House By The Docks || The Sims 4: Speed Build

hi guys it's lucy here so welcome to another speed build so today i am building another family home and this time i am building one here in brindleton bay and i'm building over here in the docks area of the world and i just thought it would be really nice to build just like a cute family house right by the water and make something that's more for like a fisherman sort of family and so i added lots of sea related decor and fishing items and just made it very coastal and cozy and yeah i don't know i hope you guys really like it i really tried to make it a unique home and a cozy home and i also created a couple of rooms for children in the house but i decided to make them teenager rooms because i'm still obsessed with creating teen rooms although the teenager rooms that i created in this build i don't think are that unique compared to ones i don't know i just feel like i've been doing kind of this like more similar sort of teen rooms i just kind of get stuck on a similar theme because they're just kind of opposite teenagers but i guess i just kind of like the idea of that gameplay of having teenagers in a home that are very different and they have different friends and they have different lifestyles that way you get kind of just different sort of game play with both of their different personalities and then you can kind of play out you know the story of how they get along or don't get along or how they grow together and maybe eventually become closer with age and with different experiences in their lives or maybe you could just have them completely hate each other and become enemies and i don't know wish the worst upon each other as they get older and uh i don't know are always out for like revenge for one another i don't know i feel like there's just a lot of different possibilities so i enjoy it and it's fun to decorate such polar opposite bedrooms so the um theme that i went with i went with one teenager who is really into like magic and stories and witchcraft and maybe even like uh paranormal activity and just sort of those sorts of things and so i tried to decorate that room with that theme in mind and i really enjoyed it that's definitely my favorite room of the entire house just because i feel like it has so much personality and like the colors and stuff it's just kind of cozy and it's a different i think style for a teenager room that i've done recently the other teen room is definitely more of a style that i've done recently because i've done a few that are along the same line maybe not exactly the same but very very close and so this one is going to be for a more girly sort of teen who's into cheerleading and dance and being popular and into clothes and makeup and i basically just wanted to do this theme again because it's so different than the other teens room but also it's just a fun style to do i like adding all of the like makeup clutter and the clothes clutter and we got a lot of stuff with the high school years expansion pack that go with that style and that theme except for posters i feel like with posters and decorations for like the walls we didn't get a whole lot of like really girly inspired wall decor like a lot of it is very bo bohemian which i love i love that style and i really enjoy decorating like that style in the sims like in apartments and teen rooms it's just so fun but i would have liked a little bit more diversity when it came to posters i mean we did get some different styles but i feel like that style is represented very heavily and not so many that are like for a cheerleader i feel like since we got cheer with the expansion pack you would have think there would have been some maybe posters and stuff that were related to that specific um activity basically or maybe some that look maybe like uh like fashion related or maybe makeup related or maybe like uh actor or actress posters or something that maybe something um i don't know something that would work with that style a little bit better i don't know i just i feel like we were just kind of lacking in that area the more and more that i have built with items with that expansion pack but i still really like the items of course and i like decorating with that theme but i definitely had to utilize things from other packs to make that sort of style come out but anyways here you can see the shape of the house has pretty much came together i added a boat to the side of the house which i thought was super fun and i definitely imagine that one of the parents or both the parents i didn't really think about them too much besides like the fishing aspect um goes out on their boat every day they probably buy fish for a local market maybe they even own like a shop or something in town where they sell their fresh fish or something but i definitely imagine that they primarily do fishing and that's their boat that they use and they yeah i don't know i thought that was kind of a nice idea and so i tried to decorate the house with that in mind i even found some fishing poles in the live edit objects or the debug menu and i rotated them using the tool mod and i hung them up by the back door to um just show that they actually have some fishing poles and that you can just imagine the sims you know quickly grabbing those before they leave the house for the day or they just go out on the docks or something like that so that was kind of nice and then for the landscaping i pretty much just used a lot of greenery trees and bushes i've been obsessed recently with using bushes for some reason um i've really been enjoying using just like the different shaped bushes and trying to scale them at different sizes and kind of like layering them together just to look more like a realistic sort of landscaping i feel like it just adds a nice uh look to landscaping so you'll probably see that in more builds because i definitely have another build that i finished recently where i used more bushes so uh i'll definitely have to do a landscaping here soon where i use maybe more flowers or something like that but i just like the look recently so yeah i've been using it a lot um here i'm working out the floor plan i definitely wanted to make sure that there was a way for the sims to get to the very top of the building because i created a sort of like outlook area at the very top of the house and so at the end of the video you'll see that i put a seating area up here i put a telescope up here and a couple of planter boxes just a few activities of and of course you could easily like customize this depending on your sims interest or your game play or their hobbies you could even make this like a cool maybe like roommates house and put a hot tub up there that could be kind of fun um so i think that's a nice idea here at the back of the house i really wanted to create like a staircase that led from like a balcony down to the lower area and you may have noticed that i was messing around with that for like a little bit um but i couldn't get it to look the way i wanted to and so i decided just to scrap the idea and not do a balcony back there since there is the top area i didn't think it was like totally necessary uh but it would have been nice because of course there's like the view of the ocean right there and maybe a couple of like lounge chairs or something would have been nice to place there but i don't know i decided not to worry about it too much and just make a more simpler shape of the back of the house but i think it looks really nice and i think the whole like shape of the house looks super cute and i love the grace shingle siding with the white windows and the black shutters i think it's just such a nice combination and also the shingle roofing it's kind of like a blueish gray color too so i thought that kind of all worked nicely together and actually the shingle siding that i'm using didn't come from cats and dogs because we did get several shingle sightings from cats and dogs this one actually came from get famous and i'm actually pretty surprised that we got a shingle siding from the famous expansion pack because that world is like an la inspired world and i've spent some time in los angeles not like a lot of time well actually quite a bit of time but not for like extended periods of time i lived like an hour and a half away from there for a long time and so i would travel there quite a bit to go to like museums and the beach and uh just to explore the city basically and i don't really recall seeing too many homes with shingle siding maybe more towards the coastal areas yeah probably more towards there but actually in the heart of the city not really so much if you live there definitely correct me if i'm wrong about that but i just can't really picture it in my mind but definitely towards the coast i can picture it but in that world you can't even build next to the ocean which i think is like a crime against like the sims universe is to have a los angeles inspired world and not have any beach access or area there was even like a spot on the map where you can see like the ferris wheel where santa monica would be and then there's not even you can't you can't even go close to there so i think it's such a shame i'm like still disappointed about this until this day and so i don't know let me know if you guys are the same way but um anyways yeah so that's what i think about the shingle siding that came with that pack it's a really nice shingle siding i think it worked perfect on this build i'm just kind of surprised it came with that pack um here i'm just adding some different activities and clutter items around i thought it would be nice to have a woodworking table over by the boat because i definitely imagine uh the sim would need to work on the boat maybe they run into some rock sometimes or maybe just wear and tear of using the boat so much that they would need to actually work on it sometimes so a woodworking table right there for them to do some woodworking of course they can't actually work on the boat but we can pretend they can build little figurines and we can pretend they're actually building something for the boat um and yeah here i'm doing the landscaping in the back and there's a few flowers as you can see some pink ones and stuff but mostly bushes and then here i'm adding an outdoor dining table with a couple of chairs it's just a small little table there really wasn't the space to add like a big uh four seater or six or eight whatever um cedar table but i thought that was plenty just for the sims to sit out there and have a little bit of a chat maybe drink some coffee or tea or have a snack or something and yeah i thought the table and chair combination that i used worked really nicely and of course they both came with cats and dogs so the colors are nice together and then here i'm moving on to the interior this interior was so difficult for me you would think for like a like a pretty simple shape of a home the floor plan would have came together really easily and as you guys saw on screen it did come together easily but i cut out several attempts of me trying the floor plan and so i moved the staircase around i tried different like places for like the kitchen and how everything was going to be layout and like where the fireplace was going to be and i just really wasn't sure even here as you can see i was starting to decorate the living room space and i decided to move it over to that extra room and i ended up actually moving it back to the original living space and then i turned that space into like a home office slash skill building area which i think makes more sense for that space because i was thinking maybe about doing like just a seating area at the front over here by the dining room and the kitchen and have it all be like one open space i end up actually closing off the kitchen which i think was a really good idea because it just makes it i don't know feel a little bit more like it has a like a spot it just felt awkward having a more traditional home like this be so open it just i don't it didn't work for me so i just closed it off and i feel like this works so much better and instead of having a formal sitting area by the dining table i just make it the regular living room and not have like a family room at the back of the house sometimes i think having a separate like formal sitting area and a family room room like work really well with an interior but this one it just it wasn't working for me so um yeah i think a home office and skill building area made a lot more sense but here you can see i'm just messing around with the kitchen picking out the counters and the curtains i really liked using the cream and white counters with the blue cabinets i felt like this just worked so nicely and then the stove and refrigerator that i'm using came from the country kitchen kit and i absolutely loved them in this blue color i felt like it worked so perfect for this more like coastal interior and it actually matched the parenthood cabinets really nicely they're not the exact same blue but they're like a similar sort of blue that i felt like they just kind of worked really nicely together and then i just pick out some clutter pieces to put up on the counters the counter to the left of the sink is completely open even though i do put some like decorations close to it just to make it feel like it's decorated but that space should be enough for your sims to do all of their cooking and then of course they have the stove because some meals just require the stove they don't actually need a counter space i'm not sure what all of those ones are but sometimes when i'm play testing to see if a kitchen will work i'll click a certain food item and then the sim won't even use the counter they'll just go straight to the stove and start mixing something in a pot or something and then i'll have to try a different meal to make sure that they can actually use the counter space so yeah hopefully that one works i will definitely try to remember to play test it before uploading it to the gallery but sometimes i just get ahead of myself and upload something straight to the gallery and uh forget about it or sometimes i'm really really late at uploading something to the gallery because i just forget or i'm busy doing something when my video is live and then i forget to do it till later and so please forgive me i know some of you guys get kind of frustrated about that um so yeah sometimes those videos definitely don't get play tested because i'm just like in a hurry to upload them to the gallery because it's been so long since the video has actually been released so i try my best but sometimes i'm not very good about it um but yeah as you can see i moved the living area back to the original living space and i think it looks so good i absolutely love the couch that came from cats and dogs it just looks so comfy and i think this particular swatch looks really nice and just neutral and calm and it works perfect for this coastal style and then over here i do have a side table with some decorations up on top of it just some books and i scaled down uh that one statue decoration i think it looks really nice it's just a decoration on the table and then over here i was going to hang some fish plaques and i should probably have used them somewhere else in the build but i actually end up getting rid of these ones and i think the reason i did that was because the wood that they're mounted on is such like an orangey reddish sort of wood and it matched like nothing in the build so it just it was just like distracting me too much and taking away too much from the decoration and or like the other decorations and like standing out too much i don't know let me know if you guys agree i just did not feel like they belonged in the build so i got rid of them and i probably should have found somewhere else actually no i did hang a couple up in the master bedroom and i think they worked in there you guys also let me know um but i was thinking that i didn't hang any in the build but i should have probably hung some maybe somewhere else especially since i imagined the family being so into fishing but that's something that you can easily add especially if you do some gameplay with fishing and you catch your own fish then you can have your sims mount them and hang them up on the wall somewhere in the house and yeah i absolutely love the dining table too i think the round dining table was a good choice in here i think it looks so cute with those chairs the chairs came from cats and dogs so they work with the style i used a lot of stuff from cats and dogs but i wasn't trying to only use stuff from that pack um and so yeah there was an option that was better from like another pack i definitely went with that one and i loved the floors in here too i think these floors that came from the uh jungle adventures game pack i think worked really nicely in here i like the color of them and like how they're a bit distressed they feel a bit kind of coastal and somewhat beachy to me so i really like them over here is the downstairs bathroom it's the only bathroom downstairs there's one other bathroom on the second floor so just a two bathroom household which i think is fine for this one because there's just three bedrooms and i imagined like four sims living here so i think two bathrooms are plenty um so here is the exit way to the build or the back porch area quote unquote i mentioned this like a few different times but my family always called the closed in like area by the back door the back porch but i think that's because in my house it used to originally be like open to the outside and an actual back porch and then at some point uh somebody closed it in uh and so we still called it the back porch and so that's probably just not that common of a thing so i don't know you guys can let me know but anyways back here i really wanted to have like a clothing rack of course we did get a couple with like seasons and i think one with cats and dogs too but i wanted something that looked a little bit different so i made my own i used this cabinet sort of shelf decoration that i think also came from cats and dogs but then i used the coat rack that came from snowy escape you can kind of see the skis a little bit because they're just a different sort of shape but i tried my best to make them like blend into the shelf and look like they're actually you know non-existent in the coats and the backpacks and stuff are just hanging on the cabinets and i think it looks good it's not perfect but i actually really like the way it turned out and then i just hid some shoes in there um or i hid the shelf the shoes are sitting on and i made it look like the shoes are just sitting on the bottom like right above the cabinets and i think it actually looks really nice here are those fishing poles that i found in the debug menu and i'm just rotating them and raising them up using the tool mod i want them to look like they were just hanging on the wall here i probably should have maybe put another thing on the wall to i don't know make it look like they were actually hanging on like a piece of wood or had some sort of hooks or something but i didn't think it looked too bad just the way they are i'm just hanging on the wall by themselves i imagine they probably just have like a little metal hook that you just can't really see that well unless you look really really closely so we'll just pretend that it's there and so i thought that was kind of a nice detail and i don't really think i've ever used a fishing pole in another build i mean maybe i have but if i have it's been a really long time so i was pretty happy to think about that um but yeah over here i am decorating the like home office bonus room in here i put a fish tank a bookcase i put a don't like the llama table and i really liked using the don't wake the llama table because the wood on it looks a bit more distressed and like kind of coastal so i thought that looked really nice and then the chairs that came from my wedding stories are like the most perfect chair ever i want them in real life they're so pretty and so i use them in here and i actually think they worked really nice the style too and then i put an art easel in here a guitar and just yeah just a different like few different activities for your sims to build some skills and have a few different things to do and of course there's a computer in here so they can do a lot of different stuff with that um and then moving on to the second floor i'm gonna quickly decorate the shared bathroom i just copy over a lot of the items that i used from the downstairs bathroom into the upper bathroom i did remove this window though on the side of the build just because i wanted to use the shower tub combo and i didn't want to block the window and i felt like it would be really awkward if i would have placed it somewhere else and so i just used some of those lattice and vine decorations that we got from high school years and just made them go further up the wall because i already had a couple of them on the exterior so it worked really nicely just to sort of blend them together and move it onto the second floor too and then i just add some decorations in here for like bathroom decorations basically like some towels and a robe and soap and things like that i was going to hang this decoration in the shower and i think it would have looked nice if they would have came in like a different swatch or something and so i just used the base game shelf decoration that has like some soap and shampoo and stuff on it so i think that looks really nice i really wanted a window right here actually but the way i did the roof just did not work because all of the windows were just like cutting into them too much if i have a window that a roof is covering just a little bit i don't mind but it was just going to be too much and the smaller windows i felt like looked a little bit awkward there so i just decided not to and yeah over here i'm just picking out the beds that i'm going to use in the bedrooms i really love that like princess shaped bed with the turquoise colors i really like the unexpected patterns actually on that bed because it's such a like traditional and what i would expect to be like a very feminine looking bed but some of the colors are so like funky like one of them has like a very bright and vibrant like leopard pattern and then one has like skulls and stuff on it which i definitely need to use in a build because i think it's such an interesting pattern but i really like the one that i used in that room and i end up actually swapping out the bed that i have in the pink room but you guys will see that later on this is going to be the parents bedroom i decided to use this bed that came from the cottage living expansion pack i thought about trying to use one that came from cats and dogs but i just like the colors of this one and i like that it's not like a big four post bed i feel like the four post bed just doesn't work always in a build and i just didn't really see it for this master bedroom i think probably because the room is so small and maybe if it was like a bigger room i could have used the four post bed and it wouldn't have felt so like ridiculous i just felt like i don't know it was too much for this room so i decided to go with this one and other than that i just hang up some artwork on the wall i have a dresser over here a plant a mirror and just various decorations that i thought looked nice in here and of course some more like coastal related clutter and uh decorations like that lantern and i also put a fish bowl in here and then i also put a couple of fish plaques like i was saying next to the artwork above the bed and then i just hang up a coat rack and put some hanging plants in the corner and then i pick out a rug and it's a pretty basic bedroom but i think it looks nice it feels nice and cozy and fully decorated so i'm really happy with it but yeah over here is going to be the first teenager room that i decorate and this is going to be the teens room that's really into like paranormal stuff and witchcraft and magic and books and those sorts of things and so i think this sim is just i feel like they would probably call themselves a witch but they're not really a witch but since we have realm of magic of course as a game pack in the sims 4 then you could probably explore that gameplay with this sim and actually turn them into a spellcaster later on in their life but they're not born of which their family is not magical at all although maybe a fun storyline could be that they have like a family history of it but for some reason like the magical powers have been like suppressed or hidden uh like throughout the generations and nobody knows they have any powers or maybe it's just skipped generations until now and then this sim could somehow have some powers and they discover them in their teenage years and so maybe they are really a witch and they just tell everybody and nobody believes them or maybe they keep it a secret i don't know i feel like there's a lot of different ideas but i had a lot of fun going through the different packs and finding things that worked the style of course we have stuff that came from realm of magic we have stuff from the werewolves game pack that came out recently and then posters from like strangerville and different decorations and a few that came from high school years that i think worked really nicely for this theme too like uh this rug there was also another rug that i end up finding when i'm decorating the other teens room i end up not using it just because i didn't really have a great spot to put it in here because these bedrooms are very small but i think this one worked really nicely and also the moon shelf that came from the werewolves pack i have not got an opportunity to use it yet in a build so i get to use it in this room and it looks so so good in here and i think it's just like so perfect for this particular theme and like the sim that i had in mind and so i was really happy about that um but yeah over here i'm just finding different decorations i end up putting a bookcase over here in the corner and i find different artwork to put up on it i use like that hand uh i don't know exactly it's supposed to be like a hand palm reading statue decoration it came from the paranormal stuff pack i end up placing that over there um i also use this chair that came from the high school years pack and i really like this chair i like the leathery sort of like plastic texture of it i guess it's not leather i don't know it's like a rubbery texture but it has a little throw over it so i thought that was nice and yeah this is the moon mirror that i was talking about it came with the werewolves game pack and i haven't used it yet in a build but it's such a cool item and has really nice like decorations like crystals and like a plant on it so i definitely think the sim uh that stays in this room would definitely want something like that um and so yeah i really just enjoyed decorating this room i think it has so much personality and it's super fun and yeah i think we have some good posters and stuff that came with high school years that work for this room too and of course like the other packs like i mentioned so yeah that's it for that bedroom and then over here is going to be the more girly bedroom so they're just polar opposites that sim is just not into what people think about them they're not into fashion they're not into cheerleading or probably any school activity that's like official like that they might be part of like a club maybe like a book club or some sort of um maybe even like an acting club or something no i don't even think they'd be into that i feel like they just don't care about school they do care about um maybe like reading and stuff though so they're like a good student i add i also imagine they're probably pretty smart so they do well in school but they're not so concerned about their status in school where this sim it definitely is concerned about their status and so yeah i've definitely done a like other high school rooms like this one and very similar personality type so i'm definitely probably not going to do this personality type for a while and try to do some other ones so if you guys have any suggestions definitely let me know but yeah i really wanted to show that this sim was into makeup so i actually ended up placing a vanity table in here i used the one that of course that we got with uh the vintage glamour uh stuff pack i almost like game pack but it's definitely a stuff pack and we haven't got stuff packs in so long i don't think we're ever getting one again so it's kind of sad but anyways i like this um stuff pack and we don't have any other vanity tables that function from any other pack so of course i had to use that one and yeah you'll see me place it here in just a little while oh yeah this one and so i was going to use this one but it's just a bit traditional and i didn't really see it matching in this room although i like the white color of it i ended up going for the more modern option and then i just cluttered it up with makeup decorations i also put some hanging trophies and some metals on the wall i definitely thought that this sim maybe won them in like a dance competition or cheer competition or something like that um i just think this sim is in a lot of different activities and they always strive to be the best and they want to be the best at whatever they do they want to be the prettiest the smartest the most talented and all of those sorts of things so i think that's a fun idea and oh yeah i hung this little um like neon bow decoration that came with high school years and i thought it looked so so cute over here and it made the room feel like so youthful and like a teen actually lives in this room so i thought that was pretty fun and yeah on that i'm trying to find decorations and stuff to fit on the walls but honestly like i was saying with the high school years pack we didn't get a lot of teen posters that go along with this theme in my opinion uh thankfully we do have some like posters and other decorations from different packs and like base game that i think work um but thankfully we did get like the hanging clothes and we do have the other hanging clothes that came from dream home decorator and like the shoe clutter that i think work really nicely in this pack and are in this bedroom and then of course we got the makeup from the expansion pack too that worked really nicely and so yeah i don't know i think i made it work and i definitely had a lot of fun with it over here i did have another open wardrobe area because this sim has a lot of clothes and a lot of shoes and so i definitely wanted to make sure they had another spot to keep them and they like keeping their clothes open so they can see them all of the time because they just like looking at them basically and so i thought that was a fun idea and yeah i don't know i'm just adding a final like few decorations in here and that's pretty much it for this room and then moving on to this upper platform area at the top of the build i do place the telescope a seating area a couple of planter boxes and some like uh lanterns to light it up at night and that's pretty much it for the entire build and so yeah i hope you guys have enjoyed this one hopefully you guys enjoy the screenshots and hopefully you guys are looking forward to my future builds and yeah i don't know this is pretty much it i'm just going to add the final few decorations but yeah i just want to say thank you guys so much for watching my videos and all that kind of stuff i really really appreciate it and i hope you guys do enjoy the screenshot so thanks so much for 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Length: 31min 41sec (1901 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 18 2022