First, I do want to say that I appreciate additions and improvements to housing that were made this year, including many lovely furnishings, houseguests, and fine adjustment of furnishing placement!
I also appreciate the communication regarding item limits but do hope that ZOS might consider giving players the options of trade offs within that.
Some things, most of them reasonable I hope, that I would really love to see this next year:
1) Add full/cluttered versions of shelves and cabinets in older furnishing styles. I appreciate the increased variety in new styles introduced, but would greatly appreciate expanded options for utilizing older styles within the furnishing limits.
2) Ability to add emotes to pathing — at least for humanoid houseguests. Basic functions like being able to sit in a chair, look around, have a drink, etc., would add a lot in my opinion! I especially like the idea of being able to have Biro-dar sampling food or otherwise getting up to mischief and then getting out his book for appearances!
3) Make available generic but customizable houseguests. I think it’s cool to have named NPCs with distinct personalities available, but I would really love to be able to customize the appearance, wardrobe and emotes of some houseguests to fit into whatever design we come up with — whether that’s sweeping the floors at a tavern or performing the Alinor allemande at a masquerade!
4) More versatile structural furnishings! The limestone stairs are the best for so many uses because there is no box under them and you can have them curve around as needed — it would be wonderful to have such an option in wood and other styles!
5) Large landscape type furnishings. Some people want to eliminate grass in places while I often wish to cover tiles with turf. Without adding completely new functionality to the housing editor, it seems to me that large pieces of flat ground, manicured lawn, underbrush, wildflowers, etc. might be an ideal way to give these options.
6) Add items seen in game but conspicuously lacking or even absent in furnishings: weapons and armor, musical instruments, various containers of dirt for use as planters, bowls and pools of water.
7) Sheets of paper/scrolls/books which will display whatever text the decorator enters with various font choice options so we can have letters or the the scrawlings of a mad wizard or whatever we like to contribute to the scene and story we are creating. I realize a potential concern would be people writing very inappropriate things, but inside ones own house is hardly very visible and I suspect such trolls would rather type it in zone chat or use their character’s name, etc. And such things can always be reported.
I am sure there are others that I and many other players would love but these are among those foremost on my mind, hopefully at least some of which could be implemented.
edited the sixth to include items I had forgotten but which I would love to see and many of which have been frequently requested