To everyone who has thanked me for a review that I haven't already responded to: it was my pleasure visiting! To everyone who has been patiently waiting for a review, my apologies for taking so bloody long! I'll do my best to get to you in as timely a fashion as I can manage. Now, without further ado...
Town of Pine:
You mentioned in your post that you didn't have a lot of fancy paths, but I think that the icy blue bricks you used looked just fine as is! Big bonus points for designing them yourself, as Wendell showed to me. Alas, that is one of the biggest flaws about this game: the limited room for QR codes. Between clothing designs, tiles, a town flag, wallpapers/floors, it's so difficult to make do with the few spaces that are allotted to us. You had lots of flowers, but still plenty of room to run around without wreaking havoc on your gardens. Your trees (and flowers for that matter) were planted in neat rows, and you've built a number of really cool public works projects already. I'd like to see some bushes added to your landscape as well, and perhaps some more bamboo. I don't know if growing hybrids is something that you plan to do, but it's nice to have those extra color options! Still, you clearly didn't need them to make your town look pretty and well manicured (I did notice the blue violets and the carnations though!). Really liking your villager lineup too -- you have a diverse mix of different species and quite a few under-recognized cuties. Coco is rad, Phoebe is gorgeous, and Butch has rapidly become one of my favorite crankies, just to name a few.
Stella's house: The plushy looking carpeting in the main room was very nice, and there was certainly a lot of variation in your furniture choices. The pink and white customized lovely furniture actually picked up the colors of the polka-dotted wall quite well. The room did have a certain randomness to it, but I saw on your map that you had four houses, and I know from personal experience how difficult it is to take on that many rooms! It looks like you're aiming to set up your own Club LOL in the back room (although the coelacanth would be a touch out of place in a club setting xD). This could be a really cool space once you've begun to fill it up some more. I was thinking you could section off the DJ's turntable with some barricades or rope partitions, maybe have a gorgeous counter in one corner of the room where drinks are served, incorporate some aurora screens for mood lighting. The bathroom seems to still be in progress -- if you can get your hands on more spa items, add some more plants in addition to the bonsai, and try changing out the wallpaper, I think that it will majorly help! The kitchen downstairs had many of the essentials and is looking good! I really liked the blend of pinks and purples in the upstairs room -- definitely my favorite in this particular house -- and the painting of Fauna was adorable.
Kate's house: Wahh, loved the creepy sign that greeted me at the doorway, and the music in all of the rooms was surprisingly unsettling in the context of the house. I certainly have never seen a gyroid pathway before, but it definitely was a unique way of utilizing those kooky little things. The blood-spattered wall, floor, and shirt in the right-hand room were wicked, and it was cool to see you making use of those QR codes that you designed. It seemed like you used the same design for the wall and the floor in all of the rooms where custom patterns were displayed. You might want to try mixing them up a bit, i.e., using the design for just either the wall or the floor instead of both. I bet you could find some cool wallpaper/flooring at the shop/in your catalog to pair with it.
June's house: This house is still clearly a WIP, but it seems pretty clear that you're planning on turning the main room into a Japanese-themed space. The back room was really lovely with all the plantlife and those couple of weeding day items. The picnic table and the wheat fields gave it a kind of quaint, countrified touch, and the hammock was perfect for that outdoorsy atmosphere. Upstairs was another assorted hodgepodge of items, and the music and dim lighting gave off a somewhat eerie and spectral vibe, although that might not have been done intentionally. I really liked how pinks and greens were emphasized in the basement -- on paper, the party wall would not seem to be a likely match for that particular carpet (forget the name of it now), but it actually worked much better than I would have imagined!
Ashley's house: Very neat reception area in the main room you've begun to put together. There isn't anything in the lower half of the room yet, but I am sure that that is pending. The dining area to the left was nicely set up, and I very much appreciated the fact that the flooring was another original design. The "arcade" sign you hung on the wall leading to your back room was a cool little directory for visitors. I actually think that the star pattern you created would have been a good fit for this room, but maybe you don't want to repeat yourself since it was also the design you used for the nightclub room in Stella's house. Loved your teddy bear collection and the other assorted toys in your playroom upstairs as well!
Thanks for letting me explore Pine, and good luck with all your future plans!
