Nice, Decrepit! Thanks for the tour of Weye Manor.

Lopov, I love the wood and warm light in Oberon’s bedroom. That window is gorgeous. I like Oberon’s white nightshirt.

Decrepit, Weye Manor looks lovely. I like the lively dining table, cozy fireplace, and beautiful view from the private balcony. Plus, location! What a great place to live.

Nice pictures of the avatar's manor, Decrepit, I believe it must truly be a gorgeous view from the balcony.

Quite a lot of staff is employed at his manor.

I like plants growing inside the farm, it makes it seem like it's outside at first glance.


That's vanilla white monk robe. Oberon took one from the Weynon Priory.

Listen everybody, we're going to be showing the cottage to some sort of people in an alternate reality. Best behavior, okay?

... Today we will have a look at Lucitia's place, aka Renee Gade III. Come along. All credits to go Maple Cottage by Emma, except for any sort of mess you notice. RG3 is a bit of a slob.

In this first picture, she arrived to her home when it was night. I took a pic just for the sake of contrast.

And here we are in lovely day time. I cheated with this pic. It kept frickin' raining on this day, and so I finally had to fw 38eee!

Renee poses outside in her new "gryphon" armor. Well, let's have a look inside, shall we?

What is it? What do you want, Gabrielle? Can't you see we're busy? ... Bards *sigh*.

Here we are in the front foyer.

And come on, let's go upstairs. Only one bed up here. Super-cozy. Gabby usually sleeps up here. A bit too "girly" for my Renee.

Now let's go into the basement. Don't mind the giant glowing orb thingie. It barks sometimes but it's really friendly.

And now, the room of Renee Gade III. Not too bad, actually. At least she didn't throw her armor all over the floor this time.

What a fun tour of Chez Renee! Looks like a wonderful cottage.

Very fun tour of the girly and non-girly parts. Sign me up for the girly room with Gabrielle!

Nice place, Renee

I´m not too sure about that orb, though..

I'm really impressed by the window shade meshes (or is it textures? I always get them confused). Those off-white hangings Emma added there. Really intricate.

I'm not sure where we found that glowing orb. That's not an official part of Emma's work!

Lovely shots of Lucitia's home, Renee. Bushes around the cottage look absolutely FAB!

Gabrielle showered in rain! Better than showered in gold, I guess.

Interiors are inspired by Cheydinhal architecture, it seems to me. Love the curtains.

Wow, I really like the bedroom upstairs. As you say, it's small but cozy.

RGIII has the most spacious room but I like upstairs more just because of the window.

Not so sure I´d agree on that

It depends from which perspective you look at it. I meant the "other" meaning of "showered in gold".

Nope, nothing is showered in gold in RG3's place; just a cozy little cottage is all she's got. Maybe that'll change someday. The window hangings must be expensive though.

I must say, Emma packed a whole lot of features in there. Apparently Renee can craft jewelry, tan her own hides, and craft her own armor. And even brew alcohol. She's not really patient enough to learn how to do any of this stuff, but if you look at the first basement pic, the gold necklace (and other objects) lying there has something to the crafting part, at least.

*spits tea*


Renee, what a charming cottage! Though I love her Xena cleavage cuirass, Ms Gade III looks fabulous in her griffen armor. Gabby is adorable, as ever. I’d be willing to sleep on the floor in her gorgeous room. What a fun tour, culminating in the bedchamber of Lucitia herself. I love that the mess changes according to what she’s been doing. It’s not just arranged and left that way forever. Really neat, and spacious enough to accommodate her entourage.

Thank you for the tour!

Now this makes me happy because I tried my best to make her look like Renee 'o Connor.

Here is the original Gabrielle that comes with the Xena mod.

As we can see, the original looks nothing like Gabby at all, it's like the mod author just picked some random face and walked away!


OH yeah, you betcha.

I figured I'd do Kahreem's home now, since he just arrived. There's not much to it, he's a guy. Kidding.

Here we are! ... The Marie Elena. For some reason he gravitated here from the moment he'd almost gotten killed by the pirates who used to live here. He is not home too often, but when he does show up, it's like he's got the best house on the Waterfront. The biggest, anyways. And they all know it and allow him to continue living there.

Pumpkins and watermelons by the door. (Almost all my characters put some sort of large vegetables outside their front door).

Captain's quarters. ... Kahreem never sleeps up here though, he prefers mid-deck for some reason.

Key collection, and that's not even half the keys he's got stored here, or carries around on his person. Kahreem definitely has the largest collection of keys of all my characters.

Shinies!

His favorite bed


.... and that's pretty much it, ha ha.

He sure could have picked a worse home. Sleep on a a boat, and cheap too

I imagine the Marie Elena makes a great home - once you clear the pier and ship of riffraff.

The pumpkins and watermelons look like housewarming gifts from Baa and Mooch!

Kahreem of Weet the Locksman!

I knew that Marie Elena is his home but I didn't know that he doesn't prefer the captain's bed.

Nice pix, Renee!

Maybe he prefers sleeping mid decks because those two men knock on the door continuously the rest of the game unless you kill them?

On Glathir's key ... did you check the wastebasket when you first sneak into his door?






Ooh, like that Verona House! It won "Best Quest mod" too! So, are you SenileSarg on Nexus? Looked like your Avatar in the screen.

Awesome shots!

I like this cottage! (didn't know it had a basement). I saw a vid of it on Youtube where the quest was bugged and Neils was not dead and kept popping up everywhere,

Great shots, but my favorite is the adorable Renee!








GAAAAAH! I want to see more of the interior!







Maxical is going to visit and sleep in that bed, lol. Somewhere I have screens of Persephone's tower in Maxical's game, but ... I don't know where. I was inspired to make it so Maxical could spend time with Persephone up there, lol. Awesome shots, especially dancing on the board so high up - I guess the undead don't have to worry about falling? Lol. Awesome shots and mod, I loved this tower and was inspired by it.






First off, very cool cave below the IC shack !!! Secondly = Eyja's makeover - WOO HOO !!!! I LOVE the interior of the Ayleid Moonshadow guest house, AWESOME !!!

That's a good question. I know what's in there because at least one of mine looked in his wastebasket once. I'm not sure if Kahreem ever found this.

That was a really cool little surprise Bethesda threw in there, lol.

Oh yes. It's the last place you'd expect to look, too. Wastebaskets are not usually classified as actual containers.

I think that is why it took so long for everyone to find, they didn't think to look at it. I didn't know about it for years, but in one game I broke into and robbed every house of every single item whether it could be sold or not - just for something to do. It was my "Bubba" character. The Thieves Guild told him to practice stealing, so he went all out; going city to city and literally cleaning them out.

I love surprises like that, though. Just some unusual secret -type thing - doesn't take much to entertain me,

Renee, what a fun visit to Kahreem’s house! I think the mid-deck bed is cozier.

I like the pumpkins and watermelons outside the door. Some of mine have done that, too. I wondered if they got that from me as some kind of Maryland thing. Even Christmas decorations always had a bunch of fruit in them.

Ah... I know that tower well.

One of my favorite house mods is Phitt's Mad Mage's Tower? (though it's so quirky that I don't have a character who would actually choose to live there - though I like it so much that I plan on creating a character just for that purpose). It sits in just about that exact spot though. There's a compatibility patch for it, but all it does is fix the land tears and raise it a bit so that the door isn't buried - the two towers are still butted up against each other.

So some time back (when I was trying it out for a home for Bogmok, which didn't work out since the place terrified him), I did my own patch and moved it to the next peak over - to the left from the stairs up to the top rather than to the right.

Here's a view of it from the front of the existing tower (hereinafter known in my game as "Persephone's Tower").

And a shot of the whole area, with both towers.

That was Hanna the elf - the animal conjurer who most recently adventured in the Shivering Isles - in the first pic. Since I've hit something of a wall with Bob, I spent last night traveling with her, so when it came time to get those shots, I just loaded up her game and fast traveled up there. She's actually in the middle of finally dealing with the Orrery quest.

But that's not pertinent to this thread. Houses... that's pertinent to this thread.

This'll take a while, and multiple posts, so I'm going to work my way through the existing posts, and add my own stuff here and there. First, I want to get out of the way the handful of characters I have who live in vanilla houses, since I can just mention them and everybody knows what the houses look like.

Bob (in his first incarnation) owned all the houses. He kept his best stuff in Rosethorn Hall, but mostly worked out of the Waterfront Shack.

Jean the Redguard is a permanent resident of the Shivering Isles and lives in the Duke of Dementia's quarters.

Tim the Enchanter lives in the Archmage's quarters.

Kyla the noble Dunmer lives in the Bruma house. She fell in love with Bruma early on, and it was a natural.

Lydia the Breton ginger lives in the Cheydinhal house.

Jana the Nord goddess lives in Battlehorn Castle.

Z'ren the Khajiit stealth fighter and Arlowe Clanler the (randomly generated) Imperial petty thief both live, in their own games, in the IC Waterfront Shack.

And that's it. I've got some characters who haven't settled down anywhere specific yet, and a few more who are wanderers by nature and aren't going to settle down (and, notably, Hale the Nord dolt, who doesn't know enough to even come in out of the rain), and everyone else lives in modded houses of one sort or another. I'll deal with those over time. I've got screenshots of some of them already, but this post has gone on long enough.

Neat, gpstr! So many characters. Lol.

Buffy generally lives under the stars out of her mare's saddlebags or in the local MG guild hall. When at the Arcane University, she stays in a custom mod (made by King Coin for Buffy) in an added apartment upstairs in the Mystic Archives that she shares with Boderi Farano. It is basically a redo of the Skingrad house bedroom.

Oh, here's a screenie.

The Mad Mage Tower is pretty neat. I like the look of it. It is like the Seattle Space Needle.

That looks really cool with the two towers side by side.

And Buffy has herself a swinging bachelorette pad at the University! Toga Party!

Seriously - how awesome is it that Buffy is so beloved that other people make mods for her?

The Mad Mage's Tower really is awesome - I can't recommend it enough. But it'd take a special sort of mage to actually live there - it was built by a literal mad mage, and it shows. There are portals, sort of like the ones in Frostcrag Spire, except that they take you through a screaming vortex along the way and spit you out at the other end. There's a chest with legs that moves around. The walls breathe - audibly and visibly - you can not only hear them, but actually see them flexing in and out. It's definitely unsettling, but it's very cool.

So... first off, the first mod house I ever did for Oblivion - Niben Cabin (with its owner - Jibran the Redguard swordsman - in front)

It's on the northeast shore of Niben Bay, a little east of due south of Cropsford. Here's a shot from a distance. That's Fort Grief to the right, and the ImpeREAL Empire fort (I forget the name of that specific one, but it's the one along the road to Leyawiin) in the distance behind it. The dock in the foreground is a vanilla structure some might recognize.

I discovered the location first, and decided it would be a great place for a house, then I tried to figure out who might want to live there. I had been spending a fair bit of time with Jibran the Redguard swordsman at that point, and it seemed like it might appeal to him, so I loaded up his game and had him travel there so that he could check out the constuction in-game (since it was my first house mod, there was a lot of trial and error involved). An interesting side effect of that is that it pretty much ended Jibran's career. Once it was done, he just didn't seem very interested in leaving. I've taken him out a few times since then, but he doesn't go far and doesn't stay long before he starts itching to get home again.

Three shots of the interior, from different angles.

It's all vanilla items, but I was pleased with the way it worked out. I particularly like the light - I experimented a lot and learned a lot about placing light sources from that house (I generally don't use any statics that emit light themselves - instead I use strategically placed separate lights that correspond with fake candles and such, so I can place the statics relatively close to the walls but place the actual light further out into the room, so it's a bit more diffuse and the glare on the walls isn't so strong).

In the end, it's not notable in any particular way, but I like it, and Jibran likes it, and it was a great learning experience.

Aww, thanks, gpstr.

Your Niben house looks great - both inside and out. I never got beyond simply doing very minor tweaks to already existing mods.

That Mad Mages Tower by Phitt is fantastic, he has some extremely unique items in there (like the dancing table that I tried to replicate in Skyrim and couldn't) - really nice place!

Persephone's tower - I made a "Persephone's Tower in my game too:

http://imgur.com/a/XswZc


My character doesn't live there, she just visits Persephone there, lol.








D'aawwww!!!!! Miss Buffy in her apartment at the Arcane that King Coin built her!








Great cabin and dock !!!

That's a good idea, gpster... seeing all those names. I bet I can list all of mine too. This will take awhile.

I have been waiting all week do so some gaming though, that's going to come first tonight.

Acadian: Buffy's got nails and jewelry. How did you make this happen? I want too.

Thanks, Renee. Everything Buffy's wearing in that shot came from the Apache Goddess Store.

A very nice little cabin. That is the kind of home I prefer. Something that fits into the game world without being overwhelming.


I dug up some pictures of the house in Riverwood that I modded for my Altmer barbarian Hera.


She built her home off the main street.

Here she is relaxing on the porch

An interior view

From the other angle

She wanted a map of the province, so she can better decide where to go next

The basement has all the things an adventurer could need.

This place is Awesome! I especially think my thief character (Bubba Khan the Redguard) will enjoy slipping in while Hera is off adventuring and visiting that table full of cash! Bwaahaa!

Ooops, that was for the wrong game. I didn't realize this was an Oblivion topic. I'll have to dig for some pics of Nykteria's Cadlew Chapel home.

Well, no matter where I live in Cyrodiil or anywhere else in Tamriel; there is one thing you will always find somewhere in my home:





A card game and a "Still" in the basement, BWAAHAA!!!!

Whoa, playing cards. Holy crap!

Acadian: No kidding. I've already got Apachi Goddess Store in RG3's game. She's not really as girly as I think she is, though, and tends to not shop there as much as I would if I lived in Cyrodiil. But nails and jewelry. I can see her going in there for those touches.

Back on topic

gpster: I like how Jibran doesn't like to stray too far from his cabin, that's neat.

Oh, I remember the fabulous work SubRosa did with Cadlew Chapel for her necrodude huntress.

Oh, mALX, don't forget the nearly ever present red hair.

Yeah, it turned out really nice. Maybe you could include that short little video as well, SubRosa? It displays it quite good

@SubRosa - it is a nice house though - just in a different province.

Funny that you have an Altmer barbarian too. I actually spent some time with mine - Lemdel - last night, but we weren't really gaming. In the interest of this thread, there's a house he particularly likes - AST Midnight Sun Hall, but the location just isn't right for him - turns out he's not all that barbaric a barbarian and likes being around cities and people too much to be that live that far out in the wilderness. So off and on, and again last night, I'll spend some time in his game, wandering around and trying to find a suitable location to move that house to. Still didn't find one though.

I also spent some time with my sultry Dunmer mage Maelyn (had to pull her out of the Shivering Isles first), trying to get some good screenshots of her home - the Flying Island House. The weather just wouldn't cooperate though - even when I forced clear weather, it stayed foggy, and inevitably crept back to rain. Lots of good screenshots at the end of that link though, and since my version is only mildly modded, that'll likely do. It is a tremendous house, and perfectly suited to a fabulously wealthy, powerful and proud retired courtesan turned mage/adventurer.

And since it appears I'm posting without screenshots (I still have some of some of my own later houses, but I'm saving those for the time being), I should mention Vorlin the Bosmer hunter, who lives in Phinix Portable Tent, pitched in whatever forest clearing appeals to him at the moment. It's just a simple and rustic tent, and suits him well.

For that matter, I might as well mention Hanna, my lovely elfin archer and animal summoner, who lives in one of the most impressive mod houses I know of - AtomicDryad's Enchanted Druid Treehome. I plan on getting some shots of it, just because I like it (and her) so much, but just in case I don't, it's here anyway.

That is only in the house when the girls are there, though; I modded that card game and drinking to go on whether she is home or not, NPC's show up to play cards and drink, it is hilarious because some NPC's that are not modded to be there show up! Once at my waterfront shack front porch card game in the Imperial City Malvulis the Pirate wandered up and sang a song to Maxical, drank and talked to the other NPC's, then wandered back to the Maria Elena!!!

This place is Awesome !!!

The Island in the Sky was great, but I have yet to see any new floating city/home any better done than FlintOne's "Theryon," it remains one of my favorite mods of all time:


http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/32699/?

I found my pics of Cadlew Chapel, after Nykteria fixed it up and moved in.

It is essentially a one room affair

There are statues of Meridia and Azura at the far end

Moving to the right of that an alchemy area, and a study/desk

And still to the right the bed. That is the door in and out at the extreme right.

To the left of the entrance is the dining area

The roof offers a view of the bay

Here is a short vid showing it off

And finally the link to the mod on the Nexus

Your Cadlew Chapel is just as wonderful as I remember. Where does she keep her massive collection of black robes harvested from dead necrodudes?

@mALX - that Theryon does look nice. So nice that I'm even a bit tempted to try it out, which is actually saying something, since I generally don't even bother to keep reading descriptions when I get to the part where the house includes trainers and vendors. That one just might be worth it anyway though...

@SubRosa - I know that Chapel well too - it's in a couple of my games (nobody lives in it though - it's just much more pleasant than the vanilla version).

So here's the second house mod I did for Oblivion, though it's not entirely appropriate for this thread, since I still don't have a character who actually lives there.

What happened was that I first found the spot and decided it'd be a great spot for a house. It's south of the Orange Road, a bit closer to the Chorrol end than the Bruma end, almost due south from the waterfall pond that's clearly visible and close to the road. If you're coming from Chorrol, the road there swings up toward the northeast, then there's a switchback right at that waterfall pond and it swings back to the southeast. The spot is pretty much due south of there, in the space bracketed by those two sections of the road. None of the vanilla houses seemed quite right for it though, so it sort of languished for a while (I use Map Marker Overhaul, so I put a custom map marker on it so I could find it again). Then, at some later point, I came across Stroti's Old Cabin and I knew before I even downloaded it that it was going in that spot.

Approaching from the Chorrol side.

Looking back along that path.

Since it's in that sort of v-shaped space between the roads, there are actually two approaches to it - one from each side. The Chorrol side is more scenic though - the Bruma side starts out below the cabin and you can't even really see it until you're almost on top of it.

And two shots of the interior.

It's still one of my favorites of my houses, and I really want someone to live there, but it's just not quite right for any of my characters. It exists in all of their games though, and sometimes one or another of them will spend a night if they're in the area. And maybe someday...

My gosh, I'm getting swamped with ideas for new dwellings because of this thread!

A couple of quick and minor ones today.

The first is a modded version of Agarmir's house in the Talos Plaza district. It's another one that i did without a specific occupant in mind, then looked for someone who would want to live there. This time though, I found one - Dawn, my spoiled and willful Breton spellsword. It's not as lush as she'd prefer, but it's the best she can do for now, and at least it's better than that grimy shack - there was no *way* she could live *there*.

First floor.

One corner of the basement. That includes a thing I've put in most of my houses since - static, leveled alchemy equipment. They're statics, set as activators, running a script that temporarily adds a full set of alchemy equipment of the correct level for the character's alchemy skill to their inventory.

Another corner of the basement.

Upstairs.

Upstairs, around the corner.

The other one is Belladonna's pocket dimension room. It was built off of the LF Portable Home Framework (which is a terrific mod if you ever get the urge to build a pocket dimension home - it's just all of the necessary scripts and activators - you supply the pocket dimension). Hers is really simple - just a single tower room with a teleport pad in one corner and some necessities spread around the room. It initially came about because she changes clothes far too often, and couldn't carry her entire wardrobe and I was tired of taking her back and forth to the IC. I considered something along the lines of a Bag of Holding, but liked this idea better.

From the teleport pad, one view to the left and one to the right, and that's the whole room. It actually suits her quite well, since it provides a no-fuss place to stash the stuff she's accumulated and her rather extensive wardrobe, and a place to sleep, and that's really all she either needs or wants.

This place is Awesome! I'm dying to know how you got rid of the blood stained interior of that chapel !!!









In Theryon - I think the vendors and trainers are all located in the town below the Player home part itself; but that said - I did find a woman coming down the steps to the outside from the pool area; and she was dressed as if she had been swimming. She is the only one I ever found in the house itself; and I'm like you = don't like NPC's wandering in my home uninvited, lol.

Stroti's cabin is one of my favorite of his mods ... oh well, everything he makes is my favorite, lol. But that furniture he made to go with it has graced several of my houses, too.

You did an excellent job setting up the interior!

How odd that I never thought of using Agamir's house after he was killed! Very good idea !!!

That portable house idea is awesome !!!