Deli: I was a bit disappointed that there were no new foundations' colours and swatches. Me: That's because we don't tend to have raised foundations in the UK, Deli!

@danielarosindo

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't know that, but now the pack not having foundations actually makes sense

@jamr1458

3 жыл бұрын

THIS!! every time I see a creater make a cottage but with like a 5 step raised deck - it automatically makes it look American for me not British

@hothnogg

3 жыл бұрын

We should have foundations tho lol the amount of rain we get :)

@nuria6497

3 жыл бұрын

but where do you put the cellar windows? :o

@katemoore-myers4160

3 жыл бұрын

So true! I have never seen a British house with raised foundation, most of the houses in my village were built in the seventeenth century, raised foundations were not a think back then!!!

It's funny to hear you say I've only ever had pot plants. In Canada we call them potted plants and pot plants refers to marijuana 😄

@cherrydaze3525

3 жыл бұрын

Same in US^

@mercedesavenue

3 жыл бұрын

I immediately thought the same 😂😂

@Iristoddlewis

3 жыл бұрын

HAHAHA! Canada is SO different to USA or England!

@TheBioExplorer

3 жыл бұрын

@@Iristoddlewis Yes and no. I use to visit the Yukon quite a bit when I lived in Alaska. I was always struck by how so super nice people were and how it's ingrained even things like the traffic rules. For instance if I went to cross the road... instead of waiting for the traffic to clear... the cars stopped for me! That was very odd... but nice. I also found many of the bars to be very UK pub-like in atmosphere. In other ways like shopping, vehicles, and architecture & entertainment it was more like the US. The Mounties are quite unique. They can be very British-like and serious when dealing with a legal issue... but also irreverent and funny (not British-like) at other times. One of them helped play a funny joke on me... It's a long story but to make it short it ended with him saying (I swear he had what sounded like a Scittish brogue)... "So last I hear you like to drop the pants on the Mounties" (while lifting the front of his Serge as if he was going to undo his trousets). Mind you this was in the middle of a formal meal at an international conference with about 500 people and a spotlight on me! I was redder than his uniform!😄😂🤣 Yes a Mounties pants had fallen down a couple of days earlier during a photo-op... but I swear I had nothing to do with it! I was just standing there.... and he was actually a giant Mountie Mannequin.😄 For the rest of the conference it was... "That's the girl that pantsed the Mountie!" ... even the elevator.🙄

@itsashleyok4380

2 жыл бұрын

The same in us

Most UK houses have 1.5 bathrooms, typically in smaller homes. You have the 'Landing bathroom' normally at the top of the stairs and then you have a water closet, typically by the front entrance of the house :)

@Lizziel23

3 жыл бұрын

Or under the stairs!

@lillihampson3697

3 жыл бұрын

Yes thats exactly what we have just our landing bathroom is 2 rooms, one with a loo and one with the sink and bath. But theyre right next to eachother

@caldiys9098

3 жыл бұрын

@@lillihampson3697 correct!

@Iristoddlewis

3 жыл бұрын

Also, the older homes put the toilet in a separate room

@Layla-farrer

22 күн бұрын

Yeah

19:00 that bin u just placed outside is the EXACT bin we use in the UK🤣

@Layla-farrer

22 күн бұрын

He’s right😅😂😐

I feel like a lot of people are unfairly comparing dream home decorator to this pack, because dream home decorator was ALL about the furniture. If dream home decorator DIDN’T have all that furniture it would have been really bad. I hope this doesn’t come of rude but I feel like a lot of simmers compare packs instead of looking at the pack itself for what it really is

@ananniesday

3 жыл бұрын

So true bestie!!!!

@willowweedsYT

3 жыл бұрын

I think so too, there is a lot of gameplay in this and a whole new world as well as a bunch of nice furniture, I think maybe some curtains would have been nice though.

@leyadil

3 жыл бұрын

@@willowweedsYT Lol maybe a few 😂

I’m from the UK and yes, en-suites are not very common in our houses. Only typically found in modern new builds

@Kuriousspirit

3 жыл бұрын

Or if you have money. The more expensive the house the more bathrooms you have in my experience

New content from Deli and James in a span of 30 minutes is like the dream

So at the beginning of the LP my husband had no idea what I was watching, but would come in and randomly exclaim “Oh Tartin!” because that’s what he kept hearing lol and now it’s become a thing this past week to randomly walk into rooms with “Oh Tartin!” 😂😂 been loving this LP!!

@vxniciaa

3 жыл бұрын

Omg!! 🤣🤣🤣

We do just use Wheely bins like the black one you put outside the house across England but their colours vary depending on the county!! Not as romanticised as you were picturing unfortunately hehe

@lynne519

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, we use what the council gives us. :)

@katherineanne2068

3 жыл бұрын

It's the same across the UK :)

@evaward-smith1859

3 жыл бұрын

@@katherineanne2068 Ahh I didn’t know this?! But I live in NW England and have family elsewhere in England that have a different variation of colour of bins? Love that this is a convo i’m interested in lol :)

@katherineanne2068

3 жыл бұрын

@@evaward-smith1859 I live in Scotland and we have different bin colours for each county :) mine are blue, green, black and brown

@evaward-smith1859

3 жыл бұрын

@@katherineanne2068 Ohh I thought you meant the colours are the same between county’s! I see! Funnily enough I have the same bin colours :)

The idea of the English countryside is more or less correct, bear in mind that the U.K. as a whole varies. The Welsh countryside mostly has slate roofs instead of thatch since the material was readily available. Most farmhouses are usually only ever one-storey unless the farm owner has a lot of money since from what I have been told building a second storey is expensive. Please note do not assume that this pack is all that there is to British (or even English) architecture because you will be sadly mistaken.

@theladynim2

3 жыл бұрын

This makes so much sense omg. I live in the Welsh countryside and I'm not sure I've ever seen a thatched roof in real life!

@manutd7194

3 жыл бұрын

@@theladynim2 I've been to Blaenau Ffestiniog a few times so that's where I'm basing my idea of 'Welsh Countryside' from, and being entirely surrounded by a National Park isn't too far from that.

@Iristoddlewis

3 жыл бұрын

Thatched roofs are common to the west country plus the Cotswolds, but lots of slate roofs further north. Americans tend to have firm ideas of what is essentially British or English, but are often wrong! Heck, they think we live in igloos in Canada! Anyway, I see much that can be considered traditionally English in the pack. True that cottages are generally one storey with few bump-outs, but terraced homes are usually two-storey, not found in country settings as a rule. Cottage gardens are common in country areas, less so in towns. Lots of hanging planters and window boxes since Britain in Bloom was popular. Follow Harrie for sure -she is current!

@hannahprice2614

3 жыл бұрын

@@theladynim2 I live in South Wales, there are a couple really old houses where I live, where my village has left them how they were a while ago with thatched roofing but mostly there are no thatched roofs

@charlottex4889

3 жыл бұрын

I’m also from the UK and the generalisation of our architecture makes me smile. Almost every county has a different architectural type. From sandstone, to ironstone, red brick new builds. The list goes on. We don’t all live in thatched cottages or castles 😂

Being this early to Deli is a treat... or one could say, a Delicacy.. 😅

As far as I know ensuites are not common in most of Europe, I live in the Netherlands and only big, new houses have ensuites. I am happy you choose to build the master bedroom upstairs. A lot of American Sims builders put the master bedroom downstairs which is something I don't remember ever seeing in Europe. Most older Houses in Europe only have one full bathroom upstairs and a small half bath with a toilet (and if your lucky a sink) downstairs.

@86naiky

2 жыл бұрын

I'm from the Netherlands as well, and I've never seen an on-suite. I learned about them existing through the sims 4 builds I watch here on KZread 🤣

This is super cute and the landscaping is 😍😍😍 As someone that lives in Dorset (Countryside in the South of England), it kinda reminds me more of a French style in a weird way? The actual shape of the house is pretty spot on though, but if you look at the cottages round here, they are all built from local stone and very few of them have thatched roofs as it's a bit of a nightmare to maintain. That technique you were talking about is a really old technique referred to as "Wattle and Daub". Think it may have originated in the Celtic era. PS. Our bins actually do look like that! We have Black, Blue and Green (rubbish, recycling, garden)

Hey Deli, I'd suggest a snake plant. Hardy little lads; my depression got pretty bad around Jan last year and I'm packing to move apartments now....realized he has been beside my bed surrounded by junk for all those months, but he's still perfectly fine 😅

This build is actually stunning

What a cute build! So Wayback in the 1970s, before there were home-improvement stores, department stores used to have home-improvement sections. And in those days you could actually order decorative items for your rooms that matched your wallpaper and rugs. Isn’t that cool? My grandparents house used to have a lot of that going on! Thanks for all you do Deli 💜💜

The word for the pattern you were looking for is herringbone. They have a brick red stone floor in that pattern, in base game I think. I've been dying for one in a wood, similar to the parquet floor.

@Lizziel23

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it’s not something you’d find in a British cottage - more a Victorian terraced house (which I would LOVE a pack on)

@spritelass6712

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lizziel23 I'm curious to see what region they choose next. Tokyo would be awesome. Another apartment city that has a cool night life would be fun. Maybe a new career as a night club owner.

I'm from the UK and I've only ever been inside literally one house that had an en suite and it was a big rich custom build in the poshest area of my town. Most people here just have one bathroom. Some have a toilet downstairs (we don't) and some have the entire bathroom downstairs with nothing upstairs.

I live in the UK (in the countryside even!) and I live in a 3 bed house that only has 1 bathroom - downstairs next to the kitchen! It was the same in the house I spent my teen years too, and the house i spent my childhood before my parents renovated into the loft. it's rather uncommon to have ensuites here unless you renovate (which my mum plans to do at some point)

This is OLD british homes. These simple farm house boxes are YEARS old, new british homes are big, modern and have lots of different shapes but this build sums up a perfect old countryside british home

@manutd7194

3 жыл бұрын

It's inspired by the Cotswolds from the first glance. Obviously, some artistic license was used but that's the image I got.

@whitykitty2651

3 жыл бұрын

minus the foundation

@chloelittle6257

3 жыл бұрын

Still wouldn't call new British homes big compared to most other European and American homes, bigger than cottages sure but not big

@manutd7194

3 жыл бұрын

@@chloelittle6257 For context the U.K. as a whole doesn't have much space, it entirely fits in Texas (I think), there is simply no room to make houses that big.

@wildrose-qb7lg

3 жыл бұрын

I know our heritage builds are the old cottages but we aren’t all stuck up high English tea people as most houses now are modern so we shouldn’t still be stuck with that label

I 100% agree that boredom is underrated. Boredom is humanities great driver! What do I do when I'm bored? I read, I sew, I cross stitch (so excited for my sims to, ahah!), I knit (you know I have nifty knitting gurl), I crochet, I bake, I learn new things.... Sometimes I hop on KZread and I learn about how other people live, or watch sims building which makes me think about design and spatial awareness and looking at things form the bigger picture. Gorgeous build, Deli! It may be simple but it inspires a person to... romanticize the simple things in life. One of the biggest thing that helped me to really love my life is to romanticize the little moments. Read on a chair with your dog in your lap, drink a hot chocolate when it's snowing with your house coat and slippers on... it's simple stuff but if you imagine it like a movie or a book character it seems so cozy and lovely. I think my favorite single object from the pack (aside from the animals and the cross stitch box) is the china cabinet. It reminds me of the China cabinet in my moms house or my grandmothers house.

I'm from Austria - so I guess it counts a little because it's still Europe - and no house I've ever been to had an en suite xD

@Sandrina42

3 жыл бұрын

I came here to say the same thing, I'm from Germany and I only ever heard of the concept of an en suite by watching sims videos. It's definitely goals though

@theladynim2

3 жыл бұрын

I live in the British countryside and can confirm en suites are pretty uncommon here but some houses definitely do have them, especially bigger houses.

@lillihampson3697

3 жыл бұрын

@@theladynim2 yeah, but lets be real here the only people with ensuites here are very wealthy. Like i definately couldnt afford one

@ulrikeverhulst7941

3 жыл бұрын

was going to say exactly the same. I live in Belgium, on the countryside and I live in a big house, but definitly no en suites. Had not even an idea what it was supposed to be :P

@theladynim2

3 жыл бұрын

@@lillihampson3697 For the most part definitely (especially in the countryside). In cities they're increasingly common in new builds and tiny flats that are basically one room.

I live in Britain in the country side and it was very nice to see what you came up with :)

I feel like sitting that close to such a huge fire place would melt your skin off. 😂😂😂

that recessed entryway with the spandrel looks really nice. im inspired do try something similar. reminds me how james did his kitchen in todays video as well.

I've been loving these cottage living builds because it shows you can make a house look amazing even if they are just a rectangular box

3:45 I got Wisteria vines in my back yard, they can be pretty but a pain to maintain. They grow every where and hard to get raid of.

@Kuriousspirit

3 жыл бұрын

Keep cutting back the vines as they form, it will Bush up nicely and give it something to grow along that's all I do with mine and it looks awesome

As someone who lives in Cornwall in the uk I literally cannot wait to build when this pack comes out! The outside of this house reminds of my in-laws farm and it made me smile - and gave me an idea for my first build! Also in these kinds of traditional farmhouses, the upper floors would be timber but the ground floors would actually be huge slates - and they get very cold! Loved watching this build - fab as always Deli x

@sarahshannon1487

3 жыл бұрын

I’m in Cornwall too 🙌🏻

I so want that lot in the opening of this vid, from the trailer. "Family" homes have to be at least 3-4 bedrooms in my opinion

@dutchboymay_2882

3 жыл бұрын

Yesss

@allyhendrix1289

3 жыл бұрын

there is three bedrooms

@rachray83

3 жыл бұрын

@@allyhendrix1289 It was a general comment. I sew many speed builds called "Family" home, cottage etc with only 2 rooms

I live in Somerset, England which is just fields and farms and not a lot else and this perfectly sums up an old British home! We have plenty still here and they’re so picturesque 😻 This is definitely going to be one of my favourite expansions because it just feels like home! Xx

En suites are a luxury. Our houses are often too small to even consider having them

@lynne519

3 жыл бұрын

You're 'posh' if you have an ensuite in the UK. :)

I love this pack but I really wish they added pillows even if the don’t snap to the couch I just think that it would have made the living rooms feel even cozier then it already is

James is right, on-suites are a rarity, just like kitchen islands and full bathrooms downstairs. And hallways! Countless hallways with doors to every room. Unlike modern homes, wind tends to creep in everywhere in these houses.

Love this build and you!! Getting me through Sydney lockdown!!

We all just have wheelie bins Deli!

This is perfect,the only thing that bothers me is the oversized towel racks so close to the floor and the rug under the claw foot tub,there is no way a rug will go under that heavy tub,lol

@Iristoddlewis

3 жыл бұрын

Right!

William Morris patterns are hugely popular in the UK. They do everything in the same patterns, so your wallpaper could match your notebook!

The daily Deli and James content is amazing. 🤍

I have lived in over twenty different houses in the UK - mostly in the countryside. We use wheelie bins and food caddies, depending on the local council. There were only en-suites in maybe three of the places I lived. In one of them it was the only bathroom. Our houses are very compact and normally we have long, narrow hallways and long, narrow gardens since we normally live in long rows.

I can’t wait for next week I’m definitely going download this house it’s perfect for my family

Wisteria is wonderful. It can get very large and unruly and spread quite a lot. The stems can often get really windy and creepy looking. If you use it use a lot cause it spreads and looks more awesome over time. The gnarly branches are my favorite

En suites are becoming a lot more popular in new build houses, but they're still very rare unless it's a conversion. We don't have an en suite in our house. Our bathroom has a bath, shower(in bath) and a sink and our toilet is separate downstairs next to the kitchen 😊 Our house was built just after the war in a teeny tiny village, as a place for families to live should their homes have been destroyed. We have no shop, no pubs, and 1 primary school with 3 classrooms and 50 kiddies learning! We're right in the middle of fields and cows, sheep, crops and winding roads!

Matching everything was quite common in the early eighties in the UK. Interior companies used to make whole collections of carpets, wallpaper, soft furnishings and fabrics so that everything coordinated. some even had dinner services to match

I watch the cottagefairy too! Started last winter! I love her videos. It gives me a peace of mind!

This came out so beautiful ❤️

I lovveeee this!! Please upload to the gallery when the games comes out!

It’s so cute!

YES! Definitely a lot of rectangular, symmetrical homes here! Georgian and Victorian are very common styles 😍

There is a designer called Laura Ashley that is very popular in the uk and she does wallpapers, fabrics and furniture ranges that all match! Actually very country / English styled

i love this so much! you did a great job

I watch The Cottage Fairy as well! She seems so kind and I bought a good bit of her art from etsy's! ♡

awww, i love this house!!! i can’t wait to play on it 💞🐇

The UK has those same black or green wheelie bins, even in the countryside. But some people try and pretty it up by creating little wooden bin stores to pop the wheelie bins inside or put a fence/bush around them

Absolutely love this build!! That little sink nook downstairs is stunning!!🥰🥰🤓

This is beautiful and cozy build. Love it!

This build is bloody GORGEOUS, I NEEEEED IT

I've been watching The Cottage Fairy for a little while now, love her videos! 😍

Deli, that black bin is exactly what every British home has, regardless whether it a city or countyside building. 👍🙂 I actually made some pictures about typical houses here and will send it to You and Jaaames. Brick walls with white windows and doorways, a family home in city is normally semi detached and with a mudroom opening from the front door - about 1 square meter so I would do 4 tiles in the sims. Normally dark carpeted. Hydrangeas are typical British flowers too planted at the front and visteria running on the wall at the back garden. Also foundations are a big no no... Take care. 🙂

I love The Cottage Fairy too! Paola is amazing. Her videos are so inspiring creatively and just in terms of living a life that works for you, whatever that might be. She also lives in my state in the US and in one of the most beautiful parts of it. Highly recommend her channel!

On the old days, fabric was use as wallpaper, just glued to the walls. Luv your work!

23:33 Speaking of relaxing rural life channels - try 李子柒 Liziqi . She's like an asian goddess of countryside living, her content is addictive and inspiring as hell, aslo feels really authentic.

LOL I remember in 1981 When I was in Junior High We had Typing then I went to College and wanted to be a Secretary and Typing was a huge part of it ... I was typing 85 words a minute I remember a classmate typing so fast She was typing 120 words a minute!!! We had books that We typed out copying them.... Wow I am Old LOLL just turned 54 -- Love Love This Gorgeous Cottage Much Love to you

your videos are so calming! I love that about them. Have a nice day!☺️👋🏞️

Yeah most old country homes or farm cottages on estates have a shared bathroom upstairs. Also you don't always have a extra toilet indoors on the ground floor. They may have a WC... joined to the house, but access to it from the outside. If it's a old build. I don't think any of my friends or family homes growing up had any en suites. Even bigger homes in Wales. Love your take on British builds. 🐇

I'm so in love with this pack! I love the bunnies (glad that they cannot be pets!), the cows, the llamas, the foxes, chickens, everything! The clutter and all. I'm already excited for CC creators to create add-ons of the build objects like Peacemaker often does.

I can't wait to try it! Thanks for the content!

Some stores make tons of things in the same patterns. Laura Ashley comes to mind as a place that's likely to have matching wallpaper and fabric patterns!

Super cute, I can't wait for this pack. To answer some of your questions/ponderings: The wood pattern you described but couldn't remember the name of is herringbone (because the angled boards look like fish bones). I honestly don't know how prevalent it is in old cottages. Everyone has wheelie bins (what you placed) in the UK. Driving through the countryside you'll often see a collection of them at the side of the road where a cottage lane or track ends, as the resdients have put them on the main road for emptying by the local council. Different council areas have different sets of bins for recycling (where I live we have blue, green, brown and black wheelie bins for all the different recyclables). To replace the ink in a typewriter is not like liquid ink in a printer, it's a spool of ribbon. You can still buy replacements for most machines.

Ochides from the Ikea are easy to keep alive! I give them once in a while water. I fill up the whole pot with water and let them stand in it for a hour or longer. Afther that poor the rest of the water out and they have enough for a long time. Also when all the flowers are gone let the steel dry out and cut it of. I've got mine may 2020 and they are still alive! Got flowers for I think the 3rd time now! Plants didn't survive my care also before that.

Hey Deli, I love your build and it's making me really excited for the new pack! I don't even want to build anything anymore at the moment because I'm just impatiently waiting for the release and the new items. Regarding the "dying plant" issues that you have, most of the times plants die from overwatering rather than dehydration - I recommend to put reminders in your phone or get an app (there's so many) which will do it for you if you add the plant to your collection. Also plant stores like to fertilize plants or use chemicals to make them look the most pretty in the store for people to buy, and after being in the new home for a couple of days they just die off (specially orchids, they're also often put into the wrong soil and too tight containers, changing the pots once you bought them is a must for many plants). And you'd want to make sure to keep your plants close to the windows, every meter away from the light is a big loss in terms of UV light. I struggled so many years myself, but finally can call myself a proud plant mommy! You can do it too!

I love you Deli!!! Great work as always!!! I hope you're having a good day so far : )

Thank you for an honest and cute build.

You brighten my day, Deli!!!

Nice one, Deli! Good use of the subtle colours...hope you can upload when the pack releases.

I think my favourite indoor plant is my pothos (which is also a cheap plant) because it is so easy to keep alive, and it grows fast enough you can watch it for new growth every day. I also like keeping a creeping Jenny in a pot in the bathroom. She's a little dramatic, but I like that because it's like she yells at me to water her (a good reminder to water them all tbh).

Was that a Master of Disguise reference with the turtle!?! Never thought I’d hear that in 2021 😂

I'm British and have an en-suite. I live in a modern house though that is relevantly big. The style of house I live in is pretty much everywhere in the UK now. These smaller type cottages are futher out into the countryside and are very old type properties.

Wisteria is a beautiful climbing plant that attracts butterflies and bees, so great for your garden. And so damn pretty 😍

I love the cottage Fairy. they are very relaxing. and her art is amazing

I have 4 outdoor bins Brown for plastic and tin. Blue for paper and cardboard. Green for garden and compost waste, and Black for anything that doesn't fit in the other 3 categories our councils are well into recycling

You should get a ZZ plant! They are super easy to take care of and really cool looking! Same with a spider plant or a snake plant

Beautiful!! 💘

I could sit and listen to you talk for hours.... with this background music going.... so relaxing! =)

Herringbone pattern flooring is the word you were looking for ;)

Speaking of plants, of you have difficulty in keeping them alive, you should try a zz plant and a pothos, these are nearly impossible to kill

I love the look of British homes simple cute cozy homes.

We don't really have outdoor bins in the UK. We have our recycling bins that are different colours for cardboards, plastics, garden waste and food but we tend to just fill our indoor bin, then put the bin bag outside until collection day. 🤷‍♀️

I've been trying to avoid watching these videos so it will all be a surprise for me when it comes out, but I have watched every single one!! I cannot resist 🤣

I live in the country side and those bins look exactly thr same, it does depend on what county/borough you live in however they either look exactly the same or extremely similar. X

i love the flooring

You mentioned orchids, they are actually really tolerant. I suck with taking care of plants and not watering enough. Orchids can "die" and let go of all their flowers but then grow back again with a lil water and sun :)

Hi deli! I'm early again and of course I'm outside with a blanket and hot coco 💖 Love you deli

If you want good and easy plants to take care off, look for Pothos (vines), snake plants, aloe vera , spider plants,any succulent, zebra succulent plant (there’s two types of zebra plant, so be sure it’s the succulent one!) , turtle vine and english Ivy. Super easy to maintain and keep alive!!

I love deli builds😁

I've never worked/lived on a farm, but I do live in rural america. You're right about having nothing around to do.

Hi Deli! Been watching you for years now…. Keep up the great videos!

OMG I LOVE THE COTTAGE FAIRY 🥺

Yay another Deli video 🥰🥰

the new pc brings me back to 1978...learning to type on a manual typewriter...you purchase a typewriter ribbon to replace the ink, most are a universal fit...some are black ink only but some are divided to include red ink also. I play sims with my grandkids...SO anxious for the new EP release.

@tawnyprovince-ward2353

3 жыл бұрын

I love you. I’m in my mid 30’s and playing things with my grandparents were some of my most cherished memories with my grandparents.

Beautiful build. I hope you can post it when the pack comes out.