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Re: Dream Home Decorator

@Psychotps  you mentioned getting conflicting likes and dislikes in a gig.... was that from a lone Sim or from a household with multiple Sims?  If you are getting conflicting likes and dislikes from the same Sim, then something is indeed wrong😓 .  But if it is for a household that is very realistic (it happens all the time on design shows in real life!!! Even with my own parents it was a problem! 🤭 😅 ) 

My first gig was for the Heckings of Brindleton Bay.  One loved gray, the other hated gray.  So I decided it was best to ignore gray altogether.  That only left me with Loves Snowboarding.  So I put one snowboard  and one winter sports rack in the bedroom and just redid a normal bedroom with out using gray.  They loved it!  Here are the pics of the before and after>>>

You can see the aqua colored snowboard on the floor in front of the winter sports rack.


My next clients loved Mid Century, loved orange, and hated something I don't even remember what it way now.  Thee kitchen items for Mid Century weren't classified as orange, even though they certainly looked orange to me, so they might have been tagged as red or brown.  So to make up for that I put in a lot of orange clutter, which was my mistake!  Just like real life, clutter alone isn't going to make a room. ( If you have your big ticket items in French Country, sprinkling a few Modern items won't make your room suddenly modern!)  Here is my failure:



 You can see all the clutter that is just lining the right wall.  ( @jpkarlsen was the one who told me that a lot of clutter doesn't work, and after following his advise on that I've been sucessful! 🙌) They hated it! They hated it so much they sent me several mean letters! 😮😱🤦‍♀️🤣
I still had fun doing the gig, and it was a good learning experience! 

After that I didn't put nearly as much clutter and have been successful each time!  Even when I redid a room for the Spencer-Kim-Lewis family from the base game... there are 5 people to please in that household!  But the gig was for a kid's room, so I concentrated on the little girl to fill up the icons... She loved pink, yellow, and rocket science.  But then I noticed I could ask the other people their likes and dislikes and wrote them down.  Mom also loved pink, Dad hated white, Grandpa hated something irrelevant, and Grandma loved black.  So, I concentrated mostly on pink and yellow, with some bits of black.  Avoided white, Avoided the irrelevant thing grandpa hated, and used the bb.showhiddenobjects cheat to unlock a completed rocket science project (from Parenthood) and the level 1 Rocket Science skill book that I put on her desk!  I don't know if those last 2 items counted, but they didn't hurt since the gig was a success!   That was a very hard gig since I had to please 5 people! 😅 

You can kink of see the rocket project in the center of the room! 

I also did a successful renovation for some of the people in Glimmerbrook, with just a few choice items.  I hardly touched their budget -- in fact I hardly did anything! 🤨 But they loved it! 😂
I did another kitchen makeover for the Landgraabs (I wasn't sure if they would count the dinning room or not since it was kind of open to the kitchen so I did that too just in case.  They all liked it and Geoffrey even hugged me and cried for joy! 💗

I also think it is fun not knowing exactly if your clients will like your work or not!  Kind of thrilling! 😅 However, if I was starting a rags to riches play and failed that wouldn't be as fun, to be sure! But I do enjoy the element of surprise! 🥳


@Sindocat  there is an element of luck to it, I'm sure, but there is also some logic as well. We are all just learning right now anyway.  I think the important thing is to not take it too seriously and have fun with it! 😉  Also, I'm sure there will be people who will play this pack with the intent of giving their clients what they don't want! 👿😅

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