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Classic Neohomes

Classic Neohomes are the original home options for your Neopets—before Neohomes 2.0 came alone. Fortunately, Neopians may still create and maintain their old Neohome alongside a 2.0 version.

Finding Classic Neohomes

Since the new site layout came into effect, all Neohome-related links can be found under the "Customise" drop down menu at the top.

This will take you to the Neohome 2.0 hub, but you can still access the Classic Neohome menu by clicking the button in the bottom right corner. Alternatively, you can just click here.

Reserving Land

First, you will have to reserve a plot of land to build your Neohome on. There are many locations to choose from!

After you have chosen your desired location, click on "Apply for Land." You must then wait for your application to be accepted. This could take anywhere between an hour and up to a full day or so to process.

After your application has been processed, you will be given a Neohome address and you will be able to start building! If you decide to sell your Classic Neohome back to the Neopian Bank, move to a different location, or upgrade to a new Neohome, you will receive some Neopoints back for rooms, extensions, and your property. You also don't need to demolish your rooms before the process, and any items currently in your Classic Neohome will be moved to your safe deposit box after the process is complete.

Building Your First Room

After land reservations have been made, you can begin construction of your first room. Click on "Manage Rooms and Gardens", then click on an empty area where you want your room to go. You must build rooms on the ground floor before you can do so on the first and second floors.

Once a window pops up, you should see a screen that has many different things on it. To start off you need to choose a material. You have a lot to choose from as materials range from cardboard to chocolate! After choosing a material, you can then choose how many exits you want on your room. You can have up to 4 exits (North, South, East and West). "Extra Costs" only apply if you have extensions on your Neohome. If you don't have any extensions, then don't worry about this. (They will be discussed further into the article.)

Finally, click "Build It!" to build your room. Building a room usually takes around 3 to 9 hours; you can check the Building Status page to see how construction is going. After your room has been built, you can go back to "Manage Rooms and Gardens" and click on the room to name it.

Room Materials

Here is what all of the room materials will look like in your finished room. Doors will appear on the top, bottom, left, or right sides depending on which you pick; you can click on each image to view all 16 possible tiles in our DrSloth Image Emporium! (Excpet Tatami, which only has 15—TNT seemingly forgot to upload a tile image for rooms with doors on the top/left/right!)

Building A Garden

To build a garden, you need to click on "Manage Rooms and Gardens" and choose a location to build it by clicking on a piece of land on the ground floor of your home. Then click the "Build a Garden" button at the bottom to build it.

Building a garden costs 100NP and takes between 5 to 9 hours to complete.

Demolishing A Room Or Garden

Demolishing a room or garden takes about an hour or less and is completely free. However, you will not receive a refund on what you spent on the room or garden.

To start, go to "Manage Rooms and Gardens" and click on the room or garden you want demolished, and then hit the "Demolish Room" or "Demolish Garden" button. Make sure you remove all furniture or gardening items before demolishing, or else they will be discarded!

Extension Options

Extension Options are things such as Insurance, Carpeting, Lighting, Heating, Security System, and Wallpaper. You need to have a certain number of rooms before you can purchase each extension option and each extension option comes in different levels, with each level having a different cost depending on the amount of rooms there are already in your Neohome.

Carpet (at least 1 room)

Lighting (at least 2 rooms)

Insurance (at least 3 rooms)

Wallpaper (at least 4 rooms)

Central Heating (at least 6 rooms)

Security (at least 8 rooms)

When building new rooms, you will also have to pay for the extension options you've already bought. Extension options do not change the look of your room or your home in general; currently there are no advantages to purchasing these options. You can choose to remove them for free though, which is handy if your costs get out of hand.

Buying Furniture

Now that you have a Neohome, you need to buy some items to furnish your rooms and plant in your gardens! Furniture and plants can be bought at different shops throughout Neopia. You can find a list of all the shops you can buy furniture and plants for your garden at in our Shop Directory. In addition to these official shops, furniture can also be bought from other players through the Shop Wizard, Auctions, and the Trading Post.

Furniture items in your Classic Neohome are seen from an aerial or bird's eye view. To see what items would look like in your home before you buy them, you can check out Jellyneo's Item Database:

Classic Neohome Compatible Furniture »

Adding/Removing Furniture or Garden Items

You have spent thousands of Neopoints on furniture and plants and now you need to know how to place it into your rooms or gardens. First, go to the Neohome page and click on "Add Items" (this should take you back to your inventory). Then click on a piece of furniture or a plant and go to choose an action. Your screen should look like this:

Choose a room from the drop down menu to add the item to and click submit. (It's much easier if you name your rooms; as you can see here my Neohome only has one room so far but once you have several rooms it can get confusing if you don't label them.)

To remove furniture or garden items, go to your Neohome and click on "Arrange Furniture", then click on the room or garden that you want to remove items from. Underneath your room or garden it should say "Go To Remove Items From Room", click it to enter the next stage. Simply select the items you wish to remove and click the "Remove" button.

Arranging Furniture

To begin decorating, click on "Arrange Furniture" and select a room. Choose a furniture item and drag your mouse to move it. You can also increase or decrease the depth of the item in order to layer it on top of or beneath another piece of furniture. There are also buttons to rotate your item. You can press Shift + [ or Shift + ] to rotate items at a smaller angle.

Locking items means you will not be able to move it unless you unlock it again. This is a useful option if you have spent a long time positioning something fiddly and don't want to move it by accident whilst shuffling other items around.

If you have a lamp, speaker, robot or animated toy, you will be able to show or hide the animation by clicking on the "Action" button.

Once you are pleased with the layout of the room, click on "Save Room."

Arranging Garden Items

As before, click on "Arrange Furniture" and select a garden. Items you have added to the garden will appear on the left side. Simply hover over an item until you see a set of four arrows and then drag the item to move it. To flip items horizontally, hover over the bottom of an item until you see a circular shaped arrow and then click on it.

If you hover over the white triangle on the bottom left corner of the screen you will be able to change the colour of the grass as well as save your garden.

And that's all folks! By now you should be able to build your own Classic Neohome. At present it appears that older Neohomes are no longer eligible for the Neohome Spotlight, which is a shame because there are a lot of very good ones out there. Here's hoping TNT rectifies this and makes them their own special little trophy. ;)

Selling Your Neohome

If you'd like to start from scratch—or move to a different neighborhood—you can sell your existing Neohome back to the Neopian Bank and pick a new spot to start over.

To do so, visit the main Neohome page and look for the green Chia holding a sign, and click the "Sell Your Classic Neohome" link to see how many Neopoints you'll get back.

You'll be asked to confirm your decision with a popup. You'll lose all of your rooms and gardens, but any items currently in those rooms and gardens will be placed back in your Safety Deposit Box.

This page was written by Jesse and last updated on August 15, 2024.