Re: Cushions and small designer clutter kit
@t0t01010 You are absolutely in the right place to post. This is where we make our suggestions and give our feedback.
I totally agree with you. In fact I've bought packs in the past just because they've had furniture with more throw cushions and more of a comfortable look. The furniture for the Paranormal pack is one example. The sofas have cushions and throws over them. The Pastel Pop furniture looks more appealing and homey too, for me. One of the (many) let downs of Dream Home Decorator for me was a lack of any throw cushions, etc, on the sectional sofas. The Cats and Dogs and My First Pet packs have some furniture with more cushions too.
You can enlarge small pictures, and other things for a bit more clutter or for something different. I think it's Shift + ] on PC, I had to look it up. I'm on console and it's LT+RT (Xbox)/L2+R2 (PS4) and the D-Pad at the same time. Right makes it larger, and Left makes it smaller. The only thing you can't use it for on Console at least, is to shrink or enlarge say a sofa or chair, table, sink for example as the Sim would use it as if it had not been altered. You can use it on TVs though. Just nothing your Sim climbs in or sits/lies on or uses like a kitchen appliance. I don't know if it's different on PC as it's been a few years since I switched to console.
If you take photos with your Sims camera, you can shrink or enlarge those and arrange them on the walls.
There are also some ornaments that can be shrunk to fit on shelves but it's kind of trial and error figuring out which ones will do that or not.
One tip, if you haven't tried it is to make shelves out of platforms to be able to display different things that wouldn't normally fit on a shelf or display. So you would add a platform square, size it to the height you want. So if you stretched it across a room like a shelf you could then place a floor item like a large plant or vase and shrink it down to display it. I attach a couple of images to show you what I'm talking about. It just gives you a few more options for plants, vases, etc that would usually just stand on the floor. I've added a before and after. If you've not tried this before it just expands the number of things you can use for shelf clutter.
