Furniture
Oh, where do we begin on furniture? This is arguably the category with the most information.
Unfortunately, we cannot cover this topic thoroughly. For this reason, we encourage you to submit your
own additions to this article (and any others on this site).
Definition
Furniture – Any item that, when dropped outside, appears as a green leaf on the ground.
Purposes of Furniture
The main purpose of furniture is to decorate your house. Your furniture, combined with your carpet and
wallpaper make up your Happy Room Academy (HRA) score. Some furniture can contribute to your feng
shui. Some furniture can be entertaining, such as video games. Finally, some furniture can be useful for
storing items.
Happy Room Academy
Try as you may, you will likely be discouraged by the daily assessment you receive from the HRA. Those
judges are extremely difficult to please! In addition, you may be a little disturbed that they enter and
assess your house while you are away…
The easiest thing you can do to please the HRA is to keep your house clean. DO NOT leave trash lying
around. Please note that the HRA’s definition of trash may not be yours. They include not only old
boots in their definition, but unidentified fossils, fruit, and seashells as well. If you must keep these in
your house, store them neatly away in your cabinets and drawers. Also, try to control the cockroach
population…
The HRA judges are particularly attracted to sets of furniture. The more items you have of a set, the
better your score. Ideally, you should collect an entire set. Collections of items such as rocks will also
boost your rating. Most importantly, you will need rare items or even rare sets to achieve the highest
scores.
Tweaking your design to suit the HRA judges is a long process, and it is easy to get discouraged by
sinking ratings. But take heart! Do not give up! There is a point to this madness. The HRA will give you
gifts (namely, house models) for achieving high scores. However, if you are not interested in the
models, then by all means, give up!
Feng Shui
Achieving good feng shui is much easier than pleasing the HRA. As you play, you will get
various tips from villagers on this topic. Basically, you should arrange your furniture by
colors (see the chart). By arranging the colors in this fashion, you will experience many
benefits—mostly in the way of money, and some good luck finding rare items. I am not
really sure about the particulars of which items qualify as red, green, blue, and orange, but
a safe bet would be to use items with those colors in their names such as red clocks, green beds, and
orange cones.
Entertaining Furniture
Throughout the game, you will accumulate some NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) video games for
use in your house. Some of these are rarer than others.
Some other kinds of entertaining furniture are things that make you laugh when you first put them in
your house and every time you use them. A good example of this is the toilet, which flushes. Another
example is, in our opinion, the whole set of harvest furniture. You will know what we mean when you
see it.
Useful Furniture
Many pieces of furniture can be used to store things. These are the most useful furniture items. You
may find that eventually you wish to keep a stock of rare carpets and wallpapers and accessories such as
fans, but that you do not have enough space in your house. In this case, you could order dozens of
cabinets or wardrobes for your basement. (Personally, I think that the ranch wardrobes are the prettiest
when lined up together, because they fit closely and the backs look nice.)
Another useful type of furniture is a stereo. For more information on this, read our music article.
Furniture Sets
As you have no doubt noticed, most furniture comes in sets. There are common sets, such as the blue
furniture and the cabana furniture, and there are rare sets, such as the harvest furniture and the
snowman furniture.
Common Sets
Common sets of furniture, for the most part, can be bought at Tom Nook’s. Unfortunately, nearly every
one of these sets has a few pieces which have to be acquired through raffles or black market furniture
dealers. Sometimes the HRA will send you a note with a list of all the pieces in a set if they determine
that you are trying to complete that set. Otherwise, if you are not sure whether or not you have
completed a set, or which pieces you still need, you might try looking for an AC faq with a list of sets.
Rare Sets
Rare sets of furniture are those that must be gotten on holidays or through other seasonal means. You
can get furniture sets on Halloween, at the Harvest Festival, and when Jingle visits your town. For these,
see our holiday pages. You can also get furniture by building snowman, and playing games in tents and
igloos. The rare sets you can obtain are Spooky, Harvest, Jingle, Snowman, Camping, and Igloo.
Completing a Collection
If you have been longing for that last item to complete your furniture set for six months, and you feel
like giving up, you might want to find a code to get the item. (This is cheating—so carefully consider
that you will be forfeiting the satisfaction of finally finding the piece if you do this.) If you decide to get a
code, go to gamefaqs.com and check out some of the wonderful AC faqs there. Some of them have
extensive lists of items and the codes for the items.
You are probably wondering how this works… Well, when you talk to Tom Nook, he has an option for
you to give him an item for him to ship to another store in another town. The purpose of this service is
for you to be able to give an item to a friend in another town, on another system, at another house. You
deposit the item with Nook, and he will give you a code. Then you give this code to your friend. Your
friend enters the code and Nook gives your friend the item. Each item has a unique code.
Getting Furniture – Summary
Tom Nook
You can buy furniture at Tom Nook’s. Each time you upgrade his store, he will have more
furniture available. However, you will find that in time, his furniture selection starts repeating.
You can also get furniture from Nook’s raffles. This furniture is usually very rare.
Gulliver the Sailor
When you find a bird washed up on shore who has passed out, you should talk to him to wake him up.
He will give you rare furniture in return for saving his life.
Crazy Redd
Crazy Redd is a black market furniture salesman. He will send you an announcement when he is coming
to town. His prices are high, and usually one or more of his items is a scam, meaning, a common item
which he is selling for thousands of bells. Be an informed shopper, and you can acquire many rare items
through his store.
Villagers
You can get furniture by trading with villagers. Getting a good deal this way requires practice. You
will have to be scammed a number of times before you become an excellent trader. Furniture from
villagers is typically not rare furniture.
You can also get furniture by sending letters with presents to villagers. They will send you a letter in
return with another present, possibly furniture.
On your birthday you will receive presents in the mail from your villagers, possibly with furniture.
Other Ways to Get Furniture
Furniture can be found by shaking trees.
Furniture can travel in presents attached to balloons which eventually land in trees.
Sometimes villagers will bury furniture and post an announcement on the bulletin board with
the acre specified.
You can also win furniture in events such as the fishing tourneys.
You can get furniture from Tortimer the mayor on holidays.
Furniture will also appear in the dump.
You can get furniture by playing games with the villagers in tents and igloos, as well as by
building snowmen.
Finally, you can get furniture from holiday characters such as Jack and Jingle.
For More Information…
Check out our miscellaneous page for info on raffles.
Check out some faqs for extensive lists of furniture and sets, as well as codes.
Check out our carpet and wallpaper pages for more decorating info.