Casual tea time in Eorzea + housing tour!
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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. ![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
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 ![[facebook.com profile]](https://www.facebook.com/favicon.ico)
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!
From the street facing my house. The sun-drenched Goblet doesn't really fit the cool arboreal look I'm going for, but I tried make it a verdant island in the midst of desolation.
The wisteria tree on the left is a new item added in the latest patch, and it's great because it has both a tree and the pile of leaves on the bottom. Usually you need two items to accomplish that, and that butts up against the parsimonious item limits imposed on houses. With this tree I can save a spot and that'll let me put in another plant to make my yard more forest-like.
Around the corner of my house, with a pond and stepping stone, gratuitous foliage, and a covered kitchen for serving tea on the balcony. I spent about an hour glitching that balcony out over the fence like that, but now it faces east and has nothing obstructing it, so I can stand there and watch the sun rise if I want. Not bad.
Upstairs is a kitchen/dining/receiving area, with the oven and food preparation on the right and the table on the left. The table with tree is also a new item in the latest patch and as soon as I saw it, I knew it would be perfect.
sashagee commented on how much food I put in my house, but I want any guests to feel welcome! Even if I do live in a dim recreation of the Duskwights' former underground home.
From the front door facing the back. I'm not super happy with that window on the right, but it was the best of the available window options. I am happy with the pool that I built on the left, taking a Hingan hot spring and enclosing it in two verdant partitions and two dyed bar counters and then adding a Greatwood planter and a Doman dogwood for a bit of color. It takes up a bunch of room but it's worth it.
The basement landing, lit by glowing mushroom and with a trophy display on the right. Since Gelmorra was underground I wanted to have a primarily stone-constructed basement but I was foiled by there being no stone doors or partitions available even though there is a stone wall, so I put in a bunch of wooden walls to separate the rooms. And since the walls were wood, why not include more plants?
The other walls could probably use more posters, the way I have a bunch of paintings up, but I'm not sure what to put there.
Me reading in the library! This is taken with the camera against the giant wall of bookshelves and doesn't show the table with wine across from the chair I'm sitting in, but it does show the giant pile of books in the corner so you still get that library feel.
That chair has terrible lighting, though. I hope Duskwights have excellent night vision.
The bathing room! That bath adds the sound of softly flowing water throughout the entire basement, which is very relaxing.sashagee fell in love with the glowing flower (which I clipped into the bath--it's actually a lampstand) and the wall planters and now wants to have a bunch more flora in her house. I'm glad I can inspire her, considering she had a decorating scheme months before I did.
The towels on the left require you to PVP to get, which is odd. They fit perfectly into the bathroom though so I had to include them.
My bedroom, taken from the doorway, with a fireplace and chair on the right (including meal) and bed in the back corner. I made sure to include a rug because living underground and getting up in the morning, I feel like the flagstones would be freezing even with a fireplace going all night. Old-style fireplaces were not great at heating rooms evenly.
The bed was hard. I eventually went with the steppe bed because of all the pillows. Tthe Twin Adder cot was a powerful secondary choice since it has plants on it and a shelf of books, but it's yellow. Yellow may be the Twin Adder color of choice but it is not my favorite color.
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.
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 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! From the street facing my house. The sun-drenched Goblet doesn't really fit the cool arboreal look I'm going for, but I tried make it a verdant island in the midst of desolation.
The wisteria tree on the left is a new item added in the latest patch, and it's great because it has both a tree and the pile of leaves on the bottom. Usually you need two items to accomplish that, and that butts up against the parsimonious item limits imposed on houses. With this tree I can save a spot and that'll let me put in another plant to make my yard more forest-like.
Around the corner of my house, with a pond and stepping stone, gratuitous foliage, and a covered kitchen for serving tea on the balcony. I spent about an hour glitching that balcony out over the fence like that, but now it faces east and has nothing obstructing it, so I can stand there and watch the sun rise if I want. Not bad.
Upstairs is a kitchen/dining/receiving area, with the oven and food preparation on the right and the table on the left. The table with tree is also a new item in the latest patch and as soon as I saw it, I knew it would be perfect.
sashagee commented on how much food I put in my house, but I want any guests to feel welcome! Even if I do live in a dim recreation of the Duskwights' former underground home.From the front door facing the back. I'm not super happy with that window on the right, but it was the best of the available window options. I am happy with the pool that I built on the left, taking a Hingan hot spring and enclosing it in two verdant partitions and two dyed bar counters and then adding a Greatwood planter and a Doman dogwood for a bit of color. It takes up a bunch of room but it's worth it.
The basement landing, lit by glowing mushroom and with a trophy display on the right. Since Gelmorra was underground I wanted to have a primarily stone-constructed basement but I was foiled by there being no stone doors or partitions available even though there is a stone wall, so I put in a bunch of wooden walls to separate the rooms. And since the walls were wood, why not include more plants?
The other walls could probably use more posters, the way I have a bunch of paintings up, but I'm not sure what to put there.
Me reading in the library! This is taken with the camera against the giant wall of bookshelves and doesn't show the table with wine across from the chair I'm sitting in, but it does show the giant pile of books in the corner so you still get that library feel.
That chair has terrible lighting, though. I hope Duskwights have excellent night vision.
The bathing room! That bath adds the sound of softly flowing water throughout the entire basement, which is very relaxing.
sashagee fell in love with the glowing flower (which I clipped into the bath--it's actually a lampstand) and the wall planters and now wants to have a bunch more flora in her house. I'm glad I can inspire her, considering she had a decorating scheme months before I did.The towels on the left require you to PVP to get, which is odd. They fit perfectly into the bathroom though so I had to include them.
My bedroom, taken from the doorway, with a fireplace and chair on the right (including meal) and bed in the back corner. I made sure to include a rug because living underground and getting up in the morning, I feel like the flagstones would be freezing even with a fireplace going all night. Old-style fireplaces were not great at heating rooms evenly.
The bed was hard. I eventually went with the steppe bed because of all the pillows. Tthe Twin Adder cot was a powerful secondary choice since it has plants on it and a shelf of books, but it's yellow. Yellow may be the Twin Adder color of choice but it is not my favorite color.
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.
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Date: 2021-Jun-20, Sunday 16:27 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-Jun-20, Sunday 22:47 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-Jul-25, Sunday 04:48 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-Jul-27, Tuesday 15:08 (UTC)I keep tinkering with it--I got rid of that cracked internal window and put another painting up, I added some trophies from bosses I've defeated since I wrote this, I put some vases of flowers here and there--but the general feel is still the same. I'm really happy with it.
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Date: 2023-Sep-06, Wednesday 06:01 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-Sep-06, Wednesday 15:17 (UTC)This wasn't even the final form before I moved, either. I ended up removing that pool upstairs, building a lofted area with seating on the top floor and moving the dining area under that, and lofted the bed as well in the bedroom and put a rug and desk beneath it.
Maybe I should do another one of these for my new house to preserve the photos...
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Date: 2023-Sep-06, Wednesday 16:36 (UTC)