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Tomodachi Life House Exterior Ideas and Building Designs

In search of the best house exterior ideas, designs and pattern sheet to directly replicate for your island in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream? On this page, you will find all kinds of exterior building designs created by other players.

Almost all of them come with detailed pattern sheets, design pixel grids, or some step-by-step instructions to help you recreate the building look without having to draw it from scratch.

Start with the featured ideas below, or jump to all 34 house exterior designs.

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If you're unsure about which designs to look at first, use these sections to explore ideas sorted by their purpose. Popular building categories include cute homes and cottages, landmarks, shops, Japanese-style streets and houses, Chinese gardens, and easy no-draw designs.

How to pick the right house exterior design

The exterior of the Mii house is not just the way of making the Mii home look nice. Good exterior of a house makes it possible to read your island better: cottage creates atmosphere of a garden, shopfront sets the beginning of the street, while a castle and a church serve as island landmarks. Three criteria should be met while choosing the exterior design: a clear shape of the building, its pattern sheet or grid and the empty space around to build road, plants, signs or other island objects.

Designs of the houses for your island

Exterior designs of the houses are quite similar to the other building designs. Use them to turn the empty place into a town, shopping street, beach, block of flats or landmark area. Apartment blocks, train stations, lighthouses, churches, shops and restaurants make your island look more as a place where Miis may live.
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Easy no-draw and stamp-tool designs

If the drawing from scratch seems too challenging for you, try these ones. These exterior designs use built-in stamps, copied shapes, easy grids and clear pattern sheets to make the recreation of the design easier even for those who is not comfortable with the custom drawing. After testing one design, browse the full list of the exteriors and choose more designs that have pattern sheets.
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House exterior design tips

  • Start with the silhouette: roof, door, windows and walls shape. The details may be fixed later as long as the building shape looks clear.
  • Use two close colors for roofs, bricks, plants or shadows to avoid flatness of the house exterior in the small screenshots.
  • Leave some space in front of shops, apartment and landmarks for roads, signs, benches, plants and plaza tiles.
  • Choose a proper type of the exterior for the place on your island: cottages fit the gardens, shops, the streets and castles/churches are better to be landmarks.
  • For easier building, choose designs with pattern sheets, grids and stamp-tool notes.
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