Happy Home Academy

The Happy Room Academy (HRA) is a type of housing association for the player to sign up for. Signing up is optional, and if the player does not sign up initially, they may go to the HRA building later and sign up there. The HRA inspects the player's house each day, and scores it depending on the furniture inside, and how it is placed. The more points the player gets, the better their house is considered. Ways the player can boost include score are by placing rare or expensive pieces of furniture in your house, or completing furniture series. These each give out point bonuses (see below). The player can also help their score by paying attention to Feng Shui.

The HRA is mainly for fun and to see how well the player can decorate their house, but if they score a lot of points, there will be a reward (see below).

Points Awarded

 * Wallpaper and floor match - 1,000 points
 * Completed furniture series - 48,000 points
 * Wallpaper OR floor of the same series - 4,800
 * Wallpaper and floor of the same series - 10,000
 * All the necessities of life of different series - 4,400
 * All the necessities of life in the same series - 16,000
 * Complete Theme - (# of pieces x 7,000) + 15,000
 * Wallpaper and floor of the same theme - 10,000
 * Completed Set - (# of pieces x 3,000)
 * Clothes, Insects, Fish - 3
 * Clothes you designed yourself - 3
 * Item bought from Tom Nook - 51
 * Fossils after appraisal - 300
 * Item bought from Crazy Redd - 412
 * Item from Saharah - 412
 * Item from Wendell - 412
 * Item from Gulliver - 412
 * Item from the Igloo - 412
 * Item from Tortimer (Can be bought) - 412
 * Limited Items (Harvest Series, ect.) - 700
 * Lucky Items - 777
 * Gyroid - 821
 * Item from Snowman - 888
 * Birthday cake - 1,000
 * Complete fossils after appraisal - 1,000
 * Furniture from e-Reader card - 1,000
 * NES Games - 1,000
 * Lottery prize - 1,029
 * Item from Jack - 1,031
 * Item from Tortimer (Can't be bought) - 1,111
 * Reward for completing the Museum - 1,111
 * Prize for maxing out your HRA score - 1,111
 * Prize for winning the Fishing Tourney - 1,111
 * Reward for starting Post Office savings - 1,111
 * Item from Jingle - 1,224
 * Items from Island - 1,300
 * NES game from Island - 1,983
 * NES game from e-Reader card - 1,983

On Animal Crossing Wild World, the player has no choice to join the HRA. Tom Nook first asks the player the second day they go to his store. He will describe what they do and then ask the player if they want to join. If the player says yes, he will be delighted, but if they say no, he will seem sad but tell them that they have to do it. At the end of both he says Good luck! which means he has signed the player up, whether they wanted to join or not.

Spotlight items are worth +151 points. Those which are also lucky are worth +7,777 points.

Points Awarded

 * Accessories (Hats, Wigs, Glasses, etc): 3
 * Acorn Festival Prizes (Mush Furniture): 412
 * Available at Nook's (Furniture): 51
 * Available at Nook's (Wallpaper/Carpet): 0
 * Available from Saharah (Wallpaper/Carpet): 3
 * Clothing: 3
 * Creatures caught with a fishing rod: 3
 * Creatures caught with a net: 3
 * Festive Items (Available at Nook's for limited time): 151
 * Flowers: 5
 * Fossils (Excluding Skeletons): 300
 * Fossils (Skeletons): 1,000
 * Gifts from Nintendo (over WFC, Mario Theme): 210
 * Gifts from neighbors (Birthday Cake): 1,111
 * Gulliver Items: 412
 * Gyroid: 828
 * House Models (HRA Rewards): 1,111
 * Lost Kitten Items: 1,280
 * Museum Model (From Completing the Museum): 1,111
 * Pascal Items: 1,543
 * Red Turnip Trade Items: 325
 * Crazy Redd's Items (Excluding Paintings): 412
 * Redd Items (Non-forged Paintings): 151
 * Savings Account Prize: 912
 * Shells: 3
 * Store Models (From Nook Membership): 1,111
 * Texture/Pattern (as umbrella, clothes, or painting): 3
 * Town Event Items: 1,111
 * Trophies (Bug, Fishing, Flower): 800
 * Umbrellas: 3
 * Villager Pictures (does not apply to special characters): 3,200

The HRA headquarters is located in the City, where you can view your friends scores via Nintendo Wi-Fi connection.

On Sunday the HRA sends the player their evaluation results on through the mail. If the player doesn't want to receive the results by mail, they can talk to Lyle at the HRA headquarters. When the player selects "Letters", he will ask them if they want the letters to stop being sent. If the player selects "Please stop!", they will stop receiving letters (the player can turn them on again by talking to Lyle again).

What seems to be the easiest and possibly cheapest way to collect HRA points is to acquire as many lucky items as possible - 10 lucky items alone earns the player well over 75,000 points. If the player does not receive letters, but needs to see how many points they have, they can talk to Lyle at the HRA building.

Model Room
At the back of the HRA is the model room (a room theme chosen by Lyle every month that satisfies a certain theme). If no room fits the theme for the month, there will be no model room, and the area for the model room is replaced by an empty 4x4 room.



Complete Series
20,000 points for all 10 pieces of furniture in a series.

Complete Series + Wallpaper or Carpet
25,000 points for all 10 pieces of furniture in a series, and either matching wallpaper or carpet.

Complete Series + Wallpaper and Carpet
30,000 points for all 10 pieces of furniture in a series, plus both the matching wallpaper and carpet.

Furniture Theme Flooring or Wallpaper
3,000 points just for a theme's flooring or wallpaper.

Furniture Theme Flooring or Wallpaper + Theme Furniture
3,000 x number of pieces of furniture in the room which match the carpet or wallpaper.

Complete Furniture Set
1,000 points for each piece in the set.

Necessities of Living
The Player has a bed, table, chair, wardrobe and dresser in their home.

HRA Awards
70,000 points - House Model

100,000 points - Wide-house Model

150,000 points - Two-story Model

Trivia

 * In Animal Crossing New Leaf, the music from the Happy Room Academy HQ is reused on the TV as a talkshow, but in a slower tempo.