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.

That wooden elevated platform is so nice! How do you do it? I love the colour play you have on your screen shots (just realised there are files attached). I would deffinately check out all the packs you’ve mentioned. Seems like I’d be getting all of them, hopefully, at the point of sale :D

@t0t01010 I made the wooden platform shelf just to be able to place these big kind of bird ornaments from Decor to the Max kit, shrunk to regular ornament size. I like them but they only go on floors, just like a lot of the plants I like. I just think, why would you have a big ceramic floor bird? It should go on a shelf but it won't fit. I also wanted to put those floral arrangements from Dine Out on a shelf because they are so lovely but they only go on floors too. I don't know why they make so much floor decor! I would never stand flowers and ceramics on the floor, maybe that's because my cat would immediately tackle it or wear it lol.

All you need to do is go to Walls and rooms in Build Mode. Select one of the Platform options. I chose the corner one and placed it where I wanted it to be, because moving it later can leave a hole in the floor. I put them in the corners one by one then stretched them to join them up. I used the up arrows to raise the height to line up with the sofa height. There are 2 kinds of arrows, use the up/down arrows that click but not the ones that drag it. To make it wooden I just added the same flooring as the room for the top, then I went to Platform Trims in Build Mode and chose a wooden one. That one I chose is from Get Famous. It works better I think in a medium or tall walled room, I wanted to keep those windows so I set the size of the room to Medium. I shrunk the floor decor down to fit on it and used Half Grid Snapping and Free Placement to place them a bit closer together and make them look a bit more arranged.

Here's an image of the finished room and I've added a platform shelf in her bathroom too so there's before and after images to show you what I mean.