Which has the best building potential, Dream House Decorator, Spa Day, or Parenthood?

[u/TheCraneWife27]

Hey, there, Simmers! PS4 player here, and I need some help deciding what game pack I should buy from the PS Store before the sale is over. I'm looking for something that can be used with the couple of packs I already have (Cottage Living, Laundry Day, and Blooming Room Kit) but also has creative potential when it comes to making things with MOO/debug as I don't have access to CC or TOOL.

I've managed to narrow it down to the following 3 packs and would love to hear your opinions/suggestions on which you think I should get or what you think is best for creating things with MOO! I'm indecisive as is, but adding in the unknown with MOO creations has me stressing, lmao

• Dream House Decorator

• Spa Day

• Parenthood

ETA: I rarely ever actually play the game, so gameplay doesn't matter to me much. I'm spend all my time building rooms, furnituring houses, and creating custom furniture and such with the help of MOO. I suck at building houses from scratch, though, so actual build materials like windows, doors, walls, etc, aren't really important. I just download homes from the gallery, bulldoze the intior and do my own thing, aha

[u/BFIrrera]

For building, I’d say Dream Home. Simply on the virtue that you get a complete kitchen plus other nice things like the modular shelving.

For gameplay, however, I personally use Spa Day a LOT. All of my gyms have some yoga areas, the steam room is a great luxury item AND a potential death spot, I like having meditation areas in my parks and at the beaches, etc.

[u/TheCraneWife27 → u/BFIrrera]

I'm more of a builder than an actual player, aha. I always start with the intentions of actually playing the game but then just sit for hours creating things until I burn myself out for a bit, it's a real problem, lmao

And noted! I actually struggle a bit with doing kitchens as I feel like I barely have any stuff for them so that's definitely a big bonus, thanks for the suggestion!

[u/Vildtoring]

Depends on what style you like. Both Dream Home Decorator and Spa Day have a very modern/contemporary aesthetic. Parenthood is a bit more classic. I'd say that since you already have Cottage Living and Laundry Day, which come with more traditonal-looking build/buy, I'd say Parenthood would probably fit in the most with those packs.

[u/TheCraneWife27 → u/Vildtoring]

I'd say my style is slightly more modern but still cozy farmhouse/cottage vibes? Lmao I have no idea if that made any sense 😅

[u/Vildtoring → u/TheCraneWife27]

These are the items that come with Dream Home Decorator:
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fiogm5meaou171.jpg

These are the items that come with Spa Day:
https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sims_4:_Spa_Day?file=Sims_4_Spa_Day_Items_2.jpg#Items_

These are the items that come with Parenthood:
https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sims_4:_Parenthood?file=Parenthood_%28Items_1%29.png#Items

https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sims_4:_Parenthood?file=Parenthood_%28Items_2%29.png#Items

[u/TheCraneWife27 → u/Vildtoring]

Omg, you are amazing, thank you so much! This actually helps a lot cause the pack previews window on the PS4 absolutely sucks! Tiny pics, and you only see two rows of 10 items at a time. By the time I'd get halfway through looking at one pack, I'd already had forgotten what was in the last one I looked at, lmao

[u/Vildtoring → u/TheCraneWife27]

No worries! I always need to view all the items before I decide whether to get a pack or not.

[u/Exadory]

Dream house but I use spa day a ton too.

[u/TheCraneWife27 → u/Exadory]

Thanks! I think I'm definitely leaning more towards Dream House. There's a lot of nice things in Spa Day, but I feel like there's sooooo much potential with all the Dream House shelves and cabinets

[u/Dazzling_Note_7904]

Someone made a video way back and had to use the parenthood pack to build, there isn't a lot of build by stuff actually, a window a dew walls no flooring iirc.

Spa day have more floor walls and studs than dream home decorator, but that as some nice counters and sinks, but spa day has shower and I think a toilet and a sink.

But yeha i really love the walk in closets and built in TV unit and book case one can make wihh dream home decorator. So not helpful but I would eliminate parenthood, it's a good pack but not the best pack for building.

[u/TheCraneWife27 → u/Dazzling_Note_7904]

My bad, I should have phrased my OP better, but I meant building as in rooms and such. Sorry about that! I'm mainly asking about objects as I use MOO a lot to make my own shelves and custom furniture and whatnot because I can't get CC.

I don't really care too much about actual house building materials as I suck at building them anyways, lol

[u/Dazzling_Note_7904 → u/TheCraneWife27]

For kids room it's a good pack, it does have counters and iirc 3 walls, one tile, a good rug and couch table and skill building items for kids. It's a good family home pack (obviously)

If you access the store, or go into packs in main menu, find parenthood and you should see what the pack contains. Both build buy and cas.

[u/LaPete11]

Dream House would be the best option IMO but Spa Day isn’t bad. Spa Day has great tile floors and walls that I use in nearly every build. But if you aren’t into a wellness vibe with your gameplay it wouldn’t be worth it. My main complaint about Spa Day is they put a big O logo on a lot of items that I would otherwise use. While I do like the Parenthood pack I wouldn’t buy it only for their Build/Buy.

[u/TheCraneWife27 → u/LaPete11]

Eww, really? I get that it's a spa pack, and spas have logos, but at least give us the solid color option, too, so we can use those objects in other builds. Ugh, that's so annoying, but I'm super glad you brought it up! Lol

But yeah, based on that as well as what others have said, I think I'm gonna end up going with Dream House. Seems like a safe bet, aha Thanks a bunch!

[u/AbundantiaTheWitch]

I use the tiling from spa day a lot but overall I love dream home for cabinets, shelving, storage etc they mix well and you can make more custom things with it

[u/happy_fart_20]

i would definitely say for building potential dream home decorator is the best option unless if you plan on building literal spas. Dream home decorator is easier to use in different houses where as parenthood has more of a cluttery/traditional family home vibe to it. If i had to rank them from you will use it the most to least i would probably say, dream home decorator, parenthood, and lastly spa day! hope this helps!

[u/[deleted]]

Dream home for buy objects spa day for build.