i tried building a modern beach house in the sims 

Kayla keeps saying it, but she's genuinely getting so good at modern houses!! this one is definitely another step up

2:05 My neighbor has two-storey house with a lift, so....the pool isn't weird at all 15:17 We have the kitchen and dining together, there is a TV also. The living room is used as guest bedroom and cat's palace

We are here for builds but we are HERE for you. Don't ever apologize or minimize anything you're scared about or passionate about. I've noticed you do it when you swap over to going back to builds and maybe these are just cut in places. But we love to hear about your life. You could talk the whole video about YOU and we would still watch. ❤

I know they aren't her favorite but I'm so glad she steps out of her comfort zone to try. ♡

Not eating meals at the table is so American, as an Italian I can confirm we always eat every single meal at the table (even snacks). Although I've lived for a year in the States and i often ate meals on the couch (if I was running late I'd eat in the car too)

I‘ve found your channel some days ago and it‘s very nice listening to your build videos while playing Sims myself so thanks ☺️

When I was very young, I remember sitting at the dining table to eat, but that was when I very little. For most of my childhood, our dining table was tucked away into the bay window that looked out into the backgarden. It was one of those big circular tables that could be extended into a bigger table, but I don't think we ever actually extended it. I never called the dining room "the dining room", instead it was either the living room or back room, and the actual living room was the front room. The backroom was basically designated as the kids' living room; it was where our playstations 1 and 2 were hooked up on one of those old box TVs (this was long after more sleek TVs were popular, and where our Nintendo Wii was. After my parents divorced, we only ever used it as a dining room at Christmas, at which point my mom had replaced the table with a smaller one. Outside of that, I ate meals sitting on the floor or on the couch or in my bed. That's also where I used to do homework. Nowadays I sit on the sofa or in my bed because sitting on the floor does not tend to agree with chronic pain and fatigue lmao. In more recent years, the backroom has become my brother's bedroom. It's much bigger than his old bedroom which only really fit a single bed and a small set of drawers. That's now become my mom's office, which fits a corner desk, after she started working from home during covid.

This house is so cute! I don't generally gravitate toward modern builds, but I enjoy the ones you create. I think in part it's because you tend to incorporate some warmth via color and texture (I'm really not a fan of modern stuff where it's all stark colors and concrete). I grew up in a relatively small house with a very basic layout on the first floor: the living room was in front, the dining room was in the middle and mostly open to the living room, and the kitchen was at the back of the house and mostly closed-off. Because I have a big family and there was limited space, all rooms were used. We always had meals at the table when I was younger, but as we got older, my parents cared less. It's definitely interesting to see how much the architecture people grew up with influences their builds.

I love that you took the time to talk directly to Snap about why she needs to wear the cone 💕 I actually related a lot from when my cat had a surgery to have some of her teeth removed. I was stressing a lot because I couldn't explain to her what was happening. It makes me feel better now being the only one feeling like that 😅 Also, growing up we always used the formal dining table, either for eating and doing homework 😅 now, living by myself, I don't have a dining table and prefer to eat on the couch or on my desk haha I love the build 💕

Here where I live in Germany food and drinks can be 180€ per person easily 😅 However guests give you a third of that money instead of wedding presents

my family has all meals together at the dining table everyday! i think this is a culture and a family tradition thing

15:14 In my household, we eat at the dining table quite a lot 😅. Since I was young, my mom always forced us to eat at the dining table. But now that we grow older, we have more flexibility to choose whether we want to eat at the dining table or not, but most of the time we'll eat at the dining table, and I guess now it become a habit 💁‍♂

Your life’s updates are as exciting content to me as the games related content. I just love the formula you’ve created for yourself and your community, so much so that I keep coming back even though I don’t even play the Sims XD. Disclosure, im a pathologist who comes to your channel almost on a daily basis cause your content just makes me feel good and helps me relax and unwind from work. That being said, I really do feel for what you’re going through with Snap and I’m just so glad about the most recent good news you’ve got. Hopefully you both go back to feeling your best selves and you enjoy your wedding!! xoxoxo kevin

I grew up living with my grandparents which is probably why we almost always sat at the table when eating dinner. However the table was in the kitchen and we didn’t have a separate dining room. We each had our own designated seats, lol. On occasion we would eat elsewhere like if we ordered pizza or something but it definitely was not the norm. Now with my kids I am definitely a “eat on the couch” type of mom but I think I need to bring back sitting at the table cause I really really liked that growing up :)

Ooo, so I lived at my grandma's house and she had a full open plan, If you think about it going from top to bottom, 3 "rooms" on top and 2 room on the bottom, we had our breakfast room, kitchen (Which was a full wrap around, the side facing the breakfast room having a bar and the side facing the dining room having a archway), formal dining, then a wall dividing everything expect the breakfast room. Then on the bottom we had our big open living room with a big fireplace, and a really pretty entry hall. So we would all sit in the breakfast room and we would also be able to still see the tv in the living room and we would sit as a family, eat, and watch tv. She would usually have ncis or blue bloods on while we ate. Once we got older that went away but your video got me thinking about that. Now Im in a apartment and still have the dining table near the TV lol. How much does not change xD

I don't have a barsetting or a table in my kitchen. My kitchen is a little closed off. In my livingroom I have the tv/sofa and a table with chairs. Half of the table we use to eat with the three of us and the other half is cluttering space with magazines, mail and all that kind of stuff. Only when my parents come over, that side is cleaned. My workspace is in a spare room we have in our house. I work for a bank and to work from home it is required that there is a designated room that can be closed off from the rest of the household for security reasons.

We sat at the dining table exactly 2 times a year. For Thanksgiving and X-Mas dinner. Besides that it was used as a dumping zone and you could never really see the table underneath all the clutter. In my house now, our "dining room" is where we have our dog crates and their food bowls so our dogs also eat in the formal dining room lmao.

seeing that infinity symbol where the budget goes always makes me happy ❤

The dinner table is kinda in the centre of the house so it is used for a lot of stuff. My parents always eat at the table but I eat at my desk. Because i hate listening people eat lmao

The wellness skill makes the high-maintenance trait not only tolerable, but one of my favorites! They’re upset much less often but still experience some of the silly realistic issues of real life (I, too, loathe hangnails and 🤢 Poseidon’s kiss)

I mostly never ate at the dining table and usually ate in my bedroom. In my home before graduating we didn’t have a formal dining table, our “dining room” was just a second living room. In my current apartment we have zero space for a dining table at all and eat at the coffee table or at our desks in the bedroom/office lol. Formal dining tables are only for bigger homes and during events

Growing up, we always ate at the dining table. My husband and I usually eat on our coffee table in front of the TV, but we had family come recently and I was thankful we have a dining table to eat at with them!

Feeling like you need a "real" adult for things just seems like part of adulthood for me, haha. I'm in my mid 30s, and I still call my mom when that feeling hits. I'm also at the age where I'm intentionally treasuring having her around to ask my silly questions and give me the encouragement I need. ETA re: the dining table situation - as a kid, we had a small "open concept" house, where we could see the TV from the dining table. We did eat together at the table basically every night. Now, in my own house, it's also a tiny (800 sq. ft.) "open concept" house, but there's no room for a dining table 😂. The place where a table would go is where the lizards live 🤷🏻‍♀️

We have a narrow galley kitchen and a dining room so we eat at the table mostly. My husband works from home there often and we do a lot of crafts there. We were debating knocking down the wall between the kitchen and dining room when we redid the kitchen, but decided against it because of cost.

A lot of modern builds are very plain smooth lines **because** they want to emphasize nature. That's why they have a lot of stone, basket, and wood textures. So the plants and the building are the tight vibe.

15:17 we have never eaten in the couch…ever! We always use the formal dining table for all of our eating. When we aren't eating, my mom might sit and do something, but we mostly use our rooms (my brother and I do our homework in our respective room, my dad works in the office and my mom doesn't really work from home). Eating in the couch seems really odd to me 😂

Listen the ocean is very pretty but I have absolutely no interest in getting into it. You're absolutely right that if I were rich enough to afford a fancy beach mansion, I'm going to have a pool. And I'm going to swim only in the pool.

Omg when i was planning my wedding I relied on my mom so much to be the "real" adult so i totally get it! She was there for every decision and helped so much when talking to vendors. My mom also used our dining room as a work space and so we all would study and do homework on it. We generally ate in the living room instead too!

I grew up not being allowed to eat anywhere but the table 😅 My parent’s house didn’t have a formal dining room, but we had a kind of kitchen table until they converted our garage into a living room and then there was a dining room. I currently live in a house that has both a breakfast/kitchen eating area and a formal dining room. We eat in the kitchen and the dining room is basically our classroom for my kids 😅 We only eat in the dining room on holidays or family get-togethers. Long story long, I try to make my sim’s houses with kitchen tables or adjoining dining space.

On the many uses of the dinning table: in my house it's always been used for formal ocasions like christmas meals, birthdays, etc. We eat at the kitchen table (never by the TV, that is still one of my mum's rules) and we did our homework in the desks in our rooms. My mum always had a home office because she's a teacher and needed the space to work, my dad has one now as well because since the pandemic he does a lot of remote work

i love your videos lilsimsie :) i never used to build properly in the sims because i didn't know it could be fun, but ever since i started watching your videos i've been building 90% of the time i play the sims it's good because i get to explore the architectural styles i like without having to make real models or anything

My house was NOTHING formal, but we always sat down at the kitchen table. It was the closest to the kitchen, and we didnt have any bar stools or anything like that. So we did actually all sit down and eat together at the table until like my senior year when my siblings all left. It was nice!

I live in france, and most family eats at the dinning table. Eating on the couch is not something that French people do very often. Mostly it's when we have a "special meal" like a aperitif, or fast food something like that

In UK, as I reckon geographical location plays a big part in the dining situation. We’ve always used the dining table. When we were younger we would sit and do our homework at the table, then have dinner at it as a family. We have family games night and play games at the table. We tended to and still do seem to use the dining room more than the living room. Layout of the rooms may also play a large part of this, the three rooms make up an L shape, living room makes up the top of the L which leads into the dining room which makes the corner of the L and then the kitchen off the dining room. It’s the central room so make sense why we spend more time there

the way i love when simsie uploads

The fact that your mom watches all your videos is precious 😭❤️

my partner and I have a formal dining room and two formal tables, but they're literally for my jewelry making and sewing projects now 😂 we only ever eat at a formal dining table if we're at his grandparents' house, because that's just what they do.

Very much appreciated, that you always take the time and say (or show) the lot, where you build on! Thank you for the amazing content since many years! Sending love your way

When i bought my house i decided to veto the formal dining room. The traditional living room has very little wall space and outlets, so i made the dining room my "lounge" it has wood built ins and im going 30s smoke lounge vibes, and the og living room will be a galaxy themed movie room.

here we always eat at the dining table. probably a brazilian thing (although I think it is really a USA thing to not eat at the table). because of the "tradition" I feel uncomfortable eating at the sofa, so even when it's just me at home I eat at the dining table

in my house we have a formal dinning room that we never eat at lol we eat at the kitchen table. The dinning room is used to put food on when we have family over

In my family, we would only ever eat lunch together, but even then it's whoever is home at the time. Breakfast and dinner we all eat at different times and different spots in the house.

This house is literally so cute!!! I wish I could play in it

As a brazillian I love the pool, cause here this is a really normal thing, the beach houses with pools even with the ocean right there 😂😂

I feel the mood about having the dining room farther away now cause I have a one bedroom apartment and the dining room area is my office/computer room lol

in my apartment we don't have a dining table... instead we have a coffee table where you can control the height, so it's coffee table and dining table in one, it saves us so much space and you can even make it bigger by pulling out the bonus piece and have a bigger table for family meetings, parties, etc. and yes, it's next to the kitchen 😅

Me having a mod that makes Sims prefer to eat at tables/sitting down while simsie talks about never eating at the table.

Growing up my family was strict about eating at the table, I continued to follow that tradition now with my family😅

i own three dining tables, and they all sit unused in my garage. we don't even have a dining room- and my dad keeps insisting that he's going to knock down the wall between the kitchen and this random spare room we have that's being used as storage space, but we've been here for over a year, and we still don't have a dining room. i literally eat in my bedroom at my desk for every meal-

oh we ate on the couch! or sometimes floor for me 😅(i liked to sit on the floor and use the coffee table as a mini dining table) we DID have a small dining table in the living room, but we mostly used it for storage (papers and boxes on top, coats draped over the chairs) our Ping-Pong table became the formal dining table for big holidays and parties

I have a formal table but I use it for my art bizz. I'm a painter and would rather eat in the living room. Sometimes I like to have a nice dinner at the table. But mostly painting

From a modern girly who loves you , thanks Simsie ❤❤❤

With this build you made me want to go back to playing the sims! Thanks a lot for that 💓

I like to come and go and usually a silent listener but you’re getting married that’s awesome so excited for you and your partner best wishes to both you !!

I'm I'm glad she's getting better Kayla. I know what you mean by her not liking herself if she ripped her stitches my 2 girls just went and got spayed and of them tore her stiches love the build so much.

Kayla, you are so good at modern houses, this is beautiful!

For me as a German, it is so funny, that it is 'Fußballtable' in english but 'Kickertisch' in german when Fußball is the german word for soccer.

New Yorker here and I have a basement and I have a kitchen table and dining room table too which is used just like you, family gatherings or work area for homework or projects recently my sister’s wedding flowers which were all fake but beautiful shout out to ling’s moments they have amazing stuff. So Kayla you are not wrong not always used as dinner table day to day basis

kayla it’s about time you stop saying modern builds are not ur area of expertise bc this absolutely slayeddd it made me want to play with a rich family in this house!!

I would love to see Kayla doing a nature brutalist styled mansion

this is really beautiful you convinced me to like modern builds

being a latina and hear people say that nobody uses their dining space with family that often really shocks me, like, in my house we eat lunch together every single day, it’s like a family time in the week days that everyone is busy, but this moment is for the family, at least i think most of the more “traditional” latin family’s do that, i’m from Brasil, so i can’t be sure about the other countries in Latin America

growing up, my family always ate at the dinner table together every night and had to ask for permission to be excused as well. ive been living on my own for 4 years now and have yet to buy a dining table LMAO.

Our lounge room is opposite to our dinning room. We sit at the table and watch TV for most big meals

our dining room became my dads home office at the start of lockdown and he decided he liked it so hes got a desk in there now, but my sister is visiting for the week and shes set up to work remotely at the dining table

my family RARELY eats at our dining room table. we only use it when we have more than 4 people eating at the same time. typically we sit at the island or on the couch LOL so its definitely the same at my house

My apartment is old so it actually has a “formal” dining room and I do very often eat at the dining table. But also I am in my mid20s and all the chairs are different and shitty and falling apart so it doesn’t feel very fancy haha.

this interior feels.... like Tinker's house's interior, The Kitchen living area with the big windows feels identical to me.

I love this build. And I never used to put telescopes in, but I try to more now because of you and (and I have graveyards I need to fill)

We should get an arcade kit or a bar decor kit so we can get arcade cabinets for video game skill and a pool table.

The sims neeeeeeds to have a hotel expansion pack where you get to have ur own hotel and be a manager and have guests stay (i know theres some mods like this but unfortunately consoles cant use mods) it would literally do so well i think

we do use a dining table, but we also put everything else there lol it's a little messy

Personally it’s not like my family has a massive house or anything, but we have a formal dining room that we use for larger family gatherings, and then a second smaller dining room that really only has enough space for just us.

we have dining table, it's in our conservatory cause we no longer have a dining room, we only use it honestly at Christmas. currently it has my brothers 3d printer on it and a bunch of plants waiting to been sown outside. lol

Downloading this build asap!

Your building is amazing❤

I felt that when you said “real adult” is gonna there 😂

can wait to finish the vidoe!!

We don't even have a dining table in my house lmao. We just all eat dinner on the couch and watch tv together.

Kayla underestimates how invested we are in her life and how much we want to hear about it 😂

Growing up we ate the table but only cuz our house was small and we were messy 🤣 as an adult I got rid of my dining table and turned my dining area into a craft room cuz I only eat on the couch and really needed crafting space

I've never lived in a house with a counter seating area so I've always sat at the table to eat until I was like 14 and then I started squirrelling food away to my room or the living room and now that I'm nearly 18 I've started trying to eat in the kitchen more because I worry about pests nowadays

When I hear people talking about weddings and how expensive they are I'm almost happy I'm wasting my time on a futureless relationship.

"most people dont use formal dinning table every day" itsthe most non-Latin phrase I've heard in a long time

i got rid of my dining table because we eat at the couch, switched it out for an entertainment center so theres still something in the area

Omg and the worst is when your cat doesn’t understand, and they give you the hard core cold shoulder. Like will love all other members of the family then just ignore you out of spite 😭😢😢😭 it only lasts a day or so but it hurts every time cause like I just want to help you 🥺🥺🤣🤣🤣🤣

Kayla please could you build something on the beach in tartosa? I don't know what to do with that lot but I don't want it to be just a beach lot

idk if that’s a latino household type thing but we ALWAYS sit together and eat at the dining room. also my mom gets really mad if we use the table for anything other than eating. maybe it’s just my family but yeah.

growing up we ate at the table every night, but my husband and I always eat on the couch now

A rich person with a beach house would 100% have a second story pool

My mom used m3 to sit down and dinner at the dinner table, it was the only time in the day that we see each other bc of the amount of times me and my sib went to school.

Just had a terrible nightmare but this video came right on time 😎😎

I actually play pool in real life in the APA, I’m the captain of the team. I love pool and I NEED one in the sims! I would totally use it and put it in my sim’s house. POOL TABLE! POOL TABLE! POOL TABLE! ♥️😍🤣

My mom was very big on us all eating together as kids lol we would have to tell everyone about the highs and lows of our day, but since I moved out me and my bf eat together on the couch to watch tv lol

i dont even have a dining table in my house the "dining room" is a bed room rn cuz my sister and her husband and baby live with us right now an they needed more space

Had a good laugh when you said "glad my mother will be there because we need an adult there". Guess what......... you are an adult. Hahaha

I got rid of my dining room table because we never ate at it. It got taken over by the cats as well as junk.

Omggg congratssss! I’m literally 3 months late but if you still need Hair and makeup pls let me know, I’m based in Tampa. I would loveee to be your artist🤗 love your channel you’re one of my favorite simmers!

My house is really small, so our kitchen isnt big. We dont even have a kitchen table. My son has a small kids table.for him to sit at, and my husband and i sit in the living room

Hiii