A dwemer house I could see, since theres a whole nord city in a dwemer ruin. A beast race designed house, or another elven race besides dwarven wouldn't work if you ask me. Especially not khajiit, since as someone else stated, they're designed for warm climates, and to keep cool air in.

i know i will i can see it now a trophy room full of dwarven trinkets and maybe a few mannequins in full dwarven armor and a few mounted animunculi

You give a video game player an inch and they complain its not a mile. Anything Bethesda delivers, the video game player will always be able to imagine what else they want. This is modern consumer behavior, people have forgotten what it means to be content.

even if the walls on the outside aren't dwemer style, they could have some of the pumps and gears and things you find in dwemer dungeons. Won't know till we try it.

I think I'll lock this up, edit it, issue some warnings then re-open it. This may take a while since I have other reports to attend to first.

So many off topic posts have gone away as well as some flaming, some counter flaming and a bit of spam. What a mess. And just when I was starting to believe we have a lot of mature members in here.
Try to stay on topic and don't call folks names and if you haven't read our rules, please take some time to do so. We're a mean bunch really...


Well, I too love different styles of architecture and would love to have a little grass hut but after living in the far north for years I understand that folks in the far north don't build according to where they came from or their from memories of their homeland. They build in the far north in a way that makes sense regardless of where they are from. Much thought has to go into building a home where winter is long and frigid. Thicker walls, thus often northern folks build out of logs. Also getting those logs to a site on a mountain side often requires one use the trees nearby. Availability of building material is scarce in most places in the north and one must use the wood that best stands up to the weather. Hearty roofs so that the snow load won't collapse. Arctic entries so that there are opposing doors at the entrance so that the cold wind won't blow in when entering and exiting.

I suppose you could build a grass hut, or a 2/4 construction and spend time to use decorative features but one's time would be more wisely spent making sure it was sturdy and sound and warm lest you have to burn half the forest just to heat your home.

Guess that is why despite my having neighbors (IRL) who are all different nationalities from around the world in addition to natives to the area, most of our homes are built the same. It has nothing to do with our culture, our likes and dislikes or our style...it has to do with a common climate that is harsh and being practical about it.



That's my thought on it anyway.

do know these homes are not from the same time table. skyrim is kinda like our 1300 1400 hundreds even earlier, those house are 1700 1800 even 1900 hundreds

All I want is the ability to use a combination of styles if there are more than one.

Ever seen architecture from Cyrodiil ?
Yes , perhaps the pictures I showed you are not exactly the theme that fits TES.
But I'm talking about a DIFFERENT architecture style , I want to build something that at least resembles my race.

You won't, sorry.

This is not confirmed yet.
And if yes , MODS ! ( Eventually.. )

well I wont mind it as its some thing that every one would veel ditherent with.

I for one would like the nordic style.

but would be cool to make a castel themed one like the old castel ruins one can vind maybe like the old dragon cult thing I wished one could be like that.
maby start it up again as the dragons are back.

I agree with the sentiment that others have expressed here: too much deviation from the architectural style of Skyrim would look ... off. A Dwemer influenced house wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility, however, considering that Markarth exists. (I assume you would just be repurposing a ruin instead of building it from scratch, since that would make more sense.)

At the same time, I understand what the original poster is getting at. It would be totally and completely awesome to have a few options. Never underestimate customisability. (Heck, one of my favorite little things about Fable II -- don't punch me, what? -- was being able to dye clothing. That thrilled me -- it's the little things that are pleasing. Say what you want about that series, it does have several things that worked well or were interesting.)

Being able to add particular "touches" of different styles would work as well (wildly different interiors influenced by other in-game cultures, maybe a choice of color schemes or something). But the exteriors and main structure shouldn't be too different from houses found elsewhere in the game. It has to fit the landscape and climate -- those two things do not allow a lot of leeway. And I suspect that there aren't many Breton or elven architects galavanting about Skyrim these days...

(This is all just fun speculation/ideas on my part. Who knows what it would take to implement something like color schemes and cultural themes.)

dunno im not a designer so i would never make you feel happy about buiding houses

My spin is I can see where the Op is coming from, and more customization is never a bad thing regardless of the choices and whether they look appropriate or not. That said, if these choices are not there, or are limited to nordic types or nordic and dwemer, I wouldn't complain because it makes sense, and because I like Nordic style, and it can look pretty good as well.

it says on the uesp wiki that you can build the house out of clay, wood or stone. This is backed up slightly by when watching the tralier you will notice that some rooms look nothing like the whiterun style.

Well I guess you do live in Skyrim with mostly all Nordic construction workers and Nordic building materials. So the fact that your house will look like a Nordic house on the outside does make sense. However like DarkDragonsElf has already said you can still choose what you place inside your house to give it more of an other races theme.

Hmm , I guess we'll see..

I do hope you can choose what style you can build.

I really want to build a house in the style of the Dwemer, and if not the Dwemer then in the same style as Proudspire

Exactly.

I would think that people would want something different, since we already have proudspire manor. If you want that, just move there. I personally would rather have something different than the usual. From the trailer, it seems we will, which I'm glad.

I think it's fine, I think there are 3 types of house you can make.

I hope so.
One day left.

I thought it was released on the fourth.

Pelagiad, Ebonheart.