The Sims 2: Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• Give your Sims the right attire and accessories to enjoy their brand-new kitchens and bathrooms including a hair turban, spa mask, cooking aprons and luxuriant cashmere pullovers for around the house.
• Update your Sims' kitchen with that sleek new look you've been dreaming about with a stylish refrigerator, food processor, toaster oven, and more.
• Renovate the kitchen into the warmest room in the house with romantic touches including new themed wallpaper, wood-carved counters, and ceiling-mounted hanging pot racks.
• Make your Sims' bath time a modern experience with contemporary design options such as elegant sectional mirrors, quad-quadrant ceiling lighting with a modern flair, and graceful countertop basin sinks.
• Indulge your Sims in a romantic bathroom complete with cozy new tiles, fancy towel racks, romantic paintings, designer rugs, and much more.

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0012GUAII
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches ; 4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: April 15, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,814 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #27 in Video Games > PC Games > Simulation > Life

Product Description

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Must-Have Stuff to Redesign Your Sims’ Kitchens and Bathrooms!

Electronic Arts continues to release solid expansions for the ever popular Sims series and Kitchens and Bathrooms is definitely no exception. Redesign your Sims’ essential living areas into the most luxurious of spaces. Transform the bathroom into a romantic getaway with charming claw-foot bathtubs and calming lighting fixtures or give it a contemporary twist with beautiful glass showers, basin sinks, and more. Renovate your Sims’ home and really begin to class up their lives with tons of different appliances and clothing to choose from.

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Redesign your kitchen as you upgrade it with sleek appliances on granite counter tops or romantic natural wood cabinets next to wrought iron stoves. Outfit your Sims in the perfect clothes and accessories to enjoy their lavish new rooms, from sumptuous spa robes to designer cooking aprons. Be your Sims’ personal interior designer! Give them the kitchens and bathrooms of their dreams with a variety of new furniture, décor, and outfits! With Kitchen & Bath Design Stuff your Sim life will have even more options available with the incredibly popular franchise.

Game Features:

• Outfit your Sims— Give your Sims the right attire and accessories to enjoy their brand-new kitchens and bathrooms including a hair turban, spa mask, cooking aprons and luxuriant cashmere pullovers for around the house.
• Contemporary Appliances— Update your Sims’ kitchen with that sleek new look you’ve been dreaming about with a stylish refrigerator, food processor, toaster oven, and more.
• Charming Kitchens— Renovate the kitchen into the warmest room in the house with romantic touches including new themed wallpaper, wood-carved counters, and ceiling-mounted hanging pot racks.
• Modern Bath Designs— Make your Sims’ bath time a modern experience with contemporary design options such as elegant sectional mirrors, quad-quadrant ceiling lighting with a modern flair, and graceful counter top basin sinks.
• Bathroom of your Dreams— Indulge your Sims in a romantic bathroom complete with cozy new tiles, fancy towel racks, romantic paintings, designer rugs, and much more.

System Requirements:
Requires The Sims™ 2, The Sims™ 2 Special DVD Edition, The Sims™ 2 Holiday Edition, or The Sims™ 2 Deluxe to play.

OS: Windows Vista, XP, Me, 2000, or 98
Installed: The Sims 2 for Windows
CPU: 1.0 GHz or faster
RAM: 256 MB or more
Disc Drive: 8x or faster CD/DVD drive
Hard Drive: At least 350 MB of free space
Sound: DirectX 9.0 compatible
Video: DirectX 9.0 compatible
Video card must have 32 MB or more memory and one of these T&L capable chipsets:
ATI Radeon 8500 or greater; NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS or greater;

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very welcome addition, April 17, 2008

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Katherine J. Keller "Deaconess Katie Keller" (Rock Springs, WY) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Sims 2: Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff (Video Game)

In real life, my two favorite places are the kitchen and the bathroom. So naturally, I enjoy creating the same for my Sims. I hadn't really enjoyed how limiting it could be before to really give a homey kitchen and relaxing bathroom. Whether the Sim gods heard me or I just got lucky, Kitchen and Bath is a welcome addition.

You have loads of new objects for your kitchen and bathrooms to make them romantic or stylish. And the Sims benefit too with new hair styles, bathrobes and pajamas (finally adults get new jammies that don't look like like long underwear), and, of course, new wardrobe. Even 2 new houses to fit the romantic or modern mood.

At this point, there's very little that I could say is bad about the new expansion, however, with so many new objects for your Sims, you might find yourself not knowing where to begin. But hey, them's the breaks.

Overall, while nothing completely extraordinary about the newest pack, I have to agree that your Sim game library will definately benefit.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It comes broken from EA Games - Disappointment!, July 9, 2008

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CDR Shepard "...and this is my favorite store... (United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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Pros:

The items are more modern, and probably account for the most coordinated group of The Sims 2 objects EA Games/Maxis has ever put out. I was under the impression for years now that Maxis employees were all locked in separate rooms and given separate assignments and not allowed to know what their co-workers were creating so nothing would be able to match!

So it was a nice surprise to find coordinating appliances and floor and wall treatments.

Cons:
Do you have the Seasons and FreeTime Expansion Packs installed? If you do, you will find that the new interactions that these two add-ons bring to the game are *not usable* on Kitchen and Bath Interior Design Stuff pack objects.

That's right - if you have Seasons, you can't get leftovers out of the new K&B fridges. If you have FreeTime, you can't Tinker with any of the K&B appliances or fixtures.

And because it is a Stuff Pack, EA Games does not provide a patch. Your best bet is to download a patch from a third party custom content site. I had to use object editor tools to fix the interactions on custom fridges I had. There is a patch out for FreeTime that might correct this, but I'm not sure since I had already fixed it by another method by the time the patch was put out by Maxis/EA.

I somehow expected better from Maxis fridges, especially since Seasons and FreeTime have been out long before Kitchen & Bath was released.

While not a show stopper for some, it was sloppy work by Maxis/EA to not make the objects fully compatible with other The Sims 2 expansions they had already published.

EDIT: While I hand corrected the interactions on custom fridges, I was not about to do that to the maxis objects. There is a creator out there called "Lord Darcy" who does make patches to Maxis created/broken objects. You can google this name with "The Sims" and find his fixes easily.

25 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice stuff but there's one glitch- some refrigerator options missing, April 17, 2008

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K. D. Wells (Northern CA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Sims 2: Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff (Video Game)

There are quite a few nice looking items to spruce up our sims kitchens & baths. Lovely walls and floors and a couple of nice hairstyles too, which is a plus. I definitely wouldn't pay $19.99 for it, or for any other stuff pack. I always try to find the best sale I can because I think twenty dollars is too much for a stuff pack.

That being said, there's a small issue that seems to indicate a rather sloppy oversight. The refridgerators do not have the options from Seasons to get leftovers and they do not have the options from Free Time to make snack platters. You'll need Lord Darcy's fix from MoreAwesomeThanYou to be able to have those options. Would be nice if EA provided a fix but they never fixed the Celebrations Stuff wedding arch so that it could be used for weddings on community lots (a feature added with Bon Voyage), the Teen Style Stuff computer is missing options included in other expansions, and the Glamour Life special TV you could get from BestBuy is missing Free Time options to watch movies. I'd be surprised if they fix this. Luckily they've all been fixed by Lord Darcy though.

That being said, it's still a pretty nice stuff pack. EA, in the future would you please check stuff like this? Seems to show a real lack of consideration for your fans that you didn't take 5 minutes to check that options from previous expansions would be available on the new objects.