Decorating FC houses for in game events

Just wondering if many people do this. We try to keep the house decorations matching any in game events for a bit of fun and community.

However, I feel there is a real lack of outdoor themed items. Some of the decorations around the housing areas for Halloween and Christmas are just so fun (fairy lights, glowing pumpkins) it would be really nice to give the FC houses a bit more options for outside as well.

My FC owns a mansion and I decided right away that the little room in the middle of the stairs would be used as a "seasonal display" - I'm now keeping close attention to have it update all the time to either match ongoing events (christmas, valentines day, eastern, halloween) or the current season - while there are events during the summer, I dont feel like decorating for Moonfire and instead just give it a general summer-theme.

For things liek Christmas and Halloween I usually also spread the decoration over the whole house - to an extend. Exchanging wallpaper, adjusting the litle, creating a new playlist... since we're always at 400/400 items and I dont feel like re-doing a whole mansion every 2 months the other changes are smaller - like exchanging the usual food-item for an event-one.
The same goes for the outside - while I'd love to see more seasonal items for outdoors, I'd also had no idea where to put them.

I also struggle with my easter decoration each year! Fingers crossed that we'll get some colourful eggs this year! I need eggs and basket filled with eggs and stuff like that to put on the floor, on tables... and to hide all over the house and make my fellow FC-mates count them!

I do wish there were more outdoor holiday furnishings. But anyway, I've been helping out my FC with holiday stuff at the guild mansion recently. Aside from helping with decorating the main sections of the house itself, I also decided to convert my personal chambers there into a special event room, complete with a lounge and bar as well as a stage area up front. I hosted our first successful Halloween event with a costume contest this year, and actually today I'm hosting a guild Christmas event there. I spent a decent amount of effort making it all nice and festive, with the help of some of the other FC mates. If the event goes well tonight I'm hoping to do more holiday events in the future. I'm not sure I have bravery or the means to do a proper server-wide event though, or if our FC leader would even be receptive of doing that. I'd probably need a bigger room lol.

I use the bottom floor of my FC's house as a pub area and right now it's decorated for Starlight. I do try to theme a room according to the holiday; but sadly some holidays have more decor to work with than others.

I really wish they'd made jack-o'-lanterns craftable by CUL. They don't have any outdoor housing recipes and it would be perfect.

Instead, for some inexplicable reason, we can make consumable ones.

I decorate for the season. So after Thanksgiving, for example, I took down my ginkgo trees and leaf files to put up fir trees and snow as well as my outdoor snowman. Indoors I put up the few Christmas decorations I have as well. Come spring, I'll be storing the snow and fir trees and replace them again with the cherry trees and flower barrels. This year, I also crafted a bunch of candelabras and gargoyle statues to put up in my house for Halloween.

I do kind of wish that they'd create lawns as housing items, though. They could implement it identically to how they do indoor flooring, and let people craft lawns that are snow or have fallen leaves, or little wild flowers. Just stuff to allow a little more customization to your house.

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Originally Posted by wereotter

I do kind of wish that they'd create lawns as housing items, though. They could implement it identically to how they do indoor flooring, and let people craft lawns that are snow or have fallen leaves, or little wild flowers. Just stuff to allow a little more customization to your house.

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Yes please! And also paving options like a garden path leading to a tiled area. Building a path out of the current two-or-three stepping stones per item takes up a lot of the number of items you can have in the garden, and it would be fantastic to be able to have an all-in-one option.

I wish there was a way to make your entire outside yard just all snow.

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Originally Posted by Krojack

I wish there was a way to make your entire outside yard just all snow.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

I really wish they'd made jack-o'-lanterns craftable by CUL. They don't have any outdoor housing recipes and it would be perfect.

Instead, for some inexplicable reason, we can make consumable ones.

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I wish we could craft various seasonal related house items (indoor and out) so we aren't exclusively relying on events for decorations.

I keep our FC's house main floor season themed all the time. It specifically has a rather simple design with only dyeable furniture for ease of changing it. Even if a specific event has little furniture just dyeing everything and changing wallpaper can do the trick. For All Saints Wake, I remodel the whole main floor completely and try to make it different every year. Also some decor on other floors (we have decoration items that can be easily switched for the event once). For Starlight, the setting is basically the same every year but decorations are on all floors.
And of course outside changes with the seasons and events.

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Originally Posted by Rockette

However, I feel there is a real lack of outdoor themed items.

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Christmas, at least, has plenty of outdoor furnishings (especially if you include the technically-not-Starlight-themed Oriental Snowcave). Halloween really suffers though. Where are my tombstones? Where are the outdoor jack-o-lanterns?

Unfortunately, I think I know the reason SE stopped adding outdoor furnishings as event rewards. While everyone can at least get apartments that they can decorate with indoor furnishings, actual housing plots with yards are still not available for all. Every time they have an event with outdoor furnishing rewards, people who don't have houses get mad at the "wasted" event prizes.

I do have a protip for seasonal yard decorators though: Use your Expansion of Duties Permits to put retainers with festive outfits in your yard. For Halloween, my FC had a witch brewing a potion at her cauldron, and ghosts hiding behind corners to spook people. For Christmas, we have Santa watching over the presents under the tree, and his faithful reindeer in the stables.

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Originally Posted by Beckett

Christmas, at least, has plenty of outdoor furnishings (especially if you include the technically-not-Starlight-themed Oriental Snowcave). Halloween really suffers though. Where are my tombstones? Where are the outdoor jack-o-lanterns?

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A few years back they made jack-o-lantern lamp posts that light up at night, but I think that's been it, and now your best option to getting them is through Mogstation since they're going to be insanely priced on the marketboard if they're for sale on your server at all.

Realistically I think they indoor/outdoor restriction really could be lifted for some items and let them be placed in either area. The new holiday trees this event, for example, have little reason not to be able to be placed outdoors considering there already exists a model for an outdoor tree. Similarly for Halloween, the tower of jack-o-lanterns was made indoor only, but could be made able to be placed outdoors as well.

I understand wanting to put more indoor decorations since more players can use them in apartments or FC private rooms, but it can't hurt to make at least some of the decorative items able to be placed both in a room and in a yard.

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Originally Posted by wereotter

A few years back they made jack-o-lantern lamp posts that light up at night

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Those are nice, but they're so tiny! You can't decorate a whole yard with just those.

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Originally Posted by wereotter

Realistically I think they indoor/outdoor restriction really could be lifted for some items and let them be placed in either area.

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This is what I really want. When I mentioned Jack-o-Lanterns, I was thinking of the Pumpkin Towers, which already do exist as an outdoor furnishing, just one that players don't have access to.

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Originally Posted by Rockette

Just wondering if many people do this. We try to keep the house decorations matching any in game events for a bit of fun and community.

However, I feel there is a real lack of outdoor themed items. Some of the decorations around the housing areas for Halloween and Christmas are just so fun (fairy lights, glowing pumpkins) it would be really nice to give the FC houses a bit more options for outside as well.

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I wish I was one of these players. Sadly I just can't get into it. In a bit of contrast though, the outside is usually where I do some seasonal decorating. I think the reason for this is because of the very limited amount of furnishings that can be placed opposed to the inside of a residence. The inside of my home is more like an elaborate painting, and making changes is akin to using a fantasia on my character. I know I can 'add' seasonal decorations, and just take them down later but again, I just can't get into it. The outside of my home though is very utilitarian and not as much thought has gone into the décor. I'm constantly renovating the outside as it is.

I suppose there could be more seasonal items available, and I wish there was for the players who do get into the holidays. However, some items can still be used for these themes even though they are not specifically designed for that purpose. As an example, autumn trees and leaf piles combined with the death's fingers gives a very eerie/fall/Halloween feel to the outside of a residence. Play around with your imagination and see what cool things you can come up with!

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Originally Posted by wereotter

Realistically I think they indoor/outdoor restriction really could be lifted for some items and let them be placed in either area.

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I don't think they can 'lift restrictions' as such - items seem to be in very rigid categories. It is either an indoor item or an outdoor item but cannot be programmed to be both simultaneously.

Though of course they could make another item that has the same model, but is classified as an outdoor item.

Definitely. More than a dozen seasonal items and others for decorations, and a Starlight feast. Also repurchased the wallpaper at crazy expense because it was lost back when wallpaper could not be removed. Outside, we have a cold knight’s cookfire which is really easy to customize for any holiday. Right now it is topped with a Starlight sentinel. Works well with the flame of passion and egg trees also.

Also for Starlight celebration we have a snowman and twinkleboxes outside, holiday/winter dressed retainers, and a snow cave replacing the chocobo stable. And as many snow drifts as we own - I wish those were still available or there were larger and more varied yard terrain variations. Being able to throw snowballs from your lawn is great fun.

Regarding using your imagination I agree completely. Terrified my FC with a giant stuffed Gagana for thanksgiving.