it would be interesting to make something like this again but make the rooms fancy and old too, like a private school or a boarding school. i’m particularly biased though cause i love this aesthetic
I love this idea but also i find this so funny because i went to a private boarding high school and let me tell you those rooms were NOT fancy lol. The hot water stopped working in the senior boy's dorm, the laundry room had 4 washing machines for 30 people and half the time they didn't even work, it was not nearly as fancy as people think haha
That would be perfect, maybe single floor with a central common area, and make sure to move elder Sims into it. Be hilarious to move Vlad in there, even though he's not actually an "elder."
I’ve actually taken the largest lot in Henford-on-Bagley and am currently making it into a little elderly retirement village. There’s some communal buildings like a little spa/sauna/yoga instruction room, that also has laundry. There’s a ridiculously well stocked community kitchen, a room for games that also doubles as a cinema type room. And then there’s the little private cottages that are up for rent. They each come with little bedrooms, small kitchens and cozy front porches. The whole place is built up around a lake in the center. Writing this because I’m not sure I’ll finish mine and I want someone more talented to pick up the idea and roll with it.
One of the things I found interesting in an old college town was the old houses built near the University. From the outside they look like the other quaint old houses but when you walked into the entrance there was a foyer with stairs that would go up to a second or sometimes third floor. Each floor was a single unit apartment with hardwood floors and old fashioned wallpaper and antique appliances.
@@aikesscswith the roommates mechanic, everything on the lot is considered ‘shared’. Meaning you could build different bedrooms and make them unique to the sim staying there , but you’d have no guarantee that the correct sims are sleeping in the correct beds. They have the claiming system but it’s buggy imo. You also couldn’t build a full kitchen on the lot, so it’s fairly limiting in that aspect. Also for rent added a whole bunch of new build mode stuff; the new iron fence and railing are my absolute favorite
Most appliances that make food work for that, even the ice cream maker and popcorn popper, I think. Making salads even works. I even took a grill into dorm with me and used it on the balcony. You have to take it back out again, though, or the dorm will be broken because it has a disallowed item. (I've taken firepits too, to roast marshmallows and hotdogs. My sims were a college's worst nightmare.)
These types of apartment style houses are actually very common in the UK for university housing! Their official name is a HMO, or house of multiple occupancy, and every tenant has a private room and a fully shared living space. They're usually just set up in old houses that were sold and renovated for cheap.
I was thinking that too, I stayed in Halls at uni, but I did know people who lived in something like this lol, my 'dorm room' was similar to this though, but I had an en-suite bathroom lol! I chose the place especially for that, as didn't want to share one! 😆
@@beatricegoodchild6232 yep, I was going to live with my best friend in my second year but she decided to get a car and travel in each day so I just stayed there. It did mean I saw three lots of different roommates, my first year ones were the best, we played Wii games together in fact one of them was the first to introduce me to anime lol. It was a private one not ran by Cov Uni so you could stay there as long as they were getting paid lol, and the owners/managers were really lovely, always sorted any problems quickly so I was glad I stayed there 😊 it was a little away from the uni campus, the only drawback, and we had students from another nearby uni living there too. I think I heard the ones by the actual uni were generally only for first years though, so it's likely yours were owned by the uni itself and that's why they had those rules in place. We can have our Sims live in them as long as they want though lol! 😊
@@beatricegoodchild6232Yes! The kind of house where everyone has to use the back door because the front door goes right into someone's bedroom (speaking from experience lol)
I love the chandelier that you used, i dont know why everyone hates on it so much. It looks so good in older looking buildings. Base game has some really good lights if im honest!!
18:50 I promise a college student would absolutely have a rug angled like that- ESPECIALLY an anime looking rug... and they'd think it's peak design, too
I really like the detail of the towels matching the robes in the bathrooms. It reminds me of when I moved out for college. My grandparents were so sweet and sent me a bunch of starter home stuff like towels and dishes, and they ordered them in my favorite color. So, half the stuff I owned was bright purple. 😂 Convent way to prevent your roommates from stealing your stuff.
The build mode items have a certain... old-school? vibe to them that I enjoy. (I, too, am guilty of using StrangerVille when I build without pack restrictions.)
I feel like there's potential for the new castle kit to merge well with university.. and maybe even high school years items. Edit: Omgosh! Can we get a Castle-themed highschool? Maybe an old castle got repurposed by the royal family to become a school!!! Maybe a boarding school? (Just because, who wouldn't want to live in a castle!)
I built something like this and fair warning that the door to your bedroom counts as the front door, not the front door of the lot! I had people trying to do the Welcome Wagon in my bedroom :(
oh we had one shower-room for the entire dorm 😭 i don't even know how many stalls were they because i never used it. i remember that they had thin almost transparent walls and no doors that would close you. there was also an old shower-room in the basement, and that was beyond disgusting and creepy 😅 and not a lot of people used it, only the ines who wanted more privacy (though the shower stalls there also didn't have doors). so i used to drive all the way to my grandparents to shower at their home 😂
This build is sooo good it just needs a hang out spot in the basement for a secret club and you could use the basement pack to decorate it. I can imagine a group of students planning a revolt or just hanging out in their secret base.
For Rent makes student homes far more realistic. First thing I did when the pack came out was converting my overspaced builds to shared ones with rental bedrooms. Second thing is I finally found a use for the huge 64x64 lots. I never knew what to do with those untill now. I create whole streets and neighbourhoods on a single lot. I love it.
I actually redid the top floor of that older couple's house and placed a "roommate" there, pretending that they're renting out the space to some students, because they live in the area and wouldn't mind the extra cash. With this pack I can actually rebuild it a bit closer to what I originally intended, yay! The retired bloke with the fishing aspiration can actually become a cool landlord. In my save I made him a retired engineer by cheating through his career, so he's actually pretty skilled at fixing stuff.
Omggg everyone is going crazy with this pack I LUV IT. You, plumblella, deli, james...everyone is posting so much content I am so happy. Good job Kayla thank you for your work❤ P.S. I love the blue suburbans, that's your signature, please don't abandon them because people criticize you about it, there is the same amount of people loving you and following BECAUSE of this, we love you as you are and we love your blue suburbans❤
Yout builds are becoming better and better in each video! I love how it shows when you like a new pack! This build is perfect for my high school to university storyline I'm playing!
She was talking about her dorm which had the white cinder block walls and that’s exactly how mine was. It was also super small and me and my roommate were always stepping over each other. Also our bathroom had two sinks and a shower and we shared it with the room next door. My dorm was so bad and old that it’s no longer standing. They knocked it down this year and I bought a brick from it 😂
I just made a super fancy and old apartment with one side vintage furniture for the honors/legacies and the other apartment was side modern but kinda cheap looking for regular students. I like the touch of realism in making it obvious who the university cares about more😂
Where I live we have cheap uni housing with 5 people in a room, 20 rooms per floor and a bathroom with like 3 showers, wcs, and sinks at the end of the hallway; one of these has a huge room in the roof with like 30 beds in it and they have to use the bathroom downstairs, which I find horrible. There are also fancier dorm rooms with 2-3 people per room and those rooms have their own bathrooms, as well as a tv and a fridge in the room and the more expensive they are, they newer they are. All dorms have one kitchen per floor with 2 sinks and 2 electric stoves so we could cook, they also have water purifier things so we didn't have to get bottled water. ALSO they're enough for like 10% of the students per uni usually, which makes most students rent in that city, not ideal
I got through at least 75% of this video in 480p and just kind of accepted that my eyesight was bad before realizing it was because I was watching this in 480p that everything was blurry... But even with my blurry eyesight I loved this build, especially the last 25% in 1080p60! Definitely going to be using this in my saves, thank you for building what I didn't have the patience to do!
I lived in the oldest dorms and their kitchen was added 90s updated mid-2000s. It was horrible, most of the stuff didn't want to work right, our sink was always clogged no matter what, the elevator was put in the 80s and would take a full minute of shaking before it would open for your floor. There was a large study room that used to be an RA suite and it was terrifying at night. We had a random nook with a snack machine that was always either broken or empty. They fixed everything the year after I moved to another door. They completely updated the kitchen, study room, and nook. It looks so beautiful. Though the elevator is still terrifying
You can get around the kitchen issue by having a dining area in dorms and use the bon appetit cafeteria item. An NPC will spawn at dining hours. You can also lock your dorm room doors to stop unwanted intruders.
When I was at uni here in 🇫🇮 Finland, I lived in three different student accommodations (plus my first apartment which was a regular one). In my first campus apartment, the actual apartment was separated from its bathroom by a shared entryway with the neighbour 🇵🇱. As a very private person, I didn't like it and it was very annoying. My bathroom had a shower (no bathtub - we rarely have tubs in Finland), a sink, a toilet and the plumbing for the washing machine. But there was no storage space in it. The ventilation didn't work sufficiently and the shower water went everywhere (even with shower curtains) both of which meant you could only put a towel on after showering. The main living space was a long square room which had a kitchen and loads of space for a bed and the living room stuff. My large kitchen had an electric stove (normality here), two sinks (bigger and smaller) and a large combined refrigerator and freezer. I moved out from it because it was too stressful to go to the bathroom and to make sure that the neighbour wasn't around (the neighbour being of the opposite gender). And I couldn't concentrate on studying because the neighbour was so loud by playing music and having parties in her unit. Only then a secrerary of the student apartments foundation (landlords) admitted me that they had actually made a mistake by putting a female and a male in that slightly shared apartment. The second apartment they gave me was very roomy and it wasn't shared in any way. It had the same amenities in the bathroom as the first one. Their floorplan drawings indicated it was a one-room apartment, but it actually was so large that the bedroom was its own room. However, I was so disappointed at the L-shaped kitchen because it had a small fridge with a tiny freezer box, and the cabinets (especially the dish draining cabinet), the stove and the cooker hood were so rusty and moldy. I complained about it, and when returned from my first student exchange in Spain, they chose me the perfect -ish apartment as my third one: you found the same regular Finnish amenities in the bathroom as before. The L-shaped kitchen was kind of its own room and there were two large sinks. When I moved in it, the fridge was very small, but since the floorplan indicated that there should have been a large combined refrigerator and freezer, they brought in one after my complaint. I even placed a full-size dining table with four chairs in it. One thing that surprised me completely was that there was actually a walk-in closet. In the main living space, you were able to put not only a bed but also a proper sofa (I was going to write chesterfield 🇨🇦), a coffee table and the TV & radio with large cabinets, some closets & storage, and a desk with a computer and a printer. I didn't like though that the smoking of the downstairs neighbours came through some air vents, and it was unbearably hot in the summer because it shone straight to my main living space window all day and it's rare to have ACs in this country (I had one but I didn't find a way to install it). I found the kitchen window a bit awkward because it was straight next to the aisle (apparently it's actually called a deck) which meant you could see other tenants walking by, so the curtains were necessary. The rent (in euros) was relatively same in all three back then and the price included electricity, water and internet.
The first thing I did with the for rent pack was create a high school dormitory. I’m on the 7th gen of a legacy challenge that I started back when Baby and her siblings were still children, and I was inspired lol. - Anyway, it worked pretty well! And my ultimate goal was to turn my 7th gen heir into a super sim since I just bought most of the packs I was missing during the Black Friday EA sale, so it was a great opportunity to see how the pack worked from a tenants perspective. I agree that the dorm lot style would work better for college students, but if you want to do something like that for teens (like a “boarding school” storyline), the residential rentals work well! Some caveats though: I made the headmaster (landlord) an elder, and she died before the lease was up/the teens aged up (and getting a new landlord renewed the lease, which was annoying); I had to create all of the households for the other units and dress them in the designated school uniform (they didn’t even attend the same school which sucked).
I'm SO excited to make university apartments! This was my first big build project I've been wanting to work on since getting the pack cause I've been in dorms and campus apartments and I would LOVE to put realistic college living into my sims gameplay.
"We had 5 people sharing a bathroom in my dorm" We had 2 toilets for like 15-20 rooms w 2 girls in each room 😭😭😭😭😭 we weren't allowed any type of cooking device other than a microwave and a coffee machine. And yes it was the oldest dorm on campus, a 15 min walk from the fast food section and about 20 from the cafeteria 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Awee this was so fun to watch!!! I'm excited to download this!! Though the problem with the gallery now is that I can't download lots :( it won't let me download lots on the empty lots even when they're the right size!
I just put this in my SuperSim save. I was getting tired of not having proper food for him, despite him already maxing the cooking skills. I love it. It still feels like a dorm, and I can choose either college when getting all the degrees.
I'm currently in a college dorm, the third from the cheapest so basically the perfect middle. I am on the third floor out of 3 and the only living/kitchen space is on the first floor. There is no fridge tho, only cabinets and an oven with stove so we still have to get our own mini fridges and microwaves. It's 2 people to one bedroom and bathroom space so pretty nice, however the university uses a third party AC company so anytime we have AC/heater problems it takes a week+ to get resolved and we have these issues very often :'). Our laundry is one washer and dryer per floor/8 people to one. My boyfriend lives in the dorm one cheaper then mine which is only 300 cheaper overall yet he never has to call maintenance bc its a building made just two years ago and has a living/kitchen space with a full fridge on EVERY floor, the only downside is its the farthest from campus, slightly smaller, and you do not get an armoire, instead only one small dresser and hanger area. mine is more expensive but worse :'). Also, I really do not understand why they didn't include requirements in the for rent pack. they have rules like no pets but I can't put only uni students? oh, that would be TOO much pack cross-play for them to work on, forgot the EA was lazy POS.
When I had only a few packs I would search the gallery for builds and it seemed like most people used every pack they had available. So what I ended up doing was downloading builds I liked and either I just replaced the missing items or I just used it as a shell and decorated it myself. It's also a good way to make a build yours, for you and your sims.
This looks like the house I lived in my second year. But WAYYY nicer. It was the “international” house. It was the only way to not live in dorm but not pay rent
This makes sense as a good non-dorm student housing. Dorms in some cases are meant for freshmen only and you have to move out once you’ve become a sophomore. It’s usually a large house on campus or a boutique apartment property near campus meant for one or two students to rent.
I had to be extra so i went to Flagler college for my freshman year, so our dorms were the old hotel. Like absolutely ridiculously lavash lobby/dining hall/shared spaces but of course not so nice actual dorm rooms The back entrace was the place where people's carriages would drop them off. This made me think how interesting it would be to make a dorm/hotel/apartments referencing that
i'd like to think that the group is comprised of a kin major, a comp sci major, a visual arts major, and a biology major who are all besties and host little get togethers in their dusty old uni residence :)
Great way of making For Rent useful in other worlds as well. Gameplay wise you rent a dorm at the school, have a job next to it to be able to pay up for it. Make your way into your graduation etc then get a job after and rent or buy your own place after it, since you can't live on a dorm forever, lol.
When she called the cats and dogs curtains horrendous it hurt my heart 😭😭 I think they are the nicest looking curtains we got with ANY early pack literally and they come in so many good sizes 🥺 some of the swatches are a lot I eish there were more neutrals but they are soooooo pretty
I love it, you're so talented. I have a hard time having my Sims live in a dorm, probably because I hate random Sims walking in my Sims place. lol. It bugs me in real life for people to be in my personal space and in Sims if they aren't part of my household.
You know I think we should have a base game update for Cabinets that you could store like pantry food in or something cool like that I think it’ll be fun
Wow me encanto ! Me recuerda a los sims 3 , amaba los sims 3 pero nunca pude jugar sin tener problemas con el juego! Gracias por compartir tu hermoso trabajo!
One thing that always fills me with rage is carpet floors. They’re not really common where I live, I have a bad dust allergy, so they’re my worst nightmare and they’re just gross imo 😂😭 Just got reminded of that with the bedrooms
The shape of this house is the exact same as the layout I made for my own shared-home build😭 It’s just so great to have two separate wings with a middle ground
My dorm in Uni was an old converted hotel. Like from the 20s or older. Tiny rooms for two students, luckily each room had a bathroom. But the “best” part was the ancient ROPE PULLED elevator!! 😮
I’m about 6 minutes in and I could see this making good Greek housing… I know absolutely nothing about Greek housing though, but maybe you’d be interested is a build like that with this pack?
Love this build, really made me think back on when I lived in a dorm with shared kitchen. 😂😂 The kitchen you made is DEFINITELY too nice to be a shared kitchen though 😳😳
Honestly, this place really reminds me of my dorm building at the University of Arizona. The building used to be a mansion, then it was sorority housing, and it was finally renovated to be a dorm building. The building has some really weird kinks in it. If you look up Maricopa dorm at UofA, the floor plan is SO WEIRD lol
The laundry room is TOO realistic. My college apartment had slanted stairs going into the basement that I was always afraid were going to collapse at any moment
My dorm was 24 stories tall. Built in like the 70s or 80s and had been ✨somewhat✨ remodeled. I was lucky and only had to share a bathroom with my roommate. We also had a big window with a pretty view of the sunset. Our dorm did have a kitchen, however, it was the size of a large walk in closet and it was on the FIRST floor. I never even stepped foot in there. 😂
The sharing bathrooms is crazy to me as my university housing you have your own private bathroom and in the slightly more expensive rooms (which I live in) you have your own kitchenette and then 5 of you share a full size kitchen.
I too have big ideas for this pack. I've made a trashy trailer park TLC-style, a cute simple motel, and now I'm brainstorming a cult compound that I will fill with one Sim and his many girlfriends and see how many kids can be on one lot.
I lived in a shared house for a while, and I had lilac towels so that no one would use mine (because someone accidentally used my used towel), so colour coded towels and bathrobes totally makes sense! :)
@@aspenrayne5951 I hadn’t even known that apartments might not have a ceiling light. I bought these ridiculous paper lamps from IKEA, and they just got destroyed. Idk why I kept buying them. What on earth is way too many lights though lmao?
once a Modder makes a 'university enrolled' requirement for renters it'll be useful
i didn't even think of that . I can't wait until a modder does this
this is so smart wait
omg geniusss
My bet is on Kiara doin this seein how many traits related mods they got!
I’m waiting to see what a modder can do with this hot garbage of a pack before I buy it 😂
it would be interesting to make something like this again but make the rooms fancy and old too, like a private school or a boarding school. i’m particularly biased though cause i love this aesthetic
Ohh that's such a good idea I would love to see that (or do it myself once I get the pack)
and match the high school in copperdale to be the same!!!!
I love this idea but also i find this so funny because i went to a private boarding high school and let me tell you those rooms were NOT fancy lol. The hot water stopped working in the senior boy's dorm, the laundry room had 4 washing machines for 30 people and half the time they didn't even work, it was not nearly as fancy as people think haha
@@lichofthewoods1132 Yale (I didn’t go) University also has a very similar problem and some of the areas look jacked.
I think people dislike that chandelier because it suffers from Base Game Low Poly syndrome
And I honestly hate any yellow lighting.
@@micromoronoh lol I can’t buy the sims but that makes sense
@@Ghosts18abc sims is free right now (or at least was a couple days ago), you still need to enter a card but it won’t charge anything to it
@@Ghosts18abcthe sims 4 base game is free now.
@@Ghosts18abc the sims base game is free, at least on pc
We should make elderly homes/appartments with the new pack
That would be perfect, maybe single floor with a central common area, and make sure to move elder Sims into it. Be hilarious to move Vlad in there, even though he's not actually an "elder."
I’ve actually taken the largest lot in Henford-on-Bagley and am currently making it into a little elderly retirement village.
There’s some communal buildings like a little spa/sauna/yoga instruction room, that also has laundry. There’s a ridiculously well stocked community kitchen, a room for games that also doubles as a cinema type room. And then there’s the little private cottages that are up for rent. They each come with little bedrooms, small kitchens and cozy front porches. The whole place is built up around a lake in the center.
Writing this because I’m not sure I’ll finish mine and I want someone more talented to pick up the idea and roll with it.
@@troberts1 that was exactly what i wanted to do!
@@oak_kitten that is a great idea!
Literally wish that elderly only was a lot trait in the pack so that only old people would move in and it can be a little retirement community 🥹
One of the things I found interesting in an old college town was the old houses built near the University. From the outside they look like the other quaint old houses but when you walked into the entrance there was a foyer with stairs that would go up to a second or sometimes third floor. Each floor was a single unit apartment with hardwood floors and old fashioned wallpaper and antique appliances.
The roommate thing from University is nothing compared to the freedom of For Rent
Literally the only difference is that with for rent you can't see their rooms
@@aikesscsimo it has a lot more features than roommates
@@dreamweaver444yeah roommates actually pay you rent.
@@aikesscswith the roommates mechanic, everything on the lot is considered ‘shared’. Meaning you could build different bedrooms and make them unique to the sim staying there , but you’d have no guarantee that the correct sims are sleeping in the correct beds. They have the claiming system but it’s buggy imo.
You also couldn’t build a full kitchen on the lot, so it’s fairly limiting in that aspect.
Also for rent added a whole bunch of new build mode stuff; the new iron fence and railing are my absolute favorite
I add the pressure cooker to my sim's dorm room therefore she can cook a bunch of meals that ain't quickmeals and my sim is happy without stoves
Most appliances that make food work for that, even the ice cream maker and popcorn popper, I think. Making salads even works. I even took a grill into dorm with me and used it on the balcony. You have to take it back out again, though, or the dorm will be broken because it has a disallowed item. (I've taken firepits too, to roast marshmallows and hotdogs. My sims were a college's worst nightmare.)
my best friend does this in her irl dorm so points for accuracy
Lol this is me in real life hahaha airfryers are life savers
These types of apartment style houses are actually very common in the UK for university housing! Their official name is a HMO, or house of multiple occupancy, and every tenant has a private room and a fully shared living space. They're usually just set up in old houses that were sold and renovated for cheap.
yess id love to see some accurate british uni house builds, the small terraces with random rooms used as bedrooms lol
I was thinking that too, I stayed in Halls at uni, but I did know people who lived in something like this lol, my 'dorm room' was similar to this though, but I had an en-suite bathroom lol! I chose the place especially for that, as didn't want to share one! 😆
@@Shell05231 ooh where you in halls the whole time? I was only allowed to be there for 1st year
@@beatricegoodchild6232 yep, I was going to live with my best friend in my second year but she decided to get a car and travel in each day so I just stayed there. It did mean I saw three lots of different roommates, my first year ones were the best, we played Wii games together in fact one of them was the first to introduce me to anime lol.
It was a private one not ran by Cov Uni so you could stay there as long as they were getting paid lol, and the owners/managers were really lovely, always sorted any problems quickly so I was glad I stayed there 😊 it was a little away from the uni campus, the only drawback, and we had students from another nearby uni living there too. I think I heard the ones by the actual uni were generally only for first years though, so it's likely yours were owned by the uni itself and that's why they had those rules in place.
We can have our Sims live in them as long as they want though lol! 😊
@@beatricegoodchild6232Yes! The kind of house where everyone has to use the back door because the front door goes right into someone's bedroom (speaking from experience lol)
The layout is very sims 3 reminiscent and I love it ❤🥲
Real, I think she wanted it to be like the one from the University world
I love the chandelier that you used, i dont know why everyone hates on it so much. It looks so good in older looking buildings. Base game has some really good lights if im honest!!
Yes! Recently I've realized how good base game actually is!
18:50 I promise a college student would absolutely have a rug angled like that- ESPECIALLY an anime looking rug... and they'd think it's peak design, too
i love how simsie uses UK sentence structure or phrases since living with dan😭 “i’ve been sat here trying to figure out which chairs to use”
Oh, I watch so many British creators that I hadn't noticed, but you're right.
Actually, it would be 'sitting here' not 'sat here'.
@@kimwexler9393 that was. the point of the original comment? it's a brit thing to say "i've been sat here" instead of "i've been sitting here"
@azalulu No, the opposite is true. We don't say "I've been sat here."
@@kimwexler9393 I just watched a Dan and Phil video where Dan said it.
This is exactly what I have been waiting for. I really want to see how Get To Rent will work when paired with Discover University!
get to rent! lol. For Rent
I checked my phone at the perfect time
Same!
lol
Saaame girl
Me too 😅
no literally
I really like the detail of the towels matching the robes in the bathrooms. It reminds me of when I moved out for college. My grandparents were so sweet and sent me a bunch of starter home stuff like towels and dishes, and they ordered them in my favorite color. So, half the stuff I owned was bright purple. 😂 Convent way to prevent your roommates from stealing your stuff.
I swear Kayla always manages to use Strangerville when she's building without restricting packs
The build mode items have a certain... old-school? vibe to them that I enjoy. (I, too, am guilty of using StrangerVille when I build without pack restrictions.)
I feel like there's potential for the new castle kit to merge well with university.. and maybe even high school years items.
Edit: Omgosh! Can we get a Castle-themed highschool? Maybe an old castle got repurposed by the royal family to become a school!!! Maybe a boarding school? (Just because, who wouldn't want to live in a castle!)
yeeees!!! I actually love the university pack
eh i'm in an apartment irl. its not great unless you can rent by yourself. If you have roommates you're just living in a glorified dorm
a moment of silence for those sims that are now stuck with two empty boxes 😔
I built something like this and fair warning that the door to your bedroom counts as the front door, not the front door of the lot! I had people trying to do the Welcome Wagon in my bedroom :(
oh we had one shower-room for the entire dorm 😭 i don't even know how many stalls were they because i never used it. i remember that they had thin almost transparent walls and no doors that would close you. there was also an old shower-room in the basement, and that was beyond disgusting and creepy 😅 and not a lot of people used it, only the ines who wanted more privacy (though the shower stalls there also didn't have doors). so i used to drive all the way to my grandparents to shower at their home 😂
This build is sooo good it just needs a hang out spot in the basement for a secret club and you could use the basement pack to decorate it. I can imagine a group of students planning a revolt or just hanging out in their secret base.
oh so I’m just NOW LEARNING you can LOWER BASEMENTS to get rid of the terrain going up against the house……… how many years has it been?????
I want someone to turn Vlad's mansion into a bed & breakfast.
You get it
For Rent makes student homes far more realistic. First thing I did when the pack came out was converting my overspaced builds to shared ones with rental bedrooms.
Second thing is I finally found a use for the huge 64x64 lots. I never knew what to do with those untill now. I create whole streets and neighbourhoods on a single lot. I love it.
These dorms are nice AF. This must be an Ivy or private because I wish dorms were half as nice as this!
This looks so awesome. The outside is absolutely on theme for the world!
totally! i love the dark brick with the ivy
I actually redid the top floor of that older couple's house and placed a "roommate" there, pretending that they're renting out the space to some students, because they live in the area and wouldn't mind the extra cash. With this pack I can actually rebuild it a bit closer to what I originally intended, yay! The retired bloke with the fishing aspiration can actually become a cool landlord. In my save I made him a retired engineer by cheating through his career, so he's actually pretty skilled at fixing stuff.
Omggg everyone is going crazy with this pack I LUV IT. You, plumblella, deli, james...everyone is posting so much content I am so happy. Good job Kayla thank you for your work❤
P.S. I love the blue suburbans, that's your signature, please don't abandon them because people criticize you about it, there is the same amount of people loving you and following BECAUSE of this, we love you as you are and we love your blue suburbans❤
The freeze at the beginning was so accurate, as a Londoner. Plus townhouses in London do have very tall walls!
yes please do another university let’s play!!! I love watching you do university because playing through the pack myself stresses me out😅😅
Yout builds are becoming better and better in each video! I love how it shows when you like a new pack! This build is perfect for my high school to university storyline I'm playing!
It’s so interesting to see how student apartments are in different in each state
She was talking about her dorm which had the white cinder block walls and that’s exactly how mine was. It was also super small and me and my roommate were always stepping over each other. Also our bathroom had two sinks and a shower and we shared it with the room next door. My dorm was so bad and old that it’s no longer standing. They knocked it down this year and I bought a brick from it 😂
I just made a super fancy and old apartment with one side vintage furniture for the honors/legacies and the other apartment was side modern but kinda cheap looking for regular students. I like the touch of realism in making it obvious who the university cares about more😂
Where I live we have cheap uni housing with 5 people in a room, 20 rooms per floor and a bathroom with like 3 showers, wcs, and sinks at the end of the hallway; one of these has a huge room in the roof with like 30 beds in it and they have to use the bathroom downstairs, which I find horrible. There are also fancier dorm rooms with 2-3 people per room and those rooms have their own bathrooms, as well as a tv and a fridge in the room and the more expensive they are, they newer they are. All dorms have one kitchen per floor with 2 sinks and 2 electric stoves so we could cook, they also have water purifier things so we didn't have to get bottled water. ALSO they're enough for like 10% of the students per uni usually, which makes most students rent in that city, not ideal
I got through at least 75% of this video in 480p and just kind of accepted that my eyesight was bad before realizing it was because I was watching this in 480p that everything was blurry... But even with my blurry eyesight I loved this build, especially the last 25% in 1080p60! Definitely going to be using this in my saves, thank you for building what I didn't have the patience to do!
I lived in the oldest dorms and their kitchen was added 90s updated mid-2000s. It was horrible, most of the stuff didn't want to work right, our sink was always clogged no matter what, the elevator was put in the 80s and would take a full minute of shaking before it would open for your floor. There was a large study room that used to be an RA suite and it was terrifying at night. We had a random nook with a snack machine that was always either broken or empty. They fixed everything the year after I moved to another door. They completely updated the kitchen, study room, and nook. It looks so beautiful. Though the elevator is still terrifying
I fell in love with this lot when you started with the nasty basement.
You totally should do a sorority or frat house like this!!
in my opinion i do think you should do another let’s play with this house 😂 i love the university pack!!
You can get around the kitchen issue by having a dining area in dorms and use the bon appetit cafeteria item. An NPC will spawn at dining hours. You can also lock your dorm room doors to stop unwanted intruders.
When I was at uni here in 🇫🇮 Finland, I lived in three different student accommodations (plus my first apartment which was a regular one).
In my first campus apartment, the actual apartment was separated from its bathroom by a shared entryway with the neighbour 🇵🇱. As a very private person, I didn't like it and it was very annoying. My bathroom had a shower (no bathtub - we rarely have tubs in Finland), a sink, a toilet and the plumbing for the washing machine. But there was no storage space in it. The ventilation didn't work sufficiently and the shower water went everywhere (even with shower curtains) both of which meant you could only put a towel on after showering. The main living space was a long square room which had a kitchen and loads of space for a bed and the living room stuff. My large kitchen had an electric stove (normality here), two sinks (bigger and smaller) and a large combined refrigerator and freezer.
I moved out from it because it was too stressful to go to the bathroom and to make sure that the neighbour wasn't around (the neighbour being of the opposite gender). And I couldn't concentrate on studying because the neighbour was so loud by playing music and having parties in her unit. Only then a secrerary of the student apartments foundation (landlords) admitted me that they had actually made a mistake by putting a female and a male in that slightly shared apartment.
The second apartment they gave me was very roomy and it wasn't shared in any way. It had the same amenities in the bathroom as the first one. Their floorplan drawings indicated it was a one-room apartment, but it actually was so large that the bedroom was its own room. However, I was so disappointed at the L-shaped kitchen because it had a small fridge with a tiny freezer box, and the cabinets (especially the dish draining cabinet), the stove and the cooker hood were so rusty and moldy.
I complained about it, and when returned from my first student exchange in Spain, they chose me the perfect -ish apartment as my third one: you found the same regular Finnish amenities in the bathroom as before. The L-shaped kitchen was kind of its own room and there were two large sinks. When I moved in it, the fridge was very small, but since the floorplan indicated that there should have been a large combined refrigerator and freezer, they brought in one after my complaint. I even placed a full-size dining table with four chairs in it.
One thing that surprised me completely was that there was actually a walk-in closet. In the main living space, you were able to put not only a bed but also a proper sofa (I was going to write chesterfield 🇨🇦), a coffee table and the TV & radio with large cabinets, some closets & storage, and a desk with a computer and a printer.
I didn't like though that the smoking of the downstairs neighbours came through some air vents, and it was unbearably hot in the summer because it shone straight to my main living space window all day and it's rare to have ACs in this country (I had one but I didn't find a way to install it). I found the kitchen window a bit awkward because it was straight next to the aisle (apparently it's actually called a deck) which meant you could see other tenants walking by, so the curtains were necessary.
The rent (in euros) was relatively same in all three back then and the price included electricity, water and internet.
Oh man we totally think alike I just posted a university apartment complex yesterday that I was working on before the For Rent pack came out.
The first thing I did with the for rent pack was create a high school dormitory. I’m on the 7th gen of a legacy challenge that I started back when Baby and her siblings were still children, and I was inspired lol.
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Anyway, it worked pretty well! And my ultimate goal was to turn my 7th gen heir into a super sim since I just bought most of the packs I was missing during the Black Friday EA sale, so it was a great opportunity to see how the pack worked from a tenants perspective.
I agree that the dorm lot style would work better for college students, but if you want to do something like that for teens (like a “boarding school” storyline), the residential rentals work well! Some caveats though: I made the headmaster (landlord) an elder, and she died before the lease was up/the teens aged up (and getting a new landlord renewed the lease, which was annoying); I had to create all of the households for the other units and dress them in the designated school uniform (they didn’t even attend the same school which sucked).
imagine someone playing the piano right against your dorm wall. i would simply pass away
Your videos are very fun to watch! Keep being you! ❤
I'm SO excited to make university apartments! This was my first big build project I've been wanting to work on since getting the pack cause I've been in dorms and campus apartments and I would LOVE to put realistic college living into my sims gameplay.
"We had 5 people sharing a bathroom in my dorm"
We had 2 toilets for like 15-20 rooms w 2 girls in each room 😭😭😭😭😭 we weren't allowed any type of cooking device other than a microwave and a coffee machine. And yes it was the oldest dorm on campus, a 15 min walk from the fast food section and about 20 from the cafeteria 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Love love love seeing Britechester with this new apartment feature. It there is a world that really needs it, thats Britechester!
Awee this was so fun to watch!!! I'm excited to download this!!
Though the problem with the gallery now is that I can't download lots :( it won't let me download lots on the empty lots even when they're the right size!
i'm watching this video from my dorm (haven't gone back for winter break yet) and i'm so jealous of how much space these sims have lol
I just put this in my SuperSim save. I was getting tired of not having proper food for him, despite him already maxing the cooking skills. I love it. It still feels like a dorm, and I can choose either college when getting all the degrees.
Kayla STOP calling everything horrible & just BUILDDDD please 😂
I'm currently in a college dorm, the third from the cheapest so basically the perfect middle. I am on the third floor out of 3 and the only living/kitchen space is on the first floor. There is no fridge tho, only cabinets and an oven with stove so we still have to get our own mini fridges and microwaves. It's 2 people to one bedroom and bathroom space so pretty nice, however the university uses a third party AC company so anytime we have AC/heater problems it takes a week+ to get resolved and we have these issues very often :'). Our laundry is one washer and dryer per floor/8 people to one. My boyfriend lives in the dorm one cheaper then mine which is only 300 cheaper overall yet he never has to call maintenance bc its a building made just two years ago and has a living/kitchen space with a full fridge on EVERY floor, the only downside is its the farthest from campus, slightly smaller, and you do not get an armoire, instead only one small dresser and hanger area. mine is more expensive but worse :').
Also, I really do not understand why they didn't include requirements in the for rent pack. they have rules like no pets but I can't put only uni students? oh, that would be TOO much pack cross-play for them to work on, forgot the EA was lazy POS.
When I had only a few packs I would search the gallery for builds and it seemed like most people used every pack they had available. So what I ended up doing was downloading builds I liked and either I just replaced the missing items or I just used it as a shell and decorated it myself. It's also a good way to make a build yours, for you and your sims.
This looks like the house I lived in my second year. But WAYYY nicer. It was the “international” house. It was the only way to not live in dorm but not pay rent
me personally i love that chandelier
I just sent a sim to university and I just locked the door to their room for everyone but them lol. It’s worked so far but this is probably better
In my dorm we had one women’s bathroom on our floor, there were like 20 dorms on one floor (singles, doubles, triples, quads) it was AWFUL.
This makes sense as a good non-dorm student housing. Dorms in some cases are meant for freshmen only and you have to move out once you’ve become a sophomore. It’s usually a large house on campus or a boutique apartment property near campus meant for one or two students to rent.
I had to be extra so i went to Flagler college for my freshman year, so our dorms were the old hotel. Like absolutely ridiculously lavash lobby/dining hall/shared spaces but of course not so nice actual dorm rooms The back entrace was the place where people's carriages would drop them off.
This made me think how interesting it would be to make a dorm/hotel/apartments referencing that
I would love to see you do a really fancy sorority house! as a brit I’m so fascinated by them!! ❤
i'd like to think that the group is comprised of a kin major, a comp sci major, a visual arts major, and a biology major who are all besties and host little get togethers in their dusty old uni residence :)
Great way of making For Rent useful in other worlds as well. Gameplay wise you rent a dorm at the school, have a job next to it to be able to pay up for it.
Make your way into your graduation etc then get a job after and rent or buy your own place after it, since you can't live on a dorm forever, lol.
I’m in a dorm room approx that size with a whole other person lmao I’d love to have all that space
When she called the cats and dogs curtains horrendous it hurt my heart 😭😭 I think they are the nicest looking curtains we got with ANY early pack literally and they come in so many good sizes 🥺 some of the swatches are a lot I eish there were more neutrals but they are soooooo pretty
Before you said it reminded you of the sorority houses from Sims 3, I was just thinking how it reminded me of the Scottish rite dorm at UT Austin.
I love it, you're so talented. I have a hard time having my Sims live in a dorm, probably because I hate random Sims walking in my Sims place. lol. It bugs me in real life for people to be in my personal space and in Sims if they aren't part of my household.
for some reason the entrance of the house reminds me of the spencer mansion from resident evil and the upstairs too
You know I think we should have a base game update for Cabinets that you could store like pantry food in or something cool like that I think it’ll be fun
I use that chandelier ALL the time 😅 Crazy to hear that people don't like it when its basically my go-to for visible ceiling lighting
In some ways this reminds me of my favorite apt building I lived in during grad school ❤ including the hazardous basement!!
I think used right, the chandelier can be perfect! Which it works so good right there. Love the video!
I love that chandelier! It has sort of deco vibes.
Wow me encanto ! Me recuerda a los sims 3 , amaba los sims 3 pero nunca pude jugar sin tener problemas con el juego! Gracias por compartir tu hermoso trabajo!
my favorite part of the day is when you upload 😂
same
Bro I can relate to that so much
One thing that always fills me with rage is carpet floors. They’re not really common where I live, I have a bad dust allergy, so they’re my worst nightmare and they’re just gross imo 😂😭
Just got reminded of that with the bedrooms
The shape of this house is the exact same as the layout I made for my own shared-home build😭 It’s just so great to have two separate wings with a middle ground
PERFECT timing 😊 - I am just now looking for a new place for my Uni sim to live, and I have a great storyline in mind for this building ❤
You’re my favorite RUclipsr!! It’s a part of my daily routine to watch your videos so thank you all that you do ❤
My dorm in Uni was an old converted hotel. Like from the 20s or older. Tiny rooms for two students, luckily each room had a bathroom. But the “best” part was the ancient ROPE PULLED elevator!! 😮
I’m about 6 minutes in and I could see this making good Greek housing… I know absolutely nothing about Greek housing though, but maybe you’d be interested is a build like that with this pack?
Love this build, really made me think back on when I lived in a dorm with shared kitchen. 😂😂 The kitchen you made is DEFINITELY too nice to be a shared kitchen though 😳😳
Really nice build Kayla. I had the large brick walls in a couple of my dorms. And I shared a bathroom in a few other dorm rooms.
Honestly, this place really reminds me of my dorm building at the University of Arizona. The building used to be a mansion, then it was sorority housing, and it was finally renovated to be a dorm building. The building has some really weird kinks in it. If you look up Maricopa dorm at UofA, the floor plan is SO WEIRD lol
Kayla doubting her vision for the first 6 minutes while I sit here in awe of how easily she makes cute uni townhouses
The laundry room is TOO realistic. My college apartment had slanted stairs going into the basement that I was always afraid were going to collapse at any moment
That big mailbox is way to much. I'd just grab four small ones and put them next to each other!
this video is very convenient considering i left college 😭🤣
My dorm was 24 stories tall. Built in like the 70s or 80s and had been ✨somewhat✨ remodeled. I was lucky and only had to share a bathroom with my roommate. We also had a big window with a pretty view of the sunset. Our dorm did have a kitchen, however, it was the size of a large walk in closet and it was on the FIRST floor. I never even stepped foot in there. 😂
please play in this lot, i would love to watch your gameplay. You're the best!
I've been loving the longer videos lately
The sharing bathrooms is crazy to me as my university housing you have your own private bathroom and in the slightly more expensive rooms (which I live in) you have your own kitchenette and then 5 of you share a full size kitchen.
I loved the build, so much creativity mixed with realism! Could you try making a gingerbread house in the Sims please?
I too have big ideas for this pack. I've made a trashy trailer park TLC-style, a cute simple motel, and now I'm brainstorming a cult compound that I will fill with one Sim and his many girlfriends and see how many kids can be on one lot.
I lived in a shared house for a while, and I had lilac towels so that no one would use mine (because someone accidentally used my used towel), so colour coded towels and bathrobes totally makes sense! :)
I’m loving the apartment content! Please keep it coming ❤❤
It was a little uggo of a dorm light, but you always have the best builds. Full disclosure, most of my uni apartments didn’t have overheard lights.
my first once didn't we had to rely on lamps, the second and third one did but my third one had WAY too many lights
@@aspenrayne5951 I hadn’t even known that apartments might not have a ceiling light. I bought these ridiculous paper lamps from IKEA, and they just got destroyed. Idk why I kept buying them. What on earth is way too many lights though lmao?
Love the new profile picture ❤