Knowing how to increase your storage size in Animal Crossing: New Horizons will let you stash away more items for future use or collect furniture pieces until you're ready to display them.
The more things you find, build, or purchase in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the more you'll use your in-house storage space. However, space is limited and what will you do when it's full? Luckily, we're here to help with that.
Here's how to upgrade storage size in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, including how to manage your storage.
How to upgrade storage size in New Horizons
Your storage space in New Horizons will automatically expand every time you upgrade your house.
It also means that, when you first land on your island and are living in a tent, you won't have access to this storage space. Thankfully, it's very easy to earn this first house upgrade and you'll soon find yourself living beneath a proper roof.
Below you'll find out how much your storage will grow as you upgrade your house:
House built - 80 storage spaces
First house upgrade - 120 storage spaces
Second house upgrade - 240 storage spaces
Third house upgrade - 320 storage spaces
Fourth house upgrade - 400 storage spaces
Fifth house upgrade - 800 storage spaces
Sixth house upgrade - 1,600 storage spaces
The free winter update, released on Thursday, 19th November 2020, included a new storage update, bringing the maximum house storage to 2,400.
To get this storage expansion, you first need to pay off the final loan on your house - a massive 2,498,000 Bells - and then visit the Residential Services.
When you arrive, Tom Nook will mention that he wants to talk to you about your house storage, so visit him and start chatting.
Before you do, however, you'll want to collect 500,000 Bells and ensure that you have this money in your pockets, not your bank account. Nothing with Tom Nook is truly free!
Once you have the Bells, return to Residential Services and talk to Nook; you'll first want to select 'About my home...' and then 'Expand my storage.'
Nook will then check that you're happy with spending 500,000 Bells and, if you agree, your storage will be ready the next day after the daily reset time for your island. You'll receive a letter in the mail from Nook Inc. the next day confirming that your storage has been expanded.
Always make sure to keep an eye on your storage counter - you don't want to accidentally fill it!
Storage in New Horizons explained
Your storage is within your house in New Horizons and is an extra space to keep excess items or materials to free up your pockets. You can only access this storage space by pressing the right button on the D-Pad when you're inside your house.
Aside from the 'Everything' tab, which allows you to see everything you currently have in your storage, there are nine different categories within your storage space:
Housewares, Miscellaneous, Wall-mounted, Wallpaper, Floors, Rug, Fashion Items, Creatures, Other - includes tools, materials, and musical instruments.
In the bottom left-hand corner of your storage screen, you'll find a small counter that records exactly how many items you have in your storage compared to your storage limit.
How to manage your storage in New Horizons
There are a couple of things you can do in New Horizons to help you manage your storage aside from upgrading it.
The first is that you can't store Turnips in your house storage. This is presumably to stop you from cheating on the Stalk Market by hiding a load of Turnips until the market price is high.
This means that you either have to keep your Turnips in your inventory or leave them on the ground.
Secondly, since you can place most items anywhere on your island, this means you can border off a small space for extra storage. (Or just dump it outside your house…)
This is very useful if you're waiting for the Museum to finish upgrading or don't want to lose out on any Bells by using the Nook's Cranny dropbox.
That's all for now! If you're looking for more New Horizons help, check out our page showing you how to increase your pocket inventory size.
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