i found a mod to stop that. I can't remember the name but if u search on google it might come up. Basically it lets u disbale "wash dishes here" or smth
My main household rn has a greenhouse in the back of the lot with a little bathroom so they don’t have to go across the lot and the stairs to pee when working. Not only will they sometimes wash dishes in the greenhouse, they will use the toilet in the house and walk out to the greenhouse to wash their hands. The bathroom in their house has the toilet and sink RIGHT next to each other. Not a single tile in between. They’ll ignore it to go to the greenhouse.
Although it concerns me how no one in the team who MAKES this game knows how to build, and they have to ask Sims FANS to build for them without paying them
As someone who used to live in a village that is not unlike Windenburg, I can attest that this is actually an incredibly true-to-life house. Especially that random bit of tile in the bedroom, you'd be surprised how many random bits of tile were in the house I grew up in!
a lot of homes in the USA tend to have corridors that long too, especially where i live in oklahoma because i have memories where all the houses i’ve lived in had extremely long and poorly lit halls
Moving the front door to the hallway makes SO much sense that I’m wondering if they just had one person make the shell and a completely different person w/o any context decorate it
I have never lived in a house where the front door opened into the living room, it's always opened into a hallway. Both are very common in the UK depending on the size and age of the house!
@@christoferdrewrocks1 that's interesting! I don't know where you're from but I'm in Scotland and nobody I knows front door opens to anything but a hall
@@Fragmented_Mask my front door opens into the living room haha it's very common in my country (chile). i've seen very few houses that don't follow that rule. can only think of one rn
Honestly ever since Jessie's mum gave that advice about fridges and ovens never being next door neighbours, I bear it in mind whenever I build in the sims.
I never knew about this rule. I just never placed a stove next to a fridge because I had never seen it in real life. Every house I've ever been in had at least one counter between them. So in my head there was a rule that they couldn't be further apart or on separate walls.
I never really thought about it for real life, but I never put them together in Sims because the stove might catch fire and I want to minimize risk - nothing can go next to the stove but counter, and that ideally a spare… also possibly a cheap trash can.
This is so odd to me considering what the gamechangers have been saying about lots they've built in recent packs. They're saying that EA went through several stages of feedback and would give them very specific advice, like move that plant half an inch. It makes you wonder how any of these builds ever got approved.
I can imagine they're doing this now after all the backlash perhaps? maybe they were supposed to always have that feedback system but got lax to save time.
I remember one of the developers bring interviewed, he basically said that they would have a no time - sometimes a day - to build the houses before launch. They'd basically chuck everything down without much thought because they were so pressed for time, it would t shock me if they were never approved or even playtested. Asking game changers to do it was a massive improvement
I had the craziest family with this house. Long story short, ended up with the father getting abducted and having triplets, while the mother was pregnant with twins. Gave it a second story, a backyard with a garden, a side patio, and a playground in the front yard. I kind of like how it ended up, but oh dear the starting house is rough
i also used to absolutely DESPISE pink as a child, ik now it was a mix of my internal misogyny at the time and me not wanting anything to do w "girl stuff" in general bc i didnt want to be seen as a girl 😭
Same, I used to proudly self identify as a ‘tom boy’ and would get annoyed when anybody asked me if pink was my favourite colour. As an adult I’m definitely closer to the femme end of the spectrum and I like pink much more than my childhood favourite colour (lime green)!
I really think that the sims team built houses are terrible on purpose. It's tactical to annoy you so much that you *have* to play the game and fix them 😂
Windenburg has some of the most atrocious houses in the game, in my opinion. Ugly, nonsensical floorplans, randomly placed furniture, massive empty spaces; just super low-effort builds (although the Bailey-Moon house in Del Sol Valley having multiple bathrooms and not a single toilet between them was a close second).
when u mentioned the stove and fridge thing.... idk when i first heard u say that, but ever since then ive also refused to place the fridge next to the stove LOL
I thought this house felt familiar, then realized it is very similar to the house I grew up in! We had a kitchen sink though 😆 The front door opening right into the living room was common, where I lived even the carpet right there when you walked in was common. Our kitchen was tiny (we fit a small table and didn't have an counters in the middle) and our living room about the same size. and yes the bathroom and bedrooms were off the living room, and not connected to the kitchen.
i found you very recently, and it’s nice to finally watch an actually entertaining english youtuber who isn’t a southerner. it makes my merseyside heart quite happy if i’m being completely honest babes xx
the way those cubboards in the kitchen are hanging so low over the counters is causing me pain, any lower and they would not need to be attached to the wall at all, it's such a mess
And when she fixed it, those cupboards looked so freakin amazing. I was like "why do my kitchens look like shit when I do cupboards and here she's done this with base game"
ur mum saying the thing about ur oven and fridge not being next to each other singlehandedly influenced my building and now i never do it so shoutout to her!
I had started in this house once and had the same issue. I just shifted around the kitchen, deleted the back door and make the kitchen a walkthrough style thing connected to the halway and the living room! Good to know i am not alone in this❤😂
I swear this house is the reason why sims almost always use the bathroom sink over the one in the kitchen. Either that or they didn't even add a kitchen sink because they knew the sims were broken and won't use a kitchen sink.
Everytime I move into this house I renovate it. I find if you move the front door to the hallway entrance, expand the kitchen outwards towards the back door and you have a nice cozy little house. I have also added a second like room onto the spare bedroom for extra space if my sims,want to expand their family
I wanted to use this house to start a new file and I was stumped! I didn't think to just... change the layout of the rooms 😂 Both of these renovations are an immense upgrade on that house and I'm gonna have to download your build and replace them every time! 💗
This was the starter I chose during my 100 baby challenge, so it’s kinda sentimental to me lol. But I did immediately make it more open concept (no wall behind the sofa and the one on the kitchen), added a sink to the kitchen, and changed the floors to the wood 😆
I have a family living in this house, I kept the same lay out with added rooms, the kitchen flows into the dining room, a shed on the garden and I added a second floor but after seeing where you moved the front door I will definitely be doing the same!!
Just the other day I clicked into this build as I was thinking reno and clicked right back out without even lookin' inside. I knew I wasn't strong enough. Thanks for being the strong one Jess.
I used to have the same issue growing up with the colors pink/purple, finding them too girly at the time because growing up, being girly was "bad" even though it isn't in any way shape or form. Unpacked that a few years ago and now I love pink & purple
never put your fridge next to the oven... that's how my kitchen was built... it buds right up against the stove. and I can't change it either cuz that's where the gas and waterline are.
I love this kind of reno where the renovation is kind of realistic. No moving the walls or windows or like changing the roof ! I do that sometimes in my game, if I do a rags to riches. If I place a sink somewhere, that's where the plumbing is forever. If I place a wall, that's where it live now. Or I make it cost money to remove walls/move plumbing around
Having redesigned my own kitchen a few years ago, kitchen fitters won't put the hob next to the fridge or a tall unit because it creates a heat trap! It had to be at least 30cm away from the tall unit next to it in my kitchen. So there is logic to it and I also now never build my kitchens with them next to each other
Honestly I feel like the lack of kitchen sink isn't that much of an issue because my sims never use it anyways, they love using the furthest away sink to wash their kitchen dishes
I feel the random layout with the king corridor makes sense for an old house, but the stark white carpet and decor is quite jarring. It’s like a mixture of old features and ruthless redevelopment
Oh no! 💔 This house means soooo much to me! 😭 My fave family used to live in this one on an old save. So many memories! I use this house so much on saves....aaaaaand I always renovate it. 🤣 oof. The one thing I always do when renovating this house is knocking down the wall between the kitchen and living room.
My fam has renovated basically every house we've lived in so I also NEVER put the stove next to the fridge, and I always put the chimney where the fireplace is unless it looks really really bad lol
I had a sim move into that lot and the very first thing I did was immediately reconstruct the flow. I moved the front door from the carpet room to the hallway, moved the archway from the carpet room to the “bedroom” and turned that into the livingroom. Then the room that was a “livingroom” became the master bedroom. After that I deleted the back door and at the end of the hall placed an archway for the kitchen. The entire house flows a million times better that way. I think who ever designed it first either slapped something together or came to work drunk that day. 😂
I never put my stoves next to the fridge SOLELY because you said not to a while back. I was even trying to redo my kitchen at one point and thought.. well ok the fridge cant go there because the stove would be next to it.. gotta move it here. 😂😂
Jesse, the white carpet living room as you come in is kinda common in American suburbia-ie homes in some parts of the country. It doesn't make sense, no. You constantly have to get that carpet cleaned and it looks gross in between the times you do. But it is a thing...
My fiancé used to build houses and he told me that you shouldn’t have your sink next to your stove because, “if there’s a grease fire you don’t want to put it out with water, so you want to have the sink as far as possible, to deter people from using the sink during fires” and I was like omg okay I had no idea and I haven’t placed a sink right next to a stove ever since 😂 (My brain decided this was relevant cuz Jesse mentioned her mum telling her something about kitchen layouts 😅)
the way i was offended you criticised my favourite house in windenburg - and then i remembered ive actually never played this game without the simsie save
i'm the same about fridge and oven so whenever i see someone place them next to each other in games, or god forbid in the real world (e.g. House Hunters) i get unnecesarily angry 😂
funnily enough, that is the house my spaghetti bowl family started in xD now they are everywhere while still flirting and marrying up the ancestral vampires
Real life homes aren't planned very well, either. Say i want to do laundry and i'm in my bedroom on the second floor. I gather the clothes and go down the stairs at the far left side of the house only to have to go through the living room, dining room, and kitchen, to get to the stairs on the far left of the house to go to the basement. And the laundry is at the farthest point from the bottom of the steps. Say i want to vacuum my carpeted stairs. I have to go get an extension cord because the nearest outlets are _in the rooms_ upstairs instead of the hallway *or* _on every wall but_ the wall that has the stairs. I tried making my house in the sims and had to scrap the second bathroom because you couldn't put it directly at the landing of stairs and you can't fit a toilet, sink, and door in a 2 by 1 space (toilet to the side, sink and door in the same space) right at said stairs. The house looked cool, but its design meant kids went to school hungry because they didn't make it to the kitchen in time for breakfast having to circle the house 2 times from their bedroom on the second floor to the kitchen.
I also hated pink when I was a kid but really like it now, I think it was a reaction to the colour pink being forced on me as a little girl is why I hated it so much because I know quite a few other women who had a similar hate-to-love pink glow up!
It's funny how those parental rules about kitchens stick with you. My mom always complained when the fridge, stove, and sink was on the same wall. All my kitchens are U-shaped now. Fridge on one wall, stove on another, and the sink on a third.
Jesse, love, you would absolutely HATE my house. I live in a 1960s ranch style house that has an absurdly long hallway with ONE pathetic little ceiling light that’s not even in the middle of the hallway so it’s dim on both ends, but flat out dark at the very end of the hall. And the light is disturbingly even slightly off center of the width of the hall (I hope that makes sense).
The fridge in my apartment in real life is right next to the oven lol. It is a large early-1800's Vermont house that's now three apartments, one on each floor, and it's been remodeled probably a hundred times.
Ok, first of all, THANK YOU! I never understand why every build I see has fridges and ovens right next to each other. This has been the case ever since TS1! Is it an American thing? The first thing I do is always move the oven away from the fridge. You don’t put the hottest thing in your kitchen right next to the thing that’s trying to keep everything cold! However, second of all, kitchens should be at the back of the house. Look at the design of any house and you will notice that the kitchen is at the back and the lounge is at the front. So that’s one thing this house had right. Where you’ve put it is more like where a bedroom would be.
Remember when houses in s2 and s3 were weird and it had a storytelling reason? But nah it's just bad building in s4... also the entire house is so white and bland
I think you must have forgotten the house in Glimmerbrook that has the back stairs without the door. That house made zero sense, and looked really ugly.
I edited this lot because i absolutely agree that it was bad. But now I am kicking myself. Moving the front door to the hallway is so genius! Why didn't I think of that xD
I hated pink and purple as a child because it was forced upon me. "Little girls wear this. Little girls like that. Little girls do this" LIKE GO AWAY. But now as an adult it's my favourite thing
Let’s be real a sim would probably wash the dishes in the bathroom sink anyway
i found a mod to stop that. I can't remember the name but if u search on google it might come up. Basically it lets u disbale "wash dishes here" or smth
Trust me when decorating my Sims house I didn’t even bother to give them a kitchen sink
Gonna try to skip the bathroom sink next time🤨
My main household rn has a greenhouse in the back of the lot with a little bathroom so they don’t have to go across the lot and the stairs to pee when working. Not only will they sometimes wash dishes in the greenhouse, they will use the toilet in the house and walk out to the greenhouse to wash their hands. The bathroom in their house has the toilet and sink RIGHT next to each other. Not a single tile in between. They’ll ignore it to go to the greenhouse.
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forever thankful they started asking gamechangers to build the lots!!
only wish they'd started doing this sooner! I can't play in the older worlds because of it lol
@@maars4183honestly, i pretty much only use copperdale and san sequoia atp lol
@@maars4183 I literally only play the sims on lilsimsie’s simsie save
Although it concerns me how no one in the team who MAKES this game knows how to build, and they have to ask Sims FANS to build for them without paying them
@@mike-m123 they get paid!!! everyone who has made lots in the sims 4 was paid a base price per lot. they are paid
The mirror above the toilet gives Sims team build. You really live long enough to become the villain
This comment has absolutely fucking killed me 😂
My mum used to have a mirror above the toilet until my dad told her he hates having to look at himself while he pees lmao i never even thought of that
my stepmom just hung a mirror on the wall next to the toilet and it is agony having to sit next to myself while i pee
As someone who used to live in a village that is not unlike Windenburg, I can attest that this is actually an incredibly true-to-life house. Especially that random bit of tile in the bedroom, you'd be surprised how many random bits of tile were in the house I grew up in!
For me it is that long corridor that I feel isn’t that strange
@@Okk681 yeah the corridors are realistic
a lot of homes in the USA tend to have corridors that long too, especially where i live in oklahoma because i have memories where all the houses i’ve lived in had extremely long and poorly lit halls
@@grimebby yeah, I've been in a lot of Oklahoma homes with long halls lol, its unfortunately a thing that ends up in most of my sims builds lol
@@katsfairytale me too, i guess what we see irl influences our builds 🥲
Moving the front door to the hallway makes SO much sense that I’m wondering if they just had one person make the shell and a completely different person w/o any context decorate it
That's what I have done every time I use this lot.
I’ve never been inside a house where the front door opened to a hallway like that. Every house I’ve been in the front door opened to the living room.
I have never lived in a house where the front door opened into the living room, it's always opened into a hallway. Both are very common in the UK depending on the size and age of the house!
@@christoferdrewrocks1 that's interesting! I don't know where you're from but I'm in Scotland and nobody I knows front door opens to anything but a hall
@@Fragmented_Mask my front door opens into the living room haha it's very common in my country (chile). i've seen very few houses that don't follow that rule. can only think of one rn
Honestly ever since Jessie's mum gave that advice about fridges and ovens never being next door neighbours, I bear it in mind whenever I build in the sims.
I never knew about this rule. I just never placed a stove next to a fridge because I had never seen it in real life. Every house I've ever been in had at least one counter between them. So in my head there was a rule that they couldn't be further apart or on separate walls.
me too and it KILLS me cause in my irl house the fridge and the oven are next to each other 😭
I’m glad I’m not the only one.
@@pauaguero6910 So are mine!
I never really thought about it for real life, but I never put them together in Sims because the stove might catch fire and I want to minimize risk - nothing can go next to the stove but counter, and that ideally a spare… also possibly a cheap trash can.
This is so odd to me considering what the gamechangers have been saying about lots they've built in recent packs. They're saying that EA went through several stages of feedback and would give them very specific advice, like move that plant half an inch. It makes you wonder how any of these builds ever got approved.
I can imagine they're doing this now after all the backlash perhaps? maybe they were supposed to always have that feedback system but got lax to save time.
I remember one of the developers bring interviewed, he basically said that they would have a no time - sometimes a day - to build the houses before launch. They'd basically chuck everything down without much thought because they were so pressed for time, it would t shock me if they were never approved or even playtested. Asking game changers to do it was a massive improvement
I had the craziest family with this house. Long story short, ended up with the father getting abducted and having triplets, while the mother was pregnant with twins. Gave it a second story, a backyard with a garden, a side patio, and a playground in the front yard. I kind of like how it ended up, but oh dear the starting house is rough
That's definitely the house's fault
Yeah I had a really fun family in this house, and the renovated result ended up being one of my favorite houses I've ever made :)
4:58 I haven’t put a stove next to the fridge either since that video, so tell Mumbella that her impact is spreading😅
Omg I love that, Mumbella!
apparently fridge & oven are supposed to be at least 4 feet a part and the sims full tiles are like 3 feet
i also used to absolutely DESPISE pink as a child, ik now it was a mix of my internal misogyny at the time and me not wanting anything to do w "girl stuff" in general bc i didnt want to be seen as a girl 😭
same here but now it's my favorite color 💀
Same, I used to proudly self identify as a ‘tom boy’ and would get annoyed when anybody asked me if pink was my favourite colour. As an adult I’m definitely closer to the femme end of the spectrum and I like pink much more than my childhood favourite colour (lime green)!
@@dejausser literally same! i am now a feminine nonbinary person. my fav color has always been purple but pink is def a close second for me now!
same here! although pink is still not my favorite color, i outgrew my "ew pink!" phase and can appreciate it in a well done color scheme
Plumbella: Look how terrible this build is. I'll fix it.
Also Plumbella: *places mirror behind toilet*
I really think that the sims team built houses are terrible on purpose. It's tactical to annoy you so much that you *have* to play the game and fix them 😂
I love love love that you did a second Reno with less limitations and all packs - just the plain base game starters get old after awhile
Its why I dont watch lilsimsie build. Its always basegame
Me, a self professed plum lore expert: “you had a Tennessee Hannah Montana themed bedroom!!!”
Windenburg has some of the most atrocious houses in the game, in my opinion. Ugly, nonsensical floorplans, randomly placed furniture, massive empty spaces; just super low-effort builds (although the Bailey-Moon house in Del Sol Valley having multiple bathrooms and not a single toilet between them was a close second).
She’s done it again! Constantly raising the bar & doing it so flawlessly 💖
No sink?! 😂😂😂😂 I thought the mis-matching floor was bad. Come-on Sims team
Ever since mumbella said to never have the over next to the fridge, I shy away from real life apartments that have done that
when u mentioned the stove and fridge thing.... idk when i first heard u say that, but ever since then ive also refused to place the fridge next to the stove LOL
I thought this house felt familiar, then realized it is very similar to the house I grew up in! We had a kitchen sink though 😆 The front door opening right into the living room was common, where I lived even the carpet right there when you walked in was common. Our kitchen was tiny (we fit a small table and didn't have an counters in the middle) and our living room about the same size. and yes the bathroom and bedrooms were off the living room, and not connected to the kitchen.
i found you very recently, and it’s nice to finally watch an actually entertaining english youtuber who isn’t a southerner. it makes my merseyside heart quite happy if i’m being completely honest babes xx
I’m so glad the new worlds are better because the community builds them!
the way those cubboards in the kitchen are hanging so low over the counters is causing me pain, any lower and they would not need to be attached to the wall at all, it's such a mess
And when she fixed it, those cupboards looked so freakin amazing. I was like "why do my kitchens look like shit when I do cupboards and here she's done this with base game"
Thank you for doing it with just base game & then coming back to jazz it up. That’s the content we (or I) need. 😂❤️
ur mum saying the thing about ur oven and fridge not being next to each other singlehandedly influenced my building and now i never do it so shoutout to her!
So much better. The change of the placement of the front door and switching the rooms around made SUCH a difference!
No joke -- I think about your mom EVERY SINGLE TIME I build a kitchen. Her insight about kitchen appliances changed my life.
4:58 you have said this previously in a video and it STUCK with me. i never put my ovens next to my fridges now bc of you ❤😭
I had started in this house once and had the same issue. I just shifted around the kitchen, deleted the back door and make the kitchen a walkthrough style thing connected to the halway and the living room! Good to know i am not alone in this❤😂
The door swap made so much sense!!
I'm a simple human from East Yorkshire.. I see Plumbella, I click.. ALSO.. hair goals.
I legit never put my fridge next to the oven either thanks to your mom, so thank you mumbella
Why were the cabinets in the kitchen so low too 😭 how were you supposed to use those og counters with no clearance
I think the designers must've based that bit on my house
I swear this house is the reason why sims almost always use the bathroom sink over the one in the kitchen. Either that or they didn't even add a kitchen sink because they knew the sims were broken and won't use a kitchen sink.
this lot will always have a special place in my heart because cassandra goth lived there with her wife and child
I JUST started playing with this lot. Lots of renovations I’m working through
Everytime I move into this house I renovate it. I find if you move the front door to the hallway entrance, expand the kitchen outwards towards the back door and you have a nice cozy little house. I have also added a second like room onto the spare bedroom for extra space if my sims,want to expand their family
I really liked your decision to have one as base game and renovate how you’d like it!
i also used to hate pink but now base my entire life around it. maybe it’s an agender thing
I wanted to use this house to start a new file and I was stumped! I didn't think to just... change the layout of the rooms 😂 Both of these renovations are an immense upgrade on that house and I'm gonna have to download your build and replace them every time! 💗
This was the starter I chose during my 100 baby challenge, so it’s kinda sentimental to me lol. But I did immediately make it more open concept (no wall behind the sofa and the one on the kitchen), added a sink to the kitchen, and changed the floors to the wood 😆
I have a family living in this house, I kept the same lay out with added rooms, the kitchen flows into the dining room, a shed on the garden and I added a second floor but after seeing where you moved the front door I will definitely be doing the same!!
Just the other day I clicked into this build as I was thinking reno and clicked right back out without even lookin' inside. I knew I wasn't strong enough. Thanks for being the strong one Jess.
I've been binging a lot of your videos and I'm just here to thank you because you genuinely make my days better ❤
I want to love the lot this house is on, but the way it's impossible to connect a walkway to the pavement makes me too uncomfortable to use it.
I used to have the same issue growing up with the colors pink/purple, finding them too girly at the time because growing up, being girly was "bad" even though it isn't in any way shape or form. Unpacked that a few years ago and now I love pink & purple
The white carpet always stressed me out 😂 I saw that house once and never looked at it again 😂I promptly forgot it for my mental health.
The fridge next to the oven comment...been imbedded in my mind from my mother for years! Never do it in the sims either hahahah
never put your fridge next to the oven... that's how my kitchen was built... it buds right up against the stove. and I can't change it either cuz that's where the gas and waterline are.
Don't think we didn't catch the dance moms "I just cry sometimes it's no big deal" + the bojo "beautiful new bloo room" references jesse 😂😂
I love this kind of reno where the renovation is kind of realistic. No moving the walls or windows or like changing the roof ! I do that sometimes in my game, if I do a rags to riches. If I place a sink somewhere, that's where the plumbing is forever. If I place a wall, that's where it live now. Or I make it cost money to remove walls/move plumbing around
Your eyeshadow is so stunning, it's giving Barbie 2000s and i love it
Having redesigned my own kitchen a few years ago, kitchen fitters won't put the hob next to the fridge or a tall unit because it creates a heat trap! It had to be at least 30cm away from the tall unit next to it in my kitchen. So there is logic to it and I also now never build my kitchens with them next to each other
To the builder’s defense, a sim would carry something from the kitchen to the bathroom to wash it regardless if there was a sink in the kitchen 😂😂
Nice idea to move the kitchen to the front! :D
I should've thought of that before I re-did this house for my 100 baby challenge save.
The mirror above the toilet.....😭
5:06, my mam is also called julia big ups, but also yeah shes kinda right, ive nvr seen a fridge and a cooker next to each other
Honestly I feel like the lack of kitchen sink isn't that much of an issue because my sims never use it anyways, they love using the furthest away sink to wash their kitchen dishes
Brilliant stuff Jessie ❤lacking a kitchen sink and dirty white carpets - what a combo!
I got so happy when you were singing the smiths at 7:42 :,)
I feel the random layout with the king corridor makes sense for an old house, but the stark white carpet and decor is quite jarring. It’s like a mixture of old features and ruthless redevelopment
Oh no! 💔 This house means soooo much to me! 😭 My fave family used to live in this one on an old save. So many memories! I use this house so much on saves....aaaaaand I always renovate it. 🤣 oof. The one thing I always do when renovating this house is knocking down the wall between the kitchen and living room.
My fam has renovated basically every house we've lived in so I also NEVER put the stove next to the fridge, and I always put the chimney where the fireplace is unless it looks really really bad lol
This renovation is so much nicer and makes so much more sense 😭❤️
me looking at the refrigerator right next to my oven: 👁️💋👁️
I had a sim move into that lot and the very first thing I did was immediately reconstruct the flow. I moved the front door from the carpet room to the hallway, moved the archway from the carpet room to the “bedroom” and turned that into the livingroom. Then the room that was a “livingroom” became the master bedroom. After that I deleted the back door and at the end of the hall placed an archway for the kitchen. The entire house flows a million times better that way. I think who ever designed it first either slapped something together or came to work drunk that day. 😂
I love when a 'renovation' is done and it's done practically- by actually keeping the shell as is.!
I never put my stoves next to the fridge SOLELY because you said not to a while back. I was even trying to redo my kitchen at one point and thought.. well ok the fridge cant go there because the stove would be next to it.. gotta move it here. 😂😂
Jesse, the white carpet living room as you come in is kinda common in American suburbia-ie homes in some parts of the country. It doesn't make sense, no. You constantly have to get that carpet cleaned and it looks gross in between the times you do. But it is a thing...
My fiancé used to build houses and he told me that you shouldn’t have your sink next to your stove because, “if there’s a grease fire you don’t want to put it out with water, so you want to have the sink as far as possible, to deter people from using the sink during fires” and I was like omg okay I had no idea and I haven’t placed a sink right next to a stove ever since 😂
(My brain decided this was relevant cuz Jesse mentioned her mum telling her something about kitchen layouts 😅)
OMG I'm not the only one who deeply internalized the thing she said about the fridge and stove.
the way i was offended you criticised my favourite house in windenburg - and then i remembered ive actually never played this game without the simsie save
i'm the same about fridge and oven so whenever i see someone place them next to each other in games, or god forbid in the real world (e.g. House Hunters) i get unnecesarily angry 😂
funnily enough, that is the house my spaghetti bowl family started in xD now they are everywhere while still flirting and marrying up the ancestral vampires
Oh, i always use this one as my starter house! And yeah, the layout sucks so much lmao
That shell was such a mess I am sorry I doubted your ability to make it work. Great video!!
Real life homes aren't planned very well, either.
Say i want to do laundry and i'm in my bedroom on the second floor. I gather the clothes and go down the stairs at the far left side of the house only to have to go through the living room, dining room, and kitchen, to get to the stairs on the far left of the house to go to the basement. And the laundry is at the farthest point from the bottom of the steps.
Say i want to vacuum my carpeted stairs. I have to go get an extension cord because the nearest outlets are _in the rooms_ upstairs instead of the hallway *or* _on every wall but_ the wall that has the stairs.
I tried making my house in the sims and had to scrap the second bathroom because you couldn't put it directly at the landing of stairs and you can't fit a toilet, sink, and door in a 2 by 1 space (toilet to the side, sink and door in the same space) right at said stairs. The house looked cool, but its design meant kids went to school hungry because they didn't make it to the kitchen in time for breakfast having to circle the house 2 times from their bedroom on the second floor to the kitchen.
Could have used items from the pack the house came in lol
Was literally playing this lot when your video came up, just went straight to the gallery & popped it down. It was fate!
I like starting with this house as a shell and modifying it. As a furnished house it's terrible but empty it's full of possibilities.
I renovated this house a while ago with a family and oh my god I forgot how *bad* it was
I also hated pink when I was a kid but really like it now, I think it was a reaction to the colour pink being forced on me as a little girl is why I hated it so much because I know quite a few other women who had a similar hate-to-love pink glow up!
this is so funny cause i literally used to use this as my starter home in almost every save but now that i look back at it its so poorly designed
Big brain moment: what if the sims team actually makes the houses this bad so we can renovate them and have something to do? Hehehe.
I'd love to see rooms/builds inspired by book characters!
Chair makes it look like you have cat ears, I like it
It's funny how those parental rules about kitchens stick with you. My mom always complained when the fridge, stove, and sink was on the same wall. All my kitchens are U-shaped now. Fridge on one wall, stove on another, and the sink on a third.
Jesse, love, you would absolutely HATE my house. I live in a 1960s ranch style house that has an absurdly long hallway with ONE pathetic little ceiling light that’s not even in the middle of the hallway so it’s dim on both ends, but flat out dark at the very end of the hall. And the light is disturbingly even slightly off center of the width of the hall (I hope that makes sense).
Thank you! I use this lot a ton, and I always change it whenever I do. What were they thinking smh
Looks so much better. I'd actually remove the walls for the kitchen and living room to make it one open space.
The front door change was brilliant!
The fridge in my apartment in real life is right next to the oven lol. It is a large early-1800's Vermont house that's now three apartments, one on each floor, and it's been remodeled probably a hundred times.
Just me that noticed that the bedroom carpets were intact, not basegame?? They were pastel pop kit?
Ok, first of all, THANK YOU! I never understand why every build I see has fridges and ovens right next to each other. This has been the case ever since TS1! Is it an American thing? The first thing I do is always move the oven away from the fridge. You don’t put the hottest thing in your kitchen right next to the thing that’s trying to keep everything cold!
However, second of all, kitchens should be at the back of the house. Look at the design of any house and you will notice that the kitchen is at the back and the lounge is at the front. So that’s one thing this house had right. Where you’ve put it is more like where a bedroom would be.
Remember when houses in s2 and s3 were weird and it had a storytelling reason? But nah it's just bad building in s4... also the entire house is so white and bland
I think you must have forgotten the house in Glimmerbrook that has the back stairs without the door. That house made zero sense, and looked really ugly.
this is actually one of my favourite houses in the game, but only when i change all of décor and a little bit of the layout
I edited this lot because i absolutely agree that it was bad. But now I am kicking myself. Moving the front door to the hallway is so genius! Why didn't I think of that xD
one thing i hate about windenburg is that absolutely no walkway matches up with the road, and there is no way to make it match
I hated pink and purple as a child because it was forced upon me. "Little girls wear this. Little girls like that. Little girls do this" LIKE GO AWAY. But now as an adult it's my favourite thing