I tried to recreate this horrifically unique house in The Sims 4

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[@kenz392]

The original house looks like something ea would build. It’s giving me del sol valley art museum.

[@33ktty_kat33]

I love this comment 😂

[@magnoliashoals]

💀 my thoughts exactly

[@virgilwatkins552]

the real house is serving hobbit studied at the bauhaus and starts an architechtural firm in the shire vibes and i live

[@DanielleDale]

My betta fish sometimes flares his face when he can see his reflection when it starts to get dark outside his tank. I feel I'd be the same level of paranoid if I was in a house surrounded by many windows at night.

[@luna-moon-n]

Bit random but still facts .

[@tirsden]

I scare myself all the time with my own movements reflecting on pots and pans in the kitchen, so yeah, tons of window would destroy me.

[@RebekahSage]

No but it actually looks accurate on the outside, and I hate it

[@M0rbidCuriositea]

Super impressed how well she recreated it! I could never. Roofs in the Sims 4 really boggle me.

[@sofarle]

"Shove plants in in hopes they fix all of my problems" girl preach PREACH, the air in my quarantine room is crispier than a fresh chip in a Lays bag, all because of these hard-working green babies

[@DissonantSynth]

2:09 thank you Declan, for confirming that it is without a doubt, a circle

[@floramew]

I enjoyed trying to make Stardew Valley houses in ts4-- in such a way that preserved both the inside floorplan and the outside bits of the house. I had to be... creative. Esp since there are no* bathrooms in SDV maps. I'm not saying you should make SDV houses yourself... but if it wouldn't get you in trouble with copyright, I think buildings from media you enjoy could be a fun challenge. *initially I typoed that as "more". Lol... not quite

[@dishwashee]

you should check out drgluon! he built the whole stardew valley town lol

[@seabb]

I did the same thing!! I just crammed the bathrooms in the voids between rooms in the floorplan, honestly. resulted in some oddly triangular restrooms, but hey, it works! the houses are so much bigger on the inside than they look from the outside 😫

[@leokelly6132]

i've done the same thing! i just changed the floorplans a bunch to make it easier for myself lol

[@bambi9609]

She did something similar on a twitch stream. It’s the one where she plays The Simpsons Hit ‘n Run (it’s on her plumbella streams channel), after playing she made the home from memory.

[@SantaFishes101]

omg I did that with harvest moon and it's so hard !!!

[@xaviorshideout]

This is basically my overreacting anxiety as a fucking house

[@Shan-rd3xb]

Bit random, but just wanted to say thanks for being so open about neurodiveristy! After watching a build/chat video from a while ago where you said something like "I've been putting neurotypical expectations on myself" something clicked. Since then I've had discussions with my GP and they suspect both ASD and ADHD, and I finally feel like I'm starting to get some idea of who I am as a person haha. So just wanted to say thank you for your openness and honesty around your struggles! I'd still be feeling very lost if it wasn't for you 🥰

[@cquadruple]

i'm so happy for you!!! i got diagnosed with asd at 18 and get diagnosed with (inattentive type) adhd a few months ago after years of trying to get help and the doctors i was with treating me like shit... and god fucking damn, it makes such a difference to even have the official recognition of my neurodivergence. it's good to see other people get the same thing :'}

[@QueerCripple]

I also massively appreciate it. I love that we are both Cancers because I CRY OVER EVERYTHING, GOOD OR BAD, and I love saying "I can't help it I'm just a Cancer" and hearing her say it too just 😭❤ we are both overly emotional autistic Cancers, and I LOVE it!

[@milkman445]

Good luck with ur diagnosis and i hope you have a good day

[@byrnetdown6076]

that's amazing!! I'm waiting on my ASD results right now :,)

[@poohshiesty5624]

Girl stfu

[@cristopheralva2458]

me seeing the photo of the real house: It's so ugly I love it!!

[@bridgetscott5785]

Love me some Ant Man refs

[@emilyjackson9536]

cassie :>

[@madisonenglish0906]

I live in New Jersey and on my bike ride I saw this house! I clicked on this video because I recognized it! The house in person gives me major teletubbie vibes. Lacey Township NJ is where it is

[@hellformichelle]

I gotta say: I'm absolutely obsessed with your sweater

[@justaperson4656]

With houses with lots of windows, you get used to the "is someone watching me?" feeling. I actually used to get changed next to my window without closing the blinds because eventually I reasoned that nobody would look into the second floor windows, and if they were I'd look at them back, and (although nobody ever did look into my window) I garuntee there's nothing creepier than the person you're watching get changed watch you back as they do so.

[@organicstorm]

I think you underestimate how creepy real creeps get.. (anyways, I once accidentally saw someone change through their wide open window while I was visiting a friend and standing around on their balcony, minding my own business, and in my mind THEY were the creep .. who does that, close the window! 🤣 Goes both ways these things.

[@melz6625]

as someone with a gigantic window in the bathroom and a roof terrace directly in the house row across the street I can tell you it is more awkward for the person naked about to sit on the loo than the dude on the roof terrace steps smoking while looking down on you. yeahhh… 0/10 don’t recommend

[@justaperson4656]

@@organicstorm trust me, I'm not underestimating how creepy they get, but I do know they usually get startled when caught. Thankfully I made sure you can't see through my window from any balconies, but honestly with windows in every room it gets to the point that you don't care/can't be bothered with closing it

[@byrnetdown6076]

@@justaperson4656 that just isn't true?? way too many creeps get off on the situation and would only be more excited to know that you're watching them back

[@Draeyad]

Unique is a very nice way to put it because that original photo is giving me serious anxiety I can’t lie to you

[@Memecious]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/faKkoqitlr2UfcU ..

[@mackenzie0222]

yeah there’s way too much to look at no thank you

[@mollynelson7065]

As an American, we also have no idea why our houses are wood lolll. Along with many other things. Like the gap in a public toilet door. Mysteries we shall never know

[@R0SC0SM0S]

the gap in the public toilet doors is so homeless people cant hide in the bathrooms at night :/

[@BarbieGirlMaeve]

@@R0SC0SM0S but they’re like that in the arrivals hall of an airport where there are zero homeless people…make it make sense 😩

[@tirsden]

@@BarbieGirlMaeve - Consistency? We can't have that here, because muh freedoms, or some shite.

[@SaigesArstgo1031]

the houses are made of wood because its faster to build. because we have so many natural disasters. also less likely to kill you in those natural disasters

[@clsisman]

I was interested in this so I looked it up: 1. America was built up incredibly fast so they needed to use cheap and nearby materials so wood was ideal. 2. Apparently a wood house with a brick basement is the best and safest for earthquakes because wood is flexible (less likely to get damaged in the first place) and easy to replace because it's everywhere and it's cheap. 3. I don't know if american people know this but UK building conventions and regulations, going back to jacobean era, means that a lot of our walls are fully 2 1/2 ft thick basically due to them having to withstand the damp that comes with our ridiculous rainfall levels. So where American houses have 1-inch outer wooden layer, a space, and then a very thin plasterboard layer, lots of english houses have a 9"-27" brick or stone outer layer, a space (sometimes filled with insulation), and then a wooden inner layer. My wifi only works in the room that it's in and the neighbouring rooms (the one next to it and the one above it) because it can't penetrate two walls.

[@angharadlerryn]

my period has irreparably destroyed my mind, body and spirit this week and your videos are currently the only things that bring me the smallest crumb of serotonin whilst my body tries to send me back to our good lord before my time 😌 u are an absolute blessing and a shining beacon of hope in my darkest of days thank u jesse, i appreciate u sm x

[@Sugary-Stardust]

My period was the same this week. I hope your next one is easier.

[@angharadlerryn]

@@Sugary-Stardust i'm sorry to hear that bb :( it really does suck lol, but we're tough cookies 😌❤️

[@maxwellwinters5792]

I request recreating the same house in paralives whenever it comes out.

[@nojerama788]

"Hey hens" is my one and only source of serotonin in my life right now and I am treasuring it

[@YourFriendlyInsuranceAdjuster]

For me it’s the “how we all diddily doing?”

[@uncontrollableorange]

Omg I live around the corner from this house! I thought it looked familiar but thought I was crazy, but I've been inside this house! It's literally surrounded by normal suburban houses, it sticks out like crazy hahaha

[@ellislinva]

I love your sweater and your hair colour looks really good!

[@bigsiskrishere]

I think houses are wood in America because it's the most plentiful and cheapest building material. I'm in the PNW and essentially live in a giant forest haha

[@candystrobel1933]

...my house is brick.... And it's not like expensive or anything... like that house is prolly 2-4 times the cost of mines, it's 4 bed (small rooms tho) 2 bath with a inlaw sweet attached to the carport. (So like +1 bed and bath, totalling 5bed 3 bath.) I think it has more to do with when things were built, where, and what was "in style". Bricks may be more expensive than lumber.. but having hardi board siding is like 2.40/SF for expensive and brick is like 2.50/SF for cheap... You're gonna pay it again in like 10 years >.> It's like getting a shingle roof Vs a tin one.

[@bigsiskrishere]

@@candystrobel1933 That's likely too, and it could also be a regional thing.

[@swimmyswim417]

@@bigsiskrishere yeah, time period + region probably determine which materials are most plentiful. I’m also from PNW but we’ve got a ton of brick builds here, especially from the early to mid-20th century since we had a huge brick industry in my corner of the state.

[@Ray_Vun]

@@candystrobel1933 it was less the matter of price and more the matter of speed. the settlers in the east wanted to expand and populate towards the west as fast as possible, that means basically building whole towns overnight. wood was just chop, cut, attach. bricks and mortar take more time and effort to make, not to mention you also have to wait for the mortar to dry. brick houses just weren't time efficient and i guess it kinda stuck and they still use that method today

[@lillian8067]

Midwest (Great Lakes) here, also in a heavily forested area. I think you're totally right about it being a regional thing. Most people's houses around here are wood with vinyl siding, or painted ladies (also wood lol). Wealthier people in my area have either brick-and-timber Tudors, or just, like, elaborate three-story lakeside log cabins. Our respective regions have somewhat similar weather patterns, too, so maybe that has something to do with it? Different materials doing better in certain climates? Now I want the entire history of architecture hahaha!

[@Alex-xi9ij]

I watch these videos on 2x speed. Its certainly an experience! 🥰

[@Memecious]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/faKkoqitlr2UfcU ..

[@suzanneclover13]

her accent sped up is just amazing

[@inimitablestoo]

That house is definitely the Teletubbies' winter retreat. Assuming they can ever leave Teletubbyland. The seemingly idyllic surroundings overseen by a creepy sun baby always gave off The Prisoner vibes. Possibly a unique opinion

[@tophergiresi2672]

This house is from my home town ! I remember passing by it every morning going to school thinking it was so cool !!

[@melanie_luv2_sew]

perfect house to utilize the useless counter top oven from DHD. The ever useful in-counter fridge from DU and stove top from DHD.

[@Mariisssssa]

luv ya hen. this is my favorite parasocial relationship

[@gayass]

this is my favourite way to feed Susan's bank account

[@kaemincha]

i really want a lot of windows in my house because without windows, i feel very stuffy and depressed.. but i totally understand the horror film vibes! this is why good curtains are a MUST in a house with lots of windows.

[@meahendrix598]

I don't know if I'll explain this in a way that makes sense but I'm pretty sure when you use rails you can put down any fence and then copy the rail and you can paste/replace the fence with the same rail style. Saves scrolling for the damned fence

[@TheTossedOne]

I really really love what a rollercoaster all your building videos are. It's always like ahh, it's going great, I'm having a fantastic time, I'm so innovative!! to then the next moment go aww shit no everything's ruined I hate it. Never change.

[@SwimInMyPoole]

"It's like that but smaller" EA whenever they create new furniture for expansion packs

[@justinabean94]

you made it look like a cute lil airbnb cottage you'd stay in for a few days :) i wish the sims would do like a retro futuristic kit with curved everything, bubble windows and decor and 60-70s color pallets. it would be so fun

[@chiachang7335]

Zillow’s my favorite place to be on lmao I go on and pretend I’m rich enough to afford and live in them homes

[@Memecious]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/faKkoqitlr2UfcU ..

[@sadiet3342]

i love ur sweater

[@ashleighpayne7423]

I'm so glad I found this ! Another builder I watch made something that made me wish someone was doing Zillow Gone Wild builds. I hope you do more!

[@Silverroses013]

This is impressive! I also kind of like your simple interior more. Serious Airbnb vibes!

[@brosandprose]

I would love to see you collaborate with McMansionHell and make some of the houses Kate Wagner has featured!!

[@listenerdave101]

@1:45 right and yet I keep going back. I love building more then the gameplay but that maybe because of all the load screens.

[@oiytd5wugho]

13:36 oh, just wait till you find out about "five-over-ones". It's like *wanting* the building to kill you

[@rose_thyme1254]

Only some of America has tornados :) Actually it's really interesting bc in different parts of the country different building styles are fancier and more expensive. Like stone houses in CA are fancy and in CO they're normal (I think, I was 11 when we moved but I do know the building styles are different bit bc my dad did real estate)

[@shushia1658]

I loved it how it actually looks which is sort of like a snail shell, so the back should look circular. You did a really good job on the front.

[@tealeanna]

I just moved into a house earlier this year that has loads of floor-to-ceiling windows. It took two months to stop feeling like someone was always watching me, except at night. Night time has it happen on and off still.

[@sydmac]

Pardon me this is an absolute masterpiece🙌🏼

[@catlinaplays8626]

😍

[@danikaleaver8877]

idea for a video: make a multi-bed, multi-bath home. but the challenge is it's the OPPOSITE of the challenge you did where you can only use each item once. instead, you have to pick ONE bed and you have to use that in every bedroom but just different swatches. same with wallpaper/lights/toilets/etc

[@reeses13]

“How we all diddily doin” hit diff when you’re NOT holdin up 🥲

[@r1a8y]

I was told that the reason American houses are wood rather than brick is because they 're cheaper to rebuild or fix if they are torn down.Also it's probably a bit safer for wood to be flying around as apposed to bricks if the tornado was really bad.

[@Juliana-xw7sk]

a cob house with living roof!!! you could seriously use your cottage core vibes to make a great build out of it

[@mabsie2249]

Houses here are cement foundation and wood for the rest of the structure. We get hurricanes in the winter. The wood is bendy enough that it just sort of wobbles with the wind without snapping, so there is method to the madness :) windows might shatter though, they're not as flexible

[@EmmaConstableEmma_101__]

from what i know, we have wood houses because it’s better in natural disasters such as earthquakes! it’s flexible and less likely to hurt people such as brick, etc.

[@plantcrepe]

*casually awaits lilsimsie's impending attempt at this monstrosity*

[@LunaWitcher]

I mean, I've heard that BECAUSE they have tornados and such, the US houses are made with cheaper materials that are easy to replace, like wood and drywall and idk plastic and polystyrene or whatever. But the buildings for apartments and stuff are brick and mortar? They are weird, I just try not to think about it

[@TiggerIsMyCat]

Houses are wooden in America because by the time of America's founding, Britain had used up most of its wood/cut down most of the forest cover, whereas America did not have that issue, as most of the trees the indigenous people had previously cut down had had the chance to regrow after the Spanish started bringing over diseases that decimated the native population. (and the houses that had been built in Britain in earlier eras that had used up the wood were dwindling over time from natural wear and other degradation)

[@rosielunaleo]

this is so cool jesse!! i love it when u recreate wonky houses, ur creativity always amazes me

[@harlensdestruction7115]

The sweater is basically the trans flag and I do be living for it

[@WinxAliNelCielo]

lol

[@QueerCripple]

SAME ❤❤❤

[@Communistdaughter]

i was looking for a comment on that

[@rachelwolfe1751]

Fun American architecture fact: there are a lot of different places in America, and many of them are built along earthquake faults. A brick-and-mortar house will shake apart and crush you in an earthquake, but a wood house will just sway a bunch and then settle back into shape. Don't know about the tornado precautions, though--I've only ever lived in the quake zone, never in the tornado zone.

[@kyoshiro2000]

Video challenge Idea: give us a photo of the front of a house to recreate (we have to imagine the back and interior), and then do a video touring your version and versions you will have downloaded from the gallery. I think this would be fun!

[@juliane5632]

Jesse having a cancer stressed breakdown over a complicated house *Literally the same cancer breakdown over my math homeworks*

[@kiayafinch6169]

A lot of places in the USA don't actually have tornados.

[@maddychambers290]

you know the bathroom that if you put the toilet one side of the door and sink on the other side of the door and the discover university or snowy escape shower in the middle the bathroom is still functional lol :)

[@lorrainethomas8797]

Plumbella: smashing the build and dropping in a wee bit of Spice Girls as she goes. Chef's kiss.

[@adrastea2]

I am so impressed you were able to build that house and I don't say it enough but love your videos

[@jayelizabeth6371]

i love your jumper! have good day jesse

[@Roserae16]

This video just further demonstrates why we need quarter tile walls and curved walls. I know it probably is a lot more complex to program that into the game than just saying it, but still it would make building so much easier!

[@sydneymaria8036]

why does it look like the outside of the house is paper mache

[@xaviorshideout]

Now that you mention it...

[@xaviorshideout]

it also looks like lumpy fucking porridge... so uh, edible paper mache?

[@katierasburn9571]

Omg girl i was literally thinking it looks like a kids craft bowl made of paper mache or plaster cast lmao

[@Ja-uu9ep]

I don't really go on the sims anymore, I just watch these vids because you are a boss

[@cryptidofoz]

Jesse's building commentary is the best on youtube, and that's the that on that. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

[@nic7235]

PLUM Can you please decorate a house in the sims 2 but the challenge is you have to make your screen do that twirly swirly thing. 😂😂😂 if I’m having a bad day I rewatch the video when that first happen to you. Always cheers me up! Sending positive vibes from South Carolina! LOVE YA BEETCH

[@morgue9745]

i really feel like paralives is gonna have so much more freedom when it comes to building, compared to the sims 4. especially for challenges like these

[@tallulah9789]

Kind of love that house ngl

[@FrozenWillow1980]

Why I love Zoopla. I have seen a beautiful house in Ireland that I want to build, complete with floorplan :) Also did one from sims 4 builderspiration. Nice build - I think you did really well with it.

[@SpookyDeerArt]

houses in america, at least post full industrialization, are made as cheaply as possible en mass. my house, in an area that has a massive tornado season and in a town that has been ravaged by them in the past, has a brick exterior. however, it is made mostly out of drywall and hopes and prayers. it also has full round circuit wiring for *all the lights* which posed a problem when we had to replace the entire light fixture in my room because the electronics finally gave out after forty years, in connecting the new fixture it disconnected all the others after it (brothers and parents bedrooms), except occassional bursts of electricity would go through to my brothers' room and their lights would flicker. the plumbing is a nightmare. i live in a very rural area and most of the houses are like this and we can trace back who built them to one asshole who tried to do it as many times as possible with about four designs, flipping them to be mirrored on either side of the street. the only houses that aren't built like this were customs made before he could buy the plot of land. anyway, TL;DR: i live in a very tornado heavy zone in america and the houses are shit because of capitalism and greed.

[@SpookyDeerArt]

love ur trans shirt btw

[@ReeganDalli]

You literally did such an amazing job. Ilysm hen😁

[@sandraw2210]

Take a shot for every time she says "winders".

[@tomtik101]

Jesse, your genius is showing.

[@nicandknacksandseans]

I think it would be fun if you opened this up, like posted the photos of the house and had people do essentially what you’re doing here and make a video showcasing a few of the best. Like not a competition, it would just be cool to see how different people attack the same house.

[@pinkreboot]

this is now one of my favorite videos

[@diego2932]

It could be so cool to see you building an underwater house!!

[@EvanC881]

Actually loving that interior amazing

[@stannctorbeasquare]

I saw this yesterday on your library and was wondering when the video will be uploaded and voila here it is

[@jordanaikorns5106]

4:40 Is my spirit animal

[@Tiny_Koi]

This looks like an Airbnb that people pay way too much for

[@emilyflavell1658]

I totally understand the fear of being watched with big windows, I could never live in a house with big uncovered windows

[@kathrinaschneckloth7042]

There’s a really interesting house in Gentlemen Broncos Jesse should build and then move in a sim version of Jennifer Coolidge

[@morgan.sproductions9159]

This looks like it would be in a british cbbies show and it's where the main character lives whos a quirky woman in her 20's or 30's.

[@katelyn7335]

I think a good house that would do good with cottage living is the cottage from sleeping beauty.

[@hazelgarrard2044]

for the bathroom put the university shower (that you used) and put it facing the door and put the sink were the shower is and its functional :)

[@Rekowcski]

OH AND A SPICE GIRLS REFERENCE, you are indeed a queen, made my day

[@DegrassiInstantStar]

I love being asked how I'm diddily doing every single video. Love it.

[@liamaugust]

that jumper is so cute

[@jansmith3613]

American houses are built with whatever materials are available and affordable. Because wood is renewable and requires less heavy equipment to construct with it is the most common. With the size of the USA and Canada being what it is along with both the diversity of climate and culture across the countries you will find similar diversity in building materials and styles.

[@dekerinhildson1858]

This house has the vibes of the Amityville Horror house

[@Ray_Vun]

houses in america have been mainly made of wood because when they were settling and expanding west, they wanted a material that was super easy to get and build with, and so every house was just wood. not just bad for tornados but general element related issues, fire will just burn the whole thing down in the blink of an eye, water will damage the wood and make it rot which will eventually collapse the house, i don't think wooden pillars hold that well against earthquakes either. oh and there's also the issue of things like termites literally eating the things keeping your house standing

[@mischieffoal8689]

this is EXTREMELY impressive blimey

[@SupergirlUK]

Can you do a 'Your Nans a Tory' build? 😂

[@Col3297]

Girl, we were just taking about Brits and all your accents but decided yours was the best by far. Whichever one that is…please inform :)

[@ensignsoah5947]

These every other day videos be lyf3. YAAAAAAASSSS QUEEEEEN.

[@jadebockmon]

Idk why I've never come across your videos before but I have never laughed so hard

[@RobinMarie_]

If you ever redid this idea, it would be a great hack to add a basement so you can actually add all the interior stuff

[@pinkcupcake4717]

It’s such a stupid home I utterly adore it.

[@N3rris]

Thank you for these videos Jesse. I've just been broken up with today and your videos have been helping me get through the day to try and keep my mind off of it. Thank you for everything

[@hedgerow.homestead]

Such a weird building! There were pictures of the back but it’s hard to make sense of them