I used stuff from home goods vendors, stones, planks and such, cheaper then crafting

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planks:

Have a bit of trouble. I seem to have no problem buying planks off a white haired lady near Fort Amol, Eastmarch who is sweeping a cabin porch. But my low level friend who just started is not seeing her inventory. She is an achievement furnisher. I do not know what achievement was accomplished by me that made me able to see her inventory. It's a pain in the azz to be mailing my friend planks. http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Structures_Furnishings Also, I thought achievement vendors only sold bound items yet I can mail planks from her store to my friend. Not that I want to loose that ability and I hate bound items it is just -

CAN ALL THE ACHIEVEMENT VENDORS IN THE GAME PLEASE HAVE A TAB YOU CAN OPEN WITH A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF WHAT QUEST IS NEEDED TO ACCOMPLISH THEIR ACHIEVEMENT GOAL ? PLZ.

BECAUSE I WOULD LIKE AN MMO THAT DOES NOT FORCE ME TO LOOK EVERYTHING UP ONLINE. PLZ.

$cost: for me vendor said 100g

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stairs:

For stairs use rough platform stage.* http://eso.mmo-fashion.com/rough-platform-stage/ A craftable but you can be level 1 woodworking and it's recipe is sold by the woodworker npc standing next to the woodworking table (i'm stationed in Davon's Watch, Ebonheart Pact).

$cost: 3heartwood & 2nickle
technically that makes crafting them expensive (the heartwood) but i happen to be a gatherer so i had the heartwood and nickle is cheep

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@Waffennacht those shelves look a whole lot better than my planks (way oversized) or my rough platform stage (also large). Shelves are just lovely. I cannot tell what kind of shelf is used in your pic but it still opens up worlds of possibility I can't wait to investigate. There seems to be a lot of different looking platformish shelves. Very excited about this.

http://eso.mmo-fashion.com/category/database/item-type/furnishing/library/shelves/