Mod House – Syls Amusements

Warmstone of Windhelm 2

March 3, 2019

Some more pictures of my people at Warmstone. You’ll notice that the main bedroom and a few other places have very few changes. They were just about perfect to begin with. I replaced the mannequins at the door with a hand-washing station and an area to take off boots/coats.

The boot and coat area. The owner puts out fur shoes for guests to wear inside.

Erdi is busy making salad dressing, I think. Custom alchemy table mod.

I haven’t changed too much of the kitchen at this point.

Marcus hangs around upstairs. I added a ton of clutter and two bedrolls upstairs; also a tiny privy down the hall in the old safe cabinet.

Here I’ve gotten the cordials set up on the server behind the table.

Oven installed, as well as some more food clutter. Erdi says to not look at her hair; she just took off her hat and it’s a disaster.

Marcus in the bath. I just added some greenery and some more dividers in here to hide the toilet from the bath.

You can see both the boot station and the handwashing station in this shot. Marcus is wearing some retextured pajama pants. Is that marabou?

Slightly different shot. New texture on the pants. Both are wallpapers from Clockwork Castle.

Open robe and underwear, same two textures. Entrance seating area changed up a bit. Smaller jar and cushioned chair.

Tiny bit more of kitchen clutter visible.

Entrance bar clutter redone but kept in the spirit of the mod, I hope.

Cyrelian’s never one to leave a place messy. Downstairs bunkhouse area.

Downstairs with somebody’s sewing project lying about.

Playing some sort of game, I don’t know what. It’s from the Witcher.

Kitchen with more of the food clutter filled in.

Marcus and Alfgar nap.

Cyrelian / Misc Characters / Mod House / Screenshots

Warmstone of Windhelm redo

February 6, 2019

Warmstone of Windhelm (Hostel Edition) by sa547 is one of my favorite house mods of all, not least because it’s pretty easy to come up with an RP reason why you get to stay there. It’s a 5g/night bed-and-breakfast; half-price for children and the infirm.

It has a big common room with a bar, sitting room, and dining area. There’s a full kitchen, some storage areas, and a restroom. Off to the side is one of the best crafting rooms that I’ve ever seen. Upstairs is the master bedroom and a door to the outdoor balcony overlooking Windhelm’s market… and up from there is a little reading nook with aedric shrines.

The basement is where the hostel is located– one semi-private room and a bunkhouse, and a lavish little bathhouse.

There are also at least three secret places in this house: a nook in the crafting room with weapons racks; a spot up in the rafters with safes and racks; and a secret back door with a few storage things and a shrine to Nocturnal.

The one criticism that I’ve ever had of this place is that, as it’s decorated with loose clutter, when I fill the home up with NPCs, they tend to knock things around until it’s a disaster zone.

So I decided to redecorate with static clutter, trying to keep with the overall theme of the original decor. I also altered two of the secret places thus far: one is an easily-hidden Talos shrine and another’s now serving as the upstairs privy.

Here’s the result:

Wait– who’s the mage with the glasses?

That’s Octavian Dawnseeker… he’s from the College. Cyr says they’ve got a project to work on over break.

Assets that I used in the redo came from Oarstys, Jokerine, and orin_linwe.

Mod House / Screenshots

Quaxe’s Winterhold Rebuild– Coldstone redo

February 2, 2019

Quaxe’s Winterhold Rebuild is something else that doesn’t leave my load order, for all that it makes it hard to bring in other Winterhold redos. I think what I like about it is best the hilariously deadpan quest-giver, who sounds like he’s wandered in from the Old West. Well, maybe it’s western High Rock.

As you complete the tasks for the mod, it adds a blacksmith and a couple of other vendor houses in Winterhold, all with the farmhouse exteriors to match the existing architecture, keeping the small-town vibe. The final reward is a player home called Coldstone Manor.

It’s an nice home, based on the farmhouse set, with a ton of loose clutter that would be particularly useful for an alchemist. But my little found-family had its own particular needs for the space, and so I set about redecorating.

Coldstone leads to a cellar which is going to be very different from what I have planned; hopefully I can make it work. We’ll see. Unfortunately my mod of Coldstone broke its quest, so it proved very difficult to actually get the building in game and I may have to split this cell off and make a new house mod from it.

Most of the assets I used in Coldstone come from orin_linwe, but there were many, many other places I culled items from.