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My note concerning the servant avaliability for the house in Skingrad

I thought it a nice thing to add the fact that you could have a servant for that house. Considering it's the only house without using the official plugins that can have a servant I figured it important enough to include all of one sentence on this page stating that fact. Even the Chorrol house has a note on it stating that the servant's quarters there doesn't mean you can actually have a servant, so why not state you can have a servant for the Skingrad one? 98.66.203.236 16:11, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

I patrolled your reinstatement. I agree I suppose. It seems like it is quite notable. --DKong27 ^{Talk Cont} 19:45, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Stealing home furnishing

Is it possible to steal furnishings for homes? I have heard rumors about stealing furnishings for the Imperial City home but haven't figured out whether or not it's possible. — Unsigned comment by Obliviongamer (talk • contribs) on 26 June 2011

For some houses, yes. See each individual article for details. For instance, Shack for Sale for the Imperial City. rpeh •T•C•E• 17:59, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Decorating My Skingrad House.

I play on the PS3 and I am finding it really hard to move the objects into the positions i want them to be in, and also I look on youtube and theres a few videos with people hanging things off the wall on what looks like nails that arn't there in my home, ive tried firing arrows into the wall and using them but it doesnt work, any ideas? — Unsigned comment by 90.205.65.67 (talk) at 23:30 on 13 July 2011 (GMT)

I looked at a couple of YouTube videos just now and from what I've seen, it just looks like people very cleverly placing items on top of desks and cupboards so that the items appear to be mounted on walls. If you have the patience, it's a very convincing effect, but I am pretty sure that without mods it's impossible to hang things on walls Kitkat1749 22:57, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank You

I have been trying for ages now but quite clearly the patience to try and do it. — Unsigned comment by 90.205.65.244 (talk) on 14 July 2011

I've read a post by someone who said they hung shields from paintbrushes using the paintbrush bug, but can't confirm as I've never tried. --84.63.208.62 13:36, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

The paint brush glitch will work but it is extreamly hard to get the brush close enough to the wall that the shild dont fall or slide of do to an angled brush. Would take less time finding a job to by a plug in than useing the brushes Froggy™ 16:15, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Quest Page

Currently, all (bar Anvil) house purchasing quests redirect to the house page. I think that a quest page listing the different journal entries for each quest would be beneficial, with the redirects linking to their respective sections. --Legoless 11:44, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Summitmist Manor

I think summitmist manor should be considered a free house since you can sleep in the beds and nevilles chest doesnt respawn. and i noticed there isnt a page for it Critias 21:48, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

It says that all chests must be safe, but other than that I agree with you. However, I think that the free houses section is mostly for houses owned by the player, otherwise there would be a lot of houses that could be described as free houses. I think it could be added though.RIM 23:03, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Missing house pages

Any chance someone will make the pages for Cheydinhal and Leyawin? --Darkness has risen... 00:33, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Well, GK was working on the rest of the houses, but she's been gone for a while. I might just take a stab at them :). eshe^talk 18:27, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Ask and ye shall receive! They still need images, but the last two houses now have articles :). eshe^talk 00:14, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Incorrect Cheydinhal House furnishing listings

I believe the furnishing prices are incorrect. When I went to Borba gra-Uzgash to buy the Cheydinhal House furnishings, each one was 2721 gold, not 1500. If you haggle her completely, bringing the bar all the way to 141% for buying, and 79% for selling ( I've never gotten into mercantile before, so I don't know if more skill means better haggling possibilities), you can buy a furnishing for 2121 gold. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, or if the information, which states each furnishing as 1500, is incorrect. 68.53.74.245 15:53, 20 April 2014 (GMT)Trenton -Edit: Oh, I see. Base cost. Sorry, I got it.

Improving readability

Hi, i visited this article quite a lot lately for a mod i'm making.

To get to the point: These big tables that contain the core info about each house are quite bad when it comes to readability, especially on modern widescreen displays (not even ultrawide, just a regular 1920x1200 display like i am using right now). Elements are often extremely spaced out, which makes it hard to keep track to which row or column they belong to.

Another confusing problem i see here is that they are not even proper tables, because they contain completely different types of information with varying colum and line width.

On top of that, the "upgrades" sections have a unnatural reading direction that is not "left to right, top to bottom" but rather "Top to bottom, left to right", which makes them extremely jarring to look at in my opinion.

I suggest a major overhaul of these sections that divide the information into smaller, easier to digest chunks that are sorted by priority and thus much faster to skim over when looking for a specific bit of information. In this example i put the core info in a small table at the top with the picture on the left. Below that is the trivia text, and then at the end the upgrades, since i consider them the least important bit of information.

EXAMPLE:

Bravil

The house for sale in Bravil	Bravil House for Sale
	House Purchased From	Count Regulus Terentius (disposition 50+)
	Price to Purchase Home	4,000
	Total Base Cost of All Upgrades	3,900
	Upgrades Purchased From	Nilawen

House Info:

The house in Bravil is in the south part of town, over the bridge and then to the left, on the south side of the canal below Luciana Galena's house. It's the bottom floor of a two-story house and is very small; not much better than the Imperial City shack, but it does have twice as much floor space. The Count himself describes it as "a squalid little shack". The house is good choice if in the Thieves Guild, as the fence Luciana Galena lives above. See the Bravil House for Sale article for additional information.

• There is a minor glitch that prevents the player from completely owning the house: there will always be a red (trespassing) icon when you open the front door. However, you will never be arrested for entering the house and you fully own the interior of the house.
  • The Unofficial Oblivion Patch, version 1.0.0, fixes this bug.
  • This can be corrected by using the console, clicking at the door and then typing SetOwnership.

Available Upgrades:

Upgrade	Base Cost	Receipt ID	Items
House Dining Area	650	00090EB3	2 Chairs,1 Rug, Assorted Pottery
House Kitchen Area	650	00090EB2	1 Food Cupboard,1 Small Table, 1 Chair, Assorted Pottery
House Racks Assortment	650	00090EB5	2 Wine Racks, 2 Wall Mount Weapon Racks, 1 Free-Standing Weapon Rack
House Reading Area	650	00090629	2 Bookshelves,1 Rug, 1 Chair, 1 Candelabra
House Storage Area	650	00090EB4	2 Dressers, 1 Chair, 1 Chest †, 1 Rug, 1 Candelabra
House Wall Hangings	650	00090EB6	4 Assorted Paintings, 1 Tapestry

† The note for the storage area states that you only receive one chest when you purchase this upgrade. However, there are actually two chests that come with this upgrade.

--Thane5 (talk) 17:15, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

I decided to go ahead with it after discussing this topic on Discord. The details about the upgrades can now be found exclusively on the individual house pages, making this a more focused overview article.

--Thane5 (talk) 20:37, 15 August 2024 (UTC)