Brainstorming: Recreating the "Modern Stone Age" from ordinary items?

[SSgt Baloo]

Yabba-Dabba-Doo! I have been a Flintstones fan since it debuted (It was on in primetime! The whole family watched! Even Grandma!)

While I was thrilled to discover a Flintstones-inspired car at MTS, I was also pleased to discover a few things that could be used for "primitive" settings like campfires, low-cost bathroom facilities, etc.

CFE is your friend!
(...Until you forget to put the walls in first!)

One thing I've been enjoying lately is taking ordinary objects and recoloring them to look "Flint-stoney" Some things work better than others. A zebra-skin couch or easy chair works well, but reskinning the TV, stove, or refrigerator with rough stone is kind of fun, too. Coarse wood textures help give things that "rough-hewn" look.

What I'd like is a discussion of ideas how to make things look stone-aged, from clothing to cars to houses, etc. What tricks have you stumbled upon? What construction techniques make a house look like it was carved from stone/hewn from a fallen tree/excavated from a hillside cave/constructed from hides and mammoth bone framework?

What do you know about how to do this that I haven't figured out yet? Tell me!!

[BlondeCupcake]

That really looks great! As for the carved out of a hillside idea, to do that I would go in the Terrain Tools in Build Mode and create a smooth, natural looking hill that is taller than you want your house/cave and use the Flatten Terrain to to carve out a space for your home. From there, build your home in the cavity. I'm not sure if this is what you're going for, but it's a suggestion

Also if you have Late Night, some of the hairstyles from that expansion would look nice for a wild kind of look.

[Swirl-Girl]

You could experiment with some of those pre-WA basements.

[RainBeau]

There's a whole series of Castaway-themed stuff on MTS that works well for cavemen too. I'd link it but it's not allowed. Just search Castaway and you'll find it.

[ErinIsNice]

If you have Twallan's debug mod, you can turn anything into a stone sculpture.