The Sims 4 City Living expansion pack introduced graffiti into the game. Your sim’s graffiti ability is linked to their painting skill – the higher their painting skill level, the more types of graffiti they are able to do. Completing a piece of graffiti takes a few hours but you can get other sims to help you.
Completed murals will add a decorated atmosphere to any room, but will deteriorate over time. If you dislike a mural, you can deface it and gain mischief skill at the same time. Your sim can restore any mural that has begun to deteriorate or has been defaced, even if it is of a higher level than your sim’s painting skill.
Sims 4 Mural Locations
You can find ready placed mural spots in the following locations:
- The square of the Spice Market, near the Waterside Warble
- There are two floor mural spots in the main square of the Arts Quarter
- There is a floor mural spot and a wall mural spot in the back garden of the Casbah Gallery in the Arts Quarter
You can also buy a floor mural spot, a wall mural spot, or garage doors to place in your property or on any public lot where there is space. Floor and wall mural spots cost $135, whereas the two types of garage doors both cost $750. You can walk over floor murals but you can not place furniture on top of them.
Sims 4 Mural Unlocks with the Painting Skill
Do your Sims long to leave the suburbs behind? Fulfill their dreams in the diverse city of San Myshuno, where they can discover exciting neighborhoods, move into a new apartment, check out fun festivals and more. In The Sims™ 4 City Living your Sims can experience the joys and challenges of sharing close quarters with other Sims. The Sims 4: City Living is the earliest expansion to add a number of important features including apartments, table sales, and battered furniture. It also added the first work from home careers as well as some diverse food stalls and clothing.
Your sim is able to start the following wall or floor mural styles at the following levels:
- Level 1 – Spray Graffiti, Political Mural, Cultural Mural
- Level 3 – City Mural
- Level 5 – Nature Mural
- Level 7 – Optical Illusion Mural
- Level 9 – Figure Mural
Your sim can work on murals of a higher level than they have painting skill in, as long as they have already been started by another sim. They can also restore defaced or deteriorated murals of a higher level.
See Also:
- Sims 4 Mischief Skill
Sims 4 City Living introduced apartments, warehouses and penthouses into the game. Your sim does not own their apartment, but instead pays a weekly rent. You can not change the exterior walls of an apartment but you can completely redesign the interior, including knocking down interior walls and replacing all the furniture.
With penthouses, you own the lot and pay weekly bills based on the value of your furniture and the property. You can build additional floors and knock down exterior walls. However, you can build up but can not build basements. Warehouses operate just like normal lots, with weekly bills. You can completely knock them down and add basements as well as adding additional floors and changing the exterior.
Warehouses and penthouses can become public lots by changing the lot type in build buy mode. So if you wanted to add, say a penthouse museum to the city you can do it in build buy mode, or directly in modify world mode.
All apartments, warehouses and penthouses come with lot traits. For more information see our lot traits guide.
Sims 4 Apartment Features
Each apartment block comes with a communal area where you can meet your neighbours, put out the rubbish and get your mail.
Sims 4 Community Noticeboard
There is also a community noticeboard in each apartment block which will give you information about festivals and your sim and their neighbours can leave notes for each other. If you leave a note while in a positive mood, the sim who reads it will get a happy buff. If your sim writes a note while angry it will be a passive-aggressive note, and will give the reader a tense moodlet.
The noticeboard will also give information about upcoming festivals about a day before they start. You can click on the noticeboard to read information about the festival. If the festival is on while you are reading about it, you can use the noticeboard to travel to the festival.
Sims 4 Garbage Chute
Your sims can empty their rubbish bins into the garbage chute in the communal area. It functions just like an outdoor bin, with the exception that you can not “rummage” in it as the rubbish has already gone once you throw it out. Every now and then the garbage chute will break down. You can either attempt to fix it yourself or call the landlord to come and fix it for you.
Sims 4 Landlords
If you have an apartment, you will also have a landlord. Your landlord will be in your relationships panel, and when you hover over them it will say landlord in their information panel. You can call your landlord round when something in the apartment breaks, but they may refuse to fix it if you do not have a very good relationship, so it makes sense to be on good terms with your landlord.
Sims 4 Neighbours
With apartment living comes neighbours. You may find that your neighbours pop round if they smell something good cooking, or hear something interesting going on, or simply if they are bored. You can choose to accept to feed them/hang out with them, or decline. If you become friends with them you can even give them a key so they can come and go as they please.
Once in a while you will hear them making too much noise, either from arguments or partying or even too noisy woohoo. This will make your sim either angry or tense. Your sim will not be able to sleep when there is too much noise. Your sim can knock on the door of the offending sim’s apartment door and complain about the noise. Sometimes they will be considerate and keep the noise down at other times you may loose a little bit of your relationship if they think you are being unreasonable.
Moving Apartments in the Sims 4 City Living
At some point you may want to move out of your starter apartment to a bigger space, or one with better lot traits. To do this you can simply click on the phone and under the travel tab, and choose the “Move Household”. You will have to have enough money to pay the deposit and to buy all the furniture in the apartment for the option to be available for you, even if you then decide to rent it unfurnished.
If you have your eye on a particular apartment, but can not afford the furniture, you can go into modify world mode, select your target apartment and bulldoze down the lot. This will remove all the furniture and interior walls, but will bring the furniture costs down to zero. This will make your moving costs a lot cheaper, but make sure you have some money set aside to add essentials such as toilets!
Some apartments cover more than one floor, which you can spot by the arrow next to the apartment image, when you are choosing an apartment.
The apartments on offer are as follows:
The Spice Market
| Address | Weekly Rent | Deposit | Furnished Cost | Bulldozed Cost | Bedrooms | Bathrooms | Traits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Culpepper House | $400 | $800 | $8,095 | $0 | 1 | 1 | Gremlins |
| 18 Culpepper House | $600 | $1000 | $11,090 | $0 | 1 | 1 | Historic, Haunted |
| 19 Culpepper House | $600 | $550 | $18,335 | $0 | 2 | 1 | Needs TLC |
| 20 Culpepper House (Occupied Rasoya) | $1200 | $1400 | $44,690 | $0 | 2 | 2 | Chef's Kitchen |
| 2A Jasmine Suites (Occupied Bheeda) | $400 | $800 | $25,675 | $0 | 1 | 1 | Good Schools, Romantic Aura |
| 2B Jasmine Suites | $500 | $1000 | $8,240 | $0 | 2 | 1 | Good Schools, On a Lay Line |
The Arts Quarter
| Address | Weekly Rent | Deposit | Furnished Cost | Bulldozed Cost | Bedrooms | Bathrooms | Traits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 910 Medina Studios (Occupied Benali) | $400 | $500 | $8,194 | $0 | 1 | 1 | Needs TLC |
| 920 Medina Studios | $1,000 | $800 | $29,380 | $0 | 2 | 1 | Haunted, Quiet |
| 930 Medina Studios | $1,200 | $1,000 | $17,545 | $0 | 3 | 1 | Penny Pixies, Gnomes |
| 121 Hakim House (Occupied Jang) | $1,200 | $4,800 | $46,904 | $0 | 2 | 1 | Home Studio |
| 122 Hakim House | $1,400 | $5,600 | $67,535 | $0 | 3 | 2 | Historical |
Sims 4 City Living Careers
The Fashion District
| Address | Weekly Rent | Deposit | Furnished Cost | Bulldozed Cost | Bedrooms | Bathrooms | Traits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 701 Zenview Apartments (Occupied by the Karaoke Legends) | $700 | $2,100 | $37,914 | $0 | 2 | 2 | Quakezone, Party Place |
| 702 Zenview Apartments | $1,200 | $4,800 | $37,065 | $0 | 2 | 2 | Quakezone |
| 1312 21 Chic Street (Occupied by Pizazz) | $400 | $600 | $20,264 | $0 | 1 | 1 | Lively Neighbours |
| 1313 21 Chic Street | $300 | £600 | $7,855 | $0 | 2 | 1 | Needs TLC |
Uptown
| Address | Weekly Rent | Deposit | Furnished Cost | Bulldozed Cost | Bedrooms | Bathrooms | Traits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1010 Alto Apartments | $3,500 | $15,500 | $100,215 | $0 | 4 | 3 | Chef's Kitchen |
| 1020 Alto Apartments (Occupied by Lobo) | $2,500 | $12,500 | $63,580 | $0 | 1 | 2 | Romantic Fireplace |
| VIII Landgrab | $5,000 | $25,000 | $98,420 | $0 | 2 | 2 | Great View, Serviced Apartment |
| IX Landgrab (Occupied by Feng),$3 | 750' | $16,500 | $76,630 | $0 | 1 | 2 | Great View |
| 888 Spire Apartments | $7,500 | $37,500 | $88,605$0 | 2 | 3 | Great View |
Sims 4 City Living
Warehouses and Penthouses in the Sims 4
If your sim wants to own their own property rather than rent, then they can purchase a penthouse or converted warehouse. You have complete freedom with building warehouses and penthouses and can knock down exterior walls or add additional floors to the building. You also do not have noisy neighbours to deal with as you own the whole floor. They are great choices if you have a larger family or are playing a legacy and need the space.
Most penthouses are quite expensive, but if you wanted to move into one earlier you could always bulldoze the site first and build it up from scratch. To do this you can enter modify world mode and bulldoze the site, and buy it for a lower price. You will completely level the building by doing this so make sure you want to go ahead before bulldozing. You will need to add a lift, garbage chute and mailbox for it to be a viable site.
The following warehouse and penthouses are available to buy:
| Address | District | Furnished Cost | Bulldozed Cost | Bedrooms | Bathrooms | Traits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Salt House | Spice Market | $113,263 | $9,000 | 3 | 2 | Convivial |
| Fountainview Penthouse | Arts Quarter | $83,188 | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | Good Soil, Natural Light |
| 1 Torendi Tower Penthouse | Fashion District | $244,343 | $31,514 | 3 | 3 | Party Place, Sunny Aspect |
Sims 4 City Living Festivals
Converting a Penthouse to a Public Lot
Sims 4 City Living Review
If you enter the manage worlds mode you can change a lot to a public lot, e.g. a museum, library, restaurant (with Dine Out Game pack), spa (with Spa Day game pack) or anything else you like, under the property information menu. You will have to place certain required items in order to make the building function, but they will tell you what they need in the building information panel.