hey guys James here today and welcome
back to another Sims at four house
building video today we are doing as the
title suggests a luxury waterfront harms
and this was a something that I thought
it'd be a lot of fun to build because I
do a lot of smaller houses just first of
all I like building smaller houses but
also quick it adduced then is one thing
and I mean because I think I'm better
than this in the past before I tend to
get like it especially when I do larger
homes I mean this was not too big it's
like a 4-bedroom 3-bathroom homes it's
not like it's not colossal by any means
but it's bigger than stuff that I would
usually do and yeah like I said I
mentioned the past that I get bored of
doing bigger builds like if I do
something that's too big I'll just end
up getting bored of it and not want to
finish it I'll keep working on it or
I'll just get stuck and I'm not sure
what to do next and then I essentially
just end up losing any motivation for it
but this one not too big but I was
having a lot of fun with it because it
much like my previous build that I did
which was the oh there wasn't any more
remember now it was oh it's just like
that modern eco I was like a really nice
modern contemporary harm and I did a lot
of interesting things with objects and
furniture and placement of things and a
few different techniques in that one I
did a similar thing in this I did a lot
of stuff that was different and some new
things as well I even make somewhat of a
beach in this build which is pretty cool
I tweeted a picture of it a little while
ago and it it's cool you'll see me how
you'll see how I make it in this video
it's not it's actually it's it's pretty
it's not it's not as crazy as you think
but it looks really good and that's all
that matters so yeah this build was i
think i did a google image search for
like modern waterfront i think it maybe
was even sydney waterfront home so like
a local one here it might have been
sydney waterfront homes or something
like that and i found a house that had
this exterior on the back i was looking
over like the water or the beach or
whatever it was the ocean and it just
looked really really nicely like damn
that looks nice so I took the the back
facade and then I sort of just did
everything else I made like so this back
sort of area is kind of similar with
their balconies and and all that little
pool as well I don't know if that build
had a pool maybe it did I can't remember
anyway I put a pool anyway that's
usually what you end up having you have
a pool that's like all my almost an
infinity pool looking over to the ocean
so that you don't have to swim in the
ocean all the time but you have a pool
that's nice and clean right there
so did that and then just doing some
details around the build trying to
choose colors see I wanted to use this
sort of sandstone color for these bits
cuz that's kind of what the original
build had as well like they're the
real-life one and I did it at first but
it didn't I don't think it ended up
having enough contrast when like the
color didn't seem right like the
lighting in the game made it look weed
it I felt like it should have been like
it's not yellow and now if it kind of
almost just looks like a weird grayish
it just doesn't have enough color it
needs to be more vibrant it didn't have
it didn't have enough and that was a
problem but I think I don't know when I
changed it at some point later in the
build a Carmen but when and just down
the side here just doing a little
pathway that goes ramp the front so
actually this whole build needs to be
raised up onto foundation in a little
bit but I'm actually just building the
house first because it's easier because
I didn't know what shape I needed it to
be so I find it much easier to just
build like everything on the ground
first cuz with the same soil you can
very easily just add foundation whenever
you want so pretty simple to do that and
adding a bunch of windows here for the
main living space the the interior
actually ends up being really really
cool so this video we're only doing the
build though there will be a part two
that has the furnishing but you get to
see a lot of the sort of structure and
the architecture on the interior which
is gonna be really cool especially when
it comes around to the furnishing so
stay tuned for that video coming out
soon as well I've already done it so it
don't it's not gonna be one of those
part series where I say hey this is a
multi-part and then I just never do it
like um the hotel um Big Brother house
uh uh many other stuff there's probably
other things I haven't finished as well
I don't know anyway yeah this is already
done so there'll be a part two like in
the next day or so but yeah so the the
sites there I did these little half
walls like out of stones almost like you
could imagine it there being another
house next door but you can't have
houses that close in this game but I put
it there as it's sort of like little
little fence a little bit of privacy I
guess then around the front as I
typically do I do this a lot especially
on a more modern homes I do smaller
windows like on the ground floor at the
front although having said that you'll
see the front door actually ends up with
a lot of large windows that are kind of
crazy so don't worry about that okay
don't mind that well the front do I do I
do like a lot of nice stuff around that
too to do something a little bit
different
little bit new I think I do I do a
miniscule amount of furnishing I think
in this part because we mostly just
finished the build and I place a few
items I think on the balcony at the back
of the patio at the back sorry I should
say just here and there and also this
because this house is largely designed
around the the rear like the exterior at
the back I was like I need at the front
also look interesting like it's gonna
have something going on up here so we
added this little little pop-out section
up the top which it's up being quite
nice and I'm just centralizing a lot at
the moment because I wasn't in the
center I just built it wherever and then
I moved later on and now it is centered
so it's quite good and then just sort of
using this fence here to outline the
section of foundation that's gonna be
raised up as you can see here just there
but I believe I make it a little bit
bigger than that too because it looks a
bit weird just being in the middle like
that so actually you'll see it in a
little while I'm trying to use a
foundation as just well I don't want it
to look like carnation he should just
look like natural landscape except at
the front actually at the front it is
kind of designed to just look like a bit
of foundation but then around the sides
I try to make it look a little natural
by hiding a lot of the edge of the
foundation with plants and all that kind
of stuff
which it'll be a lot easier to explain
sort of once we get to it as well oh by
the way this is already available for
download on the sims 4 gallery so if you
do want to check it out if you search
for this supply the same as my username
here on YouTube just without the spaces
you can find it there I'll also link it
down below so click the link in the
description that will take you to the
gallery and you can just download it
from there as well so it's a pretty easy
now I gotta say this definitely would
have been probably in terms of
landscaping would have been easier in
The Sims 3 no doubt because we can't do
any terrain editing we can't we can't
actually do any proper split levelling
or anything like that but I use the view
tricks a few tricks of the trade here
and there really wish I could have had
an infinity pool right up to the edge
because you can't have swimming pools at
different heights next to each other so
I can't like that so that's why I had to
have I had to have that gap between the
swimming pool and the other swimming
pool which is supposed to be the ocean
like obviously the bit down the bottom
is supposed to be the ocean you know
that kind of what it's supposed to look
like anyway then I'm using these half
walls to create
the illusion it's an illusion it's not a
magic trick the illusion of a guess half
wall not half full when I say the
illusion of like split leveling and and
all that kind of stuff and make it look
like it's kind of actually done in a
interesting way and then because I one
of the hassles to be flat on that top
and I decided I just turn them into some
planters and actually end up putting
some little bits of I guess a like in
there I think they're in the flower
category but I don't really flowers I
don't know what the I don't know what
actually call but you'll see it in a
minute
you see what I'm talking about but yes
so round by the house this is supposed
to look like a little bit more man-made
sort of going into the water with a
straight edge just supposed to be a bit
that sort of juts out over the edge and
then around the side of the house here
you can see that I'm trying to battle
that's the first stage of me blending
stuff in it's just putting a few plants
around the place like that I look it
it's beautiful so there's a lot of this
of just placing stuff over and over this
that this so this video will this build
sorry to show this for you this bill
took me I think is about five hours in
total just of because there's a lot of
stuff to play so a lot of little tricks
to do here and there yeah so I used okay
use those little things there just raise
them up with move objects I do have a
tutorial on that I don't know what it's
called
probably just well if you did such the
simple build mode tutorial like on
YouTube I think my beginner basic one
comes up somewhere I don't know if
that's got literally everything in it
like that's got all the build tricks
that you'll need to get started so you
should check that out when you get a
chance I was really hoping that they had
so changing the pull trim there as you
can see I was try to make it brown to
match because I was just having a little
wooden section there which I felt
contrasted all the white house the white
sort of contemporary home really really
nicely which was actually a running
theme in this house it's supposed to be
almost like white clean really
contemporary but then also mix in with
natural wood tones throughout the house
was kind of the idea and you'll see that
sort of come around so in the original
build like they're the real house they
had so the roof at the top was actually
like a wooden I think it's like a wooden
slat roof but you can't change the color
of the bottom of a roof which is really
knowing I wish you could change ceilings
and the underside of a roof and all that
so actually just use these things scale
them up
like a little wooden lattice thing and
just put it underneath that roof which
it worked quite well like it still gets
the same effect so I was quite happy
with that now cuz this pool is quite
long and it's quite like it's not very
wide I thought it'd be it's an ideal
like a lap pool or to swim laps in so I
put that little line marker down the
bottom I thought that was just a nice
little detail that had him now there is
a way I didn't I could have looked it up
but I didn't there is a way to actually
add windows to foundation doing some
weird build my trick I don't know if it
still works but I remember seeing it a
long time ago and I thought it would
have been cool if we could go up windows
next to the pool so it almost was more
like of an like an infinity pool but
couldn't quite get that oh by the way
the little glass fence around the pool
which is not normally available in the
fences you can actually unlock that I
think by which chain it is and see them
might be the free build she'd
potentially or maybe it's just the
unlock entitlement Street because it's
actually at the topping of a half wall
but if you use that sheet you can
actually unlock it and use as a regular
fence and it was like perfect for around
the pool so like I said the front
I guess the wooden section just said to
our left at the back of the house is
supposed to be like the man-made section
that I'm trying to make the rest of the
coastline look a little bit more natural
obviously it's very hard with vertical
walls everywhere and the tsun4 but doing
my best to just let it blend it in using
a bunch of rocks I'll see if I could
make like a because I wanted different
heights in in this water so I want like
a shallow end and all that and I was
like what can I use to create like a
floor then I remembered if you I did an
apartment complex build it's a four part
build series here in my channel but you
should check yeah because it's pretty
awesome the apartment complex build I
did a lot of studio apartments that had
a lot of move object stuff and I used
those same lane markers from the
swimming pool just before if you scale
them up and you can move them around and
actually it kind of looks like it's
different levels of sand in the in the
water now look at different different
depths and I think that actually worked
really really well the interesting thing
is if you take those out of the water
they're actually like a pink but under
the the blue of the water it works just
fine so it's quite happy with that it's
like alright hey whatever works yeah so
like I said use those to create
different depths which was the initial
stages of me
figuring out how I could or if it was
possible to make a nice sloping smooth
Beach because as far as I'm aware you
can't put a roof in a basement or in a
pool like because it's below if it's
below ground level I don't think the
game lets you do it which is kind of
annoying because that would have made it
a lot lot easier if they just allowed
that but you'll see how I do it no I'm
not gonna try and explain it before we
do it because it's pretty simple you'll
see exactly how I do it it doesn't take
very long then just getting some outdoor
dining here yeah so there's a little bit
of furnishing as you can see we're just
doing some of the outdoor stuff not too
much but a little bits here and there
and I thought this really nice wooden
table is a really good exterior one and
then just doing what am i cleric cleric
one of my classic latticework sort of
shades which again I thought fit really
well with this build it is a modern look
it is it's got the wouldn't the wood
tones to it so it's like tying in with
that theme that we're trying to go with
there as well really rich really dark
just trying to find some interesting I
think if there's any other cool columns
that I could use instead of just
standard columns turns out there wasn't
anything else I wanted to use so I just
used the standard ones I give up in a
second there we go I was like all right
I tried I tried to find something
different it didn't happen and then
using this really nice sort of umbrella
and these two I think they're from Spa
Day the sort of massage chairs as for
client I really wish we just had lounge
chair like the lounge recliners from
every other Sims game ever except maybe
simple one I think is Sims two and three
if we can have those back that'll be
great so be perfect for out here and
then I actually scaled down that that's
I think there's a dining table but I
scaled it down because it was too big
and I wanted to use as like a little
side table for those and I put a little
drinks tray on it so I thought that's
quite nice using those wicker chairs
actually which I really really like from
the I think at the laundry day start
pack they've just just come out and then
on the table I wanted to do like a
little arrangement of plants so I scaled
down a few items and then just use a bit
of move objects to sort of place them
around in different locations on the
table which again well I think they're
not really really nice and then we just
got a small barbecue area here nothing
too extravagant with the barbecue just a
barbecue and an outdoor bin which is
good because that means we already have
a bin in this build and I don't have to
forget it which is great news I've got
an outdoor bin now
something I really enjoyed doing as well
I found that a lot of the annoying alien
plants and foliage that I swear no one
ever uses for anything because they're
disgusting they're really really ugly if
you use them anywhere else turns out
they're really good for creating like a
little coral reef it was like you know
what there's actually looks kind of good
it looks like there's potentially like
some coral on that growing through here
it looks really good underwater I was
like okay okay we can we can work with
this
so it's just that now a matter of me
placing a million of these things under
here just to create somewhat of a nice
little effect and a little bit more
natural so we still obviously have that
sort of straight edge of the wood going
into the water but then I use again some
more of those line markers to create
like a sand level that's a bit higher
than the base of the pool I could have
used the fountain tool but I also wanted
the water to be deeper in some sections
so that's why it didn't I don't know how
swimmable this pool is by the way I'm
actually tested swimming in this large
pool I mean the regular pool in the
house should be fine but this one
because it's got so much stuff in it all
over I feel like The Sims probably won't
be able to use it they might in some
locations but a lot of it's probably
inaccessible and is not gonna work but
Gilly well anyway this is a matter of
putting a million zillion rocks around
everywhere but I think it's starting to
look really cool I was playing around
with different water tones it turns out
it didn't look very good so I left about
creating another little beach on the
side cuz we got a beach on the
right-hand side I'm gonna your beach on
the left as well depending at which way
you look at the house I don't know I
figured we should probably have access
to this area because there's no easy way
to get over here so I'm just creating a
new little entrance section here from
the the back the balcony or patio I keep
pulling in a balcony it's not about good
for the back patio just adding some
stairs in here
to connect that all around it just tucks
in quite neatly there I thought that
worked out really really well no issues
at all play that's beautiful and then
yeah just covering up this edge like
like I said I wanted to make sure like
some of these edges looked a little bit
more natural because there's just no way
to make a vertical concrete edge look
like terrain unless you cover it with
plants and I was playing around here cuz
I like I said earlier
this sort of sandstone color wasn't
didn't have the right tone to me it was
too late it doesn't have enough yellow
in it and I wasn't really like it I was
like what if I cover implants is like no
I don't like that it's like what if I
just you know change up the tone a
little bit see if I can get one that
looks maybe a bit better and I think
yeah I think I settled with that color
don't never change it later I can't
remember but I've gone with that for now
I surround this side here we go this is
the beach using these a roof trim
I don't know sign things I don't know
what they are but I figured out if you
scale them up and put a million of them
next to each other you get a perfect
slope going down into the water I was
like oh my god this works out so well
look at this it's really really actually
surprisingly well and then a lot of
people were like asking me how I did it
it's really not that crazy but I didn't
want to I don't want to say it before
the video cuz of like you know we'll
keep it in the video we have a secret
beach and you think cuz when you overlap
a lot of items like this they can
sometimes like visually glitch out and
all that they do a little bit but it's
really not so bad
and then I put a few rocks down the
bottom to blend it in a bit obviously
the sides of it are still vertical walls
but looking from the right angle it can
look really really cool so happy with
that and it does create a little sloping
Beach I don't know if it's usable there
it probably isn't I feel like those
items would get in the way of the sim so
they wouldn't actually be able to get in
the water there but it's cool cool
nonetheless so there you go and just a
bunch of all plants around this way
trying to really give it almost a
tropical sort of beach vibe I well I
mean I imagine this kind of house being
like in Sydney or something because
that's kind of what it was based on I
think it was a Sydney house like I
remember now it might have been
something else but it sort of has all
that kind of foliage but although he was
in Sydney there wouldn't be all this
side like extra room to the left and
right of it but it's a Sims so we have
loads of room which is great just
putting a bunch of trees making it
really look quite vibrant but also
leaving enough open space on the beach
so if you want to add some items in
there you could do you can add in like a
bonfire or something which would be
pretty easy to go ahead and do without
too much trouble at all just a lot of
overlapping of plants and scaling them
up and rotating them and putting them in
different places so it doesn't look
- same same because if you just have a
lot of the same plant everywhere I can
look a bit rather repetitious rep
repetitive that's your repetitious what
the hell is that we can look a bit
repetitive so by rotating them obviously
all slightly a little bit and just
getting a bunch of slightly different
sizes as well like these palm trees good
there's two there's two sizes of Andriy
there's a super tall one and then the
regular tall one and if you scale them
they scale slightly differently so you
get some different sizes and all that
which is pretty nice I really wish we
just had like a beach umbrella because I
wanted a really nice umbrella that
sticks in the sand down here so we got a
little beach setting that umbrella was
soso didn't fit in I was like why would
that be on the sand so instead I kind of
do these two little towers and then
that's a little bucket that I found it's
like that's kind of cool we'll put a
bucket in there and then I just got one
of the s keys from outdoor retreat there
so you can hang out on the beach have a
have a juice cold juice - no you're good
so again change the color of those walls
now it's like a wooden those wooden
walls there instead and I'm lightening
up that shade as well I'm just trying to
change the tones around a little bit
there wasn't sure if I was exactly happy
with everything yet but I still I like
the wood by the the water that looked
quite nice and just changing that as
well we're keeping the the sort of
sidewalls that that's so sandstone any
color but I think the main accent in the
middle at the back I wasn't too happy
with so that's why I change it to the
wood and had also tied it all in
together as well and a little pathway
for the front of the house so I think
this is where we're nearly to the point
of I think trying to figure out the
layout of the builders well no actually
I did something kind of cool here
because I really wanted to have like a
little fence thing leading up to the
front of the house but you can't do
fences on the edge of the lot so I used
these things from spado
which are like little floor trim things
I have no idea I just place them in
raised them up and created like this
little custom fence at the moment
they're floating but what I did is I got
a couple of fences in the middle so it
looks like there's a bit of structure in
the middle then you have almost this
little modern double stacked fence that
goes around like a little ribbon kind of
fence I don't know I thought it'd look
kind of cool it's just a little detail
most people that play the lot will
probably never notice although if you've
watched booths video there you go
now we're doing the layout the main area
of the house as you can see here is
gonna be a two-level atrium type of
build with a walk like a catwalk up the
top for the bedrooms which I thought was
really quite interesting so there on the
left that little diagonal room bit is
actually gonna be a bathroom which again
I actually really thought it was quite
cool that was quite cool we can't look
up the top get the stairs joining up to
that and then over to the bathroom but
the idea was I wanted it to be open I
was trying out a lot of different things
here maybe close it off with some
windows and all that I was like it's
just not working I think having it open
as one big space was the best way to go
and that's what we ended up doing but I
think at the moment I'm just trying to
figure out the layout because I had to
just this little catwalk a little bit
because I needed to be out of fit in
because I want to have an ensuite
bathroom for the master bedroom and have
access to the because they're one of the
bathroom there and yeah anyway I just
had to move the whole we get to all fit
in had to do a sub hallway there they
fit three bedrooms on the other side
because I didn't want to just have two
bedrooms because it would have been the
size would have been all off but we've
got three double bedrooms that can
actually fit on the other side I think
only two of them end up being double
bedrooms for plenty of room so quite
good but it's going through doing some
lights now so we can make sure that we
have the sleep everything looks good and
it's all lit when everything's lit up
it's much easier to work without always
that's literally the first thing I
always do and I was playing around with
this thing there's any interesting I
could do but I just made all the walls
white and then we're gonna go from there
but yeah so we're gonna do all the
furnishing in part two of this which
will be coming out I think in a couple
of days so not tomorrow but the day
after or if it's in the future it's
already out so go check it out I'll be
linked in this video in the description
and everywhere so you should be able to
find it yeah so the living room here I
wanted you to be sunken I wanted it to
be like a split-level living room so you
walk downstairs to the living space
which I thought was a pretty err pretty
nice it also makes the place feel even
bigger because you're going down lower
and it's just there's loads of room you
know loads of room so we have the main
living area there off up this side we're
gonna have another bathroom downstairs
to the left it's like a music room that
we do and off to the right as like a
parlor kind of thing like an office home
office computer bookcases all that kind
of stuff is gonna go in there and then
on the other side of the kitchen and
dining
the left there which really opens up the
space and makes it look really
interesting I got to say though some of
the furnishing of this well it is it's
it's beautiful you gotta you gotta check
it out to believe it there the
furnishing is off the charts there are I
though I do a lot of really interesting
things with the master bedroom and the
kitchen so like a lot of new things that
I've never done and the Sims before and
I don't know if it looks I mean no it
looks really good I don't know how well
it's actually a work in game play but
it's definitely something that's really
really interesting but hello look know
we've started furnishing but it's it's
blurred out that's because that's
available in pot two which is you go
check out on screen right now if it's
already there but yeah thanks watch guys
make sure to check out some more videos
and I'll see you next time and have an
awesome day