Origin is having a sale and (almost) all The Sims 4 packs are currently discounted, including the base game! If you’ve been on the fence about getting a new pack or if you’ve wanted to try The Sims 4 for a while, now is definitely your chance.
The Kits are not included in this sale.
The sale ends on June 18th at 10am PDT.
CokiCreative is a creator and long-time The Sims player who I stumbled across on Instagram one evening recently. Better know as Alana, you can find her creations showcased on Twitter, YouTube and her own website. So there are plenty of places to keep up to date with her content.
I was scrolling through a few different hashtags relating to The Sims when I discovered Alana‘s creations. There was something about her builds that just caught my attention. I loved the sheer amount of detail in each build and how there wasn’t one corner that was left unfurnished and everything just works together perfectly. Alana has a variety of different builds spanning many different themes including traditional, modern and fantasy themes and that’s before I even get to talking about the Sims she has created!
With a variety of speed builds, and cinematic shorts shared on both YouTube and Instagram, there’s plenty to check out! You’ll also find build challenges and even a cute game based off of the popular Where’s Waldo called Where’s Wendy that can be found on Alana’s website.
Here is a cute loft I made in celebration of #PrideMonth! I only used the new #DreamHomeDecorator pack and base game. No cc and both the sims and home are available in the gallery under CokiCreative 🌈❤️ | #TheSims4 #Sims4 @TheSims pic.twitter.com/B3sHWOW4HH
— CokiCreative (@CokiCreative) June 4, 2021
You can find and follow CokiCreative using the links below!
Simmers! It’s time to cast your vote and see which of your favourite iconic Sims locations, people, and even mascots will be the ultimate winner. It’s time to play This or That? The Sims 4 Edition!
What are you waiting for? Let’s get voting!
Please note to select the tag names and not images when voting!
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If there’s one thing I’ve learned from becoming an Interior Decorator in this game, it’s that you’re not just an Interior Decorator. Sometimes, you’re also a marriage councilor, personal therapist, part-time nanny, and even the saviour of a completely dysfunctional family on the brink of being torn apart.
Yes, that is what my first day on the job as an Interior Decorator was like.
My first gig was for the Lobo household, who wanted a new walk-in closet. They had a whopping §7,400 budget for just a closet but hey, that’s good news for me! I head out to my gig expecting to arrive at Diego Lobo’s swanky Uptown apartment in San Myshuno. Instead, I end up in the dingy Spice District in a cramped, one bedroom apartment. Apparently, Diego married Katrina Caliente and instead of her moving in with him, they downsized. A lot. Okay then…
The moment I arrive, I am bombarded by a small army of cats. I guess Diego and Katrina are cat people. Me too! They also have a baby girl in a bassinet next to their bed whom I didn’t even notice was there until I received a notification informing me that she was starving and about to be taken by social services.
At this point, I start questioning Diego and Katrina as parents. Not only did they have an extra §7,400 to spend and decided a walk-in closet was more important to have than a nursery for their newborn baby, but apparently they don’t feed their baby, either. They… do remember they have a baby, don’t they? I mean, it’s an honest question! Maybe they mistook her for one of their seven hundred cats. Mistakes happen, is all I’m saying!
So even though they hired me to be a decorator and not a nanny, I go over there and feed their baby for them, then get to work. I find out Diego and Katrina are into cosmolux decor and the colour orange. Okay. Kinda weird, but doable. I can work with that. I do my thing, shoo the clients away and now I have to make some big decisions about how to redecorate the space.
Even though they wanted a walk-in closet, I wasn’t permitted to add any walls and the small apartment only had one bedroom; however, it was a pretty large room that could easily have a portion of it sectioned off. Since $7k is an insanely large budget for a closet and since they obviously were struggling to find a place to put their daughter, I figured I’d redo the whole bedroom area for them. I used a divider to separate the walk-in closet from the rest of the room and made a quaint little nook for the baby in the small octagonal section of the room. Maybe if their daughter had a more prominent place in the house, they’d remember to feed her.
So I work my magic and give Diego and Katrina the orange cosmolux bedroom/walk-in closet of their dreams. When they return, they are both so happy with my renovation that they burst into joyful tears and hug me. The baby even seems pretty happy. It felt like one of those moments on those feel-good design shows where the clients reveal how much their family has been struggling and tearfully exclaim that this renovation has changed their lives for the better.
All in a day’s work, friends. Not only did I give the client what they asked for (and more), I paid attention to the family’s needs and areas of life where they might need some extra help and sought to solve those problems for them with my design. Now Diego and Katrina have the closet they wanted, a more appropriate place for their daughter to sleep, and a place for themselves to enjoy in their favourite style.
Will my design inspire Diego and Katrina to become better parents? Who knows but for today, at least, I saved a family from being broken up and gave them a new environment to help them foster a fresh start, which to be honest, is way above my pay grade as an Interior Decorator.
The Sims 4 Dream Home Decorator Game Pack has been out for a couple of days now. You’ve probably either got a chance to play with the Game Pack or check out all the coverage on it and what it has to offer.
If you’ve got a chance to do one of those things then this community poll is for you!
Down below we’ve listed questions regarding your thoughts on the Game Pack and its certain aspects and features. There are questions regarding your satisfaction with CAS, Build, Gameplay as well as your overall opinion on the pack.
Feel free to continue the discussion about the pack in the comments after voting on the poll!
Please note that this is a community poll and has no relations with EA’s surveys.
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Some people say that your best ideas come to you when you least expect them to, or in my case it’s 3am, and I’ve been scrolling through TikTok when I should really be asleep. I had seen a lot of videos that were asking you to describe a topic without directly saying the topic but referencing something that people who know about that topic would and from there, the idea for this post was born!
A couple of days ago I hopped onto Twitter and asked the question, and I’ve honestly been blown away by how many people have responded with so many different answers! There is no right or wrong answer, just a bit of fun.
Of course, if you want to read through all the responses, you can check out the full Tweet here!
Tell me you play The Sims without telling me you play The Sims! This is totally for science, I mean an upcoming @TheSimCommunity post
— Krista (@LeeksPlays) June 2, 2021
It wasn’t long before the replies started coming in, and I’ll be honest, I’ve found it hard to keep up! Out of the hundreds of responses ranging from setting the kitchen on fire while making a salad to no I don’t want free ear buds and everything in between, here are some of my many favourites.
I built two $1m mansions last week, and yesterday I bulldozed a school to make space for a casino. I might build a roller coaster next, or add a gondola to the park.
— Crosimmer (@Crosimmer) June 2, 2021
When you want to have your sim age up the baby but the parent keeps putting them on the ground and because of the 3 foot snow you have to keep surveying where the baby was buried
— JezaBarkingMad (@JezaBarkingMad) June 2, 2021
Day 1: *meets somebody*
*flirt flirt flirt*
*first kiss*
*propose marriage*
*gets married*
*try for baby*Day 3: *baby is born*
— Lana ️ (@AverageSim) June 2, 2021
So you can bake a cake at my house, but if I do it at your it’s suddenly “inappropriate”.
— Abigail Vichez (@TheArtsymess) June 2, 2021
Got pregnant from an alien, have a maid in a cabinet.
— Teresa (Im Asexual; look it up if youre not sure) (@treetopteresa) June 2, 2021
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— sammy ˚.✦ (@spellcastersim) June 2, 2021
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With the release of The Sims 4 Dream Home Decorator, I can’t be the only one who immediately started thinking of which townies need the most help with their homes. After all, EA’s builds aren’t so much famous as infamous for their total lack of style. That means there is no shortage of terrible-looking Sims with terrible-looking homes in need of a professional decorator’s touch.
Here’s my top 10 list of townies whose homes need the most help.
Oh Vlad. Vlad, Vlad, Vlad… Your house had so much potential. That Gothic Victorian exterior architecture is to die for. What happened on the inside? A confusing, awkward floor plan with triangular corners and little hallways that lead nowhere make this house look more like a theme park’s haunted fun house than an actual vampire’s lair. Not to mention there’s no access to one of the turrets that definitely looks like it should have access to it, considering it has an archway to the covered balcony and storage boxes in it. Why, Vlad? Still, at least this house is fully furnished and decorated, which is more than what some others can say.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t consider a winding hallway with a bunch of rooms tacked on willy-nilly a house. This place looks like someone slapped down a bunch of styled rooms and just connected them all with a long, zig-zagging hallway that honestly feels intimidating. I’d be worried about a murderer jumping out at me from one of those long corridor doors. The detached shed in the backyard had potential to be a really cool hangout space but it really just looks sad and uninviting.
Windenburg has some pretty cool houses. This house is not one of them. While I appreciate the little nods to MySims with the DJ Candy figurine in Candy’s room and the Yuki figurine in Yuki’s room, this house is a drab mess. From the bare kitchen with hideous blue tile and a random bunny statue on the counter to the hobbled together living room with a huge DJ booth shoved in the corner, nothing about this house makes any sense. And the placement of the front door makes my eye twitch.
This house is a prime example of a home with a beautiful exterior and no effort whatsoever put into the interior. For such a massive seaside home, there’s only the barest minimum of furnishings inside, making the rooms feel empty. Even the gorgeous wraparound porch and back pool patio are just not being used for anything at all. There’s fencing inside to try and section off different areas of the open floor plan but it just looks amateurish and awkward. Not to mention all the white! Everything is just blindingly white with no contrast anywhere which makes for a very bland, sterile look in what’s supposed to be a cozy and warm family home.
I don’t even know what to say. Where do I start? Do this hapless group of roommates know what furniture is? Do they own any? There’s maybe 2 or 3 objects in any one room, making this entire home not so much a house as some walls and a roof with a few objects scattered around. If I didn’t know better, I’d think this house had been abandoned and then broken into multiple times by petty thieves looking for stuff to pawn.
We’ll cut Johnny a bit of slack. After all, he’s been struggling since his family kicked him out and his trailer is actually kind of cute from the outside in a ramshackle sort of way. I appreciate the cute little patio area and attempt at a garden but poor Johnny really needs some help with the inside, which is dark and dingy and doesn’t make good use of the limited space. Not to mention he has multiple decor styles clashing with each other. Why is there an ornate candelabra next to what looks like a thrift store couch and cheap IKEA tables? Please Johnny. Let us help you.
This house is just as confusing on the inside as it is on the outside. I understand the modern look they were trying to go for here but the whole structure just looks unbalanced. I’d be worried about the whole thing collapsing if this was real life. Then the inside is just a bizarre mish mosh of basic-looking furnishings and high-end furnishings that makes you scratch your head. For a famous, wealthy family like the Bailey-Moons, you’d think they’d be able to afford a good interior designer who understands how to make a room flow.
If you ever wondered what the worst bachelor pad on earth looks like, you’ve found it. Welcome to Salim Benali’s shoe box– I mean, apartment. The lot trait “Needs TLC” is one heck of an understatement. From the peeling walls to the stained carpet and dingy linoleum with beat-up appliances and a flea market couch that looks like it has a happy family of roaches living in it… yeah, this place needs to be completely gutted. Take it from one writer to another, Salim: the environment you write in makes a huge difference in your productivity. Maybe invest in some home upgrades for the sake of your career. Or sanity.
I’m sensing a pattern in StrangerVille and that pattern is that the residents don’t like furniture. Ted Roswell is supposed to be the wealthiest man in StrangerVille and the mayor of the town so why does his home look like whatever was left over after an estate sale? Another example of a huge home with a beautiful exterior but vast, empty rooms with only the bare minimum furnishings necessary to function. Someone please give this mayor and his wife a home upgrade fitting of a wealthy mayor.
The Charms could not have placed anywhere other than first on this list. This atrocity is by far the most appalling abomination ever to be inhabited by a premade Sim. Unlike the other sparsely furnished homes on this list, the outside of this home is just as big of a mess as the inside. I don’t even know what architectural style this is supposed to be. It looks like something I would have built and been very proud of when I was ten years old playing the original Sims. The inside is pretty much just as bad as the Roswell home, with large rooms that have only one or two basic objects plopped in them at random. Like the Roswells, the Charms are supposed to be a very influential family of high standing in Glimmerbrook but their house doesn’t reflect that at all.
You know what to do, Interior Decorators! Seek out these poor unfortunate souls and improve their lives by improving their drab, sad homes! Are you outraged that I missed a particular family? Not happy with my rankings? Drag me in the comments! 😉
Sul-Sul!
The Sims Team has uploaded the official household used in the official promo material for The Sims 4 Dream Home Decorator Game Pack.
More specifically they’ve uploaded the Decorate With Patina Household, which comes with Patina Wainscot, mostly known for her appearance on the official Dream Home Decorator Boxart and Videos!
You can find this official household on The Gallery right now! Simply search up Maxis under the EA Account ID filter and grab the latest Household!
The Sims 4 Dream Home Decorator Game Pack isn’t one of those Game Packs that bring a whole lot of gameplay considering it focuses more on Build Mode aspects. However, there are still some cheats that will help you advance in your Career quickly and unlock some of the locked CAS outfits that come with this pack!
Please make sure you enter the testingcheats true cheat in the cheat console before entering any of the following cheats. You can open up the cheat console by pressing CTRL + Shift + C on your Keyboard on PC or by pressing R1+R2+L1+L2 on your Console controller.
You can quickly promote your Sims in the Interior Decorator Career by using the following cheat:
You can use this cheat as much as you want until reaching the final level of the Career. Afterwards using this Cheat
If you want to quickly demote your Sim to a previous Career Level of the Interior Decorator Career you can use the following cheat:
If you want a quick jump and unlock all of the locked career outfits that come with The Sims 4 Dream Home Decorator you can use the following cheat:
If you’ve already loaded up a category that includes locked outfits while entering this cheat make sure you exit that category and then open it again so the ouftits can get properly unlocked.
It hasn’t even been a few days since the latest update for The Sims 4 Base Game which added Likes & Dislikes Preferences in Create A Sim (and Live Mode!) and the modding community has already begun with serious work!
Two active modders have begun important work on expanding the possibilities of CAS Preferences in The Sims 4. The first Custom CAS Preferences that are already in works are created by ky-e, who’s also known for their work on the Lifetime Aspirations Overhaul.
ky-e was able to add in an entirely new category of CAS Preferences – Sim Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs. At the moment the creator was able to only play around with the User Interface and add in a new category in the CAS Preferences while also adding in specific Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs icons in Create A Sim.
You can check out some of the previews down below. The creator indicated that they will be soon starting their work on modding in the gameplay aspect.
Gameplay effects will be a later thing, for now I’m having fun just adding in the icons!
Thanks so much for all of the interest everyone!!! Here’s a few more I’ve added since posting.
Will probably do a non-functional pre-release on my Patreon once I add all the turn-ons/offs. Then start working on the gameplay integration!
I’d love to integrate this into a chemistry system one day, but for now I’m planning to give tense/flirty moodlets, and hopefully effect autonomous romance interactions as well!
They’ve also shared some valuable insight on how easily moddable they are:
Here's something fun: since they're just fancy traits, each life stage can have their own unique Likes/Dislikes!
Right now I'm using this to make Turn-Ons/Offs only visible to Teens and up, but maybe Voidcritters would be a good child-exclusive one? Not sure what else yet…
— ky-e (@ky_e_sims) May 31, 2021
Another modder marlynsims96 was able to add a whole category of Meal Preferences! Currently this mod is still in development but the creator has already added in so many recipes from the game, as you can see down below:
Ooooo i’m about to have so much fun with this! I’ve already added a new meals category to Sims preferences. #sims4 #TS4 pic.twitter.com/UHLXh9pdiD
— marlynsims (@marlynsims96) May 28, 2021
The creator almost has their first CAS Preferences mod ready for release and that’s Dessert preferences. You can check out the preview of what they will look like in Create A Sim below:
Last but not least marlynsims96 has shared some of their plans for upcoming CAS Preferences that they want to Mod into The Sims 4:
Yes I’m making mods to add meals, drinks, snacks, deserts, TV channels, movies, seasons, holidays yada yada yada 🙂
— marlynsims (@marlynsims96) May 28, 2021
If you ask me this is a great beginning of another modding opportunity area for The Sims 4 and I can’t wait to see what all comes out of this!
Make sure you stay tuned on Sims Community to be the first to know when Custom CAS Preferences come out!
The Sims Team has just released their next Game Pack for The Sims 4 – Dream Home Decorator!
The Pack is currently available on official stores for all platforms including PC, Mac, Xbox One, PS4, Xbox Series X and PS5.
Down below you can check out the official stores where you can get the pack. The pack is retailed at the regular price of a Game Pack at $19.99USD – or an equivalent to your local currency.
Get the pack from these following links:
We’ve also got all the latest coverage and information about the pack. Check out our The Sims 4 Dream Home Decorator Articles for some great insight and tips on this pack!
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In The Sims 4 Dream Home Decorator, your Sims can embark on an exciting new active career in interior design! One major feature of the Interior Decorator career that makes it unique is reputation. Your Interior Decorator must build their professional reputation alongside performance to get the most out of the career.
Unlike performance, reputation does not reset after every promotion. You carry your reputation with you throughout your entire career. The main way to build reputation is by going to your gigs and doing a good job on them but when you reach higher levels of the career, you’ll be able to build reputation through social media and writing design books as well. Every once in a while, a brand might contact you offering you free goods in the hopes that you will use their products in some of your future renovations. This can also boost your reputation. Your work might even be featured on the Dream Home Decorator Network!
Building up your reputation as an Interior Designer is important if you want to land high profile gigs and clients. It can also be your saving grace if you ever do poorly on a gig. When you start building a good reputation, previous clients may come back to you to do more work for them since they loved what you did for them last time. They can also refer you to their friends, who may contact you about hiring you for a gig. If you have a great professional reputation but for whatever reason completely fail a gig, that client may be more willing to contact you again in the future to offer you a second chance. Reputation can make or break you as an Interior Decorator. Keep your reputation consistently high and enjoy brand perks, client referrals, callbacks, and more challenging and rewarding gigs. You can even get thank you letters in the mail from happy clients you’ve worked for, as well as calls to tell you how much they love the space you designed for them.
If you own the Get Famous expansion pack, be careful not to get Interior Decorator reputation confused with Get Famous’ reputation system. They are two separate systems that function independently of each other; however, Get Famous is integrated into your professional reputation as an Interior Decorator. Interior Decorators can gain fame from having a good professional reputation. Whenever a brand contacts you about your work, you’ll gain some fame from that recognition. You can use social media to your advantage to build both fame and reputation, too. Post all your before and after photos to Simstagram to get noticed and potentially become a famous Interior Decorator! If you’ve really established yourself in the Interior Decorating world, celebrities might want you to work for them!
Remember, it’s not just about your job performance as an Interior Decorator. Your reputation matters, too. Do well on gigs and use social media to your advantage to gain the attention of big brands and get referrals and callbacks. With Get Famous installed, a high reputation means the chance to work for celebrities or maybe even become a famous Interior Decorator, yourself!
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In The Sims 4 Dream Home Decorator, your Sims can embark on an exciting new active career in interior design! For Simmers who aren’t knowledgeable about different décor styles, some of your gigs might feel confusing. What the heck is cosmolux décor, anyway?! Luckily, you don’t need to have watched every home makeover show on earth to become a successful Interior Decorator in the game. There are a few tips and tricks that will help guide you to a good score at least most of the time. There is always a chance for the occasional unhappy client, of course; especially if you are working for a family of Sims whose likes and dislikes clash with each other.
After getting to know the clients and finding out their likes and dislikes, it’s time to send them away so you can work your magic. Remember to take at least three before photos before you go into Build Mode and start gutting everything. Once in Build Mode, open up the gig info tab in the top left corner. You’ll be able to see an overview of the gig and your clients’ likes and dislikes here.
If the client didn’t give you a whole lot to go on, or if their décor preference is something you’ve never even heard of before, don’t worry. You’re not completely in the dark and you won’t have to run to Google to do a bunch of interior design research. Just click on the like or dislike in the gig info tab and everything in the game that fits that style will pop up for you to browse through. This works for all likes and dislikes, including colour and hobbies.
The best part? You can combine these together. Let’s say your client loves contemporary decor and the colour orange. If you click on both those likes, every orange swatch for contemporary objects will pop up for you to look through. This makes finding the perfect piece to pull a room together quick and easy.
Maybe your client didn’t give you enough to go off of and you had to resort to using the friendly socials to find out some extra likes and dislikes that are more useful to you. Those extra likes and dislikes you discovered won’t be clickable in the gig info tab, so how do you hunt down those items specifically? By using filters! Filters (also sometimes called tags) have always been a part of Build/Buy but they’ve been integrated into Dream Home Decorator to be even more helpful. Right above the Build/Buy catalogue on the right hand side of the screen, you can bring up lots of filters to find specific objects. If you’re looking for a décor style, use the Style filter and select the style you’re looking for. You can do this with colour as well.
We know you’ll probably want to go wild with these cool new and improved tools while on a gig but don’t forget to keep an eye on the budget. When in Build/Buy Mode on a gig, the simoleons displayed are your client’s funds that they’ve allocated towards the renovation. If it’s in the negative, it will turn red. You can go over the budget if you really want to. Sometimes, the client won’t mind if they really love your renovation but it’s a risk. They could hate it and be angry with you for spending more than they wanted you to. Try to stay within the budget if at all possible.
Now that you know all the tricks of the trade, go out there and start renovating!
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In The Sims 4 Dream Home Decorator, your Sims can embark on an exciting new active career in interior design! While it might be tempting to go nuts as an Interior Decorator and redecorate the whole town to your own personal taste, that’s not going to help you get far in the career. When you’re redecorating someone else’s space, it’s about what they like, not what you like. As an Interior Decorator, the most important part of your job happens before you touch anything in the house; it’s when you’re interviewing your clients before the reno!
When you arrive at a gig, the members of that household will be there for you to interact with. You can send them away immediately and just get to work doing whatever you want to their space but you risk the client hating what you’ve done because you didn’t take the time to ask them what they want. This will result in lower pay and decreased reputation as an Interior Decorator.
Spend some time talking to the clients as soon as you arrive. Use the new Interior Decorator social category on them to discuss what sorts of things they like or don’t like. Any of the available options in this category have a chance at revealing a like or a dislike from clients. You can see what likes and dislikes you’ve discovered by clicking on the job panel.
Sometimes, you’ll end up with bizarre likes and dislikes that don’t really help you very much with your reno. For example, you might be called in to redecorate a kid’s room but the only things you have to work with are that the client hates mixology and mischief, but likes comedy. Not nearly as helpful as colour and décor preferences. When this happens, you can “cheat” a little and find out the client’s colour and décor preferences through the regular Friendly socials. These extra likes and dislikes won’t show up in the job panel so make sure you jot them down somewhere so you can keep them in mind while in Build Mode.
Never rush the clients out too fast. Make sure you take as long as you need to find out all the information about them you can. Once you send them away, you won’t have an opportunity to learn any more of their likes and dislikes.
The main thing to remember as an Interior Decorator is it’s not about you; it’s about the client. Push aside your own personal tastes and preferences and get into the mind of your client. For example, I personally hate mission style décor. I think it’s dark, dingy, and clunky-looking but when I remodeled the master bedroom in the Bjergsens’ house, it turned out that Clara Bjergsen loves mission style décor. I did my best to give her and Bjorn a space in that style. Even though I hated the remodeled look, they loved it so much, they burst into happy tears when they saw it.
A satisfied client makes a successful Interior Decorator!
