Chateau Windstad
So I visited everywhere and killed all the bad guys and then sat down to build myself a nice Hearthfire home for me and my family.
The first thing I noticed was that the vanilla Hearthfire homes are very basic, so, inspired by [url=https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/22800]RavensBreezehome[/url], [url=https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/41097]AldmeriProudspire Manor[/url] and [url=https://www.nexusmods.com/users/3231858?tab=about+me&BH=7]Elianora’s[/url] decorating ideas, I decided to try to make [url=https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Windstad_Manor]Windstad[/url] Manor into a vineyard home to be proud of.
It is amazing what can be done using console commands and some basic mods without using the creation kit.
[b]Essential Mods
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[url=https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/8450]HearthfireExtended[/url][b] - [/b]this gave me many more options for functional layouts
Console commands can be used for positioning items but this tends to be rather slow. [b][url=https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/13090]JaxonzPositioner[/url][/b] and [b][url=https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/14694]Jaxonz Renamer[/url] [/b]are both essential mods to install. Drop items from your inventory, and use the positioner to grab them, resize, move them, and lock them in place. You can also use it to duplicate them.
To get more items, I installed [b][url=https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/12683]Solitude Furniture[/url][/b] mod – a furniture store located near Solitude docks selling weapon racks and a variety of other stuff,
including furniture, lights and light fittings, heating, stone benches smithing gear and even a jetty for your boat.
I also installed [b][url=https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/11708/]DecoratorHelper[/url][/b]. The positioning in this mod didn’t work for me, (probably a loadorder conflict that I didn’t manage to resolve) but it was ideal for grabbing statics
outside the house like trees, plants, piles of books, water, steam, walls, parts of buildings, paintings, wall hangings and other interesting items. They can then be placed where you want them.