The Sims 4: Decor to the Max Kit Review (strawberrysana)
I recognised the wallpapers (I've got tiger wallpaper samples around here somewhere) so I understand the price covers whatever royalties due to the designers as well as any development costs, but you really don't get much with this kit. £5 isn't a huge amount of money, but perhaps because I had high hopes for a maximalist aesthetic kit, I was disappointed with it.
My main gripe is that the wallpapers include mouldings. The coving is problematic in rooms with platforms or smaller wall heights to begin with, and it also makes it tricky to mix and match prints and/or colourways, because you have to account for different moulding colours, so I've barely used the papers that convinced me to buy the pack. The mouldings make it tricky to use the papers for feature walls, or zoned areas, too, because they are so jarring. It's a shame, because the prints and colourways are so joyful.
It would have been a nice touch to allow covings, picture rails, dado, and skirtings to be layered or coloured manually, but the wainscot panelling included in the kit shows that it isn't that simple - you can only place these panels on sections of empty walls, with no doors or windows, and you can't change colourways inside the panels. And you would if you could, wouldn't you?
The two bold tiled floorings are fun and sit well with the Moschino pack items. The few bits of furniture included in this pack are beautiful, but the scale of them can be a little strange compared with, say, base game items. There's also a medium sized Chinese-style rug, a spiky ceiling lamp and a naff peacock to play with.
The pack isn't awful, exactly, it's just underwhelming.