The second floor Guest Room in a Small Octagon room with 50 dyeable Elegant/Elven vendor pieces was just too much. I felt overwhelmed thinking about how many herbs I’d have to stockpile to do a complete new color scheme, especially if I wanted to use two colors that mill from the same herb, or a monochromatic scheme where all the dyes would mill from the same herb! Moreover, my brain was bothered by the asymmetry of having a T-Shaped room on one side of the hall and a Small Octagon room on the other. Thus, I demolished the Small Octagon room and put a T-Shaped room in its place —
— and made a slightly less opulent Guest Room with a somewhat more manageable 32 dyeable pieces.
The default colors are Basic Birch (wood, 17 pieces), Bronze (metal, 32 pieces), Kirin Tor Violet (cloth, 13 pieces), and Emerald Dreaming (jewels, 13 pieces).
I spent some of my early-in-the-expansion-and-still-precious Voidlight Marl to get a couple of Sin’dorei Storage Jars to repot the Spherical Draenic Topiaries on the front porch —
— and with that, I have almost maxed out my outdoor decorating budget. I have just enough left to put out the Midnight Herbalist’s Shop Sign on the entry to the greenhouse when one of my Herbalists gets their skill to 100.
Then I went to Amani’Zar and spent a little more of my Voidlight Marl to get a Simple Amani Basket for the Tauren room.
I ran the full length of the Murder Row dungeon again (with Followers) to get a second fancy curved table for the Library.
Questing through Voidstorm with Kamalia brought in some new Void Elf-themed items for the Ren’dorei room!
The progress dial for getting my House to level 8 was getting closer and closer and closer to full, until it got close enough that I wanted to just get there already. I began actively, instead of passively, pursuing completion of Endeavor tasks, and in not much longer, I could pay a visit to the Neighborhood General Contractor!
Changing the Guest Room from a Small Octagon, which is 4 room placement points, to a T-Shaped, which is 3 room placement points, had another benefit — when I got my House to level 8, I now had just enough room budget to replace the previous T-Shaped kitchen with a Small Square and put in the first Left Stairwell!
The floor level of the second floor is high enough to still use a vaulted ceiling in the first floor rooms. Due to the Cross-Shaped room above on the second floor, however, I only put skylights in the corners instead of doing a full skylight treatment like in the front room of the Founder’s Point House.
I wanted to keep the kitchen entryway onto the dining areas in the front room with the Arathi Bartender’s Shelves and the Pandaren Pantry with the kafa and tea cups.
To accomplish, this, I put in partition walls into the new Small Square room in the perpendicular direction to the partition walls in the Small Square room that is the (default) front room. I rebuilt the kitchen along the north wall of the new room.
I borrowed the idea for making pretty antique-style windows by putting a Pandaren Fishing Net behind them from Scaresome.
Behind the partition walls on the south side of the new kitchen, I’ve stashed some items that I want to reserve for myself but don’t quite have design places for yet within my House.
I’ve already calculated that in another month or so when I get my House to level 9, I’ll be able to not only extend the Left Stairwell up to the third floor but also build another new room using a Daylight Circle room on the first floor. So I built in a mock doorway on the connection node of the new kitchen where I’ll eventually attach the Daylight Circle room.
I tucked a miniaturized Founder’s Point Front Door into the gap between the french doors, pushed just barely behind the sky blue backdrop, to make it actually a functional exit from the house.
As soon as I had the idea for making a stairwell on the left side of the house, I knew that the proper place for the Goblin Office would be under the stairs!
I used a wide Bel’ameth doorway on the left side of the second floor hallway to mirror the one on the right side.
After some puzzling, I figured out that I’d been able to get a Bel’ameth doorway in an otherwise Silvermoon-styled wall on the right side because of how the bottom walls of the stairwell room between the second and third floors overlay the top walls of the stairwell room between the first and second floors. So I can live with having this whole wall be Bel’ameth-styled until my House gets to level 9.
Although the floor of the second floor is above the top of the first floor vaulted ceiling, it’s not much above. The Tauren Windmill that I’m using as a ceiling fan in the kitchen —
— has a tailfin that sticks up through the floor into the second floor hallway, which I have masked with this arrangement of table, rug, and Haranir runestone.
I made a conversation corner on the new second floor landing — to be moved to the third floor landing when I get my House to level 9 and can extend the staircase upward — using Elegant/Elven pieces from the town center decor vendors.
The 200% scale Grand Elven Bookcase is standing in for the Magnificent Towering Bookcase, which Ianestin hasn’t yet gotten his Inscription leveled up enough to craft. The table will also eventually get populated with the books and scrolls crafted by Midnight Inscription (and Enchanting, though I’ll have to buy those from the AH). Some of the furniture may eventually get replaced by items from Silvermoon Court/Saltheril’s Haven, when I have the reputation and the Voidlight Marl to get them. Although I’ve purchased a few items of Decor for Marl already, I will probably prioritize Mogs over Decor for future spending of that currency.
Kamalia et alia 