Idea: Upgradeable animal villager houses

[Kiwi]

Hey folks, I came up with an idea for AC Switch that I personally think would be pretty neat if it came true and I wanted to share!
This is purely my wishful thinking though, I don't believe it's very likely (or likely at all) they'll implement something like this.
But it's fun to fantasize nonetheless. I hope you agree!

So... As stated in the title: Upgradeable animal villager houses!

I've always thought it was a bit... odd that our humans are the only ones who get to eventually have huge mansions, while all the other villagers are stuck with their tiny one-room-houses. Wouldn't it be neat if they could upgrade their homes at least once (or twice), as well?

Here's my idea: Once a villager has been living in your town for a significant amount of time, you would find them with a thought bubble over their head when they're inside their house.
When you talk to them, they'll reveal to you that they are starting to get the feeling that their place might be a bit too cramped, you know, since they've been living in (town name) for quite a while now and have acquired so many new items and stuff to decorate with. Not to mention that they've come to really like the town and don't think they're going to move any time soon. In other words: They're ready to settle in for real - and expand their home!

At that point you would of course be able to influence their decision. You could either tell them that it sounds like a great idea and to go ahead, or tell them to think it over some more (hint hint... Please move out!).

If you told them to do it, their house would be upgraded with a new room (of the same size as their main room) three days later. However, that room would be empty - for now. The next time you talk to them once it's upgraded, they'll happily inform you that they went ahead with their idea! But... now that the new room is actually there, they're feeling a bit stumped. They need some inspiration on what to do with it! They have a vague idea what kind of theme they want, but other than that...
That's where you come in, again! I'm sure you can tell where this is going.
Correct: You would be able to help them out and design their new room for them, just like in Happy Home Designer. I think that would be a neat way to tie that spin-off in with the main game. It'd give us more stuff to do, too!

Now, the aspects I'm not too sure about are
1. Where would the player get the furniture to decorate the room with from? Maybe it could be different from HHD in the way that you would be able to re-decorate the room whenever and add furniture as you collect it in the "main game" (plus I'm thinking maybe there'd be, like, a few prerequisite items that you'd *have* to use for the villager to be satisfied with the result), but hmm... That could end up being too tedious maybe?
2. What about players who just don't care for HHD and/or decorating homes? Then again, I'd make the upgrade feature optional to begin with.

But other than that I think it'd be such a neat little feature. It would give the villagers some more personality if each of them had this extra room that revealed something about them, like a special interest/hobby or something.
And I think it would also be pretty neat to see right away which villagers have been living in a town for a long time because they'd have a slightly bigger house compared to the newer residents.

But what do yall think? Would you like a feature like that? Any ideas to add?

 

[The friendcode exchanger]

Sounds pretty neat.
I agree with this idea

 

[WinteryGarnet]

I think it would be cool for villagers to have bigger houses. While I love the decorating from HHD, maybe even they'd just have preset rooms that automatically get built when upgraded fully decorated. Along the lines of HHD stuff, though, I'd love outdoor furnishing.

 

[carackobama]

This idea is awesome, especially if there was the ability to use the HHD functionality!

 

[AlyssaAC]

Sweet! This idea is actually pretty cool! I'm in for this one. I've played a little bit of Happy Home Designer and always liked decorating and wish I could do some more of it and really get good at it too. I know I have creativity somewhere and I do agree, the villagers houses are always so small. So expanding would be really fun to do.

 

[TheRealWC]

It's an interesting and good idea. However, I think, depending on how big their houses will expand to, that you can decorate one of their rooms. Have the others as presets to go with the theme of the house.

 

[Sweetley]

I really like this idea, especially because of the Happy Home Designer functionality. I also hate
it that the villagers have such small houses. Giving them the opportunity to have a bigger house
and help them with design the new room sounds awesome. I would like if there would be also a
option that villagers want small gardens in front of their houses, like they can have in HHD and
where you can also help them with the design of it, like which flowers or outdoor items they
would like to have.

Hope the new games picks up the features Happy Home Designer had and has something like
this. I would like it to help out my villagers getting bigger and nicer houses.

 

[Justin]

Great idea. I think an interesting addition would be making it so expanding their home also solidifies their place in your town more, making them far less likely/often to try to move out in the future. So this can also be used as a way of indicating who you would like to stay in your town more permanently, since in your idea, they would ask you if you actually want them to expand first. The only reason someone would probably say no is if they don't like the villager or want them to stick around anyway.

 

[Elijo]

I'm all for this idea! Their houses are so small right now and giving them the opportunity to stay long term by expanding allows for an even more improved relationship with you!

 

[Stevey Queen]

I think it's a fun idea but I can see people getting mad if the villager ends up moving out.

 

[Elin]

I really like this idea! Especially if the expansion made the villager less likely to move out in future. And adding Happy Home Designer features into the mix would be great, too.

 

[Snowesque]

I will always be for more customization!

 

[Keystone]

I would love to see this, or at least the ablitlty to customize the outside of their house. And maybe some work inside. I like the idea of being able to upgrade after having a villager for awhile. Would make it great for dream villagers! It would go well too if towns were bigger overall. I just feel they need some sort of customization, the HHD idea seems to be a good one. They need an option to make it so it?s harder for villagers to move if they do this though. I need to give bob the mansion he deserves!!