Waterfall Riverview Home
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Touring the world of the wonderful expansion "Beyond Skyrim: Bruma", I often felt the need to find a home a house with all I had in Skyrim. Of course, all the useful tools for crafting, cooking, gardening, etc. but not only.

What I really needed was a place I could call a "home" full-fledged: a "resting place", with the warmth of a fireplace, the soft lights, and outside a breathtaking view, to be admired by day but especially at night.

After some exploration and research, I found what for me was the best place, on the edge of an overhanging waterfall, not far from Bruma (so also convenient for various trips and quests).

On Skyrim LE I did not find any other habitable houses, except obviously the vanilla one, (you have to do some quests to buy it), and "Cloudshelter", which is certainly very pretty, but definitely small for my needs (I also talk about hosting several companions).

On Skyrim SE the situation is different: there are some really wonderful houses in my opinion, which deserve to be better known, as "Waterview" e "Scenic View Lodge".

Staying mainly on Skyrim LE, in the end I decided to try to build this house. Initially I made it in game thanks to the excellent mods "Atronach Crossing" e "Cobb Positioner", but since not in all profiles I use Atronach Crossing I thought of building it as a real mod of habitable home.

Graphically, it's a house nothing special in the end, in a style definitely "Skyrimish", although I used several assets of Beyond Skyrim. It still has all the main tools typical of the houses:

Outside

- workbench
- grindstone
- anvil
- smelter
- tanning rack
- 9 planters

Inside

- cooking pot
- oven
- alchemy workbench
- enchanting workbench
- crafting staff workbench
- 3 double beds

The interior is fully navmeshed to allow the followers to move and work on the various tools, as well as sleeping.

The door of the house is closed and requires a key. There is a small "quest" (if you can say so) to recover the key, which requires reading a note near the door, searching not very far from the house, reading another note and a small fight. Inside there is also a journal telling the story of the previous owner, linked to some parts of the story of Skyrim and Bruma.

This is my second published mod, it was meant basically for learning how to build a house-mod, but I think its very nice "feature" is mainly the bridge over the waterfall and the landscape all around.

The mod was cleaned with "TESC5EditQuickAutoclean", and tested several times.
All the 3 DLCs, BSAssets.esm and BSHeartland.esm are Required.


Installation

Option 1. Using Wrye Bash (I used it).

Option 2. Using Mod Organizer 2.

Option 3. Simply extract the file in the Data folder with Winrar or 7zip. Launch Skyrim with the "SkyrimLauncher.exe". When the splash screen window pops up, click "Data Files". Locate "Waterfall Riverview Home.esp" and click the check box beside it, then click "OK".


Uninstallation

Deactivate the esp file in the mod manager of your choice.
Delete the "Waterfall Riverview Home.esp" file in Skyrim's Data folder.

Porting to SSE

Although I do not think that Skyrim SE would benefit from this mod, given the excellent level of the houses that there are, everyone feels free to port this mod to SSE, if you want.

Credits

Thanks to the developers of the wonderful "Beyond Skyrim: Bruma".