interior design- do i need to buy furniture ? can I sell afterwards ?

[Frank Bullitt]

when desiging interior... Do I need to BUY the furnitures with ingame money I have to grind for ? Or are the furnitures for free ?

If I have to buy furnitures, can I sell them again for the same amount of money afterwards to try out a olt of different styles ?

[Nemesys9999]

Yes, you have to buy them.
Yes, you can sell them.
But for the jobs, you have a budget (not your own money) you have to respect (so no "wild" selling and buying !).
When you buy a house, your only limit will be your own money ...

[tatiana]

Yes.

For the base game email jobs you are told almost exactly what to buy - the only thing you can choose is the furniture colours. However, the payment for the job is always much more than the amount you spend. The Garden DLC and Apocalypse DLC emails work the same way.

For the Luxury, HGTV and Pets DLCs the clients give you a generous budget for the jobs - so it's their money you are spending, not your own. In every other way, they are similar to base game jobs, although they tend to be the entire house, not just some of the rooms.

When it comes to Browser houses, you use your own money. However, I've never heard of anyone running out of funds by accident.

Items Always sell for less than you buy them for. However, most Browser houses come with some items included, for you to decide what you wish to sell and/or replace.

[Frank Bullitt]

Oh no

Ty for the info.
So, if you buy the game and just wanna have fun to try out different interior design styles you gotta do a lot of stuff like following the story, cleaning up, doing stuff and design you are told to do ?
You cannot just try out a lot of interior styles on every house without doing grinding story tasks, even if you buy luxury DLC and just want to design interior rooms in different ways?

So maybe the new game builder simulation coming out today is better for interior design right from the start.
but it hasn’t got workshop items :-(

[tatiana]

Originally posted by Frank Bullitt:

Oh no

Ty for the info.
So, if you buy the game and just wanna have fun to try out different interior design styles you gotta do a lot of stuff like following the story, cleaning up, doing stuff and design you are told to do ?
You cannot just try out a lot of interior styles on every house without doing grinding story tasks, even if you buy luxury DLC and just want to design interior rooms in different ways?

So maybe the new game builder simulation coming out today is better for interior design right from the start.
but it hasn’t got workshop items :-(

Each order is its own little story. There is no overall storyline in the game itself.

The orders in the base game, the ones that are like a tutorial for various game features, take, on average, half an hour each. There are about 20 in total, with some taking less than 10 minutes, and only the two last ones taking over an hour each. The total time to complete All base game orders (about 20 of them) is about 10 hours. Which is the same amount of time it took me to design One house (the big one) in the Luxury DLC after I've bought it in the Browser.

I have started multiple playthroughs of HF over the years, but my latest, and longest, playthrough is over 250 hours. I haven't done any gardening in that one, and I still have about 10 of the houses left to flip. I have all the DLCs, so about 73 houses in total. Of these, Luxury DLC has 12 houses. So spending 10 hours doing a walkthrough of game basics is not a grind at all by comparison.

The base game has 28 houses. More get added to the base game free of charge 3 times a year - April, Easter, Halloween. They get added to the Browser automatically - no need to unlock.

Completing all the base game orders earns you enough money to buy your first Browser house. The DLC jobs take about 1-2 hours each, but are something you can do in your own time when you feel like it.

Cleaning is a skill that you level up. Once it is maxed out, tidying up a 150 sq. m house takes about 10 minutes. You can also level up painting, installing and wall demolition skills.

So 98% of House Flipper is fun and creativity, with amazing value for your money. Don't forget that all items in all DLCs are usable in all properties, so I, personally, hardly ever use the Workshop. It's there if you need it though.

[Lailantie]

If you don't like to do the mini story jobs, you can use skill points so that you can finish earlier and earlier. But as far as I understand, you need to do them so you will get the house on your buy list (please others correct me if I'm wrong). I'm not a fan of these jobs personally, but I see them as inspiration as they introduce me to furniture or decoration I never noticed before.