Please help me and give me ideas to make my island look prettier!

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Hey there.
As the title of the thread mentions : I am currently blocked into how I want to design my island.
Everything I can think about looks boring or lame.
So , based in things you would like ¿What could you recommend?
Here's a picture of the last thing I was planning for the map of my island:
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Things to mention:

The neighborhood above is meant to have some fountains around , and also some streetlights (that's why there are some weird circles and small dots over there , they are meant to represent those things).
Above the neighborhood , there's is supposed to be a more wild zone where I could bred flowers and put trees there.
In the museum zone , right above the orchard of fruit trees , I'm not sure if I should use benches like a waiting zone or put big fossils there.
Above the Nook's Cranny and Able Sisters , I have no idea what no do there , maybe do something like a street market , a place to eat food or something.
The places where you see the questions marks are parts where I have NO idea on what could I use there.
Everything else I didn't mention (like the path that is located on the far-right of the island to enter into the neighborhood) are 100% staying there , but if you could give ideas about those places like that it would be nice.

I don't know if this matters but if you wanna know what theme if going for , I'm aiming for a pink and rainbow town , have some images that kinda work as a moodboard?:
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So if you could give me tips on what could I do on those blank spaces and also how could I pull of that aesthetic into my island I would appreciate it.

tyy
 
If you get the stall DIY and talk to sable every day eventually you get a ton of custom cloths, you could use those and make a marketplace next to town hall with items from the seasons in the stalls or maybe make a park area with a little pond or two with bench and pine trees with lattice fencing. Maybe use some hybrid lillies mixed with hyacinths here and there to create some landscaping and then use baby pines and baby oaks next to adult trees as fake weeds (they never grow or die).

Under the museum maybe do a park bench or two with a fountain and a cotton candy machine, making use of the two egg day balloon diys to make it look like Phineas is visiting like he used to in City Folk.
 
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I would recommend you narrow those paths! They're taking up a lot of space, to the point that they'll look more like long, empty plazas. 4 tiles wide is good for main streets, with 2-3 tiles wide for less important paths.

Don't be afraid to get creative with cliffs—even though they're all at the top of the map when you start, you can use them anywhere. Putting focal points like your house or the museum up on the 2nd or 3rd level with ramps leading up to them is a great way to add some interest.

It can be a little bit harder to pull off, but if you can sculpt your river and cliffs to have more natural looking curves and squiggles to them, it adds more visual interest to your map than straight geometric shapes.

You have most of your essential features (villager neighborhood, orchard, flower fields, etc) packed in very tightly—if you spread them out and allow them to be less perfectly aligned, it will look more natural and fill out more of that space.

Finally, don't be afraid to just fill empty spaces with trees and flowers. That's the classic Animal Crossing look for a reason. You can always dig them up if you get an idea for something else to put there.
 
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