Animal Crossing: New Horizon’s new Interior Design options look amazing

Animal Crossing: New Horizon held a direct today (or 10/15/21 for you time travelers) and it weighed a ton. New information about everything from the return of The Roost to it’s Happy Home Paradise Paid DLC was just an emotional 20 minutes for Animal Crossing fans.

One of the things I’m hyped for are the incredible new options they showed off for designing home interiors if you talk to Nook and get yourself something called the Pro Decorating License.

In addition to that, you can also, now customize the exterior of your home to look like different types of buildings from castles to minkas, they showed the new stuff you’ll be able to do indoors as well.

First off, they added partition walls! These useful little nubbins allow you to separate out small parts of rooms. In addition to just looking cool, it has a lot of uses. I can finally put a proper dining nook in my kitchen. You could, potentially, make a walk-in closet or a split bedroom in your room. My weird editor could make a champaign room for whatever club he’s turned his home into, I don’t know what goes on there and I don’t ask.

They also added pillars. While this one isn’t as useful, having pillars in your home could lead to all sorts of things like turning rooms into weird temples or ruins of just giving your place an overly regal place. Though, I do have to wonder how weak the building material of that island is if you need a pillar to hold up the ceiling of a room the size of a small studio apartment.

Accent walls are also going to be a part of this. As someone who lived in a condo where I put an accent wall in every room but the bathroom I am down for this. The accent wall feature allows you to color or put wallpaper on one particular room instead of doing it on all four, allowing for a bigger visual pop.

Ceiling decor is also finally going to be available. Instead of covering your home interior in wall scones like so much Charles Dickens, you can finally get lights on the ceiling and out of the way. In addition fans and hanging plants and mobiles and everything else you can dangle from up there will be available to really give your room a sense of depth. Why break that fourth wall when you can just dangle decorum from it.

This will all go quite nicely with the fact that villagers will now be able to invite themselves over to look around your place. I can’t wait to watch one of these dummies getting lose between my furniture and partition walls like it was the Labyrinth.

Oh, speaking of getting stuck in homes, they’re also adding the ability to have your character shimmy through tight spaces. You’ll finally be able to have furniture close enough together that they don’t look like they’re scared of getting too close to their TVs.

All this and then some is hitting Animal Crossing New Horizons as part of their final free “major” update on November 5th. Brace yourself for getting obsessed with ACNH all over again.