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Why deliberately avoid matching cabinets and kitchen furniture?
Beardedgeek
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Seriousoly, this irritates the heck out of me every time i try to build:
FIrst of all there are a number of base game items that just were never inteded to match, where the devs must have deliberately avoided matching sets. Especially telling because a number of the high end items like dining tables that never came with matching chairs, and high end stoves that don't match anything else.
Then you have the weird phenomenon that almost none of the counters match any walls. And that includes expansions, too. Very very few counters actually go with walls at all. Or window frames.
And then of course you have a few that don't even match themselves. The industrial ones, whatever they are called have a set of cabinets that goes with them that does not match at all, neither color swatch OR shape OR style matches, at all. Why?
And then over all there are too many yet too few swatches for wood. Why why are there like 7 different variations of Birch that doesn't match eachother? Like the "birch swatch for this couch does only match the other birch swatches from the same pack but nothing else in the game, even if they too are suppsedly birchwood"?
How hard is it to actually remember what swatches you used last time?
Sorry that I come off grumpy but it seems like the devs go out of the way to AVOID matching things.
Edit:
Forgot showers. Can someone explain the deliberate choice of making matching sink - toilet - bathtub sets and NOT match the showers??????????????????????
FIrst of all there are a number of base game items that just were never inteded to match, where the devs must have deliberately avoided matching sets. Especially telling because a number of the high end items like dining tables that never came with matching chairs, and high end stoves that don't match anything else.
Then you have the weird phenomenon that almost none of the counters match any walls. And that includes expansions, too. Very very few counters actually go with walls at all. Or window frames.
And then of course you have a few that don't even match themselves. The industrial ones, whatever they are called have a set of cabinets that goes with them that does not match at all, neither color swatch OR shape OR style matches, at all. Why?
And then over all there are too many yet too few swatches for wood. Why why are there like 7 different variations of Birch that doesn't match eachother? Like the "birch swatch for this couch does only match the other birch swatches from the same pack but nothing else in the game, even if they too are suppsedly birchwood"?
How hard is it to actually remember what swatches you used last time?
Sorry that I come off grumpy but it seems like the devs go out of the way to AVOID matching things.
Edit:
Forgot showers. Can someone explain the deliberate choice of making matching sink - toilet - bathtub sets and NOT match the showers??????????????????????
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I just want to cry every time nothing works and wish I had my colour wheel back just so I can make it match nicely!
-Island living : shelf and the Island counter was added afterwards.
- Realm of Magic : no cabinets
- Snowy Escape : apparently there’s a shelf but I haven’t seen cabinets.....
So I hope kitchen cabinets will be back sometime.
And don’t get me started on how many items’ white swatch is actually grey, not white, when there is one.....
The Sims 4 hasn't introduced a new musical instrument since 2017
This problem can be easily fixed by giving us a color wheel, simple like that but yet we don't have it.
I even created a video that shows how the sofa & armchair, bar & kitchen counter, sofa & coffee table, all doesn't match with each other. If they don't want to give us color swatches, at least make 'em good, but the color wheel is always better.
We finally got "most objects" in black and white swatches, BUT we also need:
The same 5 base wood swatches for ALL furniture: Birch, Ash, Oak, Fir, Mahogny.*
Matching stainless steel on all kitchen appliances. This drives me insane. Why do they deliberately make stainless steel swatches mismatch?? You actually have to put effort in to MAKE them missmatch.
*Edit: Or at least two out of five so you can combine stuff. I am perfectly fine with not all wooden furniture having all swatches, but "light wood" should match all other "light wood" and so on.
Tell me about it those stainless steel counters drive me nuts.
I just "love" the ones where you ALMOST find ONE swatch that matches, but on that one, and that one only, the tap is black or copper for some reason.
or some kind of *gasp* color wheel?
It's like trying to find a needle in a hay stack.
Then there's lighting, another enemy of mine when it comes to building. Even doors and windows that are meant to be used together often attract/reflect (?) light differently, making them appear in different shades of the same colour when placed next to each other, even though it's the same swatch. It's a nightmare, and yes, I am grumpy because of that, it's even in my name.
Something wicked this way comes!
I don't use MCCC.
I thought I was the only one irritated by all the mismatched colours, styles, shapes, etc. Good to know others are as well.
What irritates me most is that they give us the most ugly colour combos and patterns too. It’s like their artists are colour blind, or are trying to force us to support cc creators because the cc creators give them free advertising.
I’ve been waiting for more counter sets along with matching island counters and cabinets. But, we keep getting more non-matching chairs, tables and toilets instead. Don’t know why we need so many of them especially when they won’t match anything else anyway.
And why restrict us with a bunch of mismatched cushions on sofas and beds. When people asked for cushions, they meant a separate item that we can place on sofas and beds, not an item already attached so we’re stuck with what their artists think looks good.
Oh, and the clothes. Why are the bottom layers always longer than the top layers so shirts hang below sweaters and jackets? And why are men’s pants so short? There are no floods, We don’t just want to create slobs.
The difference, of course, is the color wheel. In Sims 3 the stainless steel items were just as horribly matched but then you could force them to match. We don't have that "luxury" here thanks to it being intended as an online game.
I sort of disagree here; there WERE matching cabinets in Island Living but they were sorted under "Surfaces - Shelves" since you could put clutter on them. As James have pointed out the team has a bad habit of hiding items under ONLY one category (like the "misc" tables for the small dining table in Tiny Living for example, or these cabinets that should be listed so they would be easy to find).
Now i can't use the Blank Canvases in Debug because there's now a picture on them which you can see from the side... so i can't cover the sides and backs of the counters or maybe it's a glitch i dunno but what they DO match is mainly natural colors but you get bored of it fast, i'd like to be able to use colors like Peach not just the kind of Ivory or pinky white colors, the only Siding i've found that matches the best is Cabin In The Woods and i'd like more Siding that goes up the way and 1 where it has these thin white strips of wood going up the way quite close to each other, like there's the colored wood and then instead of the usual Corrugated look you have the white pieces of wood that make the look instead... it would add something interesting and different to it.
I don't get why Simple Siding has a Peach but the other Siding doesn't except the two with the brick but i don't just want Peach i want to be able to recolor the sides and the tops of Counters, Cabinets and Recolor other items too things would match A LOT better then if we could, it's cute and all but depending on what we're building the wider Siding may suit it better or Siding that goes upwards too so those need all the recolors too, i just had to use Cabin In The Woods for a house i just built but sadly the only color i can find that suits it is the Ivory White, if i could recolor it i'd be able to use a color that also suits the house.
I noticed that too about how some items are Categorized, some items in Misc especially in Decorations definitely need to be put in the right place like Why are there Paintings in Misc? Why are a few Kitchen Decorations in there when they could be in Paintings and Clutter? i think the Corkboard can go into Wall Decorations, Antique Teapot & Coffee Pots, the Utensil Holders, Fruit Bowls, Antique Scale should go into Clutter with the other items like that, Why is the Happy Teeth Toothbrush Set both in Clutter and Misc?, the Condiment Basket could go into Clutter too cos that's what it essentially is same with the Honeycomb Bottle Holder and Spice Rack, i think mostly everything is categorized fine though just some items would be better in 1 place.
Those are shelves though which are different from cabinets. I want matching cabinets.
The "Cool Kitchen stuff " cabinet comes in a beautiful (actual) white swatch but the counter does not. So it's unusable, which is sad because I'd use it often, even more if the counters didn't have that grey "frame".
The Jungle adventures cabinets match the countertops instead of the counters themselves....
The Parenthood cabinets don't match the counters tones.
Same for Spa Day counters, they don't match.