simsie I'm trying to order a case with your code but its not working...can't go past the information page update: just had to wait a few hours and it worked! 🙃
I'd like to see Kayla try to recreate an irl European house for once - not a British one though, there are plenty of those out there. An older Eastern European apartment or like a modern German suburban or a French cottage. The floorplans and styles are totally different from the U.S. and a challenge to recreate in the Sims bc the build catalogue is SO America-centric. (no one will ever make me use those weird plastic horizontal boards for the outside, for example)
I lived in a house that used to have two garages, and the landlord had one remodeled into an extra room before we moved in, which I used as my bedroom. It had a sliding glass door where the garage door used to be. It was actually a really nice room, other than having no heating or air conditioning, but with a space heater the room was fine.
The Sims devs should allow us to tag each room we build, so we can help our sims understand the actual type of room, which will reflect on their behavior, like forcing them to eat in the dining room instead of the living room.
For scale help, I've found that 1 tile is 2.5 sqft. It took a lot of messing around and looking up what people online were saying. So many people were either saying 2 sqft or 3 sqft so I thought "why not 2.5?" and it works! Divide every measurement you see and round to the nearest whole number. Some plans don't have measurements everywhere so what I do is find something divides evenly into 2.5 and put a grid overlay evenly so that the the grid represents the number of tiles. This is also how I double check everything. EDIT: For non-imperial users this is about 0.75 square meters (meters^2 is the same thing if you see that on floor plans). 0.762 is more accurate, but working with numbers that fit neater into measurements is better in my opinion. Just pick whatever works best for you!
That makes a lot of sense, especially when you consider a standard range is 30", I think 18cu ft refrigerators are 28-30" also. Arm chairs, same or a little larger. Width of a twin mattress is a bit wider, but we all know the game lacks in bed sizes, understandably. Single beds in this game are unrealistically narrow.
It feels a bit weird to give advice on a sims video, but when I've tried to recreate real life floor plans in the past, I've found it easier if you start with the kitchen. Most of the time the floor plan has the kitchen counters included, and in the sims every counter is one tile so that gives you the scale. It's not foolproof, but I think it helps
Tip: if you remove the ceiling part of a porch (not the roof), you can drag the column up on so you don’t have to stack the columns. Hopefully this makes sense.
Actually, if you place a column and then click on it and use the key that is used to size up objects, the column will go up, even if you still had the ceiling. Edit: maybe you need move objects on, not sure
I’d really love to see Kayla do a build with no pack restrictions. I know she sticks to base game/one pack so more people can download the builds but I’d love to see how much she could do using everything available to her!
While this house is super cute, I wouldn't classify it as recreating a real floorplan. She recreated the exterior from the front and then created a floorplan that she wanted inside. Not that this is a complaint because I'm off to download the house from the gallery (I love furnishing empty shells), but just an observation.
I always laugh when I see Sims builders putting in bathrooms. I've had it drilled into my head that you never put a bathroom which opens into a kitchen. It's called a "functional obsolescence". But it also gives me a bit of the creeps because bathrooms are icky and shouldn't be too close to a place where you are fixing food.
Yeah, there's a reason the original floorplan split them up with a hallway and stairwell. Also, of all the floorplans to be complaining about the backside profile, I feel like she was mostly complaining to complain. A much better broken up backside than a lot of houses in the original take.
According to the plan, the study does not bump out. That first-floor gable roof you see on the far right (when looking at the front) is covering the living room. The small shed roof off of that, is covering the fireplace box. To "fix" it, you should drag that "kitchen" rear wall out past the living room wall and create that dining room. When you move those stairs, you're going to need to rearrange the upstairs now also. I tend to use the rule of thumb that one game tile is equal to 3 sq ft. That works out fairly well for me.
Kayak needs to build a floorplan as exactly as she can one of these days. I usually build mine room by room, adjusting for better accuracy, and then focus on the outside, and they look pretty good. Don't be a coward /jk
I love doing actual floorplans. I look them up and then try to recreate them. Old english manors with backstairs for the butler etc are my favorite. Figuring out what goes where and trying to make things fit and line up are what makes it interesting. Limiting yourself is half the challenge.
If anyone finds themselves with the door clipping into the second floor, try covering the clipping door part with a platform! Cool for a teen or kids room and covers the door!
I love recreating real floor plans ! What's funny is that I work exactly the opposite way, looking at the exact plan and trying to figure out the scale based on doors, kitchen counters and bathroom stuff that's included in the floor plan and building room by room, piercing it together like a puzzle. The exterior is typically the very last thing I do. I wanna try the same plan and compare results.
The easiest way I've found to work off a RL floorplan is to make one of the bathrooms, and then adjust the scale of the rest of the house to match proportionally to the bathroom. Sims bathrooms and RL bathrooms are VERY close in scale - nearly 1:1 for most standard bathroom set ups. If that doesn't work, the kitchen is mostly the same as well - counters, sinks, stoves, fridges, etc are all 1:1
Yeah is one gonna get took down this is the first time I’ve been here when it happens😭😭(I’ve been in Kayaks community for a while I’m just usually not this on time so idk what happens)
Totally!! When she was like "This feels too small so actually, I won't put a wall there and it'll all be open plan" I was a little disappointed because I am very much not used to such open plan! Also, as a Brit, to me those room sizes looked just fine haha
Never actually thought about the facade vs back thing but…. yeah. My mom’s house is a very cute 95yo Dutch Colonial, but the back has absolutely no compositional balance. Also one of the bedrooms has a window inside of the closet. I guess we can remind ourselves that real life houses are wacky too.
i just wish kayla would stop limiting herself to base game. the column issue could’ve been solved so easily, i don’t know why she decided to go for the atrocious base game ones 😭
Maybe you can afford all the packs but there are people who can't and I personally think it's really nice of her to make a build that more people are able to re-create.
@@dbseamz i agree, but it’s also nice to get a different looking house once in a while. i’m not the only one that thinks that, there’s comments like mine under her every base game build
Lilsimsie: Today I would recreate a house from a floorplan! Continues to use the two gestalts of the house as reference, despise the it doesn't give her the depth information, she need. The bumb out is not part of the study, but part of living/kitchen(you americans call it great room) and a lot longer.... the dinning room stick out a lot more, so there is space for the kitchen. Basically you turned the living 90 degrees counterclockwise and took the back porch as part of dinning room, remove the stick out so the study wasn't L shaped.
I have been trying to dabble lately into building, thank you for explaining how to do and utilize some of the items, it really gives me ideas and shows me how I can build
I really like using blueprints to build too 🥰 it's so nice. also I usually just use the spray paint garage door. or yea just do what you do to make one an then turn the room into recreational, gym, hobby, More like a laundry room kind of thing
With the clipping front door, you could just make the entire second floor on a platform. That way the entire floor is still level but then the clipping gets hidden!
When I was playing TS2, I used my large book of floor plans, which I got from Home Depot years ago. The book is about as thick, or thicker, than one of those old phone books from a large town/city. It's fun to look through when you're bored.
This is how I learned to build houses in the Sims too, only I mainly used older houses, Prewar, Inter-war and post war/mid century homes. Because of that I tend to build houses with separate rooms as opposed to open floorplans. I'm also really anal about having proper support walls in my homes instead of what LilSimsie doses with her open layout homes.
When I recreate real houses in the sims, I "draw" the floorplan with Excel first. That really helps with scaling and you can immediately choose an appropriate lot size
I’ve had a clear phone case for over a year and I kept saying “I’m gonna get a new one” because clear is boring but I kept forgetting. Thanks for the sponsorship because I paused your video to order a super cute one off Casetify!!!
I have actually furnished this Shell and I am really proud on what I've done! I don't really know how to make a shell so this is a great start to do a "House" I guess even tho I didn't made the shell. I only have Basegame, Seasons and City Living Pack :D
Omg Kayla, I totally understand your struggle, I tried building my parents home from memory in the sims, and obviously they have a garage, so I ended up making the garage just decorative and found this garage graffitti thing from the city living pack.
i like how you say you dont like something and just hide it like i would do. some videos ive seen always try too hard and use too much downloaded stuff, its just more natural and relatable the way you do it. i study architecture and i actually like this method of playing with the sims while comparing it to real life
I just made a Red Farmhouse trying to follow a real life floorplan and it is nearly impossible in the sims due to the 1 tile wall lengths. I think Paralives will be better when it comes to re-creating real life floor plans because you can make the walls (and everything else) any length you want so you could do a wall length that would be half a tile or a quarter tile in the Sims. Still a fun challenge to make real floor plans in the Sims though :)
I think it’s hilarious How the “driveway” is directly in front of a buncha plants and not accessible to the road- despite there being a lowered sidewalk for it ☠️🤣
OMG!!! I downloaded this building the day you uploaded in the sims gallery and so far is the house for my legacy family. I love it, it's so good, cute and perfect for a family❤️ Thanks for creating the house😘
I love building in the Sims 4, and have taken inspiration from houses I have driven past like "That's cool looking, I'll make that in the Sims" but never once have I considered looking up actual house floorplans. So thank you for that suggestion. I was starting to run out of ideas.
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I have a challenge idea for you! (Unless you've done it already, lol) Build a house using ONLY styled rooms! You can decorate the exterior as you wish of course, but I think it would be interesting to see!
Hey, maybe try looking at European houses to use, where I'm from they usually look good from most angles 👍🏼 also they are a bit of a different style (not blue Suburban 😂) so a bit more of a challenge
That turned out GREAT! Here is how I transfer measurement into the Sims 4 when building from a floor plan. Where I see a window, I decide on whether it would be one, two or three floor tiles depending on what the window looks like. I do the same with objects on the floor plan if there are any. Say I see a counter, that is one tile. A single window next to is = one tile. The same with wall space between. It's hard to explain but going by that guide, I count how many tiles from the farthest on the left side to the right side of the house. Then I count how many tiles from front to back including patios and porches. After that I choose what size lot to use accordingly. I hope that helps. There are always some parts where I still have to improvise as we do not have half tiles. 🙂
i like small homey houses like this in sims because you can actually envision yourself living there which makes it funner to play in. huge house in the sims are more unrealistic and not as fun to play in
I put the other one on my tv just in time before you put it on private. I get to watch both of them 😍 (I’m watching the other one right now because I finished this one)
I love all your builds so much!! you're so talented and have a lot of cute little obssessions which I totally relate to lol! I wish you had more base game one story houses for both small and large families as MY obssession is having a one story hoyse hahaha. Thank you
I really hate that there are no plain and straight collumns in the base game. I love to add collumns to my builds because they make everything look more finished, but I always have to use these ones she used in this build with that dumb thing at the bottom. It really bothers me. Anyways I rlly love all your builds and your content simsie, I'm literally watching you for years now 🥰
Would it be possible to do a non-American style challenge? MANY of these builds end up very suburban American and I think trying some different European styles, or even medieval styles, would be really cool! The shapes of the house are a huge part of the American vibe, I think.
Thank you Kayla for your videos. I play the Sims differently now and love playing more. Your speed runs have inspired me to spend more time building and designing my houses and in CAS. I look forward to your next videos.
This one is 100% going in my library. Will have to try and do something to get it below 20k for a single, starter sim or maybe a YA and 2 elder parents for a little extra cash. I'll figure it out. The bones are just so good! What you were saying about looking for houses like this is exactly what I did this time when I started my current legacy. Previous to this I just started fully furnished and moved my Sims around as they got money so I'll admit I didn't make the best choice in terms of exterior bones last time. Now I know better what to look for. Still, I got 4 upstairs bedrooms and a downstairs nursery space for under 20k so I'm not really complaining!
Growing up my mom was in property management and she would always bring home the apartment floorplans for me and I began drawing furniture on the floorplans. I then started drawing my own floorplans. This is actually what later brought me to Sims :)
It's so weird to see Kayla using terrain paint in the middle of the build after getting used to "terrain paint is glitched, I'll use it in the end" phase we're in sksk
pro tip: if you can't drag the column up further because there's a roof piece blocking it, you can click on the column and use the bracket keys [ ] to make it taller! the right bracket ] makes it taller and the left bracket [ makes it smaller
I build all my houses from floor plans. And I fund it easier to follow tha plan first. And then do exterior. It really helps with scale as you can easily figure out that door will need one tile, do as fridge, shower ets. Which windows are going to be 2 or 3 tiles. And that bedroom has to be at least 4 tiles wide. Just something that makes it easier for me.
bonkers to watch this video and come to the slow realization that you are building the house i am playing in at this very moment, i didn’t even realize it was a recent build
Gives me so much hope that a seasoned "professional" builder has the same issues I do. Lol. The house is gorgeous! I also tend to gravitate towards Seasons build items, they seem the most "real".
Click the bracket key to make the columns taller. Usually the bracket sizes up objects, but if it's already placed the bracket key will just make it taller.
2:24 we literally have a garage door from city living and i use that to play pretend. Its also good for skill since my kids can draw on it. It really does the difference you should consider it.
Tips for lilsimsie: if you copy that long column (the one that's allowed to be two floors because it doesn't have a roof), you can place it on the corners of the house (the corners you had to place two columns on because of the roof) and it will stay as tall as two floors. You have to have bb.moveobjects on tho. (hope this made sense, it's a little hard to get across in text)
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hi did u mean to post to vids
I’m really sorry about the incident 😅
@@biscuityy what incident
@@jjjay0w0 She posted 2 videos in one day on accident.
simsie I'm trying to order a case with your code but its not working...can't go past the information page
update: just had to wait a few hours and it worked! 🙃
I'd like to see Kayla try to recreate an irl European house for once - not a British one though, there are plenty of those out there. An older Eastern European apartment or like a modern German suburban or a French cottage. The floorplans and styles are totally different from the U.S. and a challenge to recreate in the Sims bc the build catalogue is SO America-centric. (no one will ever make me use those weird plastic horizontal boards for the outside, for example)
Oh yes id love to see that
as a balkan person i would love this very much
polish houses might be fun
As a German who lives in a 200 year old school, I’d love it
Yes!! Or like Swedish country house or old Finnish house!
I use “garage” spaces as a bedroom for teens sometimes as well, makes it feel like they have their own space 💕
I'm gonna use that idea to make teenage dirtbag bedrooms lol
i like that idea I might use it
I lived in a house that used to have two garages, and the landlord had one remodeled into an extra room before we moved in, which I used as my bedroom. It had a sliding glass door where the garage door used to be. It was actually a really nice room, other than having no heating or air conditioning, but with a space heater the room was fine.
@@ville666sora cool
I do this too when recreating floorplans! I always do like 2 bedrooms and a shared bathroom
The Sims devs should allow us to tag each room we build, so we can help our sims understand the actual type of room, which will reflect on their behavior, like forcing them to eat in the dining room instead of the living room.
Lol my husband and I are always eating in the living room irl 😆
Or at least mark furniture as preferred, like the entrance door.
@@marchernandez4596 oo that's a good idea
@@marchernandez4596 I know in the Sims 3, you can Ctrl-click on an exterior door and set it as the front door!
@@jordannimz5180 So can you un the Sims 4
For scale help, I've found that 1 tile is 2.5 sqft. It took a lot of messing around and looking up what people online were saying. So many people were either saying 2 sqft or 3 sqft so I thought "why not 2.5?" and it works! Divide every measurement you see and round to the nearest whole number. Some plans don't have measurements everywhere so what I do is find something divides evenly into 2.5 and put a grid overlay evenly so that the the grid represents the number of tiles. This is also how I double check everything.
EDIT: For non-imperial users this is about 0.75 square meters (meters^2 is the same thing if you see that on floor plans). 0.762 is more accurate, but working with numbers that fit neater into measurements is better in my opinion. Just pick whatever works best for you!
That makes a lot of sense, especially when you consider a standard range is 30", I think 18cu ft refrigerators are 28-30" also. Arm chairs, same or a little larger. Width of a twin mattress is a bit wider, but we all know the game lacks in bed sizes, understandably. Single beds in this game are unrealistically narrow.
Just for clarity, is that 2.5 ft^2, or 2.5 ft square i.e. 2.5ft per side?
What's that in meters?
@Antoni Zajkowski Very close to 3/4 of a meter! :)
@@ScooterBond1970 those are the same thing
It feels a bit weird to give advice on a sims video, but when I've tried to recreate real life floor plans in the past, I've found it easier if you start with the kitchen. Most of the time the floor plan has the kitchen counters included, and in the sims every counter is one tile so that gives you the scale. It's not foolproof, but I think it helps
I do this too
Same
Omg that's actually really helpful! Thanks!
Bathrooms too
showers and baths are also good for this!
Tip: if you remove the ceiling part of a porch (not the roof), you can drag the column up on so you don’t have to stack the columns. Hopefully this makes sense.
Yes!! You can also use it on another part with no roof, extend it as tall as you want, then move it back to where the roof is
Thanks for the tip!
Actually, if you place a column and then click on it and use the key that is used to size up objects, the column will go up, even if you still had the ceiling.
Edit: maybe you need move objects on, not sure
@@tomassalgado9194 I can confirm that this works I use this trick every time I build. Just use [ and ] keys on your keyboard
I’d really love to see Kayla do a build with no pack restrictions. I know she sticks to base game/one pack so more people can download the builds but I’d love to see how much she could do using everything available to her!
two videos in the same day ??? this is a blessing, thank you kayak
edit: i know it was probably a mistake, i was just joking. lets just enjoy it :)
It was probably an accident...
woooooooooooooah :0
@@willgpb_ lmao, i know, i just thought it was funny + more simsie content !
Literally the best part of my entire day, this almost never happens 😂
@@willgpb_ Pretty sure we all know that-
While this house is super cute, I wouldn't classify it as recreating a real floorplan. She recreated the exterior from the front and then created a floorplan that she wanted inside. Not that this is a complaint because I'm off to download the house from the gallery (I love furnishing empty shells), but just an observation.
Yes. I found the differences from the floor plan as drawn really confusing and thought I was seeing it wrong.
I always laugh when I see Sims builders putting in bathrooms. I've had it drilled into my head that you never put a bathroom which opens into a kitchen. It's called a "functional obsolescence". But it also gives me a bit of the creeps because bathrooms are icky and shouldn't be too close to a place where you are fixing food.
Yeah, there's a reason the original floorplan split them up with a hallway and stairwell.
Also, of all the floorplans to be complaining about the backside profile, I feel like she was mostly complaining to complain. A much better broken up backside than a lot of houses in the original take.
According to the plan, the study does not bump out. That first-floor gable roof you see on the far right (when looking at the front) is covering the living room. The small shed roof off of that, is covering the fireplace box. To "fix" it, you should drag that "kitchen" rear wall out past the living room wall and create that dining room. When you move those stairs, you're going to need to rearrange the upstairs now also. I tend to use the rule of thumb that one game tile is equal to 3 sq ft. That works out fairly well for me.
That's a good idea. Sometimes things don't add up and it's to aggravating
kayak is either really generous today or someone has made a happy accident 🤭
Kayak says she ✨CLUMSY✨for a reason 😂
a good accident 🥰
It was a happy little accident she tweeted about it 🫣🙈
Wha happened?
@@kerkyberky6793 She posted two videos today on accident. The other video was deleted.
1:50 City Living already has a garage door I think it's called "DIY rollup garage mural"
but it's not functional as a door which is what she means
@@leeblock9573 Yeah but imo it's still a better choice than faking one
Was thinking the same thing! I usually put one on the inside and the outside
yes omg i use it all the time for garages. but she was doing a basegame one.
There's actually the same door in base game's degub with more colors
Kayak needs to build a floorplan as exactly as she can one of these days. I usually build mine room by room, adjusting for better accuracy, and then focus on the outside, and they look pretty good. Don't be a coward /jk
I love doing actual floorplans. I look them up and then try to recreate them. Old english manors with backstairs for the butler etc are my favorite. Figuring out what goes where and trying to make things fit and line up are what makes it interesting. Limiting yourself is half the challenge.
i cant believe that the lilsimsie community has collectively decided that we were going to start calling kayla kayak :')
She’s been called Kayak for 3-4 years, so it’s not new really or anything 😂
who’s kayla? her names kayak….?????
@@newestsinatra kayak supremacy
Start??
Did someone’s autocorrect change Kayla to Kayak? I know this started somehow started with chat.
I wish you worked inside to the outside I really like the original floor plan. Would of been interesting to see it in sims
I LOVE doing this. When sims 1 and 2 came out, I did this for hours. To me the sims is basically a Floorplan 3d simulation.
Same. I honestly don't care about the "gameplay" I just want the build mode 😂
I really wish she followed the floor plan more
same. title was a bit misleading
She changed the side that the pop out in the back came from and tbh. Have to click off because I know it’ll bug me 😬
I know right..
I loove the seasons stuff. Not just the windows, doors and stone/woods. The furniture too. Underrated pack for build/buy!!
If anyone finds themselves with the door clipping into the second floor, try covering the clipping door part with a platform! Cool for a teen or kids room and covers the door!
I love recreating real floor plans !
What's funny is that I work exactly the opposite way, looking at the exact plan and trying to figure out the scale based on doors, kitchen counters and bathroom stuff that's included in the floor plan and building room by room, piercing it together like a puzzle. The exterior is typically the very last thing I do.
I wanna try the same plan and compare results.
For anyone who doesn’t know why some walls don’t auto-place those columns from the wallpaper, it has the be two tiles wide off the house for bumpouts
That's very interesting, thank you! Do you know if there's a way to forcibly add the wallpaper columns?
@@DogNamedWatson i don’t think so, i think its really just that it has to be a minimum of 2 squares off the original shape of the house
The easiest way I've found to work off a RL floorplan is to make one of the bathrooms, and then adjust the scale of the rest of the house to match proportionally to the bathroom. Sims bathrooms and RL bathrooms are VERY close in scale - nearly 1:1 for most standard bathroom set ups. If that doesn't work, the kitchen is mostly the same as well - counters, sinks, stoves, fridges, etc are all 1:1
once again, kayak has accidentally posted two videos in one day 😭💔
That’s a good thing,
Yeah is one gonna get took down this is the first time I’ve been here when it happens😭😭(I’ve been in Kayaks community for a while I’m just usually not this on time so idk what happens)
You are amazing sims player
she’s so real for this 🤞🏽❤️
"Happy little accidents"
As an English person when looking at the floorplans in these houses I have two thoughts 1) it'd be so bloody cold 2) it'd be so expensive to heat
Ikr, American houses are so big compared to ours
Totally!! When she was like "This feels too small so actually, I won't put a wall there and it'll all be open plan" I was a little disappointed because I am very much not used to such open plan! Also, as a Brit, to me those room sizes looked just fine haha
Yeah
Never actually thought about the facade vs back thing but…. yeah. My mom’s house is a very cute 95yo Dutch Colonial, but the back has absolutely no compositional balance. Also one of the bedrooms has a window inside of the closet. I guess we can remind ourselves that real life houses are wacky too.
i just wish kayla would stop limiting herself to base game. the column issue could’ve been solved so easily, i don’t know why she decided to go for the atrocious base game ones 😭
So more people can use her builds. Most people don't have all the packs and it's more accessible if she's not using a big mix of packs.
Maybe you can afford all the packs but there are people who can't and I personally think it's really nice of her to make a build that more people are able to re-create.
@@dbseamz i agree, but it’s also nice to get a different looking house once in a while. i’m not the only one that thinks that, there’s comments like mine under her every base game build
Lilsimsie: Today I would recreate a house from a floorplan!
Continues to use the two gestalts of the house as reference, despise the it doesn't give her the depth information, she need. The bumb out is not part of the study, but part of living/kitchen(you americans call it great room) and a lot longer.... the dinning room stick out a lot more, so there is space for the kitchen. Basically you turned the living 90 degrees counterclockwise and took the back porch as part of dinning room, remove the stick out so the study wasn't L shaped.
I am a interior designer, and I think this is the perfect way to learn layouts. It’s how I’ve been doing it in the sims for years.
kayla, use the bracket keys [ and ] to raise the columns all the way up if the roof is restricting you
I love this house the best I think it was one of your better builds! I think you should let Stanley have a go on having a family! Role play with him!
I LOVE how well kayla explained her roofing technique, as a beginner this was so helpful
It's funny to me how slowly throughout the video I realized that this is the house I downloaded for my legacy save weeks ago 😭
how can i find it in the gallery??
Thank you a lot for two videos in one day!! I watch your videos a lot while drawing/writing, so this is a blessing :)
I have been trying to dabble lately into building, thank you for explaining how to do and utilize some of the items, it really gives me ideas and shows me how I can build
Thank you for making this. I'm not very good at exteriors but I'd say i'm okay at interiors and I love decorating them. This is very helpful
I really like using blueprints to build too 🥰 it's so nice. also I usually just use the spray paint garage door. or yea just do what you do to make one an then turn the room into recreational, gym, hobby, More like a laundry room kind of thing
oh not just a general build video but also lowkey a roofing guide and just general tips and tricks ahhh i love you kayak
"I end up struggling with scale"
the floorplan literally gave you the dimensions of the rooms - just translate ft to tiles
With the clipping front door, you could just make the entire second floor on a platform. That way the entire floor is still level but then the clipping gets hidden!
When I was playing TS2, I used my large book of floor plans, which I got from Home Depot years ago. The book is about as thick, or thicker, than one of those old phone books from a large town/city. It's fun to look through when you're bored.
This is how I learned to build houses in the Sims too, only I mainly used older houses, Prewar, Inter-war and post war/mid century homes. Because of that I tend to build houses with separate rooms as opposed to open floorplans. I'm also really anal about having proper support walls in my homes instead of what LilSimsie doses with her open layout homes.
When I recreate real houses in the sims, I "draw" the floorplan with Excel first. That really helps with scaling and you can immediately choose an appropriate lot size
Perfect timing, just sat down for dinner ready to watch a video of yours and you posted! LETS GO
2 posts in one day? I’m here for it, even if kayak made a mistake
TWO UPLOADS!!??
What I was thinking!!
no literally 😭😭
Honestly knowing that such a skilled Sims builder struggles to makes me feel relieved about my own struggles
I like looking up mansions for sale in Florida and then trying to build those. It's so much fun when you can see how they furnish it.
Ive decided the reason kayak has blessed us with two videos is because i’m sick and need the extra simsie content 😭👍
omg get well soon!
same i literally have covid and nothing to watch 😭
I’ve had a clear phone case for over a year and I kept saying “I’m gonna get a new one” because clear is boring but I kept forgetting. Thanks for the sponsorship because I paused your video to order a super cute one off Casetify!!!
I have actually furnished this Shell and I am really proud on what I've done! I don't really know how to make a shell so this is a great start to do a "House" I guess even tho I didn't made the shell. I only have Basegame, Seasons and City Living Pack :D
Omg Kayla, I totally understand your struggle, I tried building my parents home from memory in the sims, and obviously they have a garage, so I ended up making the garage just decorative and found this garage graffitti thing from the city living pack.
I was half way through the other video 😩😩
It’s okay I’ll finish it when it comes out again
we do have garages in the sims 4 btw if you didn't know they come in city living just to let you know :)
i like how you say you dont like something and just hide it like i would do. some videos ive seen always try too hard and use too much downloaded stuff, its just more natural and relatable the way you do it. i study architecture and i actually like this method of playing with the sims while comparing it to real life
I just made a Red Farmhouse trying to follow a real life floorplan and it is nearly impossible in the sims due to the 1 tile wall lengths. I think Paralives will be better when it comes to re-creating real life floor plans because you can make the walls (and everything else) any length you want so you could do a wall length that would be half a tile or a quarter tile in the Sims. Still a fun challenge to make real floor plans in the Sims though :)
I think it’s hilarious How the “driveway” is directly in front of a buncha plants and not accessible to the road- despite there being a lowered sidewalk for it ☠️🤣
For recreating floor plans, I always divide the measurements by 3 (so 3 ft = 1 tile) and that has proven to be the easiest method for me.
OMG!!! I downloaded this building the day you uploaded in the sims gallery and so far is the house for my legacy family. I love it, it's so good, cute and perfect for a family❤️ Thanks for creating the house😘
I love building in the Sims 4, and have taken inspiration from houses I have driven past like "That's cool looking, I'll make that in the Sims" but never once have I considered looking up actual house floorplans. So thank you for that suggestion. I was starting to run out of ideas.
POV: Anyone else seen there notifications and got exited to watch 2 VIDS in 1 day but the one that u decided u wanted to watch first because it looked a bit more appealing to u SHE DELETED BECAUSE IT WASNT MEANT TO BE POSTED TODAY :(
I have a challenge idea for you! (Unless you've done it already, lol) Build a house using ONLY styled rooms! You can decorate the exterior as you wish of course, but I think it would be interesting to see!
Hey, maybe try looking at European houses to use, where I'm from they usually look good from most angles 👍🏼 also they are a bit of a different style (not blue Suburban 😂) so a bit more of a challenge
I'm in the process of building my own house and it's coming out extremely well!
That turned out GREAT! Here is how I transfer measurement into the Sims 4 when building from a floor plan. Where I see a window, I decide on whether it would be one, two or three floor tiles depending on what the window looks like. I do the same with objects on the floor plan if there are any. Say I see a counter, that is one tile. A single window next to is = one tile. The same with wall space between. It's hard to explain but going by that guide, I count how many tiles from the farthest on the left side to the right side of the house. Then I count how many tiles from front to back including patios and porches. After that I choose what size lot to use accordingly. I hope that helps. There are always some parts where I still have to improvise as we do not have half tiles. 🙂
I lay down the floor plan shape down first and then start building.
i like small homey houses like this in sims because you can actually envision yourself living there which makes it funner to play in. huge house in the sims are more unrealistic and not as fun to play in
I put the other one on my tv just in time before you put it on private. I get to watch both of them 😍 (I’m watching the other one right now because I finished this one)
I accidentally went to bed at 2am last night because I was hyperfocusing on recreating my house in the sims haha so this is great timing!
I love all your builds so much!! you're so talented and have a lot of cute little obssessions which I totally relate to lol!
I wish you had more base game one story houses for both small and large families as MY obssession is having a one story hoyse hahaha. Thank you
I really hate that there are no plain and straight collumns in the base game. I love to add collumns to my builds because they make everything look more finished, but I always have to use these ones she used in this build with that dumb thing at the bottom. It really bothers me.
Anyways I rlly love all your builds and your content simsie, I'm literally watching you for years now 🥰
Two videos in one day??
I'm blessed❤️❤️
Prob a mistake but I'm happy
i love furnishing houses but don’t always want to build them from scratch, so this is perfect! thanks kayak
tip: you can force raise or lower columns by using ctrl + brackets. it also works on weird roof limitations
Would it be possible to do a non-American style challenge? MANY of these builds end up very suburban American and I think trying some different European styles, or even medieval styles, would be really cool! The shapes of the house are a huge part of the American vibe, I think.
Thank you Kayla for your videos. I play the Sims differently now and love playing more. Your speed runs have inspired me to spend more time building and designing my houses and in CAS. I look forward to your next videos.
yesss i love furnishing houses thank you for this 💖💖
You should try recreating other countries’ houses! I’m Brazilian and it would be so fun seeing what you think is weird about our houses here
This one is 100% going in my library. Will have to try and do something to get it below 20k for a single, starter sim or maybe a YA and 2 elder parents for a little extra cash. I'll figure it out. The bones are just so good!
What you were saying about looking for houses like this is exactly what I did this time when I started my current legacy. Previous to this I just started fully furnished and moved my Sims around as they got money so I'll admit I didn't make the best choice in terms of exterior bones last time. Now I know better what to look for. Still, I got 4 upstairs bedrooms and a downstairs nursery space for under 20k so I'm not really complaining!
I’m gonna comment this again: if you ever make a legacy challenge with Stanley, PLEASE convert the hot dog suit into a toddler costume!!
what do you mean convert it into a toddler costume? like with modding? simsie doesnt make mods.
@@bbear2695 I mean it as in meshing the hot dog costume into a toddlers costume
@@kandiceondemand meshing is still modding. cc is still mods. simsie isnt a modder, shes just a simmer
2 videos in 1 day? Kayla treating us today
I can’t find the second video did she delete it?
@@yaelkoller8949 she did!
Kayla! Thank you so much for talking through how did the roof! Great job 🥰
Growing up my mom was in property management and she would always bring home the apartment floorplans for me and I began drawing furniture on the floorplans. I then started drawing my own floorplans. This is actually what later brought me to Sims :)
I never thought of looking up floor plans for building, will have to try that, might improve my builds by a lot. lol. Love your builds.
It's so weird to see Kayla using terrain paint in the middle of the build after getting used to "terrain paint is glitched, I'll use it in the end" phase we're in sksk
pro tip: if you can't drag the column up further because there's a roof piece blocking it, you can click on the column and use the bracket keys [ ] to make it taller! the right bracket ] makes it taller and the left bracket [ makes it smaller
I build all my houses from floor plans. And I fund it easier to follow tha plan first. And then do exterior. It really helps with scale as you can easily figure out that door will need one tile, do as fridge, shower ets. Which windows are going to be 2 or 3 tiles. And that bedroom has to be at least 4 tiles wide. Just something that makes it easier for me.
TWO simsie videos in ONE day? BEST DAY EVER!
bonkers to watch this video and come to the slow realization that you are building the house i am playing in at this very moment, i didn’t even realize it was a recent build
Gives me so much hope that a seasoned "professional" builder has the same issues I do. Lol. The house is gorgeous! I also tend to gravitate towards Seasons build items, they seem the most "real".
Click the bracket key to make the columns taller. Usually the bracket sizes up objects, but if it's already placed the bracket key will just make it taller.
There are at least 5 houses exactly like this in my suburban neighborhood. My basic self LOVES it.
i use the cityliving garage doors for my garage builds!! although they’re not functional they add a great touch to the house!!
2:24 we literally have a garage door from city living and i use that to play pretend. Its also good for skill since my kids can draw on it. It really does the difference you should consider it.
I think If u press the bracket key to raise objects on the pillars it’ll make them taller without those weird restrictions.
Kayla: these cases are very resilient
Me watching this with my 10 month old Casetify case that’s falling apart: yeah… definitely
4 months later and my case completely fell apart several months ago.
Tips for lilsimsie: if you copy that long column (the one that's allowed to be two floors because it doesn't have a roof), you can place it on the corners of the house (the corners you had to place two columns on because of the roof) and it will stay as tall as two floors. You have to have bb.moveobjects on tho. (hope this made sense, it's a little hard to get across in text)
Literally yesterday I was thinking about how you built when I tried to build on my own and I think this is really helpful! Thank you
Another day another fire Kayak upload