Thread: Rain's Decorating Guide

Is there anywhere one might be able to listen to the various musics before having to buy them ?

Great resources!

I looked at the hook description and the Small House doesn't seem to match mine at 4 Waterbank in elf-land.

I have:
Yard: 3 small, 1 large

Downstairs: (Fixed large, lit fireplace), 1 small floor, 1 small furniture, 1 large furniture, 2 thin, 1 small wall, 3 large wall

Upstairs: (Fixed large, lit fireplace), 1 small floor, 1 small furniture, 1 large furniture, 2 thin, 2 small wall, 1 large wall

Interior: 1 music, 1 wall color, 1 wall type, 1 floor type, 1 floor color

No: Large Yard, Enormous Yard, Special Furniture, Ceiling

Thanks Xowl...I'll fix that today!

I'm starting to work on some other guides, so I've redone the site directory structure.

If you've linked to the guide from this site please use one of these links:

Rain's Housing Guide

Rain's Decorating Guide

-Rain

Updated with a picture of the Yule Tree.

Happy Holidays!

Hello,
I have a floorplan for the kinhouses in Bree-housing, done up in Excel. After visiting over a dozen kinhouses, I have hook placements and types for each room. How can I get this info to you? I'm on the Silverlode server, character is Ioan.

Apparently as an extra bonus, LOTRO includes the ability to feel exceptionally dense for only a gold.

I bought a house. I walked in the house with my rug & my tree. How do I place the rug in the house? I tried dragging it, using it, etc. No effect.

How do I buy storage for the house? who sells it? WHat is it called?

SirGaldalfi told me that Rain's housing guide answered all these things, but all I see is a page with links to pictures.


Normally when I want to feel stupid, I just consult my children, my boss or my ex-wife. LOTRO homeownership will make it easier than ever for me to feel like a complete dunce. Oh joy.

Originally Posted by Quondam

How do I place the rug in the house?

On the circle surrounding your minimap, at about the 7 o'clock position there is a "decorating" tab. Click it when you're at your house. Then right click on a housing "hook" that you want to use. You'll get a pop-up window with a slot that looks a bit like an inventory slot. Drag an appropriate item from you invo to that slot (not to the "hook" in your house, but to the slot in the pop-up dialogue box).

Originally Posted by Quondam

How do I buy storage for the house? who sells it? WHat is it called?

The vendor area in your neighborhood will have a housing vendor NPC. They'll sell, IIRC, a housing chest (might be called "red chest"?). You can buy one for standard house, 2 for deluxe. Equip it in your house.

All of this was pre Book 12 so if there were any changes your mileage could vary, but I didn't see anything in the Release Notes that would seem to change this.

On the circle surrounding my minimap? You've got to be kidding! Why would I have looked there?



/bow Fusillade Thank you kindly.

I'll try that.

Sorry you couldn't find the housing info you wanted.

For a Game Manual addendum about housing:
1) First, to www.LOTRO.COM
2) On the left side, mouse over "About LOTRO"
and click on "Game Manual"
3) You'll see "LOTRO Manual Addendum is now available" and click on the "download it by clicking here".
4) You'll now be able to read about housing in the Game Manual, where it answers =some= of your questions.

ANOTHER way for help while playing the game is to press F7 the HELP key, or ESC then Help. Then type in the word Housing. There is a full explaination of what to do, etc. Very handy.

By the way, for detailed quest help, see both www.thebrasse.com and www.mehq.net -- excellent sources so that you don't have to spend needless time trying to find the object of the quest! It has saved me countless hours of wandering around. 8>)

I've a question about the new Book 12 update on housing decroations: where are any of the NEW items to purchase, or craft?

I went to the local housing supply vendor but do not see anything new. It is nice that we can now rotate our stuff to face any direction, so can have my chair facing the fireplace, etc.

Okay, so I went to the elf rep vendor to buy a couple more elven statues for the front of my house... and they aren't there anymore. Does anyone know where the housing items you could buy from Rep vendors have gone?

The statues, special furniture, everything was gone except the recipes you could buy.

Red, there's another vendor standing nearby who now has them (as well as standard supplier items, oddly enough).

-Rain

Originally Posted by Rainwhisper

Red, there's another vendor standing nearby who now has them (as well as standard supplier items, oddly enough).

-Rain

Alright, so you have to at least have ally standing with any rep group to purchase items that we could once purchase as acquaintance or higher.

Thanks for the info, just a little upset that they moved these items into a much higher rep category before they can be purchased.

Originally Posted by RedBindi

Alright, so you have to at least have ally standing with any rep group to purchase items that we could once purchase as acquaintance or higher.

Thanks for the info, just a little upset that they moved these items into a much higher rep category before they can be purchased.

Yeah, and then Turbine in effect HIDES the new housing items from view, making this like some kind of wierd treasure hunt or something. What a way to try and furnish a house.

Why not have housing items like armour? You can't purchase it until you've reached a certain level, for example. Hiding where the items are, making us search for recipes, having ally standing with some group, etc ... what?!! just to buy housing items? Why?

Gads, in the real Medieval era, people would go to a furniture maker and he would make the furniture you wanted. Or you would buy from a traveling merchant who came to town once in a while. Much simpler and realistic.

Originally Posted by Rainwhisper

I've typed up a list of all the purchasable, craftable, festival, reputation, and taxidermy items and posted it here.

I've also added it to one of the worksheet tabs on my Character Reference Sheet which can be found at the top of the right column of this page if you would like to have this information as an Excel spreadsheet..

Pictures of the items are available here. All of the pictures are up now!

I would like to publish (on the floorplans page) a list of how many of each kind of hook are in each floorplan. If you know that information for your housing type, please post it below.

I welcome all suggestions on format, content, and typos . Please let me know if this is worth the time I'm putting into it.

I did some experimenting, and 300x300 seems to be about the ideal size, although it still makes the pages a bit clunky. I'm sorry for the darkness of some of the shots, but some items could only be found in Dwarf country .

I'm concerned that I wouldn't have the bandwidth to host MP3's of the house music. Any suggestions in that regard?

I'm also attempting to make it a more comprehensive guide to housing as a whole.

-Rain

Thank You Tons!!!

Let me just ask this to confirm it:

Even though the Lorebook says you only need Acquaintance status with the Elves of Rivendell to buy Elven statues, you actually need ALLY status?

Source: http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Reput...s_of_Rivendell

Just want to make sure this is the case before I grind my way to Acquaintance standing only to discover I have many miles to go before I sleep.

Thank you.

Starting to get things caught back up, and I could use help from anyone with the time to point out what's missing. Send me a PM when you catch something!

-Rain

Originally Posted by Rainwhisper

Starting to get things caught back up, and I could use help from anyone with the time to point out what's missing. Send me a PM when you catch something!

-Rain

I've got screenshots of 3 of the 4 summer festival wall surfaces and can get the fourth (is in our kinhouse).







Also, can get you screenshots of every yard item from the summer festival if you want (and don't forget all the different colors of fireworks). Just send me a PM if you want them.

It seems the links to the festival housing skins has been deleted from photobucket. Also I couldn't find these items in the links at the decoration website. Rain, are you planning to have pictures of these items and where they come from on the site? Am I missing these?

Time to get back into the game. Feel free to send me your screenshots (preferably hi-res and in the size and framing of the existing items) if you want new items linked in the housing guide.

-Rain

Awsome job on the site.

Have a question or even a suggestion for the developers.

Is there a feature that allows one to do screenshots and frame these for use as a Wall picture in his house? Think it would exciting idea if it hasn't already been implemented in the game.

Thanks much,
Krubby

Originally Posted by Krubby

Awsome job on the site.

Have a question or even a suggestion for the developers.

Is there a feature that allows one to do screenshots and frame these for use as a Wall picture in his house? Think it would exciting idea if it hasn't already been implemented in the game.

Thanks much,
Krubby

Wow that would be a great idea! I would love that!

I got a question of my own also!! Is there a site that you could listen to the music that you can hook in your house? I would love hearing them all and choosing between them...instead of going to every housing instance and grinding for deeds to get a song you dont like

Originally Posted by UFCfreak

I got a question of my own also!! Is there a site that you could listen to the music that you can hook in your house? I would love hearing them all and choosing between them...instead of going to every housing instance and grinding for deeds to get a song you dont like

Agreed. I don't mind so much working to get all the housing pieces, but I'm a packrat, so if I buy something I don't want to use, it just ends up taking storage space.

Thank you, Rainwhisper and all the others, for putting together the list with pictures. If it is still growing, maybe I can help out with screenshots when I get something new.

Bless Rain for all her work on the decorating guide, but it has sadly fallen out of date. Until a new sticky has been added, you will probably want to use this:

Originally Posted by Goldenstar

The Decoration and Furniture Guide is the perfect reference for all your housing needs. Covering every decoration item available to LOTRO players; this Guide is also currently the most comprehensive, accurate and up to date listing of housing items available online.

You will find here all the information you need to plan the decoration of your home, from the description and picture of the item to its price, required components for crafting and, of course, where to buy it. This Guide regroups all crafted, reputation, skirmish and regular vendor items, sorted by type. Festival Items will be covered in Annex I and Taxidermist Items in Annex II, which should be released later this summer.

Decoration and Furniture Guide

6/26/10 Update: Festival Items have been added to the guide!
6/30/10 Update: Trophy Items have been added to the guide!

Decorating guide Ha Ha the docorating in this game is ???? i cant even put chairs around my table so the we can sit there and talk. if we have a meeting in the kin house we all have to sit on the floor.

Bumping info so that most up to date guide stays visible

Originally Posted by Goldenstar

The Decoration and Furniture Guide is the perfect reference for all your housing needs. Covering every decoration item available to LOTRO players; this Guide is also currently the most comprehensive, accurate and up to date listing of housing items available online.

You will find here all the information you need to plan the decoration of your home, from the description and picture of the item to its price, required components for crafting and, of course, where to buy it. This Guide regroups all crafted, reputation, skirmish and regular vendor items, sorted by type. Festival Items will be covered in Annex I and Taxidermist Items in Annex II, which should be released later this summer.

Decoration and Furniture Guide

6/26/10 Update: Festival Items have been added to the guide!
6/30/10 Update: Trophy Items have been added to the guide!