nammie
resident rep nana
So I've had a few people ask me how I managed to decorate my villagers' houses like these:
so here's a guide that hopefully?? will help!
1) First, stop running errands for your villagers. Don't accept any requests for bugs/fish, and when one villager wants you to deliver a gift to another villager, either decline, or accept and don't deliver the present.
2) Put up junk (or in my case art) in all the slots in retail. This will prevent your villagers from trying to pawn off their furniture!
3) Ok so now that you should have prevented them from selling their own furniture and receiving new furniture, identify the items you want to switch up. It's easiest if the villager has a lot of different sized items, since they'll only replace, i.e. a 2x2 item (such as a bed) with another one of the same size. Send the item you want them to replace it with in the mail; I don't think the length of the letter matters much, mine were usually just "Hi" lol.
However, from my experience they'll only replace one item you send them a day. If you want them to replace, for example, 4 different items, and you send them 4 different items in the mail, they won't put them all up in their house!! Instead, you could send them different items on alternate characters to try and get them to replace more than one a day. Try and send them different sized items if you're going to send them using different characters, i.e. send a 2x2 item on character, a 1x2 item on another, etc.
4) Try to replace as many items as you can using step 2. This might take a couple days, so you'll either have to TT or be patient. I find that after a while, there's some items they just refuse to replace, so now it's time for, in my opinion, the hardest step, which is to get yourself invited over to their house as much as possible. This basically just takes luck and time... When you're at their house, keep talking to them until they ask you if there's something that catches your eye. Then buy the thing you want out of their house!
After you bought something from their house, if you send them something the same size the same day in the mail I find that 95% of the time they'll put the item in the spot where the item you bought used to be.
and then just rinse and repeat!
I find it easiest to focus on redecorating one villager's house at a time, and if you want to be really hardcore you could try and get yourself invited over everyday on 4 different characters to buy out the villagers' furniture that you want replaced.
also, since you can't buy furniture that have things on them, and you can't buy things on top of other furniture, I suggest you try and replace those first via presents in letters.
there's a few items that villagers simply refuse to sell; I'm not sure if it's possible to completely replace all the furniture in a villager's house, so keep that in mind.
hope that helps!
Marina:
Beau:
Flurry:
Rudy:
Beau:
Flurry:
Rudy:
so here's a guide that hopefully?? will help!
1) First, stop running errands for your villagers. Don't accept any requests for bugs/fish, and when one villager wants you to deliver a gift to another villager, either decline, or accept and don't deliver the present.
2) Put up junk (or in my case art) in all the slots in retail. This will prevent your villagers from trying to pawn off their furniture!
3) Ok so now that you should have prevented them from selling their own furniture and receiving new furniture, identify the items you want to switch up. It's easiest if the villager has a lot of different sized items, since they'll only replace, i.e. a 2x2 item (such as a bed) with another one of the same size. Send the item you want them to replace it with in the mail; I don't think the length of the letter matters much, mine were usually just "Hi" lol.
However, from my experience they'll only replace one item you send them a day. If you want them to replace, for example, 4 different items, and you send them 4 different items in the mail, they won't put them all up in their house!! Instead, you could send them different items on alternate characters to try and get them to replace more than one a day. Try and send them different sized items if you're going to send them using different characters, i.e. send a 2x2 item on character, a 1x2 item on another, etc.
4) Try to replace as many items as you can using step 2. This might take a couple days, so you'll either have to TT or be patient. I find that after a while, there's some items they just refuse to replace, so now it's time for, in my opinion, the hardest step, which is to get yourself invited over to their house as much as possible. This basically just takes luck and time... When you're at their house, keep talking to them until they ask you if there's something that catches your eye. Then buy the thing you want out of their house!
After you bought something from their house, if you send them something the same size the same day in the mail I find that 95% of the time they'll put the item in the spot where the item you bought used to be.
and then just rinse and repeat!
I find it easiest to focus on redecorating one villager's house at a time, and if you want to be really hardcore you could try and get yourself invited over everyday on 4 different characters to buy out the villagers' furniture that you want replaced.
also, since you can't buy furniture that have things on them, and you can't buy things on top of other furniture, I suggest you try and replace those first via presents in letters.
there's a few items that villagers simply refuse to sell; I'm not sure if it's possible to completely replace all the furniture in a villager's house, so keep that in mind.
hope that helps!
Thank you again for this guide.
