Maybe. I think the designers would have to decide how to do it. The  process of replacing one tile with another over time- after one year in game, most of the roads are broken and the houses are all covered with vines.  SO it makes sense after a few years that most of the refrigerators won't work-unless you got new ones from electronics stores maybe?     the land gets very ugly after 1 year. This is why i think sprites should change only when "NPC" characters or human charact