What makes your island your island?

[Violet Witch]

I wanted an island that reflected my love of all things whimsical and supernatural and thanks to the 2.0 update with the castle, vine and the glowing moss collection that has finally happened. I dread to think how I would keep playing if it weren't for the big update last year.

 

[S.J.]

I never tried to work on my island using a specific theme, and my aim has been to make an island that I think my villagers would enjoy living on. The feeling is really that we've all arrived here and we're building the island into a nice community to live.

The interior and exterior house designs for each villager are based on their personality, style and favourite colours. I try to make something I think they'd want. Each villager also has a front yard of varying size decorated in a way I think they'd like (e.g. a garden, vegetable patch, sitting area, or just a bike).

I've mentioned before a bunch of times, but something I do to really ensure that my island is my island, is not use any custom designs from the design portal. I like to make my own custom designs and use them though, though they're a little more simplistic!

 

[ladyphantomofmusic]

So, if my island has a theme, it would it’s a mountain town. I have an orchard only players and NPC’s can be in. I use models of bugs and insects to be most natural, same thing with some fish. I have areas that have their own theme. The homes are in one area. Tone hills are another area with the camp, shops. Then I have my own extension for the town square I decorate per season.

 

[CuriousCharli]

Gosh this is a good question!

I have become really proud of my Island. I seem to work off visions I get in my head of what an area should be and I am just proud of myself that it all worked out. I am not the type to really follow a theme, I just go with the flow and whatever inspires me, I do.

I made like a little gardening/farming section on the second layer above an original waterfall. Here, before potatoes were a thing, I used coconut trees and pretended they were potatoes. The area includes bee hives for honey and beside there is a third level where there is a greenhouse and a place to have afternoon tea with a friend. Going furthur into the woods is now where I have the rest of the crops, my house and Bunnie's next to it. I think I am most proud of my second tier and the cedar tree, wind flower forest ♥

 

[KittenNoir]

My island has a lot of my style in terms of interests and furniture/Decor style I have also added a few personal touches in the custom designs I have made. For example I have personal messages all over my beach

 

[Xara]

it’s unfinished, messy and disorganized, just like things i create usually are.

xjjsidn just kidding. my island is unfinished and mostly undecorated due to lack of creativity/energy/motivation and decorating being overwhelming for me, but my island still has plenty of details that make it mine.

• my island tune is currently “bulls in the bronx” by pierce the veil, one of my favourite songs that is very special to me (thank you again @kiwikenobi for converting it into an island tune for me ages ago ).
• my island flag is a deer against a rainbow colour background — deers are my absolute favourite animal and i adore rainbows and colourful aesthetics, so i connected with the design as soon as i saw it. i didn’t make the flag myself, but i think it matches my island wonderfully. i love how simple and colourful it is, and how it includes two of my favourite things. ^~^
• despite my flag, my island’s name is axolotl. axolotls are my second favourite critter in the whole wide world, and i love them so so much. i think they’re absolutely adorable and so unique, and dr. shrunk (an axolotl) is one of my favourite npcs as well.
• right next to rs, i have a small chess-playing area (iron garden table + 2 chairs and a chessboard) that’s loosely inspired by a similar spot in the downtown area of the city i live in. it’s one of my favourite spots in the entire city, so i couldn’t resist creating something semi-similar on my island. i plan on redesigning and expanding the area eventually so that it’s more akin to the one in my city.
• all of my villagers are ones i love and/or who are special to me in some way. this includes beau, who was my #1 favourite villager in new leaf and who i adored before the game even came out in NA. i’m not as obsessed with him as i once was, but he’ll always be the most special villager to me and no town of mine will ever be the same without him.
• the upstairs room in my island rep’s house is my dream bedroom, one that i’ll likely never have irl. it features a laptop that has a tbt main page custom design on it (since i’m on here so often and love it here), and a pet bed that has a custom design that looks like my (late) kitty sleeping in it. it’s also very rainbow-themed!

 

[princess.looking.for.frog]

my soccer field! it's like a natural field and i truly love it. its like in the forestry park in the main area of town. i also would think my "development" in a woodsy town, where it is semi-organised, contributes to my island overall. finally, my forest on the back of my forest with a tent and a third player makes my island 'mine' ig. theres lore connected to him too, its a whole story. i love it!

 

[Akeath]

I love stories and fairy tales for all ages, so I used that as a theme so I could put a lot of my favorite stories in it. The name of my island (Falcor from Fantasia) references one of my favorite movies, the Neverending Story, where there's a big world of imagination where all the things people imagine actually exist. So when you enter from the airport I have it look like you're stepping into a big book at the entrance and I have lots of Disney and Fairytale elements further in. I have areas for most of my favorite stories including the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Beauty and the Beast, the Little Mermaid, and even Winnie the Pooh. I made a little Sparx Speedway on my peninsula because those are my favorite levels in the Spyro the Dragon games. I also made sure to put in favorite stories of my relatives - Peter Pan for my Mom, Pocahontas for my Dad, and Snow White for my niece. But I also have made ones that Animal Crossing furniture lends itself to like the 3 Bears and Jack and the Beanstalk. And while I know which part represents a favorite of me or the people close to me, someone visiting would never notice that. There are other subtle things I do - when I found a painting place set up on a Dream Island I mimicked it but with stained glass instead, with the rose pattern my Mom does most often for stained glass on it. I also made sure to have a volleyball area because that's not only the sport I played the most as a kid but volleyball is also how my parents met. Little things like that. I am unbelievably bad at art, so there are certain stories I haven't been able to include on my island because I wasn't able to find art pieces on the portal that would work well with them. But there are still plenty of popular stories everyone knows that I can work with, as well as creative placement of the furniture items Animal Crossing already has.