Furniture that has +environment-what does this mean?

[Wonderfreak]

So basically what the subject says. Not sure if anyone else has been curious but with the more expensive furniture it has +environment. Is this because it adds to the fire meter more than other furniture or because it boosts the sims' comfort/environment? My fiancee thinks it adds to the fire meter and I think it's the other But it could be something else entirely...
Does anybody know?

[Grim Reaper]

I found this on The Sims Wiki:

Room (The Sims and console games of The Sims 2 and The Sims 2 Pets) and Environment (The Sims 2 and The Sims Stories) are needs. Although this need is not in The Sims 3 and The Sims Medieval, object catalogs still mention Environment.

The Room/Environment meter is often overlooked, and is a combined rating that analyzes the design and content of the room that the Sim is currently standing in. Different factors can affect this motive; for example, Sims don't like small rooms, or rooms with not enough light or windows, nor do they like dead fish in the aquarium, dead plants, walls with no texture on them, foundations with no floor texture on them, dirty plates, puddles or ash piles, or dirty or broken objects. Certain purchases will improve the room rating, such as expensive fireplaces, sculptures, landscaping, or paintings.


The first part mentions environment and the second part talks about what it means in the sims games.

[Wonderfreak]

Oh thanks for looking that up you didn't have to. LOL I've noticed a moodlet sometimes when I forgot to paint a part of a wall or something..sent me crazy trying to find it :p this article definitely cleared things up..I've been curious for ages. ...thanks again!

[Grim Reaper]

Oh thanks for looking that up you didn't have to. LOL I've noticed a moodlet sometimes when I forgot to paint a part of a wall or something..sent me crazy trying to find it :p this article definitely cleared things up..I've been curious for ages. ...thanks again!

No problem.  I've sort of wanted to know as well.  Yeah I noticed that if a certain room isn't painted or is incomplete in some way it brings down your sims mood and you get an icon in their mood menu that shows that.