You DID decorate your house, right?

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Originally Posted by MrJadeOfStars

Funny you should ask, I've been putting whatever I buy or get from events in my house interior/exterior setting it up so it looks somewhat nice but still very basic. Wondering how these "housing mains" were making such beautiful houses, their has to be 100's of housing items at this point and how would you know and plan how many of a item your going to need or how the end result is going to be, at least in a much easier way. And would you happen to know it, Xenosys Vex put out a "Housing Drama" video just today showing a very useful tool. Your secrets are out "Housing Designers", now I can design and plan out my own house interior without having to spend my hard earned gil.

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You never needed to pay another designer or use a third party tool so that's silly to say. The third party just makes it easier to experiment before doing the work in game.

The placement was never the part you hired a designer for. Floating's annoying, but anyone can figure it out with practice. Knowing every little trick you can do with every random nonsense housing item, that's what you pay a good designer for.

It's like the adage about lawyers (and several other professions): you're not paying them for the pieces of paper, you're paying them for the experience and knowledge that makes sure that those pieces of paper do what you want them to do. When you pay a designer, you're not paying for them to click the buttons; you're paying for the knowledge and the experience that ensures that when they click buttons, the result looks good.

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Originally Posted by Reinha

The lottery system was requested by players on the basis that people who barely play and are barely interested in housing plots should have an equal chance at getting one. And now they do. The end result was obviously going to be more houses owned by people who aren't online much and don't care about their house.

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Cannot stress this enough to be honest. The lotto added tons of folks to competition who are simply there in the event that they might someday care about housing.

For what its worth I deco my homes; housing deco even if your going through a steward is a expensive and time consuming proposition. There are many that I do not think ever go to their houses - they just wanted to have it. The housing generally is there for anyone intending to use it in a capacity beyond mere possession and I feel bad for those people that have to wait lotto after lotto to just move in. Many will have to choose a plot and hope its one that no one else intends to bid on - but thats beyond your control.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

You never needed to pay another designer or use a third party tool so that's silly to say. The third party just makes it easier to experiment before doing the work in game.

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Aye; people think Google Sketch-up or Autocad are new inventions. I know there are more specific applications (to my knowledge do not break TOS) to plan out your housing build; but before those I was using Ms Paint, then Sketch-up to plan out my work before dumping money into a build.

I just have an old-fashioned sketchbook with grid paper in it. lol The top floor of a small is 3 squares by 3 squares, for example… if you look at the ceiling, you can figure out how many squares a floor is. And you can estimate furniture placement for most items with housing preview. Floating wasn’t the easiest thing for me to learn, and I still find some things finicky, but once you get it, you can do a lot of amazing things. :)

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Originally Posted by Khryseis_Astra

I just have an old-fashioned sketchbook with grid paper in it. lol The top floor of a small is 3 squares by 3 squares, for example… if you look at the ceiling, you can figure out how many squares a floor is. And you can estimate furniture placement for most items with housing preview. Floating wasn’t the easiest thing for me to learn, and I still find some things finicky, but once you get it, you can do a lot of amazing things. :)

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I used to use Oriental bathtubs as a unit of measurement for area!

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Originally Posted by Khryseis_Astra

I just have an old-fashioned sketchbook with grid paper in it. lol The top floor of a small is 3 squares by 3 squares, for example… if you look at the ceiling, you can figure out how many squares a floor is. And you can estimate furniture placement for most items with housing preview. Floating wasn’t the easiest thing for me to learn, and I still find some things finicky, but once you get it, you can do a lot of amazing things. :)

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I used the marble floors to measure distances between things.

Slowly working on it. I had an idea in my head of what I wanted and now I kind of want to go a different direction. It's going slowly because I don't want to spend more than I have to and I need to gather/craft a lot of things...

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Originally Posted by Amenara

Slowly working on it. I had an idea in my head of what I wanted and now I kind of want to go a different direction. It's going slowly because I don't want to spend more than I have to and I need to gather/craft a lot of things...

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Same. I also prefer more lore friendly houses that use the available space to designs that try to replicate RL modern houses. I once visited a so-called “designer” house because I liked the bathroom pic. When I got there, I found a mansion with nothing else than a tiny bathroom on which they had spent all the available slots lol.

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Originally Posted by Toutatis

Same. I also prefer more lore friendly houses that use the available space to designs that try to replicate RL modern houses. I once visited a so-called “designer” house because I liked the bathroom pic. When I got there, I found a mansion with nothing else than a tiny bathroom on which they had spent all the available slots lol.

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lol the struggle is real with slot limits!