I really wish they would give us an apartment lot type too. I love apartments, but they are just so limited. I would love to make tons of apartments in my game lol. It’s good that there are ways to still kind of make apartments, but I wish it was possible to make fully functioning ones. I agree that this would work well with roommates, but I so wish there could be couple, family, and friend group roommates plus the option of roommates having pets, etc., instead of just singles. It would be so much better!

“Do you think really far in advance, and plan out your sims lives?” I know what I will be naming my sims great granddaughter. She hasn’t even met her future husband yet.

i was thinking "hm this build seems familiar" and then remembered i've been playing with it in my legacy challenge since she streamed it lmao

simsie: We need smaller apartments in the sims 4! Also simsie: So I took over basically the whole 2nd floor.

They need to refresh city living, and if they do they need to add the apartment lot type to the basegame.

To make it feel more lived in I would have roommates live in the other apartments and then lock doors so they only have access to their flat!

I’m surprised there’s not a “functional diy apartments“ mod. I’m pretty sure James Turner (formerly known as the Sim Supply) did a video on a functional elevator mod a while back.

I use lots like this when I do sitcom households, basically friends that are always at each other’s houses. And I use the roommate system for neighbors.

I wish they gave City Living a refresh. I would prefer that much more than a new expansion honestly.

one of my favorite ways to use the roommate system from Discover University is to make "apartments" and just strategically lock doors. With their shares of the rent it sort of balances everything out in terms of owning the lot!

Ravasheen does have a mod that makes working elevators that you can use on multiple floors of the building! I freaking love her mods! She has so many that just make Sims work how it should have been built to work in the first place! 😍

The devs should just incorporate a feature where you can make your own apartments and designate different zones in a build as different apartments.

Bruh, I ain't ever seen a video creator who's made a whole career off The Sims. No hate, it's just impressive how you keep getting creative with each video you do. When I watch other people play The Sims it's just not the same. Fr, you are one hell of a content creator. Keep up the good and hard work👍🏼

Yes, I totally plan my sims life out waaay in advance. I just finished building a townhouse for my sim, and I’m like : Oh this will be her second home, once she finishes university, gets a bit higher up in her teacher career, then she will have her second child and move in here because her family will out-grow the apartment I built last month. By the way, the sim I’m talking about just aged up into a child so...

I’ve done this before, I made a random “family” none of them being related, then I locked the doors for specific sims, and then removed people from my family and left my favourite person, it worked 🤷🏼‍♀️

This reminds me of when I’d play the sims 3 and create hotels and apartments with elevators 🤣 love how this build turned out! Great job Kayak 💕

I wish we had simply decorative washers and dryers, then I’d use them all of the time.

You should have put one of those "Caution" signs in front of the elevator, like in The Big Bang Theory. They always have to use the stairs and it's a running joke that the elevator is perpetually always broken.

I wish we'd get an update to the City Living or a completely EP or GP that includes apartments like they had in The Sims 2 where you could build them from scratch and have multiple people move in. Apartments from Eco Lifestyle seem to be build like normal house and just set up as an apartmen while the ones in city living seem more similar to the ones in The Sims 3 where they have a shell building and then they made apartments on top of the shell. I feel like adding apartments in The Sims 4 is doable, but I'm not sure if they'll ever do it. Hopefully they do!

I'm so glad you have raised money for Saint Jude! I respect you in general (for lots of reasons), and this just makes it better! Thank you. I also wanted to add, the apartment does look very cool. Its just so cute! And that ending 😂 I love them so much, they are so so funny!

omg I need this building to be a real apartment building in the sims :( I would absolutely live in that tiny little apartment on the second floor.

she's getting better each time at building and decorating things out of her comfort zone

I 100% would use it to have my sims family and generations live in. Each generation in a different unit.

Being able to create fully functioning apartments would be absolutely fantastic to have. Honestly, I think I’d take that over a lot of other updates that they could possibly bring into the game.

okay this is soooo friggin cool, i live in an apartment on the 10th floor (in my country that's quite the norm for most people, houses are rare and uh rich?) and i've alwayssss wanted to recreate it in the sims, but ive always stumbled into this exact same problem where custom apartments don't exist; and since apartments usually have windows not on all sides of the house, building them like a house in the sims required me quite a lot of specific tree placement to hide the barren walls with no windows where they're not there irl; tldr yours came out SO COOL its like what i imagined and dreamed of mine looking like, stairs and freises are so annoying that i gave up lmao. But after getting annoyed i made mine more simple by adding like a REALLY TALL foundation that mimics the first floor, and a staircase that leads to the front door of the apartment and made it on the second floor. (definitely no chance of doing a 10th floor custom apartment so 2nd floor is good for me!!) Anyways this was really fun to watch because i've been trying to do this exact specific thing for so long. Gym room and vending machine area are such a great idea! Other alternatives i came up with for empty spaces in the building is an art gallery (like if your sim is a successful artist where u can pretend its their own exhibition/museum of their best works) or other museum-esque things for your sim's hobby like a pretend knitted clothing store (as if you rent a room their for their needs), or a community garden, or a swimming pool area, or like a cafe thing, or maybe even one of those food stalls where u hire someone to work there when u need to. ANYWAYS lovelovelove this concept of working around EA restrictions and still making your dream apartment be an apartment. (aaaand you can always get a rooftop dragonfruit garden to pay for it hehehe)

I love playing with a large household because it’s more of a challenge but having a million kids is no fun. So I love playing in “apartment” buildings or other multi family living spaces like this. Currently I have a two parent two child family with a dog in the same household as a young adult sim just starting out, an adult workaholic bachelor, and an elder all living in the same building. I love playing out the different dynamics of this household and the challenge of making sure each sim is fulfilled.

I wonder if apartments like this could work with roommates and locking your doors from them…

14:19 dude I am sim obsessed. I also think very far into the future for my sims lives, in fact I currently have the next 4 generations planned out on a piece of paper on my desk. that’s how sim obsessed I am

these are my fave types of builds ever omg.

Next time use the debug townhomes. They are perfect to fill up the space and don’t add value to the lot. Also bonus get roommates and have their access restricted to their own floors so you have “neighbors”

tbh some of my fave households/personal gameplay style is living in “apartments” like this, then making the families/sims that live in each apartment all in one household. then i lock the doors for specific sims, furnish the separate apartments, and so on. it’s chaos sometimes but hey that’s part of the fun-plus it makes up for the wacky bill

Haha, I definitely also plan well ahead with my sims. For example, I'm also playing the not so berry challenge right now, at the moment my 5th generation is a few days away from becoming a teen, but I've already decuded the 7th generation sim's twin is becoming a vampire and will be a recurring character with the remaining generations.

I was watching when you did this live, but had to go before the end. Thank you for the recap video. I am definitely downloading this for my Sims! This is so nice!

Yes it can be functional If you create a club for each apartment door where only club members have access, and pretend as if the members were 'residents'.

yesss. i love building custom apartment buildings myself so much. i can build the giant structurex but furnishing it all - impossible. so wish we could black out everything else

i dont watch your legacy challenges, but i loove watching you build for them and hearing what youre going to use your builds for!

they really need to give us a possibility to make our own normal apartments

LMS Roomate mod would be perfect to do a fully furnished apartment in this since you can just lock doors for specific sims and have the roommates without them taking up any of the 8 sim slots in the other apartments

I love the idea of this for my new legacy, with different gens in different apartments. Might have to download!

I definitely plan things out way in advance for my sims and prep things for them! I have plans for one of my sims to move in with the Vatore twins (she is dating…both of them??? And they’re fine with it?) and Caleb’s human teenage daughter so I renovated a giant vampire lair for all 4 of them even though I still have a previous generation to finish up! I also want them to run a goth clothing store which I am building before they’ve even moved in haha!

I recently saw someone on tiktok start a flower farm and I realised you can grow, sell and do a bunch of seasons stuff like arrangements with flowers in the sims. Thus, I present my proposal for Stanley to try and get rich quick with flowers.

I desperately want customisable apartments in the sims 4

Hey Kayla! I love your videos and I have been watching for years now, I would love to see more tutorials or maybe tips and tricks for the sims. Love your content keep it up you’re amazing!

i had such strong deja vu throughout the video and i was like “she mustve streamed this this feels so familiar” so when you mentioned it i felt so sane !

Have family members move into the household and use the other apartments for money purposes! Love this😍

I've done this on a number of lots. You build a regular apartment building, all the common areas, and the individual suites, etc. I grabbed some Sims, assigned them apartments, locked the doors to just the Sims that are assigned those suites, assigned their beds, and it's perfect.

I was so confused when I saw the notif for this video after I just finished watching the vod of you building it lmao

I've experimented with using retail lots for apartments in order to have visitors! It can kind of work, but it comes with the cost of not technically living on "your" lot

If you utilize the roommate feature, the butler, and hire recurring services, you'll have tons of sims going in and out of the building. You only need to lock the door that goes into your apartment and provide the bare necessities for the butler and roommate. (Beds, fridge, toilet, bookcase, and shower.)

my favorite part of this is that during harvestfest, that money gnome will move with all the other gnomes on the property lol

They should refresh City Living and add this to the pack.

I've used the RoM portals from live edit to make elevators, if you don't care what the inside of an elevator shaft looks like, they make do, especially cause you can add more than one per lot.

It's fun doing these. I did a set of four three story town houses recently. Each one had 3 bedrooms 2.5 baths and an office that could be a bedroom. It came out to cost over 200K and was a blast to design, dress and landscape.

Can I just say, the red and yellow aprons are the best thing❤️ don't always catch stream because of qork but I do adore NSB and that just really made me smile❤️ great build Kayla 😊

Love this build Kayla!! Using it for my gen 7 of the shadow moon challenge! ❤️

I've made a few apartment buildings and moved in "non-related" sims. My group is usually an elder woman or man, a newlywed couple, a family of three (any version of parents and kid or parent and kids) and a gay couple. Sometimes I leave out the family and add pets to the other households. They all get jobs where they disappear to work and bring home the money. This works okay as it is one "bank account" and all money goes into one pot. I call it "rent". Cooking is also not a big deal as every fridge has the same food. So, one sim that loves to cook will fill the fridge with meals and the others can share. Mail doesn't really matter in the S4. I haven't done one in a while so I might give it a try. The last was Joey, Chandler, Monica and Rachael from friends living in one of the brownstones with two apartments on the same floor (Culpepper or Jasmine). Once I made a big Victorian house and divided it up into a ground floor apartment where the elder lady who owns the original house lives. A second-floor apartment for a newlywed or gay couple. An attic apartment for an artist, painter or writer. And a basement apartment for the handyman/ground's keeper. I haven't thought about that one for years. I might make a new one. Thanks. Sorry if I rambled.

That build is incredible! I will totally use it with the roommate thing to add a bit more of pretending gameplay!! Thank you so much Lilsimsie!

I wonder if Simsie would add the Graves to the other floors so the Ghosts are spread through the other areas

I realy like apartments in The sims, Minecraft , reallife and everywhere else

Little miss Sam has a mod to create an apartment building experience. I think the sim that owns the lot has to be the apartment manager. I wonder how well you can play it with the roommate system and locking doors. Only problem is if you want tenants to visit each other’s homes. I’m looking forward to downloading this lot and trying some things out.

I love how you furnished this build. 💛

The one thing I miss about the sims 2. Always built apartments

I’d love to see an apartment build with a little store or restaurant on the bottom floor 🥰

I have a four unit apartment I made with 8 Sims divided into each and I locked the main doors for each apartment. I just go between each Sim, but it's kind of fun watching then autonomously use things and walk around.

I love that I watch the streams of the videos. It’s crazy how different they are!

I'm going through hard times and your videos always bring me joy!

I always get excited when your little notif. Pops up on my screen! Going through hard times and your videos bring me joy!

There seriously needs to be the ability to make functional apartment buildings. I like making apartment buildings more than anything

I love this! I am going to download it and renovate it like it was a run down building and a family came in gutted it and made it into a mansion!

I've done this a couple times! It's actually really fun to decorate the other apartments and use the roommates function from (university?) And like lock the doors so everyone can only go in their own apartment (also helps with the bills lol)

They need to bring back the apartments from Sims 3

if they wanted to introduce custom apartments i wonder if they could introduce 'apartment markers', similar to the wildlife markers of country living. like, you build your apartment building, and then you enter a special buildmode that lets you select all the rooms that make up one apartment with a marker. you use some function that 'saves' that apartment, then you get those markers back and move on to the next. once you finalise the amount of apartments in a building, it calculates the amount of 'must haves' your building requires to function as an apartment building and tells you if X floor doesn't have elevator access, for example. it calculates each individual apartment's rent with however the game already does it, and also sets a landlord role that handles the total costs of running the building if you select a sim to own the building via menu, whether they live in the building or not. a sim could also buy a lot/house and convert it into an apartment building with their own funds if desired.

The house and apartment are looking so good

This is probably my favorite build in a long time. It’s so unique and interesting

I completely forgot that simsie wrote the Not So Berry Challenge! I love that legacy challenge!!!

My apartments have a gym, and indoor pool, and an outdoor space with a playground and grills/picnic tables. It also has a game room/club room

When I build apartment complexes, I put all my “neighbors” in my household. Then I just lock the doors of the separate apartments for the neighbors. Then no sim goes into each other’s apartments, but can still socialize with each other!

I was inspired by this build that I made a condominium where the old salt house was at. This was with four apartments (2 of which are two stories), pool, spa, Cafe, day care, playground and gym with plenty of activities like grilling and chess table. Yea that build was over 365k, but my theory is that you could choose one of the apartments and block off the rest or do roommates. Each apartment was custom made for each of the families that live there, like one is roommates going to college with one of them is lgtbq. Then a family of two parents with their two teenage kids. Those are in the two bed one bath apartments. The others are in the two stories apartments. One is a single mom who is into yoga and is also a politician with her kid and a walk in closet. Another was a Japanese inspired apartment with two parents and three kids having their own room. I quite enjoy making multi families homes and wish we have that option in sims.

lilsimsie! You’re my inspiration

A lot of apartment buildings have a lobby with a front desk with a doorman where mail can be dropped off, delivery drivers can be let in and you can get help dragging your groceries in from the street when you’re illegally stopped in the road to unload most of it before parking

Looks great! Hope we get more apartments in the future

Starter impossible ( BUILD MUST BE A STARTER HOME) : 1. you have to have 2 pet rooms 2. you have to have a young adult room a toddler room and a nursery 3. each bed room has to be one of 4 colors, Blue, sage green, yellow, and black 4. you have to have a fancy but small kitchen 5. you have to have 2 bathrooms Lastly the exterior have to be all purple and you have to have a pool.

I kind of did the same thing but building a row of attached one story cottages which are very typical in Irish towns, and them I renovated them individually 😅 but there's a roommate mod that I use, can't remember by who, that basically let's you have roomates that aren't a part of your household and then I just lock the front doors to everyone except the Sims that live in that specific house ☺️

One thing that you can do to make the apartment lot more believable is lock each apartment's door to everyone except the Sim you want to live on the chosen apartment (from the Sims perspective the "apartment" is just their room ) , but it works pretty well beacuse from your perspective they cannot enter each other apartments because each apartment belongs to a different Sim .

You should play the sims 2 in belladonna Cove someday and see how they used to build full buildings with fully decorated apartments so neighbors could visit each other and know their houses

I want an "apartment stuff" pack. Where they add the ability to make functional apartments from scratch, an apartments lot type, and some random extra bits and bobs that would suit an apartment stuff pack. That's my dream pack

Tbh you could just make other apartments and lock the door for everyone but one sim for each apartment. Then just have the Gym bar etc whatever you want to put into it public.

As a Brooklyn apartment dweller, I love this build. I want to download this lot and add a gym!

This gives me nostalgic sims 3 vibes

i deeply hope that the sims team is working on custom apartments

When I want to play with ‘custom apartments’ I furnish the entire thing and get roommates for the other units, that way I can’t play them and I can lock them out of my apartment so it’s like a real building.

Uh, i wish the sims team gave us the ability to do that more easily..

I love building apartment buildings! Usually, I put 2 small families together

Really wish we could have real, functional apartments that we could build ourselves. Apartments these days are just so much more realistic than individual houses

I had an idea about just locking the doors of every “apartment” and as you add people they’d stay in their own spaces. However they’d have to be in the same household

my 3 wishes for sims 4 was/is i wanted more places you can go with your sim too.. like school, i wanted hotels or bed and breakfast for a zach and cody game play and cars.i love when we had home businesses and cars

love the vid babe❤️❤️ keep the good work up 😱🥺🥺

I made a motel, it had a retail space in the bottom and a bunch of rooms in the floors above, it's free to live in so it'd good for sims who are broke. They do need to have at least an empty lot to live in.

im absolutely going to put this into my game and use the roommate system! i also may try to squeeze in a little pool in somewhere!

You could always have two apartments, and then use the roommates feature and just lock your door to keep them out of your house. You could also lock their door for your household if you really want too