I looked through ten pages of the forum looking for a topic like this, so please forgive and enlighten me if there already is a topic of this nature.

This topic is for users to describe the kinds of homes they would like for their character to live in(vanilla or modded) and the houses they would like to see in the game world. In addition, feel free to describe any cool features you might want in your Skyrim home.
If you have a more exotic home for your Dohvakin in mind (one that you will probably mod in), feel free to describe all the reasons you think it will make an awesome home.
Some of my favorite mods in Oblivion were exotic homes, such as: A home in the city sewers, a domed home in the middle of the sea, a spiraling tower in another dimension(Ancient Towers), an ancient dwemer airship, and a floating boat house. I want this to be a fun topic, let your creativity shine!

I know you said let your creativity shine, but I also don't want to break immersion. I would love to have a Stone like house, with warm fires and log ceilings and rafters. Kind of like the hall in Bloodmoon for Morrowind, with bearskin rugs and huge fireplaces. Something that fits the area well would be my favorite.

Standard-Issue Stone house suits me fine. :celebrate:

Simple tastes in the country. A log cabin, a cottage, a viking style longhouse.

Don't really need a castle. Just a place of my own. A little herb garden, an alchemy bench, a working kitchen...and a loom!

All of above. Exotic some igloo or something Lls.

I just wanted to create a topic with no "wrong" posts as long as the post is about a desired player home, whether they want it in vanilla, or have a cool home mod in mind. If you want a regular stone house or a log cabin that's fine. If you want an impenetrable fortress carved into the mountains, that's fine too.

I would love to live in a castle complete with a dreary dungeon where they can hear the screams of my enemies echoeing in the halls. Then again, I would love to actually see a castle period. So far I haven't really seen anything in the elder scrolls games (that I've played...or managed to actually get outside before just going 'oh nevermnind'. Arena I'm looking at you, you bugger) that actually managed to give me the 'castle-feel'. Fortresses yes, castle's no.

Though a wooden cabin high up in the hills overlooking the rest of the world from the lonely top sounds nice too. Watching dragons pilfer a small village and thinking..hmm, I'm drinking my mead right now. Note to self, rescue villagers later.

But what I would love the most is a big home carved from out of the side of a mountain like a temple with a few other houses nearby carved out in similiar manner. Don't want to feel like the crazy hermit that talks dragon now do I?

A nice log cabin in the middle of nowhere. With a fireplace, bed, storage thingies, chairs, and a workbench. Oh and an outhouse

Paying for permanent housing is for svckers. I break in to other people's houses or inns.

That way, I have extra gold for beer. : :foodndrink:

In the first Vanilla playthough, the same as Kratos276. I'd like it in the middle of nowhere, but equally close to some major cities. I'll see.

In all my next ones...there will be tons of mods that adds houses, castles, cabins...even pocket dimensions (extremely useful IMO, as you can teleport back to home any time, as if you were "carrying" it with you), so it'll be very difficult to choose. Probably I'll even create my own house in a carefully chosen location (I have a knack at designing interiors ).

Depends on the charicter im playing if im playing a ranger and there is a camping to sleep option i may never own a home or just a shack in the middle of nowwhere for storage .When i play a mage i want the oldest biggest creepyest stone home i can get.

A log cabin in the woods would suite me just fine. I don't like living in big houses with no one else to fill the space.

As a thief type of character i always feel like having a big house is overated for me. I am a gentleman though so i always kept somekind of homie mansion for myself (Skingrad House). But my favorite home was the always the Scarwood Hollow, or whatever it was called. I always loved being a vampire despite the drawbacks. I loved having the vampire minon, the dark dungeony interior, poison garden and of course the secret entrances. I want a hide out more than a home if anything. but i would also love to have a portable camp roll. U know a tent with a bed roll under it and a fire outside to boot. that is what a thief character needs most somewhere to sleep after being chased out of town by the peasents

It probably depends on the character. My first Dovahkiin is going to be all refined, ladylike and with an entire morality system centred around getting rich at the expense/naivety of others. She's likely to be a socially oriented mage with deceitful and roguelike leanings, mostly favouring Illusion and Speechcraft, with some stealhy skills as backup, while companions, mind-controlled slaves and summoned creatures would do most of the necessary violence for her (in case she fails to find a diplomatic solution and battle is unavoidable).

A home fit for her would probably be large, lavish and well-protected because of her physical frailty and mild case of paranoia. For the same reasons, it also would include many secret chambers, hidden passages and less-than-obvious escape routes. A palace would be perfect, but, say, a large estate walled off from the rest of the city would be equally appropriate.
Aside from that, due to her arcane knowledge, magic would also be prominently present in that house, although in subtle ways - true to the Illusionist mentality. Entrances to chambers she wouldn't like anyone else to enter would be occluded by illusions or behind magically sealed doors, gargoyles would watch and warn her of uninvited guests (or inhabitants acting suspiciously), enchantments and wards would work to misguide or frighten intruders, affecting their perception and influencing their minds to herd them away from places of importance and right into the guards' quarters... If you've ever played Vampire the Masquerade, you probably recognise a Tremere's haven here ^^

Another character, though, may have a different preference. I do generally love big things, so any character I play will probably be biased the same way as a common trait - a tall tower on top of a mountain if I ever decide to play a pure mage, a bigass fortress for a more knightly/warriorlike Dovahkiin, perhaps a spacious underground complex beneath a city for one who needs to stay out of sight but close to people (a vampire or thief), a forgotten ruin in the woods for a barbarian, druid or other, ahem, wildie and so on.

Doppleganger! Everyone, this Skinchanger has Stolen the Face of Your Beloved Edgar!


OY: I will not vote until "Mansion with Graveyard" is added.

For being the gods chosen champion and stalwart hero of the land? I think I deserve a palace thank you very much.

I visited a castle yesterday and it suited my tastes just fine.

Some pictures.
http://www.coolbreaks.com/media/115598/middachten4.jpg
http://www.eemlandreizen.nl/ShowImage.ashx?ImageID=6148
http://museumwoningen.nai.nl/mmbase/images/505738/Middachten_int_450.jpg

That's definitely the sort of home I want in the game. :disguise:
Of course in the end it does depend on the character I'm playing.

Nice to have a big house and all that, but in Oblivion the place I used most of all was the crappy log cabin just outside Imperial City - well placed and practical

An extradimensional marble-and-glass palace, full of evocative frescoes, monster statues, pet cats, and scantily-clad servants.

Wizard's Tower, camp sites, and inns are my style.

Marriage? :hubbahubba:

I like to start off small, I may only be camping round in the wilderness, ranger-style, then only be able to afford a small wooden shack on the edge of town, or a log cabin in the forest (which would be the preferred accommodation, castles are cool, but rather draughty).

As I progress in the world, becoming more powerful and rich, I may well end up owning a castle or mansion.

But as for exotic locations... Well.

-Some sort of fortress, probably a cross between Castle Karstaag from Bloodmoon, but I also like the idea of it being in a (Mortrag) glacier...
-An underground dwelling, nestled into the side of a mountain, like a hideaway. With a camouflaged door? That would be very cool.
-And definately some sort of secret base of operations in one of the main cities, that's always good fun. Perhaps (as mentioned above) in the sewers, or in an abandoned warehouse, etc.

im going to live in a cave.

All of the above , because I plan to play through a couple times and have multiple houses and be "movin on up"

Can start in a little log cabin , eventually working up to a wizard tower mansion or whatever lol

Wouldn't be keen on servants, or a grand palace

An interestingly crafted, stone building at the top of a mountain for me

My first character is going to be an ex-pirate so hopefully there's a ship option...with a big hammock to sleep in. Otherwise a wooden shack or log cabin has to do.