When it comes to creativity, you really can live your dream in Tomodachi Life Living the Dream. With the introduction of the Palette House, you can make custom Tomodachi Life items. If your favorite food is missing from the game, you can design it. If you want to have a fictional creature as a pet, you can create it. If you don’t like any of the 8,356 pieces of clothing in Living the Dream, good news — you can make your own line of Mii clothing.
Making custom Tomodachi Life items is as easy or as hard as you want it to be. Living the Dream offers you templates for each custom item category, but you can also create items from scratch (with a few exceptions). Taking the latter route requires some elbow grease and more time than we probably have, but you can really go all out if you’re dedicated enough. Interested in spending even more hours in Living the Dream to outfit your island with custom decor, pets, and more? Then please, read on.
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The Palette House: The Basics
You can build the Palette House after making a sixth Mii. There are six categories of custom Tomodachi Life items: food, clothing, treasures, house interiors/exteriors, objects, and landscaping. However, you won’t have the ability to make all of these immediately. Instead, you need to unlock them as level-up rewards.
Some of your custom Tomodachi Life items will need to be purchased at another new building, the Treasure Shop, which will be unlocked upon the completion of creating a custom item that needs to be sold there.
There are two modes when designing custom Tomodachi Life items in the Palette house — easy mode and pro mode. For simple designs, especially when you’re using a template, easy mode will suffice. But if you’re looking to get artsy, pro mode is the way to go as it’s going to allow you to change brushes, shade easier, make your own colors, and more.
If you make items that you decide you don’t like (like, perhaps, that initial cake they force you to decorate), you can either edit or delete them. Go into the Palette House, click on List of creations, and then on an item. From there, you can change the item’s name, edit any aspect of the item, or delete the item.
Everything Custom Tomodachi Life Item You Can Make In The Palette House
Food
Food items are the first things you can make in the Palette house, and sometimes Miis will ask to eat something you made. You can use their templates of dishware or containers or start with a blank canvas. Pro tip: if you’re using the can template and want to change the color, try using the colorize filter. It’s limited in color options, but the fill bucket is a complicated hassle due to shading.
Once you’re finished, you’ll get to further customize your item by choosing its taste, type (drink, dessert, meat, etc.), temperature, and size. You can also make it glow, if that’s up your alley.
Clothing
Custom clothes are the only custom Tomodachi Life items that you can’t completely build from the ground up. You have to choose a shape: tops, dresses, bottoms, or hats. From there, you can pick a template or design from scratch. But this means you can’t make custom accessories or headwear that isn’t hat-shaped or even wide-legged pants. Clever drawing, use of colors, and shading can enable you to craft custom necklines or fidget with sleeves, but it’s still somewhat restrictive.
After designing your clothing item, you can assign a season, style (as in, when you typically wear it), and gender to it.
Treasures
Within the treasure category, there are six more categories: books, music, videos, video games, pets, and “anything.” “Anything” is your blank slate option to create whatever your heart desires. The pets category, too, allows you to design whatever you’d like. The books, music, videos, and video games categories all have a mandated shape that you have to work with, like a book template or a vinyl sleeve.
Each kind of treasure has unique attributes to add to it, like what type of noise your pets make or the genre of your media. The digital custom Tomodachi Life items are interactive — your Miis will watch TV or play their video game or listen to music.
House Interiors And Exteriors
If you aren’t feeling the T&C Reno room options, you can design your own wallpapers and floors at the Palette house. However, you can’t choose which objects to put in Miis’ rooms and you don’t get the benefit of mansion furniture changing wood tones or colors.
Lumped in with house interiors are house exteriors, which are more complicated. Basically, you can replace the default beach-hut-like Mii houses with your own design. While you do have to start with some form of template, it’s transparent, so you can design any kind of abode you want. Which does in fact mean that a Mii’s house can just be a floating scoop of pink ice cream, if you so desire.
Objects
The “objects” custom Tomodachi Life items category really just means outside decor. Like the exteriors, you start with a transparent shape, meaning you can create anything you’d like. You can choose the dimensions of these objects via a sliding bar, and can give them textures, smells, and vibes, if you’d like. They also have the light option, meaning you can make custom lamps.
Landscaping
Finally, you can create outdoor paths to place down, which you might want considering Living the Dream doesn’t have that many path options. Once you’ve designed your new path, you can choose its texture as well as, interestingly enough, whether or not Miis should walk on it. If there’s somewhere on your island you want to keep off-limits, custom pathing is the way to go.
Tips And Tricks
If you’re committed to making custom Tomodachi Life items, there are a few ways to make your life easier. For one, a stylus might be a good investment (if you have one for a tablet already, that will likely work), as the Palette House allows touchscreen. Drawing with the joysticks can be wonky, and you could try using your finger, but a stylus is ideal.
There’s also the ‘Living the Grid’ Pixel-Art tool that you can use to design your items ahead of time. While you can’t directly transfer the design into the game, you can use it as a reference. The game, when in pro mode, has a grid that you should turn on to make the copy process easier. Building items pixel by pixel can be arduous, but it does yield good results.
Find Inspiration On The Internet
People are already making anything and everything they desire on social media platforms. From making Pokémon pets to famous fictional character houses to photo-realistic cookies, the internet artists are out there showing us how it’s done. The creativity is seemingly endless.
making accurate houses is one of the most fun parts of this game pic.twitter.com/sfmHE1d92A
— haruka 🍄 (@GGalactigal) April 24, 2026
Whether you’re trying to create a themed island, bring your favorite fictional franchise to life, or just simply add an item the game doesn’t already have, the Palette House is going to be your best friend.
What items and custom homes do you plan to create in Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream? Let us know in the comments below and stay tuned for more Tomodachi Life guides and content!
