Ebonheart chateau - creative furnishing ideas?

BansheeVT

Hi all, I bought the ebonheart chateau a few months ago. I really like it and transformed it to our guild hall but especially inside the house it is still pretty empty and dark.
Do you have any creative furnishing ideas? I would really appreciate a few ideas or screenshots of your big houses

Nestor

Our guild hall used planks and wall type things to section off rooms. Really changed the layout.

BansheeVT

Thanks for your idea, will try that out

Kiyakotari

Culanda Stones and Varla Stones are great for lighting big spaces without taking up tons of house furnishing slots with lighting. What it took me over 150 candles to do, I was able to do with just 8 Varla Stones (in Princely Dawnlight Palace). They're not super cheap, at around 10K each on guild traders (they were luxury vendor items), but they're worth the price, to save on the furnishing slots. Varla Stone is a cool blue light, and a bit brighter. Culanda is a golden light. Combining them gives a good approximation of the game's "daylight" lighting.

LadyNalcarya

Kiyakotari wrote: »

Culanda Stones and Varla Stones are great for lighting big spaces without taking up tons of house furnishing slots with lighting. What it took me over 150 candles to do, I was able to do with just 8 Varla Stones (in Princely Dawnlight Palace). They're not super cheap, at around 10K each on guild traders (they were luxury vendor items), but they're worth the price, to save on the furnishing slots. Varla Stone is a cool blue light, and a bit brighter. Culanda is a golden light. Combining them gives a good approximation of the game's "daylight" lighting.

This! also I usually put a brazier inside every fireplace. Riekling and daedric braziers are very bright.

Carbonised

Kiyakotari wrote: »

Culanda Stones and Varla Stones are great for lighting big spaces without taking up tons of house furnishing slots with lighting. What it took me over 150 candles to do, I was able to do with just 8 Varla Stones (in Princely Dawnlight Palace). They're not super cheap, at around 10K each on guild traders (they were luxury vendor items), but they're worth the price, to save on the furnishing slots. Varla Stone is a cool blue light, and a bit brighter. Culanda is a golden light. Combining them gives a good approximation of the game's "daylight" lighting.

Well, if you like your house looking as an indoor discoteque with neon lights. I find the Culandas and Varlas way too bright, they flood the entire room in neon blue and orange.

I find that the living fire of braziers, candles and candelabras do the trick just fine. Also, naked fire looks a lot more atmospheric and homely than some artificial bright light.

I do suspect that some of the people who complain about overly dark homes need to turn up their lighting setting a bit. I've seen quite a few game screenshots here on the forums where all you could see was basically a pitch black screen. Turning up the light setting helps making the homes look less gloomy and bleak.

I have a showcase of my Ebonheart Castle in the signature, feel free to take a look, though I mostly did the tower and the basement, the other indoor floors are a bit generic due to furniture item limit.

BansheeVT

Thanks a lot!
Will definitely try out your idea with culanda and varla stones and already got inspirated by your house Carbonised