This REAL floor plan has 19 bedrooms!?

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[@hayleymar]

Having a hard time convincing myself that this is a real and perfectly legal thing

[@maggielaush]

Def not legal even if real

[@bingobongo0001]

it is real i found the article. in terms of legality there's windows in every bedroom and most laws just require a bedroom to have a point of egress. this is like 2020s version of tenement housing though it seems awful. the main house looks alright but the "dorms" are icky.

[@JamesTurnerYT]

Enjoy the reality of this house: www.domain.com.au/51-kauri-parade-seacliff-sa-5049-2018340601

[@rache9195]

@@JamesTurnerYT the picket fence in the kitchen?! Is that where one puts their child? For safety reasons of course. 😬

[@NiaJustNia]

It used to be a nursing home before it was student housing. Imagine sticking someone's granny to live in the shed out back 😂

[@PalmelaHanderson]

I've lived in a 9 bedroom house with roommates. It was pretty awesome, to be honest. The place was huge and had a layout that made no sense, you didn't really bump into each other unless you wanted to. We had 2 kitchens, though, which helped a lot in that regard. NINETEEN bedrooms with only one kitchen? .... yeah that's gonna be a no from me, dog.

[@silvermeasuringspoons6462]

The bathrooms situation are even worse. With the kitchen, it’s can be shared easier. You certainly can’t just “share” a bathroom.

[@LAURA---]

@@silvermeasuringspoons6462 you can if you believe 😌😂

[@kstar1489]

@@courtykat except only one kitchen has a stove💀

[@mauratyson9580]

My dorm building has maybe 30 bedrooms with only one kitchen. Needless to say, I avoid it all costs because it's always filthy and smells bad. We also have three bathrooms except they're more in the style of a public bathroom with 3-5 stalls in each and 2-3 showers. It sucks, but it's a college dorm so that's expected I think

[@seriliaykilel]

I've heard 5-10 people ones, but 19 is next level.

[@thisisnotthechannelyourelo407]

One thing i've learned from building RL floor plans in sims, is take some liberties with them. Hallways that are one tile wide don't work in game play, sims are constantly blocking each other and start walking through walls or get stuck in them and auto teleport. Basically you have to make everything at least 1x1 bigger than the floor plan, especially because the sims furniture is WAY oversized. So a 2x3m room should be a 3x4m room in sims. etc etc. The house ends up looking much nicer and will actually function for gameplay.

[@xmummamolsx9233]

I did my old and new houses floor plans and I had to do exactly this other wise it didnt look right and you couldn’t play in it

[@Solarized666]

That’s a really good tip. As a starter builder thanks

[@memandylov]

I recreated my house by walking around and counting the 1×1 ceiling tiles and directly converting those tiles to tiles in-game and it worked out beautifully for me. But my house is fairly straightforward and doesn't have any awkward bits that would confuse a sim

[@kelsishay5528]

This will probably be perfect for your upcoming 100 baby series 😝

[@andreaparham79]

Deli just screamed in the distance 😂

[@marietkrijger6365]

Hahahahaha

[@glauco_rocha]

😜

[@TheDragnoov]

prison challenge

[@alainalaniedougherty9161]

The 100 baby compound was my first thought too. XD

[@rogerroger9952]

This reminds me of the sketchy places I had to stay to keep from being homeless. Definitely unpleasant, but I do like weird/quirky layout choices that make houses more unique. Like one house I lived in had doors to the outside on the third floor, but both of those doors led directly into the bathrooms, and you had to climb the most rickety ass staircase up the back of the house the entire three flights if you wanted to go through them.

[@jessicavanrijbroek8283]

These kinds of "houses" are definitely real, and they "prey" / cater to people who have no other choice other than being homeless. The developers who convert these monstrosities from "normal" flats into this kind of accommodation mostly take advantage of youngsters leaving care, immigrants and the most vulnerable of people whilst taking government or local authority funding, whilst making profit.

[@tairneanaich]

Sorry, did you use to live in the Winchester Mansion? That’s wild!

[@cxrrine]

Now we need to see how James would tackle a 19-bedroom student accommodation build from scratch. I'm begging

[@Namaikhan]

This house has prime potential for the 100 baby challenge. Even if you combine some of the rooms or change some into bathrooms, you can still reserve a nursery wing vs child/teen rooms.

[@seaztheday4418]

It all makes SO much more sense once you realise it was once a nursing home. It explains all the weird doors, and pass-through rooms, and odd bathrooms

[@lucifersadvicate]

I saw the original article when it came out, it was actually a type of nursing home in the 1980s and went from residential (when orginally build) to commercial and recently after the owner died, (who rented out the rooms - mainly students rented it). The property was changed to residential again and is now up for sale. Most likely will be bulldozed and new housing will be built.

[@pstrick1946]

I feel like there are DEFINITELY not enough bathrooms for this Edit: there's a lot of toilets, not a lot of showers

[@SlateTiara]

yes, and besides the queing for a bathrooms.. imagine having one or two washing machine/dryer combo with that many people

[@hez_am_i2448]

Yeah thats absolutely my issue with it. Also wth is with the bathroom with 2 showers?

[@hez_am_i2448]

omfg i found the video tour of it. the bathroom with the two showers next to each other - its just frosted glass. you would absolutely see the other person showering next to you. Very sims actually because they would be blurry

[@SlateTiara]

@@hez_am_i2448 lol!

[@debradavis3935]

I’m halfway through the video and I was literally just thinking. I hope James uploads this so that we can renovate it and then you said that’s what you thought you should do. I think this would be a really fun house to renovate!😊😊

[@alexandrialeonora6542]

I checked the real house, and you honestly made it look so similar and yet so much better, haha! The kitchen that has a cellar entrance actually has a white picket fence around the stairs to get into the cellar! Definitely a quirky place.

[@MmmmmmCoffee]

I read a domain article on this place earlier that said it had been originally used as a nursing home.

[@origulator]

thats not a house, thats a compound.

[@berecca123]

I saw this house online the other day 😂 it’s not too far from where I live! It was fun following the floor plan while watching you build it.

[@MafiaCatNyoshi]

I feel like a Spellcaster could buy this, adopt a bunch of abandoned occult kids and try to give them a better future 😄

[@ginaspel7818]

The real house looks even more depressing than when James was building it 😮 Going to download it for sure trying to make something out of it without demolishing to many walls. It’s a challenge to make it better looking and livable the way the lay out is.

[@justinabean94]

This feels like it’s a layout of a fundie home where the parents actually respect each child’s privacy and give them their own space 😂

[@pinkcupcake4717]

James finds the blueprints for a creepy compound. Let's Gooo!

[@itsjustpaper]

Theres a house similar to this one near my college. It looks like two big normal houses next to each other but it actually is a mega house with 24 bedrooms, 2 common areas and every bedroom has a small bathroom in it (shower, sink and toilet nothing fancy). I know cause when I moved for college I went to tour that place. It's actually very nice.

[@turkoizdog]

Someone get Kevin to use this for his next attempt at having too many roommates

[@x1asheratmidnight1x]

From the listing “This highly sought after coastal home offers an incredible floorplan” lmao well that’s a bit of an overstatement!

[@blessedbyacurse]

Reminds me of being in a college dorm, but worse because the floorplan is so confusing.

[@Yenneffer]

It could be a fun challenge to try and renovate this house into something awesome. You could remove walls but not add any new ones.

[@kismet_sims]

I renovated this and turned it into a police station/prison. It's got cells, interrogation rooms, evidence lockup and "the yard" where Sims can get their required time for exercise. I'm actually pretty proud, it was fun to build. I kept it pretty much the same, except some walls got knocked down to allow for bigger cells.

[@badwolf5689]

I’m so glad you’re building this! I’ve been seeing it shared everywhere.

[@entchentekkno]

It would be so much fun if you would make a series of building real life super weird and bizarre houses. The weirder the better. 😂

[@FreddyKruegerTheDreamDemon]

Lol I was going to try building this when I saw the floorplan a few days ago! Great Aussie minds think alike 😉

[@GreatBritney99]

Discover University shower stalls also work with allowing multiple sims to shower without issue. They used those in the dorms. As I write this though, I wonder if it’s because it was a dorm lot the showers worked that way…

[@SunshineStorm]

10/10 for the effort to build this and doing a great job. 2/10 for it existing in real life. I saw an article for this house. It needs a lot of love or a bulldoze. As for using it in sims, I could see it being used in a 100 baby challenge. Each kid gets a tiny room and an extra room for desk/hobbies.

[@dietitianmama]

I kind of love this lot and I know a lot of people don't. In LA, there is a style of apartments called a "Bungalow court apartment" where many, essentially studio or 1 bedroom cottages are centered around a courtyard that has plants, sometimes a fountain. LA also has apartments that are large boxy buildings called Dingbats. I believe this lot is for people who are familiar with LA architecture to create one of their own, this would be challenging since Sims 4 doesn't let you build your own apartment for real, but that's what an awkwardly large lot in the middle of a bunch of houses would be used for.

[@raven46382]

This is the most random house ever if you look at the photos on the website, one room has a guitar amp, a couple rooms have computers, random mideval shield, break room area and a kitchen area and random room with a refrigerator and a large wardrobe. This place is so random lol. Feel like it fits into a legal grey area lol. Start over maybe, maybe not may be more expensive to build new then to remodel.

[@angelsfromafar]

Would be interesting to see what this looked like when it was built in the 1910 and then after initial expansion in 1980!!! It’s current configuration is a hot mess so maybe make this a reno or shell challenge?

[@Netra06]

I looked up the house after watching and it’s actually only has two bathrooms. & you can find photos of the interior on Daily Mail. It’s very bizarre!

[@Danimeows]

A 19 bedroom house oh my goodness

[@DondarfSnowbonk]

Legitimately impressed how well you matched the exterior

[@tina-xp3pk]

Maybe its an orphanage, this is where your sims Can buy, i mean adopt a child😁

[@SomeoneBeginingWithI]

On architect floorplans they label every room that could pottentially be a bedroom because it isn't a kitchen or a bathroom as a "bedroom". That doesn't mean the room will ever actually be used as a bedroom, it's just so they can number and label the rooms in a consistent way.

[@violentcat345]

19 bedrooms but only 2 bathrooms, even with 5 toilets, 1 of them is an ensuite. That's not gunna be fun for the unfortunate people staying there...

[@Majaa7]

Imagen ringing the bell/knocking to this house and everyone running at the same time through the whole house to open the door

[@darrylwhitefeather207]

7:58 James: Because it is... a lot. My mind: Of course it is. A residental lot

[@kaitlynl.7596]

At one point in time I worked as a wildfire fighter, and we had a 2 story lodge for living if you were out of state/town. It had 25 rooms, 11 bathrooms? (4 were suite sweets 2 were big shared suits) 2 kitchens, 2 shared spaces, and a gym in the basement. 8 rooms were shared (counting suits) and the rest were single. Newbies lived in certain parts, and the more years you had the better rooms you got

[@DaemonInWhite]

Ok as soon as you said it was student accommodation that made slightly more sense but THAT'S IN A REGULAR SUBURB RIP THEIR NEIGHBOURS

[@w.clifford]

lol my first thought was a group home but student housing makes sense too

[@brookelynnwu8016]

Why is it all on one floor too? 😂 it probably would look less weird if they made it smaller & 2 stories.

[@MmmmmmCoffee]

It's wasn't built as student accommodation. It was built over 110 years ago as a nursing home.

[@ellerikke3948]

I feel bad for anyone living in it, it looks like a death trap in case of a fire. It feels like city council turned down an apartment complex, due to safety concerns or local regulations, and the builder created this gem instead.

[@o2bnparadise]

I'm gonna have to look up those floor plans and make my own version because my inner drafter and years of drawing house plans is just screaming at me to tackle this one in the Sims.

[@angelrios5897]

An older home, retrofitted on a core plumbing system that was never intended for the extended population capacity? I can already see this place imploding the moment someone's toilet clogs.

[@Darkflowerchyld718]

I saw this on one of the Sims Facebook groups and saved it with the hopes of trying to build it 😅

[@Leotaa_]

This house is the definition of ✨The Landlord Special ✨

[@beefbowlsoup]

i kept imaging this as the dorm reginald almost stayed at for your highschool years lp

[@gravyz2cute4u]

I originally thought that the additional tiny rooms sounded like demountable workers barracks or something at the back of the main house. I've stayed in some overnight after a wedding I attended where the reception was held at the family's fruit farm. They had these structures to accommodate seasonal and travelling workers. I'm curious what the actual house looks like irl. I wonder what it's like living there. I'm thinking whoever buys this place will either use it as student/worker accommodation or as an air bnb or backpackers place. Or if they are super ambitious they could rent it out for retreats or workshops or something.

[@phoebepie1111]

Heyyy this kind of house + student housing is very common in my home country ahahah places where the home owners/"landlords" live in the same place is more trusted by the parents, it's indeed cheap mostly for single person like students or workers but lately there's a lot of similar places for couples too because you know property prices is getting ridiculous, I've been living in this kind of place since I was 15 from a 'house' with 12 bedrooms to 42 bedrooms, met a lot of amazing people since we're sharing kitchen, bathroom and lounge with others ahahah good times, thank you for sharing James! Keep up the good work!

[@KMaciej84]

There's a fairly easy way to bring the size of a real house into The Sims. You will need, for example Inkscape and a plan in the form of a picture. Then you import the plan into Inkscape and create a square. We need to have a reference point, and the most universal is the door - in The sims we have a standard door occupying one square. So you adjust the size of the square to match the size of the door on the plan. Then you start arranging the squares from the one corner of such house to the other end... You can turn on snapping objects so that the squares overlap each other in the right way with their sides. With this method, I found out that this house is 38x29 squares, and these bedrooms that are 2.5x3.4 on plan in squares should be 3x4

[@x1asheratmidnight1x]

I love when you do wacky builds like this and the previous video, and the AI house! They really keep the sims interesting

[@scarlet6776]

Omg, Just looked at the photos of the inside. Somehow, it's even worse than I have imagined. You should have added the "stairs down" with the white picket fence! 😂

[@catkiw1]

That floorplan looks like something i would have made in autoCAD on my first day of comms tech in grade 9

[@MsClareBe]

The fact this is in Adelaide rings alarm bells straight away. It was apparently a nursing home…

[@anska7475]

The perfect starting place for when there ever are hotels, a somewhat dingy b&b. ^^ I imagine the owner upgrading it with toilets and showers in weird places, so they can write that each room has a bathroom in the brochure.

[@jayturner5242]

You need to revisit this in rent for riches

[@xmadeleine.]

there are acually some pictures from the inside, the kitchen has even a white wooden fence in it (enclosing stairs or sth)! awesome, ain't it 😂

[@FayAlabri]

i really love the idea of applying floor plan into the sims i hope its gonna be a series in your channel, you did so well!

[@Gutterbonestm]

You should call this build the Landlord special

[@Eratona]

Aw yea I loved building this a couple of days ago. Saw it posted in the subreddit!

[@Yenneffer]

This house could be really profitable in Sims 4 4 Rent.

[@rainbowkatsuki7510]

One room for each pet. Works perfectly for birds

[@stitchberryg]

Could we maybe get an update of this with For Rent...?? 🤞

[@emo8071]

I could see this build being used in either the Prison Challenge or the 100 Baby Challenge.

[@mr.alpaca382]

it'd probably be a multi parter but I'd love to see you renovate this build!

[@Korilian13]

I already thought it seemed like a fire hazard before you started putting in a million fire places...

[@vnsssls]

This layout is wild.

[@alexisp5134]

You should flip the house so you can't add or subtract from the outside part of the house unless it's a fence but you can take down inner walls and make it the way you would have made it

[@fgo3324]

james: shell challenge!! me: hovering above the bulldoz the lot button

[@unsightlymaverick2596]

Now that for rent is out technically this could be fully used.. technically

[@ashleyhoran5388]

In my university dorm, we had 25 people sharing one communal bathroom with 4 toilet stalls, 4 shower stalls and 3 sinks.... we managed. Also only had one community space with combined lounge, kitchen, dining. Rooms were mostly shared and much bigger than the listing was showing. Many bedrooms looked like prison cells. Yikes

[@joeseppe]

You gotta use this somehopw in the Bigwallet series! Like you did that crazy house for the 3 brothers!

[@cafffy]

Oh I saw this on your Reddit I’m so glad you saw it and attempted it 😂

[@kawaiitrash3604]

I want to see a let's play where you have 16 roommates trying to use this lot!

[@KittyCat-lu7gw]

This would make a great indoor flea market with some reno. Each of the bedrooms could be a stall and the bigger rooms could be food courts and such

[@tamaradavis2276]

Can you imagine scrolling through KZbin and seeing your house built in the Sims?

[@marciamarques2899]

the rooms are way bigger than in my country, and here we dont even get windows, nor a kitchen, and it's 1 bathroom sometimes, and it's really reallyyyy expensive, atm we cant afford not even a room in my coutry cuz they all cost above the double of our minimum salary so

[@Aluradevries]

That would be a perfect house to renovate! The next challenge for you is to renovate it so it's actually functional.

[@SlateTiara]

I don't see any other option then to bulldoze the lot right now. I am looking forward to see what other people can come up with

[@Aluradevries]

@@SlateTiara thats why it would be a fun challenge! try to see what someone could do with keeping all the EXTERIOR walls.

[@CrossKat]

I was thinking it wasn't thaaaat bad until you got to the bedroom window that looks into the hallway. Whoever planned these 'rooms' needs to answer for all their crimes but especially this one! I feel like I'm going insane watching this? kudos to you building this because I would have checked myself into some type of hospital half way through. lmao

[@Roryrob0t]

you guys have to look up this house, the story behind it is kind of sweet. Older woman lives in the apartment up front, and then rents out the bedrooms for decently cheap prices. She recently passed and the family is selling the estate, which is rumored to be valued over 1milAUD

[@krysten6900]

You should have a bigwallet family member have a series using this house

[@SunsetSyndrome]

i googled this and found some pictures 😬 What he thought was stairs in the kitchen is actually a tiny little area fenced off by a white picket fence, it makes no sense at all, hahaha!

[@maggieschufer9742]

It would make a cool hotel/motel remodel

[@starz_030]

I lived in a group home with that many rooms before so I understand

[@theandr]

I mean, where I live, this kind of thing is normal, people when they build houses, they fill the floors with as many bedrooms as they can so they can accommodate tourists and make some money on the side, as the wages at shit.

[@footyecstatics5306]

Omg I saw this, that is so absurd! I am so glad you did this! ❤

[@ez_oa]

My first years of university I had a room in a big catholic dormitory. It was cheap, but we had like 40 rooms with one kitchen lol. I lived on the 4th floor and the kitchen was at the -1 level so i barely used it (instead i had an illegal tiny stove)

[@zero123429759]

The floor plan looks like it came out straight out of a Rimworld colony

[@inoriya]

my god this in real life it's a bit too much and scary

[@kamitakusansims]

These homes actually exist in the US as well. They are extremely rare to come by.

[@meagankath9129]

just looking at that layout makes me claustrophobic

[@heyitssavannah8403]

Of course I had to Google the house. It started as a retirement home and then went on to be a rooming house for students. Weekly rent was $185 including bills! The 4 bathrooms to accommodate 19 bedrooms is insanity though. Lol

[@itsGabrielaCristina]

Imagine if you live here and randomly see your house complex being built on KZbin. Lol

[@lady_leaf_in_the_wind]

Perfect for the For Rent expansion pack.

[@marycanary86]

thank god satan dropped out of architect school eventually its giving "indie horror game motel"

[@SheepyxTails]

Could this be used in the University world? Like your sim lives in the big room w/ ensuite and then the rest are roommates?

[@auryp.1744]

The stairs going down is probably where the real life houses water heater is

[@archie1299]

I know the house you're talking about. The article said rooms cost $185 a week ($125 USD) 😬

[@RehtaehBarr]

This is so chaotic