The Sims 4 Blooming Rooms Kit Review — Bloom Where You’re Planted!

The Sims 4 released their Blooming Rooms Kit on November 9th, making this the 8th Kit to release in 2021. In comparison, they have only released 1 Expansion Pack with Cottage Living, 1 Game Pack with Dream Home Decorator, and 1 Stuff Pack with Paranormal Stuff in 2021. I absolutely enjoyed all of the major content, and most of the Kits, and I am always happy for more content to play with, as I don’t use CC, and use the Gallery items sparingly.

Blooming Rooms gives us a lot of greenery to liven up our homes and outdoor areas. It’s literally nothing but plants, in some shape or form, be it attached to lighting, in the form of cool glass tables, shelving, or entire walls of plants. I decided to use my Cottage Living family for the Blooming Rooms Kit review, because it seemed to fit with the whole country theme they have going on.

There is a super cute vine curtain that they added with this Kit that looked fantastic on most of my windows. Some of them got wonky and they wouldn’t center properly on it, but I enjoyed the way it looked on the windows I was able to add it to.

The glass end table and foyer table manage to look both modern and laid back at the same time, and they combined well with the “String-of-Pearls” hanging light planter. The other planted light option looked good on my patio for ambiance at night, as they are a bit bigger and sit on the floor rather than hanging from the ceiling.

There are several cute shelves, my favorite being the one that looks like tea containers with the hilarious name “Twee Tea Planters by Simergy Tea Sensations”. The “Wall of Verdant Vases” is very flexible and can be used in various settings, whereas the “Greenholm Greenhouse Shelf” is a bit more obnoxious and didn’t really look great in any location I placed it.

The “Houseplant Hobbyist Shelving” is a nice addition to the game, and someone more skilled with building than myself could probably make something really cool built around this. But alas, my building skills are minimal with The Sims 4, so it just sits in my upstairs loft looking cute with some “Therapeutic Ficus” pots.

My absolute favorite thing from Blooming Rooms are the precious animal vases, “Suburb Nasturtiums”! There are 12 different color combinations, and change into a dog, piggie, or hedgehog depending on which variation. They are small and can fit on any end table or desk with ease, and are simply smile inducing. Second place would have to go to the “Propagation Station”, where you can see two avocado seeds growing in glass water bottles. As someone who has done this many times in real life, it was cool to see it in The Sims 4, and they even included the root system! If designing your own room isn’t your thing, they have included a Styled Room called “Plant Lovers Patio” that is all jazzed up and ready to place on your existing Lot!

Now, do I think that the Blooming Rooms Kit is a “must have” for your collection? Mmmm, that one is hard for me to say, because I am not the kind of player who can look at one item and see an amazing build out of it. It’s a lot of plants and planted furniture that add to your home to make it feel lived in and cozy, but in my opinion it doesn’t add much else. Courtyard Oasis had some fantastic build items which looked very exotic and different from what we already had…I LOVED that Kit, and it inspired me to branch out and try building stuff on my own which I rarely ever do. Incheon Arrivals and Fashion Street gave us clothing items, even the Industrial Loft Kit gave us a lot of mix and match flexible items that you could use in just about any space.

Blooming Rooms has some great items, but not all of them work in every space. Plus, in my opinion we already had some plant/garden type items with the Romantic Garden Stuff from 2016, which I think would be money better spent if you had to compare the two. Granted, the Stuff packs cost a lot more than the Kits, but I feel like it had more to offer in terms of garden or greenery items.

Either way, the price for The Sims 4 Blooming Rooms Kit (and all other Kits) is only $4.99, which won’t break the bank. I did have fun playing with the new items in the kit, and my house looks much better than it did before. It just didn’t leave me with that excited feeling I have had with a few of their other Kits that released this year.

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