Decorating Hints, Tips & Ideas

altemriel

we need fireplaces, in one piece!! not crown storeish

cbdfarm

Looking for some tips on some items I havent seen or that may come up on the gold trader every so often, but I am running a Daedric, Elf, and Nord style house mostly, I dont mind using other styles, but those are the main ones im interested in. I also like lights... And statues. My house isnt complete by any means and I still have around 150-200 slots to go and am looking for others opinions. I plan to turn this into a guild house eventually. Thanks in advance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaGCbRMLv3A

Krainor1974

If you have morrowind there’s a shrine outside vivec city where there’s 6 guild vendors, that’s where I buy all my goodies. They have a lot good items, bps for sale there including luxury vendor items. They have a lot of daedric bps and items as well.

LadyNalcarya

So I was trying to decorate that slaughterfish area in my Daggerfall castle and made this.



Walls and floor are made of Orcish platforms and "Orsinium Relief, Malacath" + some random Ayleid thingies and other stuff.
Btw, does anyone know if theres a way to move/rotate items more precisely? Its very difficult to align them.

Aliyavana

LadyNalcarya wrote: »

So I was trying to decorate that slaughterfish area in my Daggerfall castle and made this.



Walls and floor are made of Orcish platforms and "Orsinium Relief, Malacath" + some random Ayleid thingies and other stuff.
Btw, does anyone know if theres a way to move/rotate items more precisely? Its very difficult to align them.

Homestead ocd addon. If your on console you are outta luck

patrick_smyth

Homestead ocd addon. If your on console you are outta luck

I prefer "Homestead item mover". This and "Furniture Grouper" have been time savers for me.

LadyNalcarya

aliyavana wrote: »

LadyNalcarya wrote: »

So I was trying to decorate that slaughterfish area in my Daggerfall castle and made this.



Walls and floor are made of Orcish platforms and "Orsinium Relief, Malacath" + some random Ayleid thingies and other stuff.
Btw, does anyone know if theres a way to move/rotate items more precisely? Its very difficult to align them.

Homestead ocd addon. If your on console you are outta luck

patrick_smyth wrote: »

Homestead ocd addon. If your on console you are outta luck

I prefer "Homestead item mover". This and "Furniture Grouper" have been time savers for me.

Thanks!

Pink_E_808

LadyNalcarya wrote: »

Btw, does anyone know if theres a way to move/rotate items more precisely? Its very difficult to align them.

I'm on console and can't get some of the great add-ons out there, so I've just placed things as best I can. I'm kind of a perfectionist, though, and take my time moving things from different angles to get it right. If I have to place or move something out of reach, I'll put up planks for scaffolding. For close up things, like those fricken frackin books, I use first person and crouch (sneak) if it's lower to the ground. It's frustrating sometimes, lol, but with a lot of patience, I've pretty much been able to place everything right where I want it. What I'd like to see implemented on console is a grouping tool so I can move several pieces together.

Jayne_Doe

*Flipped a Khajiit fireplace upside down, sank it into the ground and placed my blacksmith station on top so it looks like it's lit up.

@Pink_E_808 I did that with a provisioning station in Ald Velothi. The way the walls/ceilings are in that place, there really wasn't a good place for me to create a fireplace in my kitchen area. So, I flipped a Kahjiit fireplace upside down to create a nice foundation for it and it adds some additional glow to the fire.

Pink_E_808

@Jayne_Doe I didn't even expect that to happen, lol. I just wanted a nice stone base for my station and was pleasantly surprised when I saw I could still turn the fire pit on and the result when I tried it.
Your idea sounds awesome, too! I was thinking of getting that home eventually, so that's a great tip.

Krainor1974

You can make a sunken fireplace in the floor with stone blocks or I did one with aleyid benches. Pic on page 8.

Jayne_Doe

Krainor1974 wrote: »

You can make a sunken fireplace in the floor with stone blocks or I did one with aleyid benches. Pic on page 8.

I saw your pics and that's a great idea for adding some warmth to a room. But, it doesn't work well for using the provisioning station. You need a flat surface and nothing around it. Perhaps, though, it could work if the central base was large enough so the benches/blocks were not interfering with the station.

What's odd is that I tried to place a cauldron next to my provisioning station, which was sitting on a statue base, but it rendered the station unusable since it was too close. However, I can sink a nord torch or indoril brazier into the station so that just the flames are showing, and it still works.

Aurie

I used stone slabs under my provisioning station in Gardner House with no problems, but the station was sitting on top of them and not surrounded by them.

You can also put a provisioning station in a large stone fireplace you have built yourself, providing it's wide enough and the station is not sitting near the back wall.
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emilyhyoyeon

I would love opinions/advice on the inside of my alchemy shop I created out of the Sleek Creek house. The other half of the inside is the personal quarters (since the shop owner works out of her house). I'll probably add more potions/bottles. I included things like the pheasant bird/fish since feathers/scales can be ingredients. Any relevant achievement items besides the alchemy and Deshaan (plague cure) ones?

Krainor1974

Aleyid hanging cages and imperial braziers make some pretty good chandeliers.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/307270948673945603/387246782792335380/Screenshot_20171204_091541.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/307270948673945603/388373209373868052/Screenshot_20171207_115611.png

Jaeysa

@emilyhyoyeon - I like it, but it's a little dark. Maybe add some of those vvard or coldharbor glowy plants? As for other ideas, perhaps the DB poison vials? Those look cool.

Rouven

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

I would love opinions/advice on the inside of my alchemy shop I created out of the Sleek Creek house. The other half of the inside is the personal quarters (since the shop owner works out of her house). I'll probably add more potions/bottles. I included things like the pheasant bird/fish since feathers/scales can be ingredients. Any relevant achievement items besides the alchemy and Deshaan (plague cure) ones?

I love it! Perhaps you could consider filling your desks - stack of books, inkwell, quill.

Great ambience.

Krainor1974

Aleyid fences and daedric platforms make good walls. I made a upper level in my Pinacle long term wip but I like it.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/307270948673945603/389109254188957706/Screenshot_20171209_123629.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/307270948673945603/389109345075593217/Screenshot_20171209_123637.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/307270948673945603/388701001097543680/Screenshot_20171208_093014.png

Also sinking crystals into statues give great lighting and shading

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/307270948673945603/388701651587825665/Screenshot_20171208_094036.png

Arciris

Hello everyone, long time no see!
Both the game and RL kept me away from decorating lately but today I managed to make something I was planning on doing the first day they released those items:
a frozen waterfall

Since I had no house that it would really fit, I decided that my Hunding's has been struck with an Ice Comet on its highest point: the result is my little winter corner (still a work in project, waiting to see what the new life festival will bring as furnishings)

I partucularly enjoy blowing the horn from atop my home

edit to add a night screenshot

Krainor1974

Arciris wrote: »

Hello everyone, long time no see!
Both the game and RL kept me away from decorating lately but today I managed to make something I was planning on doing the first day they released those items:
a frozen waterfall

Since I had no house that it would really fit, I decided that my Hunding's has been struck with an Ice Comet on its highest point: the result is my little winter corner (still a work in project, waiting to see what the new life festival will bring as furnishings)

I partucularly enjoy blowing the horn from atop my home

edit to add a night screenshot

Looks great , if that was a huge diamond node you set for life , lol

FloppyTouch

Okay I don’t have pics but if you need a tree topper in Vivec the achievement vender sells these thin yellow crystals. If you use five of them they make a perfect star for smaller to medium size Christmas trees.

You can also use them to put in ur horses head to have a unicorn lol try it out looks great

agegarton

FloppyTouch wrote: »

Okay I don’t have pics but if you need a tree topper in Vivec the achievement vender sells these thin yellow crystals. If you use five of them they make a perfect star for smaller to medium size Christmas trees.

You can also use them to put in ur horses head to have a unicorn lol try it out looks great

Unfortunately, I live on the ragged edge of 700/700 furniture slots, so unless ZoS cave in and provide a pre-lit, no-drop Christmas tree (I don’t want to have to clean up pine needles, I just had my rugs steam cleaned) then I’m done. I KNOW it’s not lore......but I don’t care. I want one anyway!

Arciris

@Krainor1974
Thank you and lol! I hope this will bring me good fortune

Yvarhna

I just wanted to pop into this thread to say how much I enjoyed going through this thread and seeing all your pics of your houses and the creative ideas you have all shared. Some of the details are amazing! I've just got the one house for now (Gardiner House) and slowly adding piece by piece as I go. Will eventually post a pic once I created something awesome to share too.

Whiphid

agegarton wrote: »

Hey everyone

I made a couple of minor changes, but I think they make all the difference so I'm sharing. The Provisioning Station itself doesn't offer much light and the fire doesn't animate much, so I buried a Nord triple torch beneath the ground with just the tip of the tallest torch showing. The collision is such that it just about works, so you get increased light and the added effect of animated sparks and small flames coming up through the cooking fire from the torches below.

I have also placed a brass plate, available from the Clockwork City vendor and via the Crown Store, as a back-plate for the hearth. It's a pretty decent fit, and it glows nicely with the added light from the torches. So please I went back to the original provisioning station!

I expanded a bit upon your fireplace idea in my own houses. Not using the actual cooking station, all deco, but figured it was worth sharing.

First one is in Daggerfall Overlook, making a large kitchen on the 2nd floor. I've used the small CWC plates on the side to make the brass plate in the back less obvious.




Second is in Strident Springs. Smaller kitchen, so I used the circular statue base for the top part. An upside down Clockwork Barrel Wide is used to as an exhaust hood, since it has the nice grating. Shown in the 3rd picture, this kitchen actually has pipes on the ceiling to simulate a ventilation system. Since this is in one of the small upstairs rooms, the other side has a similar setup, but with firelogs.

Whiphid

I also modernised the bathroom plumbing a bit with Dwemer items. Got a fire heating the boiler (and the room), with a faucet coming out of the pipework to fill the bathtub with warm water.



Faucet uses a Dark Elf Decanter with a Tiered Dwarven Gear as the knob. Pipe Cap to make it less obvious the decanter is just sticking from the pipe.

kip_silverwolf

@Whiphid Wow! Stunningly creative! The fireplaces look so warm & inviting and the bathroom is amazing! Thankyou for sharing!
I may end up pinching a few of your ideas if you don't mind!

agegarton

Loving that bathroom - the tap (faucet) is very creative! Awesome job @Whiphid

Krainor1974

A decent looking heating source, I have 4 fans and each once has two insence in it.

Water being pumped up into boilers to create steam

pimvh44b16_ESO

Some great creations here! Definitely stealing some of them, but here's one I came up with myself:
After waiting forever for some decent planter/jardinière-furniture to be added (love the ones in Vvardenfell), I decided to make my own.
They'r made by sinking a 'Redguard Bench, Arc' into the floor, and partly into the wall (so yeah, this method doesn't work for any rooms on higher floors, or when there's a room on the other side of the wall. Unless you don't mind a portion of the bench sticking out from the wall or ceiling), and then covering up/hiding the floor to make it look like soil. Since I was going for a Vvarndefell/Morrowind theme, I used the huge volcanic boulders from the Vivec furnishing vendor, sunken into the ground, to make it seem like ashy soil, but other rocks/boulders could work for different colours and textures. As you can see, I also made an example using the vines from the Vulkwasten furnishing vendor. I also really like how the Dwemer fountain fits with the improvised planter.