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The Dream Home Decorator pack for The Sims 4 adds new dimension to home renovations by allowing your Sim to become an interior decorator. You can join the active career and take on gigs to renovate homes around town, bringing your touch to the drab, pre-built homes.

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The career is more complex than just choosing a house to redo – it offers goals, preferences, and opinions. However, sometimes the mechanics of the game straight up interfere with your vision, and who has time to spend hours and hours building a reputation? These cheats will help you smooth the path to success.

Updated September 3, 2023, by Sean Murray: These Sims 4 interior design cheats will help spruce up your home or your career without having to work too hard. And since everyone loves getting a freebie, we've refreshed this guide with a few new links to help you with other areas of your Sims' digital life too.

Dream Home Decorator Cheats

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To access cheats, you need to press CTLR + SHIFT + C on PC/Mac or all four shoulder buttons at the same time on console.

This will display a text box in the top left corner of the screen. Into this, first enter:

testingcheats on

If the code is successful, you should see a confirmation saying that cheats are enabled. If it doesn't, work you can replace the word "on" with "true."

Once cheats are enabled, you can add any other cheat codes by typing them into the same box.

These cheats are specific to the new game pack and allow you to quickly advance your career.

If you want a quick promotion you can use:

careers.promote deco

or

careers.promote interior

Each time the cheat is entered, you'll gain one career level, all the way up to ten.

If you want to move back down simply replace "promote" with "demote."

You can also unlock the new Create-a-Sim outfits that are blocked by career progression by using the following cheat:

cas.unlockbytagGP10

The cheats above are exclusive to the Dream Home Decorator game pack.

For more general decoration cheats that will also help in your career, head onto the next section.

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Build Mode Cheats That Are Useful For The Interior Design Career

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If you're building in The Sims 4 interior design career, then there are a few cheats that can help you to decorate more freely.

Build Mode Cheats And Shortcuts In The Sims 4 That Add To The Interior Design Career

Cheat Code

PC, Mac, and Console

Effect

bb.moveobjects on

Enable the ability to hold the alt button as you place items, you can place them wherever you'd like without paying mind to the grid

bb.showhiddenobjects

Displays several clutter items that are not normally in the Build/Buy catalog (clutter like glasses, dishes, etc.)

bb.showliveeditobjects

Displays debug environmental and plant items in the Build/Buy catalog (trees, rocks, etc. that can't be purchased normally)

bb.ignoregameplayunlocksentitlement

Unlocks the career progression rewards in Buy Mode without needing to reach that milestone yourself

Shortcuts

PC and Mac

Console

Effect

9 and 0

D-Pad Arrows *

Raise and lower an object's height freely and set it anywhere *

[ and ]

D-Pad Arrows and L2/R2

Increase or decrease the size of items

* While PC/Mac players can do this freely, console players must be raise or lower objects against a wall in order to make the cheat work.

Sims may be unable to use objects in-game if you've made them too large, too small, too close together, or partially inaccessible.

You may want to play-test your builds if possible to see if everything is functional.

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