Build & Create-a-Sim
The Fixer-Upper
The worst lot in town — derelict, ugly, unloved — and your Sim sees potential where everyone else sees a teardown.
✦ Set your packs to confirm this works for you
Type
Build
Difficulty
Hard
Length
Multi-session
Best for
Builders who love before-and-after transformations
Difficulty (1–5 plumbobs): 1 Casual · 2 Moderate · 3 Hard · 4 Brutal · 5 Extreme
📖 The story
The worst lot in town — derelict, ugly, unloved — and your Sim sees potential where everyone else sees a teardown. Strip it back, rebuild it, and turn the neighbourhood eyesore into its showpiece.
💝 The goal
Take a deliberately run-down, low-value lot and renovate it into a **high-value, showcase home**.
🎀 Packs required
✓ Base game only
Packs recommended
None
🏡 Setup
LotA run-down, low-value home
Funds§50,000
AgingAny
SimsOptional residents to live test
🚀 Getting started
- Build (or download) a genuinely rough starter home, then renovate it room by room into something beautiful.
⌨️ Cheats to type
testingcheats truemoney 50000📋 General rules
- Start from a genuinely poor-condition build.
- Renovate rather than demolish-and-replace — keep the bones where you can.
- End in clearly high-value, polished condition.
✨ Specific rules
- Document the "before" so the transformation is visible.
- Improve every room — structure, fixtures and décor.
- The finished home should look like the best on its street.
✅ What you can do
- Start from a deliberately run-down, low-value lot; renovate with earned funds or a set budget; use `bb.moveobjects`.
- Capture a clear before-and-after.
⛔ What you can't do
- Renovate rather than fully bulldoze — keep the bones and improve them.
- The finished home must be genuinely high-value and livable.
🎯 Objectives — complete the checklist
0 of 5 done · 0%
🎮 If you don't own the packs
Fully base-game.
💡 Strategy tips
- Fix function first (a working kitchen and bath), then layer in style.
- Small structural tweaks — moving a wall, adding windows, raising the roof — transform a space more than furniture alone.
- Keep one or two "original" features as a tasteful nod to the home's humble past.
💕 Milestones — track your progress
0 of 5 done · 0%
🔥 Want it harder?
- Renovate on a strict §15,000 budget instead of §50,000.
- Keep the **entire original footprint and roofline** — interior and finishes only.
🎭 Variations
A "flip" version where you renovate, sell (roleplay), and move to the next worst lot in town. ---
A community renovation/fixer-upper build format. · Last tested: Patch 1.108 — Feb 2026