Show us your renovated apartments! ❤

This may be a cheat for some, but when I have sims living in apartments, I do not charge them for the basics (lights, oven, refrigerator, toilets, shower and even washer/dryer) because realistically those items come with an apartment already and included in rent and deposit. This will give you a little more money to furnish, decorate, and upgrade. However, when I would move the sim out to a bigger place, they do not get the money back for those original items since they didn't buy them in the first place.

@SimTrippy that looks really good! :)

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Here's some pics from my 930 Medina Studios apartment.
It's a home for a huge family (elder mother, adult daughter with husband & toddler, YA daughter and teen son) and the money keeps pouring in from high level careers so I've done a lot of renovating hehe. Also the fact that the elder is an Arts Critic made me feel like I wanted a lot of paintings and clutter for the feeling of a "art collector" home.

I really like renovating the apartments but I've been doing it through a lot of saves and am really annoyed that you are unable to save them and add to other saves. I don't (yet?) have screenshots from other renovations I've done, some that I really really like. I also have the issue I usually can't remember which save has which apartments renovated :lol: But if I find them I could post more.

This is a nice inspirational thread. Thanks!

Thanks for sharing @adduapina :D That looks really great! I love the room on the left. You definitely managed to fill that apartment up nicely! When I played it last it had only 3 or 4 sims in it and they all had huuuuuge rooms haaha. Maybe I should start playing larger families in apartments like that. Does it ever get laggy though playing with so many sims in one?

I totally agree that it's annoying we can't save complete apartments :( Sure, we can save individual rooms, and maybe it isn't even that much work to do, but I still find it a pain. That is why I'm happy there are a few penthouses in the city - useful to make restaurants in, but also easy to copy over to another save (I sometimes forget CL doesn't standard include my Fountainview Diner xD).


@aaronrulz I like to imagine they bought the whole place - even though, yes, they pay rent, but I regard those as .. overprized utilities? :D
I'll keep your idea in mind though for the next time I play a single mom/dad lives in grungy apartment-thing. But this girl here has got to work her way up to being (or rather, becoming) an awesome vet before she's getting any new furniture!

I remodeled one of the art district apartments as a kind of "modern vampire" aesthetic
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Those are the ones I put any real effort into I think, lol. I'll sometimes redo a room, but rarely a whole apartment.

@FanPhoria Ooh, I love the vampire one!

18 Culpepper House:

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I don’t have pictures, but I did upload a couple of the apartments I did over to the gallery.with doors removed under SheriSim.

I recently redid zenview apartments with (mostly) IL objects because I was curious how it would look like

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one of them more feminine and other bit more masculine but with similar feel

Apartment 1
Downstairs:

Upstairs:

Apartment 2
Downstairs:

Upstairs:

@FanPhoria beautiful! Love the vamp-inspired one - the chairs, carpet, and just everything goes really well together. Plus, you just made me realize I've never played a vamp in the city (at least not for long, or I just really don't remember). Very cool idea!

@adduapina oh nice, I MUCH prefer your version to the in-game one! That's actually another one of those apartments that just don't seem to inspire me, but you made it look soo much better. Definitely stealing some of your ideas the next time I'll give it a try. I really like where you've placed the kitchen btw, and how you've separated the large room in the back.

@Simmingal looks super lovely with the IL stuff in it. Me likey. I haven't experimented with it much outside of Sulani. Except for the kitchen counters (as you can see in my first screenshot up above, or the one right below - sorry that it's a bit dark). I LOVE the kitchen counters that came with IL. I wish we had more pretty ones like that. I think most counters are extremely uninspiring XD
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Funny too because I redid that exact same apartment (the one on the left, for clarity:)
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And it's amazing to me how different we can make them look just by where we place the kitchen, how we divide the rooms, etc. I'm so happy to see all these other versions, it's really helpful to stop being stuck in the same "patterns" of furnishing apartments. You don't know how often I forget that I can move the walls, for example.

For reference, this is how it curently looks in my game:
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@SimTrippy
yeah i really love the IL counters
even if i often make old family homes they don't really go with

I also love how you use half walls I often forget they even exist :joy: downstairs workspace is also cool concept

maybe I'll apply the idea for one of the bigger apartments I can't seem to fill :)

@adduapina
love the layout!
I was struggling so bad with that culpepper bedroom myself because of the odd shape but indeed that looks much more reasonable