We know there will be player homes, and they'll probably be like Oblivion's homes where you buy a nearly empty house and purchase upgrades to furnish your house. It's a great place for storing your loot and extra armor, having a free bed to sleep in, etc. But that's about all they were good for, other than RPing that you had a home.

In Skyrim, will we be able to make better use of our home? For example, if we purchase a kitchen upgrade, can we actually cook food and recipes in our house? We already know that we can cook salmon and make it into salmon steak. Can we do that with other ingredients in our house? Say I take venison, potatoes, carrots and flour, can I make a stew in my own home? I would like to be able to bake bread and make other foods from raw ingredients, in the comfort of my own home.

(As a side note, since Skyrim is such a cold place, will there be warm drinks that we can make, like coffee or tea?)

I also hope that we can have the option to purchase a smithy. In Oblivion I saw lots of smithies inside buildings, down in basemants or just to the corner of a shop. If we can smith and upgrade armor and such, can we do it in our house?

I'm sure there's other things that would be nice to have, something that's actually usable in our house, besides a bed. Maybe Bethesda took a note from the COBL mod and put in alchemical sorting cannisters? That would be really cool.

I hope there is a way for me to display weapons and armour and a shelf where I can place books.

It would be cool to get a forge upgrade to do some smithing

It should be a real money sink. I hope that you never should be able to have TOO much money! :celebration:

Also we should be able to hire maids too keep the house tidy if you haven't married allerady. :biggrin:

Books on Bookshelves.... BOOKS on Bookshelves... BOOKS ON BOOKSHELVES

I hope they fixed it so it doesn't take 19 hours to put my entire collect in the shelves, just to have them fall through 8(.

I also think, for a money sink, we should have to pay taxes on the home. It would be a great money sink

I agree with the bookshelf thing. I always wondered why they gave us empty bookshelves. I was not going to sit there for hours on end trying to levitate books onto the bookshelf, I was really bad at levitating stuff. I usually would accidently hit something else that took me a while to get into place and send it flying onto the floor. Frustrating, let me tell you.

What about themes for your home? In Fallout 3 you could choose from something like five different themes for your home decor. What if in Skyrim there was a hunter's theme, with pelts and animal trophies all over the walls? Or a more feminine theme, with more flowers in vases and floral tapestries. Or maybe a necromancer or Dark Brotherhood theme? That could be interesting. Something suitable for your character's personality.

Also, the option to turn fireplaces and or candles or lanterns off and on in your home.

Sleep, store stuff, keep spouse.

Well, one thought I had about homes is hoping for a Viking style longhouse, somewhere in the country. That would be the main living quarters, and would include a hearth-kitchen arrangement.

The would also be an area reserved for my in-home alchemy workbench.

I would also like to have a tailoring workbench (hopefully a loom type icon) for working clothing.

Dye is apparent not in the game.

Then, there could be outbuildings, like a smithy for the various smithing work tables, like a forge, etc.

Of course, a functioning garden.

I will have to check real estate options available in-game to see if there is something suitable, even if not a longhouse.

If proper parts ar available, I might build one with the Creations Kit, or see if better modders than myself have something similar in mind.

I agree with making things easier to display my "Trophies of Exploration and Conquest"!

Give better bonuses for doing things in your own home... Sleeping, cooking, smithing, etc. (making things such as beds and fire pits upgradable for even better bonuses)

Forges should be outside. You would die if it were in your basemant with no ventilation. Plus the fire hazard.

Gardens are a must! Give me a reason to come home other than to drop off my loot.

Have a few places outside of towns that can be taken over. I don't want to live in a town. I want to be out in the middle of nowhere with a great view from my front porch!

Ha... It sounds like you are trying to buy a real house.

Anyways, they said there was some gardening so I would assume some houses would have a garden area, am I correct? I need to go find a link for it tho

Did I mention... BOOKS FOR BOOKSHELVES 8)

What I think would be awesome is if the display cases were easier to use, like your stuff would lock into place and whatnot.

I hoping for a range of homes; from simple peasant shacks to lovely manors

maybe guest quarters for companions when inside the house (but I know that would be difficult to implement)

and ofcourse upgrading, always liked that

If we can have a dog companion, I'd like to see a dog bed near the hearth and a food and water dish, so the dog has a comfortable place to sleep.

Yeah! I'd like to see upgradable kitchens with sinks with running water of course. There must also be a field outside where I can grow potatoes and enjoy my evening coffee. And why not a garage to store my Honda motorbike!? Of course a sixy maid with short skirt too who runs out to get Chinese on my orders!

Now that would be a truly perfect base to use in my conquest of Medieval/Viking-inspired Skyrim.

Great idea, I remember that in Fallout. If there are themes, I wonder what they would be. Also, I like your idea on lighting candles and stuff.

how about display cases?

I want to be able to mow my grass

Great news for all lawnmowers out there! That's why it's confirmed that they're adding the Dragonmower 2000 as a ridable object!

Will there be outhouses outside my house or a chamber pot beneath my bed? I mean, where am I supposed to poop & urinate? (lore-wise; I know the .NIF files aren't real bodies that produce waste)

Perhaps a Lusty Argonian Maid? Sounds like a GREAT addition!

I hope their are cooler homes in Skyrim like castles, caves, boat homes etc.

I would like to see houses serve more of a role in my adventure then just being some building I own. I support this thread and all its ideas thus far. Heck I even like the idea of taxes, if done right. In oblivion once I got to the point that I have a butt load of cash, it seemed like I always had a butt load of cash. It would be nice to have a few more reason to spend that cash.

I agree that homes should be more personalized in this edition. Most of the homes in oblivion just seemed so sterile and..well like a glorified bed and item chest.

One idea for a bookshelf would be sort of like a COBL-inspired book sorter... But instead of sorting ingredients, you're sorting your books. And it puts the books that you had in your inventory up on the shelves, actually displaying them.

The other thing I'd like to see is quilts on the beds. I know that in a very cold place like Skyrim, you'll probably see http://cms.elderscrolls.com/sites/default/files/tes/screenshots/Khajittmale2wlegal.jpg but it would be nice if there were some sort of colorful quilt pattern (There were colorful woven rugs on the floor of a tavern in one of the official screenshots, http://cms.elderscrolls.com/sites/default/files/tes/screenshots/TavernKill01_wLegal.jpg so I think dyed bits of fabric for quilts is doable) that made the middle class, or even the lower class furniture seem not so drab. There was a quilt mod for Oblivion, but I could never get it to work for my game.