Tell me what you think about my IRL Florida house: it's called Ft.Lauderdale in the EA/TS4 gallery (@Tunikitty). I didn't realize til I saw this video how stereotypical it all was (incl. the pool-gator, LOL)
i live in the uk and one of the earliest homes i remember was my child minders- beautiful home but the most memorable part was the conservatory playroom on the back of the house! i loved it and have wanted to see someone make something similar in ts4 ever since
as someone who was born and raised in florida, you absolutely NAILED the "early 2000s subdivision" vibe. had me feeling nostalgic for a couple of the houses i lived in as a kid.
only thing missing is the beach themed bathroom (even if you live in central florida lol) though i guess that is slightly more grandma's house than family house but ive seen it in non-old people homes
I’d love to see more build videos based on different states’ architectures. Like an Alaska cabin, a Pacific Northwest midcentury, a California bungalow, a New Mexico adobe style,etc.
As someone who has only lived in Florida this is awesome. The way you created THE ceiling fan is so smart and so real. I was excited for the greenhouse pack JUST so I could make screened in porches. I LOVE this. I am who this build was made for thank you so much the nostalgia here was real.
I've never been out of Brazil but for what I get Florida is like Santa Catarina with the climate from Rio de Janeiro... I live in Rio, so I totally get the feeling! Also, I would love to see Simsie build a Brazilian house! The diversity in our architecture can even inspire you to start a series like "houses of the world" or something.
amg pensei a mesma coisa kkkk muito o clima do rio! moro em minas mas ultimamente o calor tá horrível aqui eu ia amar se ela fizesse uma casa brasileira
I love this idea! I'm from Saskatchewan, Canada so I cannot relate to having cool or unique architecture BUT I would absolutely love to see more sims builds inspired by other cultures/nations/etc. And I think Kayla would do such a good job because she'd totally try her best to get the build as accurate as possible. Great idea!
In Los Angeles there was this famous architect named Cliff May. He designed the best houses in my opinion. He combined indoor and outdoor living so well with his signature Breezeways. One story. High ceilings. Exposed beams. Sky lights. It was mid century modern California style ranch houses. I LOVE his style and I can never find houses like his on the sims gallery. I really wish someone could make one. This is me shooting my shot to all builders. PLEASE MAKE A CLIFF MAY HOUSE! 😭
Hey guys for who didn't know already, the blooming rooms kit is gonna be free in a few weeks, there is not a date i think but don buy it yet save your money💚🎮
i love when you do these more 'realistic' builds in the sims, they may not be as pretty as a tiny cottage or a modern 5 story mansion, but i think more realistic homes are more fun to play in. i'm australian and this house reminds me a lot of where i grew up except we didn't have a screened in porch/veranda, we had a glass roof tho :)
As a Floridian myself, I can confirm this is especially realistic. I even showed my mom and her words exactly were “yep, that definitely looks like a Florida house.” It’s especially reminiscent of places like Naples and Bonita springs in my opinion.
I used to live in FL as a kid, and I'm not exaggerating when I say this took me back. Our garage had a hallway that went off of the kitchen, and we had a TON of cacti around the front of the place. the kicker was that it was BRIGHT ORANGE on the outside. I even remember when the house next door was remodeled to be all fancy white and gray. Great job, Kayla!!
I love spotting strange similarities between Florida & Texas house styles. The one that stood out most to me is that we also have fans in every room, but many of the ones I grew up w had "boob" lights as opposed to the three lights!
Fellow Texan here, I also noticed a lot of similarities between Florida and some houses we have here, especially if we’re talking about the Gulf Coast area of Texas. I know exactly what you mean about the boob lights because some of my friends had them growing up in their houses, but strangely enough my childhood home had the 3 light-ceiling fan combo that Simsie mentioned in every bedroom/living room.
As a brit who's been on holiday in florida twice all of the houses she showed looked so nice to me 😭 like i guarantee those garages alone are bigger than most british houses
a loooot of houses look like this in south georgia too, which just confirms to me even more that south georgia and north florida are basically the same state. My grandparents had a kitchen peninsula just like that, with the raised counter tops and everything Edit: god the garage fridge full of fridge pops too, that threw me right back to 4th grade at my grandparent's house
I lived in Florida in the late 80s (because I am that old), and this was spot on even then! We had the screened in pool, the barely worth it tiny yard, the split floor plan....we even had the beige outside, though my parents repainted it a beautiful shade of blue. We also had sliding doors *everywhere* - my parents room, the dining room, the living room, and then a single door from the screened in pool to the hall bathroom.
There are the "open garage people" and the "closed garage people" too! Open garager's like to hang out just under the eave, shaded inside it, and wave at all the neighbors, drink beer and gossip! LOL!
@@ryasnipes6068 I don't live in FLA, but one set of neighbors in my old cul de sac used the garage for social time like this, instead of vehicles. The young couple who previously lived there must have outgrown the house and moved out. This family was not stereotypically mom, dad, kids, but some other combo, hard to tell. There were teenagers, a grandma, and I'm not sure who else. Only the adults were in the garage, tho. The kids were out with their friends and riding dirt bikes. It was quite loud but thank goodness they closed the garage doors at about 10:30, so it was muffled. 🤣🤣 They moved out, and a security officer who became a policeman moved in. It was like a tomb then. A detective called me to ask if he was a good neighbor when he applied at the Force. I said they were very quiet and kept the yard mowed. Dunno what I would've said if it was the other family. 😅
Video/miniseries idea: building traditional houses from different parts of the world. I think you mostly build houses hat could be found in the US but it would be fun to see your version of example a Swedish house or Australian 🤷🏼♀️
you need the screened in lanai so you can have something for all the tiny frogs to stick to at night that you don't have to windex in the morning. Pretty certain every Florida home comes with complimentary frogs and those tiny lizards that are all speed and nearly no common sense. So cute.
i remember going to florida for the first time and seeing that the WHOLE HOUSE was tile. not just the bathroom or kitchen, but literal BEDROOM AND LIVING ROOMS are that cold stone tile lol 😭😭
A lot of the warmer European countries are the same. Its weird to me, I'm from a cold af country but when I holiday in Spain or whereever its so weird but also cool. Like literally
@@hesterwright3674 yes ikr like where i live you wouldnt DARE put tiles anywhere tbh, lino is in the kitchens and bathrooms and carpet everywhere else like ur toes would be so cold where im from
For a French person, this construction really looks like the houses you'd see on TV home decoration and renovation shows like Fixer Upper. Glad to see it's not just a cliché !
idk abt where simsie is but as someone who lives in soflo, i absolutely ADORE the florida house style. like the brown shingles w the beigey/peachy color walls just brings me so much joy 🫶
I’m in Florida for the first time and I am absolutely loving how stunning it is! I’ve been travelling across the USA for 3 months and Florida has been my favourite place (besides Nashville)!
One thing I loved about living in FL was that a lot of places had the enclosed screens/pools. It was SO nice..even some apartments have the built in screen porch. Lived there for a long long time, don't think I'd ever want to live there again lmao. Over five years on and off, Florida kept taking me BACK! LOL
When my parents moved down almost 20 years for my dad's job, we didn't know there was a hole in the screen around the pool. So I just remember being on spring break and finding ALL. THESE. TOADS. in the pool/lanai area. We'd gotten a field guide for FL wildlife before moving down and I spent a while identifying all the critters I rescued from the pool until we found and fixed the screen. Thankfully it was a small hole and no snakes came in. The house was maaany shades of pink when they moved in and Mom looked into repainting, but the president of the HOA wanted only earth tones or white even though the manifest said "tropical colors." So, they waited and bided their time until she had to take a leave of absence, then they and every homeowner who didn't want beige or baby poop colors submitted their colors. She was so mad when she returned! However, my mom got her aqua house with peacock blue door.
i lived in florida for 2 years about a decade ago, and oh my god when i say this video brought back crazy memories, i’m not kidding. we didn’t have a screened in pool, but we had a screened in room that the cats basically lived in. i remember vividly the house i lived in had a tile entrance and kinda an open floor plan for the entrance, and the living room was off the entrance, it was carpeted, and there was like a hallway of tile through the house, but it wasn’t walled in, so it was just like a weird path of tile. we’d have little geckos get into the house and one of my cats would try to catch it. our kitchen had fruit wallpaper/tiling, and we covered up the weird fruit tiles with sticker things (it was a rental house). our kitchen wasn’t angled, but we had a pass through from the kitchen into the living room and i remember making grilled cheese at the stove and watching cutthroat kitchen through the pass through. our neighbor’s house was 2 stories and it was basically the only one in the neighborhood like that. now i live in virginia (and go to school in ohio) and i can definitely say that most of the us has consistent house styles, but florida is living in its own design land. the house kayla built looks kinda like the one i lived in (go figure, its a florida house) but the window to the left of the front door was arched and the front door/entrance was next to the garage. the arched window was my room and it had a cool vaulted ceiling. honestly i loved that room, it was really cool. i guess florida wasn’t ALL bad (but only in terms of my house lmao) but i only lived there 2014/2015, so yeah its really yikes now politically. not that we’ve got it much better in virginia (ew glenn youngkin). geez sorry for the ramble, this just brought back a lot of memories.
i need you to build a standard 2 bedroom house from the uk. they’re literally all laid out the same way and it’s a lot harder to recreate without realising it 😭
You should check out Plumbella: they're a Simmer from Middlesbrough and have made a UK style home once or twice! They're also like, so SO funny and chaotic
every once in a while, when kayla talks about being from florida, i realize just how blurred the lines are between living in florida and living in south texas. like i have ABSOLUTELY been in this house before and i've never set foot in florida but i've lived in south texas my whole life
Maybe the more central Florida you get the more beige and one story you get, because I was confused by the "all the houses here are beige and one story" at the start. I live on the coast and a lot of the houses are pastel, colorful, and while we do have beige or grey houses I'd say it's fairly balanced. I didn't realize Orlando area was so beige and I am sad for you 😅I love the colorful houses and most of them are over one story.
Im not from Florida but I did live in Nevada for ten years, and goddamn if that aint the exact house I’ve been do a hundred thousand times. The little porch alcoves, the front yard landscaping, beige wallpaper and nice floors. So 2000s American suburban. Well done, Kayla!
This was so cool to watch and learn about, I know it would probably be quite a research heavy series but I’d love builds based on different states, or even different countries!
i'm only 8 minutes in and i'm already uncomfortable with how accurate this is 💀 you put the fan & light combos in and i side-eyed their twin in my room LMAO
Unfortunately also a floridian, but I love how everything is spot on! The bean pool, obnoxiously tall entranceways, weird wall niche, the fan and light combo, THE BEIGE, weird kitchen islands and bars. One thing I've never thought about is how pool screens look weird; they're just so normal to me lol
I'm from Canada... and in my hometown there are tons of lakes so we get swarmed by mosquitos in the warmer season... hence the screened in porch lol so it's not that strange to me . Also the big garage trend has got us too.
Ah the folks with the like four car garages yet they still have multiple vehicles parked either in their driveway or on the street in front of their house
You should team up with Dan and build a set of English townhouses. (An English townhouse is always connected, you cannot just build one). Oh, and you need to have the black fence and gate at the (tiny) front; it's a necessity.
Don’t tell me that FLORIDA!!!!! from TTPD wasn’t what reminded you to post this😘 Also, interestingly, I’m from the UK but I used to live in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia when I was little because my dad was in the Royal Air Force, and my gosh this house reminds me so much of the villas in our RAF compound in Riyadh!! The fan lights unlocked a childhood memory like omg! We didn’t have pool screens though, although they sound pretty damn practical!
i'm from Texas, and the homes down here vary greatly no matter where you live. because it's so big there are definatley differences depending on if you live in the hill country or by the coast, but even there the homes can be complete opposites even in close proximity. i live in a very old style, colonial inspired home, but my neighbours live in a very tiled, midterranian inspired home. there are both modern ranch styles homes, and very old, classic styles texan homes. i could go on and on but there certainly are similarities all over texas, even if you and your neighbour have completely different style homes because of all the cultural influences down here. like tile, i even have some in my entry way, attics, fridges in the garage, a focus on back yards over front yards, large porches, and if you do have a fireplace, it is most likely tiled or brick over cobble stone.
Was going to comment something similar! The diversity of houses in Texas is astounding! I suppose it's because Texas itself is such a melting pot of cultures within a nation that's a melting pot & there's lots of different eras represented just within one street. I've lived in quite lower middleclass homes my whole life, so it isn't just an eccentricity thing that comes w money
@@RatOfTheWoods yeah. my grandfather bought out house when the housing market wasnt so insane lol. its a very old home but you can see the influences of other cultures through the architecture
I dated a guy whose grandparents lived in Florida… and you definitely got the “Florida” elements spot on with the house. Like the spare bedroom/ office space and the kitchen too 😂
when I was 11 I went to florida and I stayed in a house that looked so much like this, and I have to say, I am honestly a big fan of the mesh cage around the back garden-mainly because i’m scared of bugs, but partly because it’s just so useful I enjoyed my time there, mainly because it was the first time I ever saw a raccoon (I live in the uk) but also it was just so bizarre in a very enjoyable way; everything was so big, from the roads to the shops to the signs, and I know there’s some sense of rose tinted glasses since it was a while ago and I had no clue about anything to do with politics at the time, but I would happily go again anyway I say all of this because I feel like florida, as a state, is often criticised for its weirdness and I personally think that’s one of its many positives (and also to thank you for reminding me of that trip because I had a lot of fun, since it was the first time I was fully exposed to american culture before I knew anything about it)
I was raised in Florida, its been 8 years since i lived there. This build is so spot on i can smell the humidity and chlorine. 10/10, i feel so incredibly nostalgic rn. Also, to second the really tall ceiling, the ceiling in our old house was 20 feet tall. (A bit of an outlier, but it wasn't unprecedented) Our neighborhood wasn't fully developed and still had a bunch of forest, so we had deer, a bobcat, and a Florida Black Panther all living in the general neighborhood. Ironically, a flock of wild turkeys would pass directly through our backyard every year around Thanksgiving. In a different house, we had the pool + pool screen, but we never really got to go play in it due to the hoa doing extremely illegal things + a gator got into the pool from the golf course behind the house at one point, so the pool screen was all ripped so it wasn't really safe anymore and the filter was broken so it was SUPER nasty. We probably would've gotten it fixed, but the aforementioned hoa was doing super illegal bank fraud that caused us to be evicted illegally and without cause, so its a moot point
You NAILED it! From the tall entryways, the wall niches, the diagonal kitchen peninsulas, the beige tile, and the pool screen??? Literally every house in Florida
omg I had SO much fun watching this that it became one of my favorite builds. the back screen seems super necessary and doesn't even look that bad honestly especially with maybe a more modern house? could look kinda cool. we had the ceiling fans everywhere in arkansas too.
This gave me so much nostalgia for my uncle & my grandma's houses. Thank you. I don't talk to my dad so I almost never speak to them either; and I live in California so I'm super far. Thank you and much love❤
i’m from wisconsin and i noticed a lot of similarities with the houses here, half walls, those cieling lights, funky peninsula kitchens, and the microwave above the stove. !! i’ve never seen florida in person but the homes look gorgeous!
@@tobynmoser1779 I saw a lot of similarities too, but I thought maybe I was just imagining it. I think this is just an early 2000's build and in the early 2000's Florida was exploding in population.
This was such a perfect Florida house! I'm from Canada and the inside of our houses look almost exactly the same, we just don't have a pool screen, but otherwise, everything else felt like the home I grew up in and it's the first time I've had a nostalgia feeling watching a sims build! Love this and would love to see more of these kinds of builds!
This house is actually so good, I use it for vacations/rental lots. I did change the colours though as my sims would be uncomfortable from all the beige 😂😂
As someone who lived in Florida for most of my childhood and all of my adolescent years, all the bits about the houses having high ceilings, arch door front, huge garage, BEIGE EVERYTHING, is definitely stirring up old memories lol.
Microwaves’s mounted over stoves are my pet peeve. They are not accessibility friendly at all. Microwaves mounted up high in general are problematic - but even more so if you are also reaching further back over a hot stove. I’m so glad that they are NOT a thing in the sims.
Simsie, I've been using this house for nearly a year! Happy to finally see it built! I moved in a pair of twins and their college roommates/significant others. One of the twins is in the paranormal career so I made it haunted. It's such a realistic build I love it!
as someone who grew up in texas, i GET this build 😂😂 there's a lot of similarities to my childhood house in this build (the light/ceiling fans and weird diagonal kitchen counter thing lol) and we vacationed a lot in florida. love this
2:13 I love that aspect of Florida's houses. I wish I could have a pool enclosed like that. Ideally (meaning if I was rich, lol) I would want a feature that can make my pool indoor/outdoor. However, I would take an enclosed pool any day
I have such a cozy nostalgic feeling for this Florida style home. Growing up we'd visit both sets of grandparents in Florida every summer so now as an adult I associate FL homes with visiting my grandparents ❤❤
omg this is perfect timing since i'm currently in Florida for a few weeks catsitting/housesitting for my relatives!! i could never live here for SEVERAL reasons, but visiting for a short time in spring when the weather is lovely and seeing all the wildlife and little lizards has been so wonderful edit: this is SO accurate. their house is in a gated community, and the fancy screened in patio is almost EXACT! and their cats do love it :)
As a Floridian veteran myself, I really did enjoy this video (and all your other videos 😊)!!! As you were building and talking, I was finishing your sentences and compare your build to my house and my friends’ houses. It VERY accurate. Also, thank you Kayla! You have made me realize why all my houses in the sims have the brown/beige color scheme 😂❣️❣️❣️
Fellow floridian here. You almost, item for item, made my friends house from when we were kids. Omg.
she is stalking you
@@blakerucksthat pfp is genius /gen
The alligator too?
Plot twist, your friend was also her friend lol
Tell me what you think about my IRL Florida house: it's called Ft.Lauderdale in the EA/TS4 gallery (@Tunikitty). I didn't realize til I saw this video how stereotypical it all was (incl. the pool-gator, LOL)
the UK could be a good one to do next. I'm talking laundry in the kitchen, tiny, closed off floor plans, conservatory in the back garden, etc.
Bring Dan in for the build and commentary, that would be so fun
@@AdamZugone This is what I was gonna say!!
How do you even do single glazing in The Sims? 🥺😂
i live in the uk and one of the earliest homes i remember was my child minders- beautiful home but the most memorable part was the conservatory playroom on the back of the house! i loved it and have wanted to see someone make something similar in ts4 ever since
as someone who was born and raised in florida, you absolutely NAILED the "early 2000s subdivision" vibe. had me feeling nostalgic for a couple of the houses i lived in as a kid.
only thing missing is the beach themed bathroom (even if you live in central florida lol) though i guess that is slightly more grandma's house than family house but ive seen it in non-old people homes
@@clairecosio shes missing the flamingos
@@clairecosioa very important fixture of the mid-00s central Florida bathroom
Im from Southern California, but the 2000s suburb is exactly like this here, and i live in one
I was just coming to comment this. Being born and raised in Florida, this hit too close to home LOL
you hit the two decorating styles of florida perfectly, beige and beach.
I also don’t love florida houses but it’s kinda cute seeing it in the sims!
I’d love to see more build videos based on different states’ architectures. Like an Alaska cabin, a Pacific Northwest midcentury, a California bungalow, a New Mexico adobe style,etc.
Ms Gryphi has a series like that. I'd love to see Kayla's take on it though.
YES
such a good idea!
Yes I’m from Alaska I would love to see their take on a cabin or an average home here lol
omg yes!
As a Floridian it is both incredibly triggering and relatable to see the typical Floridian suburban home I grew up around lol.
I’m live in Florida and this build was 100% spot on from the bar/kitchen counter height, to the ceiling fans with the three lights in EVERY ROOM
Bought those for my new house too😂
Facts😂
As someone who has only lived in Florida this is awesome. The way you created THE ceiling fan is so smart and so real. I was excited for the greenhouse pack JUST so I could make screened in porches. I LOVE this. I am who this build was made for thank you so much the nostalgia here was real.
I've never been out of Brazil but for what I get Florida is like Santa Catarina with the climate from Rio de Janeiro... I live in Rio, so I totally get the feeling! Also, I would love to see Simsie build a Brazilian house! The diversity in our architecture can even inspire you to start a series like "houses of the world" or something.
That would be so cool! I'm from the US, but other cultures and architecture are so fascinating to me.
amg pensei a mesma coisa kkkk muito o clima do rio! moro em minas mas ultimamente o calor tá horrível aqui
eu ia amar se ela fizesse uma casa brasileira
I love this idea! I'm from Saskatchewan, Canada so I cannot relate to having cool or unique architecture BUT I would absolutely love to see more sims builds inspired by other cultures/nations/etc. And I think Kayla would do such a good job because she'd totally try her best to get the build as accurate as possible. Great idea!
Thats so cool!!
Eu sempre imaginei que o clima seria parecido com o do Amazonas (quente e muito úmido) e eu ia amar uma casa "brasileira" tbm!!
In Los Angeles there was this famous architect named Cliff May. He designed the best houses in my opinion. He combined indoor and outdoor living so well with his signature Breezeways. One story. High ceilings. Exposed beams. Sky lights. It was mid century modern California style ranch houses. I LOVE his style and I can never find houses like his on the sims gallery. I really wish someone could make one. This is me shooting my shot to all builders. PLEASE MAKE A CLIFF MAY HOUSE! 😭
Deligracy has made a few of those type of homes !
Hey guys for who didn't know already, the blooming rooms kit is gonna be free in a few weeks, there is not a date i think but don buy it yet save your money💚🎮
Ah hell yeah
You are the best
oh hell yes i was about to buy some packs and kits next paycheck, i'll make sure not to buy that one!!
On PlayStation too?
@@ilymiyah i don't think so sorry
i love when you do these more 'realistic' builds in the sims, they may not be as pretty as a tiny cottage or a modern 5 story mansion, but i think more realistic homes are more fun to play in. i'm australian and this house reminds me a lot of where i grew up except we didn't have a screened in porch/veranda, we had a glass roof tho :)
As a Floridian myself, I can confirm this is especially realistic. I even showed my mom and her words exactly were “yep, that definitely looks like a Florida house.” It’s especially reminiscent of places like Naples and Bonita springs in my opinion.
I used to live in FL as a kid, and I'm not exaggerating when I say this took me back. Our garage had a hallway that went off of the kitchen, and we had a TON of cacti around the front of the place. the kicker was that it was BRIGHT ORANGE on the outside. I even remember when the house next door was remodeled to be all fancy white and gray. Great job, Kayla!!
I love spotting strange similarities between Florida & Texas house styles. The one that stood out most to me is that we also have fans in every room, but many of the ones I grew up w had "boob" lights as opposed to the three lights!
YES the boob lights, i know exactly the ones ur talking about omg, i dont live in the US and they have the same lights minus the fans EVERYWHEREEEE
Fellow Texan here, I also noticed a lot of similarities between Florida and some houses we have here, especially if we’re talking about the Gulf Coast area of Texas. I know exactly what you mean about the boob lights because some of my friends had them growing up in their houses, but strangely enough my childhood home had the 3 light-ceiling fan combo that Simsie mentioned in every bedroom/living room.
I grew up in a florida house with fans in half the rooms and boob lights in the other half!
@@mtate28 Yesss the Gulf Coast of Texas has houses that look insanely similar to this!!
As a brit who's been on holiday in florida twice all of the houses she showed looked so nice to me 😭 like i guarantee those garages alone are bigger than most british houses
Fellow brit who is incidentally going to florida for the first time soon and i agree with everything you just said 😂 bug free pool?! Yes please!
It's giving house built in 1998 and rennovated in 2010 😂 i loooove the realism!!
a loooot of houses look like this in south georgia too, which just confirms to me even more that south georgia and north florida are basically the same state. My grandparents had a kitchen peninsula just like that, with the raised counter tops and everything
Edit: god the garage fridge full of fridge pops too, that threw me right back to 4th grade at my grandparent's house
“I am unfortunately from Florida” STOPPP THATS SO FUNNY YET SO REAL 😂
245 likes and 0 comments thats not right! I will fix that!
"its even embarrassing to even admit" 😂 i am dead 😂
bro i’m from texas i get it
me about alabama
I feel like that’s every state though. Every state has some bull crap going on lmao
I lived in Florida in the late 80s (because I am that old), and this was spot on even then! We had the screened in pool, the barely worth it tiny yard, the split floor plan....we even had the beige outside, though my parents repainted it a beautiful shade of blue. We also had sliding doors *everywhere* - my parents room, the dining room, the living room, and then a single door from the screened in pool to the hall bathroom.
i learned something new today floridas style is garage
There are the "open garage people" and the "closed garage people" too! Open garager's like to hang out just under the eave, shaded inside it, and wave at all the neighbors, drink beer and gossip! LOL!
@@ryasnipes6068 I don't live in FLA, but one set of neighbors in my old cul de sac used the garage for social time like this, instead of vehicles. The young couple who previously lived there must have outgrown the house and moved out. This family was not stereotypically mom, dad, kids, but some other combo, hard to tell. There were teenagers, a grandma, and I'm not sure who else. Only the adults were in the garage, tho. The kids were out with their friends and riding dirt bikes. It was quite loud but thank goodness they closed the garage doors at about 10:30, so it was muffled. 🤣🤣
They moved out, and a security officer who became a policeman moved in. It was like a tomb then. A detective called me to ask if he was a good neighbor when he applied at the Force. I said they were very quiet and kept the yard mowed. Dunno what I would've said if it was the other family. 😅
Yes just ✨garage✨
Video/miniseries idea: building traditional houses from different parts of the world. I think you mostly build houses hat could be found in the US but it would be fun to see your version of example a Swedish house or Australian 🤷🏼♀️
This house is quite similar to contemporary Australian houses.
@@lauramacbeth2617 okay intresening, I just picked a random country to be honest
@@lauramacbeth2617 similar here in canada!
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Yaassss!
Florida!!!
So many people aren’t going to get this, and I love it 😂
IS THAT A BAD THING TO SAY ON A SONG??!!!!!🤭
you need the screened in lanai so you can have something for all the tiny frogs to stick to at night that you don't have to windex in the morning. Pretty certain every Florida home comes with complimentary frogs and those tiny lizards that are all speed and nearly no common sense. So cute.
i remember going to florida for the first time and seeing that the WHOLE HOUSE was tile. not just the bathroom or kitchen, but literal BEDROOM AND LIVING ROOMS are that cold stone tile lol 😭😭
A lot of the warmer European countries are the same. Its weird to me, I'm from a cold af country but when I holiday in Spain or whereever its so weird but also cool. Like literally
It's cooler, easier to keep clean long term, and doesn't have to be replaced from water damage.
If you've ever tried to get sand off carpet you'd understand 😅
@@hesterwright3674 yes ikr like where i live you wouldnt DARE put tiles anywhere tbh, lino is in the kitchens and bathrooms and carpet everywhere else like ur toes would be so cold where im from
@@caifengforever2796 that makes sense, i live in the midwest so the nearest beach probably IS florida tbh
For a French person, this construction really looks like the houses you'd see on TV home decoration and renovation shows like Fixer Upper. Glad to see it's not just a cliché !
i hope taylor watches lil simsie every now and then
idk abt where simsie is but as someone who lives in soflo, i absolutely ADORE the florida house style. like the brown shingles w the beigey/peachy color walls just brings me so much joy 🫶
I’m in Florida for the first time and I am absolutely loving how stunning it is! I’ve been travelling across the USA for 3 months and Florida has been my favourite place (besides Nashville)!
One thing I loved about living in FL was that a lot of places had the enclosed screens/pools. It was SO nice..even some apartments have the built in screen porch. Lived there for a long long time, don't think I'd ever want to live there again lmao. Over five years on and off, Florida kept taking me BACK! LOL
Florida is one hell of a drug 🌴
Florida!!! Can I use you uup?
Flordia flordia its one hell of a drug its one hella drugged
Yaaaaas Swifties 🫶
I am also from Florida and you absolutely NAILED this house style lmao. Being "unfortunately from Florida" is the true Floridian experience
When my parents moved down almost 20 years for my dad's job, we didn't know there was a hole in the screen around the pool. So I just remember being on spring break and finding ALL. THESE. TOADS. in the pool/lanai area. We'd gotten a field guide for FL wildlife before moving down and I spent a while identifying all the critters I rescued from the pool until we found and fixed the screen. Thankfully it was a small hole and no snakes came in. The house was maaany shades of pink when they moved in and Mom looked into repainting, but the president of the HOA wanted only earth tones or white even though the manifest said "tropical colors." So, they waited and bided their time until she had to take a leave of absence, then they and every homeowner who didn't want beige or baby poop colors submitted their colors. She was so mad when she returned! However, my mom got her aqua house with peacock blue door.
I grew up in Florida and escaped and let me tell you, it pisses me off how I miss it. 😂 You made me homesick with this house, hehehe. I love it!
🎵FLORIDA!!! is one hell of a drug...🎶
I had a visceral response to this build as someone who grew up in Florida and left. 10/10, terrifying
i lived in florida for 2 years about a decade ago, and oh my god when i say this video brought back crazy memories, i’m not kidding. we didn’t have a screened in pool, but we had a screened in room that the cats basically lived in. i remember vividly the house i lived in had a tile entrance and kinda an open floor plan for the entrance, and the living room was off the entrance, it was carpeted, and there was like a hallway of tile through the house, but it wasn’t walled in, so it was just like a weird path of tile. we’d have little geckos get into the house and one of my cats would try to catch it. our kitchen had fruit wallpaper/tiling, and we covered up the weird fruit tiles with sticker things (it was a rental house). our kitchen wasn’t angled, but we had a pass through from the kitchen into the living room and i remember making grilled cheese at the stove and watching cutthroat kitchen through the pass through. our neighbor’s house was 2 stories and it was basically the only one in the neighborhood like that. now i live in virginia (and go to school in ohio) and i can definitely say that most of the us has consistent house styles, but florida is living in its own design land.
the house kayla built looks kinda like the one i lived in (go figure, its a florida house) but the window to the left of the front door was arched and the front door/entrance was next to the garage. the arched window was my room and it had a cool vaulted ceiling. honestly i loved that room, it was really cool. i guess florida wasn’t ALL bad (but only in terms of my house lmao) but i only lived there 2014/2015, so yeah its really yikes now politically. not that we’ve got it much better in virginia (ew glenn youngkin). geez sorry for the ramble, this just brought back a lot of memories.
i need you to build a standard 2 bedroom house from the uk. they’re literally all laid out the same way and it’s a lot harder to recreate without realising it 😭
You should check out Plumbella: they're a Simmer from Middlesbrough and have made a UK style home once or twice! They're also like, so SO funny and chaotic
This house is one hell of a drug!!!
every once in a while, when kayla talks about being from florida, i realize just how blurred the lines are between living in florida and living in south texas. like i have ABSOLUTELY been in this house before and i've never set foot in florida but i've lived in south texas my whole life
Maybe the more central Florida you get the more beige and one story you get, because I was confused by the "all the houses here are beige and one story" at the start. I live on the coast and a lot of the houses are pastel, colorful, and while we do have beige or grey houses I'd say it's fairly balanced. I didn't realize Orlando area was so beige and I am sad for you 😅I love the colorful houses and most of them are over one story.
Agreed! I'm in Tampa and houses are as colorful as the ones in Edward Scissorhands 😅
@@audiwaj4651 It definitely depends lol, I'm only an hour north of tampa and almost all our houses are sad and beige
This feels unbearably Naples tbh (I live right near there)
Very true, I’m in south Florida and it’s colorful as well.
I agree. I am out on the coast too and we have A LOT of blue houses. Like aqua blue
Im not from Florida but I did live in Nevada for ten years, and goddamn if that aint the exact house I’ve been do a hundred thousand times. The little porch alcoves, the front yard landscaping, beige wallpaper and nice floors. So 2000s American suburban. Well done, Kayla!
I’m also from Florida, and I tried to build my childhood home in the sims. I got so bored I never finished it 🤣
Strangely , a lot of South African houses from the 2000s look exactly like this too , sans the pool screens
Funny enough I was listening to Flordia!!! The same time I got notified for this 😭😭
This was so cool to watch and learn about, I know it would probably be quite a research heavy series but I’d love builds based on different states, or even different countries!
I never thought about how other places don't have pool screens. It would be a mosquito factory with frogs, snakes, and alligators without them.
God this is the most Florida I’ve ever seen 🤣 home grown in central Florida too so this hits so close to all the people I’ve ever known
i'm only 8 minutes in and i'm already uncomfortable with how accurate this is 💀 you put the fan & light combos in and i side-eyed their twin in my room LMAO
the fan is an iconic staple in every floridian home
"i am unfortunately from florida" what an opener
Unfortunately also a floridian, but I love how everything is spot on! The bean pool, obnoxiously tall entranceways, weird wall niche, the fan and light combo, THE BEIGE, weird kitchen islands and bars. One thing I've never thought about is how pool screens look weird; they're just so normal to me lol
The palm trees are ✨palm treeing✨
The way you so accurately described my house! Man of Florida (can't say Florida man lol) born and raised here, so I definitely got this video
omg ur almost at two million!
so excited for you its been awesome seeing ur channel grow over time 🫶
Thank you for everything lil simsie!
As someone from Florida this is a mood
as a floridian this is iconic
I'm from Canada... and in my hometown there are tons of lakes so we get swarmed by mosquitos in the warmer season... hence the screened in porch lol so it's not that strange to me . Also the big garage trend has got us too.
The screened in porch is typically called a 3 season room lol because.. canada lol
Ah the folks with the like four car garages yet they still have multiple vehicles parked either in their driveway or on the street in front of their house
You should team up with Dan and build a set of English townhouses. (An English townhouse is always connected, you cannot just build one).
Oh, and you need to have the black fence and gate at the (tiny) front; it's a necessity.
Don’t tell me that FLORIDA!!!!! from TTPD wasn’t what reminded you to post this😘
Also, interestingly, I’m from the UK but I used to live in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia when I was little because my dad was in the Royal Air Force, and my gosh this house reminds me so much of the villas in our RAF compound in Riyadh!! The fan lights unlocked a childhood memory like omg! We didn’t have pool screens though, although they sound pretty damn practical!
Watching this felt like having a giant deja-vu and I was glad when Kayla said it's a one-year old build (that I remembered) and I'm not just crazy. 🌚
😂😂😂
I also felt that, so I checked the stream re-upload date
@@amynewton774 can you give me a link? I'm going through the moresimsie channel and I can''t find it
@@amynewton774 I found it haha
Same!!
as a texan, i love the idea of screened pools . bc i love screened in porches lol. being able to go in the pool while its raining sounds like a vibe
i'm from Texas, and the homes down here vary greatly no matter where you live. because it's so big there are definatley differences depending on if you live in the hill country or by the coast, but even there the homes can be complete opposites even in close proximity. i live in a very old style, colonial inspired home, but my neighbours live in a very tiled, midterranian inspired home. there are both modern ranch styles homes, and very old, classic styles texan homes. i could go on and on but there certainly are similarities all over texas, even if you and your neighbour have completely different style homes because of all the cultural influences down here. like tile, i even have some in my entry way, attics, fridges in the garage, a focus on back yards over front yards, large porches, and if you do have a fireplace, it is most likely tiled or brick over cobble stone.
Was going to comment something similar! The diversity of houses in Texas is astounding! I suppose it's because Texas itself is such a melting pot of cultures within a nation that's a melting pot & there's lots of different eras represented just within one street. I've lived in quite lower middleclass homes my whole life, so it isn't just an eccentricity thing that comes w money
@@RatOfTheWoods yeah. my grandfather bought out house when the housing market wasnt so insane lol. its a very old home but you can see the influences of other cultures through the architecture
I dated a guy whose grandparents lived in Florida… and you definitely got the “Florida” elements spot on with the house. Like the spare bedroom/ office space and the kitchen too 😂
when I was 11 I went to florida and I stayed in a house that looked so much like this, and I have to say, I am honestly a big fan of the mesh cage around the back garden-mainly because i’m scared of bugs, but partly because it’s just so useful
I enjoyed my time there, mainly because it was the first time I ever saw a raccoon (I live in the uk) but also it was just so bizarre in a very enjoyable way; everything was so big, from the roads to the shops to the signs, and I know there’s some sense of rose tinted glasses since it was a while ago and I had no clue about anything to do with politics at the time, but I would happily go again
anyway I say all of this because I feel like florida, as a state, is often criticised for its weirdness and I personally think that’s one of its many positives (and also to thank you for reminding me of that trip because I had a lot of fun, since it was the first time I was fully exposed to american culture before I knew anything about it)
I was raised in Florida, its been 8 years since i lived there. This build is so spot on i can smell the humidity and chlorine. 10/10, i feel so incredibly nostalgic rn.
Also, to second the really tall ceiling, the ceiling in our old house was 20 feet tall. (A bit of an outlier, but it wasn't unprecedented) Our neighborhood wasn't fully developed and still had a bunch of forest, so we had deer, a bobcat, and a Florida Black Panther all living in the general neighborhood. Ironically, a flock of wild turkeys would pass directly through our backyard every year around Thanksgiving.
In a different house, we had the pool + pool screen, but we never really got to go play in it due to the hoa doing extremely illegal things + a gator got into the pool from the golf course behind the house at one point, so the pool screen was all ripped so it wasn't really safe anymore and the filter was broken so it was SUPER nasty. We probably would've gotten it fixed, but the aforementioned hoa was doing super illegal bank fraud that caused us to be evicted illegally and without cause, so its a moot point
Houston, TX has a lot of houses like this.. especially towards the southeast side since it’s closer to the coast.
Waco has a lot like this too, except with brick exterior walls.
You NAILED it! From the tall entryways, the wall niches, the diagonal kitchen peninsulas, the beige tile, and the pool screen??? Literally every house in Florida
love to see us swifties having a blast with the number of “florida is one hell of a drug!!” comments
omg I had SO much fun watching this that it became one of my favorite builds. the back screen seems super necessary and doesn't even look that bad honestly especially with maybe a more modern house? could look kinda cool. we had the ceiling fans everywhere in arkansas too.
alligators are pretty cool tbh
Except when they're in my pool 😭
That's so cool I'm in Florida too but I never get them in the pool.@@Liamlow2005
@@Liamlow2005HUH???!!!!
and no sales tax
This gave me so much nostalgia for my uncle & my grandma's houses. Thank you. I don't talk to my dad so I almost never speak to them either; and I live in California so I'm super far. Thank you and much love❤
Okay here me out, a series where you build a house having most common things for each U.S state.
kayla i really liked the different vibe of this video and you telling stories from your childhood and how you grew up!!!
I love Florida houses. I'm from Wisconsin and my medical condition doesn't do well with the cold, so anything Florida seems like a dream to me.
i’m from wisconsin and i noticed a lot of similarities with the houses here, half walls, those cieling lights, funky peninsula kitchens, and the microwave above the stove. !! i’ve never seen florida in person but the homes look gorgeous!
@@tobynmoser1779 I saw a lot of similarities too, but I thought maybe I was just imagining it. I think this is just an early 2000's build and in the early 2000's Florida was exploding in population.
VERY FLORIDA right there - Next up, do the mega-mansions of Texas
HELP THE “I’m unfortunately from Florida “
As a fellow Floridian, this is too real😭
FLORIDA IS ONE HELL OF A DRUG ✨
This was such a perfect Florida house! I'm from Canada and the inside of our houses look almost exactly the same, we just don't have a pool screen, but otherwise, everything else felt like the home I grew up in and it's the first time I've had a nostalgia feeling watching a sims build! Love this and would love to see more of these kinds of builds!
I hate admitting I am from Florida too lol. Make the move. I left a year and a half ago to Seattle and will never look back.
This house is actually so good, I use it for vacations/rental lots. I did change the colours though as my sims would be uncomfortable from all the beige 😂😂
Ah yes. Alligators
As someone who lived in Florida for most of my childhood and all of my adolescent years, all the bits about the houses having high ceilings, arch door front, huge garage, BEIGE EVERYTHING, is definitely stirring up old memories lol.
Microwaves’s mounted over stoves are my pet peeve. They are not accessibility friendly at all. Microwaves mounted up high in general are problematic - but even more so if you are also reaching further back over a hot stove. I’m so glad that they are NOT a thing in the sims.
Simsie, I've been using this house for nearly a year! Happy to finally see it built! I moved in a pair of twins and their college roommates/significant others. One of the twins is in the paranormal career so I made it haunted. It's such a realistic build I love it!
Hiiiii😊😊❤
as a south Floridian this is spot on 😂
As a Floridian this is so accurate 😂
as someone who grew up in texas, i GET this build 😂😂 there's a lot of similarities to my childhood house in this build (the light/ceiling fans and weird diagonal kitchen counter thing lol) and we vacationed a lot in florida. love this
as a brit who just came to orlando today after a horrendous 9hr flight, the surface of the sun comment hit way too hard
2:13 I love that aspect of Florida's houses. I wish I could have a pool enclosed like that. Ideally (meaning if I was rich, lol) I would want a feature that can make my pool indoor/outdoor. However, I would take an enclosed pool any day
I have such a cozy nostalgic feeling for this Florida style home. Growing up we'd visit both sets of grandparents in Florida every summer so now as an adult I associate FL homes with visiting my grandparents ❤❤
I'd love to see more builds like this! My favorite part of traveling is all the different architecture so it would be so cool to see that in the sims
omg this is perfect timing since i'm currently in Florida for a few weeks catsitting/housesitting for my relatives!! i could never live here for SEVERAL reasons, but visiting for a short time in spring when the weather is lovely and seeing all the wildlife and little lizards has been so wonderful
edit: this is SO accurate. their house is in a gated community, and the fancy screened in patio is almost EXACT! and their cats do love it :)
Can confirm there would be a gator in that pond. Source: my grandparents lived in flager beach
Also having lived by a lake in Texas, the snake in the pool is just something you learn to deal with XD
“I am unfortunately from Florida” that’s literally how I feel about Michigan
As a Floridian veteran myself, I really did enjoy this video (and all your other videos 😊)!!! As you were building and talking, I was finishing your sentences and compare your build to my house and my friends’ houses. It VERY accurate. Also, thank you Kayla! You have made me realize why all my houses in the sims have the brown/beige color scheme 😂❣️❣️❣️
"I am unfortunately from Florida" amazing opening line for a video
Not from Florida but you made every real-estate office I've ever seen