Decor | Z is for Zeirah

One of the housing features I loved in Elder Scrolls Online was their open house navigation system. It was awesome being able to visit other people’s houses for inspiration and to see all the different ways they were arranging items in their space. My favourites were the one set up like real houses; bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchens etc.

To make up for the lack of a formal housing tour system in WoW, I’ve been knocking at my neighbour’s doors to see if anyone has unlocked their doors for curious visitors to come and have a a poke around. I’m not sure of the ethics of just popping in unannounced but I do get really excited if a house is open for visiting!

So far in my neighborhood, there are 3 permanently unlocked houses which I love to pop into to see the changes they have made from week to week. I’m not sure what I’ll do if someone is at home one day; it might be a bit embarrassing to be caught out as an uninvited guest.

One of the neighbours has a beautifully decorated front yard, but their door stubbornly stays locked. I’m so curious to see what it looks like inside! I actually went as far as trying to send them a letter to ask if they were open to giving a tour but the mail system just could not find them to send the letter.

To be honest I’m not sure if I’m relieved about that or not. Curiosity is one thing but maybe that’s crossing a fine line from curious to nosy neighbour, trying to get a squiz when they’ve locked the doors. .

Logging in today after reset, I found the neighbourhood weekly quest was to go visit other houses. Thank goodness for the custom group finder; it was so easy to find people who had happily listed their house open for a tour. At last my chance to check out other people’s houses without feeling like a peeping tom.

It was very cool to have people open their houses and to be able to have a chat to the homeowner. Hopefully being able to easily list your house open for tours is a feature WoW brings in. There are some really talented house builders/decorators out there and it would be great to easily be able to pop around for inspiration and admiration.

In my own house decorating adventures, I’ve moved on from Draenor after collecting the greenhouse, and am now spending lots of time in Legion. The Suramar themed decor is so beautiful, so I’ve been working on building up my collection. My Troll Druid has all the reputation maxed out to buy the vendor items which is helpful, and the small troupe of crafters are working their way around the Legion zones, slowly leveling up their professions.

My Night Elf Druid is so close to being able to make the Alchemy Arcan’dor Cutting Fountain, but it needs a lot of Demonsteel Bars, so off to dust off my Blood Elf Paladin to get her Blacksmithing level up.

I really loved Legion, and it’s been such a long tine since I’ve been there, questing feels really nostalgic. I think I’ll be out farming in the Broken Isles for a long while as I build up my stash of decor and rediscovering the place. Collecting decor is a great way to go visit old zones!

. My small Suramar dining room work in progress!

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On the hunt for pretty decor, I’ve been spending a lot of time in Warlords of Draenor, killing mobs to raise my rep to exalted with the Council of Exarchs to get a very cool Greenhouse for the garden. At 5rep a kill, it took a while but it was worth it to get the pretty glass greenhouse.

Once I got it though, I promptly ran out of outdoor decor space so need to do some re-arranging to actually be able to fill it up!

I also had my enchanter run around gathering up Warlords mats to make some sparkly purple party lights.

I have a long wish list of crafted decor items from across the full gauntlet of professions (yay for alts) which is going to take a really long to fill as some of the items I want come from expansions I’ve never been in before.

I spent an incredibly long time running around in Outland zones looking for Khorium ore to make the Glazed Sin’dorei Vial. Heads up before you get invested in this decor like I did – Khorium Ore is incredibly difficult and time-consuming to find and I had the most luck cutting laps around the Isle of Quel’Danas.. many many laps … to get enough ore to smelt into 4 precious bars. This is likely to be the one and only time I make this decor.

A decorative vase with a geometric design, featuring a combination of purple and blue colors, and a metallic base.

Crafting my own decor from the expansions I’ve missed is giving me a good opportunity to tick off leveling up some of the newer races … meet Aghlen my new Dark Iron Dwarf who is leveling through Shadowlands with the ultimate goal of becoming a Shadowlands Blacksmith just to make some shiny wine glasses.

What has Blizz done to professions though? When I left they were relatively easy to max out just by gathering materials from the world and patterns from a vendor… but now in the newer expansions it seems to be difficult to find recipes to level up with and the cost of the vendor requirements… ouch!!

Early impression is that these are not fun or easy anymore and probably going to cost me a lot of gold to get them up to the level needed to buy the decor patterns… maybe I’m missing something in the process though? Let me know if I am!

Profession gripe aside, WoW is still such a pretty game; my screenshot folder is quickly filling with new pics.

Bastion in all it’s dreamy glory. If only there was Kyrian decor, I’d never stop farming in this zone until my house was full.