We all always have something to change at home. Always! Besides the fact that our home is a reflection of our personality, which is generally not static, it's the space where we spend most of our lives. It's only natural to want this space to be welcoming, functional, and beautiful, at the same time.
The big problem with making a change in our home is that sometimes we imagine something stylish and elegantly designed, but when we actually make the change, the reality is not what we imagined. Who hasn't thought that a sofa with chaise longue would look great in their living room only to find that it doesn't fit and everything feels cluttered? Or imagined a bookcase to organize our books and personal objects, which in theory was fantastic for the office, but once it was assembled everything somehow became even more chaotic?
To avoid these headaches and heartbreaks, the solution is often to imagine, test, and experiment. To do just that, there's nothing better than using some decoration games that give you the opportunity, without having to spend a cent. Yes, home decorating games that help you manage space, master the art of building your own nest and decorating it with the best and most suitable options for your tastes and needs. What's more, they are a great source of fun. That's what decoration games are for!
If you want to get decorating, avoid headaches, and have fun while doing it, then to help you in this task, the website Salão de Jogos (Game Room) has prepared for idealista/news a list of 5 games to decorate houses:
Property Brothers: Home Design
The famous brother duo Drew and Jonathan Scott from the TV series of the same name now have a game for smartphones. Just like in the TV show, you'll have to renovate spaces or build them from scratch to make all the dreams of potential buyers or owners come true.
To earn coins to buy the best furniture, the most luxurious materials, or the most elegant design objects, you have to overcome some challenges or mini-games, in the style of Tetris, for example. The more coins you earn, the more options you have.
If you are a fan of the series, apart from having a game to provide you with ideas for your own home, you can get to know a little more about the programme and its presenters.
Available for smartphones on both Android and iOS.
House Flipper
This is a tidying and decorating game, that also involves fixing up houses.
It is available for all platforms, from PC/Mac through consoles and smartphones and its main challenge is to buy houses and renovate them to sell.
Buy at a low price, get to work with demolition, painting, cleaning, and decorating, so that you can sell them at a profit. A real dream for those who want to awaken the decorator in them.
It's a great game to help you understand what kind of building work you can do in your house, but also what this involves and what materials to use. A little construction manual if you like.
The Sims 4 Cottage Living
The new expansion for the PC and Mac game gives you the chance to take your sims to a picturesque village, grow and harvest produce, raise animals, and connect with nature. We can say it's a realistic home decorating game.
As with any game in the Sims franchise, creating your space is a fundamental part of your digital life, of course, but in this case, you'll be able to live a slightly more peaceful life than in the big urban centres of other games. It's a real home design game for PC.
This game is ideal for all those who are thinking of renovating their holiday or leisure space because they can create a more rustic and sustainable environment, with a small farm on the side to live off nature. There's no life like the countryside, is there?
Design Home
This one is a typical home decoration game. Here your good taste will be put to the test through other players voting on the projects. A real home design show, but online. Basically, you have to decorate an area of your house that the game directs you to, your living room for example.
If your project collects a lot of points, you can use them to buy new furniture and decoration objects for the next levels. The most interesting thing is that this decoration game uses creations from different brands that actually exist.
Oh, and it's available for free on smartphones with Android or iOS.
Home Design Makeover
The concept of this game is similar to Design Home, where the idea is to decorate real houses, but the mechanics are a bit different.
In this game, you have to redesign the environment of a room, changing the colours of the walls, the fabrics of the sofa, or placing objects of elegant design. We can say that this is, essentially, an interior design game. The only difference is that here, in order to get the money to buy those objects or pay for the necessary services, you have to play Candy Crush style puzzle mini-games. And of course, the more you play, the more money you have for your works. Just like in real life, but faster.
This game is available for free for Android and iOS.
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