Ever since I first saw cyclonesue's terrific Bang On A Can bathroom, I've had a vision stuck in my head of an entire set of pipe-based furniture. Well, last week I finally worked up the courage to ask her if she had any plans in that direction, and when she said she didn't, I asked if I could possibly reuse her pipe meshes and textures as building blocks to construct it. And, as you've undoubtedly guessed by now, she said yes! Well, after most of a week of non-stop work on it, the initial block of it is up for release. It contains fourteen meshes hitting most of the major furniture groups; a table, desk, bookcase, single and double beds, two different armchairs, a sofa, end table, 1- and 2-tile coffee tables, 1- and 2-tile dressers, and a chess table. I'd have to say this set was the most fun to conceptualize and build of anything I've done for my Sims. Even though it also required me to learn two new building skills - extending the footprints of meshes that occupy more floorspace then the original item they were cloned from (both beds and the sofa), and adding slots to items so that additional decorative items can be placed on them in buy mode (table, 2-tile coffee table, end table, bookcase, and both dressers). Okay, so that second one was actually kind of optional, but I really wanted my bookcase to have a deco slot, and then once I finally got that working I went nuts and added more slots to several other items as well. My next major project will be mastering doing the routing stuff that enables your sims to use the additional slots as well. More places for them to hide their bills, newspapers, books, etc!

Yes, I did say initial set - I also have plans to try and make a pipe-based kitchen counter, a second version of the table (one with a Value door as the top rather than the window panes), numerous deco items, and, oh yes, a pipe-based easel. I'll also be releasing some additional recolours. So if there's something you would love to see added on to this set, get your requests in now! I can't guarantee I'll make it, but I'll at least consider it. P.S. - I highly recommend to anyone looking for some nice grungey recolours of the Value door (not to mention great industrial wall textures) to check out the profile of pixelhate on MTS2. His gorgeously grotty recolours of this door are the #1 reason I decided to use it as one of the repositories within this set.