How to put custom Designs on walls Animal Crossing Happy Home Paradise

The struggle to make more use out of your limited decorating space in Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been real for a while now. But the new Happy Home Paradise paid DLC makes this more doable by adding partition walls to your inventory. That way, you easily split up a room into two, three, or more sections. But you'll need to unlock the partition wall first. Here's how to do that along with an explanation of the partition wall's limitations.

How to put custom Designs on walls Animal Crossing Happy Home Paradise
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Animal Crossing: Happy Home Paradise DLC

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Design vacation homes for animals

This paid DLC unlocks the ability to get a dream job where you design vacation homes for animal clients. There are even special facilities to build like a school, cafe, restaurant, and more.

While the Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0 update added tons of new items, the Happy Home Paradise add-on seriously upgraded the way players design villager homes. The downloadable content not only gives players new opportunities to show off their design chops, with tons of homes and other on-island facilities to deck out, but it also unlocks new features that make interior design even more satisfying and creative. The unlocks include polishing, changing room sizes, and eventually, partitions and pillars.

These features are fun on their own, for adding real dimension and life to interiors. But paired with the update’s addition of accent walls, which allow players to customize one wall rather than apply wallpaper to every wall, they can be applied to truly beautiful effect. And New Horizons players are doing just that. They’re using accent walls — some of which looked fairly cheesy before, when taking up an entire wall space — and well-placed partitions, pillars, and fence items to create the illusion of balconies, French doors, beachside views, and other luxurious vistas.

Learned the trick today with partitions and accent walls. Worked well for Monty’s detective style vacation home. from AnimalCrossing

finally unlocked those partition walls✨ #ACNH #AnimalCrossing pic.twitter.com/Te6YVtzIyP

— Claire (@Clairetonic) November 22, 2021

FYI, you can turn those otherwise typically tacky landscape wallpapers into beautifully believable open back porches using partitions, pillars, and wood floor mats. from AnimalCrossing

Kiki's seafood snack bar#ACNH #ACNHDesign #acnhinspo #AnimalCrossing pic.twitter.com/QaPBsNbNVa

— Tropikitch (@tropikitch) November 22, 2021

If balconies and oceanfront views aren’t quite your mood, here are some beautiful French doors, columns, and window designs:

I customized the glow-in-the-dark stickers (its a DIY with the glowing moss) to create a French doors design. This item is a game changer, you can stick any custom design to the wall. from AnimalCrossing

Saw this cool tip of placing partition walls flat against an accent wall and you get a "window" effect. I've been doing it so much I love it #AnimalCrossing #AnimalCrossingNewHorizions #AnimalCrossingDesigns pic.twitter.com/GSWMUG4RBo

— Nathew (@Costcolopthecus) November 10, 2021

Just made some more changes to my cafe, trying to integrate the snowy accent wall better...☕Feel free to lmk what you think! from AnimalCrossing

Leif’s on leave today. from AnimalCrossing

A before - after of Pompom's interior house

As usual, I forgot to take the "before" pic so I had to take it from Internet #AnimalCrossing pic.twitter.com/CfDjMVpXHx

— Marina (@my_animalcnh) November 22, 2021

New Horizons players have long used custom designs to create more immersive and stylized islands, making hats look like food and creating cute standees. They often pair these designs with optical illusions, like custom umbrellas set on the ground, to create a cube perspective — perfect for mirroring the look of a toy box or a GameCube — and use bridges and custom path designs for an island-floating-in-the-sky look.

Happy Home Paradise, in conjunction with the lauded New Horizons 2.0 update, has given players an even larger toolkit to play with. And the results continue to stun.

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How do you make walls in Animal Crossing happy home designer?

Press down on the D-Pad (or left set of buttons on your controller) to open the editing menu. Now press the right button on the D-Pad to open your inventory. Use the L or R buttons to cycle through to the Other tab. Select the Partition Wall to place it.

How do you decorate walls in Animal Crossing?

As for hanging items on the wall or ceiling, go to a room and then press down on the D-Pad to bring up the decorating menu. From here, press the + button to change your perspective of the room and where you are applying decorations.

How do you get partition walls in Animal Crossing happy home paradise?

Partition Walls This will be your first unlock, after decorating seven vacation homes. Niko, the little monkey with a hat, will get into DIY building, and will invent partition walls for you to add into your homes.