RENOVATING "The Roomies" Home | The Sims 4

so I've decided to give a pre-existing EA house a makeover today and I've never really touched this house before neither the household that lives within the house that we're gonna give a renovation to today one of the main reasons is I just don't tend to build that much in Oasis Springs and this is where this household is it is the roomies household and they consist of Zoe Patel Mitchell Kalani J Huntington III and Gavin Richards and they live in this like open planned mid-century style kind of home and I want to give it a makeover today now I'm gonna set myself some rules I'm only going to be using base game and the desert Lux kit pack both of them were free so I thought this would kind of breach out to everybody and you could get this all in your game so that's my darlings is what we're gonna do today so I think without further Ado let's flop on over into the build mode and get building so we're going to start here main reasons being loves they've all got different jobs apart from Zoe I didn't realize Zoe was unemployed and I don't know the reasons for that so I'm just gonna make her room just fit her personality in itself Gavin is a blogger so we're probably gonna need to put some kind of desk into his room Jay is a quality of assurance so some kind of tech so again that would need some kind of desk and a computer in there and Mitchell is an assistant dishwasher so he is obviously a bit into the culinary side of things so we didn't need to make sure we got a decent kitchen so this is the house this is the house itself I don't hate it I'm definitely going to change the roof style the roof style is just not working for me it's just it's in this like w shape and I think I'm gonna go the opposite kind of way pick different wallpapers again as I said all base game and desert Lux now another rule that I'm not going to do I'm not going to change any of the floor plan another reason for that is because I really like how the floor plan is I actually think this floor plan is one of the best EA floor plans out there to be honest with you this is all open plan like the living like dining kitchen kind of entertaining areas all open plan with like a little Courtyard moment in the middle which I really enjoy and then each bedroom um it's not got each bedroom has not got its own bathroom because there's only three bathrooms but quite a lot of them have so this is a really nice base for four Sims to actually you know coexist in and I'm absolutely for it the garden is big enough for me to be able to put in a swimming pool as well in this climate I think you would want a swimming pool in this house so that's what we're gonna do loves we are gonna do it so I'm gonna flop on over now into the proper build mode get rid of these I'm also going to cheat the funds up as well so we've got a lot more money and we're gonna get we're gonna start renovating as we are I'm gonna first start off by going around and just getting rid of everything that I don't actually want in this house I'm gonna be changing a lot of the wallpapers I think including the doors I might change the doors I don't know and I'm also going to swap these bedrooms around here I'm going to give Zoe her own ensuite bathroom into with her bedroom I just think that would in a house the three boys I think that would be the case to be honest with you this one has kind of got the Jack and Jill doll with this and I'm I'm kind of feeling that but I think what I'll do is probably Swap this out for a shower or something so let me go around get rid of everything I don't want uh including the roof shape and then we'll have a nice blank canvas to start renovating on so I've stripped the house back I've taken all the wallpapers off all the floorings and just put down a default piece until we can go around and actually pick what we want to do if I think what I really want to do is play around with some platforms in this build as well I think we could play around with quite a bit of platforming especially in the kitchen area I think what I'll do is raise the kitchen up a bit higher than the rest of the house just for a little bit of architectural detail and what I've also done is got rid of all the wallpapers on the outside I like this one I'm going to keep this but what we need to do now is pick a new roof line so that's what we're going to do together love so we're gonna use the half gay board on either side I'm gonna pull the first piece about here I kind of want it to be kind of quite low level kind of streamlined I want a little bit more of a contemporary Vibe with this house so but still giving me that kind of mid-century aesthetic that I want to come through here now obviously we need to allow that courtyard to have its own moment so what we need to do is bring you into there my lovely tuck all of those Flaps in they are I'm gonna bring you to there as well that's gorgeous yes and then I'll get that same oh we'll use this one we use the same piece over here yeah something like that I just think that looks nice and streamlined the only thing I'm not enjoying I do really want to put a fireplace in here weirdly this had like a unit with a coffee machine on I don't really think that makes sense so I think this is slightly a little bit too tall yeah that's better yeah I like that something like that I like this overhang here by the door but what I'm thinking about maybe doing is getting rid of this window bringing this in a touch here and then just doing a little bit of a detail like next to the door area there yeah I like that as well I do I'm not hating these base game windows and stuff I'm really not hating these base game Windows these here I understand why they're here they give natural light into the rooms this is a main road you wouldn't want people walking past and looking into your bedrooms so we're going to keep that um kind of aesthetic throughout but I might just bring them down slightly or something what I need to do now is pick some wallpapers and just maybe just Shuffle the windows around so let me do that and I'll be right back so this is what I've come up with we've gone for a very chic nuclear bunker kind of vibe with lots of concrete on the exterior now I know this is not to everyone's tastes but it definitely is to mine uh I didn't really change around the windows too much I moved this one here just in one we've kept all of these at the same height I've I've tried moving them down and it just looked a little bit weird so that's what we've gone for but over on this side I've used these to ignore that light that's sticking in there I've got to get rid of that I've used these two I've used these two just off to the where the dining room area was or it will still be I'm kind of vibing with that I think that would just be a nice little Outlook out onto the actual Back Garden itself I have Rose the kitchen up onto a little platform too we've yet to finish doing anything to that as well and I've used concrete on the inside I think we're gonna go very natural with like plants and stuff on the interior because I love seeing you guys know if you do watch my channel regularly I do like a bit of concrete with a little bit of plantage so that's what we're going to do yes we are now I thought the best place to start would be the outside there's still stuff I wanted to do to this build to make it look a little bit more attractive I want to re-jig this Landscaping out here I'm not feeling this Landscaping half of it is like poking inwards into the house and stuff can't be vibing with that so I think I'm gonna re-dig all of this and we're gonna do the back Garden what we're gonna do I'm gonna do quite a big ball I think I think I'm gonna bring it to around about I go one more let's look at the size of that yeah that's perfect yes we'll go to that size we need a nice pool trim obviously we can only use base game probably want to just go for a tile in here like a base game tile so maybe even like this yeah that kind of vibe would be nice actually yes maybe with a blue bottom we'll go for like a dark blue bottom there and that should just bring a little bit of pizzazz now I can't change the color of the pool water sadly but what I can do is decorate the pool around the edges and there we go I couldn't do too much to it because space game but what I've done is just put some plants up on the edges a ladder on each side with some pool lights and in the actual pool itself as well so this being a shared house I would love them to have some kind of like entertaining space what we need to do out here is give them a nice barbecue area might be a nice little dining area in front of here so we'll use the barbecue and the bar from the desert Luxe pack so we'll use these wooden ones on the exterior bar I think that would be really nice we could definitely do something on the backdrop here but I'm unsure as to what just yet but we'll come back to that in a minute what I need now is a dining room table and chairs and there we go I've gone for these base game ones nice to see some new swatches on these chairs I think that's what's just really well works I also filled up this space here just by putting two plants and putting that uh sofa kind of stone bench thing in from Desert Luxe pack but a couple more lights there got rid of that light that was hanging in there and put it over to this side and I just think that's a nice little area now I think that's the perfect little area for them to just be outside dining looks a lot cleaner and it's still as simple do you know what I mean I haven't like overloaded the place with clutter which I won't be doing on the interior either I'm going to try and keep it looking like it would if it was like an EA house do you know what I mean little bit kind of like minimal and not much detail in it that's what we're doing yes we are a dude okay I'm for that I think the one thing I need to do as I said is just change up this Landscaping out the front here and there we go simple clean just how I wanted it what I did was widen this path area here as well just so we didn't I did like that little cross moment but I just wanted to widen this so I can put the bin right on the front here is easier access for the bin men um and I just changed up the Landscaping put some more Landscaping that kind of fit with this world including this tree here I was like oh that tree's slightly cutting in there but it's not actually cutting into the inside of any of the rooms so I'm just gonna Vibe with that I'm absolutely fine with it so what we're going to do now is concentrate on the open plan kind of like entertaining space so obviously kitchen dining room and living area so that took a little while to think of an orientation that I was happy with but this is one I've came up with let's get that grid on I think what I'm going to do is put the main sofa there I'm going to use this lovely Brown neutral rug I definitely want to bring some neutral colors into this some warmer neutral colors though to kind of fit with the surrounding landscape of the desert world that is oasis Springs but also nope that's just it just that just that I'm gonna flop two of these chairs over here this is what I have problems with like where can I put these chairs I still want the Sims to kind of be able to get around the furniture and I think that would work quite nicely I'm going to use this here the coffee table that came with uh desert Lux and I'm going to flop that as a side table there I am then going to use this to base game coffee table flop that right in the middle that rug if you would just that middle that's the middle gorgeous and I'm going to use this here uh the base game sideboard from Peacemaker in that swatch as well and these lights here change these lights up and Vibe them with that but you know what's missing here Greenery loves and you know what plant we're going to use because I used it to death so I'm going to put that plant just off to the side of the sofa like that ah yes I'm not gonna put it there because as I said I want that flow through I want the Sims to be able to get through this way so that's something I'm not going to do I've just put up a couple of books there just something you know and and that made me think well we need a bookcase now this was the only bookcase that really kind of semi-fit in with this build so that's what I'm going to use I'm going to use that one now we're moving on to the dining area I'm definitely getting rid of you and I think what I'm going to do is copy these lights over to this area as well but just put them in a bit of a different orientation so it doesn't look too copy paste what we need here is a fireplace now this one here is normally for the outside but I think this would fit in here quite wonderfully I'm vibing with that I really really am we need a dining table and I think I'm going to do quite a big dining table I think what I want to use is this one here we're gonna go for a warmer or at least a wood tone it doesn't necessarily have to be warmer I'd like to match it in with that as best as possible and I think the chairs because of these chairs here they're very similar to the ones that Harry had you know they're very similar indeed so I think I'm going to use these yeah that's cute that's cute but I'm not gonna do a rug underneath of this I'm going to keep this on the flooring itself I think I think that would really really work yes what we do need is greenery I'm happy with that dining room I think the dining room's done happy with that space actually what we're doing now is moving on to the kitchen what I want is a nice kind of Galley bit here we're going to do a fridge there we'll do a counter's piece there we will move these windows off other than there gorgeous bit there and I'm going to finish it off with an end piece there I think so what I'm going to do instead because I don't want to mess up those windows I'm going to pop you back to them I love I'm Gonna Keep just the three there I'm gonna do the sink there I'm gonna put the oven on a counter instead we're gonna have a breakfast like bar at the back here with a counter space at the front here I think that's what we're going to do and that's what we've done what I had what I did was put the counter space on the back here but I actually use the counters here but I have like overlapped them slightly onto the oven now it's not the best because I wouldn't want this if you had an island you wouldn't want that back a bit but I had to make do with what we've got but they fit in kind of perfectly and it makes it look a little bit more built in do you know what I mean I'm kind of for that I put the sink over on this side and then what I did was use the um fridge over on that side there and I'm kind of feel I'm kind of feeling that which is now going to allow us to put in those lovely bar stools oh that swatch is Kind of Perfect actually well there we go I'm not gonna fast for that I'm gonna flop you I mean either side there so they have got a little moment where they can come and eat their breakfast at the breakfast bar stunning now I'm thinking do we want some cupboards I'm I'm a bit unsure about putting Cupboards in this room to be honest with you but I'm gonna maybe just do a few of these instead yes yeah I'm for that so we have got lots of friends living together so they would probably want maybe some kind of coffee machine so I'm gonna flop a coffee machine on over onto this area here I think and maybe a week for a while they there we go stunning yes we have got a space to cook on well they've got more around this side here as well uh what I need to change in here is the lighting I don't think I'm going to copy these lights over to this kitchen I think what I want to probably use here is some kind of pendulum light so I've used those base game kind of like strainer lights but I also put in an extractor fan and then I lit up just underneath the cabinet using those base game wall lights there and I'm kind of I'm kind of feeling that I really am the one thing that's room is missing slightly is the greenery so I do need to pour just a little bit of greenery out here and there and I think that room is complete and so I added some Greenery just to give a pop of green into that area uh I think that really works and what also did was furnish the courtyard outside I've put three of the sun lounges outside so they can come and chill out here this huge fountain thing I'm not too keen on it but I think that I'm gonna leave it there anyway and I've also put this uh citrus tree out the back here I moved the door across as well just so this had a bit of a better flow around and I'm kind of vibing with it I also just finished off the uh the corridor area just by putting a few little extra details but nothing too massive um so I'm kind of feeling that okie dokie so what we're gonna do is start Furnishing each of their bedrooms now now as I said we are going to keep it quite low-key it's not going to be over the top with decoration and whatnot I just want it to kind of semi-fit their personalities a little bit better so first off let's start with Zoe Patel's and this is where we're going to get screwed over slightly because all of the base game beds are hideous absolutely hideous so I'm gonna go for this one here for Zoe just a little bit more neutral now I'm trying to think of the best orientation to put her bed in you can practically put it on any wall in this room because the windows are up so high so I might put it in this orientation here and because of her bed is a little bit more rustic I think that's the vibe that we're going to try and get across here a little bit more so I'm going to use this dresser here and I might even use this one here next to it like she's kind of gone and got them from you know a little flea market or something or a yard sale something like that they do look a little bit battered I'm going to use two of these wall ones but I'm just going to link them together I think if it doesn't glitch out too much no that's fine yeah that looks okay I think that looks kind of fine I am going to change the lighting out in here and I might even use the same lights as what we've put out in the living area in this room just again to just soften it down slightly so to fit in with the furniture that we've already got here I'm going to use these I'm going to use these we're going to pop one there did I push that a bit too far in I think I might have she should still be able to come and use that dresser but that's made me a bit nervous now so I'm going to move them along slightly and I might even give her a little desk as well now I don't think we've got a single desk in base game no we don't so if that's the case then what I'm going to use is a dining room table and to fit in with The Rustic theme I've gone for this chair here I also bought a laptop a little lamp I'll put some flowers on this side and I've also put some candles over on this bit here plus some more other little just trinkety bits in this room I'm kind of vibing with uh I would love to bring maybe a little accent of this wall into this room I think it could work maybe on either side yeah there that's a little bit better now I think just to finish off this room what we need is a little rug and I'm thinking about just going quite neutral with the rug as well now I've gone for this one here from base game I have sized it down twice but I just think it fits into the room quite nicely and I'm kind of for it now I'm not really going to do much to the bathroom I think the bathroom is actually pretty okay I left things in here on purpose what I may do I don't know if I will do but I might just change the swatches yeah I think I'll just soften that down there I'm gonna put a few Trinity bits up on there we do need a toilet roll in this room and also some kind of towel Rail and there we go I've just put down a rug I changed the lighting as well I've just put a few of these spotlights up instead or wall lights sorry towels I put a softened it with a nice little dressing gown there and we've got a toilet roll and that my loves is the last toilet you're going to see me furnish for this house because I'm not doing the rest of them they're just going to look exactly the same as because why because toilets are boring right okay we're moving on to the next bedroom I think this room here would be perfect for Jay Huntington the third now we need to remember he was in the tech career and he sounds like he's from quite an affluent family so maybe we need to do something along the lines of that we're going for this base game one in the green and brown I mean I'm not vibing with it at all but I mean I can't remember the last time I used this bed to be honest with you it must be something like 2001. so long the Sims feels like it's been out oh anyway moving on I'm gonna use these two bedside tables then considering that we've gone for like the kind of it's not a modern looking bed it's that kind of futuristic kind of vibe that this set gives off to me even though it's is it meant to be like 70s no idea no idea but this is what we're doing two bedside tables up this way I need to do a wardrobe I think I'm gonna do the Wardrobe on this side with a mirror and then I'm going to do the desk over on this side here I've moved the Wardrobe though I didn't like it up against that wall I think it looks better there and it just makes this room flow a bit nicer too but what we want now is that a desk and I'm thinking about that desk that's in the base game and it's this um again one that will match him on the kind of vibe that we've got going on in here yes and I think I'll give them the most expensive PC at the household let's give him this one here beautiful we do need a little desk lamp and some other little bits around the place just to like sort of soften it up maybe some lighting over here as well there we go I've ended up just using these lights um the other ones were just like a weird name it wasn't for me I've also thrown in a few more extra details so what I've done even an iPad is a bit more affluent isn't it so it's got probably a bit more money than the rest of them or at least it's parents Lindsay spot smart speaker are on that edge what else did I do a picture of his family home I can imagine who loves to bring them in this is where my parents live I can imagine that and I got rid of one of the side tables and I've ended up using a lamp on one side as well and just to like change up a little bit I might even just soften that down and go for a gray yeah that's a bit better okay yes so that is um the amount of stuff that I can imagine an EA build having and it looks okay I mean it's not the best but I'm happy with it and that that's all that matters okay we are moving on to the next room and I think we're going to start with a slightly smaller one here which I'm going to put in Mitchell I think considering he has got I think he's got like the joke star aspiration or something maybe we need to give him a microphone so we can practice his jokes in the mirror he's a dishwasher um so maybe that's not what where he wants his life to lead could still give him a double bed but just push it into the wall yeah let's do that let's give him let's give him a double bed I'm gonna go for this one here and go for a little bit more of a neutral Vibe with it there we go I'm going to shuffle you over into the corner like this uh the only problem with this has got two doorways into this particular bedroom so we're going to be a little bit more limited on space but the thing is he doesn't really need a desk or anything so I'm not too worried about that what I might give him is that like Ikea looking furniture in this room and go for a quite a pale white Vibe and I don't have to give him a bedside table either because well he doesn't deserve one as far as I'm concerned I'm joking I'm joking I'm gonna put you to here everyone deserves the bedside table and then I think what I'm going to do on this side is give them a microphone can we have them we can have a microphone with base game I'm sure we can so I found the microphone I'm going to put it over into this corner of the room with the mic here and I just checked the wiki for this household and it does have the jokester aspiration I needed to make sure that that was the thing and I thought why not give him his own TV as well if he's got this kind of like love like media and film um in my head then why not give him a little um TV and maybe a Hi-Fi as well a little bit of a plain boring looking room I think we need some pictures and stuff up I'm not really I might put a plan over in this corner just to bring a bit of greenery into this room and I think we need a rug too so let me grab those final pieces and I'll flop them about and there we go a couple of his favorite comedy films that he aspires to be in one day I had to get rid of a couple of the windows and I started to fit them in quite nicely but I mean it's it still adds some natural light and here is fine I put a plan over in this corner ended up doing that and I also bought out some aprons maybe that's what he grabs on his way to work when he goes to um the kitchens wherever he works and I also just uh taught adopt their shared bathroom and that's the Vive now one more bedroom this is Gavin Gavin is in the Blogger career so we need to make sure that we've got stuff for like writing that kind of vibe this desk here is not really vibing with me so I think what we need to pick first is probably the bed and then I can go from there afterwards and then kind of try and match in the furniture as best as possible I might even go down like a semi-industrial route for him I think that would probably be the best way for Gavin so let's see what I pick out out of all of the beds we've got the this is probably the best one now it is a quite a dark Vibe so I've made darken this room down like a little bit more than the rest of them just to kind of fit in with the aesthetic of that bed a little bit more I think we'll just go for some gray kind of color plaster on each side there so we'll use the base game industrial desk I kind of liked the desk being there so I'm thinking about I'm Gonna Keep it where it is this might change because I just don't like the orientation of that I might put you around there I'm gonna use this base game wardrobe over onto this side I think yeah going into the bedroom um the bathroom that would be quite nice now because he is in the writer career I would also really love him to have his own kind of bookcase but we've already used that industrial bookcase out there we have got that other one I'm wondering if that would be okay in here I really hate the swatches with the dark in this room for some reason it's not doing it for me it just something's not right here I need to fix things there we go that's a little bit better it's not perfect but I've just softened the harshness that the black was given off it was just too jarring for me in this um particular build so I've softened it down to a darker brown instead and that's what we're going for I've just put around a few other pieces I did move this one of the reading lamps from this side it's just so it came in a set but it's used one on his bed and one on his actual desk himself um a couple of cheeky books there well we've left that light where it is what I didn't add and I really wish I didn't that was a mirror I'm gonna flop a mirror in over onto this side here onto that side there cool projects nice little bit of tapestry going on and a nice rug and I just think that is perfect um bedroom to be honest well with base game at least anyway we're gonna have a little tour now my love let's get some good Lighting on the go so this is the roomy's household that has just been bumpkinized I've just made it into a little bit more of a contemporary looking build can I get my camera thank you um and I like it I do like the exterior I like the exterior I think the exterior is working for me is a nod to mid-century but it's also also got that kind of a little bit more of a contemporary Vibe um nice little barbecue bar space dining space a couple of spill skill building items out here too um swimming pool now they've got themselves a brand new pool um I didn't really change much of the house around this area at all so it does look a little bit prison-like but that is the vibe that they went for so I'm sticking with it yes I am doubt right okay now this way into the main entrance so straight through the main double doors you come into the little living area do you like the living area I think the living area came together quite nicely actually and so it's all open plan it's got the dining room moment as well this is probably my favorite point of the house just this area here like the dining room with that um fireplace I just think it really really works very much for that and then obviously around onto this side we have ourselves a lovely little kitchen area raised up on a little platform we've got everything that you would need we don't have a smoke alarm I will put that in I promise come through this way we have got a bedroom on this part this is where Mitchell lives I did forget his name then so we need to remember he's got that kind of joke star aspiration but it does work in a kitchen so we gave him some aprons he's got everything I would need and here he's fully kitted out come to that Jack until bathroom this is shared by him and Gavin which is the room that we just did a little bit more semi-industrial he's a blogger he likes his reading he's a little bit more I don't know a man of the world I would imagine um so we come around here past the kitchen into this room here I don't know what this room is this is Zoe's room so Zoe's just got a little bit more a little bit more of a Rustic Touch in here very base game and she does have her own kind of ensuite bathroom as well um coming down to this way into here this is where Jay Huntington the third lifts so it's just a little bit more updated in style um and he's got a little bit more of a fancier computer than the rest of them uh that is where our bathroom lives I'm not even going to bother with that and then it swings all the way back around to here and you can see that Central Courtyard as well I'm quite happy with what we've done today to be honest especially with just base game uh if there are any other base game houses that you want to see me renovate preferably without having to just use base game because it just gets a bit samey samey after a while then please let me know because I would definitely like to um yeah carry on with that really really would so I'm Gonna Leave You Now thank you so much for watching have the most wonderful weekend I'll be back on Tuesday with more let's build the worlds and I'll see you then bye

Channel: Devon Bumpkin

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Length: 29min 43sec (1783 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 06 2023