How are there tables with no matching chairs?

This is easily my biggest pet peeve in The Sims. It’s so frustrating when you’re designing a kitchen or dining room, you finally find a table that’ll look absolutely stunning, then there’s no matching chairs. AARGH!!! Happens on a regular basis with my style of builds.

"SelinaKyles;d-955280" wrote:
My pet peeve!! Just found a lovely table but no chairs to match! :s :s :s Why do they do this to us!?? The table I’m using is from the laundry pack and the only chair I found from the pack doesn’t even match it
Edit: oh Lordy, just checked for a sofa with a matching loveseat??

I would have to suggest that this is a tribute to Sims2, which is replete with gorgeous dining tables but chairs that only match in style but not wood color. Face/palm.

"Simburian;c-16948580" wrote:

"Mariefoxprice83;c-16948579" wrote:

"elanorbreton;c-16948340" wrote:
Bedrooms and dressers... and why can't we pick bedding separately to the bed colour?

Yes, we really do need more choice of bedding, and for it not to be tied to the frame colour.

Me too as I tend to choose the Cordelia beds so that my Sims get a good night's sleep. Why are the children's bed so uncomfortable too?

Tell me how many parents out there in Reality Land can afford descent beds for their children? It's a conundrum.

"GalacticGal;c-16951389" wrote:

"Simburian;c-16948580" wrote:

"Mariefoxprice83;c-16948579" wrote:

"elanorbreton;c-16948340" wrote:
Bedrooms and dressers... and why can't we pick bedding separately to the bed colour?

Yes, we really do need more choice of bedding, and for it not to be tied to the frame colour.

Me too as I tend to choose the Cordelia beds so that my Sims get a good night's sleep. Why are the children's bed so uncomfortable too?

Tell me how many parents out there in Reality Land can afford descent beds for their children? It's a conundrum.

But this isn’t reality, it’s a life simulator where’s there’s vampires, aliens, talking toilets and pregnancies only last 3 days. They can have all that yet still have uncomfortable beds for kids. I cannot accept “in RL” when it comes to Sims all the time

Ugh, yes. I'm not a huge builder and most things don't bother me but for those times I sit down to carefully design a lot...it's irritating. Also a lack of counters , bed choices.

There's a lack of any matching/complimentary combinations in any of the furnishings really. I don't mind the colors not matching if they are at least complimentary of the other items but ...nothing really is. I wish for a color palate update.

"TheGreatGorlon;c-16947836" wrote:
It could be easily solved with a furniture customization similar to what was in TS2, where you could customize the wood grains or the cushions individually. Far too often have I too been frustrated by the ill matching woods of table and chair or sofa and living chair.

I miss the option for 2 choices to combine wood with any type of cushions or bedding. I don't understand why this feature was not included. If a game from years before could handle this, why not sims 4. *sigh* What were they thinking.

Hmm, I feel the whicker dining chairs match just fine with the dinner table. Sure, they aren't made from the same material. But that doesn't irk me :)

I understand there will never be an in game color wheel, but it would be nice to have an official EA approved color wheel tool outside the game we could use to add our own color swatches of items and clothes to our games. Then we would be able to match or better coordinate the style we each want in our games. I remember using the Sims 2 walls and floors tool all the time to make and add wallpapers and floors to my game in the colors I wanted.

While a tool outside the game will not give the instant gratification when I want to modify a color in game, it would at least be an alternative to get the colors I want to use. There are so many objects and clothes I don’t use simply because I can’t stand the color options.

"SelinaKyles;c-16948417" wrote:

"Stina1701A;c-16947948" wrote:
Yes and windows and doors! Using 2 or 3 kinds of windows and/or doors in a house and finding that the colors don't match :flushed:

The windows as well!! I found a window that takes up three tiles and wanted to use two tiles, it’s it two tile counterpart is much taller than it.

"aldavor;c-16948351" wrote:
It's like one team has gone off and done the tables... wonderful things that have been created, and another team on the opposite side of the world has gone off to do the chairs... again, wonderful creations ... --- but neither has been spoken to by the director and they have no idea of the others' existence --- hence totally different swatches for totally different designs.

I don't think anything encapsulates this point more than gates and fences... how much more discongruous can you get than these?!?!?!

Communication... maybe a word that the dev managers can place into their somewhat limited vocabularies...

I imagined them sitting at the conference table and saying in a evil smile >:) let’s make tables and not match them!! >:) >:) and then everyone starts laughing :D :D

"elanorbreton;c-16948340" wrote:
Bedrooms and dressers... and why can't we pick bedding separately to the bed colour?

And why oh why do carpets and curtains all carry the same limited colour range?

This too! Love a cute bed from C&D but the blanket styles aren’t really my liking. Rarely do the curtains I pick, fit my windows, and when the do, they don’t match with their coloring, so I mostly avoid curtains

Windows in this game make me crazy. Even the hue of the glass panes doesn't match!!!

There are SO many nice objects in this game (like windows) that I just flat out never use because there's nothing available to match.

What makes me the MOST crazy though are whites and blacks. How is it possible that there are about 50 different "shades" of white and black. For real? I can't even match white and black objects!?