Spending the day with your toes in the sand is what ACNH should be all about.
And you can do just that on your Animal Crossing island with this riverside tiki juice bar.
The rattan furniture collection fits this juice bar’s beach theme perfectly, which is why you see so much of it.
You can also recreate the countertop by flipping two den desks around and lining them with rattan stools in the front. This matches the seating areas around the juice bar, too.
Then the only thing left to do is add some items like surfboards, palm tree lamps, and tiki torches to complete the bar experience.
Bookworms live amongst us everywhere, even in the Animal Crossing world.
Which is why this design is worth a build for your quieter villagers.
Since the items used for this tiny library are all customizable, this riverside design can fit with anyone’s island theme.
You can create any pattern to lay down as a picnic blanket, and you can even use matching colors to create a pattern for the tassels at the ends of the blanket.
And of course, you can’t have a library without books. So grab your favorite book-related items like the tiny library, and the stack of books, and place them all over.
The combination of the flowing river, the field of flowers, and the candle light makes this reading area just plain cozy.
This design uses plants and tropical trees to make this jungle river come to life.
You can remake this design however you’d like, mostly by gathering your favorite organic items such as flowers, bamboo trees, and coconut trees, and placing them around a river. Keep it green!
The only crafted items used in this jungle design are log stakes and a few green-leaf piles, which also feel super natural here.
You can even personalize your river design by adding cliffs and waterfalls, or you can create a custom pathway to cover any bare areas.
Line the sides of your river with lily pads, flowers, basically anything that’d complete this awesome jungle look.
Adding in the river is both a creative and a detailed idea. And you can absolutely make this yourself, with a bit of effort.
With brick bridges, brick fencing, and brick pathways, this area has a very obvious recurring theme… bricks.
But too much of anything can be bad, so it’s balanced with garden wagons and street lamps lined up along the walls.
You can make this idea on your own by adding some custom-created pathway designs, or you could even sway from the brick theme completely and use stone, or even create a beach boardwalk.
This cottage design, although very simple, is a great way to decorate along a river. And look at that cute yard.
If you design this for an animal on your island, then personalizing the design to fit your villager’s likes and dislikes just requires a bit of research.
You can also make each yard different by designing custom patterns like stepping stones, or a wooden plank walkway, and place them around the yard.
This design doesn’t feature many crafted or bought items. Rather it uses nature to decorate the area with things like flowers and bamboo trees.
There is, however, country fencing placed to match the cottage feel of the house. And a hammock for your villager to enjoy!
Somebody call Celeste, because this flower garden walkway is just what she’d love to check out.
There aren’t many taller items involved in this design, which leaves the skies clear, and makes it one heck of a place to wish on shooting stars.
This riverside garden can be recreated very easily, since it’s almost entirely made of flowers.
All you have to do is scope out an area & lay down some flowers, and you’re already more than halfway done.
The next step is laying down a pathway so both villagers and island visitors can enjoy a nice walk along the river, surrounded by wonderful-smelling flowers.
Lastly, if your garden is looking a little boring with just flowers, you can spice up the place by adding smaller outdoor items. Stuff like garden gnomes and butterfly models.
Chances are, if you have any statues like this one in your inventory, then you’ve had your fair share of bad luck buying art from the infamous Redd.
This floating art gallery design can put those bad luck buys to good use by displaying them alongside a river spot, for a creative blend of art and nature.
This design also puts a spin on stepping stones by using them as a way to display art, instead of using them as a makeshift bridge.
The color white takes over the very center of the river here, with plants like the white mum flower cushion, white flowers, and an off-white statue.
And the color blue is found in items like then iron garden seating and then blue hydrangea bushes, not to mention that deep blue river water!
You can even continue this pattern down the entire river if you wanted to make a full art gallery.
Adding buildings along the river is a great way to fill up those small empty spots.
And this riverside cafe design is not only adorable, but it uses quite just a few items.
Plus, adding a café like this to your island could help you get that five star rating.
Here’s how:
Lay out some wood flooring and imperial fencing to start the groundwork for your island cafe.
You can use stalls to display delicious treats like cake, espresso, and other things you would find at a cafe.
Use iron garden benches and chairs for seating to fit the outdoor theme of this cafe, and line the outside with azalea bushes. Then you can finish off your cafe by adding a few plants here & there.
This design connects the mouth of two rivers and is meant to be sunken into the center, making for one amazing sight to behold.
A field of bright-colored flowers surrounds the inverted falls, while a stone lion-dog statue and tiki torches sit at the center.
There are also some custom flower designs placed on the individual squares of land at each corner of the sunken water, and at the center, and that’s such a cool touch.
Probably one of the coolest designs for the mouth of your river, and it looks like a great place for selfies!
And recreating this sunken river would require quite a bit of that.
The perfect place to put a sunken river would be in an area where the island floor is raised one or two levels. So that’d be the place to start.
Before you can decorate, you have to break the floor down to the first level in whatever shape you want your river to be.
Then after you’re done waterscaping, you can round out some of the edges of the cliffs and create some smaller waterfalls that flow into the river.
And you can fill up some of the empty spaces with bushes, flowers, and trees, just to make it more natural. Maybe even add some lights for a great view at night!
The combination of the white lights, holly scattered on the ground, and the blanket of snow covering everything, all gives me the same warm feeling that Christmas does.
But the statues and imperial decor keep this design from feeling too festive.
It’s basically a sunken river surrounded by cliffs, flowers, and trees. And all of this lies between two houses, each house with its own yard decor.
There are white nova lights, white garden lights, and even white street lamps used in this design.
Which means the secondary theme has got to be lights, right?
Seeing the complexity of this river design just makes me want to know what the rest of this island looks like.
