@Kekeland Exactly this. They are willing to give us a few bits if it's easily created or will help sell a pack but they never take it all the way. Look at when they did the stairs update. It was nice but still lacked so much basic functionality, including steep/shallow and spiral stairs.
Probably the same team who makes levels update are working on it. They could probably easilt release these as separate object, but they maybe are working on different way to make a spiral stairs? Bigger question is why we don't have ladders yet - when we have kinda functional ladders in Island Living, that go into the sea. But I feel like we may get it this year. Probably with next EP that is coming soon. Cause what else they would be working on? Other than actually finishing levels update.
As a Sims 2 player, I hadn't noticed there weren't elevators either. They were introduced in Open for Business expansion pack, because they figured you'd need elevators for shops I suppose.
Happens all the time where we live (Vietnam). Probably other Asian countries too. Go to Google Maps and walk through some of the Vietnamese streets - it's really interesting!
My apartment is 3rd floor and I can barely stand carrying stuff (moving out next week because it's technically campus housing but meh). Couldn't imagine living in a taller building and dealing with that. I'm really excited because my apartment next year is first floor.
RE: narrowness in Amsterdam. I was taught in my art history class that the width (or lack therof) of these townhouse originated from the maximum length of timber beams. In medieval times these house only had a front and back room, with no interior weight bearing walls. So the width of the house was dictated by how much the timber could span without sagging. Later on when people began living in smaller rooms this was no longer an issue, but by then all building plots had already been divided. All the wider canal houses you see in Amsterdam were built buy super rich merchants who could afford to buy multiple adjecent lots.
Our tour guide in Amsterdam never went into the details of the timber or that but she did mention that it was too expensive for people to build outwards so instead they built upwards with the narrow tall houses and pointed out how some were kind of leaning and stuff it’s just a beautiful and super cool city. Your comment was so interesting!
Amy M when i visited Amsterdam I went to a canal museum and they went into detail about why the houses were built a certain way, they rent to tilt when the wooden support beams begin rotting. They lean forward for historical reasons, there’s usually a hook at the top of the house that allowed for heavy items to be hoisted to the top floor rather than carrying it through the house so the angle the house is leaning will prevent whatever is being hoisted up from hitting the building.
re: kitchens on upper floors: in the US that's called a "reverse floor plan" and I've seen them mostly in beach houses. In that specific case its so that the kitchen/living/dining space has the best views of the water/scenery bc that's where you'll spend time and entertain while the bedrooms have "worse" views since they're for sleeping. Idk why they do them in england tho
It's really not popular at all in the UK outside of fancy architectural houses. I don't know anyone with a kitchen on the first floor (called second floor in US?), they're all on the ground floor. In the unique Grand Designs style houses, I think it's often to get a good view from the kitchen-dining area, and just because it's 'cool'.
@@Pergolesi1736 yeah, I'm from Scotland and having the kitchen on the ground floor allows any heat to warm downstairs and travel upstairs instead of losing it and wasting money. It's also super common to have a wood burning stove in rural areas of Scotland that acts as central heating as well as an oven/stove and they're always on the ground floor
Rachael Christie yeah i live in rural wales and we have an aga that heats the whole ground floor. I don’t think ive ever seen a kitchen upstairs outside grand designs😂
I’m English and the reason we sometimes put are kitchens on the 2nd our 3rd floor is for the heat and the view. Also it’s a trendy thing to do in your home at the moment. Stay safe.
Watched 47 seconds of this, went and built my own with the 3 tile 4 story under 100 tiles! I have 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, with an added laundry area. I'm super excited to see how you did yours! (I didn't watch your first because I didn't want to take any of your stair ideas or layout ideas. I wanted to challenge myself). Thank you for the fun build idea! I had a blast!
This is just the build my house challenge. I live in a five story townhouse condo that's super tiny. The kitchen is on a different floor to the living room etc lol
You must be a professional stair climber by now Everybody in quarantine is worried about how they’re gonna exercise meanwhile you can get it just by living in your house
Where do you live and is that common in your area? I live in Poland and we have tall buildings with no elevators but not this high apartments :P We do have a house which is considered the thinnest house in the world (92 centimetres (3.02 ft) at its thinnest point and 152 centimetres (4.99 ft) at its widest) but it's not common at all!
I thought the quarantine would allow me more time to play Sims, but I have more university work than when I was actually at school ahhh. I wanna renovate every apartment. And fix Del Sol valley. Ahhhh
The whole upside down layout (kitchen and living room upstairs) is often used in plots of land where there is a really good view that would be technically wasted in a bedroom as the majority of the time you spend in there will be sleeping whereas if your living space is upstairs, you can take advantage of the view whilst awake.
Don’t know what UK grand designs you’ve been watching but the standard UK house the kitchen is on the ground floor. I would hate a kitchen on any other floor! Maybe grand designs are just trying to be trendy aha. Great house build though!
Hey could I use the shell of the two townhouses for a rags to riches where the sim kinda lives in the alley between two wealthy townhouses in a tent near the dumpsters.
@@basicbrittani yh tbh I'm not really sure why I was asking. I'm British so to try and sound polite while saying stuff imma do I just naturally pose it as a question... Don't ask
I know the feeling!!!... ended up downloading a maxis match CC version to avoid any further frustration and it looks and works perfectly! (Except for the missing animation of course when they get in the top bed).
This reminds me of my best friend's cousin's place in Amsterdam, which was soooo tiny but very lovely. The stairs they had going to the roof patio were exactly what you would need in this build. The stairs pulled down (like an attic ladder) and the "door" leading to the patio was a domed skylight that you just pushed open and voila! you were outside! It saved sooo much space in the house.
Interesting, when I lived in UK, literally all the houses I lived in (or visited) had the kitchen on the ground floor... Don't remember a place where the kitchen would be anywhere higher than that.
That is the way the vast majority of UK houses are. There is a trend though, among new builds and remodels to put the kitchen one floor up. James watching shows like Grand Designs is fine but they most definitely don't represent the reality of UK housing.
In regards to the bed problem, I figured out something that works a majority of the time for me when trying to get my sim to scoot over to the other side. Rather than clicking the bed and telling your sim to sleep there, assign the part of the bed you'd like your sim to sleep on and then click the icon located beside the energy meter on your sims needs. I found when doing this the sim was more likely to scoot over to their side unless they were extremely exhausted.
Where I live we call these alley way homes "spite houses" there is a whole story behind it. But the short version is the first one was built to spite their neighbor. I cant speak for the entire world but most 3 story homes have the kitchen on the second floor around this way. I've never really put much thought into why the 2nd and not the 1st but i suppose it because the front door is usually on the first floor so that is where the living space would be located (the heat isnt really a concern cause everyone has AC). Also you get better light the higher up and most folks like alot of natural light in their kitchen area.
You usually put kitchens downstairs, cause you usually put bedrooms on top, as they are more personal space. Where kitchens often are representative room, especially if you don't have separated dinner or living room. Then goes the temperature difference - as you often use kitchen as storage room for many foods, if you don't have specific pantry in the house. And a lot food items need to be in cool and shaded place. Then goes history of technological advances - as not only fireplace was nicer to be built on the bottom so other rooms would get hotter from chimney, but also you needed to bring coal/wood and fresh water to the kitchen to cook. It would be not only inconvenient but also dangerous, considering many staircases were not made evenly. Also bottom level often was walk-through and floor was either stone, ground etc. so it is more logical to walk in your boots in kitchen than in your bedroom. Then goes the house plan in general - kitchen usually should be on the same level as place where you eat, so you have to accommodate already two-four rooms on specific level (again convenience and safety). And bedrooms and other personal areas also usually should be located together, cause why not. Then last thing that kinda is linked to what I said before - kitchens often use the biggest amounts of water (especially if they include laundry room), so it is still more convenient to put it on the bottom, so you wouldn't have to pump a lot of water through plumbing (I mean still it wouldn't be hard to do, and we do have bathrooms on top levels, but mixed with other reasons - it just adds to the list).
when you're a quarter Dutch, you've lived in the Netherlands all your life and an Australian man teaches you the reason why Amsterdam canal houses are so narrow... I feel very uncultered about my own culture 😭😂
Higher floor kitchens are usually implemented as a safety precaution for fires. Because heat rises, if a fire were to break out in your kitchen it will most likely spread upwards. Having kitchens on the bottom floor would cause the fire to spread upwards to the other floors a lot easier than if it were on the top floor. I learned this in my high school, it was an eight story building and we had the kitchens and the science buildings all on the 7th floor for that exact reason.
For James: *THE ULTIMATE SIMS BUILD CHALLENGE* Rules: You must build a house for 8 sims, it can not end up looking like a box (or rectangle) and must include at least one toddler room, one child room, and one teen oriented room (use your imagination as to what that entails as far as decorations and uses are concerned). Each of those *must* be separate rooms. Your build has a total budget of $100,000-$300,000 simoleons (it must cost a minimum of $100,00 but cannot exceed $300,000) This does not include the cost of the lot which can be over budget if desired (as in the build ends up being $300,000 but the lot puts it closer to say $320,000 or something). Before starting the build, you must decide which packs you will use. You are allowed to use the base game and ONE expansion pack, ONE game pack, and TWO stuff packs. All of which must be chosen through a random generator. For each room you must spin a wheel to determine what colour to use. You may only use that colour for the entirety of the room (with the exception of bathroom or kitchen material that do not exist in said colour at which point you may use the colour you feel is closest. And doors/windows may be of normal colour and are excluded from the rules of the colour portion of this challenge). You may *not* use the colours White, Black, or Brown on the inside of the house (except as mentioned above; doors and windows). When the colour is chosen every item in that room must be made either entirely by or the majority of it is that specific colour. **If you end up using the laundry day pack you must include a laundry room and out door wash bucket and clothes line **If using seasons you must include a garden, fireplace, and thermostat **If using vampires, at least one coffin must be included and the build must have a basement or attic it can be placed in **If using island living you must place the build by a body of water **If using cats and dogs the build must be pet friendly and include items for both cats and dogs (if drawn you can build a house for six sims instead of eight) **If using movie hangout a space must be allotted for an indoor or outdoor movie theatre with a screen and enough chairs for the sims living in the house (so 8) You have to have a bin in the kitchen as well (don’t forget the bin). Hope you see this, I think this could be really fun while simultaneously challenging!!
My friend's remodeled townhouse has the kitchen on the second floor bc they wanted it to be more private/for family only and closer to the bedrooms 🤷♀️ their entire first floor is just living space (and two half baths). Really interesting how people live lol. Great build btw!
Love this house! As much as I really want to, I could never live here in real life. Mobility issues make it hard for me to get up and down stairs. Either way, adorable build! You've got some real skill for these things!
I have a window above my stove and it’s pretty easy to clean... we clean it once a week and it probably takes 15 min or less so it’s not big deal unless you don’t clean it for months
I would never want it in real life, but I do think it looks really cool and makes a really small space feel much bigger - however, my parents place has a window right behind the stove for a splashback and it's fine and easy to clean :)
if anything cleaning a mirror would be easier, we have a tile and grout backsplash in my flat and as soon as food hits the grout it stains - especially tomato
can you do another build with terrain? I've been binging all your videos recently and in quite a few the older builds you've said you wished there was terrain tools. it would be cool to see what else you can do with it now!
James mentioning how annoying those stairs would be in real life and it not being an issue in the sims reminds me of the Rags to Repayment let's play where Ambrose went up and down stairs all day long. Thank goodness he's a child now and not a toddler.
@Ege Aksoy But...but...it's not overly extravagant, artificially enhanced, completely fake building who's only real 'achievement' for decades is taking every opportunity to show off it's cleavage. Skinny isn't enough for it to be suitable. ;-)
I am always wondering why people forget the hall. A very dutch/small amsterdam housing thing is a hall with stairs in it and having the toilet underneath the stairs. Could be handy to use in sims when you want a tiny build and still a toilet and stuff on the ground floor
This is amazing James!! You honestly continue to surprise and amaze me with your creativity, it would take a LOT of work and dedication to do everything like you. Love love your sims & animal crossing series
Many modern/ ‘edgy’ / designer British homes have the living rooms (kitchen, dining, lounge ) upstairs for better views and also to have large open spaces without required supporting walls
I started watching you from your Animal Crossing serie. And I’m binge watching everything from the sims ❤️❤️❤️ thanks for making this quarantining more easier. Take care! Love from 🇵🇷
This is cool! And perfectly timed.. I just read an article about the "Keret House" which is like a tile wide and built with idea it would be inserted between houses! Insane.
My grandparents live in a 4 story skinny house (5 if you count the basement and lil garden), and it keeps them young and moving, theyre both so fit still!
If anyone is interested onthe layout: - Basement with storage and courtyard with a lil table and some plants. My grandpa is an artist so a lot of that stuff is kept down there. - floor level: my grandpa's atelier, with a tiny old kitchen in the back. - first floor: kitchen, dining and living room -second floor: laundry room, master bedroom and bathroom - third floor: office (grandma writes books and poetry here) and guest bedroom
lily mets well, in the old days in downtown Amsterdam it was definatly the case... that’s why the houses are thin, high and attached to each other. Nowadays it isn’t like that anymore, though houses in Amsterdam are still crazy expensive 😉
[14:16] Ah, you speak of the more challenging. This reminds me of the challenge Vixella gave herself regarding your friend, Zeus' tiny build "The Tiny Monstrosity". I tried with the same limitations (no moving the stairs) and found in the end almost anyone doing that seriously will likely wind up with the same results as Vixella: a bedroom/kitchen/living-space/thing for the first floor and the top is the bathroom. Reached the end. It is beautiful! And the laundry room: yes. It is not a James Turner build without laundry. XD You used the Get together Whoo-hoo bush in the community garden area.
Okay my dude, let me correct you. The Amsterdam canals were designed as boulevards for wealthy traders. For the first part of the development, savvy businesmen realized this was prime real estate so they crammed as many houses onto their lots as they could manage. They also tossed in some warehouses, because people were used to having their business nearby. For the second quarter they decided this wasn't the posh aesthetic they were looking for, so they forced builders to build one house per lot (or one house on multiple lots!). Other parts of the city were for the poor and follow the ancient wetlands (polder) pattern, because changing it would have been expensive.
It's very uncommon to have upstairs kitchens here in the UK. The only homes I've seen it done in are ones with far-reaching views (e.g. seafront homes) so they want the living areas upstairs to make the most of that. Homes built into slopes may also be an exception as we tend to put the kitchen on the same level as the rear garden access, which may not be the lowest one on slopes. Basically, only in the kinds of homes that actually end up on Grand Designs, haha.
British home mostly NEVER have rooms other than bedrooms on upper floors, whenever that is done its usually to take advantage of views or if the space available suits it better. This only really happens for bespoke built homes definitely not the norm in UK
This is going to be a fun challenge. And the reason the gallery says there are items from Get together is because you used a lot in Windenburg and 2 trees from the pack.
I live in a house like this in Melbourne with a kitchen on the top floor and the upside is at least I'm getting some exercise during quarantine walking up and down a million stairs every day.
About the kitchen upstairs, I can clarify that in Britain most ordinary houses have downstairs kitchen, only the rich (who can afford fancy renos) have them upstairs
I live in Amsterdam and we have also a really thin house but most of the houses here don’t have spiral stairs but just regular stairs😅 btw In real life is it not that hard to furnish a thin house but in the Sims al the objects are really out of shape😩😂 also house hear in A,sterdam most of the houses are actually 2 or 3 houses in one so you don’t have to walk that much😊
I once lived in a 3rd floor walk up.... but the parking lot was behind the building at the bottom of a hill so it was really a 3 “floor” walk up to the basement of the building then another 4 floors to my apartment >_< I will say I NEVER stocked up groceries because carrying them was a nightmare!!!!!
Friends of mine live in a “shotgun” house like this, that’s what it’s called here in the US, and it’s actually very spacious because of the layout😃 but interestingly it’s not between buildings, it’s a long thin house by itself on a lot!
I cannot stress enough how excellent of a builder you are! Your ideas are gold, and i use them all the time when i see something awesome. This tiny build was incredible and super creative, it's so fun to watch you enjoy yourself while building :3
Generally the kitchen is like the main living space, so if it’s at the floor with the best view that’s better. You only really sleep in your bedroom so doesn’t need to have as good of a view
Up until I was 19 I lived in a 3 storey town house in the UK. Garage and ‘sun lounge’ on the ground floor, living room, bathroom and kitchen on the first floor and 3 bedrooms on the second floor. I loved it and thought I’d always want to live in one. In my parents bedroom my Dad actually built a shower room into one of their wardrobes which I thought was pretty cool!
I haven’t seen your videos in awhile and just every time I come back after a long absence I’m blown away by how stylish you can make your houses. Essentially my entire sims-playing life my goal with building houses is “what’s the quickest way people can move from one room to the next and access items”
There is usually kitchens on higher floors in specific areas for e.g. Islands in Uk but overall we barely have kitchens upstairs. It's more so at the back of the house next to the garden.
I am 100% sure that my dumb sims would finish eating in the kitchen then spend the next 4 hours climbing up all of the stairs to dump their dirty plate on the half wall on the top floor just so I can drag it into the bin for them 😤
Listening to you while doing breakfast and my mom is so into your build. Should hear her little commentary lol. She's like ”yess kitchen on the floor and I can't live in a house that has 4 stories” Am like you can't live in it period ma lol
Isn't there an actual guy with a house like this? He like built his house in the alley between two others? I might be misremembering tho (edit- Keret house! Technically an art installation cause it's not big enough to legally be a house)
My sims scooted over yesterday and I was floored because I never saw them do that ! I think I know how it works: I put the floor cushions (that you get with parenthood I think )on their bed.I raised it with ctrl+9 and put it on one side of the bed. She would not sleep where the cushion was when I clicked on the side of the bed. But when her girlfriend was asleep on the functional side of the bed, I clicked on the non-functional side, and she woke her girlfriend up, got in the bed and then scooted over to where I asked her to sleep. So you need to intentionally block your sims to get them to scoot over.
So the steps : ->put an object that blocks your sims in side 1 of the bed, raising it with 9. -> get sims A to sleep on side 2 -> order sims B to sleep on side 1 -> sims B will wake sims A up, get on side 2, then scoot to side 1 Now that's hypothetical, I will test it further
I'm excited to try this! In Charleston, SC there are a lot of row houses (Google Rainbow Row)... and I could imagine someone trying to fit something like this in... EXCEPT... The historical association there would NEVER allow anything that didn't fit historically... They can have individuality but within historical context.....so I wonder if I could mimic 2 of the row houses and then a thinny house betwern. I may try but it may take a bit. I hope you tour some challenges but give us some time.❤❤❤
That "scoot over" thing isn't completely broken; it can happen for literally no reason sometimes. I've had Sims just randomly decide that they want to sleep on the other side of the bed (not necessarily against a wall) without any input from me. But yeah, it's super annoying
I don't understand why we still don't have spiral stairs
@Kekeland Exactly this. They are willing to give us a few bits if it's easily created or will help sell a pack but they never take it all the way. Look at when they did the stairs update. It was nice but still lacked so much basic functionality, including steep/shallow and spiral stairs.
Probably the same team who makes levels update are working on it. They could probably easilt release these as separate object, but they maybe are working on different way to make a spiral stairs? Bigger question is why we don't have ladders yet - when we have kinda functional ladders in Island Living, that go into the sea.
But I feel like we may get it this year. Probably with next EP that is coming soon. Cause what else they would be working on? Other than actually finishing levels update.
i’m still waiting for ladder and bunk bed
They haven't found an effective way to charge extra for them yet
As a Sims 2 player, I hadn't noticed there weren't elevators either. They were introduced in Open for Business expansion pack, because they figured you'd need elevators for shops I suppose.
All I could think of during the whole video was how annoyed the neighbors must have been when you came and built in between them.😄
Felicia L. 😂😂
SAME!!! I’m so happy i wasn’t the only one
Happens all the time where we live (Vietnam). Probably other Asian countries too. Go to Google Maps and walk through some of the Vietnamese streets - it's really interesting!
Can you image how annoyed they would be if you could woohoo if the bed was against the wall? Good thing no headboard !
Imagine stray cats lived in that alley
”Imagine going up two flights of stairs with your groceries...” giggles with 7 flights of stairs 😂😂😂
haha, well, I clarified - imagine building your house that way. Apartments are different, it's not like you chose that design
My friend lived in a 19th floor and when we had electricity cut she had to go on the stairs (I live in Venezuela)
My apartment is 3rd floor and I can barely stand carrying stuff (moving out next week because it's technically campus housing but meh). Couldn't imagine living in a taller building and dealing with that. I'm really excited because my apartment next year is first floor.
good cardio tho xD
@@dia.96 me pasó que tuve que subir el botellón de agua y me iba muriendo 😭
Actually, I would speculate that an entire lets play in the thin house challenge would be an actual real challenge.
WGU 498 I tried playing in attached townhouses renting half out to roommates and I couldn’t handle that. This would be terrible!
aw, matey, dont, my frekkin blood pressure xD
-lets add a toddler-
We don't need high blood pressure because of a game...lol
Yeah it would be terrible to watch. I actually get motion sickness if I’m watching something with too much camera movement on a bad day 😂
@@ginat.8064 me to. That's why I don't watch many stop motion videos. I get a sick, icky feeling.
No one:
My brain: Thiny House Challenge!
Kyra I appreciate your brain 😂😂😂
Tbh I read that too ahaha
my brain: NOPE no more tiny house anything
Kyra I love that
@Kyra tell your Brian thanks
RE: narrowness in Amsterdam. I was taught in my art history class that the width (or lack therof) of these townhouse originated from the maximum length of timber beams. In medieval times these house only had a front and back room, with no interior weight bearing walls. So the width of the house was dictated by how much the timber could span without sagging. Later on when people began living in smaller rooms this was no longer an issue, but by then all building plots had already been divided. All the wider canal houses you see in Amsterdam were built buy super rich merchants who could afford to buy multiple adjecent lots.
That is very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
similar houses are in North Poland, Gdańsk, they have narrow houses because they had to pay for the width of house front
Our tour guide in Amsterdam never went into the details of the timber or that but she did mention that it was too expensive for people to build outwards so instead they built upwards with the narrow tall houses and pointed out how some were kind of leaning and stuff it’s just a beautiful and super cool city. Your comment was so interesting!
thats pretty cool. thx for the history lesson ^^
Amy M when i visited Amsterdam I went to a canal museum and they went into detail about why the houses were built a certain way, they rent to tilt when the wooden support beams begin rotting. They lean forward for historical reasons, there’s usually a hook at the top of the house that allowed for heavy items to be hoisted to the top floor rather than carrying it through the house so the angle the house is leaning will prevent whatever is being hoisted up from hitting the building.
The real title of this video: *Semaj hates walking up stairs, and he WILL tell you why*
Joli Straight LOL
Alternative title: James speculates about foreign building choices and forgets he's commentating his own build
re: kitchens on upper floors: in the US that's called a "reverse floor plan" and I've seen them mostly in beach houses. In that specific case its so that the kitchen/living/dining space has the best views of the water/scenery bc that's where you'll spend time and entertain while the bedrooms have "worse" views since they're for sleeping. Idk why they do them in england tho
Same reason, and so the kitchen has a better ventilation
It's really not popular at all in the UK outside of fancy architectural houses. I don't know anyone with a kitchen on the first floor (called second floor in US?), they're all on the ground floor. In the unique Grand Designs style houses, I think it's often to get a good view from the kitchen-dining area, and just because it's 'cool'.
@@Pergolesi1736 yeah, I'm from Scotland and having the kitchen on the ground floor allows any heat to warm downstairs and travel upstairs instead of losing it and wasting money. It's also super common to have a wood burning stove in rural areas of Scotland that acts as central heating as well as an oven/stove and they're always on the ground floor
Rachael Christie yeah i live in rural wales and we have an aga that heats the whole ground floor. I don’t think ive ever seen a kitchen upstairs outside grand designs😂
Didn’t know that’s what It was called but I love doing it
I’m English and the reason we sometimes put are kitchens on the 2nd our 3rd floor is for the heat and the view. Also it’s a trendy thing to do in your home at the moment. Stay safe.
Also Upside down houses are quite popular at the moment as well in England.
Erin Rolfe what on earth is an upside down house?
@@Iluvpie6 I assume bedrooms/bathrooms on the lower floor and kitchens/living room on the upper floor :)
@@vickibannister2689 Yep
Vicki Bannister that makes sense. It’s a lot less amusing than what I was picturing, though 😂
Watched 47 seconds of this, went and built my own with the 3 tile 4 story under 100 tiles! I have 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, with an added laundry area. I'm super excited to see how you did yours! (I didn't watch your first because I didn't want to take any of your stair ideas or layout ideas. I wanted to challenge myself). Thank you for the fun build idea! I had a blast!
I actually really love the split toilet and shower. I’ve lived in a few houses where they were in different rooms and it’s actually really handy!
This is just the build my house challenge. I live in a five story townhouse condo that's super tiny. The kitchen is on a different floor to the living room etc lol
Oh wow. Your legs must be super strong from all those stairs, I can't even imagine xD
Well, at least you can proudly display your muscled calves at the beach? 😂
You must be a professional stair climber by now
Everybody in quarantine is worried about how they’re gonna exercise meanwhile you can get it just by living in your house
Damn! What area of the world do you live in?
Where do you live and is that common in your area? I live in Poland and we have tall buildings with no elevators but not this high apartments :P We do have a house which is considered the thinnest house in the world (92 centimetres (3.02 ft) at its thinnest point and 152 centimetres (4.99 ft) at its widest) but it's not common at all!
I thought the quarantine would allow me more time to play Sims, but I have more university work than when I was actually at school ahhh. I wanna renovate every apartment. And fix Del Sol valley. Ahhhh
Donde_lieta I know! School has just been giving us so much work that I can’t do anything else.
I have five lessons a day but my school set me nine different prices of work due for the same day 😅
Same here 😩
Me too :((((
I've surrendered doing anything else to fixing the houses and townies, honestly
The whole upside down layout (kitchen and living room upstairs) is often used in plots of land where there is a really good view that would be technically wasted in a bedroom as the majority of the time you spend in there will be sleeping whereas if your living space is upstairs, you can take advantage of the view whilst awake.
I always wondered about that. Makes sense that way, honestly
Unless you're a person who prefers being in your bedroom anyway😂
@@lexvt3551 Me. I spend most of my time in my room xD
Shoutout to James for always challenging himself and trying new things and not doing the same style every build 🙌
move! 🤫🤫🤣
move! Exactly, Kayla even knows she does
*cough* kayak *cough*
A leg gym disguised by a house! Architecs these days are very clever!
Every time james says “nook” it triggers my anxiety 💀🦝 get away from my bells tom
It's like watching '12 Grimmauld Place' in Harry Potter 😱
YES
Cerys Morgan Thanks for the info. Wished that I will see in real 😁
😱😍
Yes
Don’t know what UK grand designs you’ve been watching but the standard UK house the kitchen is on the ground floor. I would hate a kitchen on any other floor! Maybe grand designs are just trying to be trendy aha. Great house build though!
This reminds me of No.12 Grimmauld place from Harry Potter, slyly hidden between the other regular town houses.
Exactly what I thought! I could imagine it expanding slowly xD
"Welcome to my living room let's go to the fourth floor"
Imagine having a toddler in this house...
So long...they take ages to go up the stairs 🙄 that's why i built 1 story house!
So many baby barriers and gates on the stairs.
Poor neighbors. Gonna hear everything
I refuse to imagine that nightmare scenario.
Dear God...
Everyone: we need modular stairs
EA:
Everyone: modular stairs!
EA:
Still EA:
Finally EA: fine! Modular stairs!
Everyone: we need ladders ...
And spiral stairs
Everyone: We need bunk beds
EA:...
Everyone: We need bunk beds
EA:.....
Everyone: We need bunk beds
EA:.....
EA....Fine!! Murphy beds!
Everyone:.....
Everyone: 20th anniversary gonna be awesome
EA: Yes it is! Let us introduce the Hot Tub
Farhan Jahr Daffa that was kinda disappointing haha
Maxis*
Hey could I use the shell of the two townhouses for a rags to riches where the sim kinda lives in the alley between two wealthy townhouses in a tent near the dumpsters.
That gonna be interesting
You don’t generally need permission for that. He uploads them for you guys to use. Just make sure to credit him
@@basicbrittani yh tbh I'm not really sure why I was asking. I'm British so to try and sound polite while saying stuff imma do I just naturally pose it as a question... Don't ask
Niamh Rhodes 😂😂 all good. Just shows that you have great manners 👍
Need a bunk type bedwith space for a desk underneath or sofa
I know the feeling!!!... ended up downloading a maxis match CC version to avoid any further frustration and it looks and works perfectly! (Except for the missing animation of course when they get in the top bed).
This reminds me of my best friend's cousin's place in Amsterdam, which was soooo tiny but very lovely. The stairs they had going to the roof patio were exactly what you would need in this build. The stairs pulled down (like an attic ladder) and the "door" leading to the patio was a domed skylight that you just pushed open and voila! you were outside! It saved sooo much space in the house.
The craziest house I have ever seen was the one build in a old underground public restroom in a main street.
It was very cool and surprisingly light.
There are also some really thin houses in Japan. Some are even so thin, that you can touch both sides of your house by just extending your arms!
Wow, hard pass. That just makes me think of prison cells 😳
Interesting, when I lived in UK, literally all the houses I lived in (or visited) had the kitchen on the ground floor... Don't remember a place where the kitchen would be anywhere higher than that.
That is the way the vast majority of UK houses are. There is a trend though, among new builds and remodels to put the kitchen one floor up. James watching shows like Grand Designs is fine but they most definitely don't represent the reality of UK housing.
In regards to the bed problem, I figured out something that works a majority of the time for me when trying to get my sim to scoot over to the other side. Rather than clicking the bed and telling your sim to sleep there, assign the part of the bed you'd like your sim to sleep on and then click the icon located beside the energy meter on your sims needs. I found when doing this the sim was more likely to scoot over to their side unless they were extremely exhausted.
Where I live we call these alley way homes "spite houses" there is a whole story behind it. But the short version is the first one was built to spite their neighbor. I cant speak for the entire world but most 3 story homes have the kitchen on the second floor around this way. I've never really put much thought into why the 2nd and not the 1st but i suppose it because the front door is usually on the first floor so that is where the living space would be located (the heat isnt really a concern cause everyone has AC). Also you get better light the higher up and most folks like alot of natural light in their kitchen area.
You usually put kitchens downstairs, cause you usually put bedrooms on top, as they are more personal space. Where kitchens often are representative room, especially if you don't have separated dinner or living room.
Then goes the temperature difference - as you often use kitchen as storage room for many foods, if you don't have specific pantry in the house. And a lot food items need to be in cool and shaded place.
Then goes history of technological advances - as not only fireplace was nicer to be built on the bottom so other rooms would get hotter from chimney, but also you needed to bring coal/wood and fresh water to the kitchen to cook. It would be not only inconvenient but also dangerous, considering many staircases were not made evenly.
Also bottom level often was walk-through and floor was either stone, ground etc. so it is more logical to walk in your boots in kitchen than in your bedroom.
Then goes the house plan in general - kitchen usually should be on the same level as place where you eat, so you have to accommodate already two-four rooms on specific level (again convenience and safety). And bedrooms and other personal areas also usually should be located together, cause why not.
Then last thing that kinda is linked to what I said before - kitchens often use the biggest amounts of water (especially if they include laundry room), so it is still more convenient to put it on the bottom, so you wouldn't have to pump a lot of water through plumbing (I mean still it wouldn't be hard to do, and we do have bathrooms on top levels, but mixed with other reasons - it just adds to the list).
Fun fact: This sort of build is called an infill house because it fills in a small, otherwise unused gap of space between to existing buildings.
when you're a quarter Dutch, you've lived in the Netherlands all your life and an Australian man teaches you the reason why Amsterdam canal houses are so narrow... I feel very uncultered about my own culture 😭😂
bruh, you did the bathrooms like how they're done in france
Higher floor kitchens are usually implemented as a safety precaution for fires. Because heat rises, if a fire were to break out in your kitchen it will most likely spread upwards. Having kitchens on the bottom floor would cause the fire to spread upwards to the other floors a lot easier than if it were on the top floor. I learned this in my high school, it was an eight story building and we had the kitchens and the science buildings all on the 7th floor for that exact reason.
For James:
*THE ULTIMATE SIMS BUILD CHALLENGE*
Rules: You must build a house for 8 sims, it can not end up looking like a box (or rectangle) and must include at least one toddler room, one child room, and one teen oriented room (use your imagination as to what that entails as far as decorations and uses are concerned). Each of those *must* be separate rooms. Your build has a total budget of $100,000-$300,000 simoleons (it must cost a minimum of $100,00 but cannot exceed $300,000) This does not include the cost of the lot which can be over budget if desired (as in the build ends up being $300,000 but the lot puts it closer to say $320,000 or something).
Before starting the build, you must decide which packs you will use. You are allowed to use the base game and ONE expansion pack, ONE game pack, and TWO stuff packs. All of which must be chosen through a random generator.
For each room you must spin a wheel to determine what colour to use. You may only use that colour for the entirety of the room (with the exception of bathroom or kitchen material that do not exist in said colour at which point you may use the colour you feel is closest. And doors/windows may be of normal colour and are excluded from the rules of the colour portion of this challenge). You may *not* use the colours White, Black, or Brown on the inside of the house (except as mentioned above; doors and windows).
When the colour is chosen every item in that room must be made either entirely by or the majority of it is that specific colour.
**If you end up using the laundry day pack you must include a laundry room and out door wash bucket and clothes line
**If using seasons you must include a garden, fireplace, and thermostat
**If using vampires, at least one coffin must be included and the build must have a basement or attic it can be placed in
**If using island living you must place the build by a body of water
**If using cats and dogs the build must be pet friendly and include items for both cats and dogs (if drawn you can build a house for six sims instead of eight)
**If using movie hangout a space must be allotted for an indoor or outdoor movie theatre with a screen and enough chairs for the sims living in the house (so 8)
You have to have a bin in the kitchen as well (don’t forget the bin).
Hope you see this, I think this could be really fun while simultaneously challenging!!
I'd love to see this!
Our house... in the middle of the alley~
This made me feel so claustrophobic-
My friend's remodeled townhouse has the kitchen on the second floor bc they wanted it to be more private/for family only and closer to the bedrooms 🤷♀️ their entire first floor is just living space (and two half baths). Really interesting how people live lol. Great build btw!
Love this house! As much as I really want to, I could never live here in real life. Mobility issues make it hard for me to get up and down stairs. Either way, adorable build! You've got some real skill for these things!
James: I don't get why people have the kitchen on the second floor
Also James: Makes a huge townhouse build where the kitchen is on the second floor
?.. it's on the first floor.. or did you mean another video?
Melody Minaya no it’s from his last build I think where he made the two townhouses for his let’s play😊
Yeah but the kitchens in his townhouses were on the first floor of the unit still.
@@TravelinJenB The kitchen is on the second floor of the townhouse his Sims live in. The first floor is two bedrooms.
SG_Artemis correct. I back that as a fact.
james "if we had ladders"
me from the future: hehehehehehe
I can see hours a day spent cleaning grease and smoke off of the kitchen mirror. o.o
I cringe everytime James does a mirror backsplash or has a window above the stove. 😖
I have a window above my stove and it’s pretty easy to clean... we clean it once a week and it probably takes 15 min or less so it’s not big deal unless you don’t clean it for months
I would never want it in real life, but I do think it looks really cool and makes a really small space feel much bigger - however, my parents place has a window right behind the stove for a splashback and it's fine and easy to clean :)
if anything cleaning a mirror would be easier, we have a tile and grout backsplash in my flat and as soon as food hits the grout it stains - especially tomato
can you do another build with terrain? I've been binging all your videos recently and in quite a few the older builds you've said you wished there was terrain tools. it would be cool to see what else you can do with it now!
You can use a pool ladder inside. I use it for tiny houses when I play and it helps a lot with space.
For builds like these I always recommend using City Living/University 0$ Trash Disposal thingy. Also mailboxes from University are also cute.
I would not have open stairs going over the kitchen. Someone walks upstairs and kicks dust and dirt in the food you’re cooking.
You always amaze me how you manage to make these tiny spaces so beautiful. Bravo!!
Well done!! The backyard community area is so inviting.
I don’t know anyone in the UK who has there kitchen on the top floor...
James mentioning how annoying those stairs would be in real life and it not being an issue in the sims reminds me of the Rags to Repayment let's play where Ambrose went up and down stairs all day long. Thank goodness he's a child now and not a toddler.
Perfect for my Mariah Carey sim
why?
Lm @ o
Sylwia Skolarczyk she’s a skinny legend and this building is skinny
This is the comment I expected
@Ege Aksoy But...but...it's not overly extravagant, artificially enhanced, completely fake building who's only real 'achievement' for decades is taking every opportunity to show off it's cleavage. Skinny isn't enough for it to be suitable. ;-)
I am always wondering why people forget the hall. A very dutch/small amsterdam housing thing is a hall with stairs in it and having the toilet underneath the stairs. Could be handy to use in sims when you want a tiny build and still a toilet and stuff on the ground floor
imagine cooking your food, then walking 3 stairs, just to have a view while eating, lmao
I so hope this will fit on the new Eco Lifestyle Lot. You legit said community garden in the back!
When my fren ask me my current finance..
Yup that thinn...
This is amazing James!! You honestly continue to surprise and amaze me with your creativity, it would take a LOT of work and dedication to do everything like you. Love love your sims & animal crossing series
Many modern/ ‘edgy’ / designer British homes have the living rooms (kitchen, dining, lounge ) upstairs for better views and also to have large open spaces without required supporting walls
I started watching you from your Animal Crossing serie. And I’m binge watching everything from the sims ❤️❤️❤️ thanks for making this quarantining more easier. Take care! Love from 🇵🇷
This is cool! And perfectly timed.. I just read an article about the "Keret House" which is like a tile wide and built with idea it would be inserted between houses! Insane.
My grandparents live in a 4 story skinny house (5 if you count the basement and lil garden), and it keeps them young and moving, theyre both so fit still!
If anyone is interested onthe layout:
- Basement with storage and courtyard with a lil table and some plants. My grandpa is an artist so a lot of that stuff is kept down there.
- floor level: my grandpa's atelier, with a tiny old kitchen in the back.
- first floor: kitchen, dining and living room
-second floor: laundry room, master bedroom and bathroom
- third floor: office (grandma writes books and poetry here) and guest bedroom
That’s so cool!
As a Dutch person: you are right about the houses in Amsterdam!
Now, back to watching the video 😉
Uhm no I live in Amsterdam and I live in a flat.
lily mets well, in the old days in downtown Amsterdam it was definatly the case... that’s why the houses are thin, high and attached to each other. Nowadays it isn’t like that anymore, though houses in Amsterdam are still crazy expensive 😉
Also one of the reasons some houses hang over in Amsterdam. The upperfloors are actually a little larger than the bottom floor.
troebeliewoep true!!
Marloes K true (I thought you ment that the all houses in Amsterdam are thin and high)
[14:16] Ah, you speak of the more challenging. This reminds me of the challenge Vixella gave herself regarding your friend, Zeus' tiny build "The Tiny Monstrosity". I tried with the same limitations (no moving the stairs) and found in the end almost anyone doing that seriously will likely wind up with the same results as Vixella: a bedroom/kitchen/living-space/thing for the first floor and the top is the bathroom.
Reached the end. It is beautiful! And the laundry room: yes. It is not a James Turner build without laundry. XD
You used the Get together Whoo-hoo bush in the community garden area.
The Bed against the wall works on console, even with expansion packs!
Okay my dude, let me correct you. The Amsterdam canals were designed as boulevards for wealthy traders. For the first part of the development, savvy businesmen realized this was prime real estate so they crammed as many houses onto their lots as they could manage. They also tossed in some warehouses, because people were used to having their business nearby. For the second quarter they decided this wasn't the posh aesthetic they were looking for, so they forced builders to build one house per lot (or one house on multiple lots!). Other parts of the city were for the poor and follow the ancient wetlands (polder) pattern, because changing it would have been expensive.
Confused when I live in the U.K. and have never ever heard of a kitchen upstairs😂😂😂
It's very uncommon to have upstairs kitchens here in the UK. The only homes I've seen it done in are ones with far-reaching views (e.g. seafront homes) so they want the living areas upstairs to make the most of that. Homes built into slopes may also be an exception as we tend to put the kitchen on the same level as the rear garden access, which may not be the lowest one on slopes. Basically, only in the kinds of homes that actually end up on Grand Designs, haha.
This is a fantastic build, James--I am highly impressed!
British home mostly NEVER have rooms other than bedrooms on upper floors, whenever that is done its usually to take advantage of views or if the space available suits it better. This only really happens for bespoke built homes definitely not the norm in UK
this is such a great idea though! you could, like, fill the townhouses for roommates, too! stunning!
This is going to be a fun challenge. And the reason the gallery says there are items from Get together is because you used a lot in Windenburg and 2 trees from the pack.
I live in a house like this in Melbourne with a kitchen on the top floor and the upside is at least I'm getting some exercise during quarantine walking up and down a million stairs every day.
I love this build! Never would’ve had the creativity to do the livingroom like that, I love it!
About the kitchen upstairs, I can clarify that in Britain most ordinary houses have downstairs kitchen, only the rich (who can afford fancy renos) have them upstairs
I live in Amsterdam and we have also a really thin house but most of the houses here don’t have spiral stairs but just regular stairs😅 btw In real life is it not that hard to furnish a thin house but in the Sims al the objects are really out of shape😩😂 also house hear in A,sterdam most of the houses are actually 2 or 3 houses in one so you don’t have to walk that much😊
You know you have been playing to much animal crossing when you hear "little nook" and think of Tom...
That slumlord
I once lived in a 3rd floor walk up.... but the parking lot was behind the building at the bottom of a hill so it was really a 3 “floor” walk up to the basement of the building then another 4 floors to my apartment >_< I will say I NEVER stocked up groceries because carrying them was a nightmare!!!!!
Friends of mine live in a “shotgun” house like this, that’s what it’s called here in the US, and it’s actually very spacious because of the layout😃 but interestingly it’s not between buildings, it’s a long thin house by itself on a lot!
21:02 Feels like a little kid in between his siblings on the backseat of a car
Oof I have been there
Yay, a challenge! How fun! Gotta try it now.
2 hours later: Damn you James. You're the reason I'm bald now.
I cannot stress enough how excellent of a builder you are! Your ideas are gold, and i use them all the time when i see something awesome. This tiny build was incredible and super creative, it's so fun to watch you enjoy yourself while building :3
So now you should build something like "Dom Kereta" in Warsaw. It is the thinnest house in the world. 😂
It will be 1,5 tile! I don't thing is even possible 🙄
Propably it will not work but would be fun. 😆
At the start i was like ahhhh sure james this will totally come together..... Then it came together OMG its beautiful!!
Generally the kitchen is like the main living space, so if it’s at the floor with the best view that’s better. You only really sleep in your bedroom so doesn’t need to have as good of a view
Up until I was 19 I lived in a 3 storey town house in the UK. Garage and ‘sun lounge’ on the ground floor, living room, bathroom and kitchen on the first floor and 3 bedrooms on the second floor. I loved it and thought I’d always want to live in one. In my parents bedroom my Dad actually built a shower room into one of their wardrobes which I thought was pretty cool!
Love it!! I might attempt a build but also, why, when you’ve already done it so well 😂
I haven’t seen your videos in awhile and just every time I come back after a long absence I’m blown away by how stylish you can make your houses. Essentially my entire sims-playing life my goal with building houses is “what’s the quickest way people can move from one room to the next and access items”
That little bedroom is actually rly cute!
There is usually kitchens on higher floors in specific areas for e.g. Islands in Uk but overall we barely have kitchens upstairs. It's more so at the back of the house next to the garden.
I miss those little debug metal balls on Sims 3 that could actually let you hide spaces from sims...
I am 100% sure that my dumb sims would finish eating in the kitchen then spend the next 4 hours climbing up all of the stairs to dump their dirty plate on the half wall on the top floor just so I can drag it into the bin for them 😤
23:55 It annoys me so much that the window and the door have different heights.... so much... EA, please!
Listening to you while doing breakfast and my mom is so into your build. Should hear her little commentary lol.
She's like ”yess kitchen on the floor and I can't live in a house that has 4 stories”
Am like you can't live in it period ma lol
Isn't there an actual guy with a house like this? He like built his house in the alley between two others? I might be misremembering tho
(edit- Keret house! Technically an art installation cause it's not big enough to legally be a house)
Thanks for sharing! I had never heard of Keret Hourse and enjoyed learning about it after researching 😊
My sims scooted over yesterday and I was floored because I never saw them do that ! I think I know how it works: I put the floor cushions (that you get with parenthood I think )on their bed.I raised it with ctrl+9 and put it on one side of the bed. She would not sleep where the cushion was when I clicked on the side of the bed. But when her girlfriend was asleep on the functional side of the bed, I clicked on the non-functional side, and she woke her girlfriend up, got in the bed and then scooted over to where I asked her to sleep. So you need to intentionally block your sims to get them to scoot over.
So the steps :
->put an object that blocks your sims in side 1 of the bed, raising it with 9.
-> get sims A to sleep on side 2
-> order sims B to sleep on side 1
-> sims B will wake sims A up, get on side 2, then scoot to side 1
Now that's hypothetical, I will test it further
A few weeks ago, i made a build like this myself😂 Bit i used the house shells from discover university and made the building 5 tiles wide😅
I'm excited to try this! In Charleston, SC there are a lot of row houses (Google Rainbow Row)... and I could imagine someone trying to fit something like this in... EXCEPT... The historical association there would NEVER allow anything that didn't fit historically... They can have individuality but within historical context.....so I wonder if I could mimic 2 of the row houses and then a thinny house betwern. I may try but it may take a bit. I hope you tour some challenges but give us some time.❤❤❤
Just change shower if you download it and you can whoo hoo in shower don't need the bed for it
That "scoot over" thing isn't completely broken; it can happen for literally no reason sometimes. I've had Sims just randomly decide that they want to sleep on the other side of the bed (not necessarily against a wall) without any input from me. But yeah, it's super annoying