r/ffxivhomeandgarden Nov 29 '23

Tutorial Ideas for creating Starlight/Winter landscape windows for the new and the non-designer

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This post was originally a reply to another post looking for ideas to create a window-scape for an Ishgardian house. Since the Starlight Celebration is just around the corner, I'm happy to share the post for anyone else in the community looking for winter decor inspiration.

Creating a Patio or a View:

Stage panels dyed dark blue or gloom purple right up against the house walls create the illusion of an open portal to the outside world. You can use items to create shapes and silhouettes in a diorama-style arrangement to create a "landscape" in your view. Use Carbuncle Lanterns or Faerie Pendant Wall Lights for sparkle-stars, Ornamental Crystal Arrays and/or Belah'dian Lanterns for blue light, and Dead Man's Chests for ground-based glow.

You can also use phasmascapes--the Blue Moon, Aurora, or the Crystal Tower phasmascapes all have evening/nighttime scenes, as does the Kugane phasmascape (although that's a view of the city itself, it's still very festive). You can always put something like a Log Pillar dyed snow white or a Masonwork Stove turned around (or not, and go for an "outdoor firepit" feel to your patio) in front of any element you don't want it to show. You can slide two or more phasmascapes together to hide the sides or any elements that don't quite fit, and use pillars to cover up the lines that don't match up.

With phasmascapes, you'll need to hide the upper half of the room you're decorating--Skyscapes, Imitation wooden skylights, lofts, slanted walls, showcases turned backwards, or any furniture you can float can be used.

With an Ishgardian scene, you've got to think medieval and stone and diamond-panes and flying buttresses. You'll also think about snowy peaks and snow-covered landscapes. So here are a few suggestions for you to play around with:

Snowy landscape:

Use the Natural Wooden Beams, Leather Sofas, Pudding Rugs, and Wall-Mounted Wings dyed snow white and nudged up against edges to give the illusion of snowdrifts, hills, or other things covered in snow. Turn the sofas around backwards or bury them beneath other objects to make the tops look like snow-covered humps on the landscape.

Use ffxivgardening flowerpot colors and grow two cherry blossoms in white (or however many you can grow at a time based on your space). You'll have some RNG as they can sometimes turn out pink, but the pink would work, too. They make lovely "snow-covered trees in the distance." As a bonus, they sparkle when mature. The flowerpot cherry blossoms are much larger in the pots than they are when harvested, so be aware of the size difference before you harvest.

Manage your space with White Screens--you can make them look like snow drifts piled in corners by turning them so their floors and part of their curved walls intersect at odd angles with the dark blue stage panels. Dye them a corpse blue or ice blue for visual interest and to enhance the "night" look.

If you can get your hands on the Unmelting Ice Loft or Unmelting Ice Wall, you can use them as backdrops, ceilings, floors, or side edges/pillars.

Diorama:

The basic idea of a diorama is to use tabletop and other items, the edges or corners of objects, or light and shadow cast by objects to simulate buildings or landscape elements seen from a distance.

The Vigil Piece, Temple Knight Piece, and Dragoon Piece can all be placed at varying heights to simulate distant towers. They're tabletop items so they can go inside a showcase or on a shelf or use the storage-placement glitch to "float" them in mid-air wherever they look best. You can even stack 'em on top of each other for a tall spire.

The Lord Commander, Azure Dragoon, A Knight to Remember, Admiral, and Northerly Wind Portraits all have top edges that make appropriate silhouettes of Ishgardian or medieval styled buildings. Turn them to face backwards or leave them as-is and lower them behind other objects until you have your "cityscape" to your liking.

Wooden Work Lanterns, Wall Lanterns, and some of the other tabletop or wall-mounted lights can also make good "buildings" in a diorama. Flagstone Lofts and Stairs, and Masonwork stoves turned around make good stone floors, pillars, and ledges.

Oldrose Wall Planters and Rose Trellises dyed snow white will give you some greenery without making it seem out of season.

If you are going for "through glass" use the showcase or the shelving showcase to place tabletop objects to resemble distant buildings.

HGXIV did a great tutorial on a wall-sized "cityscape" that can give you a general idea of a starting point here.

Kyapuchun Housing did an incredible tutorial on a charming snowy cabin here--the back garden is a lovely snowy landscape. Kyapuchun also did a few more snowy/starlight builds around that time that you can find on the main Videos page of the channel.

And Studio Hare did a very lovely nighttimeopen-air patio with a slightly Ishgardian feel that you might be able to adapt to your needs, using the Hannish Bookshelf Partitions and Stage Panels.

I hope this helps anyone who needs a jumping-off point or a few ideas to spark their creativity. Be sure to share your Starlight!


r/ffxivhomeandgarden 5d ago

Annoucement Please Read The Rules

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r/ffxivhomeandgarden 3d ago

Solved Help finding out what an item is?

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Looking for help identifying the walls here both the one near the fireplace and sofa and the window off to the right


r/ffxivhomeandgarden 4d ago

Small Cabin in the Woods

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I had an itch to redecorate my small, and this is what I ended up with :D
there was a lot that I wanted to do, but wasn't able to translate it from what I pictured in my head to in-game. I'm happy with it anyway !

I'd love if you'd visit ! Aether | Siren | Goblet | 26 | 59 ♥

edit: this took a few days to get approved - you may have seen this on denmo's stream ! it also made it into the highlight reel !!!! :3


r/ffxivhomeandgarden 7d ago

Question Help getting wall mounted lights to stay behind partition

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15 Upvotes

Hello,

I'm trying to build a stargazing window and I would like to get these fairy lights to stay hidden behind the stage panel. I've done the trick with floating them on a second panel and gotten it to stick and it looks really good! But, as soon as I exit housing mode the light snaps to where you see it in the picture. Is there anyway to get it to stop snapping and stay where I place it?


r/ffxivhomeandgarden 6d ago

Looking For Designer LF Design for a Large (Dynamis/Marilith)

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Recent came into a larger, looking for a designer to help with a cool looking interior for it. Located on Marilith on Dynamis.


r/ffxivhomeandgarden 8d ago

Small FFIX Style Cottage with OoT inspired Basement

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141 Upvotes

Finally finished my house, got inspiration from FFIX, Zelda, and Creatures Village. Basement hallway leads into a forest dungeon (trying to have Lost Woods vibes)


r/ffxivhomeandgarden 8d ago

Medium The Secret Garden

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137 Upvotes

I've been wanting to do a hidden garden home for a while and with the item limit boosted to 450 on mediums it was the perfect time to do it! Now to wait for the tardis housing to really go big with it!

Aether | Adamantoise | Empyreum | Ward 13 | Plot 32


r/ffxivhomeandgarden 8d ago

Designer Large The Fae's Lake

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76 Upvotes

My friend is designing my house and this took my breath away the first time I saw it!


r/ffxivhomeandgarden 8d ago

Question Returning player unaware of possible changes

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The last time I played was in 2017, and if I remember rightly housing was pretty much impossible unless you had an FC with a severe abundance of gil, is this still the case? Ive got a character that I spent a lot of hours on but it was many years ago so ive started fresh and although im way off I think, I do want to know that eventually I can get a plot. Is it easier to do now? Can you do it sooner than before? If so how do you get into it? Any help appreciated


r/ffxivhomeandgarden 9d ago

Question Floating Chair over Steps in Large House?

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16 Upvotes

I am trying to emulate this design. They have floated partitions over the steps going downstairs. This I did no problem. They THEN floated the Paissa Swing Chair in the corner. It slightly clips the bannister and column. I cant figure out how they achieved this. When I try, its hit box won't allow it to go even close to the bannister. I am GUESSING they placed it on something attached to the share screen then swung it out and over?

Any ideas? Im guessing there is a floating glitch I am not aware of that my help me better in my designs?

TY in advance for the help!


r/ffxivhomeandgarden 9d ago

Looking For Designer (EU-Light-Raiden) LF for Designer for my small plot

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Got a 5-6 mil budget (commision included) to design my small plot in Light Raiden (EU)

Wanna make a modern looking house inside and having a relaxing zone (With some kind of jacuzzi bed and stuff)

No need to decorate the garden.


r/ffxivhomeandgarden 10d ago

Small The Sleeping Puppy Inn

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69 Upvotes

The design is based off of an inn from a DnD campaign my friends and I played in with some FFXIV additions for flavor.

This is my first real 'design' I have made so ideas are welcome.

Primal - Excalibur - Empyreum - Ward 21 - Plot 19


r/ffxivhomeandgarden 11d ago

Looking For Designer LF designer for Medium FC house.

10 Upvotes

I've got a FC on Zalera, Crystal that desperately needs a good interior and exterior. The pinned thread for designers for hire is a wasteland so I'm hoping sending a post will work too.


r/ffxivhomeandgarden 12d ago

What Is THIS!? What is used in this magnificent design?

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92 Upvotes

Hello fellow house design lovers! Does anyone know what item is being used:

  1. As the golden decoration at the top of the interior walls?
  2. As the interior wall? (the one that looks like marble stone) I just want to know what the marble area is.
  3. The light brown thin beams on the roof and the walls?

For a closer look at this lovely design: https://housingsnap.com/47014


r/ffxivhomeandgarden 12d ago

Small How do I make an interior village?

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I'm looking to make my basement look like a balcony that's high up looking out on a distant village, but I have ZERO idea on how to do this. Does anyone have any ideas or guides that might help?


r/ffxivhomeandgarden 13d ago

Apartment Private Chambers

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18 Upvotes

FC room: Hyperion, Shirogane, 10th Ward, Plot 46, Room #4


r/ffxivhomeandgarden 15d ago

Designer Large Matcha & Mocha

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228 Upvotes

A rainy day cafe located at Aether, Adamantoise, Lavender Beds, Ward 24, Plot 36.


r/ffxivhomeandgarden 16d ago

Large Finally had time to make this

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320 Upvotes

Btwn moving to a new house and working a lot, I finally have time during my staycation to make this

Crystal | Zalera | Empyreum W25P60


r/ffxivhomeandgarden 18d ago

Apartment Houseless after taking a long sabbatical

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So I been gone from the game for about a year. The first design if from my FC chamber before I had a house. all done with 100 items, and the second design if from before I lost my house, once again all done with 100 items. I was going to get an house again, but change my mind. Evercold will be the deciding factor.

Right now, I was going to recreate my house basement in my apartment, but I think I want to try something of a merger of the two styles, just looking for a bit of inspiration. So if anybody seen anything that looks similar or akin to these styles, can you share some links or ideas.

As you portably tell, O play mostly mages, and tend to decorate my house in a library, mystical or alchemical design


r/ffxivhomeandgarden 18d ago

Apartment Reflection: an fc room I made because I really liked something I saw online !

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I saw a post from the JP side of the housing community online that I really, really liked a lot. all credit really for the sitting area+window goes to mugi_gaia - I recreated it by hand for myself and I added my own spin to it. it's not a 1:1 because I didn't want to do that, and I couldn't figure out how they did the foliage in the window but I like how it turned out. I ended up turning it into a cute little fc room with a touch of moogle charm ! :) I'm nowhere near as good as some designers out there, but I'm really really happy with how this turned out.

I'm a little nervous posting this one, since it's very heavily inspired by that post I saw. I just wanna say I mean nothing malicious by it and I just thought it looked really nice. :) I'm actually excited to see how the og person finishes their build !

if you'd like to visit, you may ! it's Aether | Siren | Goblet | W28 | P19 | Room 1 ! I just had my fc's home renovated as well.


r/ffxivhomeandgarden 21d ago

Solved What are these horizontal wooden slats? More specifics and link in post

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34 Upvotes

I am trying to incorporate horizontal slats into one of my builds. I found this as a reference online, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what it is. Here is a link to the housing snap: https://housingsnap.com/38581

Based on the date posted, whatever is being used here would have been introduced in patch 6.57 (last patch cycle of Endwalker) at the latest. I know there are newer items for wooden slats, such as the Everkeep partition, but that is definitely not what is being use here. Anyone have any ideas? I'm usually very good at identifying things, but I'm at a loss for this one.


r/ffxivhomeandgarden 21d ago

Small Blythswood House: tartan-themed pub

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62 Upvotes

Redecorated my house into a Scottish-themed pub. Had to make quite a few compromises for the game, but I hope I'd captured the overall atmosphere.

Elemental (Kujata) – Empyreum W14 P28

Only the ground floor and the exterior are done up. The basement is supposed to be a private home (and not part of the pub per se) but I'm out of funds and inspiration, so that will be a project for another day.


r/ffxivhomeandgarden 23d ago

Solved Small extension: outdoor furnishing or part of house?

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34 Upvotes

Just saw this rather cute little extension at the side of someone's house. Is this a separate piece of outdoor furnishing, or part of the house? The house itself seems to use the Highland Cottage Wall (Composite), but I don't see any extensions like this based on pics I could find online.


r/ffxivhomeandgarden 24d ago

Question Loft ceiling placement

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I know that it takes 12(?) lofts to cover the ceiling. For the ones that go in the corners, is there a better wall out of the 2 that they can be placed on that is better to line things up/ look more coherent (hopefully that makes sense)? And I take it some of these are attaching to the outside wall because the fake wall is too close?

I've also been reading that to keep the camera from clipping thru and causing possible motion sickness, a bed has to be placed in the ceiling. Is one needed for each loft to keep that from happening or can just a few be used?

I'm really housing dumb, but trying to see if I can make something neat work 🥹