Hello everyone and Happy Holidays!! I know a lot of us like decorating our Sims homes for the Holidays and with me I go nuts for Christmas stuff. The store doesn't offer much in this department, but that's OK I found ways to roll with it. I hate using cc, but I've found that other decorations can be re-purposed! Here's a few ideas for decorating your Sims homes without the hassle of third party cc!
1. The store does have some Holiday Stuff (I know you know)
2. If you have other sets, they can be re-colored to fit certain themes, I don't know what everyone has, but stop and consider the possibilities; in example I have the Romanza ceremony set, the chocolate fountain and tray of cupcakes are re-colorable so I used a gold, green and red theme to make mock holiday goodies!
3. When it comes to making Christmas magic with the Tree, don't sweat that the gifts aren't re-colorable, there are other things to put under there. The Kids toys, if you have ambitions or WA that adds to the list, there are some gift boxes in buydebug if you have ambitions and they can't be recolored, you'll also find lots of toys, gadgets and things that can be put under the tree in buydebug, and a simple moveobjects on cheat will let you sneak a bike under the tree.
If anyone else has any ideas, or knows an item that can be re-purposed feel free to share and post your decorations!
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The wedding bells in the storybook set can be recolored gold to make them look like Christmas bells.
just wanted to say thanks to jurik1124 for the snowflake pattern showing, and I hadn't realized that you could recolor
the chocolate fountain; thanks for the tip!!
The same table for Valentines Day
Wow I didn't think about using the cupcake thing from the romanza set for Christmas but that really helps out.
You could always put your sims in front of the tree,have them kiss and just say there is some mistletoe above them.
Also with the slowdance I've figured out a way to fake it. I just have my sims amoursouly hug and say their slow dancing and I make sure I take a picture of the radio and musical notes.
It's ashame we have to fake the slowdance and mistletoe but it's better then nothing.
Also there are certain porch lights you can hang on the outside of a house and change the bulb color to. I usually go with red and green. I usually put two lights up on the outside of the house. In real life I use green and red porch light bulbs and green and red floodlights to decorate my house with at Christmas. It makes outdoor decorations and lighting look better.
Also with moveobjects on you can place the Christmas wreath from the sims 3 store around your mailbox.
I don't have any traditional Christmas decor screenshots, but one tip I can share is that you can use the wall covering that has the ribbon swags across the top as decor, if you were to make the ribbons red or green. I did that when I took my photos of the Grinch for cherryberrybloo's Dr. Pepper Christmas thread. I also re-coloured some of the inventions from buydebug to make them look like the whoville presents from the animated Grinch Special:
I colored my training dummy candy cane too, hehe 8)
Where did you get the candy can pattern around your doors?
base game, red and white diagonal stripe under geometric I think
here is the front door..
Thanks that's a great idea. I may try this.
these are fun now!!!
I'm so glad to everyone is enjoying these suggestions and I have to say, thanks to everyone for sharing their ideas, please by all means keep them coming!
Oh and I LOVE the chocolate fountain, it is fun to re-color!
I love your mailbox, very festive! I'm trying to find a light that will look good, like icicle lights, I think there may be one from Late Night that could work, but it may take a cheat code or two to get it on a wall.
Snowflake pattern
http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=3470583
Also I found out from another simmer if you click on it and have the sims listen they look all happy. If you place them in front of the tree with moveobjects on they look like their smiling and looking at the tree noticing how beautiful it looks. For married sims tell both to listen at the same time then with moveobjects on put them in front of the tree.
Then just have the one that opened the musicbox give the giver a friendly hug
Have to go try that now