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This page is part of IGN's Animal Crossing: New Horizons Wiki guide and details everything you need to know about remodeling your residents' homes in ACNH.

Looking for even more on the ACNH 2.0 Update? Check out our complete Happy Home Paradise Guide to learn more!

How to Change and Remodel Residents' Houses

Following ACNH's 2.0 update, players who have completed the main storyline of the DLC expansion, Happy Home Paradise, will gain the ability to suggest home remodels to residents across your island. You'll know you've reached the end because the DLC's credits will be shown.

Once you've rolled credits on the Happy Home Paradise DLC, then the next time you start your day back on your home island, you'll get a phone call from Tom Nook, asking you to come see him at Resident Services. He'll say that word has made it back to your island about your success with Paradise Planning, and your Villagers are now open to letting you redesign their homes!

If you'd like to instead design a Vacation Home for one of your Villagers, you should gift them some Souvenir Chocolates. You can buy Souvenir Chocolates from Wardell's storefront in Paradise Planning HQ, which cost 800 Poki each.

What You Need To Know About Remodeling A Villager's Home

After you've done the above, you can now talk to Tom Nook at Resident Services. Select "Let's talk homes" and then "A resident's home". Incidentally, you may have noticed that queries regarding your own home have also been moved to this menu.

Remodeling the home of one of your Villagers costs 9,000 Bells, but in return Tom Nook will give you 1,000 Nook Miles the next day.

The list below details the various other things you'll need to know about remodeling a Villager's home:

• You can customize the exterior as well as the interior. While you can choose which one to start with, Tom will always check to make sure if you also want to do the other.
• Exterior customization uses the full suite of options available for a Villager's house. However, you cannot use the larger design options like you can when customizing your own home.
• Aside from room size, remodeling a Villager's home works exactly like designing their Vacation Home. This means you'll have a recommended list of objects to use, as well as every object you unlocked for use in the Happy Home Paradise DLC.
• Unlike Vacation Homes, you CANNOT change the size of the room in a Villager's home. The same applies to your own home.
• The list of recommended objects you can use will contain every object from both that Villager's "generic" home design (when they're one of the first five Villagers who arrive on your island) and their "unique" home design (when they're the sixth or later Villager to arrive on your island).
  • This makes it possible to restore a Villager's unique room design and remove the generic look. You can look up a Villager's unique room design by searching them on the Animal Crossing wikia.
  • Also included is anything that Villager received from you that they put on display, including clothing, Fish, Sea Creatures, Bugs, Toy Day gifts and more.
• Redecorating a Villager's home is also a very good way to clean their room of anything they put on display that you don't like. Another method is to be invited into their home and then offer to buy one of these objects, but redecorating lets you remove as many of these as you like and determine where the rest will go.
• When you place down an audio system, you have the ability to choose the song it plays. The exception is the Portable Radio, which lacks this feature.
  • If you want to put on your Villager's favourite song, check their list of recommended objects. Their favourite song will always be available as an object to place in the room at the bottom of the list.
• Much like moving their home, the renovation will be compleed the day after you finish redecorating it.
• UNLIKE moving a home, you can pitch and complete multiple renovation projects at once!
• You get your Nook Miles reward for the redecoration in the mail the day after you finish. You get 1,000 Miles per job, which are consolidated into one total (so for example, if you do three jobs in a day, you'll get 3,000 Miles in the mail the day after).

Once you're done redecorating, be sure to visit the Villager's home the next day. They'll be super pleased with your handiwork!

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