This REAL floor plan has 19 bedrooms!? 

Having a hard time convincing myself that this is a real and perfectly legal thing

I've lived in a 9 bedroom house with roommates. It was pretty awesome, to be honest. The place was huge and had a layout that made no sense, you didn't really bump into each other unless you wanted to. We had 2 kitchens, though, which helped a lot in that regard. NINETEEN bedrooms with only one kitchen? .... yeah that's gonna be a no from me, dog.

History behind the home - "Initially built in 1910, the property underwent major extensions in the 1980s and became a retirement and nursing home. It was later used for student accommodation. The most recent owner was an older woman, who lived in the property along with her tenants. Now, it is a deceased estate and the family has changed its classification from commercial to residential."

This will probably be perfect for your upcoming 100 baby series 😝

One thing i've learned from building RL floor plans in sims, is take some liberties with them. Hallways that are one tile wide don't work in game play, sims are constantly blocking each other and start walking through walls or get stuck in them and auto teleport. Basically you have to make everything at least 1x1 bigger than the floor plan, especially because the sims furniture is WAY oversized. So a 2x3m room should be a 3x4m room in sims. etc etc. The house ends up looking much nicer and will actually function for gameplay.

I didn’t realize James was restarting the prison challenge 😂 Joking aside, this floor plan is insane

This reminds me of the sketchy places I had to stay to keep from being homeless. Definitely unpleasant, but I do like weird/quirky layout choices that make houses more unique. Like one house I lived in had doors to the outside on the third floor, but both of those doors led directly into the bathrooms, and you had to climb the most rickety ass staircase up the back of the house the entire three flights if you wanted to go through them.

ah yes, australia's student rental housing crisis: sim edition. This was a very low-key educational video on australia's rental crisis and the often-terrible conditions many students end up living in and I am here for it

Now we need to see how James would tackle a 19-bedroom student accommodation build from scratch. I'm begging

This house has prime potential for the 100 baby challenge. Even if you combine some of the rooms or change some into bathrooms, you can still reserve a nursery wing vs child/teen rooms.

In the lounge, a Murphy bed would make it a reasonable optional bedroom (for what passes as reasonable compared to the rest of that house). This is quite the build.

I’m definitely feeling nursing home with this build. With the new pack hopefully adding more elder-friendly activities with the new rec center lot type, this could be perfect for them!

Imagine having once lived in this place and now seeing James building it :D

When you decided to build it in Del Sol Valley it all made sense. That lot is so big only a 19 bedroom house would work 😂

I saw this on Reddit and immediately thought James is going to sims this.

I feel like there are DEFINITELY not enough bathrooms for this Edit: there's a lot of toilets, not a lot of showers

OMG! This is too insane to not furnish James! haha! You need to do a collab with some other Simmers and have each of you guys do a specific set of rooms and then see what it looks like once everyone is done!

When I saw 19 bedrooms I thought it was gonna be a ridiculously expensive giant mansion. But this… this I could’ve never predicted. I’ve never heard of such a thing! In a regular neighborhood? It’s truly a monstrosity! Lmao Loved how you put all the rooms in quotations when talking lol, I mean really, could we even call this a “house”? More like a claustrophobic compound lol. These poor students. The more I watch the greater sense of horror I feel about this house. I mean truly…

this reminds me of the time i tried to rebuild my uni accomodation and it just made me upset at how small it was lol

thats not a house, thats a compound.

This house looks like a nightmare to me, but I've seen a show about a family with that many kids. This house could make them probably very happy. Well done on this monster of a floorplan James! I'm glad you went above and beyond to do some interior as well.

Aside from this being a "house" and the maze of a floor plan, this is fairly normal for a college dorm building. It's not super different than the one I live in, except mine is three stories for about 30 rooms.

It all makes SO much more sense once you realise it was once a nursing home. It explains all the weird doors, and pass-through rooms, and odd bathrooms

I read a domain article on this place earlier that said it had been originally used as a nursing home.

This would make a super chaotic but awesome University mini LP experience with 18 roommates using a more roommates mod haha...

I’m halfway through the video and I was literally just thinking. I hope James uploads this so that we can renovate it and then you said that’s what you thought you should do. I think this would be a really fun house to renovate!😊😊

I saw the original article when it came out, it was actually a type of nursing home in the 1980s and went from residential (when orginally build) to commercial and recently after the owner died, (who rented out the rooms - mainly students rented it). The property was changed to residential again and is now up for sale. Most likely will be bulldozed and new housing will be built.

James finds the blueprints for a creepy compound. Let's Gooo!

The real house looks even more depressing than when James was building it 😮 Going to download it for sure trying to make something out of it without demolishing to many walls. It’s a challenge to make it better looking and livable the way the lay out is.

I've lived in a house with 17 bedrooms. It was a sorority house and it was designed as a sorority house, but there were 17 rooms. They were tiny and we slept 2 to a room. It was so much fun to live in a house with 33 of my closest friends (plus the house mom, whose apartment made 18 bedrooms total).

I checked the real house, and you honestly made it look so similar and yet so much better, haha! The kitchen that has a cellar entrance actually has a white picket fence around the stairs to get into the cellar! Definitely a quirky place.

I saw this house online the other day 😂 it’s not too far from where I live! It was fun following the floor plan while watching you build it.

I feel like a Spellcaster could buy this, adopt a bunch of abandoned occult kids and try to give them a better future 😄

I don't know about everyone else, but I want to see James furnish this whole thing.

This feels like it’s a layout of a fundie home where the parents actually respect each child’s privacy and give them their own space 😂

This feels so seedy like you would walk past it and cringe from crime

After looking at the original listing I have two things to say: 1- James I'm impressed at how much your build matches the original 2- I've seen prisons with better facilities and bigger rooms

I suggest a shell challenge with some odd rules. 1. You can't delete any doors or windows (You can move/replace them) 2. You can repurpose rooms but have to be able to sleep 19 sims

Is this weird? My college dorm was essentially a giant "house" stuck in the middle of a normal suburban neighborhood. Had way more than 19 rooms. If I had to guess I'd say at least 70. Honestly I liked it better than the normal on-campus dorms. Most of the rooms were singles, so you didn't have to share, and we had semi-private bathrooms (private bathroom shared between 3-4 people) instead of big communal bathrooms like standard dorms. And being on a normal street was nice. It you felt like you were in the real world, not locked away in some weird dystopia where everyone is 18-24. The only thing it was missing was air conditioning. Dear god, the lack of air conditioning killed me in the warmer months. EDIT: ok, having seen more of this layout I retract my question. we may have had a giant house in a suburban neighborhood with a ton of rooms, but at least our layout made sense what the hell is this

I just binged the entire high school years series over the past couple weeks, so much fun! I’m excited to see Gen 3 of the series and how they will grow up

I want this for my new big brother household isntead of the one I'm using!! I saw this on facebook previously and happy you're building it!

I’m so glad you’re building this! I’ve been seeing it shared everywhere.

This build’s shell could be repurposed into a really cool community-focused lot since the lot is IRL in the middle of a suburb. Each of the “bedrooms” could be private work, study, and art spaces, and the main house could be a house for the owner/ groundskeeper. The “kitchen” for the “rooms” could be for community cooking seminars (as idk how things are in Australia, but in America public schools have an extremely small or nonexistent home ec budget). It would absolutely be a philanthropy project, but it would be awesome. I’m gonna use this shell for my basegame + basegame mods and basegame cc save. My sim (yes, I currently only have 1 sim) has the savings to be a philanthropist. I’m gonna build this lot as a “library” but I’m gonna calc out the build and furniture and then deduct it from my sim’s money with commands. My sim’s career is freelance programming, so I don’t have to deal with the sim being required to return to the home lot that often. It’ll be slightly jank without GTW features, but it’ll finally be a new way to “play” my sim.

I feel like this would make a great orphanage. The big room with its own bathroom is for the person who runs it, the other bed/lounges are communal space, one with a tv and couches, one with toys. The littler one with a door outside could be the office. Big dining room, shared laundry, outside space. I think it could work. It’s wouldn’t be the most comfortable, but everyone could have their own room with a light and fan (except that one kid).

Oh I'm definitely renovating this into a nice 8 bedroom home.

Theres a house similar to this one near my college. It looks like two big normal houses next to each other but it actually is a mega house with 24 bedrooms, 2 common areas and every bedroom has a small bathroom in it (shower, sink and toilet nothing fancy). I know cause when I moved for college I went to tour that place. It's actually very nice.

A small hack I've learned with the walls/fences when connecting them to a lifted house is creating a seperate wall or fence you want to use and moving it to that small open section to the house. It doesn't raise the fence and it doesn't ruin the house :D

I loved that you made this house. I saw the same article this was in and was pretty keen to recreate it. I chose to just stick with what felt like the original house so I don't have 19 bedrooms but yours looks amazing. I always love watching your builds.

Someone get Kevin to use this for his next attempt at having too many roommates

Lol I was going to try building this when I saw the floorplan a few days ago! Great Aussie minds think alike 😉

Thank you! I love it! I will renouvate it!

From the listing “This highly sought after coastal home offers an incredible floorplan” lmao well that’s a bit of an overstatement!

It could be a fun challenge to try and renovate this house into something awesome. You could remove walls but not add any new ones.

It would be so much fun if you would make a series of building real life super weird and bizarre houses. The weirder the better. 😂

i really love the idea of applying floor plan into the sims i hope its gonna be a series in your channel, you did so well!

I renovated this and turned it into a police station/prison. It's got cells, interrogation rooms, evidence lockup and "the yard" where Sims can get their required time for exercise. I'm actually pretty proud, it was fun to build. I kept it pretty much the same, except some walls got knocked down to allow for bigger cells.

The amount of bedrooms reminded me of the prison challenge from 8 years ago hahahah

I think the number of toilets and showers is fine. I used to live in a house with 5 people and only 1 toilet and shower. We managed fine for over 10 years. You have more options with this setup even though the ratio is close to the same. I hope they have additional hot water heaters though because otherwise, it would be tough with most people having to take cold showers.

Legitimately impressed how well you matched the exterior

All your air quotes about this build are the best!

Reminds me of the 3 brothers house with teeny tiny rooms squished together like a jigsaw puzzle.

For anyone wondering the real house this is based off of sold for AUS $1.11M which is roughly $717,000 USD

Omg I saw this, that is so absurd! I am so glad you did this! ❤

This house is in my home state of South Australia. It used to be a nursing home, so its layout made sense then. Recently it became student housing as one of our universities is not too far away from this suburb. It’s not really odd considering it’s initial purpose, it’s only odd because it’s now being sold as a residential property - but probably wouldn’t sell as commercial as it’s quite run down. It’s very likely going to get demolished and have the land subdivided and built on, like most large lots nowadays. From memory it’s close to the beach too, so it’ll be a popular area to buy if it is redeveloped.

this feels like prison architect

This “house” is something you would fin in The Twilight Zone

Heyyy this kind of house + student housing is very common in my home country ahahah places where the home owners/"landlords" live in the same place is more trusted by the parents, it's indeed cheap mostly for single person like students or workers but lately there's a lot of similar places for couples too because you know property prices is getting ridiculous, I've been living in this kind of place since I was 15 from a 'house' with 12 bedrooms to 42 bedrooms, met a lot of amazing people since we're sharing kitchen, bathroom and lounge with others ahahah good times, thank you for sharing James! Keep up the good work!

James can make literally any insane build look good

19 is still not enough for all the Bigwallets (and their egos) 😅

When I was in college, our whole class traveled to a conference in another state and we stayed in a place almost exactly like this. It was an old lady's house and she had built like a gazilion of tiny bedrooms to rent to students. But it was kind of worse than this for 3 reasons: 1) there was, I kid you not, only one bathroom and one shower for all the rooms, and the door was broken 2) the whole thing was on the second floor of her house, and the stairs to get there were really really steep and 3) we had to share the ridiculously small bedrooms, so it was like two people sleeping together on a single bed in these really small rooms. Oh, and you could tell that she actually divided every room in half at some point, because all the windows were like half in one room and half on the other, the wall was built like in the middle of the windows. It was not a pleasant experience.

Aw yea I loved building this a couple of days ago. Saw it posted in the subreddit!

I love when you do wacky builds like this and the previous video, and the AI house! They really keep the sims interesting

A 19 bedroom house oh my goodness

19 bedrooms but only 2 bathrooms, even with 5 toilets, 1 of them is an ensuite. That's not gunna be fun for the unfortunate people staying there...

You made me want to get back into Sims! :D Keep up the hard work Mister Semaj!

I just loove all of James' builds

Maybe its an orphanage, this is where your sims Can buy, i mean adopt a child😁

Would be interesting to see what this looked like when it was built in the 1910 and then after initial expansion in 1980!!! It’s current configuration is a hot mess so maybe make this a reno or shell challenge?

I cannot wait to download this haha

This is great 😂 this would be fun to renovate

Ok as soon as you said it was student accommodation that made slightly more sense but THAT'S IN A REGULAR SUBURB RIP THEIR NEIGHBOURS

the bed/lounge is genuine, another article had interior photos and it was a double bed, fireplace and a couch

Lol I googled this house and man the inside….. lol

Imagen ringing the bell/knocking to this house and everyone running at the same time through the whole house to open the door

I'm shocked that at any point that was once a functional nursing home. I know the 80s could be wild, but not putting nana, pop-pop and Mrs Matheson in the back sheds wild. Somehow it being weird student accommodation makes it a bit worse. The rooms with lots of doors were probably prep/drug rooms or office or overnight nurse accommodation. Now they've been forced into being bedrooms, it's so much weirder

Oh I saw this on your Reddit I’m so glad you saw it and attempted it 😂

it'd probably be a multi parter but I'd love to see you renovate this build!

Love the background you got going on

7:58 James: Because it is... a lot. My mind: Of course it is. A residental lot

love this new background. was great for the burger bois stream too! nice and neutral/warm for binge watching

My uni accommodation is a street of houses with either 10 or 16 bedrooms, all with only 1 kitchen/living space and 2/3 bathrooms max. I’m in a 16 bed one, and honestly it’s pretty easy to exist together, you become like a mini family!

You gotta use this somehopw in the Bigwallet series! Like you did that crazy house for the 3 brothers!

I saw this on one of the Sims Facebook groups and saved it with the hopes of trying to build it 😅

It’s the fact I’m counting 3.5 bathrooms for 19 bedrooms. Ones a master, and one has two toilets. Getting ready in the morning or ready for bed at night sounds like a NIGHTMARE

Its amazing how your version makes this house look way better than the actual photos do

This would make a great indoor flea market with some reno. Each of the bedrooms could be a stall and the bigger rooms could be food courts and such

I used to live in a renovated office building with my dad, 3 of my siblings full time, and another 2 of them when they'd come home from college during breaks. One of the brothers I lived with full time has 10 kids and had a roommate at the time. This build reminds me of that.

The actual house and floorplan is crazy! But looking through the photos... some of the midcentury furniture is super nice!

I think that this could be a fun house to play in with maybe a young sim with big plans to renovate the build and turn it into something better. I may try it.

i kept imaging this as the dorm reginald almost stayed at for your highschool years lp