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Paralives coastal house build

A starter bungalow on a lot overlooking open water, built in sixteen steps from one no-commentary speed build — platform deck, shingled gable roof, sage-and-white rooms and a sea-view garden.

Start the walkthroughBeach-house style guide
Finished Paralives coastal bungalow with white cladding, sage green skirting, a striped awning and the ocean behind the porch
The finished starter coastal house from the source build — white cladding over sage, a flower box under the front window and open water behind the porch.

The short version

One no-commentary speed build, sixteen steps, one sea-view lot. The frames carry every fact; the captions describe only what their own frame shows.

  • Sloping shore lot? Set a wooden platform deck on posts first and raise the walls on top — the deck gives the ground floor a level start.
  • Roofs are preset blocks: pick a shingled gable from the roof catalogue, then stretch it over the porch.
  • The palette that reads coastal here: white cladding above sage green, one red brick skirt, a striped awning up front.
  • Build-mode banners (Wall Placement Mode, Terrain Paint Mode) render in English in the footage; item tooltips follow the client language.
  • The yard needs no gardening skill — the pond, the tree and the bushes are plain build-mode objects.
  • The source client runs the official German localization, so item tooltips appear in German; every UI name quoted here is the English one.

Steps 1–4

A raised shell by the water

The lot slopes toward the sea, so the build starts with a level wooden deck on posts instead of reshaping terrain — then stacks walls, roof and paint on top.

  1. 1

    Start on a platform deck

    The lot slopes toward the water, so the build sets a wooden platform on posts first and raises white walls straight on top of it — no terrain digging needed for a level ground floor. The wall catalogue is open with a price on every segment.

    White Paralives walls rising from a wooden platform deck on posts above a sloping coastal lot with the wall catalogue open
    The deck posts follow the slope and give the whole ground floor a level start.Watch at 0:32
  2. 2

    Pick a shingled gable

    Roofs come as preset blocks. This build chooses a dark shingled gable from the roof catalogue and places it over the small white footprint, the catalogue left open to compare pitches against the walls.

    Dark shingle gable roof selected from the Paralives roof catalogue over the white walls of a seaside starter home
    Preset roof blocks keep the pitch honest on a small bungalow.Watch at 1:10
  3. 3

    Stretch the roof over the porch

    With the gable placed, the roof runs on over the front porch while the wall-segments catalogue stays open — porch posts and railing come from the same placement family.

    Roof extended over the front porch of a Paralives coastal bungalow while the wall segments catalogue stays open
    A covered porch turned to the water is the build's one indulgence.Watch at 1:32
  4. 4

    Paint the coastal palette

    Wall Painting Mode puts sage green on the upper walls and white below, with a red brick skirt at the base — the three-tone combination that makes the bungalow read coastal from the street.

    Paralives Wall Painting Mode applying sage green above white cladding with a red brick skirt on a coastal house
    Sage above, white below, brick at the boot.Watch at 1:48

Steps 5–8

Kitchen and dining

The kitchen keeps appliances white so the sage green cabinets carry the colour, and a curtained window gets the round breakfast table.

  1. 5

    Glaze the kitchen's sea side

    In the kitchen, a teal sliding door and wide windows are picked from the window catalogue — the cyan highlight shows exactly where the glazing lands before anything is bought.

    Teal sliding door highlighted cyan in the Paralives window catalogue beside the fridge of a coastal kitchen
    The sliding door opens the kitchen onto the garden side.Watch at 2:32
  2. 6

    Fit white appliances

    A white stove and microwave slot between the sage green lower cabinets, with a hood and open shelving above — appliances stay white so the cabinets carry the colour.

    White stove and microwave slotted between sage green cabinets in a Paralives coastal kitchen
    White on white keeps a small kitchen calm.Watch at 3:48
  3. 7

    Add the island counter

    A green island closes the kitchen's working side, topped with a paper roll and small prep items; the catalogue on the left prices every addition before it lands.

    Green Paralives kitchen island with a paper roll on the counter seen from the breakfast side
    The island doubles as the kitchen's only prep counter.Watch at 4:16
  4. 8

    Tuck in a round dining nook

    By the curtained window, a round table with two chairs and wall plants forms a breakfast nook; the panel on the right shows the rotate and snap controls used to seat it all.

    Round dining table with two chairs and wall plants forming a Paralives breakfast nook by the curtains
    Two seats, one window, done.Watch at 5:18

Steps 9–12

Rooms for daily life

A small home still needs an entry, a bathroom, a bedroom and a work corner — each gets one wall's worth of personality and no more.

  1. 9

    Make a mudroom-style entry

    Inside the front door, a radiator, a bookshelf and coat hooks with hats turn a leftover corner into an entry nook, with a green armchair pulled in for shoes.

    Paralives entry nook with a radiator, bookshelf and coat hooks beside a green armchair
    Coats and books share the wall by the door.Watch at 4:46
  2. 10

    White bathroom on green tile

    The bathroom keeps the house's scheme: a white vanity with mirror, a toilet and a potted cactus on the green floor — the one room where the green goes underfoot.

    White vanity with mirror and toilet on a green bathroom floor in a Paralives coastal house
    Green floor, white fixtures, one cactus.Watch at 8:12
  3. 11

    Wallpaper the bedroom in leaves

    The bedroom's feature wall is a leafy wallpaper behind a bed dressed in green and yellow pillows — the boldest pattern in the house, kept to a single wall.

    Bed with green and yellow pillows against leafy wallpaper in a Paralives bedroom
    One feature wall carries the whole room.Watch at 8:47
  4. 12

    Corner a desk and mirror

    A desk with a computer and a dresser mirror fill the bedroom's far corner, giving the small home a work and getting-ready spot without spending another room.

    Bedroom desk with computer and dresser mirror in the corner of a Paralives coastal bedroom
    Work from home, welded to the wardrobe.Watch at 9:37

Steps 13–16

The sea-view garden

Outside, the build earns its coastal read: a pond with a big tree, fresh paint on the lawn, and a sitting corner aimed at the water.

  1. 13

    Plant a tree by the pond

    Out back, a large tree goes in beside the pond — the tree catalogue lines up the species on the left and the rotate ring swings the canopy before planting, with open water right behind the lot.

    Large tree planted beside a garden pond with the sea behind a Paralives coastal lot
    The pond does the water feature; the sea does the backdrop.Watch at 12:48
  2. 14

    Refresh the grass

    Terrain Paint Mode repaints the lawn around the porch steps in a healthier green, picked from the ground swatches on the left — the cheapest fix for a trampled building site.

    Paralives Terrain Paint Mode refreshing the grass beside porch steps lined with roses
    One coat of paint between the build site and a lawn.Watch at 13:36
  3. 15

    Furnish the garden corner

    Yellow Adirondack chairs and a parasol table land on the lawn — the sparkle effect confirms each placement — turning the sea side of the garden into a sitting-out corner.

    Yellow Adirondack chairs and a parasol table placed on the lawn of a Paralives coastal garden
    The sparkles mean it's placed.Watch at 13:58
  4. 16

    Walk the finished front

    The finished bungalow: striped awning, flower box under the front window, white porch railing, a stone path to the door and the ocean straight beyond the fence line.

    Finished Paralives coastal bungalow with striped awning, window flower box and the ocean behind the porch
    Sixteen steps from a sloping empty lot to this.Watch at 14:10

Coastal, beach or Scandi — which guide is which

This page is the location build: a starter bungalow on a lot that overlooks open water, rebuilt step by step so you can copy the shell, the palette and the yard. The beach-house guide is the style-first counterpart — beach-house looks and ideas regardless of where the lot sits — and the Scandinavian guide covers the pale-wood Nordic read, from a build whose own title mixed the two words.

In build terms, what makes this house coastal is mechanical, not mysterious: a platform deck that absorbs the slope, a covered porch turned to the view, white-and-sage cladding with one brick skirt, and a garden whose sitting corner faces the water. Copy those five decisions onto any lot near the shore and the read survives.

One honesty note: the Paradimes counter is visible in every frame, but the video opens on the finished house and cuts between sessions, so this page deliberately claims no total build price. Treat the steps as a technique list, not a bill of materials.

Coastal house FAQ

Can you build a coastal house on any lot?
Yes — nothing in the build is lot-locked. What reads as coastal is the palette, the raised deck for sloping ground and the garden's water-facing sitting corner; the source video simply picked a lot with the sea behind it. On a flat inland lot, skip the posts and keep the rest.
How much does the coastal house in the video cost?
The video doesn't say. The Paradimes counter is visible throughout, but the video opens on the finished house and cuts between build sessions, so no start-to-finish price can honestly be totalled. Treat the steps as techniques, not a shopping list.
Why are the item names in the video German?
The creator plays on the game's official German localization, so item tooltips — Bodenbelag for floor covering, Bidet for the bidet — appear in German. Build-mode banners such as Wall Placement Mode and Terrain Paint Mode render in English in the footage, and this page quotes English UI names throughout; the same objects carry official names in every language the game ships in.
Do I need the gardening skill for the yard?
No. Paralives Early Access has no gardening skill — the pond, the tree and the flowering bushes in this build are all placed in build mode as regular objects. For the full planting toolkit, see the site's dedicated garden guide.
Coastal house or beach house — which guide do I want?
They split by intent. This page rebuilds one starter bungalow on a sea-view lot, step by step. The beach-house guide collects beach-house style ideas, and the Scandinavian guide covers the pale-wood Nordic look. If you are decorating rather than building, start with the decorating guide.

Related Paralives guides

Beach house

The style-first take on waterside builds — beach-house ideas and looks, wherever your lot sits.

Scandinavian house

The pale-wood Nordic build whose 'Scandi Coastal' title deferred the coastal word form to this page.

Modern house

Flat roofs and glass instead of shingles — the modern read of a small waterside home.

Villa

The grand end of waterside building: terraces, pools and flat modern volumes.

Terrain tools

Dig, raise and paint ground — the full terrain toolkit behind this build's slope trick and lawn repaint.

House ideas

The idea catalogue — browsable builds including more waterside homes.