i built a cottage core apartment in the sims 

the grocer grows up and moves into this cottagecore apartment with Rashidah and their child because he wants to explore what’s outside henford-on-bagley

I feel like realistically a lot of elders would have cottagecore apartments. Like they used to live in a farm and then they got old and couldn't handle the farmwork anymore.

Simsie: We can make this space smaller so it's more realistic. Also Simsie: Guys, there's no room for all the cute cottage stuff. Lmao

Why does this make me want to see people trying to raise chickens in an apartment XD

“Out of everything in The Sims 4 that bunny is up to be my favorite item of all time” Tiny cowplant : 👁👄👁

can i just say that i love how kayla ALWAYS has captions on her videos? as a hard of hearing person, i’m always so incredibly grateful for creators who use captions, and there’s yet to have been a lilsimsie video i’ve seen that has not had captions. thank you kayla

A cottagecore apartment is exactly my vibe. Minimal cleaning. Lousy neighbors. But plants and ✨fairy lights✨. What could be better.

Is it silly to actually build a farm in that big penthouse on the fashion district on san myshuno?

simsie making the apartment shell is oddly wholesome

I imagine this is the flat of an English grandma who’s just had her granddaughter move in with her, I imagine the master bedroom smells heavily of old lady perfume and the furniture sort of crackles with age when you sit in it

"We need better curtains in the base game" AS A BASE GAME AND SEASONS ONLY USER I AGREE

It’s not an apartment, it’s an economy-class cottage

Those empty boxes (especially the one in the kitchen) could be a "storage closet", pantry, or the "water heater" like in a real apartment?

5:40 the two takes left in again made my day 😂

Missed opportunity to make a pantry out of the space filler "rooms". I feel like a pantry would've made so much sense with cottage living

I love how Kayla’s game changer intro is getting cut shorter and shorter with every pre record lol. Hoping soon she’ll just say “game changers. Pack early. Not paid” lol

“It just looks so much” I’m pretty sure they meant for it to be that way. Lots of cottages have really busy decor with lots of floral

The fact that in reality a small apartment in "San Myshuno" is probably more expensive than an actual cottage in rural England... 🤪

i’ve binge watching all of your videos and i can’t stop. send help.

The watering can by the door is to sprinkle your neighbours when you knock on the door to complain about the noise. Just in case they're juiced and they can't understand you. De-juicing watering can

Kayla so worried about the windows not being the City Living ones: Me, who never notices the windows in builds: ???

Simsie, it is in no way silly: I recently made an “apartment” with only having Eco Lifestyle and Tiny Living, because the apartment in Eco Lifestyle didn’t have the exact size/look I wanted; this is totally valid!

cottage living always reminds me of an elderly couples home.

It’s not silly to build an apartment with cottage living

YES THIS IS JUST WHAT WE NEED

No this is actually perfect! The sim who lives here is an older lady who became a widow some 20 year ago. She's owned the apartment since 1940 so it's rent controlled. Her landlord is itching for her to pass away so he can finally make more money off the rent.

the description gives me "whatcha gonna do about it HUH" vibes

This is all of us who want to live in a cottage in the woods but can’t just pick up and move to the country

It's like she's never seen a house in real life with patterned walls and patterned furnishings. haha

I feel like this would be a Grandma’s apartment and the kids room is where her grandkids stay when they come to visit

The word you're looking for to describe that aesthetic is "kitsch."

i love how she goes "pink appliances perhaps?"

I love Simsie's apartments and definitely think she should do more after all the Cottage Living hype lol

Simsie: This kid gets, how about a bucket? Mysterious Benedict Society Stans: Kate Wetherall?

I'm imaging this apartment is for a grandma who's granddaughter spends the summer with her

The curtains you're talking about, we call "net curtains". And yeah they're definitely needed in Sims

when mixing patterns in clothes it's common advice to put smaller patterns with bigger patterns and to not put different florals together......idk if its the same in furniture but I think this pack is an awesome chance to practice haha

a cottage core apartment is something i dream of 🥺🥺🥺

imagine if we could live in apartments anoche shops in the town square

Have a good day everyone

When mixing patterns, floral on floral you'll want to mess with scale. Big floral + big floral is overwhelming. Big floral + ditzy floral is usually fine. Better still to go floral + plaid, floral + polka dots, or floral + stripes. Those simpler patterns are what quilters call "mixers." Another tip for mixing patterns is to keep it all in the same color family, since you're feeling hesitant about pattern mixing, maybe keep the background colors to white, yellow, or cream and you'll find it easier. You're really brave for stepping outside your comfort zone on camera and expressing that to everyone. Keep experimenting and you'll expand your comfort zone!

5:22 Me who always uses that tile

The fireplace thing, I always do it with the Cats & Dogs fireplace and one of the flat screens. It looks mounted and just *chef's kiss*.

A cool idea (if you didn’t do one yet like this) get a wheel with 1-10 or 1-20 or whatever. Then whatever number you land on that’s how many items you use in a room. Each room gets a different spin. To add to a challenge you can include the wallpaper and floor as an item

I love this. This is my favorite pack fr it's so good

video idea ? idk. you could try build a house where every room is based on a different animal. like one would be a fox, another a bunny. and you could use the spinny wheel thing to decide which animal for which room to make it harder

In the uk we tend to only put busy wallpaper on one wall (main wall) as like a feature wall and then paint the rest in a neutral or soft solid colour, you could try that to make the patterns work better for you :)

I feel exactly the same way with all the patterns. I spent an hour and a half making a new sim yesterday and then several more hours trying to build a tiny starter home. I changed the patterns of everything about a hundred times before I ended up going with solid colors LOL.

The thing with the patterns is pick only one thing to put patterns on. If you put patterned wallpaper on the inside of your house, then you should avoid patterns on furniture like couches, chairs, rugs, curtains, beds and other stuff. If you put patterned carpet on the floor of your bedroom, then the walls should be painted on solid color. This makes the room less exaggerated and busy, and helps you understand what's actually going on there. Kayla always have the pattern problem because she puts pattern everywhere, as you can see, for example, in the kitchen: there's patterned wallpaper with a patterned rug with a patterned chairs with a pattern tablecloth. It's not because the patterns are pretty that you have to fill the room with it so it looks pretty, and I'm saying all those things in the most helpful way, seriously.

i really love it when u go out of ur comfort zone! u come up with really creative concepts!

ohkay so you feel how i feel when i build suburbans LOL also the end was hilarious but i’m still gonna put it in my game

“Why do you have a watering can by your front door where are you going with it?” Well if it were me and I had a noisy downstairs neighbor I’d be going to cause water damage to the ceiling right above their front door.

Her builds are so cute

I love this apartment so much, this dlc wallpaper with patterns is really nice！！

This has Monica's apartment vibes from Friends, especially the kitchen!

This apartment is kinda my vibe, maybe a little more earth tones and a little less floral, but the cottage living pack is definitely for me 😁 I think you did great even though it was out of your comfort zone!

So beyond happy to hear of your reunion with Dan! Love you and all you do!

Wait is the pack not out yet?? Or was this just an older pre-recorded video?

Omg I love this pack and I love apartments. I can’t wait to see them combined!!!

I actually love how busy and eccentric this build is. It's so cute and unique and exactly my style

yay new captions, tysm simsie :)

Kayla you're so hard on yourself and everything you do looks great!

simsie: complains about how all of the different patterns are too much actual cottagecore grandmas: there's no such thing

The blocked off rooms kinda make sense though. You've got a pantry and a utility closet!

ok but I actually love this apartment. Although I liked what you had going before with the planter boxes in the window and the bed in the OG position. but either way it's real real cute.

You are so talented! Patiently waiting for your real time video since the release, I love when you get all excited and go through everything. 💛💛

1:13 lol the size of the 1 bedroom is bigger than most of the 3 bedroom wings on my 'boring 1960s brick bungalows' that I make lolllll

I always love the way you decorate apartments in the Sims 4 ❤️

Tbf, having an irl cottagecore apartment isn't as silly as you'd think! I have a very fairycore one myself and it's all about working on decorating it to get the feeling of a cottage, until you look out the window haha

The idea isn't silly, and cottagecore is my style so I would love to download this! You did a great job!

Instead of totally closing off that former bathroom with platforms, once you have all your packs back, I would put a big get together walk in closet there. Like it’s the hall closet and most of the storage for this small apartment.

honestly i think it does fit the city living vibe, very nyc pre-war rent stabilized apartment that's been in the family for 50 years

I think one of the problems is the bed needs more stripes/checks/plaid options. That would allow the colors to match, but not cause excessive floral overload. Same for the rug.

It's cute trying different things with packs for instance using it for an apt bc it gives other options. However.... The chunk out of the kitchen hurts my soul. Who WANTS a smaller kitchen?!? 😂😂

Hey Kayla, I know you reviewed Twisted Mexi’s better build buy mod before, but I wanted to let you know it’s been updated so that builds are no longer marked as being cc when they aren’t when uploaded to the gallery! The mod will be super beneficial to your builds and categorizes things in both debug and live edit to be found in appropriate categories. As I’m watching your latest video, you mentioned bringing a sim into the lot to change the lighting - the mod has been updated to include this feature in build mode! I just wanted to let you know all this because I think it will benefit you, and could be a staple in your mods folder like MCCC and UI extension cheats, which I have in my game too. Take care, and congrats on your engagement!

she is so comforting

Seeing this while the pack is now out somehow makes it even better

The whole apartment is so adorable 💖 I really hope your comments will be heard by Maxis so that the next update will contain curtains and carpets maybe. 😍 This cottage styled apartment would be perfect for the teenagers which want to live in the city so badly. But like they're taking the landhouse style with them as the boy maybe didn't know anything else before 😅❣️

I need lilsimsie to recreate each early pack video of cottage living, now with all the other packs

the green and pink kitchen is my new dream thanks a lot simsie

I really love this vid! It reminds me of my grandpa's apartment. He grew up on a farm and still uses that type of cottage style in his current place

i feel so spoiled with all this cottage core content

my computer: barely runs the sims 4 with low graphics open lilsimsie's computer: *casually running chrome, spotify, OBS, discord, origin and TWO games open at same time*

Love this! Would be fun to double down on the patterns and quirkiness like in Amy Sedaris' apartment (see tour video on New York Magazine YT channel).

cottage core is my favorite aesthetic

*makes apartment smaller* "there's not enough space for this" lol I love this channel

Love this for someone older in the city x

Me and my cat love watching your videos!!

I always thought it was funny when youd move from that apartment because youd have the unmovable historical plaque in your inventory like your sim stole it

my grandmas house had wallpaper when i was a kid. busy wallpaper in every room, so its kind of nostalgic. i doubt patterned walls were ever intended to be viewed from the top with no roof, all at once

want it!!!! put it in the gallery!!

You could also make pantries and storing cupboards where the empty rooms are, that would make sense.

i loved the build! you’re awesome at building!

this actually turned out so cute!

Ok, one nightstand. We do one-night stand. I love words. :P

could've used the extra space for a laundry room! lol love how you closed off the rooms that gave it a nice cozy touch

Idk why but this apartment gives me horror movie vibes, where little kids in sleeping robes get possessed lmappp

I have yet to see anyone do a kitchen with a clothes washing machine in it as you see in many of the smaller/older UK homes. I am inspired and must try! I'm a little stressed out with my cottage living LP... maybe I need a build project for a break.

The wallpapers and the overall aesthetic of the apartment sort of reminds me of I’m Thinking of Ending Things 🤔

The typewriter is sooo cute omg. I had no idea that came in the new pack.