This is all I need. Buying furniture and what not is just a gimmick to me.

Just curious...Why is being able to choose furniture a "gimmick" while placing books isn't? If anything, the ability to place small books in a particular order is much more "gimmicky" than the ability to customize a much larger, more apparent aspect of your personal living space...

Said it somewhere else but will say it again here more display cases and and a case like Umbacano's ancestor cabinet, put your books in shut the doors, they don't go flying off when your servant is walking around on the floor below.

I like to store the stuff I find in the gameworld somewhere. It's usually armour on mannequins, potions and stuff I don't need on a table, and books/scrolls on a bookshelf - I did these things in Morrowind, it wasn't possible in Oblivion due to the physics engine.

If you're just worried about storing items you could place your books in a chest/container. Now, if your worried about storing them in a decorative way, like placing them on a shelf that is in the exact same category as someone who is worried about decorating their house with furniture. I guess that's what I was hinting at. It's just as, if not more, "gimmicky".

i just hope they dont make that quarter of an inch gap between books when your shelving them i hated that. but about the thread, a very good idea indeed, arranging my home was a process i would spend months on, call me a nerd but adventuring and acquiring rare items and weapons and books, but for me mainly was anything to do with necromancy, i went all out for my theme, benirus manor, oh i wish i could show you my lair any necromancer would be amazed of what i had acheived, and only on the limitations of the 360, it was truly a few months well spent, very long and tedious task but in the end very worth it, i cant wait to bring my creativity into skyrim.

I would love this added detail, but it wouldn't make a big difference to me unless you could have gathering's at your house and have people comment on them. But I'd much rather just have the ability to have parties, meetings, whodunit's ( ) , etc.

Did anyone else accidentally ruined days of shelf sorting, by accidentally discharging a spell?

I would personally love the option. I think I must have spent hours trying to decorate my homes in at least some way in Oblivion and feeling pissed once I realised I couldn't drag my tables like I could drag my books and other stuff. Not to mention the frustration said books caused me when the last book sent all the other neatly arranged books tumbling down because I was a little too shaky. Something that resulted in me just flinging the paper novels towards the walls and getting even more frustrated when even THAT didn't seem to work properly. Ugh.

It may seem a little strange and just nitpicking to some, since you aren't at your house a lot except to store all the loot you want to really keep but not keep with you but...why can't you express yourself in your home the way you can a little in your character? I mean, you just bought the fricking place for a 100,000 gold! Which, I must remind the pesky storeowner of took me a lot of time to get because apparently the furniture cost as much as the place. And I can't even put it in the place I want to! Well there's your reason right there for treating my home like an expensive storagebox and a place to keep a housekeeper I can bludgeon for fun when I feel too frustrated at my own books for not wanting to go inside a shelf...where they belong.

Yep, I definitely want a customisable home. If only to save me from the raw desire to throw books at the wall with the strenght of a toddler, even though my strenght is a solid 8, and from smashing that innocent little z button to teeny tiny bits out of frustration.

Yes. It was in the fully upgraded Rosethorn Hall upper floor. I had a whole museum thing going on.
I also learned of a weird glitch involving stolen Ayleid Statues.
They sink halfway into whatever you place them on (after some time). Only stolen ones, though.

agreed, i like displaying my weapons & armor in all my houses.

I've never seen you post on the forums Umrahel. HI!

sorry but your wrong, my lair in oblivion is solid proof, and although the physics arent very good i spend pain staking time and determination arranging stuff in my lair, i had a skeleton from the floor of benirus manor on the alter, i had my potions and alchemy set on the stone structure, my necromancy/murder kit on the table, my desk had all books concerning necromancy and arcane magic arranged on the top of desk as well as the scales of pitiless justice on the side with a 3 size weights, a skull on the otherside, on the base of desk necromancers amulet as well as black soul gems and a few other rare books like necromancers moon and tome of unlife,basket beside my desk with various undead summoning scrolls, at the coffin i put the skeleton in the coffin and svenjas body parts in the big tub at the back as well as a shelf of books on the stone structure with various vases and alchemical items and miniscule items scattered and arranged all over staff of worms leaning beside my desk, and so much more i really dont want to explain the rest, so yes although the physics arent very good for arranging stuff all it takes is time patience and dedication as well as creativity.

I hope so. That would be cool.

and then you accidentally bump into them and everything goes flying everywhere and your like

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :flamethrower:

yes :sadvaultboy:

thats why i nalways pre-save before entering and leaving

Decorating my in-game house is something I've spent many hours on, in Morrowind, Oblivion and then in Fallout. It all started when I first saw my friend playing Morrowind. He'd turned on of the rooms at the Mages Guild into his home, and he had painstakingly laid out all the keys he had collected on the central table, as well as the Daedric Crescent Blade. Everything looked so beautiful, I was hooked.

Generally, I'll decorate with loot as well as with mundane items, i.e. putting food in the kitchen, plates and cutlery and cups on tables. I want the place to be as realistic as possible.

Anything Bethesda can do to make the process of finetuning items better, I will appreciate. But even if the mechanics kinda svck, I know I'll sit there doing it anyway

This. Some of the architecture layout of the purchasable homes in Oblivion were good, but I didn't like some of the furniture layouts. Like practically tripping over the coffee table in the Anvil house as soon as you enter. Being able to place your own candles/ lighting sources would be cool.

This isn't about right or wrong. It's much easier to place stuff around in MW due to the lack of physics. I used to end up hitting something by mistake and moving things around in Oblivion. It takes loads of patience, something I don't have.

Oh, maybe a spell ''Alter gravity'' that could make enemies move slower and make you jump higher would also make items unaffected by gravity. Would make decorating somewhat easier for non-modders/console players. Or people like me who just would like to be able to do decoration ingame.

We definitely need a better way to display our loot than the trial and error of hand placing items. Not to mention the terrible physics with display cases in Oblivion. Not a MMO player, but I did notice a nice depth to the LOTR online games house customization.

YES! :banghead:

I would like to see them make house decoration a little more user friendly for Skyrim, but on the other hand there was something painfully enjoyable about the frustratingly, painstaking process it was in Oblivion. There was a certain sense of satisfied accomplishment to be had after getting my house just the way I wanted it and I can honestly say, that by the time I was done with that game, my strongest natural skill in the game was probably 'item placement'. :brokencomputer:
The tedious tasks of rolling a bottle along a wall or floor to get it into an upright position for placement, or, using the edge of a chair, bookcase or table to precisely allign a book for entry into a 2inch slot in a bottom shelf of a bookcase(a task that any master placer knows can only be done accurately from across the room with a telekinesis spell) were things I came to be able to do in the blink of an eye and with little effort. :toughninja:

One last point that I haven't seen mentioned yet in this thread is the issue of the homes default items respawning once a month in Oblivion. That needs to be removed for Skyrim. It was such a disruptive effect to anyone who spent time arranging items just the way they wanted them.

what they should create is a item lock feature, meaning once the desired item is placed where you want it, access the items physics and render it immobile, so you dont bump into it sending it and everything else flying all over the room

That physics engine was horrible. Any time I entered a room or my house, everything would jump off the tables and on to the floor.