Little yards of smaller houses: can be decorated or no?

Loves_guars

Are we going to be able to place the skeleton dummy and furniture in the little (inner) yards that some medium and small houses have?

Can anyone confirm, or these yards/gardens in small houses are all unavailable for decorating?

If so, please specify the one you were able to decorate,

Thanks!

Darkonflare15

cecibergesnrb18_ESO wrote: »

Are we going to be able to place the skeleton dummy and furniture in the little (inner) yards that some medium and small houses have?

Can anyone confirm, or these yards/gardens in small houses are all unavailable for decorating?

If so, please specify the one you were able to decorate,

Thanks!

Yes

BlackSparrow

All yards that are inside the instance are able to be decorated (e.g., the yards in Humblemud, Twin Arches, Black Vine Villa, etc.) If there's a loading screen between the yard and the rest of the world, you can decorate it.

The only rather infamously non-decorateable yards are the ones that are outside the instance, like the Silent Magnifico roof and the eponymous deck of Hammerdeck End.

When you preview a house, it's pretty clear what's inside the instance and what's not, so just walk around and check where doors lead before you buy, and you'll be fine.

SydneyGrey

You can definitely decorate the yards of the houses that are enclosed by a wall, even on the small and medium homes.

Danikat

The only ones where you can't decorate the yard are:

• The 3 paid apartments in inns (and obviously the free rooms)
• Snugpod
• Moonmirth House
• Captain Margaux's Place
• Hammerdeck End
• Kragrenhome
• Cliffshade
• Grymharth's Woe
• House of the Silent Magnifico

For the majority of those it's obvious as soon as you look at them that there's no outside space.

Hammerdeck End is misleading IMO because the entire description is about the deck and what you can do with it, so it's surprising that it's not part of the instance and therefore you can't decorate it. Kragrenhome confuses me because in the medium dunmer house the courtyard is off to one side, accessed through a side room so I keep thinking I might have missed it here too.

The others in that list don't have a yard at all. If you look at them from outside you can see that it's just a house, and if you preview them there will only be one door which will say it exits to the zone the house is in, but in preview mode it will send you back to where you were before you started the preview. So it's pretty clear once you see them that there isn't any outside space to decorate.

(Edited to correct several typos in one sentence.)

Loves_guars

Thanks all!

baratron

Note that Humblemud is problematic because of its bumpy garden. If you think "oh, the house is so small, I'll put my Attuned Crafting Stations outside", you'll find it very difficult because most of the ground is too bumpy to place crafting stations. You can put them down, but then they are unusable. It's only the area which is paved near the back of the properly which is suitable for placing this kind of "special" furniture.

Betheny

baratron wrote: »

Note that Humblemud is problematic because of its bumpy garden. If you think "oh, the house is so small, I'll put my Attuned Crafting Stations outside", you'll find it very difficult because most of the ground is too bumpy to place crafting stations. You can put them down, but then they are unusable. It's only the area which is paved near the back of the properly which is suitable for placing this kind of "special" furniture.

You can overlay surfaces with some kind of deck or platform to create a flat surface outdoors.

Danikat

Betheny wrote: »

baratron wrote: »

Note that Humblemud is problematic because of its bumpy garden. If you think "oh, the house is so small, I'll put my Attuned Crafting Stations outside", you'll find it very difficult because most of the ground is too bumpy to place crafting stations. You can put them down, but then they are unusable. It's only the area which is paved near the back of the properly which is suitable for placing this kind of "special" furniture.

You can overlay surfaces with some kind of deck or platform to create a flat surface outdoors.

Cheapest is probably the wide plank. I don't remember what it costs in gold but it's 10 crowns and would cover a large enough space to put at least a couple of crafting stations.

But I suppose it's a matter of thinking about what you want to do with the house when you pick one. The bumpy garden doesn't bother me because I want to make it look like a garden and it's easier to make it look interesting with uneven terrain and some default plants (I wish I could buy and place the blue flowers that are part of the terrain in Humblemud). The ones I'd struggle with are the perfectly flat courtyards with neat, square walls.

I suspect a lot of people are going to find there isn't a house which is perfect for them, so you have to decide which factors are the most important and pick the ones that gets closest to ticking all the boxes. Just like real life.