Can 8 Sims live in a house that's under $20,000 (Sims 4)

hey guys james here today and welcome back to the sims 4 today we're going to be trying to build an eight sim starter home again i've done a few of these i think maybe i assume i've been trying to build one the last few days but it's just not really been working out so i thought maybe if i just build while doing a video it'll happen maybe let's plan out the room so we've got a double bedroom uh basically as small as it can be if this is gonna be a starter home it's not gonna be spacious another double bedroom a twin bedroom so a single bed there single bed there so we're already up to six pretty easy and then a single bedroom and then i guess another single bedroom maybe the double maybe the twin room should be a little bit bigger all right so this is what i'm thinking two double bedrooms a twin room and then two single bedrooms that's easy then i think we should have at least two bathrooms so one bathroom here and one bathroom here i know it may look weird and it's in the middle of the house but this is hopefully going to make sense it's a bedroom wing on this side this and oh yeah if it wasn't clear i'm doing this all on one level because i want to see if we can make it feel really spacious but still you know have stuff in it so i guess like front living area okay and kitchen dining and stuff at the back already at 11 000. so so we might need to cut i mean i guess we don't need a hallway it just seems not great to have a huge open space and then straight under bedrooms with this many bedrooms there's gonna be eight sims that's a lot okay i think having the bathroom in the middle of the house is probably a bad idea so let's move that this is definitely a waste of space here this is like my first sims house because i've just got this giant open room like what am i gonna do with this okay hang on maybe i can work with this this is a bit weird no this is really stupid i can't have this bathroom here i was trying to do it as like an ensuite for that bedroom it's just not gonna work so i think i just have to do it here it makes way more sense well it seems weird having this stick out so what i might do is have this back room so this is like a living room or whatever this will be open uh you know these two bedrooms will come off this room which i think will be fine it also just makes it feel bigger and then also means the hallway isn't so long through the house so we have a hallway here and this will be like kitchen dining like breakfast room this will be the main living space i guess that's a bathroom or maybe that should be the bathroom because it's off to the side i might swap these i might actually if this is the bedroom and then how do we make this look good that i have not figured out i mean i guess that's fine i mean it's really nothing special but does it need to be special you know honestly we just got to do that and then have this roof probably you know go to the actual part of the roof it needs to like that oh uh are these not the same oh no they're not whoops i mean look it's no brilliant design but i think it's fine for what it is if we can bring in the rest of the house under budget it'll actually be pretty good i might slide it forward on the lot though it's a little far back so we can have a back garden rather than a front garden and i might center it as well yeah right now we're going to cheap out on the doors so 50 buck doors yeah see this one from nifty knitting there's only 50 bucks it's like why would i not use this wow that is an art piece if i've ever seen one i mean i don't think it's that bad it's also not that good but like the rest is still rough but uh you know we're getting somewhere what is that budget like okay we should probably get everything we need in the house and then try and make it look good why is this window 10 more than this window that doesn't even make any sense that's 45 and this is 55. it's literally more material for less money now window-wise on the side of the house it looks kind of weird but that's because we need to have windows in each of these bedrooms this one doesn't really need one so i'm thinking to save money we just don't put one there and then maybe we can make up for it with some landscaping i don't know does this look stupid if i do this on the back or is this too big well we could utilize that to just get some free like roof covering and then have like an outdoor decking area which would be kind of cool because foundation is free and then if we do this we have this whole area that looks kind of cool obviously we have to get like columns oh is it not obviously we have to buy some columns but we've got this sweet extended roof although that does stick through a little bit but anyway we'll fix that later yeah so we got the sweet outdoor area for free i mean with the cost of a couple columns but other than that that's pretty good gives the rest of the house a little bit of depth uh hang on good news is we don't actually need to pay for stairs here because sims can walk up a one-step gap so we're good we can just leave it like that we're about to 12 000 now now the interesting thing is uh this big back deck area has the bathroom and a bedroom there so it doesn't even connect to the living space which is all on this side so i think we've made a bit of a mistake so i'm actually going to move the bedroom over there and the bathroom maybe we'll just make this smaller because we don't need it to be there that didn't really seem to change the cost at all which is good but we do have a weird change of texture here so this is supposed to be a bathroom maybe this one should be the bathroom and then we move the bed to there because then if we just shift this all along one just do that also fixes the roof sticking through there quite easily bathroom is a little bit smaller but that'd probably be fine maybe what we do is we make well that's like a family bathroom and then this is a secondary bathroom so this isn't like this was gonna be an ensuite it's no longer that but we have a big bathroom and then a pretty pretty good-sized bathroom right there two living spaces that's pretty good still 11 800 not bad all right we gotta let's finish off the windows how much are these oh my god these are so cheap are you kidding me i love that they made the decision to make every single new door in the game super cheap i don't know when they did that but at some point they just decided to do that because doors used to be like 400 now that for this is like 180 what is this 135 and you get this that's ridiculous how much for the whole section 210 and we could just do that i think that is actually too big so i'm going to go smaller than that because i would like some you know wall around it but that whole door was 180 bucks which is ridiculous i'm totally taking advantage of that though because that gives us a huge window at the back which is awesome oh maybe we should use this one or is this too much hang on um no no let's use this one nice all right that should do it for windows we probably don't even need that many there but every room definitely has some light which is good it's not super bright it doesn't have a lot of natural light but i think it has enough flooring wise i think we'll keep it pretty simple just choose like a floorboard like a lighter one preferably because this place is pretty dark that's pretty pretty dark too actually cats and dogs ones are quite nice i mean not everything will be floors we'll change the bathrooms in that but just as a base and same with the walls as a base we could just go the white we'll probably end up leaving it oh my god that's eight bucks for a white wall hang on maybe we won't use that one this is four but basic pastels is two which is probably better and i guess we can get some color in the rooms and let me just get some lighting and then we'll do colors most of these rooms we can get away with one light which is actually really good because they're 50 bucks a lot which is actually not too bad i'm glad that they changed the value of those as well so that gives us this this is what we're looking like right now i actually want to make these lights a little bit warmer though because they're very cool oh wait if we move a sim and then it will change the value of everything because although we can move them out again i think i think it'll be fine hang on because when you move a sim into a house and you go into live mode everything becomes cheaper it gets like depreciation from having owned and used it uh but i think if we move the sim out it should be fine oh yeah i just want to go through and change all these lights to there's a i think warm white not not what i think warmer yeah that's too much i think warm white there says because i think by default these are all either neutral or cool now that i think they're neutral but yeah just going a little bit warmer just makes it feel much more like a nice home so i think that's the same value i hope so this bed is 430. oh no this all got cheaper hang on that that's like cheating i feel in the in the sense of family homes i'll probably change those beds anyway so that's fine right let's um well let's get that out as well so did the lights change value too because that's kind of annoying 50 bucks are they they're now 40 bucks each hmm build mode stuff doesn't change i don't think let me just 45 yeah build mode's all the same that's kind of dumb i can't change the lights unless i go into live mode so i don't know i guess they're used lights now anyway let's just not worry about that i guess i've got a 50 buck door from seasons well what packs am i using i'm using university and nifty knitting already so maybe oh and i think this is spa day yeah so let's try and keep to those then i mean not that i have to but just so it doesn't use a million packs so university university spa day and nifty knitting do we actually have any doors that are any good i mean there's this but it's got like the peephole and a map on it all right i guess well we're gonna go base game there because i don't want any of those although i don't think the base game doors are that cheap are they 95 but oh it's not too bad 90 bucks we might need a resort to a 50 door if this ends up being too expensive but we'll find out the door there all right so those are all like the the bedrooms and bathrooms on that side then over here that's the bathroom which i'm not really sure what the layout of the room is going to be like yet but i guess i'll just do a door there and there uh it's kind of annoying because we've got doors on both sides and there's going to be an archway here actually we probably shouldn't do an archway because that will cost money this will be free so let's just do that although it does look weird not having something there how much is an artwork this one is 280 210 hmm this is 85 it's a bit small it feels like you're sort of squeezing through though i would like this but that is 200 bucks just to do that and i don't know if i can swallow that pill ah but two how much of the cats and dogs once 260 210 all right let's just let's just keep it open let's keep it open but we'll do a door to the kitchen and and dining so we're just using those packs these are the options these doors are 370 355. i mean could we just do this it looks like there's a double door arrangement but it's a lot cheaper that seems like a better idea because i like the idea of it being a little bit more grand having double doors but all the double doors are too expensive in that in that selection so let's just do that all right bedrooms ah yeah let's just go through the pastels you know give them a bit of color you know a little bit of pizzazz maybe not yellow yellow goes with the floor too much it looks a bit gross oh is that like a sort of grayish it's not quite looks a little blue but i think that actually might be a good just base for the rooms right so that that's pretty good that's quite nice i mean that one's maybe a little strong can i get a slightly yeah that's a bit better yeah that one was a bit much okay so that's what i'm thinking you know a little bit of color nothing too crazy now bed wise how much of these the used futon is 290. it's actually a lot cheaper than this bird plus it actually kind of looks good it has the same characteristics so it's uncomfortable so i mean that works for me now just to mix these rooms up i'm gonna put this bed to the side because i don't want them all looking the same oh yeah now single bed wise what have we got 300 bucks 270 the kids one is one of the cheapest i guess we should have a toddler room or even a nursery well this is going to be a twin room so maybe we'll do one kid's bed and then one toddler bed so this kid kind of really gets the short end of the deal here oh that is kind of cute though that they got matching beds i quite like that i mean that wasn't the plan but it is now oh they get lifestyle one though so good how much is it 225 versus 160. it's not really worth it uh well they can have like a full matching set in this room you know why not well hang on i don't know if i can afford maybe that's why not i don't know if i can afford it so we need two more single beds so we could use one of these i just don't want all the beds to look the same that's what i'm trying to avoid kind of nice have a little bit of variety oh yeah we're going full matching in these rooms sweet then maybe this one because we've already used that one could we use one that's more expensive three thirds it's only thirty dollars more that could work well i mean that one actually kind of goes with that room anyway there you go everyone's got their own bed it's actually kind of annoying me that this bed is on that wall i'm not gonna lie probably would be better if it just went there one of the doors kind of in a weird place like you'd walk into the bed and maybe the door should be here maybe this door should move a bit line up with this wall then that door's opposite those doors which is kind of there's a lot of doors going on this place isn't there maybe this should just be open how much does a spandrel cost 24 bucks that's pretty good i would like to use that one but then i have to use cats and dogs just do that it's really not much but i think it adds a little more than just an open wall so it definitely looks like a separate thing i know when the walls are down you don't see it but i think it's a nice little touch you know right bathrooms i'm actually going to change the flooring to a tile oh actually we're using spa day ah yes love the spa day tiles they are expensive though that one's only four bucks actually i feel like a sandstoney so it kind of matches or should we do like more of a slate i do like a good slate tile it's quite fancy we're only at thirteen thousand dollars i i think we're actually doing really well though we haven't done any of the living space yet so that's interesting now kitchen wise i think we have to go pretty cheap on this oh that window's slightly too low can i wish it there like counters that i used that don't look like that how much are these ones 200 now okay here's the thing i like where the window is if we raise this window up we have to change all the others uh and then it's sort of above the door and looks kind of weird but what we could do instead is actually just slightly move it off the wall but it doesn't have that and you can see that it actually still lines up with where the wall is oh i've well i mean if i put them on the grid it might work better but you know that's that's the plan there you go you don't get the little back thing now these look absolutely awful can we make this kitchen look any good like that as a tile i mean the thing is the problem is the rest of this just looks so bad still maybe we need to change this wall no it's gonna like how much is this this is only two bucks so this one this is such a fancy wall it's only two all right maybe we use this wall somehow then although does it really suit the style of the rest of the house i mean because it's okay it's a bit grim in here maybe we should go lighter i think the dark i think the dark color is not helping yeah there we go what about this because it goes with the tiles a little bit lighter you know it's not so dismal in here do you have an island it's not technically an island because i'm not using the island counters but we have like a little setup like that so it looks a little bit more grand uh the stove kind of has to either go here or like there if it goes here that's kind of weird because it's gonna have a back to it yeah that doesn't work so it's gonna have to go in the corner which is kind of equally as weird but i think it's better than the other option do we i'm not sure about this island here because it is kind of in a weird spot like why is it just there you know like maybe it should just be a table uh not that table i guess the other problem is uh i guess this is supposed to be like a breakfast kit like it was gonna be like a second living space but it needs to be the kitchen because otherwise oh maybe the kitchen should go here maybe that'll make more sense probably solve a lot of problems this would be kitchen and living which probably makes a lot more sense we still use this wall too we turn that room back into that i guess this doesn't have to be around the side anymore look it's not a spacious kitchen all right i might move this bedroom door way over the other side though so it's away from this door because i mean it's a bathroom door so i feel like it doesn't matter that it's right off the kitchen although it is maybe a little close to food prep i might just move it there you have like the kitchen area there i think we might need more light it is a little dark in that corner but that works because then we can have maybe outdoor dining and then just couch in here so there's not really any dining inside or is that is that annoying should we have dining inside we have dining inside we can't have a couch in here though that's the thing again i could turn this into a table but i need a sink as well the worst looking the bathroom thing in the kitchen cool now i normally don't like using these things at all but i think for a family home probably will be uh that looks so bad in this bathroom though but the other ones are a little expensive like 1500 bucks so no i can't use it i'm sorry i can't we can't afford to use it we'll do a bathtub in this one and then we'll do no do bathtub in this one because it's bigger and then we'll do shower in this one 375 that's probably okay and then we can probably get one in here too uh we're getting close to the budget though so we got to be careful now there's probably not gonna be any curtains in this house i hope you guys don't mind but we can't afford them so that's probably fine leaves room to play around with decoration in there you know plenty plenty of decoration space and same in here 18 000. now ideally i wanted to have two living spaces if we use some really cheap couches we might be able to so that's what's kind of aiming for is i mean i guess this could be dining and this could be living maybe i guess we maybe we ignore the two living space thing just because i mean purely we just cannot afford to have two living spaces right now we don't have that money so we just did that i'm just leaving them white at the moment to see what we can afford what is the cheapest three seater dining table it's this one okay no was this one was this one 685 for like a nice wooden one which i guess probably accurate i mean tables in real life especially a big wooden one is not cheap we get is six seats enough because we can get a cheaper six-seater like we don't need it to be an eight-seater do we you know i think it honestly looked too big if we went for an eight-seater why don't we try this one oh this room looks so empty though it needs couches it's kind of designed to have couches in here well that doesn't that doesn't really work there maybe over here is that weird it's kind of weird it's kind of weird room also because this couch is like it's down the hallway that that doesn't work hang on let me maybe this door needs to move again maybe a little walkway there is that we i don't know this is it's not even budgetary at this point it's more just i don't know what's going on with this layout it's these it's the doors on three or actually doors on four sides of this room doesn't make it easy to to lay out i guess i can flip this door so it opens that side but then yeah i really don't want to sew over there because it looks kind of dumb when you look down the hallway so that doesn't really help let me just put that back now we also don't know we also don't have any like dresses or anything but you don't actually need that i think we get rid of the sitting room here because it's just not going to work this is our sitting area here and i said i was leaving the white just for now but honestly i mean i really do like the white couches in this room i think it looks super i mean it looks really bad don't get me wrong but maybe we can use some debug items just to spruce it up a bit can i afford this table ideally if i can get a table and then like a rug oh my gosh i got like no money we don't have a bin either yet oh man how much of chairs 30 bucks 40 bucks 50 bucks can we even afford six chairs oh yeah we can that's fine that's fine so if we did this man this looks this looks so sad maybe a dark wood table looks quite nice just a contrast or is that weird maybe the table be light something about this table that is just not working all right what if we just leave it white because i mean look we don't have a lot of budget to play with okay i'm doing what i can and white just goes with everything but i'm thinking if we get a rug maybe how much is this 115 bucks a rug underneath it maybe we can nope this looks a lot worse not that rug anyway but we just do the old carpet trick that might be a little too busy maybe a little bit move this one it's a little gray though maybe we need a bit of color in it or something that's i don't know this room is looking not great i'm gonna be honest i feel like eight sim starter homes are really not my forte uh because getting this under twenty thousand making it look good i think probably i'm just making it too big but the thing is i wanted to be spacious so that when you do put stuff in it you have room to put it because we could make it really small and quite detailed if it's a lot smaller but then i feel like it would just be too small and not very good so maybe this is fine i don't know i think you guys need to fix it how much is the bookcase because that oh get out oh the good one is a lot this one's too i don't want that 240 i can afford that maybe put it in this room because this room's really empty the living room is just a ghost town i feel like we need some greenery in here maybe yeah that'll do no no no do we have those a different color is it is that is that fun or is that this room is very sad maybe this needs to have a nice wallpaper in here too i like let me go back i like the white couches but with the white wall we just can't well the bluey whatever wall it is really like that just a little pizzazz you know nothing nothing too fancy get a nice cheap rug in a zero dollar rug look at that isn't that great i got a few oh hang on i should probably get a bin how much of the outdoor this is 220. okay um sure we'll put that there get this over here oh this is kind of this is a weird arrangement too these are just kind of sitting out the front i don't really want to use debug stuff i feel like like it's really good that we have all these plants and stuff that are free but i kind of feel like it feels a little cheaty you know is that just me maybe it's just me because i mean there's no plants here but a lot of houses especially if you buy them you really don't come with that much landscaping because it costs money or it'd be like really small so maybe we just don't do any landscaping in terms of plants and bushes i mean it would obviously make it look way better if we did but maybe we'll just do some you know a little bit a little bit of dirt and stuff just to you know scuff it up a little bit but maybe not so much in terms of actual plant life maybe some flowers you know just a little bit of yeah not much like that's kind of it is this the most boring starter home maybe but it is functional i guess we don't have a bin on the inside maybe we should get one of those um i guess there why don't they just have a bin that goes in a counter because that's where pretty much everyone's bin is it's in one of the in the kitchen cabinets it's not just on the floor i'm gonna put it in this bathroom i don't care what you say it's going in the bathroom because people have bins in the bathroom anyway and it's close enough to the kitchen that i feel like it makes sense it would be weird though to put all your kitchen scraps in the bathroom but this is the siemens so who cares right we've got like 80 bucks well 77 left so i think that's kind of it i'm just gonna leave it there i think that that worked you know it it can have eight sims um it is right on the edge of looking good doesn't quite nail it um but i'm pretty happy with that i mean as far as an asm family uh starter home goes it's pretty good and i think it's basic enough that you could easily expand and add stuff into each of the rooms i mean i guess we could get rid of this and add some more stuff i won't leave that there we don't have any dresses i know that's a bit weird especially if it were a real house but in the sims you can just change your sims we don't have any mirrors though actually that is that may be a problem it's not really a problem but then you can't even skill build there's no skill building stuff here except i guess the bookcase but even then you have to buy books to use that 50 bucks we can't afford one mirror in this house there you go there it is perfectly usable house great uh yeah i don't know let me know if you like this if you want to see some more building videos i definitely oh i never fix these uh forget about that the problem is it either sort of sticks out the bottom or sticks out the top maybe what we could do making it taller doesn't help all right well it's just gonna stick down the bottom you can adjust it yourself if you prefer sticking out the top i mean you don't really see it so it's fine yeah uh yeah if you like it if you like this and see me do some more builds let me know down below i do always like doing these sort of live builds where you sort of build while commentating instead of speed build like a speed build is nice for me to chill out and just play the game in my own time but in these i feel like i get stuff done it's more fun to watch i think these in real time like with real time with the editing i think it works really well let me know in the comments down below but thank you so much for watching guys i will see you next time and have an awesome day

Channel: James Turner

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Length: 23min 8sec (1388 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 02 2020