How did you decorate your island?

[Loreley]

I have a Pinterest board with lots of Ghibli images for inspiration. I tried to recreate some Ghibli areas on my island (although you probably wouldn't recognize them without directly looking at the reference picture) but I also looked at others people's islands on Instagram and Pinterest for inspiration.

 

[buny]

My inspiration came from pokemon! my island is based on Laverre city and Ballonlea, the two beautiful fairy towns. I look at other people's islands mainly to find good QR codes, and inspiration if their theme is similar to mine (that's a little rare though cause most islands are cottagecore). But I honestly avoid looking at others too much, cause the items in the game are limited and i don't want to feel like everything i do has been done before asfhuehfk

 

[Pikabun]

I got an inspiration from instagram YouTube video but in the end I never entirely copy paste exactly what they have done. I think in the end I just want it to be my way.

 

[k e r f u f f l e]

I just go with whatever I like. I love small-town settings, but organized and accessible, so I went with that by mental picture.

 

[hakutaku]

My island decoration is sporadic lol. I've taken inspiration from a lot of other people's differently themed islands. So far I've only put effort into decorating around my villager's houses, so I have a rustic farm area, an overgrown graveyard, a cultivated zen area, and a stargazing section. I do plan on taking some inspiration from real life once I actually start decorating the main part of the island, I'm thinking of basing a lot of it on Whitby for that English seaside tourist trap aesthetic (and so the creepy graveyard elements aren't so out of place).

 

[Aurita]

Most of mine is original from whatever my brain will think of haha and with some natural inspirations as well. I also sometimes see a pattern or design and I get ideas so I try to incorporate it somehow! Most of my island is just cliffs & flowers so there wasn’t much decorating needed

 

[Hypno KK]

Most of my ideas are my own 100%. Some probably don't make sense to anyone else because they're kind of random, while others I know or guess exist elsewhere because they're predictable (like decorating a beach with beach-themed items).

There were some ideas I got from other people. I didn't straight up copy them, it was more just finding out about some items or patterns. For example, I have a small food court with stalls like many people do. I picked the items on display myself and so on but I wouldn't have known about hat food patterns otherwise!

 

[Fye]

My island is a mash-up of different places I like / want to go to in real life. I named my island after Nara, the city of deer in Japan so I tried to make my downtown area look true to the original by designing similar tiles/sidewalks to the ones in Nara, and recreating some buildings. I also made a Lawson (a popular convenience store in Japan) and a traditional Japanese inn to make it feel like my Island is somewhere in Japan. And then I added some random things that I liked, like a library for my villagers to read in (since most of them have the education sub-personality), a fruit-tree-forest since I didn't want to make a separate orchard, and a "food street" alleyway (this last one was inspired by a player on twitter). I'm not really a beach person so my beaches are completely empty right now and once I'm satisfied with the rest of my island I might look to twitter for inspiration on what to do with them.

 

[lieryl]

i mean it’s half inspo half blind lmao, ill see a concept im into, not think abt it, and then at 3AM it’ll come back to me and i’ll try replicating it from memory on my island half asleep