For furnishings, do you prefer quantity or quality?

akl77

For furnishing your house, do you prefer many furniture items, or a few pieces of high quality items?

AdamBourke

Quantity

When you are just starting a new house - you want quantity, I think. You don't want the house to look empty.

And then, when it's full of low-quality items, you start replacing them with quality ones that you really like. Maybe the bedroll becomes a bed. The table becomes a set of drawers, etc.

So, at different stages - I want different things. Right now, all I have in my house is the candle it came with (Working on the garden, as it's easier to get items for!).

It's a NICE candle though...

BigRiver

Other

Other- A bit of both. Certain things I want nice and others I am ok with using cheap things to fill up areas. Over time though I'm sure I will slowly replace the cheap things with nicer things

TheShadowScout

Other

Generally... a bit of both. Can#t have my house look empty, but also want some nifty stuff here and there...

Gandrhulf_Harbard

Other

I prefer what looks right for what I am doing.

Master Bedroom has higher quality furnishings than the Kitchen, and the Kitchen has better quality stuff than the Servant's quarters.

All The Best

MLGProPlayer

Quality

I only bought blues and purples for my house (other than Kitchen supplies which only come in green).

I also went with a minimalist look, so not a lot of furniture (304 items, including garden), for a large house.

Danikat

Quality

Quality, but to me that means having the right items to create the look I want, not the rarest/most expensive ones.

I don't want to spend a lot of money/materials on something just because it's expensive, any more than I want to spend it getting lots of cheap things just to fill up item slots.

For example I'm planning to have a lot of tapestries in my house and only a few paintings, even though the paintings are all purple quality and quite expensive on the crown store and the tapestries I've found are blue or green.

Duiwel

Quality

Think of the nice things ( Bruma's wolf statue for example ) & the fact that you CAN have that in your home / yard. Quality > Quantity any day of the year!

menedhyn

Other

It depends on the look i'm going for, which for the most part isn't one portraying wealth or grandeur. I'd be happy with a larger quantity of lower quality items.

SunnyBunny

Other

When I first got the house I had the candles and 2 paintings I had found in chests. Found another painting - hung it up. Found a rug, slapped that on a rug on the wall too. Got a bust - added that. Even bought a well last night.

I need to see an item and see if I LOVE it or not. Slow and steady.

STEVIL

Other

i prefer a mix of both but frankly it really comes down to the look i am after and quality is not as much a determinant as style.

For outdoor yards stuff the more rough looking items are fine and often appropriate but for the main room and bedroom the look is more critical. Workshop stuff loking worn and used - fine.

MissBizz

Quantity

Quantity right now, and once it feels lived in.. move on to replacing pieces with high quality pieces.

Kinda like real life!

Ilsabet

Quality

I'm quite cognizant of the item count limits, especially since the home I'm starting with is one of the small ones and I don't have ESO+. I'm also willing to take my time furnishing it and I don't feel the need to toss something in there just to have placeholders.

I'm focusing on things that have personal significance or appeal to my main character, which means a lot of achievement items and things I just think look good. I don't even really pay attention to the color/"quality" of furnishings as long as I like how they look. I don't have a bed yet because I'm dead-set on having a single-wide Wood Elf hammock and the plans for those are apparently as rare as unicorns. But until I get one, it doesn't bother me to have that space be empty.

So yeah, I'd rather have things I like and take a little longer than just have a bunch of stuff to fill space.

THEDKEXPERIENCE

Other

I just want you to buy the Argonian Chair of Authority from me. Only 400k gold! It's a steal!

In all seriousness it took me about 121k in materials to make so it's not as silly a price as you'd think. #consoleeconomics

BlackSparrow

Other

Depends what I'm trying to do... namely, which character's house I'm decorating.

For my High Elf, who enjoys the finer things, a small number of high quality items are perfect to keep her living space simple and refined.

Meanwhile, my Khajiit will happily pile the kitchen table with fish and sweet rolls until it overflows on the floor.

There is a point where the item limits can become an issue. If I want to build an actual wall in my one-room house, the most pleasant-looking way to do it is to use stone bricks... but those eat up the house item limit fast, leaving much less capacity for anything else... much less if you want to build something that requires stairs, like a loft.

So... quantity is nice to help do creative things like that but, again, it depends what I'm doing with it.