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Feng Shui Color and Effects Guide

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) - Feng Shui Color and Effects Guide

Feng Shui in Animal Crossing: New Horizons encourages you to use the right color pairs and combinations to improve your Happy Home Academy score!

Learn what Feng Shui is all about and how to do it at home with our guide! Also, find out how Feng Shui worked in past games, and what we can expect from it in ACNH!

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What is Feng Shui?

A Decorating Style

ACNH - Player posing in a feng shui decorated room
Feng Shui is a style in decorating your home, where specific-colored items are placed in certain parts of the room.

Raise Your Happy Home Academy Score

ACNH - Happy Home Academy Score - Feng Shui

The Happy Home Academy will give bonus points for items in your home that follow feng shui!

Learn more about getting points and raising your HHA rank, check our guide!
How to Raise Your Happy Home Academy (HHA) Rank

How to Do Feng Shui

Feng Shui involves making sure that each part of the room has at least one pair of items that match color.

Although the mechanic has been simplified from the previous games, there are still three colors that affect feng shui directly: red, green, and yellow.

Arrange Furniture of Color in Areas

Feng Shui Areas
4×4 6×6 8×8
ACNH - Feng shui room furniture layout

In the centermost room in your house, decorate the east side with yellow items, west with red items, the south with green items.

On the bottom corners where two colors intersect, you can opt for multi-colored items to follow the guide!

How to Use Decorating Mode

Wall-Mounted Items Count

ACNH - Wall-mounted items that follow feng shui
Items hanging on walls will also count towards Feng Shui! Deck out your walls with your red, yellow, and green items for the best feng shui!

List of Wall-Mounted Items

Custom Designs Also Count

ACNH - Custom Design screen

Items made with Custom Designs will also count towards Feng Shui! Just make sure your design include red, yellow, or green.

How to Customize Items

Place Items Over Each Other

ACNH - Placing items on table for feng shui
You can place small items on top of tables to maximize your Feng Shui. The more Feng Shui items you have, the better your results will be!

If you also don't want a row monochromatic items in your room, this might be the hack for you!

Effects of Feng Shui

Feng Shui in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

ACNH - Katrina Fortune Effects
Feng Shui in Animal Crossing: New Horizons only improves your Happy Home Academy (HHA) score. Pair the right color furniture to get that coveted S Rank!

Luck, which was introduced through Feng Shui in past games, is now reintroduced as a feature from Katrina's Fortune Shop in the November 2.0 Update and is completely separate from feng shui.

How to Unlock Katrina's Fortune Shop

Luck in Past Games

ACNH - Lucky Red Envelope and other items

In the previous Animal Crossing games, Feng Shui directly affected Luck. The color red, for example, could improve your character's luck with items.

What is Luck?

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5 Anonymous Anonymous over 5 years

the Animal Crossing: New Horizons guidebook has a printing saying it only affects HHA scores, this is speculation from previous games and using "it seems like we had better luck" instead of primary sources

4 Anonymous Anonymous over 5 years

Incorrect

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