I'm sure a change this significant would be mentioned in Patch Notes.

It has bookcases.

I only like certain parts of the houses.

Hjerim's armory, 3 manniquins, many display cases and plaques
Proudspire Manor's enchanting area, specifically that little tray thing next to the Arcane Enchanter. I keep soul gem fragments in it.
Breezeholm's alchemy area, specifically the apothicary satchel right on the Alchemy Lab.
Vlindril Hall's library, 3 bookcases with 3 shelves each, each shelf holding 18 books.

My opinion, combine all those into a single house and I'll call it perfect.

None of the houses are constructed very well for players' needs.

Yep, and that's why I'm building my own, lol. Of the stock houses, Breezehome is the best balanced, but it should've had an enchanter. Also, I have no idea why they put the static barrels and crates in our houses. They are useless. Why, you can't even sit on them. I don't like Breezehome's open-hearth furnace, either. Did you ever notice that it's bigger inside than out?

Proudspire's only good place is the basemant. I'd like to add a door at the foot of the stairs and rent the upstairs out, lol. Hjerim has too much wasted space. Honeyside feels like a proper house, but it's sure gloomy. I moved a barrel downstairs to store herbs, making it somewhat more useful.

I know, right? Lydia's almost fallen into it so many times that she asked for a railing, but I'm afraid she'd be leaning all day.

I just made my own home >_>. My room has a table, a bed, 2 dressers, 2 chests, a book case(Gems/"Trophies"(Staff of Magus, etc)/Gold Ore Chest/Notes, respectively). The mainroom has 5 beds, 2 dressers, some boxes, and the backroom is unfinished. Really I just wanted to get my room done just to add the containers lol.

I like Breezehome without all of the upgrades, I just bought the Alchemy Lab and the Living room, dropped a few torches to fix the gloomy lighting, and now the place looks and feels more like some place I'd actually live. There's too much crap in such a small house to buy all the upgrades for it. I might try the same with Proudspire if I ever buy it on another character.

Put in a railing, and a pole...

She's welcome to creep anytime.

I don't understand the complaint about "enough" storage. While some of the houses may not have something to hand, you can load as much stuff in a side table as you can imagine, let alone one of the chests.

I would be happy with just one chest, if it sorted the inventory into categories. As it is now things in storage are a jumbled mess. That means using more containers to organize stuff.

Two reasons. One is organization. The second is that the more you put in a container, the longer it takes to load the inventory on access. I'm toying with an idea for my custom house where there'd be shelves with small bags. The bags would be marked as "empty soulstones" or "charged soulstones" or "flowers" or "leather items", etc. This would help immensely with organization.

Those. I could live with the disorganization sometimes, but the lag is annoying as F.

Yeah, I got that mod too. Great for storage.

Bah, inventory management was never a game I liked playing.

I use the empty room as a treasure dump. Gemstones, silver candlesticks, circlets, fancy weapons I'll never use... I feel like Scrooge McDuck.

so if this is how that basemant should look like, then how can we fix this problem for PS3 and xbox360

You'll have to wait for an official fix. It doesn't work on pc either in vanilla; its only mods that have so far fixed the scripting.

I've been asking for that ever since the game came out. Even Whiterun has a satchel on the alchemy station!

Aren't we supposed to be getting an "update" this month? Or have I been foolsied?

we should, but someone has been dragging there A_S_S_ on it.

That's what caused the Snow Elves to die off. No safety rails on all those bridges. And people say OSHA doesn't work.

Well, none of that will matter when they're famous singers.

I have the same gripes on Proudspire manor. I played with a character to explore the whole solitude thing, get the manor etc. I felt it was rather overpriced for the crap basemant that it comes with.