So I own two houses, one in white run and one in riften. I love them, ever since I joined the thieves guild and have been stealing from various people over the game and killing a whole town (dawn star) money is of no issue to me. I do plan to finish some meagre side quests I started and so on - but how many houses do you guys have? what do you do in your house(s).

Riften has a garden and I love that. white run just has Lydia.....who i slap around when she doesn't make me a sandwich

Share your house stories:

How many do you have,
do you rp? or include your house in your rp?
whats your story?

I use my house for storage and to display all the unique items you can find. My favourite house is in Markath. I have to say that I miss my house in ES4 Anvil...

My favorite house is the one in Markarth (Vindrel Hall i believe). It has quite a few small things that make it awesome. Dagger racks, mannequin, grand dinning room etc.. My favorite thing is the library it holds within. I personally like filling up each book shelf.

Well my Breton lives in Vlindrel Hall, it just seems like a good fit for a poncy vampire. And Markarth's a nice neighborhood. Got a haunted houses, a dwemer ruin, & a forced labor camp all just down the street. And all those nice cannibal neighbors.
As for smacking my woman around, probably not. He's married to Borgakh the Steel Heart.
So, he's probably the one getting slapped around. I imagine Orcish love is rather painful sometimes.

I have 4 houses (Riften, Solitude, Markarth and Whiterun). I Keep all my stuff seperate this way. All DB and TG items and loot stay in Riften. Solitude is where I house all my heavy armor and weapons. Whitrun is for all mage related stuff (staffs and robes) and Markarth (which I think is the coolest house) has Dadric and quest related stuff like the claws and masks. I know where everything is at and can role play the different personalities of my character depending on what city I am in and what quests I am involved in

I had 5 on my last save.

My current character has two. Breezehome in Whiterun and Honeyside in Riften. Honeyside is home and Breezehome is just a nice central location to unload loot and crash while on the road.

On my previous guy that is now semi-retired, lived in Windhelm while owning Breezehome and Proudspire.

I am planning on becoming a vampire at some point, probably during dawngaurd - it will be my life long affliction, my one means for killing these retched creatures - for that I will need a third house. Ideas?
also if you kill your house carl...yarl.....women...man.....does that mean you have a higher chance of being robbed? - also why cant i marry lydia? it sais, in the manual, that once I own a house I can marry the house yarl...carl....what ever

My main house is located in Whiterun, simply because I think that one suits my character best. Then there's the one in Riften to store Thieves' Guild-related goods in, especially those which showcase certain accomplishments. I've also got the Archmage's chamber in Winterhold, but I use that one more like a tiny museum of sorts. There are always two mages passing through the room anyway, so I thought that idea would suit my rp-ing better. The room I got when I was a novice is the one I really use when passing by, since the only magic I'm a master at is Restoration and I think it's kinda obnoxious to fully act as an archmage that way (it's rather a position like the Harbinger to the Companions for this character). Very rarely, I make use of the Greybeards' hospitality too, but only when I need to pass through and for rp-ing purposes.

I'm saving up now to buy the one in Solitude, so I can drop a lot of books there. And so I can get the Stone of Barenziah. It'll belong to the house carl 'though, I'm not really interested in it.

You should be able to marry Lydia just fine, since one of the recent patches fixed this issue.

My favorite house is Hjerim in Windhelm, but it's such a pain in the butt to get. It svcks that it's the only house that requires you to take part in the Civil War.

Only 1, Honeyside in Riften.
Even that is just a front to keep up an appearance of normality (aside from the ever growing pile of skulls in the basemant).

Vampire assassin y'see?

My character has this whole fake life going on... I'm starting to suspect that my Housecarl knows more than she should... something may have to be done. >)

I own all of them, the five we buy, and I have the mages quarters, the room in the Dawnstar sanctuary, and Kodlak's old room with the Companions. Those thieves in Riften never offered me any nice accommodation, and even the Nightingales were pretty miserable, not even a room. And Skyhaven Temple did not seem that appealing.

The five owned houses are all stocked but I am still slowly redecorating. My characters know nothing of role playing, they want it ALL! The second only has the 5 owned homes not being that interested in chasing endless quests, or being chased by endless dragons. The third character is a tad poor still and at level 10 could only afford Breezehome, but he will get there eventually.

I know right? There was so much missing from there. I figured it would be built up nice after you finished the Quests. And Karlia is never there ._.

My first character, a Redguard fighter/paladin, was in-between neutral and chaotic good depending on the situation. As his riches grew he began to develop a taste for the finer things. So, he owns homes in Whiterun, Markarth, Riften, and Solitude (purchased in that order). The one in Solitude is pretty swanky and the town itself screams snobbery, so he seems to like it there more. His second favorite home is in Markarth. It is seculded and private (no windows) and built like a fortress into the rocks. He liked Honeyside, but he hated the town of Riften. He hates the Theives Guild and doesn't like the Black-Briars either (which pretty much means the entire political power structure). Whiterun is a utility home, that's it.

I've got all the houses but it's just a pain. I can never remember where i've put things.
Solitude was the biggest waste of coin, in my opinion anyway.

I only own the Whiterun house. I made my own house mod and I live there now.

Several of my characters have had all of the houses. It's sometimes a goal of mine, of sorts, when I play. I got nothing else to spend the money on, anyways.

A man after me own [black] heart. My new evil mage character illicitly took ownership of Uthgerd's house after he *accidentally* finished her off in a charus den and took all of her personal items. I collect skulls and found her fireplace the most wonderful place to stockpile them... it looks positively evil, the skulls in the perpetual flames.

As for your housecarl, don't waste the opportunity. Go find Boethiah or speak to the Jarl of Whiterun's *dark* child. May as well add some benefit to the abrupt and violent cancellation of her services. Muhuhuhahahaha.

You get a bed and a chest in the Cistern. They even upgrade it to a fancy bed, with privacy screens, once you complete the main TG questline.

But yeah, Nightingale Hall is absolutely pointless.

I own all the houses, naturally. It just kind of happens.
Not the biggest fan of Solitudes, but I do love the Markarth home. It's cozy and up on a hill facing away from the town.

Not hip on the Windhelm house because no one there likes me for...Things that happened during the war. Place is gloomy as hell.

I have quite a few. I mainly use Breezehome in Whiterun as most of my stuff is in the chest there. It would be nice to have a 'Move all items to specific house' option, or something like that.

do you have the amulet of mara?

i'm in the process of "wanting" the riften home, but can't figure out how to get it. i can't figure out how to start the helping hand quest.
i really want the house in windhelm, but even after completing blood on ice and the civil war, it hasn't been offered to me and townsfolk just go "mm hm" when i try to talk to them, so i can't do them any favors.

otherwise, i own homes in solitude, whiterun and markarth. markarth is my favorite, then solitude. whiterun is just too small for all that money and there's no enchanting room! markarth was cheap and has so much storage!

What level is your character? I believe (I can't recall for certain) you must be at least level 20 to even begin the process. Maybe not the first quest (Helping Hand), but I'm pretty sure that you need to be at least level 20 for the quest for Thane to move forward.

i like my house in solitude with its three floors as for decorating forget it, its to difficult more often than not anything i place on tables, on top of boxes etc, get thrown all over the place when i re-enter. what i would love to see is something like they did with morrowind. when you could have a stronghold built for you. now that was cool. as it is at the mo its just a base to store stuff 'n a place to kip.

I'm not sure what house I want now. I've got the Solitude manor, but it seems so buggy my items aren't safe on display. I've already lost a one-of-a-kind book; just lucky it wasn't a relic or anything.