I've tried leaving a wall open too, but was wondering if there was something wrong with my computer. I'll definitely try the greenhouse panel for bigger rooms. Thank you so much!

Thank you so much, Mary. I'll give it a try.

No, no lighting mod.

To clarify, the problem is when I'm building. Once I put in lights, move in a family and start playing, it's fine. It's when I'm building that the room stays dark and it makes it hard to place furniture and get an overall view of the room.

I've recently noticed that when I'm building a house, no matter how many windows I add, the room/house remains dark. It's distracting and makes it hard to place furniture. I remember in the Sims 1, depending on the size of the room, the room would lighten as soon as you placed a window.

I have all of the expansion packs and have just recently started trying to make really nice, realistic homes, so I'm not sure if it has always been this way in the Sims 2 and it's just recently started to bug me, or if something is screwy. I can work around it by not enclosing a room completely, but if there's something I can do to fix this, I'd love to know.

Thanks!