00:00Hello everyone! Today is a special version of Sweet Diggs because we are playing Animal Crossing.
00:06Today we are touring the house of Vice's Deputy Director of Social Publishing, Rachel Pick.
00:12Aside from working from home, Rachel has been playing Animal Crossing and creating a truly amazing house.
00:18I cannot wait to see it.
00:20Hi Rachel!
00:22Hi Shanti! Welcome to my island!
00:24Thank you! I love this home! It's so floral, it's so pink.
00:30Yes, hybrids!
00:32Oh yeah, I am all about cultivating the hybrids. I just got my first gold rose and I put it
00:38right in front of the house over here. I'm so proud of it.
00:40Oh, and all this cliffside waterfall. I love it. You want to show me around?
00:46For sure, but before we do that, make sure you subscribe to Refinery29's YouTube channel down below.
00:52Perfect! Let's head on in!
01:01Whoa!
01:03This is cool!
01:06Yeah, so for the front room, I wanted to do kind of like a spooky Victorian lady's house, kind of
01:13like a reclusive woman up on the cliffs.
01:15And she's got all this cool old stuff.
01:18So I've got like this cozy, battered leather couch where I read and drink my coffee.
01:24I've got this like retro record player, the Persian rug.
01:28And I'm also displaying some amber, which is like the coolest fossil to just display in your house if you
01:34get an extra one of those.
01:36You nailed this aesthetic, that's for sure.
01:38This is kind of like a more formal parlor room, but I turn the back room into like, it's like
01:43more like my own personal style, which is kind of poppy and colorful.
01:48So this is like the chill out room, I've got my turntable, the lava lamp, mini fridge.
01:55I love it! I haven't seen this wallpaper before. Where did you get this wallpaper?
02:00I got it from Sahara, the traveling merchant who sells the mysterious wallpapers and flooring.
02:07I'm so impressed that you got something nice from her.
02:11Do you want to move on to the kitchen?
02:14Sure!
02:19Oh, yes, Ironwood!
02:22It was so hard to get this piece with the sink because I had the recipe to make the kitchenette,
02:29but I didn't have the recipe for the dresser or the cutting board.
02:32Yeah, exactly. That's where I am.
02:35My boss, the senior director of social publishing, Veronica, she had the recipe for the dresser.
02:39And then one of her friends had the recipe for the cutting board.
02:43They were all sending me the parts and then I would build them and send them back.
02:46Oh, I'm so jealous of all this Ironwood, but I love it.
02:50These are also designs that someone else made.
02:53Um, these pantry shelves, which makes it look more like a real kitchen and more like my own kitchen.
02:59So I really liked those. It's like good wall decoration.
03:02Yes. Wow. I love these little pantry shelves. I've never seen those before.
03:07My Instagram, uh, explore tab is like all Animal Crossing designs now.
03:12I just bookmarked the ones I really like.
03:14Right. Is, did the same happen with this floor mat over here?
03:19That's Sahara also.
03:20I'm, I'm actually shocked.
03:23Yeah. I've gotten a lot of duds from her, but she comes through every once in a while.
03:27You want to check out my bathroom?
03:28Yeah, let's do it.
03:29Not something you usually say to company.
03:37Whoa.
03:37Yeah. I, this is, this is one of my favorite colors. This kind of like deep tealish green.
03:43I just wanted something that seemed like relaxing. I've got like a little incense
03:47burner over by the bathtub. My real life apartment has a really terrible, tiny old bathtub. So this is
03:55the closest that I'll get to be able to taking a nice relaxing bath. I have this cool golden toilet.
04:01Where did you find the golden toilet recipe?
04:03That was also a gift from a friend. So like the best, the best way I think to play this
04:08game is
04:09to find like a couple other people who are also like super deep into it and just trade things back
04:15and forth. Like I have a couple of friends that I trade with. I trade with my boss a lot.
04:19It's amazing. That's one of the best parts about this game is that it's actually really communal.
04:24Do you want to check out my basement? Yeah. All right, let's do it.
04:32Whoa, this is like a whole apartment down here. Well, so for my basement, I tried to recreate
04:38like an omakase style sushi restaurant or like Japanese restaurant. I just thought that was like
04:44a fun idea because otherwise my basement wasn't really serving much of a purpose. At first I tried
04:49to make it look creepy and like dungeon-y, but that look was harder to achieve than I anticipated.
04:56I've got my knife blocked. I've got the the hearth, which I think just looks cool. It does.
05:01And then like the gas range and a freezer. These are the lecture hall desks. I have some of them
05:06as like placeholder countertops in my kitchen upstairs. You can see that like they line up
05:12flush with each other. So it creates the illusion of like a continuous bar. Whereas if you used like
05:18a different kind of table that they have in the game, there would be like a gap between them.
05:22They look great. All right. I'm ready. What's on the menu?
05:26I wish I could actually make food in this game. I know. There's so much detail in this room
05:33and it really just adds to the whole aesthetic. I'm like, oh yeah, this is a sushi restaurant. I
05:38believe this. So if you're ready to move on, we can end the tour in my bedroom. Let's do it.
05:44Wow.
05:45Oh my God. This is this like honeycomb flooring? Wow. I am. I'm immediately overwhelmed in the best
05:52way possible. Yeah. So this honeycomb flooring is a crafting recipe you get and you make it
05:59with wasp nests. So if you're ever like, I have all these wasp nests from getting stung
06:04and I can't do anything with them. There are actually some crafting recipes that use them. And I just
06:10think it looks really like sweet and cool. I like this screen wallpaper because I think there's only
06:16like one window in the attic. Normally it creates the illusion of like a lot of natural light. It
06:21looks really bright up here. I decided to move my my bedroom up into the attic so I would have
06:28more
06:28space and have it be more of like a full on suite. So over here I've got like a pet
06:34hamster. I've got a
06:36space to work on sewing projects. Got like my nail art set over here on this desk. I don't think
06:43that
06:43I ever had the idea to separate one room out into several different spaces. At first I wanted my my
06:53bedroom to be like in the attic just because regular house logic to me is like oh the bedroom's upstairs
06:59and there's just so much space to play around with in the attic and I didn't really have
07:03any good ideas off the top of my head. It's great you nailed it. How long do you think you're
07:09going to
07:10keep your house like this? Like do you think that you'll be redecorating it anytime soon or are you
07:15pretty content with it? I'm pretty content with it now. I mean as I get more DIY recipes and get
07:21more cool
07:22furniture items you know I keep adding things and like changing it out a little bit. If I get enough
07:27items that fit a certain theme like redecorating a whole room around that theme. Do you have a
07:33favorite room if you had to pick one? It's definitely the front room. But what's interesting about this
07:38front room is even though I really like the aesthetic this is like not how I would decorate
07:43my real life space at all but I find myself really liking it a lot. So Rachel I have to
07:50ask you
07:50are there similarities between your Animal Crossing character and what you look like in real life?
07:55We will we both have dark hair and I also added eyebrows to my character to make her look more
08:00like me because I do have eyebrows. I don't usually wear bunny ears although I'm considering it because
08:07I think it looks really cute and she also works a lot harder than I do.
08:13Your house it's cozy it's bright it has a sushi restaurant I mean come on round of applause for
08:22Rachel's house. Thanks so much for coming it was really fun showing you around. I wish this was my
08:30real house so bad. I wish this was my real house too. I would live here in an instant. Thanks
08:37so much
08:37for visiting my island. If you want to watch more videos click here and if you want to subscribe click
08:42here. See ya!
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