Happy Home Academy

What is HHA and what do they do?

After you upgrade to a house, Happy Home Academy (HHA) will begin to evaluate your interior decoration skills every Sunday at 5 AM. Every room in your house will be assessed and you will be given a rank and a score by letter on Sunday. If you reach a certain amount of points, you will also receive a prize in the mail.

What are the ranks?

Rank Requirements by House Level:

House Level	B Rank	A Rank	S Rank
Tent	-	-	-
House upgrade	0 - 9,999	10,000 - 14,999	15,000+
House size upgrade	0 - 16,999	17,000 - 22,999	23,000+
Back Room Addition	0 - 24,999	25,000 - 34,999	35,000+
Left Room Addition	0 - 37,999	38,000 - 46,999	47,000+
Right Room Addition	0 - 49,999	50,000 - 59,999	60,000+
Second Floor Addition	0 - 63,999	64,000 - 74,999	75,000+
Basement Addition	0 - 79,999	80,000 - 89,999	90,000+

How is the rating determined?

• You can find the base points, set, series, category, concept and color for all of the items in this spreadsheet.
• Base points: The base HHA point for each items.
• Basic Interior Design Bonus: You get bonus points for the number of furniture you have in each room. All of the points stack with the previous tier. i.e. if you have 20 pieces of furniture in a room, you’ll get 4,000 points from that room.

Requirement	Points
Place at least 6 pieces of furniture	1,000
Place at least 10 pieces of furniture	1,000
Place at least 15 pieces of furniture	1,000
Place at least 20 pieces of furniture	1,000
Hang furniture items on wall	400 per item, maximum 1,200 points

HHA Score Bonuses

There are several ways to have bonuses with the types of items you display, below are the bonuses that exist within the game.

Type Bonus

Bonus Points for displaying all daily life necessities (chair, table, bed, and wardrobe or dresser) within the house.

• They can be in different rooms and the points are rewarded once for the house.
• You’ll get 2,500 points if you have all four types.

Series Bonus

Bonus Points for displaying multiple items from the same series (antique, cherry blossoms, carboard, etc.).

• If you have 4 or more unique items from the same series displayed, you’ll get 1,000 points per items from that series.
• If you have more than one series in a room, the series with the most items displaced will be used for the scoring.

Set Completion Bonus

Bonus Points for displaying all of the unique items from a set in the same room.

• Sets are furniture that match each other.
• If you displaced all of the furniture from a set, you’ll get 800 points for each set items.
• Multiple completed sets in the same room counts towards the bonus, but duplicate sets won’t be counted.

Color Bonus

Points for color uniformity among items in the room.

• To get the bonus, you have at least 8 items in the room. If at least 70% of the items have same color, you’ll get 200 points for each unique items. If you have 90% uniformity, you’ll get 600 points for each unique items.
• Wallpaper and flooring doesn’t count toward this bonus.

Feng Shui Bonus

Points for displaying items of a certain color in the within two squares from south, east, and west wall of the room or on the walls.

• East: Red, South: Green, West: Yellow
• You’ll get 500 points for each walls and you only have to displace one item of the matching color in each area.

Category Bonus

Points for displaying items of various categories within the same room.

• If you have at least 3 unique furniture from a category displayed, you’ll get 500 points for each categories.

Concept Bonus

Points for displaying more than a set number of items from the same “concept”.

• If 5 or more items with same concept is displayed in one room, you’ll get 400 points for each item matching that concept.
• If there are more than one concept in a room, the concept with the most items will be used for calculation.
• The items doesn’t have to be unique.

Lucky/Season Bonus

Points for items which match the current season, or items which are “Lucky”.

• You get 777 points for each unique seasonal or lucky items displayed.
• Seasonal bonus are only rewarded for items displaced in the appropriate season.
• They can be in different rooms and the points are rewarded once for the house.

Seasonal items are listed below:

Spring	Summer	Autumn	Winter
Bamboo shelf	Anchor statue	Cricket	Tarantula
Cherry-blossom bonsai	Artisanal bug cage	Mush parasol	Frozen tree
Wobbling Zipper toy	Horned hercules	Tree’s bounty big tree	Stringfish
-	Napoleonfish	-	-
-	Palm-tree lamp	-	-
-	Scorpion	-	-
-	Shell wreath	-	-

Likewise, lucky items are listed below:

• ACNH Nintendo Switch
• Brewstoid
• Crescent-moon chair
• Gold bug trophy
• Gold fish trophy
• Gold rose wreath
• Gold turtle figurine
• Golden candlestick
• Golden samurai suit
• Kanji tee
• Katana
• Koi
• Lucky gold cat
• Paradise Planning photo
• Pop-eyed goldfish
• Ring
• Robot hero
• Resident’s photo

Note

All NPC photos are also lucky items, except Brewster’s, Isabelle’s, Jingle’s, Rover’s, Timmy and Tommy’s, and Tom Nook’s photos.

Penalties

Points deducted for rooms in poor condition (cockroaches, trash, furniture facing wall, etc)

Conditions	Points Deducted
Items dropped on the floor	-1 times # of items
Items facing the wall	-300 times # of improperly placed items 1
Cockroaches in the room	-2,500 times # of cockroaches
Trash in room	-500 times # of pieces of trash

Note

Points are calculated per room, unless stated otherwise. There’s no luck mechanic in the game.

What are the rewards?

Points	Reward
10,000	HHA Pennant
20,000	Bronze HHA plaque
30,000	Silver HHA plaque
50,000	Gold HHA plaque
70,000	Bronze HHA trophy
100,000	Silver HHA trophy
150,000	Gold HHA trophy

Footnotes

1. Items with ItemHHADirection as 1 in the spreadsheet. ↩