Spaces Between Villager Houses

[Bk1234]

Help! So, how many spaces did you leave between villager houses? Also, what did you do with those areas? I really need some inspiration. I know what I want to do, but I just wanted to see how others executed it. Right now, there is one space between Frita and Hamlet's houses, one spot between Erik, Tutu, and Nana's houses, and one space between Reneigh and Sherb's houses. I want to try to make cute yards.
*You can share pictures if you want*
Thanks for your help!

 

[Fey]

My layout isn’t solid yet, but from what I’ve seen one space between them isn’t really enough to add much of a yard. I guess that depends on what you’re going for, or mean by “yard”, though.

When I have houses similarly close together I give them a joint yard or make the space between their lots more of a public one (with a bench or something along those lines)

 

[FireNinja1]

I have a six space gap between houses horizontally. Vertically, it depends. I plan on doing a significant amount of terraforming, though, so it really doesn't matter to me right now.

 

[Bk1234]

I think I'll be doing a lot of moving around with the villager houses!

 

[diamond is unbreakable]

Not all of my villagers are situated next to each other, but here is an example of two that are:

these two are set up like this:
(X is house, O is grass space, I is fencing)
|OOXXXXI
|OOXXXXI
|OOXXXXI
|OOOOOI
IIIII

the one on the right is the same, but the sides are reversed. The space between is around 4 spaces, but there are only two "free" grass spaces because of the fencing. This is how I personally like my yards Generally one line vertically in each yard s flowers, and the other is a couple items.

 

[LuchaSloth]

I'm in the process of moving my houses together right now, and I'm just kinda eyeballing it.

Definitely leaving at least 2 or three spaces on the sides...but, nothing crazy.

 

[Bk1234]

Definitely leaving at least 2 or three spaces on the sides...but, nothing crazy.

I wish I had thought of this before placing them! ☹ (Would've saved a ton of money). Hopefully, I can fix some issues with terraforming. Most of my houses aren't isolated from each other, but some are. Two or three spaces definitely seems like the way to go though! Thank you!

 

[Sharksheep]

I have 4 spaces and a sharing a space with a fence between houses

 

[Romaki]

Right now I only have them 1 spot apart at the very bottom in one straight line, not sure how I'll terraform the neighborhood part of my island.

 

[Fluuffy]

My villager houses are not really connected to each other aside from 2 houses. Most of them have their one 1 space yard around their house. This makes it very hard to decorate around them though... The other two have a connected yard and about 3 spaces in between so they can share a yard. This was mainly cus that area of my island looks better that way.

 

[Krissi2197]

I have 2 spaces between each house c:

 

[Bioness]

2 columns, 10 spaces apart, and I am very much aware how impractical it is, but I really am not in the mood to fix it at this point.

 

[Lotusblossom]

Hah that's funny I was gonna start a thread like this today!! I spaced there houses three blocks apart. Need more room.

 

[stardrop-crossing]

When I'm putting houses "together", I leave at least three spaces in between, so each villager can have flowers, furniture etc on the side of their house with a gap in between

 

[th8827]

I don't build on a grid, so it really depends on the Villagers. I have 2 villagers, Reneigh and Huck, who only have 2 or 3 spaces between (I put a clothes line there), while others have to walk one or two screens to get to their neighbor. I places houses where they feel like they would naturally fit, given the geography.