fixer upper: renovating an abandoned house in the sims

[@fernssketchbook]

YES. FIXER UPPER SERIES 2.0

[@Ethancatman]

How does this comment have 1k likes and NO COMMENTS let me fix that

[@syn0dicc]

to answer your radiator question; yes!! you can indeed paint them. there is special paint for it, usually a high heat paint. & i'm sure some people would update the heating system but changing an entire heating system throughout a house of this size would be EXPENSIVE as heck. i cannot imagine anyone choose to do that over renovating other things in the house or having the extra money for aesthetics!!!

[@omghaley]

where do you put them?

[@vOID-fh1qt]

@@omghaleyRadiators? they're usually just dotted around in main rooms like bedrooms

[@oscarkamala]

@@omghaleyon a wall

[@awonderland97]

you place them under windows. Cause the cold air coming in from the windows drops down and gets heated up

[@lewis02mc]

Though for whatever reason in many cases they aren’t placed under a window at all. Instead they’re hung on a random wall in a random part of the room. Certainly the case for a lot of UK homes. 🤷‍♂️

[@luniivii]

To answer simsie's question about dining tables, my family is huge on eating together. We sit at the dining table every single night without fail because we're all very busy and dinner is pretty much the only time we see each other some days. It's interesting how different families compare with things like that.

[@ragnkja]

I’ve always had a dining _table_ in my life, but not really a separate dining _room,_ and that seems to be pretty normal in Norway: the dining table is either in the kitchen or right outside it, typically sharing a room with a sofa and coffee table.

[@Stayville_Clown]

Wow that’s so interesting! For me it’s the same as for you but a little different because it’s not really the only time we get to see each other but the only time where we all can just talk about our day at work/school and how we are doing. My dad works from 6 AM to 4PM every weekday except for Fridays and since we always eat around the time when he comes home he talks so much about work that my mom my sister and I can’t even say a word without him interrupting but it’s fine I guess. That’s just how he is. Anyways, I find it really fascinating to see how different some family "traditions" are based on the culture or the size of the family. I always had interest in stuff like that ever since I discovered the English language for me even tho my English isn’t even remotely close to being as good as the English of a native speaker. I just enjoy learning new languages and the cultures of different countries so I have to thank you so so much for sharing your "experience" Long story short, thank you.

[@amberb.6395]

That’s so weird to me. My family is very dysfunctional, and dinner was no different. When we were super young, it was chicken nuggets and fries or McDonalds every single night. We’d eat wherever. Sometimes at my tiny children’s table, sometimes on the couch, sometimes on the floor. When we got older, I’d eat in my room. Sometimes at my desk while doing homework, sometimes on my bed, sometimes on my floor. Other times still in the living room on the couch or floor. At least we got more actual food as we got older. Less chicken nuggets, fries, and McDonalds- course back then it was much cheaper in early 2000’s. We never really talked the very rare handful of times we ate at the table. Just silent eating, not even the scraping of silverware on plates. We ate on paper plates because our mother hated washing dishes

[@Stayville_Clown]

@@NassiLove Okay, thank you. And also thank you for that information.

[@gr33ngirlsea]

We see each other often only over dinner, but we watch TV and talk about it as we eat, lol.

[@PatersonTheAlien]

radiators and baseboard heaters are generally put by windows so that the difference in heat from the cold window causes the hot air to circulate throughout the room better, while forced air heating is put away from the windows because it has a fan to circulate the hot air :)

[@kylaevelyn1800]

From my understanding, it's also a practicality thing for placement. I live in a newer-ish apartment (like 30 years old) and since you can't put furniture up against the radiator, it just makes to have it by the window or sliding door, since you wouldn't want to put furniture there anyway. If you were to put it along an inside wall, you would absoluuuutely have people placing furniture up against making it difficult to access if it needed to be serviced.

[@scaredyshibe574]

I love this as a concept tbh, building an older house, a worn down version + a newly renovated version?? That's so fun!

[@DaphneAbernathy]

About the radiators: I used to live in a 1885 victorian farm house, the radiators are along the outside walls near windows. And yes, you can paint them, they make special radiator paint. And many people would keep the old radiators because they were very decorative with patterns on each fin. If you want to take them out the architecture salvage shops will take them and they sell them painted in whatever color you want and they can separate the fins to make them shorter or longer.

[@HaveAGoodDay124]

I LOVED the fixer upper series, I wonder if she’d ever bring it back?

[@LiveAndEnjoyLove]

To answer your question, yes you can paint some radiators, the ones that look like those in game you absolutly can, with special paint. And yes they are usually placed under windows and close to outer doors but can be placed in different places. =)

[@mollierichardson6335]

Hey. Bit of a radiator expert here - worked with radiators for the last 6 years of my life! (Exciting I know) So, originally, radiators would have been placed under windows, as these are often the coldest part of the room. However, in houses with modern double glazing or insulation, often the difference in the placing of the radiator is so small, they are placed in the most convenient place for the plumbing. You can paint them, there is special paint - but in the UK, it's common for them to be painted with normal paint, which can either flake off, or even melt onto things left touching the radiator when it's on! It's common in like, quick sale houses and rentals. Radiators would probably be replaced in a renovation, because the old ones aren't anywhere near as efficient as new ones. But occasionally, older cast iron rads can be kept as a decoration. Some new designer radiators use infrared technology to 'heat the person, not the room', therefore saving energy. There are also some absolutely beautiful designs, glass artwork, or even mirrors which are actually rads! So cool. However, more and more places are now moving away from using rads for heating homes. Air source heat pump installation (similar, but not exactly the same, as air con in the US, but for heating) is on the rise. And things like under floor heating are becoming even more popular.

[@mollierichardson6335]

I'm actually now working as a Heritage Consultant for a company who create bespoke heating systems for old houses. I do heat loss surveys and calculations for really big, old houses sometimes. A question I often get asked a lot, when we calculate how much energy is needed to effectively heat the spaces, is 'HOW did they do this before combi-boilers?' And the honest answer is usually: they didn't. It's pretty standard now for people to want every room in their house to be an acceptable temperature. But that wouldn't have always been the case. For the elite, A fire would have been lit in the room you were in when it was cold - you would have worn lots of layered clothing, and when you went to bed, they would have used copper bed warmers. For big, country houses, they would have only heated the rooms they needed. And during parties, the people would have kept the building warm. (human bodies give off a lot of heat really) Also, libraries were often a really warm room in the house - because the walls were lined with EXCELLENT insulation - BOOKS!

[@mollierichardson6335]

Sorry, you probably didn't really care for the history lesson about heating homes! But it's a subject I find absolutely fascinating. I could talk about it all day!

[@jennyjenq]

Girl stop being so hard on yourself! Your builds are awesome and you are always inspiring me to try new things! And I hope you bring back fixer upper, I love watching the old ones! ❤

[@itsmaherferas]

You have no idea how much I loved those 3 videos of this house lol! 🤣💕

[@TheSummerStrawberry]

i know i should just expect it now but the way lilsimsie has so much casual representation is so amazing to me. when we was talking about the family who lives in the house and said the moms without skipping a beat i cracked such a huge smile 🥹

[@PinesLife]

The dining room question: I have always ate (at all the houses I've lived in) at a dining table. At my grandparents house they have this fancy dining room with this crazy table that can expand and shrink. We've always eaten there and if we want to watch TV we had trays that we ate on. At my mom's house we have a table where we eat and put our clutter on. My family is all for dining table supremacy.

[@durdleduc8520]

my family had our house built, so it's less than 20 years old and was basically exactly what they wanted as a house. when i grew up we always had the "dining room" -- the fancy dining space with a big long table for birthdays, parties, etc -- and the "breakfast room" -- the casual dining room where, ironically, we ate dinner together. over time our family hosted less and less events (autistic family moment) and the dining room was deconstructed. the long table was replaced with a desk... so i indeed personally witnessed the dining room to office pipeline.

[@LauraCruz-qwerty]

You should bring fixer upper back. I LOVED that series

[@WayneSims4ever]

I enjoyed this mini series... I really would love to see more like this... abounded then before and modern, love to see more like this.

[@dancarr820]

Im so exicted youre bringing fixer upper back!! I remember when you first started fixer upper and I religiously watched 100 baby, fixer upper, and speed build sunday.

[@han-marie]

Okay, obsessed with the fixer upper series coming back!! It's also so funny to me, though, that y'all never ate at dining tables? I'm Australian and every meal was and still is ate in the dining room hahahah

[@Stayville_Clown]

Finally my favorite series has returned ❤ 12:58 Yes, You’re right. A radiator almost always has to be next to or under a window. At least where I live it is common and especially in my room (where I am In right now) I have a radiator under my windows and everywhere else in my house we have radiators next to, under or just near (a) window(s) And to answer your question, yes I think you can paint them. If you look into the opening of my radiator, you can see that it used to be green and now it’s white. The paint is also already peeling a little bit and under the white paint is black but I guess that’s just the metal? I really don’t know that, but I am to about 80% sure that you are indeed able to paint radiators.

[@sheb5709]

PLEASE BRING BACK THE FIXER UPPER SERIES FOR US. It's so fun and interactive. I would have the time of my life breaking things for you to fix!

[@lildaisyheart]

i love this mini series

[@gwendolynrobinson3900]

This was so fun to watch you build on stream ❤

[@MariaM-qm1cl]

What a fun idea! To do the original new, old abandoned, and then the modern renovation. I've been watching 'Farmhouse Facelift' lately and this gives me those vibes.

[@JWJWJWJW]

23:18 so speaking from personal experience it is possible to add a basement onto your house after your house has been built. It’s also possible to move or add onto your basement after the fact as well, but you are also correct in understanding that it is a very lengthy and expensive process a lot of the time the house I live in was my great grandparents house and they originally built the house which originally it was two rooms and then they turned it into a two floor four bedroom two bathroom house with a basement and so they built the entire first ground level of the house and then they built second level and then one year my great grandfather and my great uncle dug out the basement and they put the house on stilts to do it. So yeah you can totally do a basement. After the fact you can totally change basement you can add onto basement. It is just an entire headache of a mess that most people wouldn’t bother with. I will say more likely than anything what you would see is you would see someone use an existing basement and then add onto it by digging out further rather than to fully try and move the entire basement or simply redo it. I also will say when it comes to basements, there are two kinds of basements you have furnished basements, which are the kind of basements we see typically in your build, where you’ve got like some kind of wall. usually there’s carpeting or flooring and it’s like an actual additional living space and then there are functional basements or what we called in my area Pittsburgh basements, which typically are just like little concrete boxes that hold your washing and drying machines add your hot water tank typically in a Pittsburgh basement you will also have just a random toilet as well. It is a functional toilet, but it will just be a toilet in your basement. There is no room for it. They are no walls for it. It’s just a toilet in your basement that you can use.

[@AlexBamZ]

So cool to see you do fixer upper on your channel again! Your original fixer upper series is how i found your channel!

[@Ezras_beret]

when kayla uploads you know it’s going to be a good day

[@boleslavblack]

good day every day

[@Hamiltonloveforever]

I know right

[@chloeeeezy]

Every single day ❤

[@user-kv7pr7xs6k]

fixer upper was my FAVORITE series so im living for these videos

[@madalenabiscaia767]

I'm so happy to see fixer upper back 🥺 these used to be my favorite videos of yours!!

[@shaunna6673]

Wow. Such a different life experience from me. I'm Canadian, so we need to heat our homes as well as keep them cool sometimes.

[@mischieffoal8689]

My parents have a green radiator in the sitting room! And a blue one in the spare bedroom. It's fun to paint them to match the decor :)

[@angelet_mandarinax]

Radiators can go under the windows, but sometimes it cannot be, so you can have them near doors. This series is so fun 💕💕 great video Kyla 🫶

[@sweetpea2788]

My brother just moved to central Florida from the Midwest for school, right before the hurricane lol. He’s super chill and slept through it but aghhh I would’ve been so nervousssss. Glad y’all are okay!

[@pandablossom_2659]

Just started college and I’m majoring in interior design partly bc i used to always watch fixer upper on hgtv, i also love chip and joanna gaines

[@iggysmice3087]

On dining tables: My house always had one even tho we never had any place that was large enough to have a dining room. The reason for this is that its a lot less messy to serve meals when you have small children if you make them sit at a dining table. Now that we are all adults, we just eat wherever, but we did make sure to have a table when my brother and I were small. We loved going to our grandma's house because she always let us eat on tv trays in the living room, watching cartoons!

[@ragnkja]

Dining tables are definitely more common than separate dining rooms where I’m from. The dining table is either in the kitchen or right outside it.

[@kat1114]

I am in Southern CA and I never use my heater. I love this house in all forms. Love watching the renos.

[@L1tskii_]

I’d love to see you redo this house one more time where you make it the ORIGINAL original, because it the one where you were making the original, you said that it was still an old house that belonged to like great grandma or someone. So seeing the house when great grandma was a kid would be really cool in my opinion! However, that would make it your fourth time building this house and it would be understandable if you’re tired of re-doing it over and over and over again. Glad that you and the kittens are okay after the hurricane!!

[@simmerelise]

I'd love to see more builds like these 3 builds. I absolutely loved this mini series. It would be cool to see others like this with the before, abandoned, and refurbished/repaired. I reckon a castle would be a cool build. Or a Victorian home. Maybe even a community lot: old facotry, abandoned, then homeless living in it, now its a nightclub.

[@Jiffie]

I LOVED this series and would absolutely love to see another

[@rebeccawicker6207]

5:14 had a formal dinning room at my moms growing up, got used to build puzzles! The one at my grandparents got religious use. Me now, eats on couch, at desk or at the kitchen counter.

[@low_poly_kat]

I've been loving this little series, I'm invested

[@c0c0banks]

I love a good fixer upper. I haven't gotten into the game as much as I would like to but your videos have really been helping me a lot. Thank you for sharing!

[@bunnytsukino6190]

The office screams Joanna Gaines!!! 🥰 Love the series, please do more of these fixer upper houses again ❤️

[@MsCocojane]

Girl, you being so enthusiastic and passionate about sims builds is so friggin cute and inspiring You're very talented and creative, thank you for sharing with us :) Wish you the best of luck

[@Liv-hj2jg]

i loved this mini series, please do this more often :) I do feel like every modern built these days has a kitchen island :D so that's the only thing i feel like is missing :D

[@1272britt]

i adore old house restorations and actually have updated houses before.... redoing the whole heating system costs a small fortune, its possible of course, but it involves a lot of tearing out walls and floors in order to places ducts and vents. Painting a radiator is actually super common and easy to do with the right paint, fun fact, radiators are still really common in Europe and are usually preferred for older homes. They work like a charm and are very affordable, keeps over all electric costs down and work along with things like fireplaces/heating stoves to heat the whole home.

[@jxstadri]

I was so hyped it was a good ol‘ fixer upper like the old times but I‘m still excited to see how you fixed it

[@kikibunni]

about formal dining- as a kid i ate at the dining table, but now that i’m grown and live on my own i normally just eat sitting on the couch and use my dining table for putting my keys down. my cats use it more than i do. also, yeah! you can paint radiators but with specific paint, and it would be super expensive to fully change the heating system and i’ve seen radiators come more into fashion again even as decorative/fake pieces because they look cool lol

[@SourCherryCrumble]

Love seeing all the before and afters of this build! Watched all 3, love this version!

[@thesourpatchkidd579]

I'm very big on a formal dinning room and in my life I do eat all my meals at the table- everyone does- but whenever I build houses in the sims I usually don't have a formal dinning room because I usually opt for an open floor plan, but that's just cause I've realized the kind of houses I like to build aren't really the ones I like to live in. I love building more modern houses or a modern farm house like this but I'm much more attracted to those old sprawling houses with stained glass windows and formal living rooms and a painted ceiling.

[@adventuresofindigo3790]

I loved this series!! Would love to see more! Maybe like an old mid-century build with the same 3 vid series?

[@princess_jem4]

Thank you for the updates on the kittens and mama! It is so hard to care for babies and then rehome them (even if that was the plan from the start), fwiw I'm sure they'll be really happy to still get to see you when you visit at your parents ♥

[@chamomileberry]

Yes, radiators can be painted with special paint and yes they are usually placed underneath windows. As to your comment about realism if they were gutting a whole house, why not install an updated heating system - some old houses you just can’t, unfortunately, or it would be far too expensive depending on the available utilities/services in the area. However, I’ve seen quite a lot of old farm houses here in Canada that have been converted into AirBnb’s that have kept the original radiators and painted them black and then gone for a super rustic/industrial vibe and it looks so good! Love what you did with the build. Despite your Floridian heritage, you somehow by instinct did exactly what most new property owners do with old farmhouses (at least where I’m from). 😊

[@rowanart4810]

pls the people want fixer upper back! we need it! this little series was so much fun :)

[@notsofestive]

i'd love to see more episodes of house flipper. this video reminds me so much of that game! wonderful video kayla 💞

[@bfmartinelli]

It'd be great to have your fixer upper series back! it's really fun to watch!!

[@333yipeee]

You need to do more of this stuff. Love the “Lore” love the build. Great job

[@ShepherdsAmelia]

I loved this little mini series I would definitely watch if you did something like this again in the future I loved being able to see the different phases of the house it was super cool

[@frizzyhairedbandit3590]

Living for the radiator discourse 😂 I'm from the UK. Yes, you can paint radiators but in my experience it always looks crap, but maybe I was doing something wrong 🤷🏾‍♀️ also to my knowledge people either paint them or if they can afford it buy new ones OR people buy radiator covers that look like cute sideboards.

[@reyes.2326]

I haven’t be able to play the sims bc of college and this upper fixer it’s giving inspiration to play rags to riches with the horse ranch

[@katia9192]

oh i love fixer upper videos! makes me want to play so bad lmao

[@Tiffany-ne9fr]

I grew up eating at the dining table, and I still do it. That is family time to catch up on everyone's day, no TV, and no electronics!

[@Chet_Thornbushel]

Having a dining room was super important to us when buying our house and is a main feature of our future home that we will be building. We don’t eat at it for EVERY meal, but we do most of the time. We are a family of five(38, 37, 18, 10, and 8) and meal time is such a major point of connection for us so having an actual dining table is very important. And we host every holiday and family gathering so being able to feed 15-30 people is necessary. I just realized the only time we don’t eat at the table is when dinner is late and then we will eat in the living room while watching jeopardy and/or wheel of fortune 😆

[@pretzel_salt]

5:16 I wanted to chime in c: I don't necessarily think "formal" dining rooms are really too important anymore. I mean of youre well off and host house/dinner parties often I can see the use of them. But I dont think doing away with dining rooms completely is something i subscribe to. I think eating at the table with family for dinner and maybe even breakfast is a wonderful and needed thing. I plan on doing that with my family when my fiance and i have kids. I just think is super important to sit with your family with no distractions and enjoy each others company. Also, for parents to see how their kids are doing, if they are alright, see any changes in behavior and just make sure they are ok. Obviously, if there are busy parents who have opposite schedules, it is an exception, but I think its even more important. C: Sorry for rambling :D

[@RoryVarina]

I sure hope that you're allowed to paint radiators lol, cuz all my landlords growing up in NYC had them painted xD Also - while it's probably not the most environmentally friendly heating method, I think the radiators were way better at heating than the forced air system we have now that I live in Delaware. So having radiators isn't something unheard of to keep.

[@Lottedevries27]

I love this series smmm

[@jessiekano]

I actually grew up eating every meal with my family (and I live in a multi generational home). It was typically our time to catch up and spend time together and then the rest of the day we just spend on our own!

[@littlebeuxblue]

Loved this little mini series about the house.

[@loosebands2689]

radiators don’t need to be near windows! and yeah you can paint radiators

[@BeeboTheBoops]

you put the hours into having fun which is what its all about

[@solquintana4559]

I like the idea of this as a challenge. You renovating houses using families that your followers create as costumers of your service.

[@CreativeMinds488]

I think you should do a month long challenge where you use the same shell but build a different thing out of it each day/week!!! I love the format of these videos!

[@quailequin]

fixer upper is back? let's go!

[@racamiii]

You can Paint radiators with Special Paint. And old radiators are less efficent than new ones, so swapping them Out would make sense in a total Renovation. If radiators can't be placed under a window because there is only a balcony door or the window is to big, they are placed on the left or right on the Walls near by to prevent mold grow (that is one of the reasons radiators are placed under Windows in the First place ^^ )

[@Leah_Michelle_21]

I love this whole series! ❤

[@tiredandcaffeinated]

I literally love these videos so much! Please continue to make this a series, Simsie 💜

[@x1asheratmidnight1x]

I really love this series! I’d love to see another one

[@bridgetthewench]

My experience growing up was the "eat-in kitchen", a kitchen that had room for a dining table in there instead of in a separate room. Then at one point we had a kitchen table AND a dining room table - kitchen table was for daily meals, dining room was for holidays.

[@Azhra_]

For the radiator question: You can paint them, but I don`t know much about that. In my house, a 100 year old house in norway, all our radiators are painted white and are placed under the windows. The one in my room takes forever to heat up, I have to turn it on i the morning so my room is decently warm when I get home from school. And then I have to open the window because I don't have any ventilation in my room

[@kaelynas]

Part 3 lets go!

[@Diana_Foxy]

I really enjoy these videos. It`s great to see different variations of the same house)

[@emmadxwn]

obsessed with this series!!

[@angela2896]

Kayla I just wanted to say these are my favorite type of videos from you

[@andrea_ryker]

I love that this is a renovate vs restore type series

[@andrea_ryker]

Wait! Destroy, Renovate, and Restore!

[@itzjayichasebandzz4272]

I looooooved this little Fixer Upper Series I Hope she does another House Soon🤟🏾

[@maggie4028]

This series is so much fun!!

[@carolinecaddelmore5108]

I love this build because I think it came out really well, you nailed it. Switching the places of the radiators is not very realistic, because you would need to like move a bunch of stuff and that would be really expensive, since radiators are attached to the walls, and, I don't know if it's my house that's weird, but my radiators aren't near windows, their near the doors, so the placement overall makes sense to me.

[@softballfan015]

I have loved every video of this series… if you enjoyed it, do more!!

[@alicia_27-]

You are able to paint radiators and you can buy black or white ones you also can place them anywhere but by curtains is not smart

[@babyinferno9136]

i loved the fixer upper series so i really liked these 3 videos

[@angelicagothenberg4895]

I always eat at the table with the entire family. Did it as a kid, too. I can spend hours by the table, it's my favourite gossip-place. The fact that my guests often ask after a couple of hours if we can go sit somewhere more comfortable always shock me. 😅

[@Ossiekins]

so fun fact, our first house was old and had like paneling over top of the radiators to hide them and they eventually re-did the house and updated the heating and cooling system, but they left the old radiators in place because it was just too expensive/labor intensive to remove them, but they were completely useless by the time we owned the house and yes. We could have painted them if we chose to. As far as placement goes I believe they were under our windows in the bedrooms and living room. Since ours were completely useless we could have used any paint. A house this size, like someone else said, we would really struggle to justify redoing their heating/cooling system. The house we owned previously was very small. They actually had the furnace installed in the attic which was very strange, but was very well done according to every inspector we ever had.

[@noemijaroni3102]

about dining tables, my family uses them only for holidays, like christmas or easter and for everyday use we use the small table in kitchen, but my boyfriend's family use the big table for like pizzaz days (his father makes his own pizza, its like REALLY good) or like bigger suppers or something. they use it also for times when guests are there or for birthdays or name days!!

[@hperkins3420]

I literally just downloaded this farm and then found this video! I love your builds!!

[@jimmybobsqusher5897]

At my house we eat at the dining room only if we are eating something messy. Like soup is kinda hard to eat on a couch.

[@Valravna]

Loving the idea of original, abandoned and fixed up!

[@wimbeedoodle]

Our radiators in New York were under windows, and were indeed painted! And boy did those suckers heat the house well. I miss them!

[@sofiasverdrup6087]

HGTV is one of my favorite channels. I need to stop watching so much of it. 😭

[@Lizziel23]

As a Brit I am very familiar with radiators, they are usually under all windows (except when windows are over kitchen counters, and also bathrooms - these days people have towel rail radiators in there ) and you can paint them, but you need special paint (you can get a special under coat that lets you use normal paint on top too)

[@shawnarice7374]

That short you posted just before this one was absolutely hilarious

[@jennydemleitner2570]

I’m from Gemany, we have radiators in old 70/80s Houses and a lot of people paint them (me aswell). We just use normal Wallpaint! Works great! In newer houses they usually have heated floors; but it’s pretty hard and very expensive to install floor heating in an old house