Key items aren't the only things in the house, just the most iconic.
Name: Seabiscut
Species: Dog
Personality: Cranky
Catchphrase: Matey
Description: Seabiscut is based off of an unsalted hard biscuit or cookie that saliors use to eat. He is also inspired by the saying old salty seadog. Often found to be wearing a raincoat and rain hat, Seabiscut is a scruffy white dog with floppy ears and hair covering one eye. A large black nose, and light gray bushy eyebrows. Despite his cranky demeanor he is often found with a proud grin talking about his sea voyage as a wee pup. He loves to fish and watch the sunset on cliffs with a lighthouse. He has a bubble pipe. One of the key items in his house is a sand dollar table which is also called a seabiscut.
Name: Pansy
Species: Cat
Personality: Snooty
Catchphrase: unknown
Description: Pansy is based off an edible flower in salads, or can be fried, called a Pansy. Pansy is a fluffy white cat with a purple face resembling the Persian cat and darker part of a Pansy flower. Her hands and feet also have purple coloring. She wears an adventure dress. She enjoys gardening and loves strolls through flower fields. She often eats salads but her guilty pleasure are fried foods. She can be found outside singing in the morning. Perfume bottles are a key item in her house.
Name: Paul
Species: Bull
Personality: Jock
Catchphrase: Timberr
Description: Inspired by the Paul Bunyan tall tales of early America, Paul is a blue bull with white markings, purple ox horns, and a red and black plaid shirt. With a lumberjack persona and a habit of exaggerating, he will talk about heavy lifting logs for exercise. He use to compete in Log Rolling competions until he found his love of Caber Tossing. His favorite food are pancakes which he calls flapjacks and is a key item in his house.
Name: Chance
Species: Rabbit
Personality: Smug
Catchphrase: Tada
Description: Chance is a white rabbit with droopy eyes and a light green clover around one eye. Half of his face and one ear and his tail are purple. The inner part of his ears are light blue. His nose is pink. He loves playing luck based games, telling jokes, doing magic tricks, and playing harmless pranks on other villagers. Other villagers react to him in entertainment and laughter or annoyance and sighing realizing the pranks are harmless depending on villager personality. Key items in his house are a magic hat, playing cards, and a dice block chair.
Name: Unknown
Species: Hamster
Personality: Peppy
Catchphrase: Wootwoot
Description: Based off of a cupcake this villager is bursting with personality and color. She is a pale yellow with white hair, pale pink checks, nose, and inner ears, white buck teeth, and light blue eyes. Her default shirt is white with colorful sprinkles. She "snoozes" the early morning in her house to catch late parties. Always ready to socialize and have fun playful parties with yummy sweets. She says the best parties are birthday parties but any party is good too. She has a twin who is inspired by a muffin called Cinnafin who is a sisterly. Key items in her house are party wallpaper and flooring, and a cupcake stand.
Name: Cinnafin
Species: Hamster
Personality: Sisterly
Catchphrase: Sunshine
Description: Based off of a cinnamon roll and muffin, this villager is a Carmel color, with cream hair, pale orange checks with three carmel freckles each, pale yellow inner ears, pale pink nose, soft droopy black eyes, and white buck teeth. She wears a brown and white plaid shirt. Though sisterly villagers aren't early risers, Cinnafin is however she "snoozes" during the day in her house so she can be out in the evening too. Key items in her house are cafe curtain wallpaper, cinnamon roll bed, a muffin stand.
Or even other design ideas that may not be food .. 
