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No provision seems to have been made to the original houses in Granite Falls so a bit of updating with thermostats, fireplaces and provision for cooking hot meals in the Winter would be useful. I visited the smallest of them without thinking from Oasis Springs and my poor Sim could only prepare fruit salads. 
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I'm not sure. I put a thermostat in my rental vacation home there on the 2nd day of Winter but usage of it is greyed out. The red light shows brighter than the green though and my sim doesn't seem cold but there is no snow at present. At the moment she has changed to winter clothes and gone out to look around. It needs more research!
Update: Checked again and it said "power cut off. Pay your bills"
Try putting a mailbox on the lot? I built a house with a mailbox and the electronics worked (pre-Seasons). Bills were delivered and could be paid from the mailbox, though I was never sure if they were paying the bill for their house in Oasis Springs or the rental house.
There are grills there for cooking.
Apparently that's been a thing in commercial lots too. I wonder if it's an oversight.
It's freezing outside!
They do not. Sent my sim family to GF for Winterfest, They had to wear their cold weather outfits inside the whole vacation. GF was very pretty in winter, though.
I've given my sims indoor cold weather outfits. Just pants and cozy sweaters.
Looks like choosing more outdoor outfits that suit both inside and outside is the way to go. You can always check if they don't work and start freezing to death outdoors, click and change them. Easy!
"Thermostats now have their interactions available when placed on Commercial and Vacation lots".
> I did some heavy editing to Granite Falls in one of my games. I went in and added a campground pool and hot tub to the nature center lot. You can also go in and add stereos and other items to make them more comfortable. I would think that the Seasons expansions would have put thermostats in the rental houses in Granite Falls and Seldovarada. I think that the build/buy mode should be be enabled in these places because Sims always want to buy things and they can buy very limited things in those locations. I tried to go into edit world mode while my Sims were on vacation there and I couldn't do a thing with it. In the Sims 2 the camping experience offered more to do--I think Granite Falls needs to have an a clubhouse and pool area added on an additional lot like real campgrounds have with game rooms and other activities. Granite Falls is pretty but can pretty dull quickly.
Did you know the cheat bb.enablefreebuild will unlock all lots so you can build even while you're playing. It works for the hidden lots too like the Hermit's cabin, Sylvan Glade, Sixam, etc
http://www.getfreeebooks.com/star-trek-original-series-fan-fiction-trilogy/
I would say yes but I honestly don't know. It's become a habit for me to turn it on.
> I tried that cheat, but then I couldn't figure out how to turn it off again. Suggestions on another thread didn't work. Will it eventually turn itself off? Will it cause glitches if it stays on? I backed out of my game without saving and it was disabled again, but then I couldn't get the stuff I wanted for their cabin either.
there is no need to turn off, when you leave the lot and came back, the cheat is off...only cheats with ending on/off or true/false must turn off ( sorry my english)
and that answered absolutely nothing i asked lol