How do you like to layout your island?

[Rowintuit]

In past Animal Crossing games I always hated trying to make my town pretty. I typically ended up accidentally killing my flowers and never bothered to place trees or homes in strategic/organized locations.
Basically flying by the seat of my pants. It was never anything special.

But New Horizons actually makes me feel like I have a chance of making a beautiful island/town. I can terra form, my flowers won't get murdered all the time, and there's so many options of how to make it nice. I can relocate anything and everything.
But it also costs so many bells to do so haha.
I'm debating if I want to try and make paths and make it organized.


How do you guys typically decorate? Sporadically? Meticulously? Did you use one of the island map layout designers online? I wanna know. :0

 

[Khaelis]

Its workable until I unlock terraforming. I generally try to plan things out on paper before I start doing anything, and I'm still not sure if the results are what I want yet.

 

[sour]

I decorate by having a general idea on where I'd want to place things and what my theme is. So far I've just been eyeballing, no use of the island map designers so far. I've seen some really nice and inspiring pics on Twitter, and will probably try and incorporate some ideas from there. The Japanese ACNH Twitter community is especially aesthetics-focused, I've gotten most of my ideas from there. Now I only need to collect the crafting resources and furniture aah

 

[SheepMareep]

I tried to use the online map designer but it drove me nuts so instead I made some horrible doodles on snapchat to my sister in order to plan out what I wanted to do to my town lol. So far its been working pretty well actually!! I'd literally just take a picture of my map and draw all over it lmao

If you plan on terraforming a LOT (not just some small things here and there) I would 100% draw it first and scale it to your town.

 

[rezberri]

i think my layout is fine for right now, but when i can terraform im definitely going to change things up a bit. im gonna have to move literally all of the buildings i have in my town right now, so after my next forced villager moves in im gonna close off move ins until i can fix my island up to what id like it to be. its gonna suck because i love talking to villagers, but i have an expensive house debt to pay off and i cant just waste my bells to move 10 villagers, my own house, and 2 npc buildings.

 

[Romaki]

I just go by my gut and not overthink it. All I know right now is how I want to change my river and where I want to place Able Sisters. I already know I will spend so much bells on moving stuff around and getting different type of bridges.