I've lived in a 9 bedroom house with roommates. It was pretty awesome, to be honest. The place was huge and had a layout that made no sense, you didn't really bump into each other unless you wanted to. We had 2 kitchens, though, which helped a lot in that regard. NINETEEN bedrooms with only one kitchen? .... yeah that's gonna be a no from me, dog.
My dorm building has maybe 30 bedrooms with only one kitchen. Needless to say, I avoid it all costs because it's always filthy and smells bad. We also have three bathrooms except they're more in the style of a public bathroom with 3-5 stalls in each and 2-3 showers. It sucks, but it's a college dorm so that's expected I think
it is real i found the article. in terms of legality there's windows in every bedroom and most laws just require a bedroom to have a point of egress. this is like 2020s version of tenement housing though it seems awful. the main house looks alright but the "dorms" are icky.
History behind the home - "Initially built in 1910, the property underwent major extensions in the 1980s and became a retirement and nursing home. It was later used for student accommodation. The most recent owner was an older woman, who lived in the property along with her tenants. Now, it is a deceased estate and the family has changed its classification from commercial to residential."
@@purplecactii I found a Yahoo Finance article by searching the text Prettyphile posted. You should be able to find it by searching "19 bedroom house Adelaide".
@@carcass393 The entire time I was watching this, I was like, 'this looks like somewhere that could exist where I live' ..... It's less than 15 minutes away. I highly recommend looking at the photos, they're even more insane than James makes it out to be. The white picket fence in the kitchen with the stove completely cuts off access to the stairs that are there, I saw at least two fireplaces blocked with furniture- one with a couch (like a futon) and one with a set of table and chairs. It was a retirement/nursing home before it became student housing. Apparently at the time the article was made, there were five people living there (minus the owner who recently passed away), and the rent was $185 per week. I looked it up and the average rent in the suburb is apparently $500-$550, so.... it's a pretty good deal. They're looking for someone to buy it, but they're not sure whether it'll continue being student housing, or demolished and split into two houses.
One thing i've learned from building RL floor plans in sims, is take some liberties with them. Hallways that are one tile wide don't work in game play, sims are constantly blocking each other and start walking through walls or get stuck in them and auto teleport. Basically you have to make everything at least 1x1 bigger than the floor plan, especially because the sims furniture is WAY oversized. So a 2x3m room should be a 3x4m room in sims. etc etc. The house ends up looking much nicer and will actually function for gameplay.
I recreated my house by walking around and counting the 1×1 ceiling tiles and directly converting those tiles to tiles in-game and it worked out beautifully for me. But my house is fairly straightforward and doesn't have any awkward bits that would confuse a sim
This reminds me of the sketchy places I had to stay to keep from being homeless. Definitely unpleasant, but I do like weird/quirky layout choices that make houses more unique. Like one house I lived in had doors to the outside on the third floor, but both of those doors led directly into the bathrooms, and you had to climb the most rickety ass staircase up the back of the house the entire three flights if you wanted to go through them.
These kinds of "houses" are definitely real, and they "prey" / cater to people who have no other choice other than being homeless. The developers who convert these monstrosities from "normal" flats into this kind of accommodation mostly take advantage of youngsters leaving care, immigrants and the most vulnerable of people whilst taking government or local authority funding, whilst making profit.
ah yes, australia's student rental housing crisis: sim edition. This was a very low-key educational video on australia's rental crisis and the often-terrible conditions many students end up living in and I am here for it
In the lounge, a Murphy bed would make it a reasonable optional bedroom (for what passes as reasonable compared to the rest of that house). This is quite the build.
@@breadcrumbhoarder Oh no. Just...no. I feel for everyone who ever lived in that house. In the Sims, the Murphy bed makes sense because that's the bridge for multi-use home areas. But that place seems to be...there's a 2x3 space - let's shove another bed there. The reality of this place hurts. I've got to look at it when I'm not on mobile; I love a good horror show and this comes close. *sob*
@breadcrumb hoarder I guess be grateful for the basics? I've been trying to figure out the best Sins scenario for the build. Top contenders right now is a simulated motel using the roommate system or 100 babies. The concept of this build has been a nice distraction for the day.
This house has prime potential for the 100 baby challenge. Even if you combine some of the rooms or change some into bathrooms, you can still reserve a nursery wing vs child/teen rooms.
I’m definitely feeling nursing home with this build. With the new pack hopefully adding more elder-friendly activities with the new rec center lot type, this could be perfect for them!
@@NiaJustNia I hadn't seen anything actually referring to it as student accommodation. The nursing home part does make a bit more sense of the intended use/layout.
@@alalalala57 It was a nursing home then student accommodation, so the chances are pretty good that someone who's at least been inside it at some point in their lives, even just to visit, is pretty decent
OMG! This is too insane to not furnish James! haha! You need to do a collab with some other Simmers and have each of you guys do a specific set of rooms and then see what it looks like once everyone is done!
This house looks like a nightmare to me, but I've seen a show about a family with that many kids. This house could make them probably very happy. Well done on this monster of a floorplan James! I'm glad you went above and beyond to do some interior as well.
When I saw 19 bedrooms I thought it was gonna be a ridiculously expensive giant mansion. But this… this I could’ve never predicted. I’ve never heard of such a thing! In a regular neighborhood? It’s truly a monstrosity! Lmao Loved how you put all the rooms in quotations when talking lol, I mean really, could we even call this a “house”? More like a claustrophobic compound lol. These poor students. The more I watch the greater sense of horror I feel about this house. I mean truly…
I saw the original article when it came out, it was actually a type of nursing home in the 1980s and went from residential (when orginally build) to commercial and recently after the owner died, (who rented out the rooms - mainly students rented it). The property was changed to residential again and is now up for sale. Most likely will be bulldozed and new housing will be built.
It all makes SO much more sense once you realise it was once a nursing home. It explains all the weird doors, and pass-through rooms, and odd bathrooms
Aside from this being a "house" and the maze of a floor plan, this is fairly normal for a college dorm building. It's not super different than the one I live in, except mine is three stories for about 30 rooms.
I’m halfway through the video and I was literally just thinking. I hope James uploads this so that we can renovate it and then you said that’s what you thought you should do. I think this would be a really fun house to renovate!😊😊
omfg i found the video tour of it. the bathroom with the two showers next to each other - its just frosted glass. you would absolutely see the other person showering next to you. Very sims actually because they would be blurry
I checked the real house, and you honestly made it look so similar and yet so much better, haha! The kitchen that has a cellar entrance actually has a white picket fence around the stairs to get into the cellar! Definitely a quirky place.
This house is in my home state of South Australia. It used to be a nursing home, so its layout made sense then. Recently it became student housing as one of our universities is not too far away from this suburb. It’s not really odd considering it’s initial purpose, it’s only odd because it’s now being sold as a residential property - but probably wouldn’t sell as commercial as it’s quite run down. It’s very likely going to get demolished and have the land subdivided and built on, like most large lots nowadays. From memory it’s close to the beach too, so it’ll be a popular area to buy if it is redeveloped.
I've lived in a house with 17 bedrooms. It was a sorority house and it was designed as a sorority house, but there were 17 rooms. They were tiny and we slept 2 to a room. It was so much fun to live in a house with 33 of my closest friends (plus the house mom, whose apartment made 18 bedrooms total).
I suggest a shell challenge with some odd rules. 1. You can't delete any doors or windows (You can move/replace them) 2. You can repurpose rooms but have to be able to sleep 19 sims
The only way you could technically fit 19 Sims into that house, is if you used the For Rent update and use the cheat to increase the amount of Rental Units and just basically turn each of the bedrooms into a separate rented unit. And probably just make the rest of the building a shared space. But either way, that house plan looks like a nightmare and an eyesore. XD
After looking at the original listing I have two things to say: 1- James I'm impressed at how much your build matches the original 2- I've seen prisons with better facilities and bigger rooms
This build’s shell could be repurposed into a really cool community-focused lot since the lot is IRL in the middle of a suburb. Each of the “bedrooms” could be private work, study, and art spaces, and the main house could be a house for the owner/ groundskeeper. The “kitchen” for the “rooms” could be for community cooking seminars (as idk how things are in Australia, but in America public schools have an extremely small or nonexistent home ec budget). It would absolutely be a philanthropy project, but it would be awesome. I’m gonna use this shell for my basegame + basegame mods and basegame cc save. My sim (yes, I currently only have 1 sim) has the savings to be a philanthropist. I’m gonna build this lot as a “library” but I’m gonna calc out the build and furniture and then deduct it from my sim’s money with commands. My sim’s career is freelance programming, so I don’t have to deal with the sim being required to return to the home lot that often. It’ll be slightly jank without GTW features, but it’ll finally be a new way to “play” my sim.
I just binged the entire high school years series over the past couple weeks, so much fun! I’m excited to see Gen 3 of the series and how they will grow up
This is the most random house ever if you look at the photos on the website, one room has a guitar amp, a couple rooms have computers, random mideval shield, break room area and a kitchen area and random room with a refrigerator and a large wardrobe. This place is so random lol. Feel like it fits into a legal grey area lol. Start over maybe, maybe not may be more expensive to build new then to remodel.
A small hack I've learned with the walls/fences when connecting them to a lifted house is creating a seperate wall or fence you want to use and moving it to that small open section to the house. It doesn't raise the fence and it doesn't ruin the house :D
This sort of building random boxes as addition to the house was popular during the 60's- 80's. Bad floorplanning, box rooms, no real lighting, narrow hallways... and don't forget vinyl or linoleum floors.
The real house looks even more depressing than when James was building it 😮 Going to download it for sure trying to make something out of it without demolishing to many walls. It’s a challenge to make it better looking and livable the way the lay out is.
I feel like this would make a great orphanage. The big room with its own bathroom is for the person who runs it, the other bed/lounges are communal space, one with a tv and couches, one with toys. The littler one with a door outside could be the office. Big dining room, shared laundry, outside space. I think it could work. It’s wouldn’t be the most comfortable, but everyone could have their own room with a light and fan (except that one kid).
Is this weird? My college dorm was essentially a giant "house" stuck in the middle of a normal suburban neighborhood. Had way more than 19 rooms. If I had to guess I'd say at least 70. Honestly I liked it better than the normal on-campus dorms. Most of the rooms were singles, so you didn't have to share, and we had semi-private bathrooms (private bathroom shared between 3-4 people) instead of big communal bathrooms like standard dorms. And being on a normal street was nice. It you felt like you were in the real world, not locked away in some weird dystopia where everyone is 18-24. The only thing it was missing was air conditioning. Dear god, the lack of air conditioning killed me in the warmer months. EDIT: ok, having seen more of this layout I retract my question. we may have had a giant house in a suburban neighborhood with a ton of rooms, but at least our layout made sense what the hell is this
How many people per kitchen did you have? Or were you allowed to have hot plates? My friends happily added bedrooms in an apartment living room to keep their rent low, but opening their fridge was a nightmare.
Theres a house similar to this one near my college. It looks like two big normal houses next to each other but it actually is a mega house with 24 bedrooms, 2 common areas and every bedroom has a small bathroom in it (shower, sink and toilet nothing fancy). I know cause when I moved for college I went to tour that place. It's actually very nice.
An older home, retrofitted on a core plumbing system that was never intended for the extended population capacity? I can already see this place imploding the moment someone's toilet clogs.
It’s the fact I’m counting 3.5 bathrooms for 19 bedrooms. Ones a master, and one has two toilets. Getting ready in the morning or ready for bed at night sounds like a NIGHTMARE
I think the number of toilets and showers is fine. I used to live in a house with 5 people and only 1 toilet and shower. We managed fine for over 10 years. You have more options with this setup even though the ratio is close to the same. I hope they have additional hot water heaters though because otherwise, it would be tough with most people having to take cold showers.
10/10 for the effort to build this and doing a great job. 2/10 for it existing in real life. I saw an article for this house. It needs a lot of love or a bulldoze. As for using it in sims, I could see it being used in a 100 baby challenge. Each kid gets a tiny room and an extra room for desk/hobbies.
I'm shocked that at any point that was once a functional nursing home. I know the 80s could be wild, but not putting nana, pop-pop and Mrs Matheson in the back sheds wild. Somehow it being weird student accommodation makes it a bit worse. The rooms with lots of doors were probably prep/drug rooms or office or overnight nurse accommodation. Now they've been forced into being bedrooms, it's so much weirder
As someone who lived through the 80’s I can’t imagine putting any elder (ok, maybe the remaining Nazi scientists and the like…nah, too nice and humane for them) in this “facility”. Just wow.
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When I was in college, our whole class traveled to a conference in another state and we stayed in a place almost exactly like this. It was an old lady's house and she had built like a gazilion of tiny bedrooms to rent to students. But it was kind of worse than this for 3 reasons: 1) there was, I kid you not, only one bathroom and one shower for all the rooms, and the door was broken 2) the whole thing was on the second floor of her house, and the stairs to get there were really really steep and 3) we had to share the ridiculously small bedrooms, so it was like two people sleeping together on a single bed in these really small rooms. Oh, and you could tell that she actually divided every room in half at some point, because all the windows were like half in one room and half on the other, the wall was built like in the middle of the windows. It was not a pleasant experience.
this is the most cursed house I've ever seen. It made my girlfriend (she's an artchitect) cry a bit. You said "student accomodations" but I think it's more likely from a cult or something
I renovated this and turned it into a police station/prison. It's got cells, interrogation rooms, evidence lockup and "the yard" where Sims can get their required time for exercise. I'm actually pretty proud, it was fun to build. I kept it pretty much the same, except some walls got knocked down to allow for bigger cells.
The fact that this house is only one story is horrifying… my aunt and uncle flipped a 13 bedroom house that was freaky to be in but it had a second floor and a basement. Also a spiral staircase which was fun tbh
Would be interesting to see what this looked like when it was built in the 1910 and then after initial expansion in 1980!!! It’s current configuration is a hot mess so maybe make this a reno or shell challenge?
I loved that you made this house. I saw the same article this was in and was pretty keen to recreate it. I chose to just stick with what felt like the original house so I don't have 19 bedrooms but yours looks amazing. I always love watching your builds.
I feel bad for anyone living in it, it looks like a death trap in case of a fire. It feels like city council turned down an apartment complex, due to safety concerns or local regulations, and the builder created this gem instead.
James! I challenge you to completely renovate this build in modern contemporary vibes. My conditions are that you can add rooms, move rooms, but cannot delete any of the currently existing rooms/walls. Good luck! Sending love to you and Deli all the way from Scotland 🏴💗.
I've lived in a 9 bedroom house with roommates. It was pretty awesome, to be honest. The place was huge and had a layout that made no sense, you didn't really bump into each other unless you wanted to. We had 2 kitchens, though, which helped a lot in that regard. NINETEEN bedrooms with only one kitchen? .... yeah that's gonna be a no from me, dog.
The bathrooms situation are even worse. With the kitchen, it’s can be shared easier. You certainly can’t just “share” a bathroom.
@@silvermeasuringspoons6462 you can if you believe 😌😂
@@courtykat except only one kitchen has a stove💀
My dorm building has maybe 30 bedrooms with only one kitchen. Needless to say, I avoid it all costs because it's always filthy and smells bad. We also have three bathrooms except they're more in the style of a public bathroom with 3-5 stalls in each and 2-3 showers. It sucks, but it's a college dorm so that's expected I think
I've heard 5-10 people ones, but 19 is next level.
Having a hard time convincing myself that this is a real and perfectly legal thing
Def not legal even if real
it is real i found the article. in terms of legality there's windows in every bedroom and most laws just require a bedroom to have a point of egress. this is like 2020s version of tenement housing though it seems awful. the main house looks alright but the "dorms" are icky.
Enjoy the reality of this house: www.domain.com.au/51-kauri-parade-seacliff-sa-5049-2018340601
@@JamesTurnerYT the picket fence in the kitchen?! Is that where one puts their child? For safety reasons of course. 😬
It used to be a nursing home before it was student housing. Imagine sticking someone's granny to live in the shed out back 😂
History behind the home - "Initially built in 1910, the property underwent major extensions in the 1980s and became a retirement and nursing home. It was later used for student accommodation. The most recent owner was an older woman, who lived in the property along with her tenants. Now, it is a deceased estate and the family has changed its classification from commercial to residential."
Do you have a link to the house or any pictures of it??
@@purplecactii I found a Yahoo Finance article by searching the text Prettyphile posted. You should be able to find it by searching "19 bedroom house Adelaide".
@@purplecactii name of article "$1 million: House with staggering 19 bedrooms hits the market". it has photos
@@carcass393 thanks!
The picture of the kitchen with the stove really cracked me up. It has a white picket fence in it, wth. 😂
@@carcass393 The entire time I was watching this, I was like, 'this looks like somewhere that could exist where I live' ..... It's less than 15 minutes away. I highly recommend looking at the photos, they're even more insane than James makes it out to be. The white picket fence in the kitchen with the stove completely cuts off access to the stairs that are there, I saw at least two fireplaces blocked with furniture- one with a couch (like a futon) and one with a set of table and chairs. It was a retirement/nursing home before it became student housing. Apparently at the time the article was made, there were five people living there (minus the owner who recently passed away), and the rent was $185 per week. I looked it up and the average rent in the suburb is apparently $500-$550, so.... it's a pretty good deal. They're looking for someone to buy it, but they're not sure whether it'll continue being student housing, or demolished and split into two houses.
One thing i've learned from building RL floor plans in sims, is take some liberties with them. Hallways that are one tile wide don't work in game play, sims are constantly blocking each other and start walking through walls or get stuck in them and auto teleport. Basically you have to make everything at least 1x1 bigger than the floor plan, especially because the sims furniture is WAY oversized. So a 2x3m room should be a 3x4m room in sims. etc etc. The house ends up looking much nicer and will actually function for gameplay.
I did my old and new houses floor plans and I had to do exactly this other wise it didnt look right and you couldn’t play in it
That’s a really good tip. As a starter builder thanks
I recreated my house by walking around and counting the 1×1 ceiling tiles and directly converting those tiles to tiles in-game and it worked out beautifully for me. But my house is fairly straightforward and doesn't have any awkward bits that would confuse a sim
This will probably be perfect for your upcoming 100 baby series 😝
Deli just screamed in the distance 😂
Hahahahaha
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prison challenge
The 100 baby compound was my first thought too. XD
I didn’t realize James was restarting the prison challenge 😂 Joking aside, this floor plan is insane
This reminds me of the sketchy places I had to stay to keep from being homeless. Definitely unpleasant, but I do like weird/quirky layout choices that make houses more unique. Like one house I lived in had doors to the outside on the third floor, but both of those doors led directly into the bathrooms, and you had to climb the most rickety ass staircase up the back of the house the entire three flights if you wanted to go through them.
These kinds of "houses" are definitely real, and they "prey" / cater to people who have no other choice other than being homeless. The developers who convert these monstrosities from "normal" flats into this kind of accommodation mostly take advantage of youngsters leaving care, immigrants and the most vulnerable of people whilst taking government or local authority funding, whilst making profit.
Sorry, did you use to live in the Winchester Mansion? That’s wild!
Now we need to see how James would tackle a 19-bedroom student accommodation build from scratch. I'm begging
ah yes, australia's student rental housing crisis: sim edition. This was a very low-key educational video on australia's rental crisis and the often-terrible conditions many students end up living in and I am here for it
@@MmmmmmCoffee wasn't it repurposed for student sharehousing though?
I didn't see anything saying that. Apparently the back is rented out to long term tenants at the moment.
Yeah, it’s actually quite sad
The more I read about Aus the more it seems like a Mini version of the US
Vancouver Canada is very similar. I paid 1200 for a room literally the size of a closet and it was the best deal I could find
In the lounge, a Murphy bed would make it a reasonable optional bedroom (for what passes as reasonable compared to the rest of that house). This is quite the build.
I looked at all the photos of the house and I believe the lounge just has a double bed in it, just out in the open it’s crazy
@@breadcrumbhoarder Oh no. Just...no. I feel for everyone who ever lived in that house. In the Sims, the Murphy bed makes sense because that's the bridge for multi-use home areas. But that place seems to be...there's a 2x3 space - let's shove another bed there. The reality of this place hurts. I've got to look at it when I'm not on mobile; I love a good horror show and this comes close. *sob*
@@kymellin honestly it’s not all bad like the floors and walls seem to be in good shape…
@breadcrumb hoarder I guess be grateful for the basics? I've been trying to figure out the best Sins scenario for the build. Top contenders right now is a simulated motel using the roommate system or 100 babies. The concept of this build has been a nice distraction for the day.
This house has prime potential for the 100 baby challenge. Even if you combine some of the rooms or change some into bathrooms, you can still reserve a nursery wing vs child/teen rooms.
I’m definitely feeling nursing home with this build. With the new pack hopefully adding more elder-friendly activities with the new rec center lot type, this could be perfect for them!
That's dark, man.
It is a 1910's nursing home.
@@MmmmmmCoffee the extension in the 80s was part of the nursing home too. It's only fairly recently it because student accommodation
I'm guessing the cellar and the kitchen picket fence area can be used just incase the elders "get out of line"
@@NiaJustNia I hadn't seen anything actually referring to it as student accommodation. The nursing home part does make a bit more sense of the intended use/layout.
Imagine having once lived in this place and now seeing James building it :D
No friggin way, really????
@@alalalala57 Not me lol
@@alalalala57 It was a nursing home then student accommodation, so the chances are pretty good that someone who's at least been inside it at some point in their lives, even just to visit, is pretty decent
@@NiaJustNia makes sense, weird place to buy for just one family...unless maybe your very rich and constantly have family staying over
OMG! This is too insane to not furnish James! haha!
You need to do a collab with some other Simmers and have each of you guys do a specific set of rooms and then see what it looks like once everyone is done!
When you decided to build it in Del Sol Valley it all made sense. That lot is so big only a 19 bedroom house would work 😂
I saw this on Reddit and immediately thought James is going to sims this.
Yeah it was posted on James' subreddit I think we were all hoping he would tackle it!
Same
Except i live in australia and its used for student accommodation though ive personally never used it
For anyone wondering the real house this is based off of sold for AUS $1.11M which is roughly $717,000 USD
This house looks like a nightmare to me, but I've seen a show about a family with that many kids. This house could make them probably very happy. Well done on this monster of a floorplan James! I'm glad you went above and beyond to do some interior as well.
When I saw 19 bedrooms I thought it was gonna be a ridiculously expensive giant mansion. But this… this I could’ve never predicted. I’ve never heard of such a thing! In a regular neighborhood? It’s truly a monstrosity! Lmao
Loved how you put all the rooms in quotations when talking lol, I mean really, could we even call this a “house”? More like a claustrophobic compound lol. These poor students.
The more I watch the greater sense of horror I feel about this house. I mean truly…
tfw before it was for students, it was a nursing home... "OK pop pop, time to move into your new place! We'll visit, promise!" O_o
I saw the original article when it came out, it was actually a type of nursing home in the 1980s and went from residential (when orginally build) to commercial and recently after the owner died, (who rented out the rooms - mainly students rented it). The property was changed to residential again and is now up for sale. Most likely will be bulldozed and new housing will be built.
It all makes SO much more sense once you realise it was once a nursing home. It explains all the weird doors, and pass-through rooms, and odd bathrooms
Aside from this being a "house" and the maze of a floor plan, this is fairly normal for a college dorm building. It's not super different than the one I live in, except mine is three stories for about 30 rooms.
I’m halfway through the video and I was literally just thinking. I hope James uploads this so that we can renovate it and then you said that’s what you thought you should do. I think this would be a really fun house to renovate!😊😊
this reminds me of the time i tried to rebuild my uni accomodation and it just made me upset at how small it was lol
I feel like there are DEFINITELY not enough bathrooms for this
Edit: there's a lot of toilets, not a lot of showers
yes, and besides the queing for a bathrooms.. imagine having one or two washing machine/dryer combo with that many people
Yeah thats absolutely my issue with it. Also wth is with the bathroom with 2 showers?
omfg i found the video tour of it. the bathroom with the two showers next to each other - its just frosted glass. you would absolutely see the other person showering next to you. Very sims actually because they would be blurry
@@hez_am_i2448 lol!
I checked the real house, and you honestly made it look so similar and yet so much better, haha! The kitchen that has a cellar entrance actually has a white picket fence around the stairs to get into the cellar! Definitely a quirky place.
This would make a super chaotic but awesome University mini LP experience with 18 roommates using a more roommates mod haha...
This house is in my home state of South Australia. It used to be a nursing home, so its layout made sense then. Recently it became student housing as one of our universities is not too far away from this suburb. It’s not really odd considering it’s initial purpose, it’s only odd because it’s now being sold as a residential property - but probably wouldn’t sell as commercial as it’s quite run down. It’s very likely going to get demolished and have the land subdivided and built on, like most large lots nowadays. From memory it’s close to the beach too, so it’ll be a popular area to buy if it is redeveloped.
I've lived in a house with 17 bedrooms. It was a sorority house and it was designed as a sorority house, but there were 17 rooms. They were tiny and we slept 2 to a room. It was so much fun to live in a house with 33 of my closest friends (plus the house mom, whose apartment made 18 bedrooms total).
I saw this house online the other day 😂 it’s not too far from where I live! It was fun following the floor plan while watching you build it.
I read a domain article on this place earlier that said it had been originally used as a nursing home.
I don't know about everyone else, but I want to see James furnish this whole thing.
I suggest a shell challenge with some odd rules. 1. You can't delete any doors or windows (You can move/replace them) 2. You can repurpose rooms but have to be able to sleep 19 sims
The only way you could technically fit 19 Sims into that house, is if you used the For Rent update and use the cheat to increase the amount of Rental Units and just basically turn each of the bedrooms into a separate rented unit. And probably just make the rest of the building a shared space. But either way, that house plan looks like a nightmare and an eyesore. XD
After looking at the original listing I have two things to say:
1- James I'm impressed at how much your build matches the original
2- I've seen prisons with better facilities and bigger rooms
This build’s shell could be repurposed into a really cool community-focused lot since the lot is IRL in the middle of a suburb. Each of the “bedrooms” could be private work, study, and art spaces, and the main house could be a house for the owner/ groundskeeper. The “kitchen” for the “rooms” could be for community cooking seminars (as idk how things are in Australia, but in America public schools have an extremely small or nonexistent home ec budget). It would absolutely be a philanthropy project, but it would be awesome.
I’m gonna use this shell for my basegame + basegame mods and basegame cc save. My sim (yes, I currently only have 1 sim) has the savings to be a philanthropist. I’m gonna build this lot as a “library” but I’m gonna calc out the build and furniture and then deduct it from my sim’s money with commands. My sim’s career is freelance programming, so I don’t have to deal with the sim being required to return to the home lot that often. It’ll be slightly jank without GTW features, but it’ll finally be a new way to “play” my sim.
I want this for my new big brother household isntead of the one I'm using!! I saw this on facebook previously and happy you're building it!
James finds the blueprints for a creepy compound. Let's Gooo!
thats not a house, thats a compound.
I feel like a Spellcaster could buy this, adopt a bunch of abandoned occult kids and try to give them a better future 😄
I just binged the entire high school years series over the past couple weeks, so much fun! I’m excited to see Gen 3 of the series and how they will grow up
This is the most random house ever if you look at the photos on the website, one room has a guitar amp, a couple rooms have computers, random mideval shield, break room area and a kitchen area and random room with a refrigerator and a large wardrobe. This place is so random lol. Feel like it fits into a legal grey area lol. Start over maybe, maybe not may be more expensive to build new then to remodel.
A small hack I've learned with the walls/fences when connecting them to a lifted house is creating a seperate wall or fence you want to use and moving it to that small open section to the house. It doesn't raise the fence and it doesn't ruin the house :D
This sort of building random boxes as addition to the house was popular during the 60's- 80's. Bad floorplanning, box rooms, no real lighting, narrow hallways... and don't forget vinyl or linoleum floors.
The real house looks even more depressing than when James was building it 😮 Going to download it for sure trying to make something out of it without demolishing to many walls. It’s a challenge to make it better looking and livable the way the lay out is.
Imagen ringing the bell/knocking to this house and everyone running at the same time through the whole house to open the door
I feel like this would make a great orphanage. The big room with its own bathroom is for the person who runs it, the other bed/lounges are communal space, one with a tv and couches, one with toys. The littler one with a door outside could be the office. Big dining room, shared laundry, outside space. I think it could work. It’s wouldn’t be the most comfortable, but everyone could have their own room with a light and fan (except that one kid).
Is this weird? My college dorm was essentially a giant "house" stuck in the middle of a normal suburban neighborhood. Had way more than 19 rooms. If I had to guess I'd say at least 70. Honestly I liked it better than the normal on-campus dorms. Most of the rooms were singles, so you didn't have to share, and we had semi-private bathrooms (private bathroom shared between 3-4 people) instead of big communal bathrooms like standard dorms. And being on a normal street was nice. It you felt like you were in the real world, not locked away in some weird dystopia where everyone is 18-24.
The only thing it was missing was air conditioning. Dear god, the lack of air conditioning killed me in the warmer months.
EDIT: ok, having seen more of this layout I retract my question. we may have had a giant house in a suburban neighborhood with a ton of rooms, but at least our layout made sense what the hell is this
How many people per kitchen did you have? Or were you allowed to have hot plates? My friends happily added bedrooms in an apartment living room to keep their rent low, but opening their fridge was a nightmare.
Theres a house similar to this one near my college. It looks like two big normal houses next to each other but it actually is a mega house with 24 bedrooms, 2 common areas and every bedroom has a small bathroom in it (shower, sink and toilet nothing fancy). I know cause when I moved for college I went to tour that place. It's actually very nice.
An older home, retrofitted on a core plumbing system that was never intended for the extended population capacity? I can already see this place imploding the moment someone's toilet clogs.
This feels like it’s a layout of a fundie home where the parents actually respect each child’s privacy and give them their own space 😂
It’s the fact I’m counting 3.5 bathrooms for 19 bedrooms. Ones a master, and one has two toilets. Getting ready in the morning or ready for bed at night sounds like a NIGHTMARE
I’m so glad you’re building this! I’ve been seeing it shared everywhere.
I looked up the house after watching and it’s actually only has two bathrooms.
& you can find photos of the interior on Daily Mail.
It’s very bizarre!
this feels like prison architect
i'd like to see you revisit this house in the new landlord pack
I think the number of toilets and showers is fine. I used to live in a house with 5 people and only 1 toilet and shower. We managed fine for over 10 years. You have more options with this setup even though the ratio is close to the same. I hope they have additional hot water heaters though because otherwise, it would be tough with most people having to take cold showers.
Yeah, its def not council approved. Nowadays, in my council area in south Australia, you can only cover 60% of the property
It would be so much fun if you would make a series of building real life super weird and bizarre houses. The weirder the better. 😂
10/10 for the effort to build this and doing a great job.
2/10 for it existing in real life.
I saw an article for this house. It needs a lot of love or a bulldoze.
As for using it in sims, I could see it being used in a 100 baby challenge. Each kid gets a tiny room and an extra room for desk/hobbies.
It could be a fun challenge to try and renovate this house into something awesome. You could remove walls but not add any new ones.
I'm shocked that at any point that was once a functional nursing home. I know the 80s could be wild, but not putting nana, pop-pop and Mrs Matheson in the back sheds wild.
Somehow it being weird student accommodation makes it a bit worse. The rooms with lots of doors were probably prep/drug rooms or office or overnight nurse accommodation. Now they've been forced into being bedrooms, it's so much weirder
As someone who lived through the 80’s I can’t imagine putting any elder (ok, maybe the remaining Nazi scientists and the like…nah, too nice and humane for them) in this “facility”. Just wow.
When I was in college, our whole class traveled to a conference in another state and we stayed in a place almost exactly like this. It was an old lady's house and she had built like a gazilion of tiny bedrooms to rent to students. But it was kind of worse than this for 3 reasons: 1) there was, I kid you not, only one bathroom and one shower for all the rooms, and the door was broken 2) the whole thing was on the second floor of her house, and the stairs to get there were really really steep and 3) we had to share the ridiculously small bedrooms, so it was like two people sleeping together on a single bed in these really small rooms. Oh, and you could tell that she actually divided every room in half at some point, because all the windows were like half in one room and half on the other, the wall was built like in the middle of the windows. It was not a pleasant experience.
Oh I saw this on your Reddit I’m so glad you saw it and attempted it 😂
This “house” is something you would fin in The Twilight Zone
this is the most cursed house I've ever seen. It made my girlfriend (she's an artchitect) cry a bit. You said "student accomodations" but I think it's more likely from a cult or something
This feels so seedy like you would walk past it and cringe from crime
This house could be really profitable in Sims 4 4 Rent.
Someone get Kevin to use this for his next attempt at having too many roommates
This looks like something GrayStillPlays would have concocted when he was doing Sims videos
Lol I was going to try building this when I saw the floorplan a few days ago! Great Aussie minds think alike 😉
I renovated this and turned it into a police station/prison. It's got cells, interrogation rooms, evidence lockup and "the yard" where Sims can get their required time for exercise. I'm actually pretty proud, it was fun to build. I kept it pretty much the same, except some walls got knocked down to allow for bigger cells.
The amount of bedrooms reminded me of the prison challenge from 8 years ago hahahah
Currently playing a sim who I plan to have a cult/commune. This hell house will be perfect, thanks James!
Reminds me of the 3 brothers house with teeny tiny rooms squished together like a jigsaw puzzle.
The fact that this house is only one story is horrifying… my aunt and uncle flipped a 13 bedroom house that was freaky to be in but it had a second floor and a basement. Also a spiral staircase which was fun tbh
Would be interesting to see what this looked like when it was built in the 1910 and then after initial expansion in 1980!!! It’s current configuration is a hot mess so maybe make this a reno or shell challenge?
Reminds me of being in a college dorm, but worse because the floorplan is so confusing.
19 is still not enough for all the Bigwallets (and their egos) 😅
From the listing “This highly sought after coastal home offers an incredible floorplan” lmao well that’s a bit of an overstatement!
A 19 bedroom house oh my goodness
Ah yes, gotta love Australian real estate where $1.4 million buys you a literal shack
make this for rent
I loved that you made this house. I saw the same article this was in and was pretty keen to recreate it. I chose to just stick with what felt like the original house so I don't have 19 bedrooms but yours looks amazing. I always love watching your builds.
19 bedrooms but only 2 bathrooms, even with 5 toilets, 1 of them is an ensuite. That's not gunna be fun for the unfortunate people staying there...
james: shell challenge!!
me: hovering above the bulldoz the lot button
Maybe its an orphanage, this is where your sims Can buy, i mean adopt a child😁
You need to revisit this in rent for riches
Oh I'm definitely renovating this into a nice 8 bedroom home.
Special feature: the house takes off when u turn on all the ceiling fans
Ok as soon as you said it was student accommodation that made slightly more sense but THAT'S IN A REGULAR SUBURB RIP THEIR NEIGHBOURS
lol my first thought was a group home but student housing makes sense too
Why is it all on one floor too? 😂 it probably would look less weird if they made it smaller & 2 stories.
It's wasn't built as student accommodation. It was built over 110 years ago as a nursing home.
I feel bad for anyone living in it, it looks like a death trap in case of a fire. It feels like city council turned down an apartment complex, due to safety concerns or local regulations, and the builder created this gem instead.
You should call this build the Landlord special
For the bed/lounge room...Murphy bed!
Thank you! I love it! I will renouvate it!
I already thought it seemed like a fire hazard before you started putting in a million fire places...
7:58 James: Because it is... a lot.
My mind: Of course it is. A residental lot
Oh this is giving me American dorm vibes.
You should have a bigwallet family member have a series using this house
I might take this challenge and remodel this to make sense and functional
James! I challenge you to completely renovate this build in modern contemporary vibes. My conditions are that you can add rooms, move rooms, but cannot delete any of the currently existing rooms/walls. Good luck! Sending love to you and Deli all the way from Scotland 🏴💗.