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How to Move & Rotate Furniture in Animal Crossing New Horizons

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Animal Crossing New Horizons places a lot of attention on villages and while you are busy creating a utopia, you will certainly need to set up your place of residence to match up with it. This guide will show you how to move and rotate furniture in Animal Crossing New Horizons.

How to Move & Rotate Furniture in Animal Crossing New Horizons

Do you want to move and or rotate a piece of furniture in your little tent but cannot figure out how to do so?

While Animal Crossing New Horizons allows you to design your own house as per your wishes, you will start in a humble little abode and it isn’t much you can do. While you will still have access to furniture the game doesn’t clarify how to move it if you wish to.

This can be a huge problem for players who accidentally place their furniture in the wrong place, or if it restricts other important things in your little house.

You will start in a tent in Animal Crossing New Horizons, this will give you limited space however if you wish to move a piece of furniture around all you have to do is Press and Hold A to grab on to it.

Once you have the piece of furniture you wish to move, simply move your left analog stick towards or away from the piece to move it. It is that simple, you can take the added steps of moving to the sides.

Moving to the sides will allow you to rotate the furniture giving you a more customizable option from which you can add more elements to the tent.

Sadly, the game does not specify this early on and a lot of players have been having this issue for a while now.

But, as soon as you upgrade from a tent to a house, you will have more customizable options and pushing down on the d-pad will give you a cursor that will help you grab on to your furniture.

From here on, all you have to do is go is move the left analog stick as shown above and then tapping A will rotate the furniture piece.

This is all there is to know about how to move and rotate furniture in Animal Crossing New Horizons. Check our Animal Crossing New Horizons Wiki guide for more latest tips, tricks, guides, unlocks, and a lot more.

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