Housing is a blast. I still wish we could trade houses (so I could be in the same ward as my father or RL friends), but it's still just an awesome experience. Actually, if I'm being honest I actually find DECORATING to be a pretty overwhelming process (if anyone ever wants to just play around with designing a large, I'm on Diabolos; I haven't even STARTED decorating my new Large).
But I feel like the EXTERIOR of houses could use a little more variety. The more recent House or "Wall" designs have been MUCH more interesting! So I thought I'd contribute a few more ideas for potential exteriors.
In no particular order...
- Something decidedly "Gold Saucer" themed. The future bane of HOA's across the globe, load that sucker up with as many lights and as much neon as possible! Maybe even built-in spotlights?
- Some sort of "Wizard's Tower". A much smaller footprint, giving more outdoor space to work with, maybe the flavor text referencing "it truly looks bigger on it inside. Trust me."
- A "Cathedral" or more traditional looking "Castle". Maybe even have stairways or small ramparts, letting the player get on top of the house without glitching, for building more of a small "fortress"?
- A "bunker" sort of building, where you instead walk INTO the ground down a short stairway. Even better, this offers even FURTHER option for really going ham on decorating the exterior of your house.
- Alternatively, a special "Transportation crystal". Let players move it wherever, and clicking this special crystal allows you to "teleport" into the house. Again, customization options abound, this could actually lead to some really fun little "hide-and-seek" layouts for the exterior, where guests first must FIND the crystal.
- A "multi-tier house", kind of thinking something similar to the tents in Costa del Sol, where maybe there's a main "building", but walkways that circle around to other little tents, or even more sturdy-looking stone "lookouts"?
- I feel like a red-brick, "old train-station/coffee house" sort of building could be a LOT of fun! Even better, if maybe on the side, there's a small stairway to the roof, where there's either some basic decorations built in (tables and chairs, maybe a little "bar" thing), OR even being able to decorate the rooftop ourselves!
- A "fairy tale cottage" type of look. Vines all over, maybe glowing mushrooms -- in fact, maybe the building ITSELF looks like a big ol' mushroom! I've seen a number of "witch's manor" building INTERIORS, so having an exterior that matches would be really nice!
- Oh, and houses for thw two major holidays; Starlight Celebration (Christmas) and All Saints' Wake (Halloween)! Halloween is probably my favorite holiday anyways, so maybe a dark "haunted house" vibe, but with really BRIGHT colors to keep it looking more "fun"! So the house itself is maybe dark purple, with dark-green vibes all over, and bright orange jack-o-lanterns around the windows, maybe even brightly-colored webs around the place as well? And for a Christmas theme, just kind of a "Santa's workshop" theme might be kinda nice, with loads of snow mounded on top.
That's all I can really think of for now!
I honestly really enjoy seeing what all people are able to do with their houses, and I feel like these would lend themselves to really allowing even MORE creativity for peoples' houses!