Harry Potter Housing.........?

[BiggieSmallz]

So, in the new expansion (a little after release) we are getting updates on housing. From my understanding we can have any size house on the inside. Which means, (if i am understanding what they said) we can have a small house with a large house floor plans or a large house with a small house floor plan. Which sounds Awesome. Never know what kind of house you are going to walk into now. Housing has been out for a long time now and all the housing has the same floor plans. I know we got different skins for the outside of the house, but can we get Skins/plans for inside the house? Maybe i want to put the stairs in a different spot? Maybe a spiral staircase that connects to both floors? How about some different accents/trim for inside. Depending on the house size everyone knows what the floor plans are already, even with this new update to come. What are somethings you think could make housing better besides more slots to add more items?

[Ilisidi]

Not sure what it has to do with HP, but you do have different interior designs available.

[BiggieSmallz]

Well Harry Potter had it in multiple scenes where you enter a small house and once inside it was not small but Huge/ another world. Like owning a small house and once you are inside it is a large house. I was just using Harry Potter as a reference on how it works. I am not talking about interior designs. I am talking about layout/floor plans. Different floor plans would be nice instead of a cookie cutter floor plan. For example, all small houses once you enter the basement entrance is back right. Med House Base left, upstairs right. Large. Base back left, Upstairs middle. They are all the same. I am just saying it would be nice to have idk 2 to 3 more options of a floor plan instead of all being the same. (cookie cutter)

[MicahZerrshia]

For future reference, Tardis would have been better wording just because Dr Who's Tardis is always the prime example of this and the vast majority of ppl would immediately know exactly what you are talking about compared to some vague HP lore you see and barely notice only now and then.

[BiggieSmallz]

Never seen Doctor who before or know the doctor who lore. So, i cannot use that as a reference. I am using what i know.

[Random0]

Harry Potter vs Doctor Who aside, what OP is asking for is a reasonable ask.

Yes, we can currently redo the interior 'skin' to any of the neighborhood themes or the basic black/white themes, but all of those don't actually change the floorplan — staircases are all in the same places, doors to other chambers all in the same place, etc etc.

What OP wants is different floorplan options, not skins. Either that or the ability to select different locations/orientations/designs of elements like staircases. Or why not different conveyances, like elevators or jump/teleport pads to get between different floors? How about open atrium/mezzanine layouts for med/small interiors like large interiors have?

Okay, okay - I'll admit I really just want a spiral slide to get down to the basement....

[Carighan]

Well Harry Potter had it in multiple scenes where you enter a small house and once inside it was not small but Huge/ another world. Like owning a small house and once you are inside it is a large house. I was just using Harry Potter as a reference on how it works. I am not talking about interior designs. I am talking about layout/floor plans. Different floor plans would be nice instead of a cookie cutter floor plan. For example, all small houses once you enter the basement entrance is back right. Med House Base left, upstairs right. Large. Base back left, Upstairs middle. They are all the same. I am just saying it would be nice to have idk 2 to 3 more options of a floor plan instead of all being the same. (cookie cutter)

It's sad to me that people associate this thing with HP, nowadays.

But yeah we'll get magicked housing soon.

[Final-Fantasy]

This is insane how long this feature is taking to implement.

They are making flying cars in China.

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[TeresaFortell]

Well Harry Potter had it in multiple scenes where you enter a small house and once inside it was not small but Huge/ another world. Like owning a small house and once you are inside it is a large house. I was just using Harry Potter as a reference on how it works. I am not talking about interior designs. I am talking about layout/floor plans. Different floor plans would be nice instead of a cookie cutter floor plan. For example, all small houses once you enter the basement entrance is back right. Med House Base left, upstairs right. Large. Base back left, Upstairs middle. They are all the same. I am just saying it would be nice to have idk 2 to 3 more options of a floor plan instead of all being the same. (cookie cutter)

It would be nice if they added these features into the system. I hope they add them in 8.X. Fingers crossed.

[Clerith]

And despite all these welcome changes, we will still have "ghost town" residential areas - a result of shell FCs (often linked to real-money trading) and submarine farms.
Most of the houses in these areas share the same exterior design (the cheapest model), feature empty gardens, and are kept locked.

These submarine farms should be relocated from residential plots to grand company workshops.
Doing so would free up a significant number of plots - making them available to players who genuinely care about housing,
rather than leaving them in the hands of those who use them solely to generate gil.

That is the main reason why so many residential neighborhoods look like crap these days, and why exploring them is no longer any fun.