I set the theme to harmonious. All of my rooms contain all the pieces to the set and theme. The outside is almost perfect except the pavement. My score is only 200,000 and he said its the inside. What could it be? My basement is the only room that isn't harmonious but he said it didn't count. I don't know what else it could be. help please!

can candy on my tables change my score at all?

If you got your info on what is harmonious from Thonky, that may be the cause of your low score. Some series are wrongly labeled by Thonky and they're not harmonious but rustic. The Blue series is one of those, but there are more. So, if the above is the case, you might wanna check some other sites, like MoriDB. Or check out Liquefy, he's totally trustworthy.

I'm doing the Harmonious theme right now & working on getting a score over a million.

Managed to get 900,000, and also 750,000 now.

The thing I noticed that helped the most was removing anything not Harmonious.

I only have 1 room that is not Harmonious, and will change it last as it is my favourite (my room to the left)

But I heard you don't even need all rooms to be Harmonious is the other rooms have 48 Harmonious items with little use of Duplicates.

I need help myself, would you want to visit each others homes & we could help each other out?

My home is filled with items from Japan, China & Thailand.

I also use the Lullaboids which are Harmonious. There are some neutral items like the tea set & cushions that don't add or subtract from your score.

I'm making my own thread about this advice on my own house so as not to hijack yours, but I hope people help you.

I know that clothing items also count.

When I was doing Antique (which is actually one of the harder themes), I put out all the antique clothing items (shirts, pants, shoes, hats, etc.) I had in my catalog to push me over the top.

And I think that items that don't fit the theme do detract from your score, but perhaps only in the rooms that have theme items.

Also, don't worry about whether the rooms end up looking junky or weird.  There are only a couple of series with the antique theme, so I had to fill the other rooms with clothing, random antique items, and even fossils.

Oh...I think that using the same series in each room won't help.  That is, if you have the same harmonious theme in two rooms, it will only count it once.

Happened to me recently.

Check another site, because like AnnetteSR said, Thonky isn't 100% correct in their themes. I know because I tried using that site for the same theme.

Remove anything that's not in the set. That was my biggest hit on my score, I had radios, little items, mannequins, etc.

Thanks for the help. I've reacently discovered there are items that can help your score that are not apart of the theme like items you obtain from gulliver, special items like the zodiac set, birthday cake and so forth. Problem is I don't know what items exactly are okay and which aren't.

I was just having a similar problem doing my first theme challenge...Fairy Tale. I had the complete sweets exterior and three of my rooms with partially complete Lovely, Mermaid and Rococo. My score was stuck at 20,000 and my interior was busting Lyle's chops.
Thanks to the advice in this thread, I removed everything that was not fairy tale themed,  no matter how much I liked it.  Next day-BAM!  My mailbox had all five HHA letters announcing my high scores.  After having all five golden exterior upgrades, I checked my score and was busted back to  150,000 because my exterior was busting Lyle's chops.
So, if I want to try another theme challenge, do I need to. renovate my exterior to the new theme and lose my gold upgrades? Will I win them back?
Thanks

If you do try a new theme, you;ll have to do the same thing with that, put only that theme furniture inside. Since I never had the gold exterior during a challenge, I can only assume along with the drop of points, that you'll have to change the exterior as well.

Not to worry about the gold upgrades, those stay!
I quit the challenge altogether but still have the option of upgrading everything to gold.

Thank you so much AnnetteSR
My animal guide book got thrown away on me while i was away from home visiting my brother in another town. I used my guide book so much that yes it was falling apart but that gave the person in our home no right to distroy it on me. Hon you are a life savor for me. You had all the answers i needed, just by haveing that thread of liguefy. I clicked on that and was so happy and grateful to see what was there, It was almost like
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So now i can help my son with his score for the harmonous theme I still have a lot of the items because i did his house for him once before with that theme and had almost 2 million points with it. But i could not remember everything now we'll see that score sore again to see how much higher we can get. My score for my fairy tale theme is  2,209,500 points this is my dream addrress  not a friend  4500 code  6252  0138
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PS I hope everyone is still playing and getting those scores way up there.