[sub]i usually fully expand + decorate their house as i would my mayor's. especially since i have a town theme, and it wouldn't do well to just have an ugly yellow tent sitting there, lol. my town theme is a fairy forest so my mule's house is planned to be a cabin :^)[/sub]
I'm upgrading it (to a point -- keeping it to one floor for the smaller exterior) and furnishing it. Finally got almost all the exterior pieces I need, so now it's a fittingly cute and pink house for the character.
My mules are max in their houses be caused my mules are museums
One has all most all the pictures while the other has all gyroid and the rest of the pictures
my second characters houses are designed too. or at leasti m working on them, hehe... i usually dont use their houses for storage, i use the museum and their lockers for that. i dont upgrade all my second characters' houses all the way tho, i like habing a few smaller rooms to design n_n
i feature stores or shops in there that they don't have like for example one of my alt's has an ice cream shop/ bakery styled home.
while another is an astronomy tower/aquarium with a night time garden on the side. im thinking for my newest one they will have a food convenience store merged with a gaming and lounging room.