Hope this "tutorial" was helpful to some of you guys! Wanted to share my thought process since I get so many questions about it. Hoping to do a "Let's Build" soon as well as both roofing and landscaping tutorials :) Love you guys!
Same. Even though I'm a beginner with decorating myself but it's a lot easier than to do a floor plan and I eventually figure it out. But I have given up so many builds because I couldn't figure out the floor plan. That's why I want to practice figuring out floor plans with smaller houses first and then slowly improve myself with bigger houses.
@@noeliajaime7656A few years earlier I thought I just can't figure out floor plans and never will. But now I'm also thinking it takes practice. That's why I want to practice figuring out floor plans to eventually get a feeling for it.
I think this is a great tutorial. I already know HOW to build a house. But I love seeing someone else's approach bc it gives me new ideas for when I build. Thank you for doing this!
Can you do a small series where you build a bunch of common house/architecture types? Also I am particularly interested in an italianate style house, but what ever you build I will watch! You are an amazing builder and such an inspiration! Love the vid!
When you said you can hold ALT to stop the roof from snapping to the grid when adjusting the height, my jaw dropped. I've been playing this game since the day it was released, have the audacity to consider myself a "good" builder, and had no idea you could do this. I cannot believe it.
Yes pleassssssssssse!!!!!!!!!! Make a roofing tutorial! I am getting the sims in a few days and I have NO Idea how to build!!! This video helped alot though! Thanks ms gryphi!!!
@@amrengirl9922you are however able to toggle the household from played and uplayed before you go into build mode in order to have unlimited funds. if you click on the green plumbob on the bottom of the family panel and turn it to be grayed out and/or click the heart button to make it hollow (which will also remove the family from your “saved households” - which is different from played households w/r/t auto-aging and culling) you will be able to build on their lot with unlimited funds even if you have already played with them.
I have been playing sims for over 20 years, and your videos have made me think about building differently. I never really liked it before, because it was pretty much make a box, extend a box, add a box on top. Watching your vids and this technique of more organic shaping rooms, being a little asymmetrical was mind-blowing. I pretty much have a savefile of your lots, and am more comfortable making my own, if I am missing something, thanks so watching your vids during downtime at night at the hospital.
This is such a nice tutorial; it works well for beginner players, as you give some basic descriptions of tools, but you don’t spend so much time on those descriptions that veteran players are frustrated. Such a nice balance- and also informative~!
this house came together in like two seconds haha. you make it seem so easy. that would have taken me like two hours lol Thanks for sharing tips! Definitely inspiring to get back to building.
I really like this idea! I hope you continue to do videos like these, sometimes I feel so lost when I’m building like I don’t know how to make the build look cohesive but you gave me some new tips. Thanks!
Whenever I make houses I always arrange the areas or spaces first, categorizing them into 3 parts- 1. Public 2. Semi-private and last is 3. Private spaces. After all of that then I design the exterior part of the structure. I'm an architect and I'm amazed with your exterior designs. 😊
Oh my gosh, I am learning soooooo much. I usually download already-made houses then edit them to my liking. Now, I know I'll be having so much fun making houses. Thank you Tonya!
Thank you. My question was about big spaces and what to do with them, but watching you do it I realized you think of boxes, square rooms while I just focused on walls and where to put them. I'm inspired to try it differently now and the idea of boxes made it way easier to understand how to do it. So thanks a lot. ;)
I'm so excited for your roof tutorial! My fiance haaaaates my builds because I don't really know how to do neat roofs, so all of my builds look kinda funny
Getting into sims and feeling like I should have discovered this a long long time ago im totally in love with it... I have a question though which is at 10:06 you do something that removes the grid from the floor how exactly did you do that?
also, if you want your sim to have the house for free (idk if this is pc cause i’m on console) if you click on an empty lot, create a household, the just create whatever sim or your family (you can always edit the household later) then make them live on an the empty lot, then there is a small button near play which is the build button, you get infinite money. then you can exit and play as ur family (or edit the household) and play as them in the house without having to worry about those moving in costs! 💕
I just want to say that you are incredibly talented and I adore this house. Please just give it to me in real life! I just recently “discovered” you and I am so glad I did.
Thank you! This helps so much! I have trouble figuring out like realistic floor plans for my builds. Also I have a suggestion too I'd like to see a big super messy realistic family home for a stay at home mom with a busy toddler and a baby. I think that would be super fun! Lol
Another tip for unlimited money, if you already have a household on the lot you can go and mark it as unplayed, it won't change anything on the household and then you can go into build as you just shown and you'll still have unlimited money 😊👍
Thank you MsGryphi! Been building this house today. How did you get your camera settings to move as your is moving? I am on Sims 3 camera and still have to hold 'CTRL' to make the camera rotate with my mouse.
I love these tutorial videos! 😄 I know it's you probably don't see this comment, but I'll give it a try 😊 I would love an updated video, because now we can alt place doors and windows 😄 Making the floorplan is one of the most difficult things to me 😖 So thank you for this tutorial! ❤️
Thank you for makeing a step by step video like this i truly appreciate it it makes it more easier to follow your. Build i wish people made more videos like this
For me (i have console), if you press play instead of opening a save and enter build mode on an occupied lot without playing the house hold then you still get infinite simoleons.
This was great. Would love to see a decorating tutorial. Not so much as like clutter or how to do it. Just how you come up with color cordinations with the walls and floors and stuff.
"3x2 is the typical smallest bathroom you can make without move objects or cheats..." I mean, smallest is a half bath that's 3x1 with no cheats, but that's just a sink and toilet and it seems like a lot of people think those shouldn't exist for some reason (even though they're insanely helpful for toddlers or guests or roommates).
My parents bedroom growing up had a half bath with toilet and shower off their room. There was a sink, but it was actually in their bedroom in a nook area where the closets (yes, two) were. There even was carpet where the sink was.
I know this house is plain but can you put it in the gallery because it would be cool to have an unfurnished house with a nice floorplan to work with. It would be fun to play with the colours and decorate
In our houses, if you look at your own fridge, you'll notice your fridge isn't connected to the counters or the wall (In real life), the builders/architect/engineers intentionally did that because you might not be satisfied with the fridge and can *move* it.
I’m new to sims4 and am wondering if you have to make a sim first before choosing the unlimited money option to build. If not how do you by pass making the sim please?
Thank you so much for this tutorial!~ I always have loved to build in The Sims, but as the time goes by I ended up, at every single building, doing all those square undynamic houses, and that was very frustrating. You have a beautiful voice, nice tone and speaks "calmly" which helps a lot, not just to understand what are you teaching to us, but to understand what are you saying (I'm not a native english speaker haha). I really appreciate these videos, actually all of them, they're addicting
This helps as I’m trash at floor plans and exterior, but how do you r graphics to show shadows? I put my graphics at full and no shadows and it looks really bad ...
After you do this will sims from the game move in automatically or how would you move random sims in that you are not really playing with but you want to make a better looking neighborhood and do more of a type game
Hope this "tutorial" was helpful to some of you guys! Wanted to share my thought process since I get so many questions about it. Hoping to do a "Let's Build" soon as well as both roofing and landscaping tutorials :) Love you guys!
MsGryphi love you toooo ❤️❤️
I always put my stairs in the corner so it was difficult to do the floor plan of the second floor, you helped me so much. Thank you 💕
Love your videos
MsGryphi I was very helpful thank you
omg yes! this is just in time because i have a project related to this
i can decorate and all but i can’t not for the life of me figure out the floor plan
It's all practice.I couldn't do the roof to save my life and now I'm pretty good at it.Just takes practice.
No because same
Same. Even though I'm a beginner with decorating myself but it's a lot easier than to do a floor plan and I eventually figure it out. But I have given up so many builds because I couldn't figure out the floor plan. That's why I want to practice figuring out floor plans with smaller houses first and then slowly improve myself with bigger houses.
@@noeliajaime7656A few years earlier I thought I just can't figure out floor plans and never will. But now I'm also thinking it takes practice. That's why I want to practice figuring out floor plans to eventually get a feeling for it.
Literally same
I already know all the cheats but that's not stopping me from watching this because
well
It's you
Same
aw thanks Claire! :)
MsGryphi you're welcome! Whenever you take the time to like or respond to my comments it makes my day 💕
I think this is a great tutorial. I already know HOW to build a house. But I love seeing someone else's approach bc it gives me new ideas for when I build. Thank you for doing this!
Aww thank you! ❤
Exactly.
Can you do a small series where you build a bunch of common house/architecture types? Also I am particularly interested in an italianate style house, but what ever you build I will watch! You are an amazing builder and such an inspiration! Love the vid!
ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ OMG PLEASE!!
Thanks so much! Maybe not a series, but definitely want to work on lots of different types of homes :)
Ms. Gryphi: Let's pick some ugly orange counters!
I use those exact counters in half of my houses😂
😂😂😂
I hope you're ashamed of yourself 😂
@@coconoisette why would they be lmao it's preference
@@BBaaaaa Because gryphi said they were ugly. It's a joke, you know about these?
Lol.They ARE ugly though,but everyone has different tastes. :-)
When you said you can hold ALT to stop the roof from snapping to the grid when adjusting the height, my jaw dropped. I've been playing this game since the day it was released, have the audacity to consider myself a "good" builder, and had no idea you could do this. I cannot believe it.
I don't know if you have already done this but for your next tiny house can you make the little apartment from Friends
I am not familiar with the show. Sorry D:
someone else already made one, just search for it!
lexie godwin I wanted to comment the same thing 😂lol
MsGryphi can you make the Big Bang theory apartment?
As a person who loves designing houses but often has difficulty processing ideas, this really helps me a lot, thank you so much!! :D
this really makes me want to try a big house build now
i lean more on tiny house builds because i usually play single sims more often
Yes pleassssssssssse!!!!!!!!!! Make a roofing tutorial! I am getting the sims in a few days and I have NO Idea how to build!!! This video helped alot though! Thanks ms gryphi!!!
glad this was helpful! :) Planning to do a roofing tutorial in the next couple weeks :)
In the case of building without money, if you go to manage world, click on any lot and click that tool icon it will let you build without a budget. 😊
Eboni Miller there will be a budget if you have played the household, if it’s a auto-placed household they have no budget
@@amrengirl9922you are however able to toggle the household from played and uplayed before you go into build mode in order to have unlimited funds. if you click on the green plumbob on the bottom of the family panel and turn it to be grayed out and/or click the heart button to make it hollow (which will also remove the family from your “saved households” - which is different from played households w/r/t auto-aging and culling) you will be able to build on their lot with unlimited funds even if you have already played with them.
I literally started talking to myself bc I was frustrated about having builders block and then this video popped up omg I love the universe
I have been playing sims for over 20 years, and your videos have made me think about building differently. I never really liked it before, because it was pretty much make a box, extend a box, add a box on top. Watching your vids and this technique of more organic shaping rooms, being a little asymmetrical was mind-blowing. I pretty much have a savefile of your lots, and am more comfortable making my own, if I am missing something, thanks so watching your vids during downtime at night at the hospital.
This is such a nice tutorial; it works well for beginner players, as you give some basic descriptions of tools, but you don’t spend so much time on those descriptions that veteran players are frustrated. Such a nice balance- and also informative~!
Thanks so much! So happy to hear this :)
Oh, I love your voice, it’s so calming 🤪🖤 Your videos are very helpful, for me. ⛓🖤
Thank you so much Natalia!
this house came together in like two seconds haha. you make it seem so easy. that would have taken me like two hours lol Thanks for sharing tips! Definitely inspiring to get back to building.
Of course! Glad you enjoyed this :)
NalynnaOnline definitely agree 😅 I literally have spent like half an hour deciding how I wanted to make the first wall once 💀
I really like this idea! I hope you continue to do videos like these, sometimes I feel so lost when I’m building like I don’t know how to make the build look cohesive but you gave me some new tips. Thanks!
aw! So happy this was helpful :)
Hello! I liked before watching.
I also have a suggestion, can you mabye try to make a like Victorian mansion, or something like that
Sage Mason she has actually done a couple of Victorian mansions or builds like that, maybe not “mansions” but pretty large victorians
Thanks! I've done quite a few large victorian homes. So fun!
I'm a very basic builder, and I've been struggling to find tutorials that make sense to me. Yours are so helpful! Thank you
Whenever I make houses I always arrange the areas or spaces first, categorizing them into 3 parts- 1. Public 2. Semi-private and last is 3. Private spaces. After all of that then I design the exterior part of the structure. I'm an architect and I'm amazed with your exterior designs. 😊
For the countertops, you can also select "auto counters" so it automatically does the corner counters on the corners and whatnot!
True :) I much prefer placing them haha
If you mark your sim as Unplayed and go straight into build instead of play, you can fix/build their house with unlimited money.
Oh my gosh, I am learning soooooo much. I usually download already-made houses then edit them to my liking. Now, I know I'll be having so much fun making houses. Thank you Tonya!
aw thats amazing! 💞
The video helped me a lot! Thank you for that❤
Yay! so happy it helped!
"this is a pretty small house, so-"
"this is a pretty big house,-"
This is so helpful. Looking forward to the other tutorials as well 💖 thank you!!!
Glad you liked it!
You have a very sweet voice and it makes me feel like it's easier to watch you tbh like it's so relaxing and just inviting
Aw thank you so much! Glad to hear that :)
*ME: tries to do what she did*
*ME ALSO: hideous home, AHHHH!*
*HOME: demolishes itself*
Thank you. My question was about big spaces and what to do with them, but watching you do it I realized you think of boxes, square rooms while I just focused on walls and where to put them. I'm inspired to try it differently now and the idea of boxes made it way easier to understand how to do it. So thanks a lot. ;)
Glad it helped! :)
All of your videos are an inspiration. Thank you for making this tutorial and I cant wait to see more of those as a beginner builder!
Thank you so much!
Yes THANKS FOR THE VIDEO... I couldn't figure out how to raise the porch or the fondation for the home. This helps me out a lot
Glad I could help!
These are excellent tutorials. I liked your resizing tutorial too. I thought I knew how to build but no, I needed to watch these videos first.
I'm so excited for your roof tutorial! My fiance haaaaates my builds because I don't really know how to do neat roofs, so all of my builds look kinda funny
aww. Hoping to do that in the next couple weeks :)
Getting into sims and feeling like I should have discovered this a long long time ago im totally in love with it... I have a question though which is at 10:06 you do something that removes the grid from the floor how exactly did you do that?
Aw that's amazing! You can toggle the grid on and off by pressing "G" on your keyboard :)
also, if you want your sim to have the house for free (idk if this is pc cause i’m on console) if you click on an empty lot, create a household, the just create whatever sim or your family (you can always edit the household later) then make them live on an the empty lot, then there is a small button near play which is the build button, you get infinite money. then you can exit and play as ur family (or edit the household) and play as them in the house without having to worry about those moving in costs! 💕
Good info to know for console players!
It takes me HOURS to build houses in The Sims 4 cause I can never get floor plans right. This helps a lot
SO useful...thank you!
I just want to say that you are incredibly talented and I adore this house. Please just give it to me in real life! I just recently “discovered” you and I am so glad I did.
aww thank you! Welcome to the family
It's so precious!!! I can build a box...so there's that..😁
Thank you! This helps so much! I have trouble figuring out like realistic floor plans for my builds.
Also I have a suggestion too
I'd like to see a big super messy realistic family home for a stay at home mom with a busy toddler and a baby. I think that would be super fun! Lol
Glad this was helpful! Actually did a really messy single moms home a couple months ago - one of my favorite builds :)
Another tip for unlimited money, if you already have a household on the lot you can go and mark it as unplayed, it won't change anything on the household and then you can go into build as you just shown and you'll still have unlimited money 😊👍
This is good info to note! :)
Thank you MsGryphi! Been building this house today. How did you get your camera settings to move as your is moving? I am on Sims 3 camera and still have to hold 'CTRL' to make the camera rotate with my mouse.
Your house is so nice and the tutorial really helped
This tutorial was very helpful! You deserve so many more subscribers! 💜
Thank you so much! Glad you found this helpful :)
I love these tutorial videos! 😄
I know it's you probably don't see this comment, but I'll give it a try 😊 I would love an updated video, because now we can alt place doors and windows 😄
Making the floorplan is one of the most difficult things to me 😖 So thank you for this tutorial! ❤️
You deserve to have 1000,000,000,000,000, subscribers I am on season two of parenthood my favorite character is Amber.
aww thank you so much Heather! and yay! LOVE Amber :)
I’m always looking for new videos like these great job! I feel like my viewers get bored with my builds😔Thanks tho hopefully this will help!!
Omg thank you so much for your Tips & trick . I was always having trouble with the top of the house . Thank a lot and keep good work :)
Thank you for makeing a step by step video like this i truly appreciate it it makes it more easier to follow your. Build i wish people made more videos like this
glad you liked this!
For me (i have console), if you press play instead of opening a save and enter build mode on an occupied lot without playing the house hold then you still get infinite simoleons.
i love your videos!! they are so fun to watch, inspiring and helpful
happy to hear that! ❤
If that was your best you should be proud of your self. It was extremely helpful. Slow, concise, and to the point. Thanks!
Glad it helped!
i really needed this tutorial!!
I love your tutorials they’re so to the point and on point lol you answer all my questions so happy I subbed!
💕
This was great. Would love to see a decorating tutorial. Not so much as like clutter or how to do it. Just how you come up with color cordinations with the walls and floors and stuff.
Thank you! Hmm maybe. I am not sure how much I'd be able to explain that thought process though haha.
OMG, Kelsey (from #100BabySimsChallenge) needs to see this! Hope you and her can do a collab. 💕 Thanks for this vid! Ly!
haha thanks!
I love your speed builds x can you do a base game only build?
Thank you! i do a few base game builds every month :)
10:05 how did you remove The squares?
"3x2 is the typical smallest bathroom you can make without move objects or cheats..." I mean, smallest is a half bath that's 3x1 with no cheats, but that's just a sink and toilet and it seems like a lot of people think those shouldn't exist for some reason (even though they're insanely helpful for toddlers or guests or roommates).
My parents bedroom growing up had a half bath with toilet and shower off their room. There was a sink, but it was actually in their bedroom in a nook area where the closets (yes, two) were. There even was carpet where the sink was.
shift and click to drag the corner of the roof arrow to adjust one side sticking out
Omg! Thank you so much Tonya😘 I'm TERRIBLE at building and this will most definitely be helpful ❤️
Glad this was helpful for you!
I love you're voice
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I really enjoyed this tutorial..it gave me lots of idea to use! Thanks so much!
So happy to hear that!
I know this house is plain but can you put it in the gallery because it would be cool to have an unfurnished house with a nice floorplan to work with. It would be fun to play with the colours and decorate
Amazing tutorial, thank you so much!!
omg i'm in love with this! I just wanna build my house from zero now HAHAHAHAHAHAAH
Cute voice,makes it more enjoyable to watch ur.videos 😊😊
This video was so helpful thanks so much i have really improved my building because of you
So happy to hear that!
Idk why I’m watching this vid when I don’t even have sims but it’s always useful! Btw ❤️ ur vids ❤️💛💛💜
haha thank you!
In our houses, if you look at your own fridge, you'll notice your fridge isn't connected to the counters or the wall (In real life), the builders/architect/engineers intentionally did that because you might not be satisfied with the fridge and can *move* it.
Amazing as always!!!
Thank you!
I needed this. Thank you QUEEN
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Love this!!! So helpful ♡
So happy to hear that!
What happened at 10:05??? How did you delete the grid marks?
Hit g it toggles it on and off
As Heather mentioned you can press "G" on your keyboard to turn the grid on or off :)
I’m new to sims4 and am wondering if you have to make a sim first before choosing the unlimited money option to build. If not how do you by pass making the sim please?
You read my freaking mind omg I needed this! Great Tips! Tysmmm💕💕
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Can you do landscaping tutorial pleasee? I really need it
This was so helpful and you make everything look so easy I love you and your channel so much all of your work is awesome ❤️❤️❤️❤️
thanks so much Emma :) ❤
i love your videos! I cant wait for the roof video because I am utter crap at doing them
Thank you! Hoping to do that in the next few weeks :)
I am wondering how do you deal with placing doors in corners? For some reason that drives me nuts but i can't manage to avoid it 😅
What a beautiful house!
Wow what a nice idea 😍
Glad you enjoyed this tutorial :)
If u dont play as a family, u also click build and do it that way b4 loading the family for 1st time.
Thanks for this tutorial!! It was pretty helpful and also makes me really want to build in the Sims again. 😊😊😊
So happy to hear that!
this video was very helpful!! thank youuu
Aw glad to hear it! :)
Is there a way to make the increments on roofs smaller? I just wish that when I stretch the roof, it could be more precise
Left to right, not really. But up and down - yes! :)
Thank you MsGryphi!
Thank you so much for this tutorial!~ I always have loved to build in The Sims, but as the time goes by I ended up, at every single building, doing all those square undynamic houses, and that was very frustrating. You have a beautiful voice, nice tone and speaks "calmly" which helps a lot, not just to understand what are you teaching to us, but to understand what are you saying (I'm not a native english speaker haha). I really appreciate these videos, actually all of them, they're addicting
Thank you so very much! It is Tonya, yes. Thank you :)
This helps as I’m trash at floor plans and exterior, but how do you r graphics to show shadows? I put my graphics at full and no shadows and it looks really bad ...
THIS IS SUCH A BIG HELP THANK YOU SO MUCH SUBSCRIBED :D
aww glad it was helpful! Welcome to the family :)
yesss thank you for making this video!!
Of course :)
After you do this will sims from the game move in automatically or how would you move random sims in that you are not really playing with but you want to make a better looking neighborhood and do more of a type game
Sims will not automatically move in. You can place households in any lot through manage worlds :)
MsGryphi thank you this really helps 😊
How about the window? Can the window freely without grid? for example: "The Window Can Swipe to The Right or to The left"?
pleasee help me to thiss..
Very helpful ty. I love your videos 🥰
Thank you for this tutorial!! Definitely helpful :D
Glad to hear it! ❤
me being proud that i spent 7 hours on my big ass square house.......then there's RUclips telling me how my building skills suck 😭😂😂
I tried following a floor plan once and it was a big oof. Needless to say I made the bathroom the size of a starter home.
I love your buildings, you are very inspiring. 😊❤ BUT how do you remove the grid when you start the floorplaning?
Thank you! Press "G" on your keyboard :)
When I size things down my camera scrolls out😕 do you know if you can put that off and if you do... how?🤪❤
That's odd. I've heard of that with moving items up and down if you have camera positions saved, but not with sizing items. Hope you can fix it!