i built a giant house for THIRTEEN sims

Story progression in The Sims can be  kinda wild, like ever since Sims got   the ability to decide to have kids on their  own, it’s been interesting, to say the least. And then when you combine the in-game  story progression with MC Command   Center story progression, things get really wild.

So long story short, one of my Sim’s literally  has 11 kids and she kind of needs a bigger house. So today we are attempting to  build a house that fits 13 Sims. Now obviously this is a little bit unusual,  like generally you would never need something  

Like this, you know, considering the fact the  max household size is eight Sims by default,   but through a series of unfortunate events  and also some unfortunate mod settings,   I’ve ended up with 13, so here we are. If it makes you feel any better, I’m  not actually playing with these Sims,  

These are just like, distant  relatives of my legacy challenge. But basically my Sim’s aunt just keeps  having babies. We keep getting the   pop-up where she like, calls and it’s  like, hey, should I have another kid?

And I keep saying yes because like, why not, but  this has been happening for so long in my game. To give you some context, this  Sim’s sister is dead. Like,   she died of old age, but Penelope, the one who  keeps having babies, is still only an adult.

Penelope’s wife has died of old age, and a bunch  of Penelope’s kids are adults themselves now. When Sims are pregnant they don’t age  because pregnant Sims can’t die so like,   every time Penelope gets pregnant, it  adds basically three days to her life,   and she’s been pregnant 11 times.

So she’s basically immortal at this point. This like, might as well be a  100 Bbby challenge at this point. Unfortunately I think it might be done now  that her wife Emily has died because she   can’t get pregnant anymore, but that doesn’t  mean she won’t like, adopt them or something.

I don’t know, MC Command Center is wild. This might have happened to you before, if  you’ve got that enabled in the mod where like,   Don Lothario all of a sudden  has like, 10 kids with like,   eight different people, but this one  was half my fault because they did  

Keep calling asking if they should have  more babies and I just kept saying yes. So essentially we have to try and  fit a lot of Sims into this house. Now my idea for this was kind of simple,  I wanted to basically build like,  

A really big, cozy family house,  but one that had a lot of bedrooms,   and all of those bedrooms would have two beds  in them so that we could fit enough Sims. I actually only used the base  game for this house as well.

I don’t really know why I did that because it’s  not like anybody’s gonna want to play in this,   at least in its current state, but it is base game  as like, an additional bonus feature, I suppose. Oh, I forgot to mention, the reason  that I can have so many Sims in my  

Household is also because of MC Command Center. I set the household size up to 24  as the max limit instead of eight. I did this because a few months ago  I was doing a charity stream on my  

Twitch channel and I decided to do this thing  where every time we raised a thousand dollars,   I would add an extra toddler into my household. So I put the household size way up in  hopes of you know, having room to grow,  

And it’s a good thing that I  did because we ended up raising   $23,000 for Saint Jude that day in one day,  so I had 23 toddlers and one adult Sim there. And I was also playing in just a starter home,  

By the way, and I just kept like,  expanding it to add beds in the back. It was a disaster. Well anyway,  I haven’t changed my household   size back since then and that was in  May, and now we have this happening. Like, now my Sim has decided to have 11 babies.

Also um, okay, how do I say this. There’s only 10 kids in this household  right now. So there’s the 10 kids,   mom, and that’s it, there’s 11 Sims. Obviously her wife Emily used to be  here, and there used to be one more kid.

The kid’s not dead, it just disappeared  because if you go into CAS when you   have more than eight Sims in your  household, it deletes one of them. And I did that when I had nine Sims. Didn’t  realize, and then one of the babies was um, gone.

They’re not dead, they just never  existed, as far as the game is concerned. So I did you know, put a bassinet in the  house sort of as a replacement for the   Sim that has left us, but uh yeah, there’s  not currently actually 11 kids living here.

And then other slight disclaimer,  they’re also not all kids, like,   a lot of these Sims are literally adults  now, not even young adults, but adults. I still decorated the house as if it  had kids living here, so it has like,   a bunch of kids bedrooms and one toddler bedroom.

And I just felt like that was more fun than like,   decorating a house for like, a you  know, 40 something year old Sim. And with all of that disclaimer finished, let’s  actually talk about the house for a second. So with this one, I was trying  to use some swatches of like,  

Wallpaper that I never really use. For example, one of the base game  bricks has like, a brown painted swatch. I never use that. I don’t think I’ve ever used  the brown painted brick before, and I thought it  

Might be kind of fun to try and build a house  that could fit in that brown painted brick. I paired it with like, a brown paneled  wallpaper and also like, a stucco color. I think it looks kind of good, and  then the main like, kind of cool  

Feature on the outside is this house has a garage. It’s a fake garage, it’s not a real  garage obviously because it’s The Sims 4,   but I wanted to have something to make  it look a little bit more interesting so   it’s got like, the diagonal piece  of garage coming out on the side.

I turned that “garage” into  just a bedroom on the inside,   it’s the primary bedroom on the first floor. So it’s not really a garage, but you  can pretend, and that’s what I did. I did put a fake car from debug in the driveway,  

Just to kind of like, fill  in the yard a little bit. And I will say, I am extremely proud  of the landscaping on this one. I feel like that driveway really fills in  the space on the lot, and I added in like,  

A little fake fence and some more decor,  there’s like, some gnomes and stuff,   but I felt like the whole thing  really came together really nicely. I forget at which point in the video it  happens, but I had one of the weirdest  

Terrain paint glitches I have ever seen  happen when I was building this house. So I genuinely don’t really understand  how this is even possible because I   know that there’s a lot of terrain paint glitches,   like generally the one that I’m used to  is it just deleting the terrain paint.

Sometimes when you reload into the lot, the  terrain paint just disappears which I’ve seen,   like I’m familiar with this,  it’s been happening for years. But in the backyard, I was trying to make  a little sand pit. I wanted to have like,  

A lot of kids toys and like, playground stuff  in the yard because we have so many kids. So I put like, one of the giant boat playground  thingies, and I put a little sand pit because   when you have Island Living, your Sims can  like, actually play in the sand and build  

Sandcastles and stuff, so I made like, just a  box and I filled it with sand terrain paint. And I was gonna put like, some  toys and stuff in there basically,   nothing too fancy, but kind of a cute addition. Well, I put a fence around it first  and then my Twitch chat was like,  

Oh, you should try to put a half  wall instead, see how that looks. So I switched the fence to a half wall,   and that proceeded to change all of the  terrain paint in the backyard to sand. So I had made like, a big back patio  using that same gravel that’s in the  

Driveway in the backyard, it changed  the entire back gravel into sand. It deleted the front gravel,  and it kept all of the dirt. You’ll see it in the video, I genuinely do not  understand how this is possible because it like,   deleted one thing, changed another,  and then kept a third option.

And I guess the part that I find so  confusing is like, how did it delete   the front yard terrain paint, but then  like, change the backyard terrain paint? And why did it change the backyard terrain  paint into sand? Like, how? How? How?

I don’t know. I didn’t even notice that it  had happened until I was like, going to like,   furnish the patio, and I was like, now hang on. Now why is this patio sand  because I did not do that. For some reason half walls and terrain  paint are really buggy in this game.

The terrain paint obviously has  like, so many weird glitches,   but the half walls cause some weird things too,   like I think it’s the half wall’s fault  that the terrain paint bugged like that. And I don’t know if you’ve seen, but  sometimes when you try to place a half wall,  

Or paint a half wall inside the house, it’ll  like, delete your clutter objects if you’ve like,   placed clutter on the kitchen counter and  then you try and put a half wall down,   it’ll delete the kitchen clutter even  though the half wall is not in the kitchen.

It’s really, really weird, there is some very  strange Sims bugs these days, but whatever. At least they’re usually fixable. The  terrain paint one was really annoying   though because I had to redo the whole thing. Okay, now floor plan-wise and  like, interior furnishing-wise,   I wanted to have again, as  many bedrooms as I could.

I managed to fit six and I think  that like, for playability,   this is actually a really good layout. There’s four bedrooms upstairs,  and I think three bathrooms. Two of them have ensuites and  then one of them has like,   a Jack and Jill bathroom shared  by the other two bedrooms.

And I put all of the kids and like,  teen rooms upstairs, up there. And then downstairs, we have the  primary bedroom and the toddler bedroom,   so when you’re actually playing,  it would be a lot easier to like,   bathe the toddlers and not  have them have to go upstairs.

I even put in high chairs which I never ever  do, I actually find high chairs really annoying   for gameplay so I like, intentionally don’t use  them because I think it’s easier to not have to,   but I did put some of those in and then  there’s two more bathrooms downstairs,  

There’s like a hall bathroom for everyone to  use and an ensuite for the primary bedroom. So in total, it is a six bedroom,  five bathroom house. It’s got a   lot of amenities like a big kitchen  and all that cool backyard stuff.

I don’t know why I’m doing a sales pitch like  a real estate agent, but it is a nice house. And color scheme-wise,   I had this idea that I wanted the main  living space to be kind of neutral. I’ve been doing a lot of like, really  colorful builds recently so I thought  

That it might be fun to have the main  living space be very neutral color scheme,   almost as like, an oasis  amongst all of these kids. Like, maybe the mom has insisted that the living  space has to be very clean and comfortable and  

Cozy, and then in the bedrooms, the kids can  just go wild with decor, she doesn’t care. I think I’m also drawing inspiration from the  fact that this family used to live in that 50   by 50 lot in the base game, just like the  default — I think it’s called Oakenstead,  

That lot, just with the  default house that’s there. Which by the way, did not have enough  bedrooms. It had like, three bedrooms. Not enough space for all these kids. So I  was kind of drawing inspiration from like,   that sort of fancy mansion vibe. And then in the  

Kids rooms, I put like a bunch of toys  everywhere, like really bright colors. I even had them have matching ensuite bathrooms,   so there’s like a pink kid’s room  and a pink bathroom attached to it. So the upstairs is way more  exciting than the downstairs is.

And um, we’re doing that terrain  paint that I talked to you about now. I don’t know if you can see, but it changed all  of that paint to sand and watching this back,   it looks like it happened before  I even placed the half walls. So I must have like, misunderstood, but like,  

You can tell that it changed all my  terrain paint in the backyard to the sand. I used gravel, why did that happen?  And then here I am noticing it. I like, genuinely could not believe  this when I streamed this build.

I was like, how is this even possible?  Because the dirt is all still there. So it didn’t change all of the terrain  paint, it just changed some of it. I don’t know, I guess maybe it’s  not actually the half wall’s fault,   so is it like, the terrain paint’s  fault or the floorings fault?

I Idon’t know. And then it deleted the driveway,  just gone, but the dirt’s all still there. I really genuinely do not  understand this. Have you   seen this? Has this happened to anybody  else because like, this is new to me,  

And I build a lot in this game and  I’ve never had this happen before. Luckily it didn’t take too long to fix because I  had already like, done all of the shaping of it   and like, I just had to put the paint back into  like, the holes between the plants essentially.

But it was still really weird,  it’s just — I don’t know. I find it very shocking that we’ve  had these terrain paint bugs like,   since the game came out. This is not new. I mean, this one’s new, but like the other  one with just deleting terrain paint in  

General, that’s been happening for  years, and it just is that way. It’s never gonna change,  our life is just like this. Anyway I’m furnishing the sand pit now  and I tried to make this really cute. I tried to put a lot of toys  out here because I was kind  

Of envisioning that maybe the average  person might use this house for like,   a 100 baby challenge or something, just  maybe with like, eight Sims instead of 13,   and so I tried to make there be a lot of  toys and things that were useful for that.

I also made like, a little custom tea party  out in the backyard. I like lined up a bunch   of toys like teddy bears and ladybugs and stuff  around a little table and put a tea set on it,   because I loved the idea of the kids  pretending they were having a tea party.

Basically I intend to use this house to  visit my family members because I have   this legacy challenge that I’m playing right now. I would like to be able to come here and  use their toys, so I put a lot of them.

And now we’re moving back inside, you can see  I cut out the bathrooms because it took me a   very long time, I was being kind of silly, but  basically the bathrooms, I made each of them a  

Different color of the same tile so there’s like,  a pink one, a green one, and a blue one upstairs. I guess blue is not the right word, it’s  more of like, an aqua. It’s very bright. And then downstairs I use the  same tile again, but I did like,  

A beige one in the hallway, and then  like, a light blue one in the bedroom. I really liked the idea of each  bathroom being a little bit different,   I feel like I never do that because I don’t  usually care about bathrooms all that much.

In this house I actually tried with the  bathrooms a little bit more which is new for me. I guess I just have in my head that it’s  like this tiny room that my Sims are   never in and I always play with the walls  cut away so I can’t even see it really.

So I kind of just put like, the default, you know,   necessary functions in there  and then like, call it a day. There’s a toilet, there’s a shower, you know,   it’s fine, but in here, I tried  to add some personality at least. So we have one like, sort of  pink and blue themed bedroom.

This one I was sort of picturing as being a kids   bedroom. I put a lot of toys and  like, some cute decor and stuff. We have one that’s all green, and I  liked this room a lot because I was   sort of thinking it would be more of a teens room.

The green is a little bit much.  Like, there’s a lot of green,   but I used loft beds in here and I used  two loft beds and I kind of placed them   in a way that like, gives each kid kind  of their own side of the room almost.

I wanted the kids to feel like they had their own  space, so they each had a loft, they each had a   desk under it, and then I tried to put like,  some clutter that might fit their personality.

So I pictured one was into music and one was into  art, so one side has like, an easel and some like,   little artsy decor, and the other side has like,  a little guitar and some posters and stuff. This is also just good for like, skill  building in general, if you did happen  

To use this house for a baby challenge, there  is plenty of space for skill building in here. And I will say that in my experience,  usually with this sort of challenge,   I think it’s nice to have more  beds than you actually need.

I would probably change one of the bedrooms  and do an extra toddler bedroom or like,   put more toddler beds downstairs or  something because sometimes you might   have four toddlers and three teens, or  you might have six children, you know? Like, when you’re playing a baby  challenge, things are constantly changing,  

So it’s good to have extra just so you  don’t need to keep renovating everything. Oh gosh, okay, this yellow and blue  bedroom that I’m doing right now   with the yellow walls and that like, black  and blue furniture, my Twitch chat hated.

They were like this is the ugliest thing I’ve  ever seen, the color scheme is weird. Kayla,   you suck. They really did not like  this bedroom, I kind of liked it. I was really trying to do like,  different bedroom color schemes   that I don’t usually do because  I wanted to branch out, you know?

I’ve been trying to like, use  the base game in different ways,   and so I thought I’ve never used this  bed with this wall, let’s try it. Oh no, chat did not like that. I still think  it looks okay, but they thought it was like,  

Really weird to have the light  yellow walls and the dark beds. I don’t know, I think it’s  fine and it’s not that deep,   but it’s okay if you don’t like it,  I understand because I’ve heard it. But I pictured that bedroom  could be like, I don’t know,  

It could be like, a teens room or a kids room. And then this last one, this lighter blue room,   I ended up making it very blue and orange, and  I thought this was like, definitely a kids room. I tried to use like, every  different bed option that we had,  

So I was using a lot of the  different swatches and stuff. Luckily there actually is a  pretty wide variety of like,   kids furniture in the base game these days which  is kind of nice, it’s really fun looking back  

On this and seeing like, how much the base  game has changed since it first came out. Obviously those beds that I used in the pink   room and that blue and yellow  room are both new, sort of. They’re actually from Parenthood, but then  they made them base game, so I don’t know,  

That’s nice because there’s more base game beds. I’d love to see even more base  game beds, but you know, I’ll wait. Or at least just more base game bed  swatches. I need to stop because I  

Get on this every time I do a speed build,  but like, if they were to just update some   of those base game beds with a few more  swatches, my life would be so much better. It would improve everything, I would really,   really love that Sims team, if  you could just do some recolors.

Some really simple ones, like  solid color, not even pattern. Just like, some solid color  plain swatches in a few colors,   some pastels, some dark color, I  need like, a few more options, okay? Anyway, this last bedroom is the toddler bedroom.  I tried to use the little race car beds in like,  

A green and orange color because I don’t  know if I’ve ever used those in that color,   and the whole room is like,  very green and orange basically. I put a bunch of toys in here too. I just wanted  to make sure the kids didn’t have to like, go up  

And down the stairs because toddlers are so bad  at that, but that is pretty much the entire house. I actually cut out the primary bedroom  from this video because it took me so long. I tried like, four different color schemes so I’m  

Gonna pop into the game now and  give you like, a proper tour. It’s always kind of hard to see when it’s  like, sped up and spinning around so much,   so now we can like, actually take a look at it  and I can show you those bathrooms and stuff.

So it’s called the 13 Sim  Family Home on the gallery. I placed it on this lot kind of diagonally across  from the Goth family if that helps you locate it. Oh no, the whole thing’s on a platform  so now my columns look weird, hang on,   let me try to fix it really fast.

Okay, well here is the  finished exterior. I really,   really like how the front of this house looks. I’m like, genuinely very proud of it. I  don’t really adore how the garage looks,   I tried to do a fake garage door and I tried  to use different windows than I normally would,  

But this is just kind of not the vibes. I did it with just the base game and it’s  on a diagonal which really did not help. When I’m doing builds with packs,  I’ve used this door from Snowy   Escape instead and this I feel like  looks way more like a garage door.

Oh, the platform does not help, okay,  well, I couldn’t have used this anyway,   but I do think that that looks pretty  good as a fake garage door sometimes. I am just destroying this entire house,  but like, look, it doesn’t really clip,  

And it looks like a door and  it also functions like a door. So that’s kind of a pro tip if you have  Snowy Escape, but for our purposes,   that does not help because this is base  game and diagonal and on a platform. Anyway, when you come up this little pathway,  

We’ve got a little wraparound porch right  here, I put like a chess table and stuff. Oh no, the wallpaper is messed  up, it deleted my column. Ugh. I’m telling you, these bugs are so weird. Why did  it delete my columns when I placed the wallpaper?

That makes absolutely no sense, but  again, whatever. When you first walk in,   there’s like a little entryway, nothing too fancy,  just a small little hallway where the stairs are. And then you come through that  archway into the kitchen, dining,   living space, it’s all kind of one room.

We have the kitchen back here, I really  like how this sort of fit into the nook. I felt like this whole floor plan kind  of came together really nicely. I sort   of expected to struggle more, but I  think with how the house is shaped,  

There’s a lot of like, natural spaces that  kind of make sense as the different rooms. So this is kind of like, the perfect size  for a kitchen, this table fit here so nicely,   so it seemed like the floor plan  came together really easily.

I used a lot of like, neutral colors  and beiges in this living space. I even put some toys over here and like,   kind of on the coffee table to make it seem  like the kids have been playing out here. Back here in the “garage,” it’s  actually the primary bedroom and again,  

I cut this out because it took me  so long to decide on a color scheme. I still don’t like this, but it’s fine. My  poor dear Penelope has her own fireplace,   she’s got a huge ensuite bathroom,  

And I put a bunch of toddler potties in here  too because there’s a bunch of Sims here,   she’s probably doing some potty training in this  room, but she’s got like, a tub and a shower. I also put a little bassinet in the corner  because we don’t have a baby’s room and I  

Figured it’s very possible that she  or any Sim that you’re playing with,   might have a baby when they  have this many kids already. Because I was kind of going for like, one 100  baby challenge vibes, so I put a bassinet there.

For that challenge, I’d probably put two,  or maybe even three, but we have one. And then we have a little hall bathroom, nothing  too fancy, and this is the toddlers room. I used some things I never use, I always kind of  forget about these little shelves, but this shelf  

Is base game and it is so cute, there’s like,  so many good swatches on this, highly recommend. I should use it way more often than I do. And then when you go upstairs, there’s a tiny  little hallway and then a bunch of bedrooms,   so we’ll start over here in the pink one.

We’ve got two beds, a bunch of pink  decor, they also have a laptop which   is kind of nice and they have a little  tiny pink and yellow ensuite bathroom. I really did have fun with  the bathrooms in this house. I put this little bonsai tree so  you can do some more skill building,  

And then we have that green  bedroom I was talking about. So over here we have like, the  artsy side. They have like,   some pencils and a little artist  tablet and like, an easel and stuff. And then over here is like, the musician side,  

So they have a guitar and some  posters and like, a laptop and stuff. Also Baby Yoda and a crying mirror, it  just felt like it fit so I added it. And they have a green and yellow ensuite  bathroom. I also used this little mirror,   I never use this, but it kind of works.

And then down the hallway we have that yellow  and black room that everybody hated so much,   but I still kind of like, I  still kind of think it’s cute. This one is supposed to be maybe a teens room,  maybe a kids room, could kind of go either way.

And then they have a shared  bathroom with their siblings,   so there’s two doors in here  in between both the rooms. And then the younger siblings maybe have  this sort of like, blue and yellowy,   I don’t know, it’s kind of a random  color scheme, but it sort of works.

So in total, eight Sims can sleep upstairs,   two Sims in the toddler room, two Sims in  the bedroom, that makes 12, plus a baby, 13. This my friends is — oh, the backyard,   sorry. I was gonna say this is a house  for 13 Sims, no, we have a backyard too.

Okay, so anyway, you come out the back door,  we’ve got like, a woodworking table and a bench. Over here there’s another back door  off the dining room that just has like,   a bench and another trash can. I also managed to put a hot  tub back here, there’s like,  

Some lounge chairs, we have a table  and a grill, there’s a little garden,   we have the pirate ship, and we have  that little sand pit that I made. I tried to put a bunch of toys out  here, with my little tea set I was  

Imagining the Sims might sit here and here  in the empty spaces and they could play. Obviously that’s pretend, they can’t,  but you know, it’s a good story. They can play with these toys,  and they can also use this. I wanted to put the science table  outside because then it hopefully  

Wouldn’t light anything inside on  fire, and I stand by that choice. A lot of my Twitch chat was mad about that  being outside too, but I kind of like it. Anyway, that, my friends, is a house for  13 Sims. Like I mentioned, it is base game,  

So if you wanted to download it and like,  delete a few beds to play in, you totally could. Or potentially, if you also have like,  MC Command Center and a random Sim in   your save who just keeps having  babies, might be good for them.

But on that note, I am going to end this video  right here. Thank you so much for watching. If you like Sims videos like this, I play  The Sims literally every day here on YouTube,   and I also stream The Sims all the time on Twitch.

So feel free to subscribe and I’ll  link my Twitch channel down below,   and I’m gonna catch you all tomorrow, okay? Bye everybody. Also I realized the sun has been kind of  shining in here weird, it is currently 7am.

In my defense, I don’t normally film it this time,  but um, here we are, and the lighting is weird. [ JAZZY OUTRO MUSIC ]