It occurs to me that, for all the talk I've done about Animal Crossing: New Leaf (and it has been a lot), I haven't really spoken on the other element that's kept me driven and such in the game. Aside from going all Recettear on my townies and shaping Kupolis directly to my whims, my main goal is to establish a house that looks baller as hell on the inside, making me quite proud to have been the decorator of it. Or at least, it was the original goal before I discovered the rest, which means I suppose that New Leaf -does- have some rather welcome additions to it since at least the former is new and the latter is fueled by reasons that I never would have gone to such extremes over in previous incarnations. Still, one of my main goals from early on was to earn the Golden Exterior pieces (which you can see that I got) that I may live and drown in opulence the likes of which my peasant townsfolk will never even have a taste of.
That philosophy is echoed with my main entrance room, I think. The entire Golden Series basically lives and breathes the mentality of "Allow the chaff to feel envy that threatens to strangle them" and I couldn't love it any more for that if I tried. The issue with getting the Golden Series furniture, however, is basically the Animal Crossing mantra: "MUST. BE. RANDOM." You get a stone in your town every day that you can break with a shovel that will give you an ore, which obviously has a random chance of being Golden Ore. You also have a random chance of getting ores from your Money Rock with a Silver Shovel which, of course, all have a chance of being Golden Ores. For a single piece of Golden Furniture, you need three Ores which you take to the local Refurbishing Fellow Cyrus, who charges you 10,000 Bells for, wait for it....wait for it....a random piece of the Golden Series. Sigh.
When you're aiming for specific pieces to complete the set (I'm missing the Wallpaper as you might notice) or spares to make your actual design work, it's just a mite frustrating. Which is why my room is simply not done yet. So, this is the point in time where I help you visualize just what it's supposed to look like for your own amusement. The broad strokes are already there, however (which is purposely on my part) so it's not -too- difficult. The theme for the room is going to be a Throne/Conference room that's just filthy rich and terrible and gaudy and such. The Throne (which costs 800,000 Bells) would be nice, but it's off-center (which means I would just buy two, honestly), so I went with the Golden Bench since I can quite literally sit in the middle of it and look like a fucking boss. Two chairs are on either side of the bench, but I want two more, another for each side, to give the illusion of, you know, set meeting spots and such. If I could set up a table in the middle without blocking off all access to the seats, you bet your ass I would do just that, but alas, it cannot be done.
Additional goals include getting another Golden Screen, getting the Golden Bed and Clock out (probably the bench on the right side as well) and symmetrically setting up the screen on the left-hand side. An unknown machine (that the community basically refers to as "The button" ala a nuke switch) is behind my right screen and I'd probably just put some sort of music player behind the left so I would -have- music. As for the entrance and doors, well, I want Golden Women (the Tiki Torch thing on the left side of the door at the bottom of the picture) to line the entrance (two on each side) and Golden Wall torches to go beside each doorway. Which....is a lot of Golden pieces. I don't know if I'll actually ever get those pieces. I'm hedging my bets on "No", which....is what it is, I suppose. But that is basically what long-term goals are, anyway! Things that will probably never happen.
On the right of my main room is the room reserved for what the astute might recognize as Christmas time. A custom design plastered all over the wall and floor as a place-holder and a few winter-y/Christmas-y themed items to get the mood started and it's basically just waiting til December for the Christmas Series (previously known simply as the "Jingle series"). You are all likely well aware of my enjoyment of Christmas stuff by now, since you're probably good readers of my blog here, but if it wasn't blatantly obvious already, then, well, there it is. I am an absolute whore for Christmas and this goddamn room will be Christmas as fuck when I can actually get that done. Either when I can touch them and order them through the catalog or, as stated, when December rolls around and I buy them from the Nooklings obsessively. I don't really know how I'm going to set it up, but it's going to happen. And it's going to be awesome.
The room on the left is populated with the Astro Series of furniture coupled with the Industrial Wall and Floor because they're far better than the Astro Floor and Wall, especially since I have these all recolored to Red/Black instead of the original Orange/White. The original intent was just to have a cool space room because space rooms are cool, but, well, the Astro series looks a little goofy. Luckily, there are assorted Sci-Fi odds and ends that I can spice up the room with, as well as traditional "Lunar" objects like Asteroids, Lunar Rovers and the like. All told, there will be a lot of machinery and such going on, and it's going to be pretty great looking. Possibly. I think I'm going to keep it science-y regardless, since I don't know what else I would do for that room, since I have to split my design ideas between three different houses and that's going to get a bit messy to say the least.
The Basement.....the basement is literally a mess. I have absolutely no idea what I'm actually going to theme the room on, and I'm basically just shoving shit down there while I figure things out. I do, however, want you to take note of the Red Box Corner Sofa at the top of the screen that's attached to the normal Green-ish Box Corner Sofa. That's going to be important for the next room that is slightly out of order because I wanted you to see that piece first.
The Sleek Series room in behind my main room is the room that is more or less 'finished' and I'm pretty happy with the way that it looks. The sitting area is set up nice for conversation, there's good flow, and it just looks really nice. The only things that I dislike are the wallpaper and carpet, as you cannot customize those to match the color scheme of the custom furniture, which seems a strange oversight. The other issue is that I have a completely empty lower right corner, which I debated on just how to fill that. And I decided, eventually, that the best idea would be to make -more- seating because there just isn't enough, clearly. The Box Corner Sofa above in the red leather (it's slightly lighter than the sexy red of the Sleek, but still) will be in the corner, and the appropriate Box Sofa pieces, once I acquire one to order multiple will branch off of that for a nice corner sofa for people to theoretically have their own conversation away from the main one. Because that's neat. It can't happen in AC, because the max is 4 people at one time, but it's design.
Finally, the second floor room is going to be my Office outfitted with the Rococo Series of furniture. It's going to be pretty swanky, what with two sofas (where the one is, make a corner facing the back wall), the desk area in the bottom left corner, and some sort of set-up going on with the rest of it. I'm probably keeping the Modern Tile floor with the Rococo Wall (once I put that up) since the Rococo floor looks kind of dumb. I think I'm also going to set up the coffee equipment up in this room because what's an office without a way to get some primo coffee for those long nights of doing things? The Mannequins will be getting the boot, clearly, and the like, so that's a good bit of space which will probably be occupied by the bed. I basically just have to order the furniture and set it up, which is...the easiest room of all of them since the rest of the rooms, I don't quite have all the stuff just yet, nor the means to get it easily. With any luck, I'll get stuff sorted quick enough and can do an "After" post as well which will show off all the new bits and layout. Because, that's....that's the point.
Showing you things now and how they'll end up, that is.
it's pretty weird trying to describe furniture layout in a basic video game design
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