Rynd33 wrote: »

I wasn't around when this was given as a free house with the Summerset chapter and this is the first time I have seen it for sale since I started playing, about 2 years ago, so I decided to check it out. My first impression, how the heck do you make that look occupied with only 700 slots. Don't get me wrong, I think it is an awesome design and as I walked through I had a ton of build ideas, but I just don't see any way to adequately furnish that house without leaving large sections of it untouched. If any of you have pics or videos where you accomplished this seemingly impossible task I would love to see them.

You can't make it look occupied using all the available space.

You are going to have to completely cut off entire sections to make it look even remotely decent.

I haven't finished it yet but I guess big furniture that takes up a lot of space might help.

I tried to make something out of the house when it first came out and never could come close to having it look complete. Instead I've found it makes a great warehouse especially for large items with all the room inside and out. With all of the space you can place items and have plenty of room to see how the pieces look from all angles against other furnishings.

That is the problem with the big houses - don't get me wrong, they are nice and all, but the megalomaniac sizes are SHOUTING in your face that the designers have never been told that we players can only put 350/700 things in those houses.

Thats also why I don't own many. I'd rather buy smaller houses that I can make look good with the amount of furniture I can put in. But that us players like those has been told in forum very often also and no one cares.

You can do a reasonable job outside using the largest trees you have access to. That is generally going to encourage you to leave space, rather than fill it with every flower type available. Infill is your enemy here.

If you think about most statues you've seen around IRL, they have space around them. An overgrown ruin is a different category.

For the water areas, unless you've got a fish drying factory build, not every area needs to be full of clutter. Although I am going to have problems when I acquire any more pieces of coral. Another purchase coming up I guess.

Hopefully that leaves you with enough slots free for the inside. For an art gallery or museum the more spectacular pieces tend to have space around them too, whereas smaller items will tend to get clumped.

One final thing that stood out from when I visited Pompeii, the Romans that could afford villas tended to have statement pieces to show of their wealth and taste rather than a Liberace gilt everything wherever you look approach.

I don't think the item limit is perfect, but as with bag and bank space I'm pretty bad at filling things up simply because that's the point at which you can say "it's finished".

I can't even put ALL my Undaunted trophies there...110 limit WITH ESO+