Living Room Design Ideas & Tips in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Animal Crossing: New Horizons gives its players a more creative license to design, with several levels and rooms to their home, but let’s go back to the basics of the living room. The islander’s home can be designed in a great variety of ways, allowing players to design every type of room someone might find in a home. This freedom, however, also allows the player to go above and beyond in their designs.

This game gives out certain designs based on the seasons, so as the year continues new, interesting, and beautiful ideas are sure to crop up. For now, depending on where the player is located on the planet, they will only have access to what has been released in their area for as long as they have been playing. Without further delay, here are several diverse living room concepts players have used in their own island homes.

Asian-Inspired Living Rooms in Animal Crossing: New Horizon

For starters, here is the Asian-inspired living room. Fairly early on into the game, players can gain access to bamboo to grow on their island and will receive several different DIYs that will allow them to craft bamboo items. Players can also use the imperial furniture set to give their home a more Asian-inspired aesthetic. The most pivotal part of pulling this off as a living room is getting the hearth as the centerpiece. The hearth can be learned as a DIY, likely given to the player by another resident islander or bottle found on the beach.

For a less modern version, add more clay pots and furnishings. Tatami rugs and walls can also add to this effect, giving the players home a very antique yet rugged-looking home. This earthy touch can take the living room from cliche to grand.

Cottage Core Living Rooms in Animal Crossing: New Horizon

The second big aesthetic in the Animal Crossing: New Horizons‘ community is the cottage core style. This Ghibli-Esque style involves anything that makes the space cozier and cottage-like. Adding things like a wood-burning stove, small house plants, a fireplace, or anything someone might assume belongs to a grandmother. Thanks to the Nook’s Cranny it won’t be hard to find these items for sale or gain DIYs to craft them.

Pulling the cottage core style into a more modern iteration, there is a more witchy aesthetic. Another popular style that revolves mostly around keeping specimens, house plants, and dried flowers. Not quite hitting the Wiccan style, but on the cusp between witchy, cottage core, and minimalist.

Minimalist Living Rooms in Animal Crossing: New Horizon

Sharmaine on Reddit shows that the minimalist is all about going back to the basics. Very little clutter, clean walls, and floors with a fresh light color. Using only small pops of color here and there to give the room a more refreshing feeling. Minimalist rooms are fun and easy to design when first starting out in the game as the player doesn’t have much to choose from, but as their funds grow, this may be a difficult style to keep.

Minimalism can also be done in a more antique or boho style to branch out early on as most of what the player has access to is all DIY. Using birch or redwood furniture to keep the room light or add a pop of color to this simpler style.

Nautical Living Rooms in Animal Crossing: New Horizon

Getting more into the islander theme, a nautical living room is very fitting. Going from the extreme of having a beach in the player’s home to a simple sailor-style living room fit for a boathouse. This style is easy enough to gain fairly early on in the game, especially if the player cleans their beaches of seashells and bottles often.

DIYs allow players to make water-like flooring and sea-based wallpaper for any room in their home. Fish can also be displayed in tanks around the room for extra points of detail. With the new seasonal sea-based items, players can craft their own little mermaid fantasy. This themed room may leave players singing, ‘Under the Sea’ or twirling a fork through their hair.

Space-Inspired Living Rooms in Animal Crossing: New Horizon

With shooting stars leaving their debris on the beach, many players may want to find another use for these besides crafting 100 outfit wands. This room theme takes players completely out of their world and into a peaceful and breath-taking space. Items can be crafted but some must be found by random chance at the Nook’s Cranny or found at random on the island.

Whether players completely dedicate the room to just being the image of the night sky or a theme to decorate a room still based in entertaining, this is an extravagant look.

Hogwarts-Inspired Living Rooms in Animal Crossing: New Horizon

Much like designing a home to fit the style of The Little Mermaid, many players have themed their homes after their favorite Hogwarts‘ house. Whether a Gryffindor or Slytherin, players can find all they need to create their house’s homeroom. This theme gives a lot of freedom for the player to interpret the decorations as there aren’t many items that are specific to any one Hogwarts house or the Harry Potter franchise in general.

As the Hogwart’s class houses vary widely, players can find completely different niche aesthetics for their own home. Base this player living room around a color scheme based on the house or even the animal mascot.

Gothic Living Rooms in Animal Crossing: New Horizon

If someone loves the witchy aesthetic but is done waiting for their letter from Hogwarts, creating a dark academia aesthetic with crystal balls, candles and bookshelves can be a lovely option for a living room. This style draws quite a bit from the goblin core and cottage core styles, displaying mushrooms, artwork, and specimens of plants and animals.

Give this witch a darker more gothic aesthetic with darker walls, flooring, or carpeting, using dark woods and metal. Candles, crystals, animal heads, and bones can help add points of interest and pops of color in this dark styled home.

Artist-Inspired Living Rooms in Animal Crossing: New Horizon

Players can live out their dreams by having a home studio to create in as their living room space. Being able to come home to a space that truly embodies the player’s passions and ideas can be very fulfilling. Collect artwork, easels, and sculptures to get the true traditional artist’s studio in the works.

For a musician, it may take a good chunk of time, but the player can collect lots of different instruments through their time on the island. Amplifiers, foot pedals, and more can also be found for someone looking to expand and make a realistic collection.

Animal Crossing: New Horizon is available on Nintendo Switch.

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