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• How to create an office?
• How to completely (100%) paint a room?
• Bookshelves have no impact on the needs of buyers
• How to renovate houses perfectly?

How to create an office?

Some of the buyers in House Flipper will be happy to arrange one of their rooms as an office. Every neutral room can become an office when it has the following:

1. A Chair.
2. A Desk.
3. Cabinet or a bookshelf (a good option is the cheapest hanging shelf from the Other category that can be bought for ~50$).
4. Additionally, you also need to place the following items: an armchair, a painting or a carpet.

This type of room is quite unusual, because apart from accidentally placing these extra items inside, you might not guess that they are mandatory.

How to completely (100%) paint a room?

Contrary to appearances, painting a room completely is a trivial problem, although it often appears in House Flipper. To perfectly (100%) paint a room you must:

1. Place one layer of paint (at the beginning of the game, the character tries to put two of them at once - developing the Basic Painting skill from the Painting tree solves this problem);
2. Pay attention to the space behind the furniture, especially parts located under the windows;
3. Pain the inside of the windows - there are two vertical stripes per side to be painted. The second stripe is located almost in the window frame;
4. You do not have to paint fragments in the passages between rooms, as long there is a door located there.

Bookshelves have no impact on the needs of buyers

Despite placing a bookcase in Kall's room, it did not become an office - although it should.

In the early version of the House Flipper game (beta, as well as post-release), there is a common bug associated with meeting the needs of the buyers connected with wardrobes and bookshelves. They do not fulfill their roles, making it significantly harder to create rooms and satisfy the customers. The best solution for the moment (post-release version, 17th May, 2018) is to use only up / down hanging shelves (from the Other tab). Of course, you can still place other types of furniture in order to please your own aesthetic needs and increase the value of the flat / room, but do not forget about placing hanging shelves to meet the customers' requirements.

How to renovate houses perfectly?

Each of the potential buyers of flats in House Flipper has specific requirements. However, some of these requirements are mutual between different people; in others it differs entirely (like, for instance, the desire to have a TV in the bedroom). This chapter describes the "base", how the average building should look like to satisfy the needs of as many potential buyers as possible. Such preparation, regardless of the furniture, the choice of types of rooms or colors of walls will guarantee that the basic price of the auction will be high.

What is safe to place in every house?

You can never have too many paintings and carpets.

There are several types of items that cause positive feelings of buyers while remaining neutral for others. It is generally a good idea to have them in your home, especially if you are focused on making as much money as possible. Once the items are placed, you can choose the person who is currently the most interested in the building and increase his/her satisfaction by furnishing the apartment to his/her taste. Such items include:

1. Carpets - as object, not a floor texture (covering the entire floor of the room). 2-3 of them should be enough in every apartment. These are especially liked by older people and are required in some rooms (a children's room or an office);
2. Paintings - everyone likes paintings. You can put them in large quantities and in different places, standing or hanging. Beware of some images, like the ones presenting toys - they can be treated as toys themselves.
3. Bookshelves - sought out by almost everyone and no one should be offended that there are too many of them in the flat.
4. Wardrobes and dressers - they are often used as decorations, a place for other objects, as well as a container for clothes. They are rarely required, but they are effectively used to increase the value of the room / flat and are used to characterize (the room / flat) as modern or old-fashioned.
5. Sofas - a comfortable place to sit should be in every home, some people will be happy even when there is more than one in the house. You should be careful with the ones with pillows - one can sleep on them, so the game treats them as beds. This can suddenly turn a living room in a bedroom.

What elements are unnecessary?

There are many elements that, apart from the aesthetic function, have no impact on improving or worsening the moods of potential buyers. This group includes:

1. Shelves and cabinets that cannot be used to store clothes or books (like, for instance, hanging kitchen shelves).
2. Most of the decorations from the "other" category - such as a knife, a safe, a cutting board or a book. Although it may seem that they will somehow impact the value of the room, they are there only as fillers of space.
3. Chairs and armchairs - in excessive amount they are nothing more than a filler. They are, however, required in some rooms (like, for instance, a home library or an office).
4. Lamps - for some bizarre reason, your potential buyers do not pay any attention whether there is any lighting at home...
5. Elements of equipment present in the building after purchase - a large amount of cutlery and plates, bikes and similar items that you cannot purchase yourself are there only to fill the space. It is generally a better idea to just sell them to earn some money.