🌱 Beginner Guide - Your First Home, Step by Step

Pick the Frutiger Eco House preset, walk it once, then recolor one sofa. That single recolor teaches the interface that runs the whole game — pick piece, pick color family, confirm — and the Eco House gives you a finished shell so every minute goes into decorating instead of construction. Skip the blank plot for now; it is the second home, not the first.

• Choose the Frutiger Eco House on the home selection screen — the preset the demo was built around.
• Walk the whole house once. Note which room the entry opens into; that is the room guests see first.
• Open the furniture menu and skim the category tabs so you know what the catalog contains.
• Recolor one large piece: pick it, choose a color family, confirm. This is the core interface loop.
• Anchor your first room: one big piece placed and facing the right way, then build the layer under it (rug, plants, lamp).
• Open Configure Aquarium on a tank and stock a few fish types — the collection layer is half the fun.

Every good room in Frutiger Home is built in the same order: the anchor piece first (sofa, aquarium, stairs — the thing the room is about), placed and oriented before anything else. Then the layer under it: rug, plants, lighting. Players who start from small decor pieces invariably rebuild the room twice; the anchor-first habit gets a finished-looking room in one pass.

The community talks about three style families: Aqua (water, glass, aquarium glow), Eco (greens, plants, the signature curved sofa) and Dorfic (white minimalist architecture). Nothing is locked — every piece is available from the start — and the strongest rooms run one dominant family with one contrast piece. The style guides on this site break each family down with piece lists and placement rules.