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 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
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!!!
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 😅😅
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
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.
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
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
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 😖
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.
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 🤷🏻
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.
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
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
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.
@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.
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 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
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
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.
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
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😭
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
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!
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!
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
Get what you're saying about the closets but you don't have to neccesarily build your own, we have that Get Together one. Granted I get that the Sims version would benefit more from desks but maybe at least one is that closet? Plus extra woohoo spot. Also a rug on carpet isn't weird, it's actually kind of a feng shui thing, it helps to create zones, sleeping, walking, etc. Helps to make a room feel more cozy and in this case, might help you/the sims sleep better
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.
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
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 TH-camr’s build shape but tweak it to my needs.
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!
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
As another Floridian, i can say that people will DEFINETLY do anything to cut costs on houses.... Cover your eyes kids cause this is gonna get bad.... my house as 4 doors on the front, and one window. No garage, 2 sets of double doors.... and the third random door besides the front door goes into my Brothers room??? so... yeah, it's kind of embarrassing ngl.
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 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
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.
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.
Cute house. I like it. I don't know what living in Florida is like and wouldn't want to worry about hurricanes and stuff but at least you have a lot of places to go and do things and live in a beach state. I live in Oregon and it's so boring. These builds are yours, you can do what you like. People don't get to tell you what to do. How are those kittens that you never have on here anymore, Snap too. lol I love Kitties and loved when your kitties are a part of your videos. Please have them back once in awhile.
Rugs on carpet aren't weird, the fact that Americans are so intensely obsessed with the ugliest, most unhygienic beige carpet in their whole house IS weird 😩 I think I prefer living in a tiny Euro apartment but having wooden floors and non paper walls.
I am really confused why you always use the Snowy Escape door as a fake garage door when we literally have garage doors in the TS4. Like the City Living Garage Door Mural thing that youre supposed to paint on is a garage door, if you wanna go for the classic look
I think it could be fun and interesting to try to recreacte an european floorplan. Because, we don't organize houses like that? I mean, one of the bedroom being out of place, not near other bedrooms seems so weird to me. Lmao And everithing being so big like y'all lives in mansion too.
My grandma is currently mad at me cause i took her rugs off her carpet cause of trip hazard issues. I think thats generally why you dont see rugs on carpet but its not necessarily an issue for everyone. Like it is for someone who has mobility issues
In austrlia, or atleast nsw its typicall for rooms to be in the front 9f the house, all next to each. Like my houses orignal front door goes into a (now) bedroom, and the main room is at the old front of the house
Yah! 16:16 ive always thought a rug on carpet was for design purposes more than anything, a lot of interior designers do that to break up rooms or make them feel more homey!
New build house in the US, bought during COVID. You were not wrong about any of this. Tiny little barely there yard, no fence, and the quote we got to put in a fence was $7,000! So no.
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.
If you are using the sq. footage on homes you find online, one sim grid square is equivalent to 3 sq. ft. So if a room is 12x15 on a plan, it will be a 3x5 room in the sims.
I could never build such a realistic build I usually get packs that have good build items I do use parenthood the most I think ea should lower down prices especially because most of the packs like my wedding stories are broken!!❤
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.
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.
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. :)
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.
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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Wäre so geil
Damals sahen meine buildings wirklich immer so aus :D
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 🤷🏻
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.
Your drive and passion for the sims 4 has me constantly opening the game :) thank you for encouraging such fun ideas!
same!
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’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 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 haven't watched you in ages but now I'm coming back to the sims and your videos always make me laugh
❤❤❤ love it
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.
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
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 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
Looking up floorplans and recreating them is one of my favorite things to do in TS4
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
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
with apartments coming out i am kinda tempted to recreate a better version of university dorms
You should try building “normal houses” from other countries. I think it would be a interesting content and brings visibility to other cultures ☺️
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🤣
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😭
please post the florida house build - it would be so iconic
yes pls!
I search house architecture sites for Sims build inspiration. It’s been great practice for different styles!
oh thats so cool!
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
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
16 seconds what. hope you're having a great weekend at your grandma's!
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!
it's okay to have a rug over the carpet, maybe you stained the carpet and need to cover it up.
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!
love your videos!! they always brighten up my day
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
Get what you're saying about the closets but you don't have to neccesarily build your own, we have that Get Together one. Granted I get that the Sims version would benefit more from desks but maybe at least one is that closet? Plus extra woohoo spot. Also a rug on carpet isn't weird, it's actually kind of a feng shui thing, it helps to create zones, sleeping, walking, etc. Helps to make a room feel more cozy and in this case, might help you/the sims sleep better
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 TH-camrs that try it, but it's really difficult and it's never the same. 😅
When doing realistic floor plan, remember that each tile is approximately 3ftx3ft 😁
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
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!!
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.
As a preteen I had 3 rugs I absolutely loved! And they were on carpet :) it was my favorite thing about my room lol
Realistic house build! *puts a plant in a corner with no sunlight* lol (it’s definitely a fake plant right)
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 TH-camr’s build shape but tweak it to my needs.
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!
I’m here waiting for the crossover between you and @CarynandConnieGaming
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!!
It’s not just Florida, the whole country is miserable right now thanks to how some people voted.
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...
I think in Canada the main room is usually with the rest of the rooms
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
The Sorry Girls put rugs under beds, so if anyone says anything, tell them that interior designers do it. Then drop the mic.
As another Floridian, i can say that people will DEFINETLY do anything to cut costs on houses....
Cover your eyes kids cause this is gonna get bad....
my house as 4 doors on the front, and one window. No garage, 2 sets of double doors.... and the third random door besides the front door goes into my Brothers room??? so... yeah, it's kind of embarrassing ngl.
VIDEO IDEA - MAKE CITY LIVING APARTMENTS INTO HOUSES like just take them out on lan empty lot as a room and treat them like a shell!!!!
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.
Guys she wasn’t kidding her last name is sims! I love your videos so much Kayla your such an inspiration! ❤
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 always wonder: City Living has a garage door as a canvas. why don't you use that instead of the Snowy Escape (kind of obvious) sliding door?
pro tip: after much trial and error, i have figured out that each sims square is approximately 2.66 square feet
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.
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.
Cute house. I like it. I don't know what living in Florida is like and wouldn't want to worry about hurricanes and stuff but at least you have a lot of places to go and do things and live in a beach state. I live in Oregon and it's so boring. These builds are yours, you can do what you like. People don't get to tell you what to do. How are those kittens that you never have on here anymore, Snap too. lol I love Kitties and loved when your kitties are a part of your videos. Please have them back once in awhile.
Rugs on carpet aren't weird, the fact that Americans are so intensely obsessed with the ugliest, most unhygienic beige carpet in their whole house IS weird 😩 I think I prefer living in a tiny Euro apartment but having wooden floors and non paper walls.
I am really confused why you always use the Snowy Escape door as a fake garage door when we literally have garage doors in the TS4. Like the City Living Garage Door Mural thing that youre supposed to paint on is a garage door, if you wanna go for the classic look
Because the Snowy Escape one functions as a door while the City Living one sims can’t go through, I agree though the City Living one looks better
I think it could be fun and interesting to try to recreacte an european floorplan. Because, we don't organize houses like that? I mean, one of the bedroom being out of place, not near other bedrooms seems so weird to me. Lmao And everithing being so big like y'all lives in mansion too.
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When I was 10 my teacher from technics gave me a 1 (an F) because I put a sink next to the fridge in my house project💀 12:10
My grandma is currently mad at me cause i took her rugs off her carpet cause of trip hazard issues. I think thats generally why you dont see rugs on carpet but its not necessarily an issue for everyone. Like it is for someone who has mobility issues
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 😂
you built a realistic sims house but you didnt put on light switches!!! omg kayla i cant believe you!!!!!!!! consider urself bullied
In austrlia, or atleast nsw its typicall for rooms to be in the front 9f the house, all next to each. Like my houses orignal front door goes into a (now) bedroom, and the main room is at the old front of the house
Yah! 16:16 ive always thought a rug on carpet was for design purposes more than anything, a lot of interior designers do that to break up rooms or make them feel more homey!
Maybe a "realistic" Building series :) like buildings from all over the world in Sims :)
New build house in the US, bought during COVID. You were not wrong about any of this. Tiny little barely there yard, no fence, and the quote we got to put in a fence was $7,000! So no.
Lilsimsie/kayla can you please make the friends apartment from the TV show and then when for rent comes out have the friends charecters live in them
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.
I read the posted time too quick and thought this was posted 9 minutes ago, not 9 months ago. 😭😂
Ive always used rugs on carpet. It also protects carpet from children lol
you should start doing houses with other cultural styles. You're verrrrrry stuck on american type of houses
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If you are using the sq. footage on homes you find online, one sim grid square is equivalent to 3 sq. ft. So if a room is 12x15 on a plan, it will be a 3x5 room in the sims.
Thank you!
I could never build such a realistic build I usually get packs that have good build items I do use parenthood the most I think ea should lower down prices especially because most of the packs like my wedding stories are broken!!❤
there are so many bugs and glitches!
@annoar9776 yes I know but I only have a couple packs and I get bored easily with the build items!
@annoar9776 your right tho
simsie i am begging you to make a minnesota lake house (maybe an urban lake like bde maka ska or harriet) i think you would love it so much
Me: Using bloxburg and for sale house/mobile home yor floor plan ideas.
I'm not a fan of wall to wall carpet, especially if you wear your outside shoes inside your house.
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.
I have tons of rugs on carpet. I also have cats so when they barf it’s always on the rug and I save the carpet.
I am not from the US so making floorplans for the americans suburbans in the sims can be hard, thanks simsie!
same, thanks simsie!
Where are you from that floorplans are so cultural?.. Floorplans are relatively the same all over the world since needs don't really change that much.
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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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.
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Lilsimsie is so awesome! She's so good at building!
Lack of fences is wild to me, everything you leave outside would be stolen in two seconds in England!
my floor plans are entirely created to be the least inconvenient to move the camera around
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I don't think I've ever seen a kitchen with the sink next to the fridge, it's usually on the opposite side of the kitchen