I visited Pap64 today.I was impressed when I entered his town.He had a mural at the gate.
Friggin hell pap. Now I'll never open my gates because every town I've visited looks nicer than mine. At the rate I play, I'll have a nice town in like... 6 months... when NO ONE WILL CARE!!! T_T
Don't say that! I still want to visit. You can make your town look nice in an easy way.
First, the town has a lot of flowers around. Grab those and place them either around your house or the gate. Then what I did was make a "red carpet" pattern and placed it at the gate, to make players feel welcome. You can take the pattern and do a path all over town.
You can also grab some patterns from other players' towns and use that to decorate your gate or house.
There are many places around the village with dirt circles. Cover them with flowers to make them look nicer.
This should help!