I may be thinking too outside the box, but this kit is absolute trash for anything but the most standard of homes.
I created myself a nice open air villa with a small fence instead of walls, and when the floor started getting dirty, I whipped out the vacuum and... nothing! The sim refused to do anything! After an extensive - and mostly fruitless - bout of researching and testing, I found out it's because the game treated the now filthy floor as being outside, which nixed any possible vacuuming - I couldn't even put in a robot vacuum because it needed to be "placed indoors". To add to the dumb bizarre situation, I am not even getting dust piles or dust bunnies, just a slow accumulation of dirtiness that I cannot clean because of the stupid restrictions I was not made aware of. So either I ruin my home or turn off thepart of the game I paid $7.95 AUD for. Again, I may be in the vast minority with this, but to me it is unforgivably stupid.