Hi guys welcome back to our channel, the number one place for people who love:
design art and all things creative. i'm jacqueline and i'm an interior architect and designer here
at D & B. in today's video i'll be building and designing a house in the sims 4. yes you
heard that correctly just to give you guys some context i used to play the sims a lot as a kid
and i'm sure weeks went by where all i did was just play that game but as i got older you know
i just kind of stopped playing because i guess you know life happened however over the christmas
break laszlo asked me why don't we play sims so that was actually the first time i'd played in
years which leads me up to the past two weeks where we took a couple weeks off for laszlo's
birthday where i fell back into playing the sims and yes you're not crazy even when i
have time off from designing real people's homes i design them in games instead yeah so
if you're interested to see how my house turned out let's jump in okay so let's load up the game
so last year at christmas i designed this house which i kind of wanted to be in like a spanish
revival style and even though it's huge it's actually only one bedroom but there's a rooftop
terrace a living space kitchen diner pretty much anything you'd expect with the house
so this time i think i want to move location and build something in oasis springs and i think i'll
choose this plot of land here because i want a wider house rather than a square plot like before
i think i want to create a house that has a mid-century modern look just because i really
love that style and also i think that oasis springs has been based off of palm springs in
california which i just love so that's the kind of vibe we're going for okay so first i think rather
than build the walls i'm going to actually put in the pool and then build around that
now what i love about mid-century modern homes is that they have lots of peculiar shapes and angles
so i'm going to go crazy with the walls and the roof shapes
and obviously if this was real life i would be doing the floor plan site analysis etc
before doing anything on the computer but i'm just gonna wing it because that's what we do
now where do i want the entrance i think a side door could be quite cool oh my god why
does this not allow me to add steps by the way you're gonna have to bear with me because i'm
definitely not an expert at placing and building things in the sims ah okay so google tells me you
have to raise the house so that you can add stairs okay thank you google oh now my door's done okay
so i'm thinking it'd be nice if this part was lowered so that then there can be the exit to
the pool and patio area okay this is turning out to be hell how do i connect these two walls
okay google saved me again
now i'm trying to put the french doors here but i have no idea what i'm doing clearly
okay now again i googled how to fix his gaps but we are moving people
yeah i think that looks okay for now
i think it would be really nice to fill this wall up with windows sled and light but
most importantly give us those pool views
now a very common design feature in mid-century homes are these large stone fireplaces
and i'm going to put one in the center of the space to section
what will be the living room from the kitchen
like i said before i really love the angular nature of these type of homes
so i'm absolutely going to add multiple shed roofs to this house
i want the first floor to be mainly roof but i do want the master bedroom to be there as well
so i'm going to start building that i also want there to be a void where the staircase
is just to open up the house and make the staircase and chimney more of a feature
it's hard to build a room on this part that's on split levels how do i do that
oh
okay i've kind of managed it but i can't connect the walls so
i'm just going to chuck some windows in these gaps
oh it doesn't want to fill that gap okay i'm just gonna have to overlay it
this is messy as hell oh my god done is better than perfect but seriously if this was real life
i would obviously not do that and that's why i love the sims because we can do this kind of stuff
okay so at the moment i only have two rules on the house so i'm gonna start to add more of those in
i think i want this part to be a flat roof just so that
it doesn't look too angular and we you know got to keep that balance
mid-century modern homes are actually really cleverly designed i find
in the sense that they are perhaps one of the most prominent movements to actually let in sunlight
so i'm going to go through the house and add windows pretty much anywhere i find room
yes
and at the moment anyone can just walk around the back of the house and
we don't want strangers there really so i'm gonna add the fence there and
i'm hoping to find something that looks like breeze blocks
now i want the majority of the ground floor to be open plan but i think that there should
be an extra bedroom maybe a guest bedroom down there and also a downstairs bathroom
okay now that we have a solid building that's been established i'm gonna furnish all of the
rooms choose the wall and floor finishes and i'll be back to you with the final result
all right this is the final design for the mid-century build
i really like how it turned out my favorite part is the entrance actually
i love the pops of color and i think it's very palm springs sorry sorry i mean oasis springs
okay let me see if i can walk you guys through the living room so this is the entrance way
the downstairs toilet and you'll see that i've kind of stuck with a retro aesthetic but i have
tried to modernize this as well because no one wants that granny interior i've
also just changed the time of day so that you guys can see the true coloring within the space
you know you can see lots of classic mid-century furniture and artwork
okay so let me show you the downstairs guest room
and i kind of went for like a beverly hills hotel theme here you know with the palm wallpaper
pink and black and white and i have to admit once i discovered how to download mods
i kind of went a bit crazy and by the way i've linked all the websites that i've used down below
there's a little dressing area around the corner and i really
appreciate this marguerite lamp i want one
i try to make the living room a place that's cozy even though there's so many windows
and it is open plan and the fireplace acts as both a focal point and also
as a divider between the kitchen and the living space
so this is the kitchen and again i try to keep this mid-century but just modernize
it a little bit more and i think these glass block windows really reference that 60-70 style
and for the dining room because it's such a small space i really wanted to go
all out with the retro colors and patterns in this area
okay so now leading out into the patio and pool area
i wanted this to be like a classic palm springs pool and with lots of bright colors
so there's a bar an entertainment space that's tucked away around the corner
just a nice space to drink cocktails and watch the sun go down
okay let me go back inside the house and i'll show you the rest
the next thing i should show you is the void that houses the staircase this was
actually really hard to build and also to make everything different materials was bloody hard and
if you know you know but i like how it's now a feature of the house so on the mezzanine there
is a small reading area and i'm just realizing that this wall is in the middle of a window let's
ignore that and to the left here is a small desk space just in case my sims want to work for once
okay let's go into the master bedroom i went for a very kind of me look which is mid-century meet
scandinavian there's a funky partition with a dressing room and a very groovy hanging chair
and on the other side of the room there's an ensuite bathroom with
pretty much all marble everything
okay i'll just show you what it looks like with the lights on as well
i'm not sure how to use the lights properly because i turn them on and they don't want
to come on so let me just go into build mode and i'll show you guys that way
so
i mean on the whole i really like the final result let me know what you guys think of
my mid-century style palm springs house i really commend sims creators because that takes time to
do and it took me a lot longer than i thought but mainly that's because i don't know how to
navigate properly and i don't know what certain buttons do so there's that but it really does take
a level of skill and patience to build something in the game so shout out to all you sims creators.
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