Animal Crossing: New Horizons Happy Home Paradise DLC gave players an entire vacation archipelago where they can design villager homes, along with a number of facilities including a café. While both indoor and outdoor café designs have been popular in the base game since its release, Happy Home Paradise brings Animal Crossing cafés to a whole new level. The Happy Home Paradise facilities are extremely lively, with villagers not only able to visit, but also able to work in them.
Happy Home Paradise introduced a number of skills and features that open up a ton of new options for interior design. With lighting effects, accent wallpaper, and partition walls, players can create the exact layout and atmosphere they want their café to have. Room sizes can also be changed in the DLC, allowing the café to be either cozy or spacious according to the player’s vision.
Like the other facilities in the game, the café has an expansive catalog of items and customization options, and players can also customize the building’s exterior. With all these different options, there are a variety of themes and designs players can create. Players will also be able to access more items, furniture, and wallpaper as they play through the DLC and design vacation homes for the archipelago’s visiting villagers. The café’s beachfront location is absolutely perfect for a wide range of different styles, encouraging players to connect with their inner interior designer and get creative.
Cute Café Designs in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
For a classic café aesthetic, the Happy Home Paradise DLC for Animal Crossing: New Horizons includes the coffee-shop wall as part of the café’s order catalog. The shelves look great as an accent wall, but the natural wood border can make the café extremely cozy when used on all four walls. The wall’s sections are also great for hanging items like plants, clocks, and tapestries without becoming too cluttered.
There are plenty of natural and cozy wooden furniture items to choose from, and most of them can also be customized to a light wood, natural wood, or dark wood so players can find the perfect, unified look. A couple of different sofas are also available so players can choose from a variety of the game’s comfiest seating options. There are also other design items players can use from the catalog to create cafés that go beyond coffee.
Retro Ice Cream Parlor
The café’s catalog includes a variety of different sweet treats and ice cream-themed delights, making an ice cream parlor a great choice of theme for Happy Home Paradise's beachfront café. The ice cream shoppe wall features its own menu boards, cones, and jars of sprinkles, and it brings a lot of depth to the room as both an accent wall or full wallpaper. There are also a number of different ice cream coolers, all of which can be customized, and the soft-serve lamp makes an appearance in the catalog as well. The diner furniture pairs well with the ice cream parlor aesthetic, and, with full control of the furniture’s color, players can easily create a retro vibe that fits well with the theme.
Courtyard Café Al Fresco
The Happy Home Paradise DLC’s courtyard walls are great for giving rooms an outdoor feel despite being indoors. This gives players the option to create a lovely, outdoor café space. With the option to change the room size, this is a great style for spacious layouts and larger designs, and players can achieve the perfect atmosphere with Happy Home Paradise's new lighting effects. The courtyard café is a great style for incorporating plenty of tall plants and hanging planters if players want to add a lot of greenery to their cafés.
Fancy Tea Parlor
With the variety of tea sets available in the café catalog, players can create a tea room if coffee isn’t their preferred hot beverage. Happy Home Paradise includes the fancy tea set, traditional tea set, and afternoon tea set, along with its simple kettle and cream and sugar. The café-curtain wall is great for a posh vibe with its sheer curtains and tall windows, and the covered round tables are about as fancy as tables can get. Their customization options include embroidered gold and intricate patterns. Paired with the antique furniture set, the archipelago’s café can quickly become one of the fanciest tea parlors around.
Boardwalk Arcade
With the inclusion of arcade games and pinball machines in the café catalog, it’s easy to bring this fun-filled design to life. The arcade can make great use of Animal Crossing's new ceiling decorations with the hanging monitor and dual hanging monitor, allowing players to add yet another source of entertainment for their arcade-going villagers. This is another great design for fans of the new lighting effects, which not only let players change the color of the lighting in a room but also the intensity of it.
Seaside Bodega
For players who want to give their villagers the option to shop rather than be served, the Happy Home Paradise catalog includes a frozen-food freezer wall that looks great as part of a small grocery store or bodega. This design gives the café a small beach town vibe with the feel of a little local shop. The bodega is flexible and can be either a general store or specialize in a specific type of merchandise depending on the player’s preference.
Beachfront Tiki Bar
With its beautiful view of the ocean and location right on the beach, the café facility is the perfect candidate for a tiki bar featuring a variety of Animal Crossing's drinks and sodas. The tropical vista and ocean-horizon wall can bring the view indoors, either as an accent wall or the whole way around the room. Surfboards and frozen-drink machines can also be found in the catalog, so players can use their café space to create a slice of paradise with plenty of tropical refreshments.
Quiet Library Lounge
Players who prefer to drink their coffee while surrounded by books can opt for a more subdued café and create a library lounge for this facility. While the classic library wall is not included in the café’s order, players will likely find it in their inventory by scrolling through the “everything” tab, as it was introduced for the school facility. This design is great for incorporating Happy Home Paradise's new partition walls to create reading nooks and cozy spaces so villagers can enjoy a hot beverage with a book.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available on Nintendo Switch.