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hi did u mean to post to vids
I’m really sorry about the incident 😅
@@yuhhbiscuit what incident
@@Cymza 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
TWO UPLOADS!!??
What I was thinking!!
no literally 😭😭
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!
Garages can be converted into a hobby/skill room or a sunroom or even a greenhouse the options are endless
OMG I never thought of that!!!!! Tysm
OHHH that's smart
I like to make them workout rooms
Yeah when I recreate a build with a garage, I turn it into a Rec Room of sorts!
I love adding garages because they are really useful in the sims. You can put a bunch of decor and clutter in them, while also having a bunch of activities that would otherwise not be able to fit inside the house. I like attached garages best because it allows you to also place a backyard door giving your sims access to the backyard if you don't like the look of adding a big porch or something to the back of your build. They are really handy while making builds look more realistic, so that to me is the perfect combonation. Also, a cool thing I like to do is make little sheds for extra storage
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.
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
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.
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-
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 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..
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
did you mean to post both??????
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"
Did you just upload two videos at the same time?😅😂
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.
2 videos?
I thought the same, she might of posted one by accident
@@islareed1047 it already happened once, i guess happened again
@@islareed1047 yeah probably
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
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.
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 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 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 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….?????
@@mallowmarsh3244 kayak supremacy
Start??
Did someone’s autocorrect change Kayla to Kayak? I know this started somehow started with chat.
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
I loove the seasons stuff. Not just the windows, doors and stone/woods. The furniture too. Underrated pack for build/buy!!
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
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 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!
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
kayla, use the bracket keys [ and ] to raise the columns all the way up if the roof is restricting you
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?
@@pandakatiefominz 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
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??
I was half way through the other video 😩😩 It’s okay I’ll finish it when it comes out again
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.
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
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.
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!
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 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
Notification Squad!!
Yep
Thank you a lot for two videos in one day!! I watch your videos a lot while drawing/writing, so this is a blessing :)
2 videos in 1 day? Kayla treating us today
I can’t find the second video did she delete it?
@@yaelkoller8949 she did!
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 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
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
Another day another fire Kayak upload
yesss i love furnishing houses thank you for this 💖💖
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
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 🥰
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
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.
I'm in the process of building my own house and it's coming out extremely well!
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.
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 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.
I like to use the city living mural painting item for garage doors ....
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.
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 your videos!Thank You for posting every day!
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.
I found the roofing tutorial so helpful omg
I LOVE how well kayla explained her roofing technique, as a beginner this was so helpful
Genius idea for the garage! Def going to use that myself
i use the cityliving garage doors for my garage builds!! although they’re not functional they add a great touch to the house!!
Kayla! Thank you so much for talking through how did the roof! Great job 🥰
loooving the tutorial vibe of this video!!
2 videos one day wow
I really like this house! definitely going to have to download and furnish!
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 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 to watch ur sims builds when I’m building :)
round pool makes it perfect
Honestly knowing that such a skilled Sims builder struggles to makes me feel relieved about my own struggles
City living had garage Doors
i love furnishing houses but don’t always want to build them from scratch, so this is perfect! thanks kayak
One of my favorite build objects in TS3 were these glass garage doors from the island expansion pack
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
Hey simsie you are such an inspiration !
this house really gives me sims 3 vibes
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.
You’re my fav simmer ever and I love all your videos 💗
Yesss, furnishing is my favorite part
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
The garage door idea is really cool!
thank you so much kayak for these 2 great videos
kayla is such a cozy weekend night creator 💖💖
9:05 OMGG LOOL 😹😹 ur too funny Kayla, Lovely build also! love the green!😸💗
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
tip: you can force raise or lower columns by using ctrl + brackets. it also works on weird roof limitations
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!
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.
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
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.
YAY FOR SO MUCH KAYAK CONTENT TODAY!!! 🛶 🤩