I have very conflicting feelings about
this neighborhood in San Sequoia because I love this lot, I think that this lot might
be one of my favorite lots in the entire game. I really like how it's right
up against the water like this, it's got some concrete on two sides so
it's a good area for community lots. The views of the water are amazing, I like
how there's some cool walkways kind of nearby, this is just a really prime location for
building restaurants and stuff like that. The only problem is that this neighborhood is
so big it feels almost impossible to play in. I think this has been a problem in a
lot of the more recent packs and the more recent worlds where they're making
these big vast spread out areas and that seems like a good thing because we have
more places to walk around, but there's a lot of places to walk around and nothing to
actually do when you're walking around them. And there's also no Sims here. This is supposed to be a subway station so Sims
spawn here in this area. And that seems really cool in theory
except it's like three Sims spawning there. And I just, I wish that it was more of like
a bustling busy area of town and not like a vast spread out, maybe you see one or
two other Sims kind of area of town. If it were all in a tighter square, it
would be smaller which isn't as good, but at least it seems more lively so I don't know, I just I feel weird about this part
of town, but I still adore this lot. And I've pretty much only built
community lots here so far, I've not tried to build a real
house or anything on this lot yet. The last time I built here I
made a giant set of townhouses with three different stores on the bottom floor. And that was really fun, but also a
ginormous undertaking and not really functional because you can't use community
lots and residential lots at the same time. So I was thinking that today we should try and
do something different and maybe something a little bit more useful and try to build
an actual house for your Sims to live in. But, and kind of keeping with this
community lot theme, I was thinking that we could build something that's been
converted from a community lot into a home. So here's the vision: I'm thinking it's some
sort of old factory that's been purchased, renovated, and converted
into a single family home. I was trying to think of like a funny backstory for this and I came up with
converted cupcake factory. You know that giant cupcake machine?
This place made those cupcake machines. It's a cupcake factory, cupcake factory. So
that's kind of the story I was trying to tell. It's obviously no longer a cupcake machine
factory, it's just a house, a family lives here. Don't worry it's not like apartments or
townhouses or anything, it's literally just a house, it's a regular single
family residential lot in The Sims 4. It actually looks a lot bigger than it really is, it's only a 30 x 20 lot, it seems like
it's some sort of ginormous building, but there's a lot of open space in here too
because I've got the second floor kind of lofted. So in total it becomes a three bedroom, two bathroom house and it's got a
really cool art studio on the roof. I was kind of picturing that an artist lived here, so I thought maybe they bought it, they moved
in, they renovated it all by themselves, and then built themselves like a really
nice fancy studio to go along with it. And then I wasn't super sure about
what the other bedroom should be, there was some talk about roommates
and like some ideas like that, but I kind of tried to decorate the other
two bedrooms as belonging to teenagers. I thought maybe it's like a
single parent and their like older kids that are maybe like 17, 18 years old. I'm probably overthinking this because it's
just a game and these are like pretend Sims, I didn't make any Sims, I just had like a
vision in my head of who might live here, but if you wanted to play in this
house you could just, you know, update the bedrooms a tiny bit,
they'd kind of work for anybody. Adults could live in those rooms very
easily, they're not like full of toys. One of them is kind of sports themed and then the other one is like kind of,
I don't know, pink themed. That's kind of a weird way of describing it, but. And you know what, speaking of sports, I
didn't intend to post this video on Super Bowl Sunday when I built it, but it is in fact
Super Bowl Sunday so I have accidentally made a sports themed room for the sports themed
day, and that is all I will say on the matter, don't worry, I'm not going to sit
here and talk about football to you. You can kind of see the shape
coming together a little bit more on the rest of the factory and
what you're going to notice is that I spent so long trying to figure
out the roof of this building. I was trying out a ton of different
options, I was looking at things like maybe doing some sort of gabled roof, I was
trying flat roofs, I was trying platforms. I literally tried a million things, I
did not know how I wanted to do the roof. I think in the end it kind of worked out, but
it was definitely a trust the process sort of moment because it took me a long time to get
to a point where I thought it made sense. One of my favorite parts is the really
cool fire escape that goes up to the roof. So there's kind of like a set of metal
stairs and then also a ladder so you can access the roof from the bottom
floor or from inside the bedroom. I put like a door from the primary bedroom onto
the fire escape so it's kind of like a balcony, but it's also access to the rooftop art studio
which you can see coming along right now, that weird small building on
the roof becomes the art studio. And I ended up making that completely
glass, it's all glass walls and a glass roof on top of this weird little like
glass box greenhouse looking thing. It would probably be kind of hot in there which
would would in turn be a little bit unpleasant, but also it's a solid glass room with like
360 degree views of this, and I don't think anybody's going to complain about that, they've
got AC, they're fine, okay? They'll get over it. It's also again, The Sims, so
nobody actually cares about that. Glass roofs don't make the place
hotter, it doesn't make a difference. Now as far as windows go, I used
the Mosquito Stuff pack windows. It's actually called Moschino, Moschino, I don't really know or care, it's
like a high-end fashion brand. I call it Mosquito on purpose, if you
ever heard me say that, it's intentional. Mosquito like the bug I think is better. The Mosquito pack, she's controversial, but
you gotta admit the windows are kind of cool, they are actually kind of good so they
worked really well for this purpose. I really wanted to use stuff from the
Industrial Loft kit in here because I was kind of inspired by that kit
just generally for the whole build. The problem is the Industrial Loft kit
only has one window and one archway and so it's not really that good for doing a full
building like this because not much matches it, and it doesn't really have the greatest texture
either because it's very metal and like almost a little bit rusty looking, so when you try
and match that to a different black swatch on something else, nothing else has that rusty
color to it so it just doesn't really work. There's not enough variety so
I had a hard time using those. I did use the Mosquito windows and then
the arched ones are actually base game. There's drama about this. So listen to this,
okay, when the Industrial Loft kit came out, they teased it with this
like cover photo of a window. The picture had an arched window
and like some furniture in it. That arched window was this one that I'm using here that kind of matches
the Mosquito Stuff items. Then the pack comes out and the
arched window that's in the pack is not the arched window from the teaser photos. It is not the same thing. it's a different --
it's still an arched window, it's still big, but it's got different textures, it's got
different like paneling in the middle. It's a completely different window and
so everybody's like whoa, wait a minute, now hold on. That's not what you advertised and
you've given me the wrong window in the pack. So then The Sims team had to be like like
oopsies, we're so sorry everybody, don't worry! And then they went and made this
arched window and added it to the base game for everybody as like an
apology for the false advertising. I don't think they intended
to false advertise the item. I think there must have been like, some sort of oversight or something,
I don't really know what happened. Like maybe they tried to make
this window and then changed it last minute to a different one and it wasn't
communicated to the team that made the cover? I have no clue how this could
have happened, I don't get it. I'm not trying to justify it, but I don't think
they like tried to intentionally lie to us, I think it was an accident, I just don't
understand how they had an accident like this. But anyway, that base game arched window stems
from drama. It's always fun for me to like go back and talk about the Sims drama of years
past because I know a lot of you are maybe sort of new to The Sims community, maybe you
didn't watch a lot of Sims content back then, maybe you didn't follow the kits
because who cares about kits so you might not have known about that,
but I find it all very exciting. Now speaking of things that some of you
might find very exciting, I have big news. So I've been talking a little bit about this,
but me and Dan are planning a wedding right now. Yes, technically we are already married. Not -- we literally are already married,
we got married like 2 years ago, but because of the whole Visa process and COVID
we didn't have like a wedding-wedding, okay? We want to have a wedding-wedding
so we're planning that now, we've like booked a venue, we've
booked a date, all this stuff. It's not until next year so don't get too excited,
but I'm going wedding dress shopping this weekend. I guess by the time that you see this video, I
will have already been wedding dress shopping. I don't know, I don't really know what to expect,
I don't think I'm going to -- I don't know. I'm not sure if I'm going
to buy a dress this weekend, I just am looking I guess,
but I'm really scared of it. I know some people get excited about this
kind of thing, it's not exciting to me, it's really nerve-wracking and like stressful and I think I'm going to be like sad
and feel ugly when I try them on. I know that sounds so bad, but I just, I'm really
scared of it, um, hopefully it goes well though. I don't know if I'll like show you anything. I've seen people on TikTok
make videos that are like oh, these are the ones that I didn't
buy, but it like depends how I'm going to feel in the dresses that I
don't buy so I don't know, we'll see. We'll see if I show anything to you this weekend
and I'll let you know if I end up buying one. I think it might be like a a few attempts, this
process, of trying to find one, but we'll see. I know the kind of things that I like, but it's
hard to know until you've actually tried it on, you know? If you actually are going
to like it when you're wearing it. I just get quite self-conscious when
I'm shopping for clothes and I feel like going to a place like this with this big
outing and stuff is going to be even worse. So I'm I'm feeling quite nervous and not really
excited about the dress shopping in particular, but again, I'll let you know how it goes. That's my wedding planning update for the week. I also ordered all of our save the
dates which I won't show you either because I think that leaking the day
of the event is probably a bad idea. I'll probably keep that a secret
until next year when it happens, but I bought all the save the
dates because it is next year, but I want to send them out soon because a lot
of our family is coming from from like, far away, like Dan's family lives in England so it's kind
of a huge deal to come to Florida for a wedding, so I want to give ample time for that so we
we're going to try and send them out soon. Wow, I suck right now. I'm like
here's these two big updates, but no, I won't be showing
them to you, that's terrible. I will eventually, I just don't think it's
a good idea to show it right now, you know? I probably shouldn't like talk
about it or share it too much yet. We did do an engagement photoshoot which again, is
so silly because we've been married for two years, but we never took like actually engagement
photos with a photographer, we didn't take any wedding photos with a photographer when we
actually had the ceremony like at the courthouse. So we didn't have any like real photos by
a photographer, we had like phone photos by my sister, which are still nice, but
I wanted to have like photo-photos. Plus like for the save the dates and stuff, people put photos on them so
we took some photos this week. That's a lie, it was like three weeks ago. I posted them on Instagram this week, so
if you want to see a couple of them I did post them on Instagram, my name
is just lilsimsie on Instagram. I'm trying to be brave and
like post more on Instagram, but I don't get out much so I don't
take that many photos which is bad because I'm supposed to be like an internet
person, but I'm not good at photo posting. That's just not me. I'll post
every day on YouTube, every day, and that's like not a big deal to me, but when it
comes to posting like one picture on Instagram, it's really nerve-wracking and I don't know why. Because I would argue that posting on
YouTube to like a way bigger following and a video is a way bigger deal, but this
just seems normal to me, I'm used to this. I'm not used to the Instagram posts. But back to the build for a second,
we're working on the floor plan right now so you can kind of see how
I'm trying to lay everything out. There's basically a huge lofted
space in the middle and that's going to be like a two-story living room in here. And then by this weird arched window
which actually looks really good I think, I'm going to have the kitchen
and dining room in that area. I want to have the dining table like
laid out right in front of that giant arched window and the kitchen
right in the front entryway. And then we've got space for two bedrooms and a shared bathroom downstairs,
like a Jack and Jill bathroom. Upstairs there's one bedroom and an en
suite bathroom for the primary bedroom. And then on the third floor is the
art studio. The biggest issue with this floor plan is that I don't have a
like hall bathroom for guests to access. All of the bathroom doors are through bedrooms. And that's my own fault, I could have
had a bathroom door like outside of it, but I have this weird thing about putting
bathroom doors in like one tile wide corners. I like to have any door be centered between
two tiles, or at least like not only in a one tile space because I hate how it kind of like
clips off the corner of the door that way. So even though there was one tile for
me to put a bathroom in the hallway, I had the only doors through the bedroom. Which is not very smart, it's not very logical.
In real life that would be super annoying if you had to have your guests like go into
your bedroom to get to the only bathroom. And that does happen, like it's not uncommon
in real life, but it's just not ideal. And considering this house, at least in
our story, was like completely renovated from scratch, it was like a big empty shell
of a factory and we built the whole thing, it makes no sense that they wouldn't
have a proper like hall bathroom added in because they're building the whole
thing themselves, but it's too late. I already made the call, I decided it
was better this way and so here we are. Now this house took me so long to make and
we also had a couple of problems during. I've been having some weird PC
issues recently, it's not always, but twice last week and once this
week my entire PC has just died. One of the times I was just
sat here making the PowerPoint, the Google Slides that I used for
that daycare pack video I made. I wasn't even like doing anything
intensive, I wasn't recording, wasn't streaming, didn't have any games
open, I was just in Google Slides. And the other two times I was streaming and
it was this day, at this point of the video. So what you're seeing right now is
my game crashed because my whole PC died and I had to redo a lot of the kitchen. And I was so mad about it that I like,
refused to record it a second time. So you might have just seen like a lot of it skip
ahead furniture wise and you're like not seeing all of the furnishings being added in, yeah,
that's because I was in a bad mood and when I redid it for the second time, I didn't want to
record it twice and then like the footage got lost because of the PC dying, it just -- agh, I'm
so sorry, it's very frustrating to me as well. I will show you a tour of the
full living room, kitchen, dining area in detail so you can see everything
because it kind of cut off some of the decor. The vibes that I was going for, and
this is going to sound kind of weird, but I was entirely inspired by the blue base game
chairs that I used as the dining table chairs. I wanted the place to be very dark with a
lot of like black and brick accents so we have like the black tile floor, we have the
black windows and the black doors, but I also wanted to have some really vibrant pops of color
because the Sim who lives here is an artist. So I was trying to focus on where I could find
those colors and like where I could add them in. One of the other things that was
just so beyond frustrating while I was working on this is I was having
some sort of weird platform bug. I'll show you better and like up close
in the tour at the end of the video, but there was this weird visual glitch
where when I was on the second floor, like in the loft area looking down, half
the time everything would disappear. It was just visual, it wasn't
like actually gone or deleting, but it was looking so weird and it was making
me so mad because I tried so hard to make this place look cool and I had this vision of a
loft and then it just wasn't working right. And this doesn't always happen, I don't
know if it's because of the platforms, I think it might be because the whole house
is technically on like a four high platform. If I had used a foundation instead of a platform,
this wouldn't be happening, but it's too late. It's fine. Platforms in The Sims, it's
such a shame because they're so cool. Like what you can do with platforms with
the split leveling and I like how I'm able to use them to raise the house
up on a foundation, but not have to use the foundation trims because none
of the foundations match this brick. That was the main problem is I wanted
to have brick on the whole exterior, but no foundations were this color brick. Nothing matches the metal on like the kitchen
side either, so I didn't want a foundation. So I used the platforms and
it's so fun, it looks so good, but then like there's all these
visual glitches on the interior. Nothing gamebreaking, it just looks kind
of annoying. Like realistically it's not a huge deal that you can't see the first floor
from the second floor because like, whatever, you're on the second floor anyway, but it looks
so cool when you can, and you just, you can't. So I was again, I was quite sad. We did actually add a couple
other kind of exciting details, I used a lot of that Industrial Loft
kit for like pipes and duct work and things like that to add in to
try and fit that factory vibe. Those ducts from the Industrial
Loft kit, they're really cool. They do cause some problems at times, they're
not causing any issues here in this house. When you use them on short wall height, I think your Sims get confused and can't
walk under them so just bear that in mind. This is a medium wall height so we're fine
there, but they're also just visually quite uh, distracting, because there's like
a huge pipe just blocking the view. So I tried to focus them in areas that weren't
that big of a deal like in the hallway and maybe like above a bed because the bed is big so
you're not really distracted too much by it. And when your Sims are in the bed, you don't need to watch them that
closely because they're just sleeping. Or like woohooing, but still --
since I was a child, when my Sims woohoo in beds sometimes I
like turn the camera away. I don't know why because I don't really
feel weird about it now as an adult, it's just like a habit from when I was a kid. Because you know when you're young and
you're like you know, what if your parents walk into the room so you're like, turn the
camera so they can't see that, you know? I still have that habit in
my mind a lot of the time, even though there's no need, there's no need. I'm 24 years old, like we're all
adults here and yet I still do it. Not always, other times I think that we end
up watching like a little bit too intently. I just made a whole video where I ranked
every single woohoo spot in The Sims 4. It took me like ages to record and
it's like 45 minutes long or something, but if you want to watch that, um,
that's the opposite of looking away. We stared at every single one of
those woohoo types, every single one. I'll put it on the end card at
the end of the video for you. But anyway, back to the build for a second. Upstairs in this hallway we have kind of like a small lofted hallway space and then
access to the bedroom from up here. I thought about having the bedroom just be
open, like one big open area, completely a loft. Then I figured like realistically for privacy
purposes because quite a few Sims live here, they probably would prefer to have a separate bedroom
instead of just an open area so I built walls in. And then in front of the walls in the small
lofted area, there's like a small corner. I put a desk nook over there
so we've got a computer, it's a very expensive computer which
you probably don't want, but it's there. And there's also a staircase up to the third
floor so you can access the inside of the third floor on the rooftop, like interior
art studio, from the inside of the house, but you can also access the rooftop, like general
rooftop outdoor area, from the fire escape. I'll kind of explain more why once we're up
there because you'll see it once we get there, it has to do with platforms, the access is
weird because of the different wall heights. But right now we are decorating
the primary bedroom and I really, really loved the color scheme in here. I used that kind of like sunset-y
themed rug for from the Horse Ranch pack and I used that as the main color
inspiration, and then I paired it with a Movie Hangout painting and like
some dark blue wallpaper everywhere. We've got like a cute orange bed
and like some other little purple details and I really liked
how this worked together. I've never really used those colors
together anywhere, I even found like a clothing rack that had the exact right
color scheme so I used that in there too. I don't ever use the clothing rack item either, but I used it in two places in this house
because I felt like the metal was kind of a nice touch and the clothes were really pretty
and colorful so they kind of worked nicely too. And then for the bed, I tried to
make almost like a custom headboard. And so I put cabinets back there
and then scooted the bed into them a little bit so it's kind of like a double
wide headboard, but it's nice for storage. Again, it's The Sims, there is
no storage, but you can pretend. And then it's also like a nice wide
table nightstand so you can kind of customize the stuff that's going
on it and really decorate in there. And then I also use a sort of weird
maybe concrete wall in most places. I built this live on my Twitch stream and that
concrete wall was kind of a controversial idea. I really liked it because it felt like
it fit this kind of industrial vibe. A lot of other people thought the build looked
unfinished and like I didn't paint the walls because there's like the base game concrete wall,\
that's like the default wallpaper and then there's this one from the Desert Luxe kit and the one
that I use is from the kit so it's different. It's like a fancy concrete wall except it does
look a little bit like the default base game one. This one's nicer, but I can
see why you would think the walls look unpainted in a couple
areas, but I kind of liked it. So if you hate it, I'm sorry. And now we have finally, finally
moved up to the third floor to work on the art studio and this is like
my favorite part of the whole house. I think the windows all the
way around it are so cool. And then up here I tried to put access to
just pretty much every craft that we have. We've got an easel, we've got a bunch of canvases, there's stuff for knitting up
here in case you want to do that. And I tried to put a lot of like crafty decor
too so like a lot of the Nifty Knitting clutter, they have like cute cabinets with
a bunch of like craft supplies, there's paint stuff on a rack on the wall, all
those kind of things I was putting in here. I ended up deleting windows on one
of the walls on this top floor, just to have space for that
like cute little paint rack. And then because we had the space and because my chat kept saying it's going to be
so hot in there, it's all glass, I was like fine, I'll add an AC unit so I
put an air conditioning unit up there too. Which I think kind of fits the vibes
though, like I think it kind of works for this industrial thing that we're
going for and it's just fun to have. Those AC units and the radiators from the
rent pack actually both work by the way, if you've got Seasons you can
turn them on to like sync with the thermostat and then the AC unit
will turn on when it's hot outside. It's just visual, it doesn't actually
do anything. The thermostat is what does things with Seasons, but it is kind
of fun to have the detail of the like, fan spinning when it's hot outside,
I don't know, I kind of like it. We are moving back downstairs now to finally
work on the other two bedrooms and there was a lot of like back and forth for me at
least with these two bedrooms because again, I was talking a lot about like should
it be for roommates that are adults? Should it be for kids? Should it
be for like our teenage children? Because however I did it, it really changed the
vibes of what I was going to furnish them with. But I settled on teens and
then went for like some kind of teenage-like decor with posters
and stuff in each of these rooms. But it just took me a second to get there. And I also really wanted to have it not be blue and to try and use some swatches
that I don't normally go for. I was really digging around looking at different
rugs that I could try and I knew that we had to use the Industrial Loft kit bed, like you
cannot build a whole house inspired by a factory and not use the Industrial Loft kit
furniture so I used the yellow version of it. And this one was tough for me because
I wanted it to be a teen's room, but it was looking kind of like a
guest room for a while so it took me a bit of time to find like the
creative cutesiness that it needed. Right now with this base
game rug, it's not working, but I ended up going back in instead and
using a rug from Get Famous that has some like blue and yellow like triangles on it,
and that kind of worked out quite nicely. I also put the duct work in here and again, it's a little distracting on the ceiling,
but it looks good still so it's worth it. This room in particular is probably the greatest
failure of the build, at least right now because I knew I wanted to have some vibrant
colors, I was trying like the pop art stuff, it just -- nothing was working, so again, trust
the process, I swear we'll come back and fix it. It just took me some time to get there. Oh, that reminds me, one of the
other things that people in my Twitch chat kind of didn't love
were the doors that I was using. These are just base game doors, I
picked them for a couple reasons. Number one, they're really tall. They're
taller than like the average base game door height because they like a transom window at the top and so they fit a bit better
on the taller walls in this house. And I kind of just liked the texture and the gold
doorknobs on them so I wanted to use them in here. And I also felt like the
transom wasn't even that weird, it's not that common these days I don't think
to build new places with the transom windows, but a lot of old places have a lot of transom
windows in their doors so maybe we can just pretend that those are like, original
doors from the factory and they like, took them out, carefully restored them, and then
reinstalled them for for all of the new bedrooms? I kind of like the vibes of that, I know it's just
pretend, like it doesn't actually mean anything, but I always kind of have fun pretending with that
sort of thing and like pretending that it's real. One thing that I thought helped a
lot in this bedroom was when I went in and added some extra windows behind the bed. And shockingly, I used the
greenhouse kit windows for this. So we have a mix of three different
kinds of windows in this house: we've got the Mosquito Stuff
ones, the base game arches, and then the Greenhouse kit windows and
the door that I used for the balcony. And I thought it was perfect, the Greenhouse
kit ones almost match identically. Even when they're open, it kind of has a
similar vibe to it so that worked quite well, it was helpful to have another size variation. I always complain about this with builds,
but half the problem with using a lot of these new packs for builds is
there's just not enough windows. We only get like a couple new windows,
like with the Industrial Loft kit, and so it's so hard to do an entire
build because you need different sizes and different places so having the access
to those kit ones were pretty helpful. The Greenhouse kit has really come in clutch a lot
of times, those windows are really, really nice. I didn't really think that the
Greenhouse kit would become my most used kit because I knew that
I liked it, I thought it was fun, but I didn't realize just how often
I would use those Greenhouse windows. I think as far as kits go, Pastel
Pop, Book Nook, Greenhouse kit, and maybe like the Everyday Clutter
kits are probably my favorite ones. The Bathroom Clutter kit has a toilet
paper holder that's really nice, but that's a silly reason to like a pack. You can't go around saying your favorite kit
is because it has a toilet paper holder in it, that's just, that's ridiculous Kayla, so. I like the other ones though
a lot, they're pretty good. If you're going to buy a kit,
I would recommend any of those. It's hard with the kits because it's so personal,
like what I prefer in kits might be the exact opposite of what you would want and that's totally
fine, like all of the kits, they're all decent. Like size-wise compared to each other and so,
whatever you think is best is what's best for you. I don't think any of the kits are
objectively worse than the other ones, if that makes sense, but anyway, we're
doing the teenagers bedroom downstairs, that's like a little bit
more vibrant in color scheme. I based this whole thing around
the rug from Jungle Adventure. It's rare that I use this rug
because it is really, really busy, which is fun especially for a place like
this, I just don't use it that often in my regular builds so I was excited
to have a place to use it in here. We also put in like some pride flags and some
pretty decor. Right now I'm trying to figure out the desk and it looks a mess, but placing
things and placing objects requires sometimes filling in all the slots, and then going back
and adding to it so just ignore that, okay? I did also put one of the clothing racks
down here because it kind of matched the whole space and then I wanted to put a
hamper and then I realized no, no hampers. If you put a hamper, they're gonna
have to do laundry and that is bad, we do not want laundry in this house,
so I did not put a hamper in here. At this point I had already done the bathrooms so I didn't want to go back and add
in laundry like after the fact. And I know myself, I never
ever have my Sims do laundry. I hate doing laundry. In real life, you guys, I've got laundry sitting
in the dryer right now from yesterday afternoon. I need to -- I need to put it away today, I
will. I'll be brave, but I'm just -- I don't, laundry does not excite me in the slightest
so I try to avoid it in my Sims houses. But that's most of this room done, I'm just
going in and adding some last minute details, things like glowing mirrors and fairy lights, we've got you know a dresser and
some various things like that. But after I had finished this bedroom and like
found the vibes that I was going for in here, it made it a lot easier to go
back to the other bedroom and like update it and add some clutter and
like kind of fit it together a bit more. I just had to find that spark of inspiration
and the spark was unfortunately sports. So I used like the yoga mat, the sports
floor clutter, there's like a basketball and a hat on the wall from the clutter kit
which reminds me, this build? Million packs. Oh my god, this is one of the worst
ones so far as far as pack content goes, this is not a limited pack build. I promise, I'll do another one this week,
I'll make you like a a base game and one pack sort of build this week to make up for
it, but this one? Oh, she has all the packs. I would bet -- at least almost
all of them. They're everywhere. But anyway, moving on now to the last part
of the build, some of the exterior spaces. Possibly the most exciting part of this build
is the rooftop so we've got this access from the fire escape and I wanted to put a couple cute
like cozy things up here for your Sims to use. I found some kind of cool
vines, I got some lounge chairs. I thought about adding a hot tub, but I just, I
felt like it didn't fit up there because there's like not a wall on the roof and there's all these
ducts up here and stuff so it didn't really work that nicely with the hot tub but I did end up
putting some lounge chairs and some plants. I got some fairy lights up here, I
think I put a game table as well. I love those game tables especially now that we
have puzzles. The puzzles are so fun because your Sims can use them to like actually play
games -- oh, never mind, no game table. I told a lie. Okay, I thought about it, but
I did end up deleting it, that's my bad. I didn't know how much to put up here, I
was worried about doing it too much so I was trying to be careful, but if you
play here you could totally add more. There is also downstairs on the back patio, there's like a grill and a bar and
some seating and stuff so we've got all the bases covered pretty much and that my
friends is the full renovated factory build. I want to pop back in into the real game for a
second to give you a tour of the finished product. So just to remind you, we're on this
Manzanita Terrace lot in San Sequoia, and on the gallery it's called
the Converted Cupcake Factory, it costs like 145,000 simoleons and
as I warned you, uses so many packs. This is so bad. I promise, I'll
get you a limited pack build, I swear. I'll make a good one for you, but
I'll place it real quick so we can look around. I had a lot of fun doing the outside, I
went through and added some things like this mural on the floor, your Sims can actually
paint this so they can make a mural there. They can also paint a mural over
here on the side of the wall. Back on this side, I kind of
put like a little half wall and some trash cans here before the fire escape. Some people in my chat
wanted me to add a dumpster, but I felt like because it's a residential
building and like a private family home, they probably wouldn't have a dumpster,
it would be like just regular trash cans. When you come around the backside, there's
just some plain landscaping and some lights. I do have things like the fire alarm system. I love this bar and grill area, we've got the bar, we've got a pizza oven, all this stuff
right here, you can sit here and eat. I put an extra easel downstairs by the water
so your Sim can like stand out here and paint. And around the side, this garage door is also
a mural so your Sims can paint on this too. So generally quite a few options for
painting skill building over here. Um, this is the kind of finished
product on the exterior. I'll get upstairs last, but we'll kind of
start right here through the front door. So when you first walk in, we've got as you
can see, a very cool skylight in this area, but you walk right in through a small
entryway with just like a table, there's some cat statues, we've got
like our keys and the mail up there. I did put a full length mirror so you can
look at how you look before you go out. And then this is the kitchen, I thought
that the kitchen looked so good. I loved the dark wall accent with
the cool shelves and all the clutter, I think the wood colors look kind of nice too. This is just a base game cabinet, but it
does have some Cool Kitchen Stuff appliances. These are from the Industrial Loft kit and
then over here, this is the dining room. This is what I was most excited about because I
loved the table being centered with these windows. We've got this really cool dining
table, I've got some art canvases just leaned against the wall
to bring in the color scheme. And I tried to find a sort of neutral rug
that also tied in the colors and I loved this because it had that like darkish blue
color, a light blue, it has that kind of like reddish brown orangey color that matches
the brick so I thought it worked pretty well. And then you come this way and this
takes you into the living room. So I've got a bunch more canvas type stuff, we've got all kinds of like pipes
on the wall and things like that. I thought about doing built-ins
all here underneath these windows, but it didn't really fit so I
settled for this record player, but we do have a really nice huge
TV in front of the staircase. Don't worry, you've got pet
bowls so you can feed the cats. And then through this door on the right,
we've got that first teenager's bedroom. They've got like a very pink and blue and orange color scheme going on in here so I've
got all kinds of decor to fit that. I think I like this room the best. In between their rooms they've got
a small Jack and Jill bathroom, this is what I was talking about. I didn't want to put the bathroom door
like right there so I just didn't, and I put it in between their rooms instead. But it's nice, it's functional, it's
got some cute colors going on in it. And then this is that other teen room
with the kind of like sports theme. They've got a very yellow and
blue color scheme going on. When you come back out this way,
you can go up the stairs right here and this is what I mean with
the weird glitch, do you see this? Like how I move the camera and the
stuff just like comes and goes? This is so annoying. When I tell you I almost cried about this, I actually almost cried about
this, I was so frustrated. Like, look at that, isn't that so weird?
But I think it's because of the platforms. Ignore it. Up here we've got a small desk nook. We've got this kind of cool
plant area and like some pipes. You can come into the primary bedroom this
way and they have an actual balcony in the front and they've also got a door to
the fire escape through their bedroom. They've got like some wardrobe doors right
here, a dresser, we've got a clothing rack, I just think the colors in here look so good. And they have their own primary en suite bathroom.
This has a huge tub, it's got like a double sink. I made a custom shower right here as well, I put
like windows to make a walk-in shower like this. And then you can come back
out here up these stairs to the third floor where I have the art studio. The lighting in here I just think looks so
cool because of all the windows, but they've got kind of like a painting corner over here,
they've got a desk so they can draw or whatever. I mean you can't draw in The
Sims 4, but you can pretend. It looks like an artist is using this. They've
got storage for their supplies over this way, we've got stuff to knit, there's places to
sit, I mean you've got all the things in here. And it's completely made out of glass, it's
got like the glass roof, the glass windows. If you want to access the actual rooftop, there's not a door here because this is
actually technically sunken, if you can tell. So there couldn't be a door, it wouldn't really
fit, but you can get up the fire escape to use these lounge chairs, I put a telescope,
there's some planter boxes and a yoga mat. I felt like that was kind of nice because the
yoga mat's not too intrusive from the outside, but it's still useful for your Sims. There's basically two death traps up here, you've got this so you can get struck by
meteors and you also have this because I don't know about you, but my Sims nonstop try
to autonomously do yoga, even in the winter. So they'll like walk up here
and then take their clothes off, put on their athletic wear, and
start doing yoga in a snowstorm. So I have had Sims come dangerously close
to freezing to death because of this thing, but I usually catch it in time. But that is there for you. And then if you come back downstairs,
through this living room door you can access the back patio and that
is the fully finished product. We've got everything going on over here. I quite liked this build, I'm
kind of excited about the idea of playing with an artist here, I
think it's kind of a cool shape. I think it would also make a
kind of cool community lot, if you switch this into like I don't know,
this could be a cool karaoke bar, a cool café, it might be a really cool arts center instead,
I really am proud of the exterior of this. It's not really my personal style, but I think it came together quite nicely so
hopefully you enjoyed this one. If you liked this video, I do build
stuff all the time here on my YouTube channel and I also stream Sims building
like pretty much every day on Twitch. So if you want to see the slow, long term,
multi-day process of actually building this live, you can watch my Twitch streams and make sure
you're subscribed here to not miss my next video. Thank you for watching, and I'm going
to catch you all tomorrow, okay? Bye everybody. Oh my goodness, I keep making these
ridiculously long speed build videos. Hopefully you like them, this
is like the sixth one in a row. [ JAZZY OUTRO MUSIC ]
