Decorating Tips #3
Hi there! Welcome to the third room tips post in my Room Decorating series!
Tip #1: Buy food items (tea cups, pies, etc) from the W-Shop or E-Store to put in your rooms (you can also get these as daily log-in / Wheel of Wow reward). They make kitchens/dining rooms look especially good. You can also get them in Jumbleberry fields as prizes (see example below).
Tip #2: Try basing a room around just one colour. I did that with my Pink Diner (see below).
Tip #3: Centre both wall decorations and furniture. It looks more symmetrical and thus pleasing to the eye.
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Tip #4: Buy other small items to place in your rooms, like books, toys, card games, and flowers.
Tip #5: Large items are really useful for covering doors. Personally, I find that rooms without any doors on the walls usually look the nicest (though doors sometimes look good incorporated into the room). Since my house is very large now, I often don't have enough space on my map to position all of my rooms so that there are no doors on any of the walls. My solution to this is to place a large piece of furniture over the door so that it is hidden. Make sure the item is large enough, however; see examples below.
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Tip #6: Try basing a room off of a book / movie / TV show. Make a room for a specific character or copy one of the rooms in the show. I did this loosely with Gwendolyn's NYC Apartment (Gossip Girl) and Spot's Apartment (Big Bang Theory).
Tip #7: Try starting with a specific item and basing the room around it.
Tip #8: Use outdoor items in indoor rooms. This used to not be an option but it is now!
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Tip #9: If you have E-Store points, buy a bed with them. If have a chance to buy a rare bed in the Curio Shop or choose one as a prize, do. I find that the W-Shop is lacking in bed options (as is the E-Store, but at least there are more choices).
Tip #10: Design your rooms so that sections look good by themselves (i.e. you could take a screenshot of just that area and it would look nice on its own). For example, in an apartment, have a reading area, a sleeping area, and a kitchen, and make each area complete with decorations.
Ex: One of the reading nooks in my Reading Room.
Tip #11: Use rugs and floor tiles. They make the floor look much better and make the room look cozier and more detailed. The more rugs the better. You can arrange floor tiles together to make one big rug as well. Also, don't place most furniture items over top of rugs as they cover it (though this can look good occasionally, especially with smaller items, in which case do it). I like to place furniture around the rug. Rugs are also relatively inexpensive at the E-Store, and there is a decent variety of options.
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Tip #12: Buy textured or patterned wallpaper/flooring instead of plain colours. By textured, I mean wallpaper/flooring that is made to look like wood, stone, or brick. It adds more to the room. The Ancient Civilization wallpaper, for example, looks much better than just plain white paint, but is still a white shade. Wallpaper/flooring is also a good thing to buy at the E-Store, as there is a large selection and it is relatively inexpensive (about 100-2500 points each).
Examples of textured wallpaper: Ancient Civilization wallpaper/flooring, Café Playset wallpaper/flooring, Classic Gaming Room wallpaper/flooring, Medieval wallpaper/flooring.
Tip #13: You don't have to use an item for its intended purpose. You can use a dining table as a desk, a kitchen counter as a table, or a bookshelf as a divider.
Tip #14: Check the 'More Stuff' section of the Decorating page in the W-Shop for random things to add to your rooms.
Tip #15: You can make one large window with multiple small ones.
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I hope this helps! Happy decorating!
Xoxo,
Pippa
