Building in this game is turning into a chore for me because I keep coming across the same problems. Sometimes I find a door and a window that look like they were made to be used in combination, then I place them side by side just to discover that they have different colours or heights.Also, I miss from TS2 the ability to freely combine the various colour options for bicoloured items. It's so frustrating when the only bed that goes with the rest of the furniture in the room can't have a frame of the same colour because the accompanying sheet colours don't match the style of the sim you want to sleep in it, and in turn the sheet colour you want for that sim comes with a totally unfitting frame colour.Is really no one else experiencing these problems? Because I never read about it anywhere, it's like I'm the only simmer too dumb to build a decent-looking house, so if there's a trick I don't know about, please tell me.

You definitely are not the only one! I end up using the same combinations of furniture in every house or I mismatch it on purpose. I recently downloaded a set of bedframes separated from matresses so I could avoid this problem. It's annoying though because I had sworn I would not dowload any cc furniture... :/

No, you are definitely not alone. One of my biggest turn offs in Sims 4 is the problem of trying to make interiors match up and as a result began to keep choosing the same stuff time and time again, which eventually became far too boring. I no longer enjoy decorating houses which is why I've stopped playing Sims 4. It became far too frustrating (and time consuming) searching endlessly for things to match up.

I know what the two of you mean about always reusing the same stuff. Most of my homes, and even most public lots tend to look pretty much the same for this very reason. Sometimes, when I look at a premade or downloaded lot, I'm surprised at how many items there are that I've never used or even seen, that's how unwilling I am to step out of my comfort zone and look for new combinations. I've tried that more often recently, but, as expected, always ended up spending way more time building than I would have liked.Of course, I'm not such a perfectionist about this in real life. Not everything in my real home has exactly the same colour or the same style, nor does the stuff in my office and pretty much every other place I go, but it's just so much more noticeable when you're looking at an entire room from above on a screen rather than being in it for real, and then I can't ignore it.

I love building and this drives me nuts! You are not alone.Same goes for the wall sizes and windows and doors combos. Sometimes they'll add similar styled windows for all the different wall heights, sometimes they just don't. It's really annoying to make a second floor with lower walls and make it look nice from the outside.

Also, the problem with how changes in lighting affect the color of objects. What matches in daylight ends up being completely different shades and colors at night.

Lack of matching stuff in build mode

45 Replies

Amandele
New Spectator
8 years ago
You definitely are not the only one! I end up using the same combinations of furniture in every house or I mismatch it on purpose. I recently downloaded a set of bedframes separated from matresses so I could avoid this problem. It's annoying though because I had sworn I would not dowload any cc furniture... :/
Suecom
Rising Hotshot
8 years ago
No, you are definitely not alone. One of my biggest turn offs in Sims 4 is the problem of trying to make interiors match up and as a result began to keep choosing the same stuff time and time again, which eventually became far too boring. I no longer enjoy decorating houses which is why I've stopped playing Sims 4. It became far too frustrating (and time consuming) searching endlessly for things to match up.
GrumpyGlowfish
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
I know what the two of you mean about always reusing the same stuff. Most of my homes, and even most public lots tend to look pretty much the same for this very reason. Sometimes, when I look at a premade or downloaded lot, I'm surprised at how many items there are that I've never used or even seen, that's how unwilling I am to step out of my comfort zone and look for new combinations. I've tried that more often recently, but, as expected, always ended up spending way more time building than I would have liked.

Of course, I'm not such a perfectionist about this in real life. Not everything in my real home has exactly the same colour or the same style, nor does the stuff in my office and pretty much every other place I go, but it's just so much more noticeable when you're looking at an entire room from above on a screen rather than being in it for real, and then I can't ignore it.
AlbaWaterhouse
8 years ago
I love building and this drives me nuts! You are not alone.
Same goes for the wall sizes and windows and doors combos. Sometimes they'll add similar styled windows for all the different wall heights, sometimes they just don't. It's really annoying to make a second floor with lower walls and make it look nice from the outside.
ehaught58
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
Also, the problem with how changes in lighting affect the color of objects. What matches in daylight ends up being completely different shades and colors at night.
AlbaWaterhouse
8 years ago
"LeGardePourpre;c-16426917" wrote:
My other problem is the windows and the curtains.

The most of time the size doesn't match, too high, too low, too long, too short, too large, too narrow, too deep, not enough deep

Yes! It is very frustrating.
ThatMermaid95
New Spectator
8 years ago
"ehaught58;c-16427026" wrote:
Also, the problem with how changes in lighting affect the color of objects. What matches in daylight ends up being completely different shades and colors at night.

I only really find that if my lights aren't set to neutral white, sometimes they can be set as a warmish yellow which can change how the colours appear
ThatMermaid95
New Spectator
8 years ago
I also notice every time I try and do a kitchen sometimes the counters don't have matching cupboard counterparts
tiarron
8 years ago
I feel the same. Curtains and windows are difficult to match. For example, what seems black is dark brown and does not match with other objects.

Beds are a headache. I only like one bed and I had to plan the colour of the bedroom according to the colour of the sheets available.

You are not alone.
ThatMermaid95
New Spectator
8 years ago
"mcorral;c-16428249" wrote:
I feel the same. Curtains and windows are difficult to match. For example, what seems black is dark brown and does not match with other objects.

Beds are a headache. I only like one bed and I had to plan the colour of the bedroom according to the colour of the sheets available.

You are not alone.

do you also find that some of the "black" items actually are dark brown?