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the way i barely play the sims anymore but still watch simsie everyday
same! but I love the sims, I just have no time anymore. 😂
@@annoar9776same
@@annoar9776same 😭
Same. It's too buggy, and they barely add anything exciting.
Yeah! and I only have base game so its just ugh so buggy and SO boring
This might not sound as nicely as I mean it, but your videos were the only thing helping me to fall asleep during my last year of school. So, I just wanted to say thank you!!
I also like to watch/listen kayla to help me sleep. Specially the buildvideos
I put on the vods on her moresimsie channel when I go to bed! my wife and I joke that Kayla has no idea how important she is to the quality of sleep we get lol!
I also get sleepy while hearing her videos, I guess it's because her voice is relaxing, that and the fact her content is also relaxing so ig it makes sense
@@Pickles4evr42 this is a really good tip! I'll def watch the longer vids too from now on
I have anxiety and it's been bad recently due to a lot of happenings and I get like... it's not fear? But dread when I lay down and I can't sleep because I'm afraid what will happen when I wake up (nothing very bad is happening in my life, but my anxiety is just ready for the next bad thing) but listening Kayla helps me fall asleep because it doesn't make me feel alone. Like falling asleep while your friend stays up playing games to make sure nothing bad happens while your sleeping or something.
my mom wanted me to build her dream home in the sims and she sat with me and drew out what she wanted and im not even kidding this was the EXACT floor plan she drew and I built!!!
crazy 😮
My groupmate back at college showed me the floor plan of the house she and her husband were going to build, and I came home that day and recreated that house for my sims in Sims 2 😅😅
Your mom's dream home is one of the most basic and common floor plans possible?.. think your mom needs to dream a bit bigger/better. lol
@@Eventide215 Dream bigger? In THIS economy?
@@Eventide215tf did you expect? A castle? It's a house fam
My sims floor plans dont make sense tbh
Same 😂
fr like I'll make a house with 2 bedrooms but 5 bathrooms because I didn't know what to do with the empty rooms/space and call it a day lmaoo
same 😂 Sims houses for 8 sims are atrocious 😂
i do motherlode and make big pointless houses😂
And when they do it’s too wide 🙄😭😭
My great grandma always had her house painted hot HOT pink. Since her passing, my aunt and her family have moved in and they've kept it Nana's favorite pink shade with her roses out front. She would be happy to know the outside is the same, even if the inside has been changed up. Even 8 years since her passing you can occasionally smell her perfume walking in the hallway between the bedrooms and the den/kitchen/living room. She put her perfume on right at the crossing of the rooms before going out
Just wanted to say this was a beautiful story, your great grandmother sounds like she was a fun woman. It’s lovely how your family treasures her memory.
@@beehivebat4766 thank you, she was quite a spitfire. She was born on Halloween 1925 and was about 3 weeks premature. She was born so early that the doctor didn't think she'd live so a birth certificate wasn't issued until the following day. The low that night was 29° in Brooklyn, so my great great grandma laid her to sleep in wooden crate inside their oven because it was more insulated than the rest of the house. She liked Irish coffee, as a Brooklynite of Irish descent. She served in 1940 at age 18 until the end of the second world war as a secretary for the army on the home front. And after settling down, having two kids, and moving to California she worked for the Santa Ana fire department for many years. There's a local bar in the orange county area that has you sign your name on the bottom of the bar stool if you fall off of it. My great grandmother's name graces the bottom of 80% of their stools. Towards the end of her life her body slowed her down but never stopped her, she was still a jokester. She'd come up behind her grandkids (my mother) and "goose" her, aka she'd grab my mom's butt cheek so my mom would squeal and then Nana would hobble away cackling. She was also a very good aim with a flip flop, which she learned from her Filipino next door neighbor, who was also a close friend. And once she wasn't able to bend down and grab her shoe anymore, she learned how to use her cane to lob it at you with just as much accuracy.
@@beehivebat4766 her roses were her everything. Every time we visited after moving across the country, she'd try and get us to take cuttings home to graft. And she loved lemons, she had a big old lemon tree in the backyard that fruits year-round. I wish she'd lived long enough that I could have had a beer with her. Although I don't for one second believe I'd beat her in a drinking contest. She'd be able to drink me under the table any day
That's so cute
@@michaylalovitt2796 haha i love every bit of this! don't mess with Nana! Thanks for letting us strangers know her a little. :)
It would be so much fun to see your building a typical German house! We have so many typical but also weird houses. Some of them are just a two storey boxes with a few windows
Omg I would love to see that
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Oh hallo!! Jaa 🥲🤧
Wäre so geil
Damals sahen meine buildings wirklich immer so aus :D
You should totally post the Florida house build you were talking about in the end! I love seeing realistic homes that i would see just like driving down the road.
As someone who lives in a very old house in England, these ‘new build’ American style houses are wild to me, they’re all so big and grand compared to the houses I’ve lived in.
As someone who lives in the US, they're all like a house of cards. Most aren't quality built homes anymore.
This is why an ‘older’ house is a better investment imo. They have flaws from age but they are more sound overall. I love my little old house.
I have a burning hatred for carpet floors… first Reno I did moving into my new house was rip out the carpet in my bedroom 😂
I share your hatred. When I bought my apartment, I quickly realised that these carpet floors are like cat hair magnet, horrible to clean. Not to mention that somebody thought it was okay to put them in the living room. Try having friends over and never spill anything on it!
Same. You can never have a real clean house with carpet floors. Especially when you have kids, pets or even if you are just clumsy. One spill and it's sticky forever
yes I've had it in my childhood bedroom and hated it even as a child 😂 never want them again!
I had carpet as a kid, then lived without for years. I really romanticized the idea of it. Then I actually got carpet again and realized I HATE it. Hardwood floors and a nice rug all day long
Same here, I hate them! Especially after I had a very bad experience. I moved in place where carpet floors were everywhere even in my university and they were so dirty 😖
the way she pulled up a typical florida home that looked EXACTLY like mine when i lived in the tampa suburbs LOL
lol :D
This just made me realize how different peoples houses or preference of houses can be! I don’t mind the square-ish house or that floor plan, and I think a lot of her ideas for inside the house are weird and that’s just so interesting to me! ❤
💯 I fully agree with you. A house doesn't have to be complex and full of arbitrary bump outs. Mostly square or rectangular shaped houses are very common. Then there might be one bump out from a renovation.
Yes, most houses I've lived in or lived near are squares/rectangles. Real houses are usually the plain box that simmers tend to dislike.
really tho! most houses in general are pretty similar. they're either long boxes with one floor, or squareish boxes with multiple floors. windows relatively equally spaced in front. bedrooms and shared living spaces mostly separate from each other, either by stairs or by a hallway. occasionally there's a room or two added on in a bump out. and there might be a porch or portico adding some dimension in the front. that's about it. i don't really mind how it looks in sims, looks pretty similar to real life 🤷🏻
It would be really interesting to see a series like this but with floorplans from around the world! It would be interesting to see the differences and similarities in how people live
i’m team rug on carpet. a rug is used to break up space so regardless if you have wood or carpet floors you gotta break up the room!
It has bothered me for a long time we don’t have smoke alarms for the sims on the ceiling, I’ve never seen a smoke alarm on a wall where I live unless I travel out of state, and now that we have ceiling paint we need nice ceiling things, like lil glowing stars, fire alarm, fans ground and ceiling, and different paints specifically for ceilings, anyways enough of my ceilings rant 😂 I loved this house it was so cute
I think a more realistic house would have missmatching stuff, speacilly woods! Since you initicialy just buy whatever is the best price and that >kinda< fits in, not completly... So a more realistic house would have, for example, a lot of dark toned wood, but not exactly the same coloured wood. Or even same colour and tone, but different pattern of wood 😂 (I love doing that on Sims 3!)
I love how she just forgot about the closets from get together.
And the city living storage doors that work as garage doors lol
Your drive and passion for the sims 4 has me constantly opening the game :) thank you for encouraging such fun ideas!
same!
i work in construction in mass and it’s a lot of snap together vinyl flooring that i put in and you’re so right about the funk tile i’ve done a few of those and they’re so fun! a good change from the grey that’s trending rn
As someone who lives in Europe, it’s almost fascinating to see how American houses are built. Where I’m from, the dining room and kitchen are connected, and there’s a sliding door in the kitchen, and it’s tile on the floor, but not on the walls. And in all the bedrooms there’s wood floor, and the stairs are like floating, no under wall thingys, and the floor plan for the first and second floor are the EXACT same, besides the room next to mine not being a bedroom, but a laundry room😭
Looking up floorplans and recreating them is one of my favorite things to do in TS4
with apartments coming out i am kinda tempted to recreate a better version of university dorms
My brain doesn’t work the way Kayla’s does when it comes to building 😂
same 😂
That's a good thing. Build your way. Find your own build style. And for whatever reason Kayla makes builds more complicated than necessary. Most real houses are just a big rectangle. And for the life of me, I don't understand why she claims she struggles to make floor plans for those type of houses. The simplest way to set up a floor plan is to have one room essentially be the hub, from which most of the rooms come off of.
@@andrewmoeller1987 i also find it hard to make floorpans out of a rectangle. if theres bump outs in the house i find it sooo much easier
@@andrewmoeller1987 I think a big rectangle in the Sims would look horrible from the outside with no accents or bump outs
@lexvt3551 that's what porches, patios and or landscaping is for. What I do, typically is a square or rectangle with a garage on the side that doesn't fully line up, to act as the bump out, then a front porch, and you can still have a "box" not look like a box from the outside.
Carpeted floors is so strange to me. Here we use vinyl and wood for rooms and tiles for kitchens, hallways (because here entryway is in the hallway), bathrooms. Also, here you rarely see wallpaper. No fence?!? No way!! Here they are either from brick or really sharp on the upper side
My actual house is just a big square with a smallll bump out for the dining room. As a simmer it makes me cry every time
I felt that haha
I feel you. Mine is a literal square😭😭
I live in a 1980s semi split in the US and it is impossible to make a playable version of my house that doesn't look weird. 😢
Same tbh
Saaaame, we have a back garage though
I am a horrible builder, but after hours of work I was able to build my house in the sims (don’t ask me about the exterior or roof, because that’s a mess). You gave me confidence to build a house from scratch for the first time since sims 3! Lol.
you've done amazing sweetie!
My first time building was my irl childhood house and it was a hot mess lol, maybe I will try to build it again someday bc i got the lengths and sizes of things wrong lmao
This gives me a new series idea similar to the old fixer upper videos - people submit their own realistic houses (like first goes at building, or building irl places in the Sims as accurately as possible), and Simsie has to make them look good in the Sims without losing the vibes of the original build lmao
I haven't watched you in ages but now I'm coming back to the sims and your videos always make me laugh
❤❤❤ love it
Im in the uk, in EVERY home ive lived in ive had carpet in every room except bathrooms and kitchens. Ive often used rugs on top of carpet, for many years renting, carpets are usually thin and sometimes not great colours so a rug is great to cover a bad coloured carpet or if its a thin carpet to have a nice foot feel in bedrooms for example. I also like how in open plan homes rugs can define a living area. I bought my apartment 8 yrs ago and the whole apartment didn't have finished flooring except for the kichen and bathroom so i had to get that sorted before I moved in. Cost wise carpet made sense, from my rental life i knew I didn't want the cheapest thinnest carpet but flooring is expensive. So whilst id love real wood flooring, the leasehold stipulated a certain thickness for under flooring insulation with hard floors so I opted for a mid thickness carpet but i still have a rug in my living room and bedroom for extra squishiness, insulation and it helps define my space especially the combo living/dining room. Add rugs to carpet floors if u want to kayla!
16:26 I’ve seen both. My mom have rugs over our carpet in the living room growing up and I have a rug I my office which is carpeted. I don’t think they are “necessary” functionally but they definitely make/made fur rooms look better. Hope that helps Kayla!! Love your builds
also if you’re renting it can protect the carpeted floors underneath!!
When I use real floorplans for my sims builds, I use the windows to get the scale right! It’s a little trick, works every time! 1 window is 1 tile, and so on
As someone who did courses in interior design it is an acceptable normal to put a rug on carpet. It's used for the same reasons: To define a space and to add more texture, pattern, and style to a room. I personally always have a rug (or side rugs) in my bedrooms in the real world. Don't feel wrong doing what is normal for you build wise!
please post the florida house build - it would be so iconic
yes pls!
You should do a review series like, "fixmylotlilsimsie" trend where everyone that can't make their lots not look"off" can submit them to you🤣
It's really funny watching videos like this being a Brazilian because for us that is a 100% not a normal house. But in the end we are used to it. The Sims is a very American and most of the time we can't do "our" houses in the game. We have to learn how to copy yours because they fit better. 🤣
I was looking for a comment like this because I'm like this isn't a regular home but it IS for America lol Hoenstly it'd be interesting to see us all make our homes the way they are in our home countries and not try imitate Americans.
@@romysv there are some Brazilian KZheadrs that try it, but it's really difficult and it's never the same. 😅
sometimes im so glad you live in florida cause its so funny when you describe my entire house, neighborhood down to to the FLOORING
😂😂😂 funny
The best way to go from a floorplan to sims w/o math or too much guessing is to first make the bathrooms. They are pretty much exactly 1:1 RL to Sims, so making bathrooms, and then the kitchen really helps complete the rest of the plan by just counting the size based on those.
I also wish we had half tile walls. It'd be so nice! Imagine all the things you could build with that little thing. And talking about garages, a lot of people convert that space into something else, (especially if they don't drive anymore or at all) so that it's not for cars but hobbies or storage. So using it that way in the Sims makes sense.
I search house architecture sites for Sims build inspiration. It’s been great practice for different styles!
oh thats so cool!
When doing realistic floor plan, remember that each tile is approximately 3ftx3ft 😁
The house we lived in in NC when I was young had carpeting throughout the downstairs, we didn't have rugs in the bedrooms. Had 1 in the living room 100% only because it was a set with the furniture and if it didn't come with the couch, recliner, and tables we definitely wouldn't have had one there either. My extended family with carpeting never had rugs on the carpets either. At one point a SMALL rug like a couple feet was gotten for 1 bedroom to hide a burn in the carpet from an on lamp that was knocked over lol.
The ONLY time I've seen rugs on carpet is in like high traffic places. Like maybe under a coffee table to help try to prevent spills on the carpet. Maybe a rug under a desk chair as well. Otherwise they're pretty pointless.. the people claiming it "breaks up the room" and such obviously don't know how to do that with furniture.
You should try building “normal houses” from other countries. I think it would be a interesting content and brings visibility to other cultures ☺️
As someone who lives in the UK where like 90% of our living space is carpet, we 100% put rugs on top xD Maybe not in bedrooms for the sense of cleaning but we do 100% use rugs in spaces like living room, office, maybe kids room if it's got space to not be stuck under the bed, ect.
love your videos!! they always brighten up my day
There are other sims yt creators and they used a roof piece to make a ramp type thing for the garage so it makes sense on how the car gets into the garage. That’s for if you want a foundation on your house.
Creators I saw it from are Caryn and Connie
Yeah Simsie has done the same thing before as well. The issue is that's good for show and nothing else. She has mentioned that she knows how to do it and everything but it leads to the house not really functioning well. It's why she doesn't ever use the TOOL mod as well. While it can let you build some ridiculously amazing things, it can also cause a lot of issues in gameplay.
Rug on carpet (or any floor type really) helps retain heat in a room when it’s very cold, and is breathable when it’s hot out so it’s not making it too hot. I lived in a trailer house with no ac or heat for a year and we lived by rugs in every room, we had three in the kitchen alone
Great build! i do this quite often when building. I kinda find it fun, almost like a puzzle to recreate real floor plans. I used common measurements for things like appliances and windows to get a relative scale (it's not 100% acurate). Many stoves are 27"-30" and windows and doors tend to be close to 36". Many of these only take up one square in the game, so assume one square is 3'x3'. it works MOST of the time! Have fun Simming!
I love the realism builds! I have a list of movie/tv builds and plays I want to do, plus another list of real houses (mine, parents, etc). Right now I'm using other floor plans to practice.
I’m great at floor plans, I think because I spend so much time on Zillow. It’s figuring out the shell and landscaping that are hard for me.
it's wild that what's 'realistic' to simsie isn't even a consideration for me (like we would never ever have carpeted bedrooms, it's far too hot for that. we usually have tile or marble tile to keep your feet cool) or like culturally we would not put the sink on the same side as the stove because we believe it gives a bad energy!
watching your videos is such comforting and cozy thing to me, especially the builds.
I agree with you, rug on carpet is totally normal! My current house is all hardwood but my parents' house has rug on carpet in the living room, family room, and all the bedrooms.
You're building the houses that I find in my neighborhood and youre talking about the kind of house my grandparents live in in Florida which is actually really helpful for building for me. Youre educational sims videos are really entertaining
Me back then in a german rental, had some carpet floors in an old but renovated building. But the carpet had some spots on it, even after deep cleaning. So, of course I did put a fancy rug on it and it made the room look so much better and more stylish. To me and people living in Germany it seems a normal thing to do, so don't worry dear. 💖
rn im using this house for my family and i love it!
it's totally realistic to put a rug on carpet. breaks up the monotony of the floor space and is extra nice if it has a different texture to the carpet
Barely play sims during school semesters but watching Simsie is always routine I can’t complete my day without her much love ❤❤
Yeah, having the suite on one side of the house/apartment and the other bedrooms in the other side of the house is quite realistic, it happens here in Europe aswell. The apartment where I live has that kind of layout; so does my bestie's apartemnt or my father's or my uncle's house on the other side of Europe. Honestly I love this layout because of the privacy and sound cancelation it brings.
Guys she wasn’t kidding her last name is sims! I love your videos so much Kayla your such an inspiration! ❤
Love that the house follows a real floorplan. Will be so efficient for gameplay. Nice house Kayla.
Ahhh i saw this house on the gallery and couldnt wait for the video to come out 💞
I actually love simple realistic sims builds so much!
I make my floorplans like that. And I don't have a problem with it. It's my go to home plans and I'm very happy with it and the outcome. U just got to use ur imagination to do it and it will turn out beautiful
I actually have more issues with shells then floor plans, I just do not understand how to make the shape make sense and not be super flat. When I have the overall shape the floor plan just works out so I mostly just do something similar to a sims KZheadr’s build shape but tweak it to my needs.
Your designs are brilliant. I'm learning so much for my own builds ❤
I have been doing this a lot and it has helped my builds so much. I don't use plan floor plans. Lots of them have bump outs and makes roofing a bit challenging, but it's been so fun
To help figure out scale one tile is about 2.5 to 3 square feet. I use that as my guide when building and can get fairly accurate floor plans in my game.
Lilsimsie is so awesome! She's so good at building!
I need more of this type of content! Thank you! Any chance you can list some of the sites or keywords you use to come up with inspiration/floor plans??? I really find you explaining your thought process super helpful. Would totally love to have a series of this! You're fantastic, thank you for your content.
16 seconds what. hope you're having a great weekend at your grandma's!
She is like the most relatable simmer ever.. Of course others may not agree but personally I think she’s amazing.. ❤
so many simmers are!
omg so true, she is just so true and relateable and im like when im watching her im like omg yes so me like so i agree
I know...
Realistic house build! *puts a plant in a corner with no sunlight* lol (it’s definitely a fake plant right)
In context of garage door use, i primarily use the spray paintable garage doors from City Living, as they are what resemble garage doors the most, hope this helps🤗
One thing that we have in my house that I’ve never thought of putting in my sims builds is trash bins in the bedrooms and bathrooms
ILY SM AND UR VIDEOS 😭❤
Take the dimensions, round up then device by 2.5. It’s not exact by any means. But it’s very very close. And can be easier than eyeballing!!
No way! I found that same picture of the old fashioned ranch style house earlier today and built a house inspired by it! What are the chances 😂
I just want to say, that you're always making my day better ❤
Kayla, you should make an entire build of the things you hate in a build. Not objects you hate, but ways of building you hate. Ex: placement of windows, placements of landscape, way the house is layed out. Just a house to piss off people.
Maybe a "realistic" Building series :) like buildings from all over the world in Sims :)
About the rug on the carpet- we definitely do that😂 my parents do that because the carpet is a neutral color but my mom wants some kind of color/pattern but gets tired of it every 5-10 years soooo its easier and cheaper to change a rug than to redo the carpet. My husband and I do it because it sets spaces apart like our ‘living room’ space vs our ‘dining room’ space when they are in the same room on the same carpet in our apartment. Plus, extra cushion for bedrooms!
i miss getting lilsimsie videos an hour early 😂
i am TRULY begging for more brick colors in the sims. also ones that dont have the hellish industrial tag making my lot all smoggy. there are sooooo many sweet little suburban brick houses cottagey. i need brown bricks, creamy beige yellow muted orange etc. white washed red ones so they look pink. bricks that are all different colors so they have the look of jewel tones. stone and brick features on houses are SOO gorgeous IRL and the sims 4 is lacking
I am horrible at coming up with builds, so I always reference floorplans and layouts. I always put furniture down first to both ensure the room functions, and that everything fits before adding walls, decor and such. Backwards as heck I know, but works for me😂
I absolutely love this!! 💚
Lack of fences is wild to me, everything you leave outside would be stolen in two seconds in England!
LilSimsie is probably one of the few Floridians that I is the most reasonable, and real. I would love to see the Florida build here on YT though.
I always in reality have rugs on carpet, it helps make the room look more interesting and helps protect the carpet from stains
Fences also vary by region in the US! In California, there are fences EVERYWHERE - even in new builds. But in New York (where my husband grew up) there are very few residential fences! The more you know! 😄
I think is funny she talking about having fences or not, but in Brazil we have some BIG GIANT WALLS SURROUNDING THE WHOLE LOT
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10:02 jumpscared me so much with that outlook notification lol (i use that for work and class alllll the time hahaha i genuinely thought it was my notification), also love the build!! :)
this is so interesting. seeing how the styles differ from what i am used to from germany? when i build, theres always a prober entry way, often even a full hallway, theres a guest bathroom right next to the entry, living room and kitchen are always the first rooms to happen near the entry, maybe an office and the bedrooms are either always on the second level or all together in the back of the build lol.
I watched James Turner's modern House in the trees yesterday. He said "it looks almost like a blue suburban. Oh! wait that's been copyrighted. Forget I said it." And quickly moved on with his build. It still has me giggling.
I will never get over the fact, that entrances that are not seperated from the living room are real. In the countries where i have lived, they are usually a small room, completely cut off with a wall and door from other parts of the house. Or if not possible at least a really visible seperation exist.
when i build a lot that includes a garage, i use the City Living mural garage door on the exterior and interior. it makes it seem more realistic depending on the style of the build.
I really like the simsies builds and then try it on my own and really disappoint myself and then i am mad about how can she do that so easily and i cant, thats UNFAIR. Btw love your videos simsie.
2:35 I usually put these in-build closets from "Getting Together" in cases like this
these are always my fav types of builds to do 😭
also i wanna thank you for always giving tips 😭 it helps sm 🙏🏻
the fact that last night i was thinking about how much i wanted to see a video like this and today you do just that
When I build off of a floorplan, I usually scale it by counting the windows, counters, and bathroom fixtures, since each has a specific tile size. Once I get the basic idea out, I can make adjustments, like cutting out closets, shifting rooms, moving stairs, etc.
sims ! allow us to do half tiles !!! 😭🗣️