I refreshed another lot so EA doesn't have to

[@Rosestar2908]

“That’s the best part of the internet. You can just look things up.” “Ok the internet has failed me.” 😂😂😂

[@JamesTurnerYT]

🤣

[@glykera]

​@@JamesTurnerYT You need to use AI. Google isn't cutting it anymore nowadays.

[@hannahblake5913]

i would love to see this be a long “series” and see you redo every lot!

[@reigning_deer185]

A half bath would fit in the little column piece with the door off the hallway and a toilet and sink on either side. It might be useful to have a toilet by the office for gameplay

[@meredithwemhoff9270]

That was my thought as well!

[@shirleycogswell8483]

Was thinking that as well screaming at the screen a half bath!!!😂😂😂😂

[@roxana-mihaelatanase2838]

I feel like James doesn’t appreciate enough having your working desk in front of a window. Having a glimpse of the outside while working from home can be a real, although short, escape. This takes me back to Tiny Town Vivienne’s office, also facing a wall instead of the two beautiful windows 😢

[@rachel.258]

i was waiting for a comment like this !

[@lunarfaeby]

For base game builds I just use a shelf (multiple obv) as a curtain rod when needed. It's the best hack ever for making everything look cohesive when there are gaps!

[@debradavis3935]

I love that you’re still so experimental with your builds James after all these years! And I also appreciate that your cognizant of what the other buildings in the neighborhood look like… I am much the same way when planning my hoods. I do wish, though that you would get over your obsession about not having tall things in the middle of the build. Certainly, you don’t want the entire center of the build to be filled with tall items, but the occasional one that makes sense to the flow of the room Really isn’t that big of a deal! Thanks for the video 😉😉

[@aliciamarie9113]

The landscaping of this is INCREDIBLE (as is everything else but it really stood out to me).

[@zooyork22810]

you could put shelves over your curtains to make it look like the curtains are attached so it is more seamless.

[@daria-517]

I love how mindful James about things from a gameplay perspective! Builds like these are always the best to play at

[@alicelonnerud3811]

I don't know if it's just me but the rich wood tone and the style of the windows and front door made me really nostalgic for the Sims 3... It feels like the build style of that game 🤔

[@ClaireHindley]

I have literally jumped on before I leave work and head home to watch this, but I could watch you recreate each EA build (from all packs) because it’s so fascinating to watch and gives me inspiration for any builds I want to do. Please keep renovating/rebuilding these because they’re awesome!

[@thundercookie3214]

The Semaj Renrut Seal of Approval - every nook and cranny inspected and tested for your comfort. I feel like that now needs to be a category on the gallery. I shall never trust another builder again unless their selfsim has tested the build! That's commitment right there!

[@lowmitas]

I appreciate so much that we get to see a new video pop up after we got a super fun let's play a couple of days ago! Here's to a fun breakfast watch!

[@alikatasmr1029]

It was definitely the perfect breakfast entertainment!

[@davidw.5483]

Can't wait to download this house to push the couch more towards the TV wall to get more space around the dining table and add an easel to the room in the corner 😂 But I really like the refreshes of the base game houses. Updating the commercial lots would be awesome as well. As much as I like your let's plays, it's nice to see more build videos again 🫶

[@luckyheather2807]

This house looks a million times better! My trick for lighting the outside if I use columns is to shrink the cheap ceiling lights and put 1 here and there inside the top of a column 😉

[@DizzyZiv]

really like these base game refreshes! it feels like you're bringing colour into the neighbourhood that was old and dusty, it's very nice!

[@circuscityaccountability6414]

This is the quickest I have ever found a new James video. It was posted 2 minutes ago. Usually I find his new videos hours after he uploaded it

[@ryeotix]

I feel you I always see a day or so later but this is an hour off the press woo

[@organicstorm]

I recently played in this BG house (kept the Layout, got rid of the furniture), and found it decent enough as is. I think i only switched the doors out to newer BG additions (cheaper and smaller), but the rooms have good sizes, especially compared to other BG homes. This is great inspo for the outside, when my Sim can afford the remodel 👍she accidentally had twins, too, so the many rooms actually all get used, now. The house in Johnny Zest's Neighbourhood are so much worse, looking forward to James' re-freshes of those!

[@jennivamp5]

I am loving this series. ❤ I'm really glad that the base game updates have inspired you to building and renovating again.

[@wynnyx7071]

You can tell its scratching some creative itches for him.

[@aaalexandraaas]

really appreciate so many long videos on a row lately! love the style of editing and video as a whole, and esp from my fav youtuber :))

[@MysticalEclair]

I do loooove this front and back garden situation! the colours with the wood pop so good!

[@alikatasmr1029]

I'm obsessed with the mid century builds! Pretty sure I've already said that a million times, but I'm just getting so inspired to make more

[@espensibledolls5015]

Thank you for taking the time to fix these houses and make our sims worlds more delightful. I’m replacing all the crusty houses with your awesome builds

[@Noname.118]

James! If you’re in the mood for another survey, how about we get to rank your buildings. I’m interested to know if we all have the same favourites houses. 🤭

[@mobabyhomeslice]

The nice thing about the floor to ceiling cabinet is you can put the money trash can completely inside of that cabinet, and then just drag plates and garbage and stuff into it during game play.

[@em-ily1227]

These refreshes are so fun to me not only because they look nice and it's fun to see a more in-depth look at the building process as someone who sucks at it lol buuuut also I've been playing an Oasis Springs townie rotational play save file, so the original homes are so familiar to me! I re-did this house as time went on too, it just didn't look as nice haha

[@renaimatt]

I am loving this Refreshed series! I hope you can make more of these 👌👌

[@anska7475]

Thank you for yet another fun video. I felt your pain in the beginning. I have played in that house a couple of times because I think it looks pretty good on first glance (it's the roof I think) but once you move in, things start getting odd. So double thanks for all the good building ideas.

[@LilBeeYT]

I get so happy when you post video's, you just make my day, thank you

[@aubweymagobwey]

you don’t know how happy your videos make me

[@nataliar6553]

I love these. I downloaded your last refresh but put some other furniture (think more orange/brown) and downloaded an old cadillac cc to put in the front. It has such good retro vibes.

[@graceofspades.3198]

i've been LOVING these refresh videos (& especially loving using them in my saves lmao). thanks for posting as always!

[@WellImhighasl]

My favorite sims creator 🔥❤️

[@maggiered7284]

See that’s the thing James. EA needs to start doing their job and quit half a$$ing on it. They have been releasing up to 91 DLCs and that is a disgrace. That is something they should not be proud of. Let alone have you and others to clean up after them.

[@Itssooupy]

it always comes back to the Get Famous builds being the pinnacle of EA incompetence for me

[@selkiefluff]

I seriously can't understand how they can come up with such useless flop builds, because any youtuber I've seen, minus people who have never played this game, make their 10 minute challenge builds better than houses they have the entire dev cycle to improve.

[@skylerrademaker1616]

I'm so happy when I see you posted :) Tiny Town has a special place in my heart I need it to not be over please do something with the households and/or towns when you are done with Tiny Town!! I hope you see this James

[@BPinkInYourArea]

Yesss another one deffo replacing the house in my save with this one like with the house next door from last time!

[@mothmaiden]

I absolutely love things like this, and well designed utility lots.

[@jitzsy]

Just what I needed as I recover from my cold 😆

[@Bunch1810]

I am loving this little build series. Refreshing the base game, one build at a time.

[@rosemarysarsfield8933]

Hi, i live in the desert and would love a big glass roof. Especially if it opened you could get so much airflow coming through and that sounds great for the summer

[@markabele8794]

I like the idea of renovating existing houses to make them better and I understand not everyone owns all the same DLC that feature build/buy objects, but I wouldn't keep the same shape of these houses or at least expand a few of the with more floors or expand the main floor.

[@BooksAndTea-fq5te]

I actually have been HOPING you would do more of these. So happy to see it happened!

[@brittany0717]

Loving this refreshing base game series you got going on. I own 90% of the packs but I still enjoy being able to chuck down a good base came home on a new save. You have made these houses look a million times better! 🎉😊

[@HannahJo32]

Good God James! Just build the house on a platform. You don't need a foundation anymore. Platforms are clearly base game.

[@undetestable1]

I think its was pretty common in the sims community for players to use a shelf to create the illusion of a curtain rod before they gave us curtain rods in other packs. I'm surprised James forgot about that.

[@mel_diamonddove9913]

I'm really enjoying these base game updates you're doing! It's a lot of fun to see these builds in a new and creative way

[@Balwick]

I love this series. Makes a nice change from the chaotic jump-cut content of the gameplay.

[@tawniwinns2157]

Love these, lets finish out the neighborhood!

[@threeheadedmountaindew]

i have a meeting in an hour and a half so this is literally perfect

[@calidriscanutus]

yay love these videos! love seeing it without being speed up and hearing your thoughs while you build/decorate

[@TheXephyr33]

Big Deck Energy 👍

[@402305cdp]

I’m enjoying these lot refreshes so much

[@ariswish]

I LOVE how the house turned out! It looks gorgeous and homey

[@LilianaE]

One trick I do when I'm doing a base game build and need curtain rods to hide the gap between the curtains, is using just a regular wall shelf. It does the job 🤷‍♀️ lol

[@alex_ma1ex]

I thought this was the first "refreshing" video you made and was so happy when I found out it's a new one!!! Can't wait to watch during dinner!

[@iosketches]

this is one of my favorite houses and lots in the game, cant wait to play with this version :)

[@jasmijn1698]

I love how James has so many good ideas for how he wants it to look, until he realizes how crappy the basegame things are and goes "... but unfortunately the ___ options are limited." Still a beautiful refresh though!

[@PlywoodPants]

James you should go back to your old white and grey builds and renovate them to give them some colour, that would be fun

[@monstercrafting]

The landscaping makes me think the house is a boat on a dock. The deck is the dock and the sand is meant to indicate the water.

[@kaylamogg6313]

This is super fun! I hope you continue these refreshes, I want to fill my sims worlds with them all lol.

[@Martyma19]

Love this build. Would love to see you do this with more builds

[@picgirl5590]

Love watching you refresh these builds, James! You've done a wonderful job on these few houses!! 😍

[@RoxasHeroes]

I think a Refresh of James starter house for Windenburg would be fun. The one Max, the super sim, started in.

[@flockorock]

I love what you did with this. It is such an upgrade.

[@kismet_sims]

I think this is one of my favorite builds you've done, Semaj cooties are just a bonus!

[@mythicallibrarianjen1750]

Such an amazing build! The landscaping is gorgeous. ❤

[@Cysneiros]

I'm in love with this "refreshers" series ♥ ♥

[@balunalu15]

Maybe the couch could be red to add a pop of vibrance and color? James has been a big fan of browns lately 😂😅

[@ScooterinAB]

Too late now, but I wonder if you could keep that privacy screen idea with the hallway arch on the other side, but then mostly mirror the interior. The bathroom and kitchen could move to the side with the two bedrooms, with one of those bedrooms replacing the kitchen.

[@canarywings6080]

Sequel idea: going back to the lots you refreshed, but this time with no pack limitations and using packs/items you really wanted to use!

[@emilydraper8971]

i would probably consider the "stone accent wall" to be a false chimney, maybe??? idk. either way i have been loving the recent builds!

[@indulgentlife]

I danced when I saw this in my subscriptions! 🤣 love this series already

[@missink1728]

A plain white shelves over the current rods makes a look similar desert lux.

[@Cysneiros]

"oh no, I'm doing brown and green again. That's what I did in the other house! OH NOOOOOOOOOOOO..." got me 😂 😂 (Also, yeah James, u mostly do brown, green, some blue, and maybe pops of yellow? kkk But we love it, it's cozy!)

[@lea5906]

on the wall thing I think there should be an option where you decide if it stays up or not because when you alt place stuff on a wall shelf it stays there when the walls are down which is annoying...

[@noroco5791]

I'm enjoying these reno videos and I would watch more of them for sure.

[@maddykrantz]

wow so cool! Love how you transformed the house!

[@god5590]

loving these long builds. nice to watch at work lol. more builds/refreshes please!

[@fireflyfox93]

I actually played in this house recently and I enjoyed it lol. But I did move in unfurnished and but a crazy amout of stuff.

[@maxnmart]

YESSSSS. These long build videos are my new favorite thing

[@Univ3rsalis]

I was just watching latest Black Widower part again and this popped up! For me this house is quite hard to renovate.

[@StaceyBear]

Thank you for doing this, I can't build so am going to be replacing the base game with these - please do them all.

[@liapania]

the curved roof feature was a spark of genius omg

[@shelby.ville.]

Lol "thumbtacks directly into the wall is a bit strange" as I look around my room at the 4 tapestries hung up with thumbtacks and my calendar that is too hahaha

[@TheMj18420]

love the look of the chess table but I foresee sims getting out of the chairs on the wrong side and getting stuck in the corner lol

[@zomgmolly]

Yooo I’m so pumped to see more of your refresh builds!! 🎉 in my favorite world, too 🗣️let’s gooo 🗣️ thank you, James! 🙌🙌

[@niahniah123]

I'm excited! I already downloaded the last one on the gallery :D

[@mi1kguts]

i went to sleep watching the newest black widower episode so this was a pleasant thing to wake up to

[@NerdySalemSays]

James being concerned the house is ‘too blue’ and I’m sitting here knowing my favourite outside wall is the green bricks from Realm of Magic… vivid outsides should be normal, end the grey housing agenda. Viva la green house.

[@nq1313]

Oh wow the blue looks a thousand times better.

[@colddrakequeen]

We need a feng shui person to come by and help James. I’m very sure you shouldn’t be able to see straight through the house. Something about the flow of money also going straight through and never staying.

[@corgi_coffee]

"Oh that might work! It's kinda ugly tho" haha love the more detailed refresh videos xD

[@anka531]

I know James is trying to do the builds base game only and as much as I enjoy seeing him "struggle" with the lack of color and item choices, I do wanna see some packs in those builds. 🤔

[@AmbivertGoddess]

I've never paid this level of attention to detail in anything I've done in my life. 😂😂

[@fox-milessavioroffoxes3782]

When I did the backyard for my sims I just put a pond in the middle and had a shed to the secret lab

[@lookatmyright]

Can't u just apply for a position in the sims 4 as lot designer?

[@Namaikhan]

If I played in this house, the first thing I would do would be to turn the stone feature wall into a 1x3 half bath

[@NoDecaf7]

That pool shaping had me screaming 🤭🤣

[@aisyah_m]

I don't like living in the desert bcs i'm not much of a builder. The refreshed houses make it more inviting to stay in the desert

[@clarebo]

I hope you keep updating the EA builds! I am replacing them all with your versions in my game.