18th Century Firescreen
Recently I was thinking about a new firescreen, and I was looking at historic screens - photos, drawings, paintings etc. There was an unusual shape I saw a couple of times, and thought about how I could make one for The Sims.
AnniQ made this shaped frame for a painting quite a while ago, and it's pretty similar to the shape I was looking for; so, I was determined to try make it into a firescreen!
It took a lot more effort than I hoped, because the frame is very high poly - and in trying to reduce this, the quality of the shape of the frame kept being compromised.
I finally settled on how I wanted the mesh to look, and started on designs.
I found two resources of 18th century fabric, which may been used for screens at the time.
The first was a set of a variety of different fabrics; the other was a damask pattern, but in a number of different colours/shades.
Then, I wanted a little variety of the frame colour - so I settled on ones that I thought would fit in different rooms - light and dark.
Each design has four frames: gold, light brown, dark brown, and white.
The first screen has 9 different designs - so a total of 36 swatches; and, the second screen has 10 different shades of damask - so a total of 40 swatches.
I hope you like these!!!! Remember you can make things bigger or smaller using the "[" and "]" keys on your keyboard - so they should sit well with bigger or smaller fireplaces 😉
If you like, you can find AnniQ's original paintings here!
Enjoy!
