Decoration

Decorations (also know as clutter items, Deco for short) are a category of items that a player can use in buy mode to decorate a residential lot or community lot. Depending on the content packs a player owns, the category may include, but is not limited to, rugs, house plants, posters, paintings, sculptures and statues.

Most of these objects improve the environment in varying degrees; more expensive items usually have a higher rating. In addition, some decorative objects have useful functions. For example, the scarecrow in The Sims: Unleashed can deter garden pests, and the lightning rod in The Sims 2: Seasons reduces the chance that objects (and Sims) on a lot will be struck by lightning. Most decorative objects, however, cannot be interacted with other than simply being viewed by Sims.

Mirrors also offer different interactions, especially in The Sims 2 and later games.

There are also decorations for just neighborhoods/worlds that can only be placed outside of lots. The Sims 2 even provides various of ambient emitting decoration effects that can be used to make the neighborhood will alive. Following list of decorations:
 * Animals: Ducks, geese, crows and pigeons, pigeons, birds, swans.
 * Flora: wildflowers (blue and purple, orange, pink, blue, yellow), (three types of) farm fields, trees (in various shapes and quantities).
 * Industrial: carousel, turbine windmill, confetti, searchlights, steam, rising smoke, musical notes.
 * Landmarks: alleys, billboards, powerplant, observatory, barn, moai, silo, cooling tower, ancient hedge, ancient ruins, various street banners, signs, (two of different direction) road signs, town sign, traffic signs, (two types of) lighthouses, various windmills, road arch, gate arch, gate flank, gate pillar, cone(s), construction horse, grate, manhole, aqueduct, stone bridge, radio telescope, radio tower, water tower, water tank, fire hydrant, telephone poles,
 * Natural phenomena: clouds, rainbow, ocean surf.
 * Terrains.
 * Vehicles: a stream train track, monorail, (two types of) planes, blimp, helicopter, hang glider, hot air baloon, gondolas, sailboat.

The Sims 2
In TS2, decorations are categorize into six groups: indoor plants, statues, paintings, mirrows, curtains and rugs. Indoor plants come in many forms of placement (floor stands, as clutter on table surfaces, wall or ceiling-hung) and, in later games as well, can't no longer be water as they don't wither or die from dehydration. Statues range from small decoration to clutter things like coffee tales or counters to oversize statues that reqire a lot of available space. The Selection of paintings catalog consist of wall-hung item (such as variety of masks), posters and portrays.

Although not labeled, baloons can be classified as decorative objects.

Special items
Certain objects that are found under deco category have unique features to them.

ClubCube by Luminescent Projections
Environment: 5

Open/Closed Sign of War and Commerce
With this sign, an owned business can be closed and opened at will by any member of the business owner's household or the manager. The sign can also be used to send all employees home, or call them all in to work, but cannot be used to call in individual employees.

The HottCorp Burning 8-R Series Fire Jet
Sims can roast marshmallows using this object. If Sims aren't careful enough, they can set themselves on fire when roasting. Flammable items that are too close to it can also catch on fire.

Environment: 5