Decorating Hacks!
emorrill
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Hello my fellow simming friends. 
In my 18 years of playing the Sims I have seen a lot of super creative decorating (and building) "hacks" in the game, on the forums, or on YouTube by such creative players and I thought to myself, "Why not have a thread where people can share all the sweet decorating hacks they've discovered - all in one place - and pass them on so that others can enjoy the same hacks in their game."
(I mean, if you feel like sharing. 
)
So let's get it started everyone!
*Show me some decorating hacks you saw, or invented on your own, that you now use often when decorating or building your sim's houses.*
I'll start us off.
MoveObjectsOn (MOO) is such a powerful hack tool that can really turn two, or more, items into one stunning piece of furniture, art, etc. (I know most of y'all know this already, I'm just sayin'. ) It gives so much more flexibility in creating something decorative you saw in real life in your sim's homes.
I'm always looking for ways to add a little decorative touch, or clutter, above the toilet tank.
(Maybe it's because my mom always had a doily with some kind of decorative greenery on the top of the tank growing up. 🙃 ) Why EA did not provide slots for decorative items to rest on top of the toilet, I'll never know. (And yes I know about OMSP, but I wanted to showcase a non-cc way of doing it. 
)
So here's a recent look that I attempted...
Cute right? Now, it's important to make sure that sims can still use the toilet when you are attempting any decorating hacks above or beside the toilet using MOO. 
So I went ahead and tested that out:
Success!
^Granted her arms and shoulders are going into the bar, but it's all good! At least it looks stylish! 👍🏻
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The second decorating hack was one that was shared with me when I was building and decorating a home for the Disney Magic Kingdom world collaboration. I was on a simoleon budget and boy was that a challenge!!!
It was getting down to the wire and I wanted some rugs for the rooms, but alas, rugs are an expensive luxury (in that case ) and I did not have the funds for them when other items were needed in the home. So, after given this tip, I recolored the FREE floor tiles I used to give off a rug look in all the areas I wanted rugs. 
👍🏻 Genius right? I really wish I could take the credit for it. Lol! But nah, it's cool.
This is also a great hack when you're NOT on a budget and just want a nice square, or diamond shaped, rug in the pattern of your liking that you can't quite get from the rugs provided in game. 👍🏻
Sorry the lighting isn't great in this picture, but in the foyer area of this home I changed a couple of the tiles on the floor with a cc fabric pattern I have and created one cute and stylish doormat rug.
Let me do a zoom out here so you can see the whole room:
But yeah that was like a 4 simoleon cost for that "rug" as opposed to 25-50 simoleons for buying a normal rug in that size. And of course you can make rugs MUCH bigger in a room using this method compared to the average size of large rugs. 👍🏻 WIN!
Well that's it from me with decorating hacks. Who's next? (I know y'all have better ones than these. )
Bring your very best! I wanna see them all!
In my 18 years of playing the Sims I have seen a lot of super creative decorating (and building) "hacks" in the game, on the forums, or on YouTube by such creative players and I thought to myself, "Why not have a thread where people can share all the sweet decorating hacks they've discovered - all in one place - and pass them on so that others can enjoy the same hacks in their game."
(I mean, if you feel like sharing. )So let's get it started everyone!
*Show me some decorating hacks you saw, or invented on your own, that you now use often when decorating or building your sim's houses.*
I'll start us off.
MoveObjectsOn (MOO) is such a powerful hack tool that can really turn two, or more, items into one stunning piece of furniture, art, etc. (I know most of y'all know this already, I'm just sayin'.
) It gives so much more flexibility in creating something decorative you saw in real life in your sim's homes. I'm always looking for ways to add a little decorative touch, or clutter, above the toilet tank.
(Maybe it's because my mom always had a doily with some kind of decorative greenery on the top of the tank growing up. 🙃 ) Why EA did not provide slots for decorative items to rest on top of the toilet, I'll never know. (And yes I know about OMSP, but I wanted to showcase a non-cc way of doing it. )So here's a recent look that I attempted...
Cute right?
Now, it's important to make sure that sims can still use the toilet when you are attempting any decorating hacks above or beside the toilet using MOO. So I went ahead and tested that out:Success!
^Granted her arms and shoulders are going into the bar, but it's all good! At least it looks stylish!
👍🏻----
The second decorating hack was one that was shared with me when I was building and decorating a home for the Disney Magic Kingdom world collaboration.
I was on a simoleon budget and boy was that a challenge!!!It was getting down to the wire and I wanted some rugs for the rooms, but alas, rugs are an expensive luxury (in that case
) and I did not have the funds for them when other items were needed in the home. So, after given this tip, I recolored the FREE floor tiles I used to give off a rug look in all the areas I wanted rugs. 👍🏻 Genius right? I really wish I could take the credit for it. Lol! But nah, it's cool.This is also a great hack when you're NOT on a budget and just want a nice square, or diamond shaped, rug in the pattern of your liking that you can't quite get from the rugs provided in game. 👍🏻
Sorry the lighting isn't great in this picture, but in the foyer area of this home I changed a couple of the tiles on the floor with a cc fabric pattern I have and created one cute and stylish doormat rug.
Let me do a zoom out here so you can see the whole room:
But yeah that was like a 4 simoleon cost for that "rug" as opposed to 25-50 simoleons for buying a normal rug in that size.
And of course you can make rugs MUCH bigger in a room using this method compared to the average size of large rugs. 👍🏻 WIN!Well that's it from me with decorating hacks. Who's next?
(I know y'all have better ones than these. )Bring your very best! I wanna see them all!
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In this living room, I used this combination: https://www.canva.com/colors/color-palettes/sunset-sightings/
The main couch is Fuchsia #A30052, the armchairs are black #26161F, the wood and the base of the lamp are Champagne #F9E9D0 and the lamp shade is Tiger Lily #DB8780.
I have more examples using clothes, though.
I also found this site: https://kaycan.com/news/what-siding-colors-are-trending-for-2022/
They have examples of the colors combinations for different colors of sidings.
My recolor of the Greenwood's Eco Home is an example. I checked the favorite combinations for a siding color and copied the hex colors of the accents and trim, but I took a screenshot and used GIMP to find out the hex color. For their house I chose Ivory for the siding and the option with beige for the trim and cabot brown for the accents.