Casual tea time in Eorzea + housing tour!

I realized that I wrote a post about how The Spoony Bards got a house in Shirogane, but I never wrote a post about how I got a personal house as well! It was the middle of January, forty-five days after they resumed the housing demolition timers in December--if you haven't played FFXIV, houses need to be entered by the owner at least once every month-and-a-half or they're automatically put up for sale again--and all the people who stopped playing during the pandemic lost their houses. sashagee and I spent some time going around from house to house, checking houses that didn't have anyone standing next to them, and after maybe an hour of wandering I found a house that offered me the buy prompt instead of telling me that the land wasn't ready, so I bought it. When I told sashagee that there was another free house in the Goblet, the desert-themed area where I had bought my house, she walked up to the housing plaque, clicked on it, and we both owned a house!

sashagee almost immediately started to decorate her house with a plan in mind, setting Pa-paya as the theme and filling it with flower and moogle items, but my house and yard both sat empty for months. I kind of wanted to do a overgrown high-tech ruins theme--a bit like this housing commission I found on YouTube--but I didn't have a good plan, so I just stuck some random odds and ends I found that fit the theme and otherwise had an empty house, leading aaron.hosek to praise my single rusty bench in the middle of a darkened metallic basement. That was how my house sat for months, just a storage space that I'd occasionally go into and water the plants, with a yard that had two glowing plants in it and nothing else.

But, last week inspiration struck. When I had to make a character, sashagee wanted me to make a Viera bunnygirl but instead I made a Duskwight Elezen because why wouldn't I make a goth elf? The backstory of the Duskwights is that they stuck around in the underground city of Gelmorra after the nature spirits of the Black Shroud let everyone move above-ground, so I decided to make a Gelmorra-themed house. I spent three days buying items, carefully placing them, getting everything just right, and in the end I'm pretty proud of what I came up with!

( Housing photos )

I think I have my permanent decorating scheme until I swap to a larger housing plot!

I really want to move to the Lavender Beds, the forest-and-lakes housing district in the Black Shroud, but until my perfect housing location opens up, I'm happy with what I've built here.

Tea time with sashagee