You DID decorate your house, right?

[Batbrat]

Well? You made a big fuss about needing one. Are you using it? Did you decorate it? If you didnt, may I ask why? It's been a while now since a lot of people won, but some in my ward still clearly havent touched theirs...bit sad to walk out and see new houses rotting already..

[Divinemights]

Well? You made a big fuss about needing one. Are you using it? Did you decorate it? If you didnt, may I ask why? It's been a while now since a lot of people won, but some in my ward still clearly havent touched theirs...bit sad to walk out and see new houses rotting already..

Did you just realized that there is no housing crisis in FF14 to begin with?
It is all about the vanity.

[Reinha]

Outside - yes, inside - no.

Why? Because with the lottery in place I can't choose when I'm able to buy a medium or a large house. I let go a personal medium in the past thinking I'll just buy another one immediately when Empyreum is released, but then the lottery got implemented and I couldn't. That's why I won't let a medium/large house demolish again even if I'm not currently using it. I'll just keep my property until I have the time and gil to decorate.

[dspguy]

Did you just realized that there is no housing crisis in FF14 to begin with?
It is all about the vanity.

In some cases, that is spot on. While I do still hear people lamenting that they don't have a house, I don't know where they were when in Week 2 of the new wards, houses were at 0 bids as bidding came to close. Week 2! For most of the playerbase (on my server) if you really wanted a house, you should already have it. And if you don't, greed probably got you. Work within the system. Recognize that Larges and Mediums will have a lot of bids. If you have no house and want to bid with impunity (knowing you still have something) then bid on a small first. I digress.

Many just want to say they have a house, even if they don't decorate it. However some lack the skills. If my wife didn't decorate my house, it would just be a dumping ground for the every-other-month seasonal event with a housing item, plus a mailbox and a summoning bell. However, I'd use my house extensively. MB is right outside, with convenient access to a mailbox and a summoning bell. And most importantly, not 50% of the server standing around at the aetheryte.

[LaylaTsarra]

I do my gardens and hang out in them all the time. Many of mine are deco'd inside but I have some that are not just the basics. I'm planning on spending time with them after 6.5 when the lull begins in the walk up to xpac next year.

Currently I'm just really busy with all my me's.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Personally I havent redone mine since I moved plot 2 years ago. I'm still debating if I want to redo it the same way I had before or play around with some new ideas. But atm i'm just a bit too busy in rl to concentrate on it.

[Carin-Eri]

As has already been said, it does feel as some people just want to be able to say that they have a house.

I spend a lot of time at my little house and have explored the Ward numerous times too as enjoy seeing what others have done with their houses.
And there are a few (though actually not many) where the absolute minimum has been done with them. A few random garden items outside or a few token furniture items inside (assuming they didn't lock the house itself) but otherwise appearing as if the owner lost interest very shortly after they won the plot.

[Jojoya]

For some, they don't realize how much all the additional costs beyond the plot purchase price add up. Bought a small? Need to have another 450k for the Estate Hall Permit. Oops, there goes most of what they had set aside to decorate, now they need to raise more gil to pay for decorations.

Not everyone has an intention of decorating though. FC houses might be purchased just for workshop access. Personal houses might be purchased just for garden access. SE does not tell us how we must use our houses once we have them.

[Avoidy]

I did! I got an FC house using the gross shell FC method and I've decorated the interior and also used my alts to create several decorated FC rooms as well. My neighboring homes are either decorated really nicely or locked, but I couldn't care less.
It's so gross that this is the method I had to resort to, but whatever. Decorating is fun and for the first time ever I can actually do it in this stupid game.

[Jkap_Goat]

if I wanted to play house and dress up game, I would go on Second Life