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Contents

  • Essentials
    • What's New
      • What's New
      • A World Without Limits
    • Creating A Sim
      • A New You
      • Personality
      • Family and Aging
      • Making Catherine Browne
    • Creating a House
      • Creating a House
      • Building Basics
      • Buying a Lot
      • Build Mode
      • Furnished Lots and Pre-Set Lives
      • Households
      • Cheat Sheet
    • A Day in the Life
      • The Essentials
      • Wishes
      • Skills
      • Careers
      • Mood Maintenance
      • Relationships and Socializing
      • Meet the Brownes
      • Getting Settled
      • Making the Most
      • Keep On Keepin’ On
    • Traits
      • Traits
    • Moods
      • Mood
      • Moodlets
      • Positive Moodlets
      • Neutral Moodlets
      • Negative Moodlets
    • Wishes
      • Wishes
      • Lifetime Wishes
      • Wishes List
      • Lifetime Happiness Points
    • Skills
      • Skills
      • Athletic
      • Charisma
      • Cooking
      • Fishing
      • Gardening
      • Guitar
      • Handiness
      • Logic
      • Painting
      • Writing
    • Careers
      • Careers
      • Business
      • Criminal
      • Culinary
      • Journalism
      • Law Enforcement
      • Medical
      • Military
      • Music
      • Politics
      • Professional Sports
      • Science
      • Part-time Work
      • School
    • Opportunities
      • Opportunities
      • Skills Opportunities
      • Careers Opportunities
    • Relationships and Aging
      • Relationships
      • Friendships (and Enemies)
      • Romance
      • Socializing
      • Family and Aging
      • Having a Family
      • Death
      • Service Sims
    • Tour of Sunset Valley
      • City Life
      • Places of Employment
      • Shopping and Commerce
      • Community Spots
      • Fishing Spots
      • Places to Go Collecting
    • Design Corner
      • Truly Custom Content
      • Winsome Farmhouse
      • Le Grand Palace
      • FoxGlen Manor
      • The Cherry Tree Houses
      • Richmond Manor
    • Object Catalog
      • Object Catalog
      • Living Room
      • Kitchen
      • Dining Room
      • Bedroom
      • Bathroom
      • Study
      • Kids’ Room
      • Multi-Room Objects
      • Outdoors and Landscaping
      • Object Interactions
    • Community
      • Sharing with the World

The Sims 3 Guide › Essentials › Object Catalog

Object Catalog

With the exception of your Sims’ appearance, your home is the ultimate personal expression in The Sims 3. You may only start out with a little money, but once you settle into your new life and your family begins bringing in steady paychecks, you can really indulge that interior decorator that exists inside all of us.

Will every room be a masterpiece? No, but your evolving home will eventually be paradise to you—and that’s really all you can ask for.

This full catalog of objects inside The Sims 3 lists everything you can purchase and customize for your homes. From stoves to stones, every item is detailed here with all relevant prices and properties, such as effects on skills or the well-being of your Sims.

We’ve also assembled a few rooms to fire up your imagination so you can see how objects are sorted. Of course, you are not limited to putting sinks in bathrooms and couches in living rooms. This is your dream house. If you dream of having a bathtub in the kitchen, then so be it. It’s just a click away.

Note

Some objects in these rooms have been customized with different patterns and colors than the default settings. You should experiment, too, and come up with your own incredible home decor ideas.

Caution

All objects you can buy in this catalog depreciate the moment you click out of Buy Mode. The first day’s worth of depreciation is 10 percent. Each day thereafter strips another 10 percent of value from the object. The full depreciated value of the object, though, bottoms out at 40 percent of its original value. It can never be worth less than that unless the object is broken or severely damaged in a fire.

Using This Catalog

Each object has a price and the potential for additional values. Some objects meet needs, like Bladder and Hunger. Other objects contribute to skill development, such as Logic or Cooking. When an object has properties that fall into these categories, it is noted in the table. The numerical value is listed under the heading of the need or skill. The higher the number, the more the object satisfies that need or helps with that skill’s development.

Additional columns in these tables rate the object’s environmental rating, group activity, and comfort. The more objects with a good environmental rating that are in a room, the better Decorated moodlet your Sims will enjoy. Group activity (marked with an X when present) indicates that multiple Sims can either use the object or the object is designed to bring Sims together for entertainment. Finally, the comfort rating (rated in +’s) notes how comfortable an object is, which can result in a nice Comfy moodlet.

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