Half the fun of The Sims 4 is playing virtual architect. Players spend hours building the perfect house for their sims to live, laugh, love, and wreak havoc in. With the upcoming Cottage Living expansion out soon, plenty of people will be returning to the game, making very cozy and very flammable farms.

For meticulous and detail-oriented designers, The Sims 4 allows players to manually rotate objects. This can help make a space feel more realistic and lived-in. (Well, as realistic as a possible a vampire's lair can be.)

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But the game is slightly unclear on how to do it. Thankfully it's easy to pick up, and players are not lacking options. There are three different ways to rotate objects and each one offers a different level of control.

Each one of these methods starts by opening Build Mode. Once in Build Mode, select an object with the mouse's left-click, and then right-click to rotate it 45 degrees. This is the fastest and most intuitive method, but it's the least precise.

In Build Mode, after selecting an item, players can use the period and comma keys to rotate an item clockwise or counterclockwise. On PS4, players rotate with R1 and L1, and on Xbox One they rotate with RB and LB. This should be the go-to method. It offers fine control without much difficulty.

This technique has a couple of steps. Players first have to set the game to The Sims 3 camera mode. This can be done in the options menu, in the "game camera" section, or it can be done by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Tab.

Players can then freely rotate an object by holding the alt key, holding the left mouse button on the selected object, and moving their mouse. On consoles, this is done by selecting an object, holding both the left and right bumpers, and moving the left stick. This gives players the most control, down to a single degree of rotation, but it can be unwieldy to use.

Item placement and rotation can be made slightly easier by enabling cheats and entering "bb.moveobjects" in the text box. This cheat allows objects to overlap. This is useful if a player is lacking in space, but they should be careful it doesn't make the overlapping objects unusable.

Once players know how to rotate objects, they're well on their way to being Dream Home Decorators. They can place furniture the way people do in real life: charmingly askew and slightly too close to a fire hazard.

The Sims 4 is available now for PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

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