I was just playing around in a Spice Market district apartment that I don't think I've ever lived in before. Which usually happens when the apartment doesn't really inspire me much. So I decided to try and redecorate the whole thing a little. And I'm actually much more pleased with it, and can actually somewhat see my sim live in here. Sure, it's not completed yet because my sim is a starting, self-employed vet and she kinda ran out of money mid-way (hence the lack of lights and living room furniture), but it coulda turned out a LOT worse!So I was just curious about how you renovated some of these City Living apartments? I could always use the inspiration! <3https://i.imgur.com/oaE1f3k.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/fWmfKoz.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/ep7EN2X.png

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! :)https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48604472476_fc836422f4.jpghttps://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48604472641_6b7d37b98b.jpghttps://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48604610157_8c56f6ee60.jpghttps://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48604472166_9cba6e4ae2.jpgHere'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" aesthetichttps://i.imgur.com/DDfWaen.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/of6eQfi.pngThose 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!

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adduapina
7 years ago
Wow everyone is doing such great renovations. I started digging on the screenshot file and found one more, one of those I really enjoy playing.

2A Jasmine Suites:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48611402686_dd86ec577f_b.jpg

And a close up on my favorite apartment kitchen ever :)
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48611557122_6445f0d737_c.jpg
Joanne_Snow
Legend
7 years ago
@Simmingal lol @ the half wall thing. For the longest time, I did too :D Then once I realized they existed, I started putting them everywhere. xD

@adduapina nice use of red, hard for me to pull off tbh. I really like that apartment in general though, maybe cause of it's layout? It's a bit hard to get more than 2 sims living in it, but it's the perfect single sim place. You know, before they go off having families.

I had to go digging very deep but I finally found my version of that place in an old save xD It's a LOT more basic though. I prefer yours, but I just love seeing the differences :D
https://i.imgur.com/POSeJLV.png
https://i.imgur.com/iaWHnOi.png

Lol also just found this old thing in that save:
https://i.imgur.com/rdNEOh6.png
https://i.imgur.com/Q7FBReU.png
https://i.imgur.com/zK91450.png

It's not exactly great though xD I'm glad I've become like 2% better at this lol.
Joanne_Snow
Legend
6 years ago
Soo I was in the mood for another apartment today and I really, really love how it turned out! <3 Hope you like. Feel free to continue sharing yours, I love CL apartments :D

https://i.imgur.com/eNT3HLj.png
https://i.imgur.com/dsD4BY2.png
https://i.imgur.com/n4dhJwi.png
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