Caprice Chalet - Decorating Rooms

Style Boutique allows players to decorate dollshouse rooms and place them in a large dollshouse at the Caprice Chalet. These rooms can be downloaded by other players via room codes or rented out to NPC characters. This guide will cover how to decorate rooms and the types of miniatures available.

Welcome to the Caprice Chalet!

For more information on the Caprice Chalet, please refer to the master guide for the Caprice Chalet.


Visit the Caprice Chalet and select the dollhouse icon above the rooms and then the Dollshouse icon on the menu screen. Next you will see the current layout of your dollshouse and you have the option to remove, alter, create, add or view rooms. Select an empty room and select Create. A menu screen will appear with the following options: 

• Floor - select the type of flooring for the room. There is a range of designs including wood flooring, grass, tatami, carpet tiles and many more.
• Frame - select the frame that will appear on the edge of the room in the Dollshouse and are usually brick or coloured ones. There are 10 frames to collect.
• Walls - select the wall covering for the room. There is a range of designs including wallpaper, panelled, halloween themed, garden themed and many more.
• Tidy Up All - clears out all miniatures placed in the room.
• Furnish - place and rearrange miniatures in the room.

Now, we're going to look at how to decorate the room using the Furnish feature. Select the Furnish option and a screen will appear on the bottom 3DS screen that has a bunch of dots. This is the space you can place miniature items. The purple dots are for items that can be placed on walls and pink dots are for items that can be placed on the floor. Select the miniature box icon to open up your collection of miniatures. The following sections of miniatures are available:

• Shelves - includes items such as showcase, shelves and display stands. Smaller items can be placed on the shelves of this items, i.e. food or flower pots.
• Chairs and Sofas - includes items such as benches, couches and cafe chairs. Smaller items can be placed on top of certain items, i.e. a tabby cat can be placed on top of a garden bench.
• Clothes - includes a wide range of miniatures of clothing items in the game such as hats, shoes, bags, dresses and tops. These items can be placed on shelves of various items or placed on coat hangers.
• Lighting and Clocks - includes items such as wall lights, desk lamps, clocks and studio lights.
• Electronics - includes items such as speakers, drum kits, the Animal Crossing Happy Home Designer DLC items and TV's.
• Miscellaneous - includes a wide variety of items such as kitchenware, toys, makeup items, artworks, fortune teller balls and mirrors. These items can be placed on shelves, floors or walls.
• Plants and Animals - includes all the cute animal miniatures you can get and all plant items. Some plants can be placed on top of other items as can the animal miniatures.
• Food - includes a variety of delicious food miniatures such as cakes, pudding, bread, pizza, jars, donuts and macarons. These can be placed on top of items and make good display pieces in the showcase display miniatures.
• Shop Resources - includes items such as cash registers, makeup displays, signs and mirrors. Cash registers are a must have item when designing a boutique shop room.
• Custom Collection - features miniature items of make-up sets you have collected in the game and hair salon catalogues.
• Doors and windows - includes a wide range of doors and windows that can be placed on the wall of the room.
• Furniture - includes items such as beds, carpet mats, chest of drawers, kitchen cabinets and staircases.
• Clothing Displays - includes a wide range of bust displays, miniature mannequin for displaying outfits, coat hangers and racks. Clothing items can be placed on these items.
• Tables - includes items such as counters for shops and tables in a range of different sizes.

You can obtain miniatures by purchasing them from the Dollshouse Miniature Shop or by receiving them from NPC characters throughout the game. There is a wide range of miniatures that can be unlocked through NPC characters and please refer to this guide on how to obtain these miniatures. You can also purchase miniatures from rooms you have downloaded from other players.

Select a miniature and the top screen will display the name and how many of that miniature you have. You can only place each miniature item in one spot. For example, I own two colourful showcase miniatures and I place one in one room and the other in another room. I can no longer use this item unless I purchase more of the item or remove it from the rooms. The bottom screen displays little dots next to each miniature and these dots tell you how many spaces the miniature takes up. Select the miniature and click OK. Use the stylus to place the miniature in the location you want it and click Place. If you click on the miniature, some items will have an option called Bits & Bobs. Select this option to place miniatures on top of the items (i.e. on shelves, coat hangers or counters). If you want to remove the miniature, click and drag it to the little box icon on the right hand side. Use the arrows at the top of the screen to change the direction of an item.

Now there's a trick to placing items in a room. If you place an item right next to the wall, you will notice the purple dots behind the item have become faded. This means you cannot place an item on these dots. Same with if you place an item on the wall such as a mirror, you can longer place an item in front of it as the dots are faded out. It's quite annoying as you lose valuable space when designing and you should be able to place items right up to each other like you can in the Animal Crossing games.

Once you are happy with your design and have selected a floor, wall and frame for the room, click the OK button. The game will ask for you to name the room and to save the game data. After this it will ask if you wish to set this room as your streetpass exhibit, select No if you wish to keep your current one you have set.