Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

[Mirhd]

Why the heck can't we wallpaper white (blank) partitions? It still baffles me that this isn't possible. Wallpaper can be placed on other "blank" partitions, but they have the all that trimming getting in the way. >_> Please give us proper blank partitions!

[TheMightyMollusk]

For that matter, how about just blank walls and ceilings, without the pillars and other visible framework?

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

I'd love to have a plain white wall with a door... particularly a version of the small rectangular wall with a door.

[Vidu]

I would like to see models of the submarines, just like we have airship-models!

Also: Signs (both for in- and outdoors) that we can write on ourself. It doesnt has to show on the actual piece of furniture, that could just have some eorzean generic letters on it, but when interacting with them anyone with furnishing rights can write something, everyone else can read whats been written. A bit like how we can leave notes in the guestbook (something that tells me that this is actually possible). I'd be okay with being limited to a certain amount of those or only being able to put a limited amount of letters on one such sign.

[Vidu]

I'm not sure if this has been requested before but as someone whos currently struggling with the housing menu again, one feature I'd like to see would be the option to lock furniture in a place - a bit like we can lock our hotbars/skills. Right clicking the funiture in the housing menu would give you the option to "lock that furniture in place" (a little lock icon could appear next to furniture that has been locked) and until you unlock the item, it cant be moved.

[ERMITANYO]

While waiting for Upgraded Apartments, or additional Housing Districts and Wards. Why not have a Tent, the setting up action of which would be just like the firmament parasol.

- can be set-up anywhere in the open world.
- tent area automatically becomes sanctuary.
- comes with:
- a grand company style utility cot inside the tent.
- shaded space for a chocobo mount.
- bonfire for cooking.

[Adrameliya]

Trickster Online used to have something like that!
It would be an amazing addition imo

While waiting for Upgraded Apartments, or additional Housing Districts and Wards. Why not have a Tent, the setting up action of which would be just like the firmament parasol.

- can be set-up anywhere in the open world.
- tent area automatically becomes sanctuary.
- comes with:
- a grand company style utility cot inside the tent.
- shaded space for a chocobo mount.
- bonfire for cooking.

[HeyMcFly]

Suggestion: Slanted Wall Partitions, Arch Doors, Slanted Door Partitions

I'm just posting this from my other thread!
There are alot of frustrating things when it comes to trying to decorate your house in FFXIV- to get any specific look, you'll most likely have to glitch items to high heaven just to replicate floating, fancy kitchen cabinets for example which can take up a nasty amount of Housing item limits.

Want a bay window? Combine 3+ windows & there are abunch of items slots you wouldn't of had to waste if there were premade Bay Windows already in game.

Alot of ideas come to mind when I think of bettering the decorations & build mechanics we already have --
One such item is an inverted stairwell wall, or Slanted wall that can cover the gap/giant space underneath placed stairs. I'll just make a list of items that could improve QoL for house decorators.

-Inverted or Slanted Wall Partition

-Arch/ rounded Doorway (with a matching, rounded dye capable door)

-Dyeable Brick Partition

-Stairwell Partition that comes in Small, Medium or Large (it would have the grooves to fit nicely under stairs)

-Stairwell Partition with a Door (For the tiny room to shove Potter in)

-Premade Small, Medium & Large Bay Window

- Fancy Drapery, complete with tassles!

-Inverted/ Slanted Stair or guard Rails

-Marble Partitions you can apply wallpaper to

-Dyeable Brick anything (brick doesn't just come in Red SE)

-Arch/ Rounded windows that don't have indoor shutters

Also, add more item slots to housing- all house sizes.
That completes my list for now!

[Gula]

Repost from another thread:

Elevation tool.

For m+kb it could be an up and down arrow right between place and rotate, and for Gamepad I could see it as Right Trigger/Button up Left Trigger/Button Down.

[Enla]

Repost from another thread:

Elevation tool.

For m+kb it could be an up and down arrow right between place and rotate, and for Gamepad I could see it as Right Trigger/Button up Left Trigger/Button Down.

After spending four hours tonight trying to do the mental gymnastic necessary to set up my apartment via the float glitch, I definitely second this. I kinda feel like SE is taking a 'well the community figured out how to do it, so it's not our problem' sort of approach to this. Which is all well and good but half the time you practically need detailed diagrams and a lot of luck, or actual housing, to even get the glitches to play nice with each other. One wrong move and suddenly everything snaps back to the floor and you're left screaming into the void as hours of work just disappear. Having a dedicated elevation tool would help alleviate so much stress.

As for personal suggestions..

-Treat all furniture as if it's a tabletop item when it interacts with the wooden loft. Half the glitch frustrations wouldn't even be an issue if this happened

-A fridge item, since currently it can take anywhere from 2-5 items to make one via item combinations.

-More interior lighting options with more colors available for the lights. The crystal chandeliers are my favorite lights in this game purely because they cast blue and purple light instead of the default yellow, and I'd love to see more lighting options offer a variety of colors. Like green, seriously SE, where is my green light?

-The option to change ceiling colors.

-Higher pixel version of the Steppe Bed. I kinda feel bad for whomever submitted that entry for the contest because SE did them dirty with it's implementation. Not only is it tiny but it's pixelated worse than Hien's Mogstation outfit. At least up the resolution for the fur, as it's the part that stands out the most due to it's low quality.

-More aquatic items. I've been itching to make a sea scape room for awhile now but there's just not enough out there to make it a reality yet. I'd love a shell bed or for SE to finally implement that floor aquarium that won a spot in the last design contest.

-A counter top table that matches the height of the Southern Kitchen. None of them do except the bar and it's irksome.