renovating vlad's ugly mansion in the sims
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- some of these EA builds are a disaster
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Fun fact: gargoyles are decorated drainspouts. If water doesn't go through it, it's not a gargoyle. If it's on a roof but no drainspout, it's a grotesque. Otherwise, it's just a statue.
I'm curious if this is just general knowledge you picked up, or if you learned it through a certain fictional character with horns...
General knowledge, because I have no idea what character you're talking about, sorry.
Don't forget they were also originally used to scare away evil or malevolent spirits - hence why you see them on old churches a lot.
@@DenimNinja are you talking about Goliath 👀
@@DenimNinja are you talking about Malleus?
"If I were him, I'd be trying to keep up appearances. I don't want people to KNOW I'm a vampire..." He HISSES at people, and shows up at their doorstep in the middle of the night! I think the cat's out of the bag on this one 😂❤
SOMEONE had to say it. also yeah compliments people’s necks… yeesh
He always reminds me of Baron Afanas from what we do in the shadows 🤣
@@haileyhowson8350It's always funny to me, it's like nothing happened to cause the compliment and yet he says "nice neck".
he's just a little silly
honestly you renovate this so often i feel like it should be the halloween tradition
I never get a chance to comment this, but I recently (like on or two months back) realized that Kayla kinda remakes her videos in like a similar order, I noticed it because I had some from August to November last year that I didn't watch at the time bc of, life, but this September I was like boring and didn't knew what to watch, so I remembered and went looking for those videos in particular and noticed they were very similar to the ones she was posting now... Like it makes sense considering she posts almost daily and of course the videos aren't exactly the same, but the premise of the video is the same or kinda similar which I find really interesting 👉🏼👈🏼
@@ivonne_lau this is a thing. I find myself wearing the same clothes on the same day in my Timehop or fb memories. We tend to keep doing things and it becomes oddly “customary”. I’m for it. Lol
@@alifoligno3723 I feel like in this case is a little bit more intentional, like Kayla is very organized (based on the parasocial perspective), and so it makes sense that she got a method of doing stuff so it feels easier in a way. The clothing thing has also happened to me and it kinda makes sense because of the seasons and weather, it makes sense. But I also get it with random hobbies of mine like "oh, in October of last year I was also doing a lot of macrame, or playing a ton of Sims, or Stardew"
@@ivonne_laushe also repeats herself a lot
@@iamagod6418 in most of her videos there is like one clip that the editor leaves twice and I have to assume at this point that it is on purpose, like I've been watching her videos... Omg, since like 2020, it has to be on purpose, what I'm not sure about is if she knows, but I gotta assume she does.
Another vampire build that would be great is a vampire plasma ranch/farm. specifically for nectar making, cause you can actually make plasma nectar. So Vampire cowboy could be an interesting idea lol
Yes!! Up
Youre givin me all kinds of ideas
Oh yes, thank you so much for this idea! I am going to build it right now! hehe
I actually did that after getting Cottage Living! 10/10 would definitely recommend
does it say something about me that I read "vampire plasma farm" and thought, "ah yes, the old prisoners in the basement kept around as vampire food"
18:44 - 19:23
Kayla said the word "crocs" 13 times in 40 seconds.
Trying to get some crocs coin 😂
Next Vlad build show be turning the house into a blue suburban home so no one can tell its a vampire home at all
I fully support this idea, it’s just GOLD!! 😂🩷
EXPLANATION FOR BAD EA BUILDS: I do 'Games Studies & Cultural Analysis' at university, and my game developer teacher said that 'imperfection encourages play', which means this:
When Sims house looks barren and empty, then ANY improvement the player makes, will be an improvement. Even if you know NOTHING of home decor and place a rug, it already looks homelier. When the player gradually adds more and more items to the house, they can see it go from 'empty' to 'stuffed' which gives the player the experience of growth, the feeling of time passing, the feeling of achievement.
Whereas if a new/inexperienced player enters a PERFECT household, then any change means "messing up the perfect interior". So then any change, additon, or movement the inexperienced player makes, immediately looks out of place. The player isn't invited to interact with it. AND thus, the player doesn't open the build/buy-mode... ever... which renders a portion of the game useless.
UA-camrs actually use this trick. If they want more people commenting on their videos, they will sometimes make a deliberate typo in the video's mini image. This invites/prompts their followers to comment: 'hey Kayla, you made a typo!!'. Here, 'imperfection encourages play(ful audience engagement)' too.
If you were to build a house where the blue floor has a single blue tile that looks totally out of place, the FIRST THING the players (that download your building) will do, is FIX that floor.
That works for starter homes, but such obscene amount of awful house-building for townies is inexcusable
It's not okay that I need a starter save with renovated houses and properly dressed townies
your professor is so right
I get that!
@@notllikethat Then that's beholding? beholden? to the Sims team internal object & construction limits since the goal is for the game to run functional at minimum system requirements and many simmer content creators are well aware of those limitations lol
honestly i love vlad's house. it has personality, (which is something a lot of ea builds are lacking) such as the abandoned kitchen & the weird way it's shaped, as if vlad tried to add onto it over the years.
Yeah, is it bad I kinda liked it mote before 😭
Petition to turn renovating vlads house into a Halloween tradition
I had sims move into his house (abandoned and haunted) and they’ve been slowly renovating it but keeping the same vibe
that's great idea
Ooh amazing idea
The original shape of his house actually seems very similar to Bran Castle in Transylvania (the covered walkways and triangleish courtyard specifically) which was home to Vlad the Impaler and is said to be the source of Count Dracula! Maybe thats why its such an odd shape!
Was about to say this!
I noticed it at the weird balcony part
Not having good pics with besties means that you are enjoying your time with them too much to remember. ❤
So true 😂 my best friend and I even used to live next door to each other at one point yet we still didn’t have any pics together until very, very recently
I'm not skilled enough to change the shape of Vlad's house, so I found a use for that weird, unroofed bit on top of his house: I add fake grass and place a chicken coop/plasma tree. It's still 'weird' but in a more intentional way.
I also like giving him an elderly, spoiled, super fluffy fancy breed cat.
I ALWAYS give Vlad a cat, it just makes sense
I did something similar! I also swapped the roof out for one of the greenhouse ones, which makes it feel a lot less weirdly out of place.
I like to think the tombstones around that lot are just empty but like as a tribute to Vlad's "previous" lifes. Like everytime he needs to reinvent himself so that people won't know he's a vampire, he will "die" and put a tombstone there and then "be" someone else.
I love it! Headcanon accepted.
What the sims 4 has is actually what’s known as a grotesque in architectural terms since they are only decorative features upon the building. A gargoyle on the other hand comes from the French to do gargling water and would be a decorative means to remove water from the roof space and water would flow out from the mouth and away from the building. So there’s a little fact for you.
this is the first vampire build of yours that ive seen and honestly, i wish you wouldve kept some of the original build's intended design, like the "wrap-around" balcony at the back, the silhouette of the roofs with the spires and gables, like studying its intention, why its designed like that and how its possibly used, but improving its execution as youve said. Though dont get me wrong, your renovation is amazingly designed,,, its just almost entirely different, ALMOST.
I agree!! I especially wish she kept the balcony hallway thing because it actually is kinda reminiscent of actual Dracula's castle in Romania. Same with its jagged, kinda weird shape. I'm not sure if that's what EA were going for but I thought it was a nice touch.
@@cornflake_fairy right? like the renov was cool and all but now the house doesnt look like its vlad's anymore, now its just a cool vampire house
I agree that the reno just kinda made it into a cool vampire house. I really love when simmers renovate townie homes but so often it goes from an interesting idea to an almost cookie cutter box with maybe some rounded shapes.
Like I get it. It’s a style and also easy/accessible for UA-camrs to show others how to do but it’s resulted in a sort of flat linear pov on building within the community.
I think it’s awesome to show others how to play differently but maybe a better way to do these reno videos is ‘styling the build while keeping original ideas/intentions from the og design’. That way we’d get to keep the funky architecture of vlad’s house but just with a way to work them in rather get rid of completely.
kayla is in her secret bookcase door era and honestly love that for her
Something even scarier than an EA build... is a building with tall wall heights! Kayla, you should totally do a challenge where you only use tall wall heights to build a "normal" "-looking house!
Those flats with tall wall heights in San Myshuno still give me nightmares.
@@sandroribeiro7644 I lived in a loft style apartment for a few years so the main living area had super tall walls and they honestly were indeed a nightmare! I had windows very high up and my cats were insistent on trying to jump up to the windowsills 🙃 it freaked me out every time
I agree, BUT I want to add the rule that you cannot use platforms to make the tall walls look shorter!!
What boggles my mind about the Vampires builds is that there are two decent Victorians, this monstrosity, and a box. Did they choose 3 random people to build for the pack, or what?
I love how the change from summer time to standard time here in Germany makes it so that I get your videos at 8 pm now instead of 9 pm.
wait did it change already??? - a fellow German
@@marveludus if you slept through it, it happened the night to sunday
Then you wouldnt notice you know?
18:44 take a shot everytime Kayla says crocs and you'll be blackout drunk in 30 seconds 😭
😂😂😂
Fun fact from the sims 4 wiki, Vlad is the one who turned Lilith (and turned the person who turned Caleb) and was training Lilith to be his successor before she and Caleb cut ties with him. So my guess would be that the other two coffins were originally supposed to be Caleb and Lilith's
I really want Kayla to do a cowplant themed build like if u agree
Btw i cant remember what vidio but she has do this is u want to do some searching 😊
*kayak
She made a cowplant shrine in when she built a cake but I mean an entire house dedicated to cowplants
the other coffins in the basement are for Miss Hell, Caleb and Lilith when they have coven meetings! or by coven i mean "family bloodline get together"
Love the renovation it’s just what vladdy daddy needs
Perfect for recreating the entire novel of Dracula in the Sims
PLEASE do the garlic place next! I feel like it has so much potential
Omg I would LOVE to see you do a reno of this house but make it super modern. It could be something like "Vlad's house if he were a Cullen"
She should make a video of her top 10 favorite Sims. I would love to see that❤
I feel like not having any nice photos is a true mark of being best friends. I constantly realize that I have _zero_ photos with my best friend. You're just always having too good of a time together to think to stop and take photos
I was one of Emrys' friends at the wedding! That was such a wild evening 😂 Loved the Vlad reno, his house is so unnecessarily big. Who is he inviting over? the folks he is hissing at all day??
your cardigan is SO CUTE!! this build needed some help so i’m glad you did this again!
I love how you say "re-vamped" without even acknowledging the pun. (@23:57)
Kayla should have one of her legacy heirs marry Vlad…
just so she can kill him later with a cow plant or sharkpond.
0:27 yeah, pay...
I love this, and I honestly feel like the scariest build in the sims 4 is the museum in Del Sol Valley
I just built in horse ranch of the big lot and they have a similar situation where the property is actually much bigger based on the fence. I wish what they would do is have the main lot space to build then let you switch to a certain amount of surrounding space (like to the fence in this video) where they let you go into build mode but that only certain things are available, like landscaping then like putting thinks like stuff to train your animals on and like outdoor stuff.
Another build tutorial would be amazing. I’m getting into building now and I need help with a lot of things. Things like how to roof an octagon shaped room, how to not make your house look like a big square, also how to stay on theme but not make it super cringy or cliché and obvious.
When I use the vampire vines I stick em under the get together vines so they look more "real" (at least to me), otherwise I rarely use em except on light colored homes bc the different colors are really pretty against like a cream
It’s so hard to believe it’s been almost two years since the last renovation of Vlad’s house.
If you like a fun designer tip from someone who just turned vlads house into a gothic castle.
The small handheld candelabra can be used in alot of unique places to give it that victoian feel. Such as on the base of the stairs on the railings, on the piano by the keys, on the edge of a tub. I just recently did that and was amazed how a simple addition can make a big difference visually.
I'd make that top floor a spellcaster's altar room. No staircase. Either you have the skills to get up there , or you don't.
Hey Kayla, love your videos. I would love to see the 64*64 lot in del sol valley renovated. I know it's a big ask, but i bet you could make it look so good!
I look forward to watching your videos everyday. Literally audibly gasped when this video popped up in my notifications because I had been waiting for this renovation to come out.
Kayla is in her bookcase door era
This house would almost be perfect for a Decade Challenge
That’s funny because I just started playing sims like a month and a half ago and my beginning builds are all big boxes. They got a little more interesting but still big until the last one I made in horse ranch it’s very small because I wanted to try something I saw. I made a 5 story house on the waterfront big lot in newcrest and it is almost the whole size of the lot. I love it though. I didn’t realize that certain thing cause glitches until I saw a video of someone talking about not wanting to use to much stuff because of glitches, so it can but frustrating to play that house with is me, I live there with my husband and dogs.
The reason I don't like the vines in the Vampire pack, or really any pack, is that they don't go all the way to the ground if the house is on a foundation. Like they just grew straight out of the concrete.
I like the idea that vlad pit thr gargoyles on the roof so that he can land on the roof and not worry about people seeing him, because if someone seens something with batwings on his roof he can just day it was one of the statues.
Any tutorials you could ever make for building are always wanted Kayla! You are the GOAT
Imagine if crocks had sims charms. Little cow plant heads, plumb bobs, freezer bunny, etc that'd be cute.
Coming from a Nevadan here.. You talking about the F1 racing and the nightmare that is walking the strip had me remembering the time I visited family there as I’m from the north. I literally sprained my ankle walking that thing, and I didn’t even trip. 😂. Good times. That strip is no joke when it comes to getting around.
I was gonna say the exact opposite. It annoys me simsie always makes her houses smaller. As a player I understand all that space isn’t necessary. But (and especially this build) he lives in a huge mansion. Let it be huge!
Love that you're hyperfocused on City Skylines right now! Would love to see you play it on stream maybe! Also, this might be my most favorite Vlad reno ever!
actually, with vlad being a vampire, you don't even need to put a staircase to the top floor. he could just fly/teleport there, right? and then you could put some secret vampire thing in there, like I've read a comment about a plasma farm lol. or more cowplants, very on brand
But does Vlad need to think of the resale value? He's a vampire living forever, he can just live here - forever. 🤔😁
Kayla this sweater is GIVING it’s so cute
Did you know that in Henford-on-bagley the unoccupied cottage in the corner of the world, the one next to where the Scotts live doesn't actually have an outdoor bin.
I never place outdoor bins. I didn't know they were "required" when I first started playing. I always use the "Reduce & Recycle" lot trait and have the Sims rummage for stuff in their garbage to get bits & pieces. No outdoor bin necessary. First time I decided to try one, it got kicked over. Grrrr! Why bother? I only started playing TS4 during the pandemic, so that trait has always been available for me.
@@acebildz1253 oh okay, I completely forgot about the reduce and recycle trait so I never use it. Anyway I always place outdoor bins but never have people over so it can't get kicked over.
Honestly I'd love a true nightmare shell challenge where it's just a giant single floor rectangle. We've all tried making one when we were younger, it'd be hilarious to see a skilled builder try to make it work 😂
I am SO IMPRESSED with the roofing you did in this build like the turret at the end of the longer rectangle roof?? Omg?
I think it's great you kept all the room Vald doesn't need, since this could be his house from before he was a Vampyr too
I think the worst thing about Vlad's house for me is the stairs to the basement. They clip through the ground and I've struggled so many times to try and fix it without just bulldozing. It's just so irksome.
I’m so torn because I love Vlad living on the top of the hill in Forgotten Hollow but the terrain is *perfect* for my cemetery 😭
I love the addition of a tiny mysterious door nobody can open 😂
My human female sim had a vampire baby with Vlad and she's a child now, very interested in Vampire Lore. She goes to visit her dad at his mansion often for sleepovers. She sleeps in a coffin in the basement like he does. She's learning to play the pipe organ and he approves! 😁 The only downside is that she has to make herself PB&J sandwiches in the kitchen and still needs the bathroom. She loves his house, especially since it's been renovated and will probably want to move in with him when she ages up to be a teen vampire! Who knew Vlad was such a good dad?! 🦇 ♥🧛♂
idk if thid makes sense but i think it would be really cool to renovate this house (or any other vanpire house really if there are idk i dont have the pack) as if a normal humsn family moved on clueless of the fact thst id a vsmpire world lmao
sorry for the spelling errors
I'm soo happy for Vlad that he got such a nice renovation
I was thinking about Reno Vlad house in sims 4 today!! And there you are, posting a video with it!!! ❤❤❤
kayla im so sorry but what you did to his balcony was a tragedy, it was meant to be like an "outdoor hallway" like hogwarts castle kind of balcony and now it just looks like a normal american balcony in those homes in the middle of nowhere in like kansas or something
Love videos like this where you just give lil details and life updates! Build looks amazing! Wish the base game was more like this!
Also: I love crocs they have fuzz lined ones that are cozy and have become well worn by me. Genuinely prefer them over my slippers!
great build. been thinking about this pack and what i would do with it. probably the scariest big mansion myself, but at least it aint as horrifying as the Volkihar Castle in Skyrim that there was scary
Kayla making me want to build a gawdy over the top victorian vampire house for a cute new vampire legacy ive never thought of before this point😢
Freezes tutorial would literally save my life/vlads life his life is sad without them
What is wild to me, as someone who avidly watches your videos & someone with at least some basic knowledge of architecture, is how so many of the builds created by Sims players far surpass that of the base game & packs.
It’s amazing!
19:11 crocs were my go-to shower shoe in university because of their anti-slip design. Any other flip flops I felt like I was going to slip and break my neck
technically, vampires CAN see themselves in mirrors!
the reason the idea that they can't came around was due to the original dracula novel by bram stoker (which was not the first iteration of vampirism, it was camarilla, but dracula is more popular) where it was said vampires had a weakness to iron. iron could kill/burn vampires, so chains and bars were things to keep them contained or kill them. however, many mirrors at the time were backed with iron or framed with iron. so, vampires couldn't see their own reflection due to the iron around the mirror itself, since iron is a weakness! in the modern day, mirrors are NOT backed/framed with iron, so vampires could theoretically see themselves in mirrors just fine.
the more you know
when i renovated his mansion i made it bigger and added a bunch of mansion details like a servants quarters and a food larder and a ballroom and a grand dining room and more bedrooms and such, and that really fixed all the awkward shapes. like the big balcony became indoor space and the non-walkable part of the balcony became the actual balcony
I wish there was more, houses like this I generally like Gothic Victorian-Style homes. there is just not enough of them. in the sims 4
This is kind of giving “What We Do In the Shadows” vibes and I love it ❤
yes, with my best friends of 13 years, i probably have a handful of photos with them 😅 when we hang out we just aren’t thinking about that (which is nice to remember looking back, we were having lots of fun in the moment!)
I was just on a binge of you're Halloween videos this is great timing
It's the roofs that make me wanna cry. They should make a free build roof option.
I've seen a lot of Halloween vampire builds now and almost all of them include a telescope, I sure hope their vampires aren't looking at the moon with it bc moonlight is just a bit dimmer sunlight :')
I love the build. One "but" I've is about the kitchen being open to living room. I think it's kinda weird to have abandoned kitchen next to a room you use and it being open to that. So IMO there should be either regular door or at least a curtain to close the kitchen off a little.
Great vid Kayla!
Kayla meeting Julien is so freaking cute and awesome! Julien is the best I love him, your interraction with him sounds about as awesome and wholesome as I'd expect
Sorry if this is a stupid question but who is Julien?
@@aromanticfranziskavonkarmaJulien is Jenna Marbles's (now) husband
Me watching this to see if this matches me and Astarion’s dream home (if ya know, ya know)
ah just what i need on an evening hot soup and kayla renovating vlad’s mansion
Yes a tutorial on freezes and exterior trims would be so awesome! Great renovation too btw!
I actually don't think the houses in Vampires are bad at all 🤷🏻♀️
I really want to re-create the actual draculas castle in the sims and make it vlad’s house. (Yes, Dracula was a real person, vlad Dracula, or Vlad the impaler, was rumored to be a vampire and drink blood when he was alive and..impaling ppl..) anywho, I think that’d be really cool
I usually have the exact opposite problem to what you were describing. Making the rooms small and not being able to fit what i want or need, having to enlarge them :D
okay hear me out... no mirrors but everywhere there should be a mirror its just the picture of vlad
😂😂😂 that’s GREAT I ❤ that idea!! 😂🩷
The simsie solomita crossover makes me so happy
kayla’s new obsession with secret bookcase doors 😭
Meeting Julien Solomita would have made me day..because I’m a HUGE Jenna Marbles fan
*thinks about younger me building in the sims 3 single room or 2 room floors, but the house took up pretty much the whole lot, so it was just a giant cube. it would take hours to go to the bathroom*
wow kayla and i had the same experience with sims 3 building
this build is amazing omg especially for a limited pack build! can't wait to play in this
I often forget to take pictures of myself in cosplay and of myself and friends. I usually remember when I get home. Love this remodel as usual.
This looks way better than the original. Vlad isn't my favorite vampire but he is better than some of the others. I like Caleb. Last two games I've played though Vlad has died by being out in the sun. lol. If you do a video for Halloween day, I hope you'll include your kitties because they are the perfect thing for a Halloween build on Halloween day. I hope if EA is going to come out with a Sims 5, their builds will be better and they will be if they hire creators for it all like you.
green = sewer, red = murder dungeon!!!! this stream was so much fun, i love that you made a vid out of it
those bedrooms are awesome. if I make a generation mansion, I am so stealing those designs
Would love a Simsie X Julien crossover!!!