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 you do not sign up initially, you may go to the HRA building later and sign up there. The HRA inspects your house each day, and scores it depending on the furniture inside, and how it is placed. The more points you get, the better your house is considered. Ways of boosting your points 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). You can also help your score by paying attention to Feng Shui.

The HRA is mainly for fun and to see how well you can decorate your house, but if you 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, you have no choice to join the HRA. Tom Nook first asks you the second day you go to his store. He will describe what they do and then ask you if you want to join. If you say yes, he will be delighted, but if you say no, he will seem sad but tell you that you have to do it. At the end of both he says Good luck! which means he has signed you up, whether you like it 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 you don't want to receive the results by mail, talk to Lyle at the HRA headquarters. When you select "Letters", he will ask you if you want them to stop being sent. If you select "Please stop!", you will stop receiving letters (you 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 gets you well over 75,000 points. If you do not receive letters, but need to see how many points you have, 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.