Topic: Has anyone lost interest in ACNL?

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I just did a massive overhaul to some of my house's rooms today, and when I jump back online I think the hunt for the rest of the items I want will keep me going. Also, I still haven't finished decorating my town- not at all- and I'm still planning to continue rearranging my rooms' layouts a bit. Lately I've been spending most of my time on the game designing my house, which is something I hardly did before. It's actually a lot more fun to do it than I imagined, if you try arranging items cleverly and getting creative with your rooms' themes instead of just tossing sets together.

Here are things I like to keep in mind when I'm designing my rooms.

Item size and colour. Firstly, I find item colour is important. If you become really good with item colour, you could potentially put all kinds of items together. You can fit items with items of other sets, and use wallpaper and flooring from other sets, which gives you a greater variety of tools to use for designing your room, which you can use to make them more unique and interesting. When I start designing a room, after thinking about what theme and mood I want the room to have, I think about items which I could use for that, then I think about what main colour/s the items I'd like to use have. I also think about what other items have similar colours, and if I could integrate them to the room in any way or build the theme around any of the items I've thought of. One thing I like to do is try to make sections of my rooms have different shades of the colour I'm using for the room, and then put furniture of different shades between those sections so that the colour "fades" across sections of the room and I can use items of different shades which I'd like in the room.
For selecting wallpaper and flooring I think about how I've arranged the item colour in the room and what the theme of the room is and then think about which wallpaper and flooring will look best with that.

And item size is important to consider so that your items don't look weird next to eachother. I'd say that colour is much more important and you can get away with this sometimes but still, some items can look jarring near eachother just because of the shape or size, and if you avoid that the arrangement of your items will "flow" together better. Today, I tried putting a CD shelf between a pinball machine and tabletop game, and those items were fairly wide while the CD shelf was a lot slimmer which made it look uneven.
And speaking of space between items, I think it's a good idea to leave space between items sometimes as well, and not fill in every gap just for the sake of it. If you try to put too much in a room it can feel a bit cramped. But still, if you wanna put some item in, try to figure out some way to do it! Plus, leaving too much space with nothing in it usually isn't good either! But like item size/shape you can get away with this sometimes. I mean, you can get away with all this stuff- but I think your rooms can look better if you keep this stuff in mind...

For choosing the song in my rooms, I literally just pick whatever I think sounds coolest for the room and sets the mood of the room best. I'll try to think about which song I'll use when I'm thinking up a room's theme or designing it, because I feel that helps me create the room's mood better, but there are plenty of songs so I don't think this is too hard. I can usually find something which I think works well enough.

I also use google searches as a resource to look for room ideas people had for rooms similar to mine, for example recently I was designing a bath room and did a google search to see what ideas people had for theirs, and then I think about wether ideas or any items they had could be used or tweaked in any way to fit in my room. This also helps me find new items. If you want to make your rooms more unique you can also do this to see what ideas are most popular and then just try doing something totally different with the theme.

Animal Crossing Wiki is another good resource because you can quickly find item series lists and such there, which is incredibly helpful. (Basically, any item list with pictures is really helpful, but I think the Wiki is most useful because since I'm looking at item sets/series on the pages I can see a bunch of items that look similar.)

I hope someone can get use out of these tips. Probably not the best-written, and I'm not claiming to be some master interior designer, but if you think about these things when designing your rooms I think it becomes a lot more fun.
It's probably not interesting for everyone, but personally I think it is, because it makes designing a lot more challenging and gives it more variety and it just feels more rewarding to come up with something like this. Before I would just look for item series which I thought looked cool and collect them, which honestly, I didn't find that fun to do. I mean, the collecting was fun, but I didn't find designing that way to be much fun. Just do what you find fun! I'm putting this out here in the hope someone finds it interesting and fun.

P.S. I actually found this blog today, and I'm sure I'll be using it for inspiration a lot in the future... http://acnl-decor.tumblr.com/