you so much for showing us around their beautiful house. I love the joined Master and Mrs. bedrooms. It’s all so splendid and perfect to the last detail. So. When will it be on the cover of Sim Living magazine???

  11. Sometimes I wonder if people just make CC for you, everything always looks just PERFECT in your homes. The opening picture *floored* me when I first saw it, the rest, Whoa. ’nuff said.

  12. Wow, Jen! That house is amazing! I love all the stuff you used. It’s beautiful. Great job & thank you for sharing it with us!

  13. How beautiful :O

    And they have children now!!! JIPPIE!! :P

    A little question: is Annabel Island also going to become more modern over time??

  14. Their kids are just oh-so adorable! (Ok, I haven’t really seen them properly yet but I EXPECT they’ll be adorable, lol).
    Also, the mansion is gorgeous! It just goes to show how awesome a building can look with some carefully-selected CC and a good layout. But then again, your homes are always lovely! :D
    Thank you for sharing Dunnavant Mansion with us! I wonder what you’ll show us next?!

  15. You really have outdone yourself, Jen. The house is fabulous! Exactly what I think a Victorian mansion should look like. You have the luckiest simmies!

  16. That was supremly awesome. Seriously.

    I bet Miss Hope Krenzer left duu to the kids, and the Dunnavants had a glitch before that wouldn’t allow them to have kids.

  17. This house is AWESOME! That’s the coolest house you’ve ever made! Well maybe. The other’s are pretty impressive too.
    I was just wondering…When is the next umm “sim” update going to be? I mean like the progress of families or Fran diaries…Just Wondering ;) No pressure! HEHE

  18. Ooh another question. There’s this outfit on poison pink lemons with a white tunic and jean short shorts…but the mesh doesn’t seem to be included in the download so can anyone tell me what it is?

  19. Hi. wow I love what you’ve done with this house. it certianatly suits this family.

    Keep Simming!

    See ya.

  20. Jen, this is truelly a state of the art house you’ve build! It looks beautifull, almost a shame to declutter it again, don’t you think. I love the detail you put into your buildings a lot. I hope I’ll have the patience one day to put so much time into a house…

  21. I went on vacation for a week and it looks like you’ve been hard at work over here! Great job, Jen! I love the look of the mansion!

  22. Wow Jen! I am officially totally and utterly impressed. This is awesome! I am so excited that you are back Annabel islanding… I was really missing those guys.