Kamalia et alia

My Razorwind Shores house has become the house for which I have relatively clear ideas about the rooms that I want to make, so I build them and then iterate them; my Founder’s Point house is the house where I play with combinations of decor and may completely dismantle a build that I liked to try something else.

I’d been wanting to craft Dalaran Display Shelves — as found in the Legion-Dalaran Archaeology headquarters, where Kamalia actually filled them with the relics she found — for my Housing, but I hadn’t quite figured out what I wanted to miniaturize to display on them. Eventually, I settled upon using them to display mementos of the Shadowlands Covenants:

Kyrian Anima Barrel, Venthyr Anima Bottle, Maldraxxian Runic Tablet, Veil-Secured Animacone
I’ve set up this display on the third floor landing of the Razorwind Shores house for now; later on, I will move it into the hallway leading to the Elf bedrooms.

I made another set of Dalaran Display Shelves and put it in the Founder’s Point House and filled it up with little lanterns:

Fallside Lantern, Lordaeron Lantern, Nightborne Lantern, Hooded Iron Lantern

I filled out the rest of the spaces in the Empty Lorewalker’s Bookcase in the Razorwind Shores library with curios, as well.

Preserver’s Censer, Five Dawns Shrine of the Smoking Fish, Cartel Collector’s Cage, Filigree Moon Lamp, Reliquary Telescope, Pandaren Table Lamp, Bejeweled Venthyr Chalice, Tome of Pandaren Wisdom

Roaming around my Founder’s Point neighborhood, I saw a house with the Baradin Bay Fishing Rack in its yard. I promptly sent Kinevra to Menethil Harbor to buy one for each house.

I made a little Boralus-themed patio on the side of my Founder’s Point house to put the fishing rack on.

Lighting items aren’t usable outside — though I think that all of the “string lights” really should be usuable outside — but the Pyrewood Glass Bottle is classified as an Accent rather than as Lighting, so it can be used outside. I learned that trick from one of the other houses in my Razorwind Shores neighborhood!

I didn’t have much yard decorating budget left for the Razorwind Shores house, so I just stuck the fishing rack by the porch.

I’ve made some improvements to the greenhouse.

I sunk the flooring platforms down flush with the ground; then I had to move all the things that were on the floor down on the y-axis as well. I repurposed the trellis and some of the ivy from my Winter Veil Wreath to add a roof to and decorate the trellis entryway to the greenhouse.

I also added another sprig of each kind of flower to the growboxes.

I removed the water barrels that were outside the greenhouse because I wanted to use the basin in the scribes’ workroom.

I wanted to use the basin in the scribes’ workroom because I wanted to use the Kyrian Anima Barrel as a Shadowlands memento instead of as a fancy water container.

Last Saturday morning, between when I came fully awake and when I was ready to actually get out of bed, I lay there thinking about using one of the Large rooms to make a grand dining hall for my Housing. This room would have enough tables and enough chairs for all of my characters. Some of the tables might seat eight, others six, others four. They would be arranged and decorated thematically, with different kinds of chairs and other decor at the tables to indicate which characters would be sitting where. I thought about it and I thought about it and I thought about it all day long. I looked the the AH prices for decor items that I don’t already have, but might want, for such a scheme. I played around with floorplan configurations in the Founder’s Point house. In the end, I decided that it would be too costly and regretfully scrapped the concept. I removed the objects I had placed out that were contributing to the idea, putting them into the House Chest for the kids to play with.

All that remains of my idea of setting tables for all my characters is this “Class Council” table.

I also made a set of Small Elegant Padded Chairs for it (oddly, the tall Elegant Padded Chair doesn’t dye), just because.

Mage: Zephras Blue; Druid: Elwynn Pumpkin; Monk: Emerald Dreaming; Rogue: Sungrass Yellow; Priest: Bone-White; Warlock: Nightsong Lilac; Demon Hunter: Moonberry Amethyst; Evoker: Un’Goro Green; Death Knight: Deep Mageroyal Red; Paladin: Rain Poppy Red; Warrior: Earthen Brown; Hunter: Grizzly Hills Green; Shaman: Midnight Blue

After I gave up on the grand dining hall idea, I replaced the stairwell rooms with a couple of cross-shaped rooms, thinking that those might provide a more interesting space for the kids to decorate. I then went out and spent a few thousand gold at the town center vendors buying a whole bunch of windows and a selection of decor that is either multiples of items I’m using myself or items that I don’t plan to use myself so that the kids have more interesting stuff to play with in their rooms.

The elegant door in the Bel’ameth-styled wall opposite the front door now leads to a Tiny Square Room — currently serving as a storage closet for extra chairs — that will, come Midnight, become a short hallway that will give me a node to connect to and experiment with the Daylight Circle and Evening Circle rooms. However I reconfigure the Founder’s Point house, the Secretive Bookcase Walls in the front room will always lead to the kids’ rooms.

I can’t quite decide what I want to do with that fourth corner of this room. I’ve made a little dais with a couple of Ornate Ironforge Tables because I like their checkerboard pattern, but what should I put on that dais?

I feel like maybe this room needs some greenery, so some potted plants, perhaps? Some baskets of flowers hanging from the ceiling? A fountain surrounded by foliage, with mirrors on the wall behind it? Maybe with curtains around the mirrors, so there will be more items in the room that I can dye in festive colors for the holidays?