QUESTION: Exterior Designs

[sourburst]

So my whole exterior has been mermaid for a while now and I now want a Japanese style house. However, I've noticed that you can't use old fences you've brought etc.

I was wondering if at some point in the game it is able to use a previous fence or door you have brought without having to buy again or waiting for it to come back in store?

In building me mermaid exterior I have has tree fences and 4 roof's yet there is no item for me to go back and use it and I have had to re-buy some of the items after waiting about a week for it to come back in store.

Also does Nook Homes expand? And if it does is that when you get the chance to re-visit old designs you brought?

It took me ages to build the mermaid one and I'm worried about once I start building the Japanese one, if I want the mermaid one again in the future, I'll have to start from scratch?

 

[allsquirrels]

I don't think there's a way to go back to previous exteriors you've already had. I think of the exteriors as paint and Nook's secret, midnight workforce has to strip off the previous layer before laying down the new. So sadly you will have to wait until Nook's displays the designs you want and buy them that day. D:

If you have a friend willing to check their Nook's for you, that can speed things up. Each day each character can request a foreign Nook's shop to send one exterior element to their home town for purchasing there. I'm constantly snooping around my husband's town collecting resort exteriors myself. It's too bad we can't buy exteriors from Happy Homes...