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Decorating houses in Animal Crossing: New Horizons has, since its release, been largely about how to use furniture in inventive ways. Y'all tin apply the climbing wall item backwards to wait like a regular wall, or the Shell and Tree's Compensation arches to add together the appearance of curves in your doorways.

But all of that has been fabricated somewhat redundant by the improver of three new items in the Happy Abode Paradise DLC: Partition Walls, Counters, and Pillars.

But using these bad boys is a trivial more complicated than simply calculation them to your catalogue of items, so let'southward walk through how to unlock them, how to brand them, and how to utilise them to brand your houses look actually slick.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Partition Walls, Pillars, And Counters Guide

Partition Walls

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How To Unlock Sectionalisation Walls

This will be your first unlock, afterward decorating 7 vacation homes. Niko, the picayune monkey with a hat, volition get into DIY building, and volition invent segmentation walls for you to add into your homes.

How To Use Sectionalization Walls

You can find sectionalization walls in the "other" category while decorating a room, and they can be used to divide up the infinite a lilliputian more — or even to create illusions, like a back garden, a balcony, or a room with a correct-angled wall. You can place them, movement them, and remove them merely like regular furniture.

The partition walls will appear with the same wallpaper that you lot used in the room, even if they are placed on an accent wall. You too can't hang furniture on them, sadly.

You lot can, of course, utilize partition walls in your own house (but not exterior), and Photopia, too. You'll just take to craft them first!

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At that place is likewise the new Castle Wall item, which you tin can too use as a partition wall if y'all're feeling fancy.

DIY Partition Walls

You lot'll get the recipe for making your own sectionalization walls afterward you stop your eighth vacation home, even if yous don't utilise the walls in that build. The recipe uses 3 wood and iii clay to create a ii-infinite-wide, 0.v-infinite-deep wall that goes all the way up to the ceiling.

Pillars

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How To Unlock Pillars

When yous finish your fifteenth vacation home, talk to Niko almost DIY recipes (Lottie volition prompt yous). Talk to him again the next day and he'll have you to the school to teach you lot about his new idea: Pillars!

Every bit an added bonus, you tin can unlock different styles of pillar by donating DIY materials to Niko — read on for instructions!

There are as well Decorative Pillars — you'll have access to these relatively early, but they don't really get all the mode to the ceiling. You can put article of furniture on them, though.

How To Use Pillars

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Pillars are useful for two master things. They make interesting decorative accents, if you desire to split up up a house without putting walls in, but they also make information technology much more bonny to have a partition wall, specially if yous've created a corner.

Like division walls, they can be constitute in the "other" category of the ornamentation carte, and tin be moved effectually like normal article of furniture. You can't put them outside, but your house and Photopia can have them, too.

DIY Pillars

Niko will also teach you the recipe for a colonnade, which costs 2 wood, 2 softwood, and ii hardwood.

Go on donating materials to Niko (by putting them in the box in the upper-left corner of the upstairs of the Happy Habitation Paradise function) and speaking to him and he can teach you more pillar DIYs:

  • Steel Pillar (4 iron nuggets)
  • Simple Pillar (two stone, two dirt)
  • Marble Pillar (8 stone)
  • Gold Colonnade (iv gold nuggets)
  • Brick Pillar (four clay)
  • Concrete Pillar (3 stone, 1 fe nugget)

Note that the DIY pillars tin can be customised into dissimilar colours.

Counters

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How To Unlock Counters

Afterwards the fifteenth vacation domicile design, you'll learn well-nigh counters from Niko at the same time as pillars. Similar pillars, yous tin can unlock dissimilar styles by donating materials in the box upstairs at the Happy Abode Paradise function.

How To Use Counters

Your only limit is your imagination — the counters come in 2 different heights, low and tall, and can be used to separate a room, or provide a new blazon of display for items like plants. You could build a reading nook with them, place them behind your bed as a headboard, or create a kitchen island.

Like the pillars and partition walls, these can exist establish in the "other" category.

Just exist aware that they don't go all the way to the wall, so they expect a piddling weird as kitchen counters, because there's a gap behind them.

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DIY Counters

Niko will give yous the DIY recipe alongside the pillar recipe. The counters you go are the Tall Wooden Island Counter, which costs iii wood, iii softwood, and iii hardwood, and the Depression Wooden Island Counter, which costs ii woods, two softwood, and 2 hardwood.

Keep donating materials to Niko (by putting them in the box in the upper-left corner of the upstairs of the Happy Home Paradise office) and speaking to him and he can teach you more than counter DIYs:

  • Alpine Steel Isle Counter (8 iron nuggets)
  • Low Steel Isle Counter (4 iron nuggets)
  • Tall Simple Island Counter (4 stone, 4 clay)
  • Depression Unproblematic Island Counter (2 stone, 2 dirt)
  • Tall Marble Island Counter (viii stone)
  • Low Marble Island Counter (4 stone)
  • Tall Brick Island Counter (8 clay)
  • Depression Brick Island Counter (4 dirt)
  • Tall Concrete Island Counter (six stone, two iron nuggets)
  • Low Concrete Island Counter (iii stone, i iron asset)
  • Alpine Golden Island Counter (8 golden nuggets)
  • Depression Golden Island Counter (4 gilt nuggets)

Note that the DIY counters can be customised into different colours.

Can these DIYs be used outside of Happy Home Paradise?

While you tin use pillars, counters, and partition walls in your own home, you tin can only unlock them through the Happy Home Paradise DLC. However, if you lot purchased the DLC by subscribing to the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack, and you lot cancel that subscription, you will retain the features as long as y'all already unlocked them, even if you tin't access the Happy Abode Paradise island.


Now, get forth and enjoy all these new design features! And let usa know your decorating tips in the comments beneath.

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