Poorly decorated buff???

"duhboy2u2;c-17684880" wrote:
Ridiculous. Sorry, but a personal preference like wall color should not be the deciding factor behind how well a room is decorated.
@Beardedgeek why should a white wall be seen as cheap?? Disliking a color doesn't make it cost less or less well made. I could just as easily say poo brown walls should be seen as dirty even though I call it poo brown and someone else might call it mocha...

There is a difference between (IRL) a cheap layer of white or eggshell that you have in a rental because it is literally a color that won't offend anyone and will go with anything (and you, as tenant, has by contract been forbidden to paint over or change) and a high quality light (or bright white) paint that is a deliberate choice to contrast against bright / dark furniture (or cause snowblindness by having light furniture as well; I am not a fan of white walls and white furniture IRL). I assume the Sims team had the first option in mind when implementing this.

HOWEVER I don't think it has to do with COLOR at all in the game, but PRICE. Cheap colors cause "Bad decoration". It's all about the money. An expensive light color does not cause it.

The Basic dark/light/pastel paints don't have any gain or loss. Only ones in the Paint category to have environmental loss are 2 from CL (Faded Memories and "Mold"ed Baseboard) and of course the Drywall. Most others have gain or gives industrial. Doesn't matter what colour you pick.

To be honest, my sim didn't even mind the plain Drywall. I had him stay in a room for a few hours, and he didn't care. Don't know if traits have anything to do with it. I'd be surprised if it does, though. It bothered ME more than him, if I'm honest, I don't like plainly painted walls, especially white. I find it boring.

Thank you all for your replies. :)

They must have tuned the buff from decorations quite a bit. I have a sim who's doing Archeology right now, and he got a lot of excellent and rare relics, which I display in the room he's working in. As far as I've seen, he doesn't even get the "Decorated" moodlet, even with all those relics and paintings on the walls too.

My sims always get this one in one of the gyms I send them too. So, I don't do a thing to change it because they aren't there for the decor! >:)

I turned off decoration buffs with the Meaningful Stories mod. It's one of the best things I ever did.

I've never got this buff but I tend to use the plain wall colours with the skirting board and top. That seems to work. I only use the patterned walls for accent walls or for kids' bedrooms.

Hi! I do have the same issue and changing the white walls didn’t fix it. It seems to happen randomly as well...

Is this new decorated buff part of a patch or pack?

Sorry to ask been out of the loop for months with this game updates.

TO be honest I think that the issues is in WORDING, not the moodlet itself. MILDLY decorated would be more appropriate.