i built a *functional* bed & breakfast in the sims! - video Dailymotion

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00:00I am kind of obsessed with the idea of hotels in The Sims. This is like my number one pack request

00:05for The Sims 4. I've been making fake hotels for years, I've been begging and pleading the Sims

00:10team to make this for us forever, and with businesses and hobbies you can kind of run

00:15any business. So this is not the equivalent of actually having a hotel pack, but we can kind of

00:22pretend a little bit now, and we can make a business where Sims will come and sleep, we can

00:27have them bathing and showering, I can make them breakfast and try to serve dinner, and then we can

00:32sort of pretend that we're running a hotel, but I'm not really thinking about building a resort

00:37right now. I don't know if building a resort would really work all that well with this, but we can

00:42kind of pretend that we're running more of a bed and breakfast, and that's what I want to do today.

00:46I want to try to test it out and see if we can build sort of a small family-owned hotel vibe.

00:51This lot is where the starter home usually is, I just bulldozed it so we can build our own thing,

00:55and kind of what I'm thinking is that it could be, oh, that's a little bit taller than I wanted.

00:59So it might be shaped something like this, and we could potentially have a couple of bedrooms

01:03on each floor. They might have to share a bathroom. And then we can have a really small

01:08section on the top floor that belongs to us, but most of it will be public. I'm also not gonna make

01:13this a starter home, so I'm just gonna cheat for some money straight away. Okay, let's start by

01:18just trying to get together a little bit of a shell. I guess there could be a cute little patio

01:22space next to it over here. Oh, that has a lot of potential actually, I'm excited about that.

01:26Maybe the patio should be more of a yard, is that better? So we can have some grass. I also don't

01:31really know what style of window and door I want to do. The sim that I made wears a lot of red and

01:37yellow, so maybe we could have sort of a red and yellow thing going on with the outside. Oh my,

01:43this might be a little bit much, we'll see. I think I'll also paint the downstairs with this color,

01:47I like the variety there. Okay, I'm not really sure if this is cute or not, but it's fine.

01:52We'll figure it out. Should I make the first floor taller? I guess it would be a lot nicer to

01:56have it bigger down here, right? Oh yeah, and then I can do this. That's like, way better. Okay,

02:01it looks a little bit silly without a roof, but we'll get there, it's gonna be fine. Is this the

02:05lightest color of the freeze? Mm, I think I'm gonna use this color anyway. It's not exactly

02:10the same color as the windows, but ooh, we could use a fancier window downstairs. What about that,

02:16and we make it big all the way across the bottom floor? I am not sure how this is gonna work out,

02:21I'm a little scared of the floor plan. Okay, this is kind of what I was thinking though.

02:25Oh no no no no, stop. Freezes are so annoying. I'm going through and just trying to like,

02:29custom place this right now, I'm probably gonna have to do it again. I think I'm gonna paint this

02:33whole thing with one color. I feel like that looks a little bit better. Okay, let's talk floor plan

02:37for a second. So, we're gonna need to have a staircase. I'm thinking it should be like this,

02:42or maybe I want it to be even smaller. Oh dear. We kind of want the bedrooms to be like,

02:47as small as possible, because the goal with this is to fit as many as we can in the space.

02:52To actually make good money doing this in The Sims 4, I think you'd want to have bunk beds,

02:56because you just want to fit as many beds as possible in as small of a space as possible.

03:00Okay, there's a lot of hallway happening in here, and there's no bathroom for any of these

03:05bedrooms. I am not certain that that's a good thing, but maybe they have to go upstairs to

03:10get to the bathroom. Okay, so kind of what I'm thinking right now is that this upstairs area

03:15belongs to the owner of the bed and breakfast, so they'll have like, a private small living area,

03:20their own bathroom, and their own bedroom. They'll get into it through this little door

03:24over here. I'm wondering about this, I just feel like we can't split that up like I want to.

03:29Yeah, I had a thought just then that like, maybe this could be a bathroom, and then this one could

03:33be a bathroom. Oh, maybe we could get more than one. This is like, way tighter than I want it to

03:39be. That little corner is a little bit small, but I think that realistically that would make

03:45a lot more sense for us in-game to have more bathrooms. It's better to split it up. And then

03:50we can put another one downstairs somehow, because downstairs we need to have a kitchen,

03:55and you kind of want to close the kitchen off, like the kitchen might be set to be employees

03:59only or something, so that people won't go in there. This room can have the front desk in it,

04:04maybe this becomes a dining room for our guests to sit and eat, and then we can have an extra

04:08little bathroom. It can be small, there could just be a little bathroom in there. This is the living

04:12room, so we could have the TV on this wall somehow, maybe like, a piano. Just we can try and

04:17put some skill building activities, things for them to do in there. Maybe this does become an

04:21extra bedroom. What if we leave the bathrooms downstairs? There can be two bathrooms here,

04:26and then we can have like a, you know what? I think we need to have an extra bathroom up here.

04:30Alright, I think we're getting somewhere with this. I feel like I can visualize it a little

04:34bit better now. I did just delete all the windows from the side, which is bad, but I guess I can put

04:38those back once we start furnishing. I think I'll use this flooring everywhere outside. Now I'm gonna

04:44start trying to mix in some landscaping. This'll be cute because there's a few sections for us to

04:49put plants. There's enough space right here, maybe we could have some bike racks right there on

04:53display. We can do some trees over this way. I feel like I didn't leave enough space for the mailbox,

04:57there's no wall space next to this door. Okay, you know what? This is a good time for us to change

05:02out the color because these columns are supposed to be lighter. That literally looks 10 times

05:06better, I don't know why I had left it the bad swatch before. And once again, I am redoing the

05:11freeze on the top. When you're working with freezes in this game, you literally end up doing it like

05:1515 times. It's just over and over and over and over again. Okay, let's talk about this roof for

05:20a second because we're gonna try and do some slightly sneaky things, like scooting this just

05:25a tiny bit forward. Then I'll fit the roof in there, and then I want to curve it. If you hit

05:30shift C, it gives you some more curving options. So we can kind of like, round it at the top and

05:36then curve it in. This way we can make it follow the lines a little bit more. Do you see how it's

05:41like, doing a more swoopy shape? We can put it like that. I'll use the exact same shape on this one.

05:47I've also hit F5 so I can place things on quarter tiles, and then I'm scooting these forward a

05:52little bit more. It looks better when you have it like this and they're sitting on top of the

05:55freeze, that way you don't have any weird clipping. And then I'll just use the roof from the pack,

05:59and I'll just copy the same thing onto this one. I'll make it a little bit smaller. I forgot to put

06:05this freeze back. I can scoot this. Oh, oh dear. Scoot this forward a tiny bit. I think I'm just

06:12gonna use a white trim. There is a trim from the pack, but I feel like the white one matches a

06:17little better. And the one from the pack, oh maybe I will use the white one from the pack. I was gonna

06:20say it clips, but it actually isn't clipping, so I just lied. I lied and it's fine. I am gonna get

06:25these little dormers, and we're gonna try and really carefully place them in a nice location.

06:30Oh, that's so cute. Okay, we'll put those. I don't know if I want any on this part, it's kind of small

06:36right there, so I'm thinking no. I'll put the windows sort of in line with those because that

06:41looks okay from- oh, never mind. Dang it. Okay, I gotta scoot them in a little bit more. That works

06:45fine. Alright, is it okay like that? It makes for such a like, horrible long and skinny bathroom,

06:51which I don't really like. I guess we just commit to it. Once it's furnished, it won't be as bad

06:55anyway. Okay, I am gonna put a door into the kitchen because we don't want the guests going

07:00in here. I like that tile color with it, I feel like that works. I don't really want to raise

07:04those up. I'm not sure how to fit the counters in this room. Oh, it's not that bad. I was worried

07:09that it was gonna be really clipping with the windows, but it's just a tiny bit in the corner

07:13right there, so I think that's fine. Alright, I'm gonna let myself use some kind of expensive

07:17appliances, I think. We should also definitely get a dishwasher, like that's gonna make life

07:21so much easier for your sims. If I put this here, well that's bad, you don't want it to be in front

07:25of the window. Oh, well it's not that much in front of the window, I think I'm overthinking it. Sorry

07:30everybody, I'm like, I do have a tendency for dramatics. Okay, I think this is kind of bad

07:34because it's like, right next to this. You can't really open the cabinet, but I'm just gonna leave

07:38it anyway. I feel like it's fine. What would happen if we only had the two windows centered down

07:43there? It's not as nice, but I do feel like maybe that looks better from inside the kitchen. In

07:48businesses and hobbies, they have this table. This one kind of looks like a prep table almost to me,

07:55at the very least it kind of looks like a workspace, so I think I'd like to use it.

07:58We definitely need a coffee maker in here, and I'm trying not to use like, so many packs, but

08:03I've already used a couple. I won't do anything extreme though, I promise. Why the family recipe

08:08thing? I don't understand why it's not in the kitchen clutter category. Is it under like, the

08:13stove category or something? Where is it? At least you can search recipe and it'll come up. This is

08:18Grammy's family recipes, so we'll put that in here. That's really cute for a bed and breakfast.

08:23I really like the idea of them serving a bunch of family recipes in this place. Okay, that's the

08:27kitchen. This will be the dining room. I'm not sure if this chandelier is gonna be too much.

08:32Oh no, it's fine. Oh my god, that's so pretty inside of the dining room! Okay, perfect, perfect,

08:37perfect. We can put a few things like this in here. I think maybe some curtains would be nice.

08:42Not sure what colors these will come in. They do come in a red color, and we have a lot of

08:47red, so that might work. I'm kind of wanting to have a buffet table, I'm just not sure if there's

08:53enough space. I think my sim can still get through here. Oh, she went around the other way. Can you

08:58stand here? Oh, wait. I don't think she can. I really would like to have this though, because

09:03I'm thinking that it would be nice to have a place to put the food that they're cooking.

09:07Can you go here? Oh, okay. It's scooted enough into the wall that it works now. Yeah, and then

09:11imagine they would set like, the eggs and the toast right here on this table for your sims to

09:16eat. Oh, maybe I'll put nothing on this table so there's more space for food. I feel like that's

09:20better. Putting extra chairs is a bad idea, right? Because you can't get around there. Oh, they

09:24actually can. Okay, I know it's really tight, but I think that's what I'm going for. Like, I want it

09:30to feel really tight, we want it to feel kind of old. Okay, the pattern situation on this, really

09:35dramatic, but that's what I want. I am going for dramatics right now. Maybe I'll just paint all the

09:40walls real quick with like, a default color. We'll change this, but there's something about looking

09:45at the blank walls that's throwing me off, so we can paint them all. Maybe we pick a bigger

09:49archway. Yeah, that's nice for this part. I will do that. We do need the ticket kiosk, and then

09:55somehow I want to make a fake front desk. I don't know if I want to have an actual desk or if I want

10:01to do counters. I feel like an actual desk is kind of the vibes. We put like, the desk and then maybe

10:07the kiosk right next to it. I must say, I don't love the kiosk. I think the kiosk is kind of ugly,

10:13but I want to use it because it's functional for us. You know what else I don't love is this rug.

10:17This is one of my least favorite rugs in the entire game, and that is precisely why I am

10:21inspired to use it. We have some of these cute little filing cabinets from Get to Work. Life

10:26and deaths are probably cuter though. These are just a little bit older looking, so it's probably

10:31better for us. Oh my god, the quilt. Stop, we need that. That's perfect for this. I love the idea of

10:37granny making the quilt. Maybe the ticket kiosk could be over here. I'm just trying to think about

10:41alternate ways to do this. Oh, we should definitely use the businesses and hobbies bed. Wait, I wanted

10:45to put an ottoman. This way our guests will have a place to sit. Ooh, no. Those swatches,

10:53they don't fit. Oh, oh come on. This one. That is absolutely the way. I guess we can just put the

10:58ticket kiosk on that side of it because then it's right by the front door. Easy access for the sims

11:03who are coming in to pay. I have to cheat for money again. We're already out, that's terrible.

11:08Trying to get myself a small collection of art pieces here. I just want to build out that gallery

11:13wall a tiny bit more, and then with the curtains, do we want to hang those up on this wall? Can't

11:19really tell. Okay, so they'll come in, they can sit down and wait, they can check in the front desk.

11:25This part is pretend, they'll actually check in there. Oh, I should put flowers on the desk, that's

11:29cute. I love the idea of these sims having paper files for the most part too, because it's like a

11:33little bit older in here. So they've got like, all the files out, they have their filing cabinet.

11:38Alright, let's think now about what kind of things the guests will do while they're here, aside from

11:43just sleeping. I think we definitely need a piano. I would also like to have a fireplace. Oh, this

11:49one's cute. Maybe we scoot this piano over more. How far into the wall can that go without clipping?

11:54Right there? Okay. I think the growing together leather sofa is kind of the energy that I'm going

11:59for in this place. Oh, even this growing together table. No, never mind. Sorry, I think I'm gonna use

12:06the businesses and hobbies one. It's not very traditional looking, but I think that's okay.

12:09In my mind, growing together just came out and it's like, one of the most recent packs.

12:14In reality, there's been five packs since then. That is horrible. It's like, kind of a scary

12:18thought. Okay, we'll get a little wall tv up here. The tv looks bad. I really do feel like we kind of

12:24need one though. It might be this fireplace that is the problem. There are other ones. Oh, you know

12:31what? I love this fireplace, don't get me wrong, but this one kind of has like, an old energy to it,

12:37and I do actually really enjoy that. Um, if I raise this up, is that gonna float? Yeah, okay, cool.

12:43How about this one? This one looks a little bit better because you can kind of pretend that it's

12:46mounted and you just see a little bit of the stand or something. Maybe that's like, a cord cover.

12:50I want to put the little games table. I think that's so cute. We could probably even fit the

12:55three chairs. I'm trying to think about like, what other sort of activities would be fun for us to

13:00have. I think maybe a second card table makes sense. I don't know if it looks that good, but when you

13:05think about places like this in real life and like, hotel lobbies, there's just places to sit, like

13:10little nooks of places to sit. So that's what I'm trying to channel. I also would love to use this

13:14thing. Do you think hanging up pictures of Bella Goth is weird? I kind of love it and I kind of want

13:19to do it. Maybe I'll put the grandfather clock. We need some sort of art up here, too. Oh, maybe

13:24this thing. That's fun because we can pretend that it's like, a historical picture because this is

13:29like, an old bed and breakfast. Maybe it's like, the oldest house in town and they've turned it

13:33into a bed and breakfast. Oh, here, how about this? We'll also use Bella Goth's tea set because I've

13:38already used her pack, so we might as well. Okay, I think that's the majority of the downstairs done.

13:43Let me get rid of this fireplace that's just outside, and then we can real quick think about

13:47the bathrooms. I might make the lighting even more yellow-toned. Do you remember when I said I

13:51wasn't going to use that many packs? Because I do, and all of a sudden I'm putting werewolves in here.

13:56Like, times have changed. Okay, that's a nice little bathroom though. I don't think I like the shower

14:00when it touches the window like that, right? Like, that's weird. I'm trying to do something a little

14:04bit more interesting in these bathrooms than I maybe normally would. They're not really that

14:08interesting still, but I'm just trying to add a little bit of extra spice. I personally think

14:13these blinds are kind of ugly, but we do need them because this bathroom is right in the front

14:17of the build. It's right on the front of the street. There is a new tub that comes in the pack

14:22that I haven't used yet. I don't really know if I like the colors of it. It's nice, but it maybe

14:28feels a little bit too modern. I think maybe the cottage living one is better. Oh, I can already

14:33tell that your sims are gonna be insufferable in this bathroom because they're probably gonna walk

14:36in on each other a lot. There'll be like, somebody in the shower and then somebody's gonna walk in

14:40and try and use the bathtub. Oh, should I have a brick accent wall? You know what, I kind of love

14:45it. Just as like, a fun little detail. Okay, I'm real quick putting together this upstairs hallway

14:50and I'm thinking about just getting a couple of bonus skill building things, like maybe a computer

14:55that could be accessible by all the guests. I just think that would be nice to have, and it's also

14:59kind of tucked away. I'm gonna put the thermostat inside of the apartment section because we don't

15:05want everyone else to be able to access it, right? I'm gonna come back to the apartment section later

15:10on. I'm thinking this will be a bedroom, this is that mini living room, and then they have a private

15:14bathroom, but now I want to do the bedrooms. I'm really excited about decorating these bedrooms.

15:18I think I'm gonna do a mix of some single and some double beds. I also want to have some really fun

15:26wallpaper stuff going on in this place. I really like the idea of each of the rooms being like,

15:31almost aggressively themed, so if you stayed here you could be like, oh, I want to be in the green

15:36room or whatever. Are any of these curtains remotely okay? I don't know, I don't really know

15:41if I like those. It'll be fine. I love that picture behind the bed. I can kind of see there just being

15:46a chair in the corner, even if that chair is not the cutest. I feel like that's a reasonable thing

15:51to add in. Maybe we get a simple full-length mirror on this wall. It's also not the cutest,

15:56but it's just nice to have. I'm thinking that I should have added music somewhere. This thing,

16:01that's a radio, so we'll put that up there. Okay, oh, this wallpaper with the red actually works

16:07super well. It's because it matches the windows, that's so nice. Maybe I do a cats and dogs bed

16:12there. Yeah, in the red, okay. I'm actually kind of obsessed with the horrible curtains and I love

16:17the pattern mixing and matching. I think in this room, I want to put a vanity table. It's obviously

16:23not necessary to have one of those, but it's one of those amenities that I think would be cool for

16:27your sims to have access to. Especially since in-game, it doesn't actually matter what room

16:31you go in. Like, no one's gonna get assigned a room, sims are just gonna randomly sleep in these,

16:36so it really does not matter. Like, we can do anything. I think this one, I'm gonna do kind

16:41of a blue and yellow thing. Oh, that even has a blue and yellow by default, okay. Maybe this room

16:46could have a fireplace. Oh, I never used that chair. Okay, this is kind of the wrong color.

16:51We could do more of a green thing. I got a picture above the bed, a couple of lamps,

16:56I might use the same rug again. Yeah, those all work together nicely. And then in here,

17:00I was planning on putting two more single beds because when you think about it right now,

17:05we can only sleep four sims. We will also have that one extra room upstairs, but I want to have

17:10as many as we can. Does this come in red? Do I dare paint the whole thing red? Yeah,

17:14I'm gonna commit. I honestly do not like this room. I think this is kind of ugly. Okay,

17:18I'm gonna leave this desk empty because I like the idea of pretending that sims can come here and like,

17:23write their letters on it, so I'll leave them space to do that. But that's all of the downstairs

17:28bedrooms. Should I do single beds again up here? It is really easy to replace the beds with double

17:34beds if you want a different one, and I really do think that functionally it's gonna be nicer

17:37to have the singles. Okay, all of the guest bedrooms are complete now, so there's five

17:42guest bedrooms total, but we have eight beds. I think the double beds are not good for this

17:46because I really don't think that sims are gonna sleep together in them. This is more good if you

17:51wanted to come here as a guest. It's like, nice for you as a guest to have a double bed access,

17:55but as an owner of this building, I don't think you want double beds, so I didn't put as many of

17:59those. I think I'm gonna do the apartment last and I'm gonna switch gears real quick and do the

18:04outside area because then we'll have all of the guest stuff done. I kind of like these little

18:08bushes outside, I just don't know if the colors are too much because I'm really not trying to

18:13have like, McDonald's vibes with the outside, but I do like that it's kind of bright. I think I'll

18:17stick the mailbox for the apartment in the back, it's like, tucked away in the corner. And now I'm

18:21gonna get out all the debug stuff. I'm putting some pipes outside. Okay, so we have this little

18:26tiny bike rack in the back. Okay, I'm getting some trees in these little tree cages. I don't know how

18:31this one's gonna go because this one's pretty close to the house. Oh, but this tree is pretty

18:35skinny. Oh good, okay. I guess we can use the bigger ones, not sized down on the sides. I had kind of

18:41been planning on putting a big tree in this little part. I essentially want to cover up the side a

18:46little bit. Okay, I've done the landscaping kind of like this, just a few little plants dotted around.

18:50I'm gonna put terrain paint in there. Before I forget, I'm gonna put some trash cans. Oh look,

18:55and the piano is clipping. I'm glad I noticed that. I'm gonna make one green and one blue and

18:59make it pretend that it's for recycling. That's not actually how it works, but we can pretend.

19:03Oh, this awning is kind of cute, we could do that. Okay, then I was gonna put this terrain paint down.

19:08We'll layer it with some dirt terrain paint around all of the edges and underneath the plants. I feel

19:14like our guests might want to use a telescope, so I could give them one of those, but my main priority

19:20out here is just to have a dining table. Just some little place to sit right there. We could

19:24potentially even get some extra ones if we wanted to have them go out in the front a little bit more.

19:30That's kind of nice. Okay, last thing is a welcome mat outside. I think that's covering the entire

19:35outside though, that's all the stuff that I wanted to add. I am really liking this. I'm gonna go

19:39upstairs and really quickly put together the apartment section. Okay, so here's kind of the

19:43color scheme that I was thinking for the primary bedroom up here. They've got a fireplace, I have a

19:48little chair by it, I'll give them a big dresser over there too. I feel like I don't want to put

19:54a kitchen up here. Like, my goal with this is not to have a second full living space because I want

20:00them to be using the downstairs. I just wanted the sims who live here to have a little bit of a

20:04private area. I feel like this is nice functionally too because no matter how you're playing with this,

20:10you might have a sim who's like, trying to be a painter and they just also happen to be running

20:14a bed and breakfast, and this way you have a place to actually do all of that painting. Or maybe it's

20:19pottery or you know, whatever it might be. Maybe I'll give them an easel. Maybe we'll make it

20:23painting for this sim, they can have an easel in the corner somehow. Oh, you know what I was thinking

20:27about adding and then forgot to do? I was planning on putting a chess table. We could probably just

20:32shove that off to the corner. Classic. Okay, we'll do that. Are there any other skill items that I feel

20:38like would be nice? Oh, you know what? This is kind of a random addition and like, not necessary.

20:43But maybe they have a little crystal making hobby, the sim who runs the business. Oh, I think that's

20:48good. Okay, so this is our ginormous bed and breakfast lot. You can come in, you'll check in

20:53in here, you can eat. We've got places for our guests to hang out and like, do skill building.

20:58They can sleep upstairs and I managed to fit in a couple of bathrooms. Two of them have showers and

21:03then there's two that are just toilets. It's a shame they have to share the bathrooms and we

21:06don't have en-suites, but it just didn't work out with the shape of this lot. And then upstairs we

21:10have an extra bedroom, an extra bathroom, and then this here, the blue outline, is the space that

21:15belongs to the sim who lives here. So let me finish setting up the activities. Maybe I'll

21:20have them play table games because then they'll use the chess tables and those game tables,

21:24and maybe they have to be friendly. They come here because they want to hang out and like,

21:27be chatty with the people who are staying. They should definitely pay hourly, and I think it

21:32should be kind of expensive. And there, that is our bed and breakfast. But thank you for watching,

21:36have a wonderful rest of your day, and I'm gonna catch you all tomorrow. Okay, bye everybody.

21:42Oh, I just had so much fun doing this. I hope that you liked it because I love doing this.

i built a functional bed & breakfast in the sims!

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