Seriousoly, this irritates the heck out of me every time i try to build:FIrst of all there are a number of base game items that just were never inteded to match, where the devs must have deliberately avoided matching sets. Especially telling because a number of the high end items like dining tables that never came with matching chairs, and high end stoves that don't match anything else.Then you have the weird phenomenon that almost none of the counters match any walls. And that includes expansions, too. Very very few counters actually go with walls at all. Or window frames.And then of course you have a few that don't even match themselves. The industrial ones, whatever they are called have a set of cabinets that goes with them that does not match at all, neither color swatch OR shape OR style matches, at all. Why?And then over all there are too many yet too few swatches for wood. Why why are there like 7 different variations of Birch that doesn't match eachother? Like the "birch swatch for this couch does only match the other birch swatches from the same pack but nothing else in the game, even if they too are suppsedly birchwood"?How hard is it to actually remember what swatches you used last time?Sorry that I come off grumpy but it seems like the devs go out of the way to AVOID matching things. Edit:Forgot showers. Can someone explain the deliberate choice of making matching sink - toilet - bathtub sets and NOT match the showers??????????????????????

Nothing matches, not just the kitchen stuff but nearly everything don't match! I just want to cry every time nothing works and wish I had my colour wheel back just so I can make it match nicely!

Agreed. And now they don’t even make kitchen cabinets, they make weird shelves or nothing at all. -Island living : shelf and the Island counter was added afterwards.- Realm of Magic : no cabinets - Snowy Escape : apparently there’s a shelf but I haven’t seen cabinets.....So I hope kitchen cabinets will be back sometime.And don’t get me started on how many items’ white swatch is actually grey, not white, when there is one.....

Don't forget, we also have couches, but they either have love seats that don't match, or no love seats at all. It's like they design these items separately, rather than designing them to work cohesively.

All of the above...and can we please get couches without throw pillows? Or make throw pillows separate objects?

Yeah, the color swatches they give us are killing me. We have like 5-6 color swatches for the kitchen top cabinet, but for the kitchen counter of the same style, we have 20+ color swatches. How do we match these colors?This problem can be easily fixed by giving us a color wheel, simple like that but yet we don't have it.I even created a video that shows how the sofa & armchair, bar & kitchen counter, sofa & coffee table, all doesn't match with each other. If they don't want to give us color swatches, at least make 'em good, but the color wheel is always better.

Why deliberately avoid matching cabinets and kitchen furniture?

dianed485
New Scout
5 years ago
How can the Vampires kitchen counters and cabinets only have three swatches ??

"Andyzhang2896;c-17707609" wrote:
Yeah, the color swatches they give us are killing me. We have like 5-6 color swatches for the kitchen top cabinet, but for the kitchen counter of the same style, we have 20+ color swatches. How do we match these colors?
This problem can be easily fixed by giving us a color wheel, simple like that but yet we don't have it.
I even created a video that shows how the sofa & armchair, bar & kitchen counter, sofa & coffee table, all doesn't match with each other. If they don't want to give us color swatches, at least make 'em good, but the color wheel is always better.
bmso85
5 years ago
"Beardedgeek;c-17708443" wrote:
"BMSO;c-17708437" wrote:
As much as I like the quirkiness I do agree we need more matching objects.

"Beardedgeek;c-17707932" wrote:
I have long suspected that they deliberately refuse to match objects.

We finally got "most objects" in black and white swatches, BUT we also need:

The same 5 base wood swatches for ALL furniture: Birch, Ash, Oak, Fir, Mahogny.*

Matching stainless steel on all kitchen appliances. This drives me insane. Why do they deliberately make stainless steel swatches mismatch?? You actually have to put effort in to MAKE them missmatch.

*Edit: Or at least two out of five so you can combine stuff. I am perfectly fine with not all wooden furniture having all swatches, but "light wood" should match all other "light wood" and so on.

Tell me about it those stainless steel counters drive me nuts.

I just "love" the ones where you ALMOST find ONE swatch that matches, but on that one, and that one only, the tap is black or copper for some reason.

It's like trying to find a needle in a hay stack.
caliposs
5 years ago
Well, I really like the new counters from Snowy Escape but there's no matching cabinet... Why???? It should be a rule to include matching counters, islands and cabinets :neutral:
MarioBabyLuigi
5 years ago
One thing I like about the Animal Crossing series is how the game has designed furniture that match a series of items that all cleanly mesh into each other and are built for each other; if you want a particular series of items with a theme, you can easily find them as they all share a common name. I'd love to see something like that for the Sims. I know that there are some series of items already such as the Schmapple stuff, but I'd like to see further expansion on that.
GrumpyGlowfish
Seasoned Newcomer
5 years ago
That's a problem I have with pretty much everything in this game, which is why I hate building. Nothing ever matches, and even in the rare cases that it does, you still have to choose between fitting colours and fitting styles more often than not, because you can't have both. The bar that came with Vampires looks pretty cool, but doesn't match the counters from the same pack either, or any other counters in the entire game!

Then there's lighting, another enemy of mine when it comes to building. Even doors and windows that are meant to be used together often attract/reflect (?) light differently, making them appear in different shades of the same colour when placed next to each other, even though it's the same swatch. It's a nightmare, and yes, I am grumpy because of that, it's even in my name.
Peapod79
New Spectator
5 years ago
I would love to see more swatches matching. The few that do match, forces us to use those same few repeatedly and it destroys creativity.
g01denswan
Seasoned Observer
5 years ago
"Beardedgeek;d-983008" wrote:
Seriousoly, this irritates the heck out of me every time i try to build:

FIrst of all there are a number of base game items that just were never inteded to match, where the devs must have deliberately avoided matching sets. Especially telling because a number of the high end items like dining tables that never came with matching chairs, and high end stoves that don't match anything else.

Then you have the weird phenomenon that almost none of the counters match any walls. And that includes expansions, too. Very very few counters actually go with walls at all. Or window frames.

And then of course you have a few that don't even match themselves. The industrial ones, whatever they are called have a set of cabinets that goes with them that does not match at all, neither color swatch OR shape OR style matches, at all. Why?

And then over all there are too many yet too few swatches for wood. Why why are there like 7 different variations of Birch that doesn't match eachother? Like the "birch swatch for this couch does only match the other birch swatches from the same pack but nothing else in the game, even if they too are suppsedly birchwood"?
How hard is it to actually remember what swatches you used last time?

Sorry that I come off grumpy but it seems like the devs go out of the way to AVOID matching things.

Edit:
Forgot showers. Can someone explain the deliberate choice of making matching sink - toilet - bathtub sets and NOT match the showers??????????????????????

I thought I was the only one irritated by all the mismatched colours, styles, shapes, etc. Good to know others are as well.

What irritates me most is that they give us the most ugly colour combos and patterns too. It’s like their artists are colour blind, or are trying to force us to support cc creators because the cc creators give them free advertising.

I’ve been waiting for more counter sets along with matching island counters and cabinets. But, we keep getting more non-matching chairs, tables and toilets instead. Don’t know why we need so many of them especially when they won’t match anything else anyway.

And why restrict us with a bunch of mismatched cushions on sofas and beds. When people asked for cushions, they meant a separate item that we can place on sofas and beds, not an item already attached so we’re stuck with what their artists think looks good.

Oh, and the clothes. Why are the bottom layers always longer than the top layers so shirts hang below sweaters and jackets? And why are men’s pants so short? There are no floods, We don’t just want to create slobs.
Beardedgeek72
New Spectator
5 years ago
To be fair Sims 3 was just as bad, it's like the Sims team(s) for years are quirky bohemians and expects everyone to be too, or they genuinely don't cooperate between each other at all and actually have no clue what the guy at the desk next to them is designing. At all.

The difference, of course, is the color wheel. In Sims 3 the stainless steel items were just as horribly matched but then you could force them to match. We don't have that "luxury" here thanks to it being intended as an online game.
g01denswan
Seasoned Observer
5 years ago
But it isn’t just the colour. It’s the shapes too. Dining table legs don’ match dining chair legs. Dressers don’t match night tables. Headboards don’t match dressers or night tables.
Cinebar
5 years ago
These complaints were known in the older games, too, I see so much in them that doesn't match and never did and never will. Numenor and Marylou and a few other custom creators made matching stuff for the older games, but Maxis is infamous for doing this in all their Sim games.