Today I want to show you some
really cool builds in The Sims 4. So for some context, I did a shell challenge a
couple of weeks ago, and if you're unfamiliar, a shell challenge is pretty simple. Basically,
I build a box, usually a pretty weird box as you can see by this one, and I put it on the gallery
and I say okay, go. Turn this box into something. You've got pretty much free reign as well, you can
rotate the lot, put it on a bigger lot. You know, add roofs and platforms and foundations and
all of that. The only thing that you can't do is change the existing walls. So say for
example you didn't like this little bump-out, you absolutely could not get rid of it. Cheater.
But what you could do is add, I don't know, a foundation in this area to make it into a little
patio. Does that make sense? Everything else was fair game though, you just couldn't adjust any
of these exterior walls. You could add interior walls to make sure you had a floor plan, you just
couldn't change the outside. The shell had to stay the same. And the fun part of shell challenges is
that everyone does so many different things, Like, I built a haunted house with mine. On the gallery
I saw museums, I saw bars, modern mansions, we saw little tiny cottages, I mean like, people
did so much with this, and it's just so cool that it was all the same house, but everyone
did so many cool, different, creative things. I love shell challenges. This is not my first one
and it will not be my last, so I can link some of the other shell tours down below too if you
want to watch some, but today I want to show you some of my favorites that I saw in the gallery.
Starting with, in my opinion, a very special one. Here we have a build by um, Little Smimsie? On
the gallery. This is mine. This is what I did with the shell, I made this sort of like, tudor
style older house. You can kind of see some of those original parts, like that pointy bit from
the second floor. Down here in the front was that little two by one area, I rotated the lot.
And here was my interior. The interesting part is that floor plans are always super hard with
shell challenges like this because obviously, you can't expand the house to make it more
normal. You're kind of stuck with what you have, so this is what I ended up doing, and I did make
a build video on this, so I'll link that too. But now that you've seen mine, I think it'll
be fun to show you everyone else's because they are very different. Quick disclaimer: There
were a lot of entries into this shell challenge, like more than is physically possible to
look at. I always do my best with this, but there's just not enough time in the day to
look at them all. And also, the gallery breaks. I'm sure you've noticed this, but after a certain
point, the gallery just stops loading them. So I try and do stuff like filter by different lot
sizes, and different lot types, so I can see more options, but again, after a certain point,
the gallery just doesn't scroll anymore. And then what do you do? This is a pretty common problem
with the gallery, I can't even see all of my own builds on my gallery. Like, when I'm trying to
look for my own builds, I can't even find them because they just don't appear anymore. So you
can imagine that the shell challenge with like, thousands of entries on the gallery hashtag
is probably not gonna work so well, but I really did my best. So I guess what I'm saying is
please don't feel sad if I didn't get to yours, I swear it wasn't on purpose. And I also did a
long stream where I toured a bunch of people's shells and we did them randomly, so I did like, a
randomizer to pick people in chat, so if you want to see that, I can link that too. And like I said,
this is not my last shell challenge, don't worry. Alright, with that being said, let's
get into it. I'm gonna show you these in no particular order by the way, they're just
ones that I found and like. There's not like, a number 1 or a number 10, they're just fun. This one here is the Base Family Modern Home
by Anaire3 on the gallery. So keep in mind, this one is base game, and you can see already,
this is incredible. It's on a 40 by 30 lot, so I'm gonna go pop it in somewhere in Willow Creek and
um, are you seeing this? Are you kidding me? So when you first walk up to the house there's this
like, amazing rounded driveway and you'll see they did a lot of terrain manipulation, so we have this
pond. And it looks like it's multiple levels. We have this like, pathway curving up to the stairs.
The gate and the mailbox, like -- hello? You would never believe this is the same shell as mine, but
it is. When you look at it from top-down view, you can see this part right here is that little
two by one that I put. You can see the pointy bit, no spoilers though for the inside, let's look at
the outside first. Also the roofing they did is so incredible, it is so hard to do the roofs of shell
challenges because they're not designed to have a roof. Like usually when you build a house you sort
of build it, or at least I do, kind of imagining how the roof will look, but the shell challenge is
the opposite, it's just a box, and then you have to like, figure everything else out from there. So
it's like, backwards way that most of us build, so it's so cool to see how people see these things.
I mean look at this part right here, hello? Okay, so the back has a really big pool, they've
got like a sunken hot tub as well. I just think this kind of thing is so clever, the way they have
like used platforms to make all these different areas. I honestly cannot get over it, Also there's
like, a little playground area over here? I'm -- I just. Come on. They even made a fake garage. You
know how they did this, they sized that one up, so it looks like, normal-sized, but really it's
like, in the ground. I don't know, I'm just really impressed. So let's go inside the house. You walk
up the pathway and it takes you into this like, formal entryway where the staircase is. They also
have turned that little two by one into a little shoe coat closet. There's a side door under one
of the patios, we've got a little half bathroom. You walk into the back, this is where the living
room is. They have a little office right here, the kitchen. You might be noticing Kayla,
how do those cabinets look like that? What is that? They put a painting in front of the
cabinets to make them look like wood. That is a painting that your sims have made, off the
gallery, so it's just like, a wood texture. And they put it in front of the cabinets, so it
looks like, wood. I mean, come on. The detail on that. This is also a custom-built like shelf
piece and they actually put stuff on it. We have a dining room over here. They made like a custom
cabinet hutch by combining some pieces together. You can just tell this took them so long. They
also made a custom transom above this archway, which is so smart, I've never thought to do
this, and I really like how that looks because that's like, the short archway and they put
windows above it to look like transom windows. Also this kind of thing, like the little like,,
butler's pantry almost, is so realistic in like, fancy houses. All those YouTubers in LA
have this, you know what I mean? Okay, upstairs. Floor plan, super well done by the
way. And let's not forget, they have like, these tiny fake rooms added inside of the like,
roof pieces. So upstairs, we managed to get a little like, sitting room off of the hallway in
that roof piece. And that actually does function, it's not a real room, they didn't add
walls, it's just a roof, but it functions. They have a little toddler's bedroom,
they made like a fake changing table. Here we have a big bathroom. I love how
built-in the cabinetry looks in here too. We have this like, maybe teen's bedroom, and
they also have their own balcony and this cool sunroom spot with the desk. The parents bedroom
has an ensuite bathroom and a walk-in closet, they also have access to that balcony too.
And can we just talk about this for a second, I always complain about how short this door is,
but they put this window on top of it. We used to only have three swatches on this window, it
used to only come in these first three swatches, so I never used it, but now that this window
has all the other swatches, you could like, combine it to fit these doors in everywhere now.
It's a miracle! I'm not kidding, that has like, made my day that we can do that now. But anyway,
this house is just so cool. And like I said, you would never know it's the same shell. This
is the same orientation as my build as well, like they rotated it the same direction. I feel like
mine and this one cannot get more farther apart. Next I want to show you the Base Game
Museum of Rock by Player_Hobbit on the gallery. The description says welcome to the
Museum of Rock, currently showing the new women of rock and diversity rocks exhibits. Just how clever
is this! So you can see also, this is the same orientation as my shell as well. It's rotated the
same way, they just made the walls a lot taller, which is allowed by the way. So they've placed
this one in San Myshuno. They've got a parking lot, they have this like, courtyard space out
here. And I love the use of the guitars all sized up as decorations on the outside. And you
might be wondering like, how on earth did they do this? This build has no custom content. The
way they do these paintings is they have their sims do paint by references, these are of like,
sims singing and playing music, to make like, big custom portraits. And then they size them up,
so this is just a medium painting from reference, and then the rest of these are also paint
by reference, but it's paint by reference of custom content which doesn't count as
CC. So this build has no CC on the gallery, and look at how cool! Look at how cool this
looks, they made custom signs this way. The detail as well on just like, the city aspect
of this with the landscaping and like, the fire hydrant and the signs. It just is so realistic.
So when you first walk inside, it's one big open room, like a lot of museums are. And it is
covered in all those custom paintings again. This is so interesting because you can just imagine how
long it would have taken to like, dress up all of these sims and get all the angles right to get all
these paintings because they have them everywhere, all around the outside, and they're all different
as well. Like this is just such a cool idea for a museum, and it's functional too because your sims
can come here, they can like, paint, they can use the bonsai tree, they can play chess. There's
like, a little gift shop sort of area. They turned that tiny weird bump out into a bathroom,
which makes so much sense. Spot the pride flags by the way. And then upstairs, they've got another
exhibit. Oh, and it's just so cool. It's just -- I was obsessed with this one. Major props to the
creator. Another thing is that I hadn't really considered using platforms to like, separate
exhibits yet in museums. And they did that so well with like, all the weird little bump-out
pieces in this building, to raise them up and then rope them off like it's an intentional exhibit.
It looks like they wanted this build to always be this shape. Like I feel like you wouldn't be able
to tell that they were stuck with my weird shell, it looks like it was supposed to look this
way, and I just think that's so cool, so. Huge fan of this one, and it's also base game,
by the way. They are both base game so far. Next, I want to show you the Autumn Gingerbread
house by aleachii on the gallery, and this is actually one of my Twitch mods. If you know
PoriumG, my Twitch mod Gabby. They always do this, they always break out the good ones. I had to show
you though, because they actually made two. They made a base game version of my shell, and this
gingerbread version. How could I not show this to you? I mean, look at all their builds -- anyway,
sorry. So here it is, notice the landscaping please, for one second. Obviously, the main
building here is the shell. And this one, believe it or not, is also rotated the same direction
mine is. It's the same front of the house as mine and the other ones, but you would never be able to
tell. I mean, this looks completely different than that museum. Same house, same shell. I don't know
where to start with this, okay, so peep the pond over here. I was obsessed with this. Some people
are just so much better at manipulating terrain than I am, and that I think is a key feature of
a lot of these really cool builds is that the terrain is just so well done. Like, this house is
on layers, with the fencing and the balconies and stuff, and it just looks so cool. Also like, these
rounded pieces, the way that she makes the round fence is by taking one of those round floor pieces
and then putting a couple of them in to like, have it keep rounding around. And it just looks so
cool! We also have this little parking space for some fancy cars, we have a greenhouse on the side
of the build. The detail and the placement of each of these individual debug rocks too, to make this
like, curved path. The double wide picnic table. Yeah, this house is very autumnal, I iove it.
Also, here we have a fake tree house, like playhouse thing for some kids. I mean like, come
on. Come on. That is so cute. The tree disappears when you get up close, but look at how cute it is
with the towel and everything laid down. The side yard has some garden planters, there's pumpkins
everywhere. There's just a lot to take in out here, but when you actually go inside the house,
you first walk into a hallway, which is like, so cozy. This is my perfect sized hallway entry.
There's a little toilet right off the doorway. We have another bathroom with a shower and a sink
right here we've got like, some shoes and a shelf and a coat rack, like classic things you'd have in
an entryway. And then you walk into the kitchen, which is such an interesting use of my stupid
space, like I made this horrible shape, and this is a really well laid out kitchen given what you
had to work with. And it just feels so realistic, like the pet bowls on the mat, and this
amazing dining room! Come on, with the lights? Off the kitchen there's another bathroom, this
one's a lot bigger. And there's so much detail in the shelves and stuff. I kind of always forget
this item even exists, with the swabs and cotton balls, but that's perfect. To the left from the
front door, we have that living room, which is also very nicely decorated for fall with all the
pumpkins and stuff. We have this little office, and d'you know what? I love the wood paneling in
here with like, the paintings and the boat. Like, it just -- it comes together really well. There
is a bedroom downstairs off that living room, and then upstairs, we've got another three
bedrooms. So you can see when you first walk into the hallway, it's like a whole second
sitting room, and look at the fire logs! Like, ready for the fireplace. And the decorations on
the mantel -- I don't have enough patience to decorate this well on the mantel, but that looks
so good. There is a really small bathroom upstairs for everyone to share. I assume this is like,
the parents bedroom because it's the biggest, and they have like a little office nook right
off of it. And then we have two more kids rooms, this one for a little toddler, and then this one
for maybe like, a teen or something, I'm not sure. Oh, I just love this house. There's
so many detailed items placed, like you can just see it. And all the detail
on the roof pieces all individually placed, in the landscaping. Like, can you just imagine
how long some of these builds would have taken? Next I want to show you the Spooky Shell Challenge
by Melanieee_Drake, this one uses just the base game and Cottage Living. It's a cozy farm for
a small family. So um, take a second, take it all in. Again, with the level of detail, and also
the terrain manipulation. So this is on multiple levels as well. They used a lot of plants to cover
up like, the terrain when they've raised it, which looks so cool with all the lavender growing out of
it. And we have this river through the whole lot, and there's like, a little old water mill thing.
We've got this wedding arch area set up with the hay bales and a chicken coop. Also, look at this
amazing gazebo, I like -- the amount of detail here, look at that. Also, over here is where the
cows are. They have like, their own little well and everything. So when you first walk up, you
have to cross this bridge, which is functional, by the way, it's a real bridge. You can cross over
it and then it takes you this way up some more stairs, we've got some crops growing over here.
And then this is the actual front of the house, and I just love how weird it is. I mean that as
a compliment, like it feels so appropriate to the style of the house. This one's actually rotated
differently, you can see. This was my front of the house, this side. So they've rotated the
lot. And I love the like, thatched roof with the green windows -- ugh, it's cute. Okay, so when you
actually walk in, you first enter to like a little entryway space and the living room. There's a big
staircase, and then we have these red sofas -- aw, it's just so nice! And then off of that, there's
a little office space that also leads into a bathroom. And then we also have the kitchen
and dining space, okay, can we just acknowledge how good all these windows look? Like, the wall
of windows is so cool. The dining space with like, the cottage-y stone walls. And the size of this
kitchen with that giant island is like, a dream. Upstairs, we've got a few bedrooms. We have this
big hallway space that you first walk into with a desk, kind of like an office nook. We have
what I assume is the parents bedroom up here, and then they also have an ensuite bathroom.
And a huge balcony to come sit on. And then one of the kids rooms is in this space, they also
have an ensuite bathroom and their own balcony, so this kid is a winner. But they said in the
description that one of the other kids lives in this area, so maybe it's like the older kid has
their whole own little space out here! Now that is cool. I'd be a little bit scared to walk to the
bathroom at night, but it's cool. I just can't get over how different all of these lots are,
like you would never know it's the same shell. Now I want to show you Oasis Paradise by
Marleenh20. This one is also base game. I just thought the style of this house was so cool,
like with the overhanging platforms and stuff going over the lot. I really like the matching
wood on the bottom and top of that wall, I just think it looks so cool. So when you first walk up,
it is also on a supersuper high foundation, and we have like this pond sort of space down by it.
And they've kind of surrounded the lot in rocks, which makes it look so good. And then you go into
the back, and as promised, we've got this like, oasis paradise with all the landscaping and
stuff. This build as well looks like you would never know that it was a shell challenge, every
single piece of it looks so intentional. Like, you would never know that it's my fault they
had to do some of this because of my stupid box. I love how the balcony looks, like the back just
looks so cool. You can see downstairs in the back, they've kind of turned that weird bump-out
into space for a bar and a grill, and we have a dining table, and some music, and there's a
pool with some loungers. We got this sitting area, and the front door is actually on the side
of the house. They also did that thing with the paintings, to make like a fake house number.
Also these two plants together is just so nice. So when you first walk into the house, they've
got like, a pretty formal entryway. They also, you'll see, have a lot of custom paintings
in here. Again, it's not custom content, it's like paintings of custom content. You can
find a lot of things like this, like sets of it, on the gallery. This one you can see is made by
xXSerena_27Xx, they've got some more in this room by fruitloops40. But off the entryway is this
big bathroom, and then you enter into like, a living room/staircase/office space kind of
great room, almost. They've got a fireplace, they have a huge TV, and then through this next
archway is the kitchen, and I just loved the like, placement of the island. It seems like a really
well done use of a sort of oddly shaped space, you know? They kind of had this weird room
to work with because of my weird shell, and they made it work really well. And they've
also placed a bunch of these cabinets, but put them backwards, so they're all wood. This is just
that regular base game cabinet, you can see, but they put two facing each other so it looks like
a solid wood piece. They sort of snuck the fridge into that nook, this is that two by one weird nook
I was talking about. They put it for the fridge, and that looks so intentional. And then through
this hallway leads you into the dining room, which is also very fancy, I love all the
windows in here. That's like, my favorite part. Upstairs, we managed to get three bedrooms, so
they have this big hallway and then through that takes you into the parents room, and they've
kind of got these built-in like, cabinetry to make nightstands all along the sides. Similar
thing in this kid's room with the built-ins. This whole house looks very custom because of that,
like a lot of houses in real life that are of this style might have that sort of like, custom
built-in cabinetry and I like that they tried to mimic that in The Sims, it's kinda cool. So we
have this awesome like, long bathroom, which is so nice. They made this like, fancy fake cabinet
too. Another bathroom up here, and then we also have that huge balcony from earlier. I just --
I am obsessed with the exterior of this house, I think the front of this place looks so cool.
Just like, look at that for a second, isn't that amazing? I love the roof, the roof is like, by far
my favorite part. I need to learn how to do that. Now I want to show you Scandinavian Base Game Home
by LinnBeatrice. A lot of these are base game, I didn't even do that on purpose, but like, look at
how good this is! So here we have it, you can see they've also done a ton of terrain manipulation,
but look at this. There's like, a huge driveway that leads up into a garage in the middle of the
house, and the garage is made with little window pieces and curtains! Curtains to mimic the metal
part.That's so smart, I've never seen that and it looks so good. All around the house, there's a lot
of river, this is like kind of a theme of these, a lot of people put a lot of like, rivers and
waters and ponds on their builds. They kind of have this like, dock, in the back with a lot of
seating.There's lots of decks and patio space, you can see they have this one on the table and
a grill. We've got this pool over here. This is a fun work around the shell challenge because
this is just a foundation piece and a pool, but it looks like a whole separate building, you
know, so they've kind of like, added some visual interest to that side of the area without cheating
on the shell challenge. So when you first walk up, you can see that you go off part of the driveway
and then you go into this room with the sliding glass door over here on this patio space. And
you enter straight into the kitchen hallway area, and I love the use of like, all the black and the
like, tannish wood color. There's a bathroom right off the front door, look at these mirrors combined
to make this. This is actually a framed photo and they put that on top of the mirror so
it looks like a framed mirror, a custom one, but it's just those big glass-paneled mirrors
and the photo. The kitchen is a great shape, I just, I loved this. They made like a
custom door as well, putting a window there into this dining/living/great room.
The garage, fully furnished and functional, aside from the fact that the cars are fake, but
it looks so cool! I mean, that is a tight squeeze, good luck getting into this car, you know what
I mean. Like, uh, not my problem though. Because you can't drive cars in The Sims, these are just
for show. They're collector's items, you know? And then upstairs, we managed to get a few
bedrooms in here, there's actually three bedrooms upstairs. This floor plan is so hard to figure out
because I have this weird pointy room that you can see. That is fully my fault, but they managed
to make this work really well, and they made the hallway kind of useful by putting in like, some
gym equipment. But there's like, a teen's room, I assume the parents room because they have
a balcony. We've got two bathrooms up here, one really fancy one with like, a jacuzzi tub. A
shared kid's room, I mean just all in all, super nice space. I loved the garage though, that is
my favorite part. Like, that garage is so clever. Now I want to show you the Simsie Shell Spa,
going back to another community lot. This one's by SJJM_88, and they built this huge spa for
Windenburg. Okay, and just look at this for a second, I love this one. I'm just obsessed
with how they've laid out the side of this building to make this amazing outdoor space for
the spa. So let's talk about it for a second, they used these concrete mats to make like,
a fancy walkway, we've got this amazing sign by the fountain. The use of this, the
pebble flooring, in the fountain is so good. We've got a pool, we've got the loungers,
we have the chairs, we've got a yoga class with some music. This sitting area in this
like, custom gazebo -- I'm gonna steal this idea with the glass roof and these panels, like
that just looks so cool. Also, these guys sized up off the side, I've never used that item in
my life, but that looks so cool. And again, this by the way, is the same orientation
as the first few builds including mine, this is the same front that I had with that weird
two by one piece, and it's completely different. They also did some layering of windows, they put
these tiny windows on top of some bigger ones to make like, some custom-looking pieces. Also
let's not forget this fountain area over here, I -- this part was really weird, this like little
area that kind of overhang off the side, but they managed to make it look so intentional. I don't
know, I just -- I'm obsessed with this one. Okay, so when you first walk in, you walk straight
into a fountain that you would then walk around. And they did a lot with like, this zen garden
space inside and the bar, we have this like, kind of private massage area in the back.
When you come over to the left over here, they've got like a little sitting area with some
magazines, like kind of a waiting area, I assume. We also have the bathroom, which has some
like, kind of sneaky showers and some toilets, and this is a really nicely laid out space, in
my opinion, it's very realistic. Also, the sauna is off the bathroom, which makes so much sense I
feel like in real life. I always have a hard time placing my saunas in The Sims, but this one, this
one makes sense. Okay, and then you go upstairs, and up here we have a lot more like, massage
chair and table type things. So there's like, another sitting area, plus some of these massage
chairs to get your nails done or your, you know, your feet rubbed or whatever. And I just think
this gravel with the rocks and the cactus plants looks so cool. I don't know, I was really
pleased with how this was laid out. I just thought this one was so like, 1) functional,
but also realistic. I just, I loved this. Next, I want to show you Cabin in the Desert by
trixi506. I just loved this. Like, the rocks on the front blend in so well with the rocks behind
it. Like, the gallery image of this one is so good. It looks so natural. Unfortunately for the
roomies household, uh, they're gonna have to die. Oh, I might have to get rid of them. Goodbye my
friends. Okay, so just take a second to take that one in. I feel like I might need to bring a sim
here to get the full effect because you'll see, they also put in all of these ponds, the spawners.
So there's like, fish in this pond, you can fish in the pond. There's ducks in this
one. We got dragonflies by this one, tadpoles over here. Like, they've really made this
look so lively, and I just am obsessed with it. I can't believe what I'm looking at, you know? And
the water goes all the way around. In the back, there's a bunch of balconies and an outdoor space
to sit in which is nice because I guess, you know, most of the lot is taken up by rocks and
water, so you don't have much of a yard, but you've got some beautiful balconies. Also
this glass roof and all the glass windows, I just thought that was so cool. I feel like I daydream
of coming to visit a place like this, you know? Anyway, notice again the water and like,
the multiple levels that they've done. I don't know how to do this, but it always look
so cool. I need to like, take notes on this, so that I can pull it off next. But you walk
up this kind of winding staircase, you know, and then when you come into the house, you walk
into this big sort of entrance hall with some nice stairs, there's a little balcony right off the
entry which is super nice. And then to the right is the like, kitchen and dining area, and can I
just say, I always forget about these little guys, but that is so cute. This was part of like,
a collectible event that they did a while ago with Jasmine Holiday, so these are in
debug. But they've got a bunch of them, and look at the little decorations
they put up! Because it was like, a Halloween sort of themed shell. Obviously
like, all the shells aren't Halloween-themed, but that is why I did the shell challenge. So it's
fun to see like, the little touches of decor in some of these places. There's a bathroom in the
hall, they also use this swatch of that like, plant wallpaper. And I've never used the gray one,
but it looks really good. Do you know what I mean? We've got a couple living spaces too, one like
more formal one in this sitting area by the windows, so you can, you know, look at the rocks.
And then we also have this TV area. This thing, this is a cat from debug, so they put like a
fake cat sitting on the chair. And then upstairs, we've got a couple of rooms. We have this nice
hallway, I think this upstairs layout is really well done. I had a hard time with mine, but
I've shown you a lot of really good ones today, I think that people did well with the floor plans
in this house. There's a lot of decoration in the hallways, like a lot of clutter and stuff.
To the left we've got a little bathroom, also with lots of clutter with like, all of the
nail polish, and the hair tools, and we've got the toddler potty next to the big potty. This first
kid's room is very yellow, also very cluttered, like lots of detail in the decorations.
You can tell it looks really lived in, and like people enjoy this space and actually
play in it. I love the shelf next to the bed, same thing with that kind of like, built-in vibe
they've gone for. And also the curtains by the bed is pretty cool, it kind of gets that like,
four-poster, but maybe a bit more simple kind of idea. Then we have the parents bedroom. A lot of
people had the like, main bedroom in this like, weird pointy room that I made. I've noticed a lot
of people did that in like, all of the shells. The parents have an ensuite which is huge, and
their own private balcony. And then this is the youngest kid's room, the description said
that it looks like a unicorn threw up in there, and you know what? I appreciate and
support that choice. This is real nice. Anyway, I just -- I was obsessed with this build, I thought it was amazing with all the detail
on the outside, so I wanted to show you. We've got another farm this one, is by
RetroSimsYT, it's also just called Spooky Shell Challenge because that's what my shell was
called, but they did a speed build on YouTube, so I'm gonna link that down below if you want
to watch it. Oh, I just, I just love a good farmhouse. So. You can see the whole lot is
like, very detailed. Also, all of these fence pieces are from debug, so they've made like, a
completely custom fence. So we have this like, huge entryway to the lot, which I never use this
item, I feel like I should try. But you walk in, they've got like this truck with the hay and
stuff in the back, they use a lot of the debug mushrooms and landscaping from Cottage Living.
I loved how this farm area looks, how they've layered the plants together with like, them kind
of crisscrossed. I thought that was super clever. Also all the terrain paint is so well done. We
have, of course, a pond. With loads of life in it, when we're in game, you would see all these
ducks and the fireflies and the dragonflies and the fish and everything. Over here to the
left, they've actually made a garage which is very realistic for a farm like this. And they
put these huge doors, these ones are actually from Snowy Escape, and they work super well as
garage doors. I've seen a lot of people do that. Going further along, we've got some more plants,
this time are some trees. And they made this greenhouse with these windows, and they put like
fake doors. This is just a wall like this, with some windows on it, and they just left it open so
it looks like open doors. I just thought this was awesome. These are also room dividers, but with
the TOOL mod to, you know, do this with them. Over here is a fake rabbit hutch! Look at that.
Look at that. Isn't that so fun? We've got some cows over here. Back this way some more
tractor pieces, some more crops. I mean, the detail on the outside of this lot alone is
just amazing. So when you actually walk up, it's got pink. And I love the pink shutters. And it's
just like the right amount of weird, and I mean that in a very nice way. Like this kind of house
is kind of whimsical looking, and I love it. Okay, so this is the same front as mine by the way, you
can see they've got that same two by one piece right there. And there's a big sort of wrap-around
porch area, but when you actually walk up, you come into this entryway. They have a little
side door, and the staircase in here. To the left is a huge kitchen with so much clutter and detail.
We've got this little dining room, sort of, right here. This is kind of similar to the layout that
I did in my house, but just like, a completely different style. I also had the kitchen over
here, mine had like a big hallway in this space. I had an office down here. This was my dining
room, like it's just so funny to see how people split theirs up. We've got a bathroom down here,
the detail and like the radiators and the clutter, like they stacked the basket on top of the towels.
This kind of thing just excites me. And then in here, we've got a big fireplace again with some
seating next to it, we've got the little TV area. Upstairs, they managed to fit in like, two
bedrooms and an office. So they have like, twin toddlers living here, the toddlers have a
balcony off their room, but the parents also have access to the balcony from their room. Parents
have an ensuite, and there's like a little office upstairs too. I just -- I think this house
is great. I can't get over the lot, I want to play in this lot, you know, I want to like, come
play with a farm family and live here. Alright, and the last one I want to show you today is the
Autumn Leaves shell by SBartlett87. SBartlett always knocks it out of the park with the shell
challenges. They do one like every time. And I actually toured this one randomly on my stream. So
I mentioned that I was doing random shell tours on stream, like randomizing people's names like
out of a hat to tour their shells on stream, and this is one of the ones I pulled up randomly.
I feel like this autumn build is perfect for the last one of this autumn shell tours, you know?
So take a second, take it all in. Same thing with the river around the side, so many people do
that and it looks so good. They've got some like, custom bridges going on. Your sims can actually
walk across that. Over here, I love this little garden area kind of like snuck off in the corner.
This seems like something that I could implement in my builds too, which I try to like, take note
of things that I think are interesting ideas and like, remember, hm, maybe I should try that,
and I like this. I might not be able to pull off the river, but I can pull off a little sneaky
garden corner, you know? All the pumpkins too, you can just imagine how long it took to place
all these things. So on the outside, over here we've got like, a little patio space. It's got a
table, and a grill, and a flower arranging table, and some dog toys, like everything. Around
the side, we've got some more patio space, this one's got like a chess table, and a rocking
chair, and an easel. Back here we've got a barn, we've got some more trees to plant. A swing set,
some more farm area over here. These are like, fake, right? But you could obviously, you know,
grow real plants there if you wanted to. We've got like, a two-story balcony thing going on.
I mean, I just -- come on. Also, this is a fake barn. So they also tried to make the house look
like, a bit bigger by adding in that fake barn because obviously, you can't add rooms to a shell
challenge, so that was kind of smart I thought. Alright, inside though. Oh my goodness. So when
you first walk in, straight into an entryway with the staircase. We also have the laundry
right here, which I thought was super clever. You almost like, don't even realize it's there,
and then it's like this super functional area. Down the side, we've also got a lot of
platforms in here. They've got these beautiful doors, which take you into like, an
office/bedroom sort of combo, and this bathroom, which is just so nicely decorated, I love the
color scheme. This one I couldn't get over, I just -- I love how they tried to split the space
because you kind of have this oddly shaped room, like how are you going to furnish it? And they use
these windows from Snowy Escape to make these fake dividers to kind of get two separate spaces.
Also, lots of custom paintings in this house, you'll see, that's kind of a trend around a lot of
these shell builds. When you go off to the side, we have this open floor plan kitchen/living/dining
area. The living room is so cozy looking, the kitchen is incredible, I love the shape of it, the
island is huge. Like, this is just so nice. Also, please note, double ovens. We have the round
dining table. All these paintings are so nice, they managed to sneak the door to the outside
into that weird little two by one space that I put in the shell. Also, I never use this huge
window, that looks so good there. Upstairs, we've got three bedrooms. I thought the layout of
their bathrooms was notable because they managed to sneak two bedrooms into this really weird like,
S-shape they had left over, and I thought that was super smart, like it's so hard to fit rooms into
these tiny tight corners in a shell challenge, but they managed to make two bathrooms there. And we
have like, three sort of small bedrooms upstairs. We got this one kid's bedroom right here, very
cluttered, full of toys to play with. We got a big parents bedroom. Another like, parents or
teens room, maybe this is the parents room because it's got an ensuite. I don't know! We got three
bedrooms upstairs, another one downstairs. I just, I'm obsessed with this house. I love the solar
panels too. There's a lot of personality in these. Now I could just go on and on about shell builds
forever, but I won't keep you for too long, I showed you 10. I will have all the names from
the gallery of the users and the lots that I just showed off listed down below in order, so you can
find them if you want. And again, if I didn't show off yours in this video, please don't feel bad.
It's just not possible to show them all. And also don't feel bad about how your build looks based
on these because listen, I literally build in The Sims for a living and I feel like a loser when I
look at my houses compared to these. Some people are just on another level, you know? And that's
okay. But let me know, should I do another shell challenge soon? Because I had a lot of fun with
this, I think I might do one in like, December. Maybe early December. And I'll also have some past
shell challenges linked down below too if you like to watch shell tour videos, I've got loads of
them. It's just fun to look at pretty builds. And with that being said, I will
catch you all tomorrow. Bye everybody. Oh my goodness, I am so sorry this video took so
long to get out. I had to record it twice because I lost the footage the first time. Isn't that
lovely? Don't you just love when that happens? [ JAZZY OUTRO MUSIC ]
