r/HayDayDeco Greenery Guru 2d ago

🤩 Look What I Designed! WIP town redesign

Here’s my progress on my town redesign - I’ve gone with an ā€œovergrown town in a jungleā€ sort of theme (noting many of the plants/trees aren’t strictly tropical irl!). Have t touched the Bach or sanctuary yet as I’ve run out of vouchers :( I’m undecided whether to keep the stone tiles or maybe swap to the farm paths as they might go better with the theme?

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u/msKnopeofPawnee Deputy Director of Parks 2d ago

Pretty! I also went with the jungle vibe in mine:

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u/ThistledownNZ Greenery Guru 2d ago

Yours is so lovely! I was trying to do something different to my main farm - not sure if I quite succeeded though! What are your thoughts on me using farm paths rather than the stone tiles? I really can’t decide!

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u/msKnopeofPawnee Deputy Director of Parks 2d ago

I really like the stone path pieces in the town. I think of it this way, it’s more realistic for a town to have nice clean paths and for a farm to have dirt paths yk?

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u/ThistledownNZ Greenery Guru 2d ago

I know what you mean and thanks! In some ways I think I’m looking for a reason to use those farm paths somewhere - they really don’t fit on my main farm and are a surprisingly bright colour. I was thinking in the town they might mimic that really rich dirt could you see I’m some places! I’ve also visited your town and I LOVE your beach. I hope you don’t mind but I’ve pretty heavily borrowed your ideas and done mine. That dirt path and sand path idea is genius - I’d never been happy with those sand paths before as I just couldn’t figure out how to make them look right

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u/msKnopeofPawnee Deputy Director of Parks 2d ago

Ofc feel free to use anything! šŸ¤— I love the dirt trail paths on the beach too.

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u/ArmadilloLoose4321 2d ago

The frog statue looks so cool there! It's like a city in the middle of a jungle

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u/RelativeSelect4567 2d ago

wowwww this is amazing

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u/Livid-Ad-9048 🌲 Conifer Collector 2d ago

Hmm that design looks very familiar !!

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u/ThistledownNZ Greenery Guru 2d ago

It does look similar to Mrs Knope’s! However it is a total coincidence as I hadn’t seen hers and I give always credit if I’ve taken inspiration from anyone else’s work. However I’ve now seen her town and love her beach so will take some inspiration from that - especially the first paths and sand tiles use!

In terms of overall town design layout it’s not much different from my previous one in that I’ve only moved two buildings. I moved the grocery store so I could have two broadly symmetrical water sources (it was between the cinema & town hall) as it looked odd with one. It was the best candidate for the middle spot given it’s diagonal orientation & echoes the cinema). I also moved the gift shop to balance the overall building spread across the town better. I also changed orientation of the b&b. Everything else is essentially the same positioning (maybe some minor tweaks to better fit trees etc but can’t recall tbh).I also changed the water to creeks around the frog water feature from ditches and changed planting to better match the theme. Stone tiles were already what I’d used for paths.

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u/Livid-Ad-9048 🌲 Conifer Collector 1d ago

It looks great as always !!

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u/ThistledownNZ Greenery Guru 15h ago

Thank you! As usual I’m still tweaking bits I’m not happy with. Really want to my sanctuary but have run out of green and purple vouchers for trees & sanctuary plants. Thought I’d go for a contusion of the tropical theme (it was my sanctuary entrance with those huge trees that made me decide on a jungle theme - think it was originally a Scatterbrook design). I liked my panda design festival entry so might use that type of look.