I just did the theme challenge for the prizes. It really tired me out because of all the stuff I had to cram into rooms, so I left my house in the theme challenge setting for a week or two.
But I told Lyle to cram that theme challenge down his throat, and I'm starting to decorate my house the way I want to. I'll decide on exteriors later.
I decided to have a go at the HHA Theme Challenges (the one you unlock after paying off all of your loans), and I had to order myself furniture which fit into a category, only to get the Golden Parts. I had to remove all of my previous furniture and replace it with full furniture sets, and only those sets. I quit the challenge today because I couldn't be bothered anymore (plus, I somehow wasn't able to get any more points), so I changed back to my usual furniture items.
I just did whatever I wanted and somehow I've gotten all the prizes up to the gold trophy. Doubt I'm getting anything more than that though cause my house is basically done.
I never talk to Lyle either.
All you have to do is pimp out one of your rooms to max and assuming the outside also matches your theme you can unlock all the HHA stuff just with that. I did it, then set the room back the way I liked it and never spoke to Lyle again. Done and dusted. You don't have to install the gold exteriors or keep all your rooms Rococo'd for the rest of your life.
Yeah, I'm not gonna do it. I feel like the HHA is a ridiculous part of the game that takes away alot of the creative aspect of it since we can't even decorate our houses the way we want to. I might just buy the HHA prizes online, but I doubt it. They really don't seem like anything I'd want.
The HHA isn't fun to me it's just a bother,I don't really care for any of the prizes either.I'm not even checking Lyle anymore because I'm getting sick of going through all of his dialog.Sometimes I just throw items all over the floor in my house because I have nowhere else to put them and I somehow manged to get a higher score without even trying.I'm just going to decorate my house how I like and if I somehow manage to get a prize doing so it'll just be a bonus.