I bought a house!

So happy that I bought a house! Cost about 4 million (small) I'm so happy I have my own garden. I didn't realize the real cost is... furnishing the house. OMG lol too many options too many things that I want added to my house. Made me curious how much have you guys dropped to furnish your houses? Did you feel it was worth it?

I crafted most of the furnishings in my FC house and at least 3 of the personal rooms therein. Only had to splurge on a couple choice items I couldn't make myself at the time, the investment into crafting really pays off for the aesthetic portions of this game. All in all though aside from the cost of the house itself, I've probably spent 3-4 mil on furniture over the last 2 years.

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Originally Posted by Lyshell

So happy that I bought a house! Cost about 4 million (small) I'm so happy I have my own garden. I didn't realize the real cost is... furnishing the house. OMG lol too many options too many things that I want added to my house. Made me curious how much have you guys dropped to furnish your houses? Did you feel it was worth it?

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As an omni crafter and gatherer.... furnishing my FC house didn't cost me much of anything. Couple thousand gil for the NPCs, but just easier to make things myself to decorate it, aside from the GC seals stuff.

Only stuff I have bought were the stable, the garden plot, the aestician bell, the summon bell for retainers, the repair npc, the junk monger npc, the armoire and the fish tank.

Everything else I have is from seasonal events, from the mog staion or things retainers brought back from ventures.

It's very hard to say how much I have spent over the last three years on furnishings (I generally furnish my FC's house and my small personal house). On the low end I would probably say I have spent 15mil.... on the high end probably around 30mil. I do craft most of the things that I have, or have a friend craft them but still stuff is expensive~

Everything in my house I crafted myself unless it a event item, so spent next to nothing to furnish my house. The house it self cost me a lot though got house before the did the price reduction so paid 37 million for a medium house which I believe now sells for only 20 million since the price reduction.

Yeah, my friend told me I should get stuff I wanted crafted. Looking into that. I should really look into crafting more other than just being able to self repair lol. My friend also gave me the link to a website to look at all the furnishing to see what it looks like and it includes the recipes. I sometimes just get lazy and say fudge it just buy it all! lol

I've paid fairly little to furnish mine - omnicrafter here. I'd recommend checking an external database like gamerescape to see if something you like is buyable, though. There's a lot that sells in the housing district NPCs that's on the MB for ridiculous amounts of gil. If you don't craft yourself, you can also buy mats on the MB and ask a friend/FC member/make a PF to craft it for you.

Personally, I have never purchased a personal house. However, I completely paid for our free company's medium house, which I believe was somewhere between 20M and 25M; I don't recall the exact amount. I also have had a total of four rooms. Therefore, 1.2M in total in that regard. My room's decoration costed a few millions in total, but the brunt of the decoration being storable means that I didn't have to pay all that much whenever I made a new room, as I never deviated from the base design very much. I have also furnished a large portion of the decoration for our free company house, but I definitely cannot put my finger on an approximate cost for it. Most likely under 10M.

Decorating is very expensive if you don't buy housing items from NPC vendors, that much is certain. I did not, with the exception of some event only items. I wish you the best of luck with your decorating plans. :)

One thing I am finding out there is a distinct lack of color options for housing items. I want to be able to paint all my stuff and house wild colors! When is that going to be an option!?!?!?

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Originally Posted by Lyshell

One thing I am finding out there is a distinct lack of color options for housing items. I want to be able to paint all my stuff and house wild colors! When is that going to be an option!?!?!?

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You can paint a lot of furnishings and the house itself.

A *lot* of the basic furnishings are now sold at a vendor in each housing ward/sub-division.

Hey man, congrats on getting our own house :)

As for your question, now the price for at least part of the furniture has been reduced because the housing merchant at house districts has items for sale that used to be accessible only through crafting - as such basic furniture like interior fixtures, rugs, desks, beds and etc has been greatly reduced... other than that he cost of the rest of the furniture depends on your accessibility to gathering materials to craft the items and wether or not you have someone you can ask to craft stuff for you

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Originally Posted by Spiroglyph

Hey man, congrats on getting our own house :)

As for your question, now the price for at least part of the furniture has been reduced because the housing merchant at house districts has items for sale that used to be accessible only through crafting - as such basic furniture like interior fixtures, rugs, desks, beds and etc has been greatly reduced... other than that he cost of the rest of the furniture depends on your accessibility to gathering materials to craft the items and wether or not you have someone you can ask to craft stuff for you

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I'm still unsure of the logic behind this move. Basic furnishings for homes was a fairly steady, if unspectacular market for crafted goods. Putting all that stuff on a vendor basically killed that aspect fo crafting, and made every one of the recipes almost redundant.

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Originally Posted by Kosmos992k

I'm still unsure of the logic behind this move. Basic furnishings for homes was a fairly steady, if unspectacular market for crafted goods. Putting all that stuff on a vendor basically killed that aspect fo crafting, and made every one of the recipes almost redundant.

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I've been wondering about this myself...

I mean, excluding furniture, a lot of craftable items can be purchased NQ from vendors (low level items at least) - be it equipment, food, etc - but in most these cases there was still use for the crafted versions, since HQ items do in some cases have certain advantages. This however doesn't apply to furniture, as HQ furnishings aren't even craftable. :P I'd have an easier time understanding this if, like, only the crafted versions of these items were dyable, or something like that?

As it is I guess they just randomly decided to render certain crafting recipes completely useles...

I went from having fishing at like 23 from back in 1.0, to having all crafting and gathering classes at level 30 or higher. When I finally managed to buy my small plot late last year, it kicked off a whole new wave of addiction to the game as I grinded those classes. I was also able to gather and craft all mats as I went, so 100% of anything I sold, vendor or otherwise, was pure gil profit. I only recently got my gil back up where it was pre-house though. X)

Basically I want to craft all my own furnishings eventually.

For my personal house, only paid for the NPCs everything else was crafted since it only needed to match my taste. Which is all rustic stuff and being a CRP really helped with that.

Now my fc house on the other hand....*sigh*
Since I wanted to make it nice for all members I've probably dropped a good 1.3m into it so far...so ashamed of myself T^T

The most expensive thing I've bought for my house was the mats to make the paissa wall. About 2.5m, would have been more if I couldn't gather and craftsmen of them with the help of my friends.

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Originally Posted by Kosmos992k

You can paint a lot of furnishings and the house itself.

A *lot* of the basic furnishings are now sold at a vendor in each housing ward/sub-division.

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How do you paint things?!?!? :O

On my initial small house furnishing, I dropped about..4-6 million, I think.
I had many of the most expensive things already from my FC room before that, and I'm friends with lovely amazing omnicrafters who make most stuff for me if I ask them to, so I saved a lot of money.
But just the basic mats for most of the cooler furniture are often 400k-7 million, and you often need several pieces per recipe, so yeah. Still expensive :rolleyes:

Since the initial furnishing...hm..another 15 million or so? Maybe more. I would have spent a lot more if I had it, but I don't, so I have to let go of my dream of owning certain furniture xD
Housing is literally the only reason I have leveled any crafters beside CUL at all (and was a major motivator to level gatherers too), just so I don't have to rely on my friends so much x)
But mats from aquapolis, airship ventures, rare raid drops and retainer 18 hour ventures are still not obtainable by myself, so I have to drop a lot of money on them at the MB :x

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Originally Posted by Lyshell

How do you paint things?!?!? :O

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Open the housing menu while on your estate and it will display several options. One of them is dyeing furniture^^
It gives you a list of all placed furniture, either greyed out (non-dyeable) or normal, in which case right-click it and select the dye (looks the same as the window for gear dyes).
If you physically stand beside the furniture you want to dye, you can see it change color according to what you click on in the dye window, so you know how it actually looks before you pay for colors :)

between 120 -140m (i don't have any crafter so...), still more to comes (i hope with stormblood we get more slots)

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Originally Posted by Atoli

Open the housing menu while on your estate and it will display several options. One of them is dyeing furniture^^
It gives you a list of all placed furniture, either greyed out (non-dyeable) or normal, in which case right-click it and select the dye (looks the same as the window for gear dyes).

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While the window looks like the one for gear dyes, the dye itself quite often does not. The pieces I've tried to dye all combined the dye with the default color, giving far more weight to the default color. So if something starts out brown, you might not be able to make it red or green or blue, just brown with a faintly reddish cast, or brown with a faintly greenish cast, or brown with a faintly bluish cast, or whatever. (I found it rather disappointing, but maybe you'll have better luck with the pieces you want to color.)

We have a 4* crafter in our FC. She makes everything for the FC and the personal.