need to select multiple answers. I already own the snow globe but also i want a Nord cottage. I love Nord architecture.

Donari wrote: »

I like it quite a bit, but I have yet to fully decorate the handful of rooms and homes I have. When Homestead first released I got put off by the massive resource sink needed to learn and craft furnishings and never really recovered the initial excitement (though I think ESO housing is hands-down the best MMO system I've seen yet, other than the big RL and game resource costs involved). There is no realistic reason for me to drop funds on more of them.

If this ever becomes my main game I'll invest more heavily in housing.

Well, you don't have to spend much real life money (if anything) on furniture, to be fair.

Almost everything is craftable/buyable, in game.

For example, in my snowglobe (excluding ESO+ figurines), out of 600 items, there are only eleven types of items (more than one, of a few of them) that are Crown Store-only and none of them are essential to obtain the overall look.

That is taking into account a few Christmas items, as well.

If you didn't bother with them, it would be even fewer.

They are:

1. A couple of different plants (Cannas and Potted Palms), which are relatively inexpensive and could be replaced with other plants. Think you can buy the palms separately and put them in the same pots, anyway, but I had these already (bought them on sale) and they save on slots.
2. A music box, which is nice, but non-essential.
3. An Imperial fountain, which is not at all necessary (I splurged a bit!) and could be replaced with an in-game one (for example, the Alinor one), or removed entirely.
4. A couple of Elsweyr statues, from a pack (ditto).
5. A Christmas tree, wreaths, garlands and a snowman, from a pack - again nice, but not really essential. My Snowglobe is not really a Christmas themed house - it's more like a regular restaurant that has been (fairly sparingly) decorated for Christmas.
6. Some cutlery, which could easily be replaced with in-game cutlery. I just wanted this, as it is extremely inexpensive and silver coloured, rather than the brown, Redoran wooden cutlery I can craft. So, shows more against the wooden tables.
7. A couple of paintings - I got it furnished for the paintings, as (scarily!) it's cheaper than buying paintings separately (Crown Store paintings are really overpriced!). They really ought to do "The paintings of [Insert region, here]." packs, with the paintings at less than half normal price each.

I've used more Crown Store items in the Snowglobe than I have in most of my other houses, but it could still be (genuinely) nice without any of it.

Also, you can gift furnishings.

So, you could swap gold for them, if you really wanted some Crown Store stuff and can find a reliable seller.

It would be better if they added a way to swap currency via an automatic, in-game currency exchange, though.

Obviously, you still have to buy, or save, the Crowns for the house itself (in this case) and then find the time to farm gold to buy furnishings from guild stores and/or plans and mats, to make your own.

You also really do need ESO+ (at least temporarily), in my opinion, for the extra slots, to make the most of it, but still.

With a relatively reasonably-priced house (or a gold purchased one, ideally, obviously), other than the expense of ESO+, it doesn't have to cost you that much (if any, in the case of gold purchased, or if you have saved up enough Crowns from ESO+) extra real life money.