The best strategy to increasing room score outdoors

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So, my sims lose all of their room score when they go outside, to places such as work. What can I do to combat this problem?

This is with the original Sims game, with all of the expansions.

Getting a high outdoor Room score is about fixing the negatives and adding positives.

Things that lower your outdoor Room score:

Garbage. Throw it away.
Animal (or human!) excrement. Clean it up.
Newspapers or magazines other than the current issue of each. Old ones get a grayish color. Throw them away.
Dead flowers. Replant them or just remove them.

After that, you need to improve the looks of your outdoors:

Plant trees or flowers. If you use flowers, keep them watered.
Put in other room-improvement items such as statues.
The sure-fire way: Get a swimming pool. A pool can guarantee the highest possible Room score. The score for a pool depends on the size. If you don't get highest room score with your pool, try making it a bit larger. There's a point when the Room score is maxed out by pool alone. It doesn't take a very large pool; you don't have to make it cover half the lot or anything.