Highlights

• Change your landscaping for the holidays - utilize foliage and trees meant for specific biomes to decorate your valley according to the season/holiday.
• Make a neighborhood - place regular houses together like a neighborhood and connect them with paths and homey items.
• Create town events - designate an area for community events like picnics or arcades, and collect furniture items to complete the idea.

One thing about life simulators that let you decorate is that you always think your village looks pretty snazzy... until you go online and see what everyone else is doing. There is a lot of potential with decorating in Disney Dreamlight Valley. Tons of different paths, furniture, and buildings to play with can leave you feeling stuck on what looks best.

There are some community favorites when it comes to decorating, as well as community secrets. Find out what to do with that wretched sea witch's house and how to make your paths look more natural.

Update on December 28, 2023 by Sharnelle Earle: We have gone back into this article to offer players more ideas for revitalizing their valley. Each new update and Star Path offers new ideas for players when it comes to decorating in Disney Dreamlight Valley. It's hard to log off of a game that offers endless creative design in their game, from character creation to village building. Not everyone can come up with ideas with ease, so we have compiled some popular ways to make your valley more lively.

11 Change Your Landscaping For The Holidays

We would all love it if our valley snowed when it was winter and shined when it was summer in order to correlate with the seasons in real life. You can still adapt your valley for different seasons. The best part about holidays and changing seasons is decorating.

When it is Christmas, or any other winter celebration, you should open up your landscaping menu and utilize foliage and trees that are meant for Frosted Heights. Frosted Heights may be the only snowy biome, but you can bring some of that with you into other biomes thanks to landscaping.

Likewise, for Halloween you can use landscaping meant for the Forgotten Lands in your other biomes in order to make things more spooky.

10 Make A Neighborhood

The best way to make your valley feel more at home and realistic is by keeping all the regular-looking houses together. When you first started the game, Mickey and Friends' houses were in a neighborhood. At this point, you have probably moved everyone around in crazy locations, but you should probably put everyone back together.

Any house that looks like a regular house and not a castle or an RV should be placed side by side like a neighborhood. To add to this, make sure to connect each house with paths and homey things like bicycles and fencing.

9 Make Town Events

Designate an area in the valley for community events. This can look like just about anything, such as a picnic, an arcade, or a marketplace. This idea will take longer to flesh out since you will have to collect many different furniture items to complete the idea.

Users in Disney Dreamlight Valley's subreddit have created multiple different ideas for little corners in their valley where villagers can hang out. Adding an event area will make your town actually feel like a town, even if the villagers can't interact with everything.

Arcade

The best furniture pieces for this event area would have to be Wreck-It-Ralph items, so make sure to upgrade Vanellope's friendship levels. This would also be a great way to implement Woody's somewhat distasteful house so that it fits into a theme. Toy Story furniture includes carnival-themed decorations to match an arcade/carnival event.

Marketplace

This is the easiest idea because you can utilize Goofy's Stall to match the theme. A marketplace is more general, making it easier to collect furniture. You can also make this seasonal and change things up for fall or winter. So many things can be included here, such as Frozen's Hot Cocoa Stand, benches, and fruit and food decor. From there, you can experiment with other items to make things more homey.

Ice Rink Or Sauna

The small ponds in Frosted Heights can be used to look like anything you want, really. It is all about the placement of the furniture around it. A lot of the Frozen Arendelle furniture gives off hot tub vibes with the Toiletry Basket and hanging or folded robes.

8 Place Furniture Outside Of Stores

Your valley will come together quickly if you start adding outdoor furniture as it relates to the nearby buildings. Remy's restaurant already started with outdoor dining furniture, and you should build on top of that. Unlock more dining tables and add more seats. Maybe even add romantic lighting for nighttime dining.

For Scrooge's shop, you can add lamp posts, garbage bins, and signs to make the entrance really look like a lived-in town.

7 Best Locations For Sea Houses

Dazzle Beach is one of the hardest biomes to decorate because the space is not symmetrical. It is weird in shape and with the patches of grass it can be hard to know how to style things. Characters who live in the sea, such as Ursula, have houses that are an eyesore if not placed decently.

Thankfully, you can place sea houses in locations other than Dazzle Beach to add depth to your other biomes. By adding sea houses to other biomes or in specific corners, your space will not look cluttered and confusing.

Ursula's Cave

Most players have opted for placing Ursula's house near the falls in the Glade of Trust. The purple reeds and dark aura of that biome match Ursula's misty house way more than the bright beach does.

Ariel's House

Ariel's mansion is huge and needs the grand entrance it deserves. A lot of players have placed her house directly in front of the south stairs leading from Dazzle Beach into Peaceful Meadow. When inside Peaceful Meadow and looking south, her mansion will take up the entire view of the ocean and create a lot of depth and magnificence to the backdrop.

Maui's House

Unfortunately, Maui's house is the one sea house that actually fits the vibe of Dazzle Beach the most. If you haven't removed him from your valley entirely, you can actually fit his house in the large pond in Sunlit Plateau. Players have also decided to connect Skull Island to the beach with his house.

Donald's Boat

It's best to keep related characters together since their houses end up matching themes. Donald's house has to be in the water, but that doesn't mean he belongs on Dazzle Beach. If a pond is big enough for the house, it can go there. Place Donald's boat in the biggest pond in the biome that the other Mickey Mouse houses are in.

6 You Can Repurchase Unique Items

When decorating the valley, you may be wishing you had a second version of that cute lamp you bought the other day. The good thing is that you can repurchase almost anything from Scrooge. Some festive gear and furniture you've bought from the store can be found in Scrooge McDuck's special store.

Enter Scrooge's shop and start a dialogue with him. Ask to order some items then select Furniture. Here you will find all your goods, as well as the basic Disney Dreamlight Valley furniture sets that don't have a theme. You can buy these things repeatedly at any time.

5 Stock Up On Materials Before You Decorate

When relying on the crafting bench to acquire your decorative pieces, it will take a lot out of you. To fill one biome with beautiful pathing will cost you a lot of materials. Even if you haven't decided on which path you want, you should craft around six of each and place them beside each other to determine that.

Fences and pathing require a lot of pieces to complete a house or a town square. Make sure to grind for those materials and craft a ton of pieces. A couple hundred isn't actually enough! You will need at least 200+ pieces of pathing to create a living area in a biome and at least 100 for fencing.

4 Line Paths With Bushes

A flaw with the pathing in Disney Dreamlight Valley is that the edges are too harsh. They may not be straight-edged and seem to flow into the grass, but when you place a different pathing beside it or leave it as is... Something is just missing. It doesn't look appealing or natural.

That's why the community has figured bushes and ingots will do just nicely. Line your paths with bushes to give that homey garden feel. People have also lined the edges of their pathways with iron or gold ingots. Play around with lining pathing with different objects, and it will transform the area you're working on.

3 You Can Move Any Building

The game doesn't tell you this, so it may take you a minute to realize you can move other houses and buildings other than the new villagers' houses that you've recruited. You can move your own house to any other biome. You don't have to live in the plaza all your life. Consider a life with nature in the Forest of Valor or a spooky vibe in the Forgotten Lands. You can also move Scrooge's store.

This allows for more decorating opportunities as you are not bound to have certain buildings stay in one area. Some people have decorated the plaza to be more like a town square by incorporating Remy's restaurant and house next to Scrooge's store since these buildings look the most like city buildings.

2 Color Coat

When you browse the plants and foliage available for decorating, you may have noticed that bushes and trees match and belong to certain biomes. This doesn't mean that you can't think outside of the box. If a house is pink, such as Minnie's, try using the Forgotten Lands' purple trees and shrubbery to accent the house.

For Mickey Mouse's house, you can use maple trees since they are red and match his rooftop. Use different plants and rocks in different biomes to better fit what you want to achieve. Experimenting is the best way.

1 Don't Be Afraid Of Foliage

Trees and bushes are easy enough to work with, but there are a lot of foliage options that can seem daunting. It can be hard for some people to just randomly place foliage or even just decor and have it all come together nicely. With foliage, you can be as random as you want, and it will work out.

For decorating areas and houses, definitely try other biomes' plants, but for foliage, it is best to stick to that biome's designated foliage. Most plants will say where they belong, such as "Sunlit Plateau rock." Foliage adds depth to the environment. Nature is innately imperfect, so keeping the random grass and shrubbery sporadic will actually make the scene look more natural.