why stone?

Loeb_Rahl · June 2019

the splash screen for the Alinor house shows a warm environment with a wood balustrade, walls and trim. You made the handrails wood but tyhe stairwell, walls and trim are all cold stone. No way for the player to make anything warm out of it. Why did ZOE do this?

Tigerseye · June 2019

The upstairs is the warm bit.

Best way, in my opinion, is to make the upstairs living space and the downstairs a bedroom suite, kitchen/breakfast and workspace.

Then you can not only have the majority of your living space in the warmer part of the house, with the windows and the warm wood, but you can also have your door out onto the terrace off a dining, or living, room; rather than off an overly-large bedroom.

As for the downstairs, you can warm it up quite a lot with Alinor wooden furniture, wooden sconces and Alinor/High Elf tapestries.

RaddlemanNumber7 · June 2019

Because the hearts of the High Elves who built it were as hard and cold as the stone they used.

Gothrock · June 2019

They did that so I can use this house as a crypt in my Daggerfall Outlook (after building the wall in front of a stairway)

Tigerseye · June 2019

These were all taken at night, so they will give you some idea of what it's like, once lit and decorated, at its darkest/coldest point:

Tigerseye · June 2019

I will just add that they should have put two windows, at the front of the house, downstairs.

Why they didn't do that I have no idea, but there you go.

bayushi2005 · June 2019

I would also welcome more victorian wood, than gothic stone in Summerset houses. Never purchased this house as I find multiple storey buildings quite annoying. The picture below just to mention how "creative" ZOS really is with their "styles"

Emathides · June 2019

The Alinor Townhouse is one of my favourite ESO homes and it really can be warmed up nicely with decorating. I enjoy that one floor has a different style to the other, to change things up a bit.

Tigerseye · June 2019

bayushi2005 wrote: »

I would also welcome more victorian wood, than gothic stone in Summerset houses. Never purchased this house as I find multiple storey buildings quite annoying. The picture below just to mention how "creative" ZOS really is with their "styles"

Think it's more that they both draw from the same original style.

bayushi2005 · June 2019

I wouldn't call it "drawing"...

max_only · June 2019

Holy snip! Artists use rl references in fantasy worlds! Whoop woop dats the sound of da police!

As for OP, I like the white stone contrasted with the dark wood. There’s a really warm and wooden house in Stormhaven, you might like that better

bayushi2005 · June 2019

max_only wrote: »

Holy snip! Artists use rl references in fantasy worlds! Whoop woop dats the sound of da police!

Still I would love to see more of "reference" to a general style, less of "copying" a particular piece of furniture. I don't see anything wrong in it, it just makes it lesser in my eyes.