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moving sim to significant other
aaronrulz
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When you move a sim's significant other into their house (or vice versa), do you re-decorate to fit both sims personal taste? Or at least the bedroom they share? Curious what others do
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Same, no other changes than what I would usually do, anyway. If its a Maxis build, I will change everything that's cheap and "uncomfortable", and add stuff to make the build less bland. Usually that means plants and paintings. And maybe rugs.
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It's different if their mismatching styles is part of the story - say a neat freak moves in with a trash place. Or the story focuses on each sim's style and the blending of two styles is a fun challenge. But if they are very different, they would probably not become a couple in the first place...
I currently have a single mum who is likely to get together with the single dad living next door - when I come to move her and her daughter in I would probably just make sure to add an easel for her and a drawing table for the little girl because they both like painting, is that the kind of thing you mean?
well I have a very girly girl sim who likes pastels and light colors who's boyfriend is very bro and masculine. I would assume he isn't as fond of pastels as she is. I mean, I have to add this kind of thought to my game otherwise it would get somewhat boring.
Short answer, I don't make any big changes.
I may make small changes, depending. If the SO has a career that needs particular items in the house that are absent, for instance, I'll add those.
But what thinking about this, in these terms, made me realize is that most of the style that goes into my decor, in any given home, is whatever makes sense to me, in terms of the architecture of the building itself. I don't plunk modern furnishings into an Edwardian house, and I don't put stodgy, ivory-tower, academic bookcases in a contemporary apartment.
My Sims show their own style mostly through wardrobe, less so through furnishings. My interiors are intended to make design sense of the building as a whole, be functional in terms of meeting needs efficiently, and beyond that simply aim to be nice enough to put my Sims in a good mood. When I bring an SO into the household, it's simply a matter of assuring there are enough chairs at the dining table, enough beds, enough seats near the TV.
That sort of thing. I may spruce up decor or rearrange furniture now and then, but that's just improving or keeping things fresh.
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