Animal Crossing: New Horizons: 5 things to do after paying off your loans
Redesign your home
In something that mirrors my personal issues so much that to continue on this line of thought would be me having to admit my psychologist has a point, I didn’t put any work into myself on Animal Crossing. My home was just a messy storage spot with the exception of the room I store turnips in. So I wanted to change that.
First step I did was to make my house something that looked awesome to approach. Your house never really gets to big but I wanted to do everything in my power to make it look amazing from the outside even with limited options.
So if I couldn’t alter the house to make it look huge, I’d make the island itself reflect it. I took the North of my island and dug. I created a massive cavern with waterfalls, made an island in the center big enough for my house, and plopped it there. Then I kept the decorations minimal around my home to make the house look bigger. In addition, I put a bunch of stuff outside of my home where I walled up the entrance so that the sudden minimalism would make my house seem bigger by scale.
In addition to this, I also decided to do things with the interior. I made one room look like my writing office at home and took out a bunch of clutter. I covered my basement walls with the Manga Wall Wallpaper and filled it with pinball machines and arcade units. And, to keep with the museum theme I turned my back room into a display of all my islanders past and present.
I made the left side of the room (separated by a TV) show off the posters of everyone currently living on my island. The right side, labeled as “The Fallen” were islanders who lived on my island and had moved on. I felt this was a cool way to show people who were on my island at a glance as well as see who I’ve had here before. Like the celebrity pictures at some diners.
And speaking of pictures, I needed to make sure I was adding more personality to it so I decided to go back and work on something I did when I first started playing.