Feeling like your island is super small

[ayeeprill]

Yes and no. I am very minimalistic in my decorating style so my island doesn’t feel too cluttered, but I do feel limited sometimes.

one thing that really helped me was making all my rivers straight - it may not work for your town but it did for mine and it made everything so much easier.
Also another thing that worked for me was incorporating areas I wanted in my town into villager yards - for instance Ribbot’s yard is also a gym and Sylvana has a library

 

[brockbrock]

The way I was forming my island I had already build a third of it and only had placed 2 villager houses. I just felt like everything was too flat, and too spread out, so I demolished quite a bit and started some serious terraforming. Now, I feel like I have so much more space. I hope it stays that way!

 

[Delphine]

Thanks again everyone for all the new replies!!

I agree that islands that seem bigger generally use all the space available, thing is maybe I'm "far behind" (though I don't especially want to rush) and I feel like I don't have a lot of ideas/furniture/options?
Like ok let's go with a little forest, a cafe, a spa, a yard sale... but I have so many little parks with the exact same furniture over and over and it's so easy to have everything feel so cluttered and repetitive.
And I have no idea what to do with the beaches honestly apart from putting a couple chairs and a hammock :')

Sorry if it seems like I'm never happy with anything haha but I've been creating more and more tiny areas and it's true it feels a lot more "lived in" if that makes sense! It's just hard to come up with diverse ideas that fit well together!

 

[Annika.]

Kinda, the people with insane island layouts really know how to make use of every little corner. But when I walk around my island for fossils it feels huge too. I think it really depends on how you use your level. My second level is almost half the island at the moment and when I'm up there it kinda feels like another town from a previous game. It just really depends on what you do with your own island.