User blog:Soosieloo/Community decorating Tips, Advice, and Commiserations

For those of us that enjoy decorating and playing with all our stored decorations, I thought it might be cool to have a place where anyone can post tips and ideas to make the process simpler. Perhaps with sharing we can make the whole experience better for all.

My personal favorite tips to share are to:

1. create a big blank space to begin with.

2. make a temporary storage space in my village area.

To achieve this one has to first find the area to redecorate, then ruthlessly store a wide swath of decorations, stores, and what not in order to have a clear space to work with. If while storing you come upon items you wish to vendor, do it at that point and skip the process later of having to find the duplicates in inventory, placing them on your village surface and then vendoring.



Into that empty space, I then start the long task of going thru the inventory and dropping any items I have a fancy to play with. As I work thru the 1500 items I start to get a feel for what I want to do theme-wise and start to narrow my drops accordingly. I dont care where I drop the items, my goal is to just remove them from inventory and put them on my village surface. Why I do this drop and roll process is to avoid as much as possible the inventory sorting. If I have enough decorations dropped, then I can shift, move and decorate from that  'temporary storage '  space (the cleared space in my village) much easier than choosing each item one at a time from inventory.

Once you have your 'theme' chosen, and have decided on the main big pieces, then you can put up the pieces that you decided not to use this time, and then starts the really tedious process of going thru the inventory and selecting each filler piece. This can go on for days as most of you know as you try and find small pieces to fit color and shape wise, but the worst part is over with, making the space, finding your theme and placing the big items for that idea.



The other big tip I can offer is to do it at a time when you are 'in the mood' for it. Realize its going to take days and work in shifts. I love to put on a movie, one where I do not have keep my eyes on it to enjoy, and before I know it a couple of hours have gone by effortlessly.

If you find yourself clinching because yet again lag has made you choose the wrong item from inventory and you have to slog back thru 1435 items yet again, then take a break from it.

After all, we do this for fun right? right?? not because we are insane ... RIGHT??!! hahahahahahhahahahhahahahhaaaa................................



Please let me know of any tricks and tips you all might have!