House of Seasons

Welcome to the wildest, most colorful house on the block, the House of Seasons! This house is unique, with, as the name suggests, a different season on each floor. On the rooftop floor, it's a snowy winter day. On the floor below, there are flowers blooming on a gorgeous spring day. On the second floor the residents of this house have taken out the pool to splash and celebrate the warm weather, and on the bottom floor, leaves are turning brown and yellow as the weather turns crisp just in time for fall!

Have you got your winter boots handy? And do you have a bathing suit? Because you'll need them as we go through each season, all in one day!

Now for most buildings I've written about on Create Sparkle, we've started at the bottom floor and worked our way up, but since the first season in the year is winter, let's start there!

The winter floor concept was pretty simple, with snow-draped roofs, extra snow sliding down the walls, and plenty of extra details!

The first thing I thought about when I designed this was how to make the roof at least partially sloped. After a lot of debate, I ended up using hinge pieces to achieve the slope, with a color pallet similar to that of the Winter's Snowy Cabin.

But, I couldn't stop there, and so I made sure the inside reflected just as much winter as the outside did. The bed, as you might notice, has multiple blankets on it, and there's even a stack of blankets next to the bed, for those nights, when the more blankets you have, the better!

However, something tells me we won't need those blankets for much longer, as we go down the third floor, where spring is blooming!

One of my favorite elements of this vividly colored floor is the balcony, which was one of the hardest parts to build. The original idea for the balcony was to use pieces similar to those that I used on the balcony on the summer floor, but I couldn't find any more balcony pieces anywhere! However, I was able to eventually figure out how to make a cool balcony that, if anything, made the building cooler than it would have been otherwise! Plus, to bring out the spring, this balcony and the outside walls on this floor are all covered with plants and vines!

These plants can also be seen on the inside, where we have a small but cute balcony, with a couple drawers, a few tables, and a bunch of different shades of purple to bring it to the next level!

Soon, the weather gets even nicer, and suddenly, it's summer! Long sleeve shirts are packed away and stored in the attic, and people take out their ice cream recipes! However, just like the balcony on the spring level, building this balcony also brought many challenges. However, this one wasn't hard because of the actual balcony. The real challenge of this one was the pool.

At first I was going to build plants, but I realized that would look too much like spring, and so I took on the challenge of building a pool that was just the right size, and after a few tries, I managed to make the perfect pool! For extra detail, let's not forget the orange and yellow details on the top of the balcony pieces! Plus, when you finish splashing and partying in the pool, there's plenty of cold, refreshing ice cream inside! And if you ever get tired of the pool, there's a surf board hanging on the wall waiting to be used!

Finally, we'll head down the bottom floor, which, in every non-summer seasons, serves as the perfect grocery store! There's spices, and, as summer winds down and fall starts up, plenty of pumpkins in all different colors!

Plus, another feature I like on this floor is the colors of the counter and the table, which have the same pattern as the walls of the building!

And, to put the frosting on the cake, as I mentioned above, this building isn't just a house. It's also a store, which sells ice cream in summer, and other essential goods for the rest of the year.

That's what these signs are for, from the lobster and ice cream, all the way to the pumpkin and leaves sign.

So come visit a seasonal miracle, where you can literally step out of the cold and into the summer just by walking down two floors!

- create_sparkle