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Animal Crossing New Horizons ACNH - Item Customization Guide
Customize your crafted furniture, tools, and phone cases with Customization Kits, or customize purchased furniture on Harv's Island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH). Read on to learn how to unlock customization, how to customize items, and what items you can customize.

How to Unlock Customization

Take Tom Nook's Customization Workshop

ACNH - Learn about customization
After unlocking Nook's Cranny, you will be asked to prepare 3 plots of land for future residents. The next day, Tom Nook will teach you about customization.

During the Workshop, you craft a Wooden Wardrobe, one of the customizable items in the game. Talk to Tom Nook again after making the wardrobe and he'll ask you to customize it at the DIY Workbench next to him. You will also receive 50 customization kits.

Customization Kits Become Available at Nook's Cranny

ACNH - Customization Kits available at Nook
After customizing an item for the first time, customization kits will be available at Nook's Cranny.

How to Customize Items

Have Customization Kits on Hand

ACNH - Customization kits at Nook

Item Price
Customization Kit 600 Bells (Single)
3,000 Bells (5 Pieces)

You can purchase customization kits at Nook's Cranny for 600 Bells per piece, or 3,000 Bells for a bundle (5 pieces). Each item requires a different number of customization kits so it is better to prepare more than what you need.

Use the Workbench with the Kits and Item in Your Pockets

ACNH - Customize something using the workbench

With the customization kits and item in your pocket, use the workbench and select Customize something, and select the item to customize.

Select from the Customization Options

ACNH - Wooden Wardrobe 2
Select from the customization options. Each item can be customized differently such as changing the color and the cloth design, so try customizing a variety of items!

Customizing DIY Furniture and Tools

Items with a Brush Icon are Customizable

ACNH - Item is customizable
Items that can be customized have a brush icon on the upper left side of the recipe.

You Can Also Customize Tools

ACNH - Customize Tools
Surprisingly, Tools can also be customized. However, they will still break, so we recommend saving this for when you have plenty of resources.

The only two unbreakable tools, the Vaulting Pole and the Ladder, cannot be customized.

Color Options are Determined by Furniture Series

Wooden Chair (from the Wooden furniture series)
Light woodLight Wood White woodWhite Wood Cherry woodCherry Wood Dark woodDark Wood
BlackBlack GreenGreen BlueBlue Pink woodPink Wood

Most of the DIY furniture can be customized, but the colors available depend on the series of the item.

To create a unified look with a single color, collect furniture that belong in the same series.

Custom Designs are Available for Some Furniture

ACNH - Custom design for clothesline
Aside from changing the item's color, some pieces of furniture, like large tables or beds, or anything with a cloth can be customized to have a custom design.

If you update the custom design used on an item, the item's design will update with it too.

Unlock the Pattern Option from Able Sisters

ACNH - Pattern options for outdoor bench
As part of the color options, you can unlock the pattern choices by talking to Sable every day in Able Sisters. Eventually, she will give you a gift that allows you to put patterns on items.

There's a variety of Pattern packs, so make sure to talk to her every day to get them all!
How to Unlock the Able Sisters Tailor Shop

Customization for Bought Furniture and Items

Customize Furniture With Cyrus and Reese

ACNH - Reese and Cyrus Customization Shop

You can unlock customization for furniture that you have bought in Harv's island. You will need to unlock the Plaza first.

When you arrive at the plaza, you may choose to construct Cyrus and Reese's customization shop. You will have to donate 100,000 Bells to have it be built. Once the construction is finished, you can pay Bells to customize furniture that you have bought.

How to Find Reese & Cyrus' Customizations

Customize Select Items With DIY Kits

ACNH - Customizing magazine
Some items, such as cushions and magazine features, can be customized with Customization Kits. Some also have the option to be customized with a Custom Design so you can display your items with your favorite design!

How to Customize Your Phone Case

Exchange Miles for a Customizable Phone Case Kit

ACNH - Purchasing a customizable phone case kit

Item Price
Customizable Phone Case Kit 1,800 Nook Miles

You can get phone customization kits at the Nook Stop terminal, in exchange for 1,800 Nook Miles. It will be sent to your mail the next day.
What Should You Spend Nook Miles on First?

Design Your Phone Case

Phone case color 1 greenGreen Phone case color 2 redRed Phone case color 3 pinkPink Phone case color 4 blackBlack Phone case color 5 whiteWhite
Phone case color 6 blueBlue Phone case color 7 yellowYellow Phone case color 8 beigeBeige Phone case color 9 patternPattern Phone case color 10 custom designCustom

You can change the color of your phone's case, or even better, design your own case by using a Custom Design.

One thing to note is that the Nook Inc. logo in the center of the phone case cannot be removed.

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Hand Picked Custom Designs

List of Custom Designs
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How to Make Custom Design Patterns

How to Make Custom Designs
ACNH - How to Make Custom Fireworks Designs partialHow to Make Custom Fireworks Designs ACNH - Custom Wooden Path InstructionsHow to Make Wooden Paths
ACNH - Custom Brick Path InstructionsHow to Make Brick Paths ACNH - Custom Platform InstructionsHow to Make Platforms
ACNH - Custom Dirt Path InstructionsHow to Make Dirt Paths | The Path ACNH - Custom Tatami InstructionsHow to Make Tatami Mats
ACNH - Custom Seashells InstructionsHow to Make Seashell Paths ACNH - Custom Sweets InstructionsHow to Make Sweets Floor Designs
ACNH - Custom Flowerbed InstructionsHow to Make Flowerbeds ACNH - Custom Flower Patch InstructionsHow to Make Flower Patches
ACNH - Custom Tiles InstructionsHow to Make Tile Patterns ACNH - Custom Stepping Stones InstructionsHow to Make Stepping Stones
ACNH - Custom Large Stone Tiles InstructionsHow to Make Large Stone Tiles and Slabs

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1 Anonymous Anonymous about 5 years

how to get more storage in phn design app.... I only have 1 page for custom mades.. other people have 3 or 4 pages of storage..

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