What's your approach on decorations?

[HaleyRocks]

This game offers lots of customization and one thing, looks better than the next one! Have you got a special design, or favor practicality and "time/resources-economy"?

I myself never decorate outdoors areas, because i would like to save up maximum space. I've never once built a single fence, either (will have to sometime, to get the achievements for crafting every item), preferring to leave my animals roam free. No fence door, too. I don't favor paths, because i can always place something else in their stead, such as wild grass for livestock, riddle the field with lightningrods, create lots of fish ponds and build sheds for both storage and machinery (am not a fan of filling up quarry, bus tunnel or other areas up). I never decorate animal buildings or sheds.

Indoors, mainly house, i use only the most basic of housewares, such as couple of nice looking windows (ornate?), plasma TV, phone, mahogany furniture mostly, a lively red rug (monster?) and classy wood colored flooring. The only painting i hanged, are the ones yielded from museum rewards and the secret once per savefile, fished from volcano forge. Am considering to get the Birch double bed from desert merchant, in exchange for a pearl. I also placed around the house, musem statues and crystal rewards, the trophy for perfection and a stone statue that i don't remember where i got it from.

What's your approach, on decoration? Could you share your patterns, possibly with a nice looking photo together?

 

[FilthyGorilla]

I’m incredibly bad at decorating in any game, I’ve been practicing though, I plan on decorating some of the smaller areas first and slowly expanding outwards to try and not get overwhelmed.

@Ferris Bueller is an insanely talented decorator and his sheds are really well done and have even been showcased on some game websites. I’d totally check out his profile

 

[ThePerfectGarden]

@Ferris Bueller is an insanely talented decorator and his sheds are really well done and have even been showcased on some game websites. I’d totally check out his profile

Agreed. The same goes for @Igorferreira72.

I love to design my farm, and I love to do it in a different way in each save. But for me, beauty always goes with functionality. I dislike having to career all over the place to cope with all my farmwork in the morning just to make it look quaint.

 

[LRangerR]

I have never done a proper forest farm, because I decorate with trees and make my own forest. The style that I do I in yields a lot of wood, bit surprisingly mahogany seeds sell for a decent sum if you wanted to be a nut merchant. It's a playstyle I will explore sometime in the future

 

[Igorferreira72]

Agreed. The same goes for @Igorferreira72.

I love to design my farm, and I love to do it in a different way in each save. But for me, beauty always goes with functionality. I dislike having to career all over the place to cope with all my farmwork in the morning just to make it look quaint.

Thank you very much for tagging me, Interesting topic, Well I understand that the best way is the one you feel good about, I don't like creating farms that are only profitable, I like playing with the game's music in sheds with the Juckebox, I believe that Doing it this way motivates me to want to play again and always create new Farms with old and improved elements.

 

[Igorferreira72]

This game offers lots of customization and one thing, looks better than the next one! Have you got a special design, or favor practicality and "time/resources-economy"?

I myself never decorate outdoors areas, because i would like to save up maximum space. I've never once built a single fence, either (will have to sometime, to get the achievements for crafting every item), preferring to leave my animals roam free. No fence door, too. I don't favor paths, because i can always place something else in their stead, such as wild grass for livestock, riddle the field with lightningrods, create lots of fish ponds and build sheds for both storage and machinery (am not a fan of filling up quarry, bus tunnel or other areas up). I never decorate animal buildings or sheds.

Indoors, mainly house, i use only the most basic of housewares, such as couple of nice looking windows (ornate?), plasma TV, phone, mahogany furniture mostly, a lively red rug (monster?) and classy wood colored flooring. The only painting i hanged, are the ones yielded from museum rewards and the secret once per savefile, fished from volcano forge. Am considering to get the Birch double bed from desert merchant, in exchange for a pearl. I also placed around the house, musem statues and crystal rewards, the trophy for perfection and a stone statue that i don't remember where i got it from.

What's your approach, on decoration? Could you share your patterns, possibly with a nice looking photo together?

Well, as I said above, I like to create Farms that mix profit with decoration, It fills me with satisfaction to enter one of my themed Sheds and start listening to a soundtrack that matches the environment full of canning barrels, In this topic I shared Most of my Farms, I always try to make one different from the other, Or bringing old elements improved, As you can see in the farms with Grass and Dream Farm 2.

http://forums.stardewvalley.net/threads/my-all-farms-in-the-game.27286/

 

[Jayamos]

I’m more of a function over form planner, but I like tweaking colors. Paths feel like a must, they speed my way on the farm.

 

[Lew Zealand]

I need function during my early playthroughs but by the third or fourth year I at least try to design something I like to look at. It's more of a thing to keep me involved in the farm than anything else. I usually start with an aquarium room with as many sea themed things as fit and look good. That's an easy and great way to start, just buy some of the Fish Tanks from Willy or the Catalog and arrange them as you like. Then maybe a light brown floor to look like sand or maybe dark wood walls with porthole lights for a ship theme. Then move on to make a living room, nothing special but you can theme it if you like. One room at a time.

Later on I've themed a couple of farms so completely ripped up the farm and redone it in a theme, one suggested by a forum member and I don't remember how the other one started. Pick topics at random. From the web or wikipedia or wherever. Maybe theme a little area of the farm and if you like it, expand. Have fun!

One random thing to consider and this you have to choose early in your playthrough: You are given some Farm items at the game's beginning which you can never get back. Those big Rocks and fallen Logs. You can choose not to chop and pick them to pieces but instead incorporate them into farm decoration. I'm doing that on my current farm and I'm glad I retained them. You'll never get them back so why not just leave them there as long as possible? If you end up not liking them or they get in the way of a theme, then get rid of them but keep em around for a little while.

Just in case.

 

[PoppyForPenny]

Decorating is so closely tied to playstyle, it varies greatly for each player, and each farm.

I don't usually use fencing or paths, but once I corralled my animals with tree stumps. Another time I put my coop in a spot where a lot of rocks tended to appear, and cleared them into a rock barrier over time. That looked neat with my dinosaurs! I also gave those dinosaurs the tall green lizard guy statue in their coop.
I often plant little gardens instead of proper large fields. Like, a couple sprinklers, a fruit tree with a beehive and cute scarecrow and a fish pond sorta grouped together. Maybe a bench or statue.
One time I tried to get all the paintings, all the statues. When I married Emily I decorated the house with the mermaid painting because it looks like her, and chose blue furnishings/rugs to match it, which all looked nice with her spouse room.
I like to put torches behind things to light them up like the big bear, the Christmas tree. I also like to put things behind fish tanks. A blue rug, a few plants, you can see it through the tank.
I sometimes make a row of garden pots and a full wall of windows. Tea doesn't need watering, or, you can stop watering if you just want to keep the flowers. I grew all white poppies one time.
I usually put the wood burning stove fireplace from Robin, not in the catalog, in the little space in the kitchen, and almost always two windows above the sink.

 

[HaleyRocks]

Thank you all for your replies! Lots of neat ideas that i have never even considered, before! Especially Igor and Poppy!

Hey, since you mentioned fishtanks though, do you prefer small ones with few residents, or the larger ones filled to the brim with decoration and fish? What looks better? Am thinking to put legendary fish, in some.

 

[Sockpuppet]

My farms are always utilitarian although I have dabbled in decorations but only the very basic - I have watched heaps of Stardew Valley farm tours and there are some have really good layouts, yet I personally do not like farms that are too Saccharine. - I would like to see some mancave decorations for a shed or a cellar.

 

[ThePerfectGarden]

Thank you very much for tagging me, Interesting topic, Well I understand that the best way is the one you feel good about, I don't like creating farms that are only profitable, I like playing with the game's music in sheds with the Juckebox, I believe that Doing it this way motivates me to want to play again and always create new Farms with old and improved elements.

It's actually not about profit in my case, though you do need a lot of money to arrange your farm to your taste. The obelisks alone cost several million. That's what I need profit for, the rest is functionality plus beauty. You do have chores to do every day, and I just don't like running around half a day before I can devote myself to more pleasant tasks, such as decorating or socialising. However, I envy the playfulness that is so pronounced in you. I'm trying to get there.

I would like to see some mancave decorations for a shed or a cellar.

You can put skeletons in there and some of the creepier statues. Here's the Pirate's Pub "Moon of Alabama" ("Show me the way to the next whiskey bar ..." - alas, there's no whiskey in the game ) I made in one of my saves:

Originally I wanted to turn it into a weapons museum, but unfortunately the weapons can't be laid down, only copied onto signs.

 

[Lew Zealand]

Thank you all for your replies! Lots of neat ideas that i have never even considered, before! Especially Igor and Poppy!

Hey, since you mentioned fishtanks though, do you prefer small ones with few residents, or the larger ones filled to the brim with decoration and fish? What looks better? Am thinking to put legendary fish, in some.

I happen to start with the larger tanks because Fish Are Friends. Also with each other, so they need tank friends too. However mixing tank sizes creates visual interest so varying things is recommended though I don't like the smallest tanks much except as stand-ins for the washer and dryer. Yes. I keep a Blue Discus in the Washer.

 

[ThePerfectGarden]

Decorating is so closely tied to playstyle, it varies greatly for each player, and each farm.

I don't usually use fencing or paths, but once I corralled my animals with tree stumps. Another time I put my coop in a spot where a lot of rocks tended to appear, and cleared them into a rock barrier over time. That looked neat with my dinosaurs! I also gave those dinosaurs the tall green lizard guy statue in their coop.
I often plant little gardens instead of proper large fields. Like, a couple sprinklers, a fruit tree with a beehive and cute scarecrow and a fish pond sorta grouped together. Maybe a bench or statue.
One time I tried to get all the paintings, all the statues. When I married Emily I decorated the house with the mermaid painting because it looks like her, and chose blue furnishings/rugs to match it, which all looked nice with her spouse room.
I like to put torches behind things to light them up like the big bear, the Christmas tree. I also like to put things behind fish tanks. A blue rug, a few plants, you can see it through the tank.
I sometimes make a row of garden pots and a full wall of windows. Tea doesn't need watering, or, you can stop watering if you just want to keep the flowers. I grew all white poppies one time.
I usually put the wood burning stove fireplace from Robin, not in the catalog, in the little space in the kitchen, and almost always two windows above the sink.

There's a whole bunch of nice ideas in your description.

Did you think about lining all the paths with torches? I had the intention of doing that a few times, but never got this far. It must look wonderful in the night, I think you don't need any lamps at all.

Yes. I keep a Blue Discus in the Washer.

I kept the legendary fish in there, they are stand-alone.

 

[Lew Zealand]

I kept the legendary fish in there, they are stand-alone.

Hm, this has advantages. I find the extra-big Fish Tank that you can get on Ginger to be the best thing for the Legends as I imagine they dispute amongst themselves about who is grandest like a quintuplet of spoiled Bettas. Meanwhile the bottom of the tank is covered in Urchins wearing Masks like the Chicken, Goblin, Pumpkin and Blobfish which are making fun of their vanity behind their backs.

 

[ThePerfectGarden]

What a gorgeous idea!

You can put masks on urchins? I have to try that when I get round to messing about with my tanks!

 

[Lew Zealand]

What a gorgeous idea!

You can put masks on urchins? I have to try that when I get round to messing about with my tanks!

Yes, Urchins can wear all Hats (including masks) and some of them look hilarious on them, scuttling about at the bottom of the tank.

 

[Igorferreira72]

It's actually not about profit in my case, though you do need a lot of money to arrange your farm to your taste. The obelisks alone cost several million. That's what I need profit for, the rest is functionality plus beauty. You do have chores to do every day, and I just don't like running around half a day before I can devote myself to more pleasant tasks, such as decorating or socialising. However, I envy the playfulness that is so pronounced in you. I'm trying to get there.



You can put skeletons in there and some of the creepier statues. Here's the Pirate's Pub "Moon of Alabama" ("Show me the way to the next whiskey bar ..." - alas, there's no whiskey in the game ) I made in one of my saves:

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Originally I wanted to turn it into a weapons museum, but unfortunately the weapons can't be laid down, only copied onto signs.

It's really cool to see someone else using this Skeleton Wallpaper, But in my case I only do it with Barrels or Jars, My favorite is this blue one with an Aquatic theme, Jukebox is essential, Next to them I put something that matches the Theme, In the case of the Aquatic Shed, the music is Giant of the Jeweled Seas, music exclusive to Junimo Kart, it is very satisfying to go in there and simply collect my resources.

 

[LRangerR]

I happen to start with the larger tanks because Fish Are Friends. Also with each other, so they need tank friends too. However mixing tank sizes creates visual interest so varying things is recommended though I don't like the smallest tanks much except as stand-ins for the washer and dryer. Yes. I keep a Blue Discus in the Washer.

You should keep a puffer in the dryer like one of them dryer balls

 

[LRangerR]

Yes, Urchins can wear all Hats (including masks) and some of them look hilarious on them, scuttling about at the bottom of the tank.

I decorate my urchins seasonally sometimes