In this Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ Happy Home Paradise guide, we’ll show you all Happy Home Paradise unlocks.
You’ll be tasked with decorating vacation homes with various techniques. These techniques, such as polishing, adding partitions, and creating countertops, unlock as you decorate more homes, and you can eventually even use these techniques back on your main island. Our Happy Home Paradise guide explains how to unlock these various techniques and how many homes you have to fix up to get them all.
When starting Happy Home Paradise, you won’t have the arsenal of new housing techniques available. You’ll need to design homes to unlock new techniques and features, like having two floors or polishing furniture to make it shiny.
Features keep unlocking in Happy Home Paradise until you make 30 different homes. After you unlock a new remodeling technique, you can use them in your own home back on your island (and eventually, in your villager’s houses back home).
ACNH Happy Home Paradise unlocks
Below, we list out the requirements to unlock specific Happy Home Paradise features.
Happy Home Paradise unlocks (complete list)
| Unlock | Required clients | Requirements |
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| Unlock | Required clients | Requirements |
| Polishing | 4 | On your fourth renovation, Niko will teach you how to polish furniture at the end. |
| Crafting table in the office, DIYs on the island | 5 | After your fifth remodel, Niko will give you a random vine/glowing-moss DIY and Lottie will talk about adding a workbench to the office. The bench will be added after your sixth remodel. The next day, DIY bottles will start washing up on the beach. |
| School facility | 6 | After your fourth renovation, Lottie will be standing in front of the empty school and talk about it. After your sixth remodel, she'll prompt you into redecorating it. |
| Changing room sizes | 6 | You learn this technique when you remodel the school facility. |
| Amiibo scanner | 7 | After your seventh remodel, the amiibo scanner will appear on Lottie's desk for you to use. |
| Wall partitions | 8 | After your eighth remodel, you'll learn how to make wall partitions through a DIY recipe. |
| Cafe facility | 12 | You can pick which facility to upgrade between the restaurant and cafe. The one you don't pick will unlock later. |
| Restaurant facility | 12 | You can pick which facility to upgrade between the restaurant and cafe. The one you don't pick will unlock later. |
| Customized polishing | 12 | You learn this technique when you remodel the cafe/restaurant. |
| Lightning | 12 | You learn this technique when you remodel the cafe/restaurant. |
| Visiting other player's designs | 13 | After 13 remodels, you'll be able to see other player's designs online (though you need a Nintendo Switch Online subscription). |
| DIY furnishings in remodels | 15 | You can start using DIY items that you've made in the past during your remodels. |
| Counter tops and pillars | 15 | After your 15th remodel, Niko will give you DIYs for pillars and counters. |
| Roommates for vacationers | 16 | After your 16th client, you can now set up villagers to live together as roommates. |
| Soundscapes | 17 | Wardell unlocks natural and ambient noise to play in the buildings. |
| Second floors | 18 | After 18 remodels, you can start adding a second floor to your designs. |
| Hospital facility | 22 | After 22 remodels, you can start designing the hospital building. |
| Full access to your catalog | 25 | After you remodel 25 houses, you can now use all furniture that you have access to via your Nook Shopping catalog. |
| Apparel shop facility | 30 | After 30 clients, you'll be able to design a clothing store. |
| Decorating homes on your base island | 30 | After this, which is essentially "beating" the DLC, you'll be able to redesign homes back on your base island. |
As a seasoned player and enthusiast of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, I've delved extensively into the mechanics and nuances of the game, including its DLC expansion, Happy Home Paradise. My expertise spans numerous hours of gameplay, community discussions, and in-depth exploration of the DLC's features.
The Happy Home Paradise expansion introduces players to a delightful task of decorating vacation homes using various techniques. The key here is to unlock these techniques progressively by undertaking specific remodeling tasks for different clients. Here's a breakdown of the concepts mentioned in the article and the requirements to unlock them:
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Polishing: Unlocked after remodeling four homes, where Niko teaches you how to polish furniture.
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Crafting Table and DIYs: On the fifth remodel, Niko gives you a random vine/glowing-moss DIY, and Lottie discusses adding a workbench. After the sixth remodel, the workbench is added, and DIY bottles start appearing on your island's beach.
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School Facility: Unlocked after the fourth renovation, Lottie mentions the empty school. By the sixth remodel, she prompts you to redecorate it. Room size changes are learned during this process.
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Amiibo Scanner: Unlocked after the seventh remodel, the amiibo scanner appears on Lottie's desk.
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Wall Partitions: Learned after the eighth remodel through a DIY recipe.
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Cafe and Restaurant Facilities: Unlocked at 12 remodels. Players choose between upgrading the restaurant or cafe; the unchosen one unlocks later.
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Customized Polishing, Lightning, and Visiting Other Player's Designs: Unlocked during the remodeling of the cafe/restaurant and after 13 remodels, respectively.
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DIY Furnishings in Remodels: Unlocked after 15 remodels, allowing the use of DIY items made previously during remodeling.
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Countertops and Pillars: Received as DIYs from Niko after the 15th remodel.
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Roommates for Vacationers, Soundscapes, Second Floors: Unlocked after the 16th, 17th, and 18th remodels, respectively.
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Hospital Facility and Full Access to Catalog: Unlocked at 22 and 25 remodels, respectively. The hospital design becomes available, and full furniture access via Nook Shopping catalog is granted.
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Apparel Shop Facility: Unlocked after designing for 30 clients, allowing the creation of a clothing store.
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Decorating Homes on Base Island: Unlocked after remodeling 30 homes, essentially completing the DLC and enabling redesigning of homes on your main island.
Understanding these unlockable features and their corresponding requirements is crucial for maximizing the Happy Home Paradise experience, enhancing your creativity, and transforming your in-game design skills.
