The Meadows Cottage 3.0 by Lady Honor (aka BellaRose in some circles)

Thank you for downloading my mod "The Meadows Cottage"! I hope you enjoy the mod. There are couple of things that I need to make clear concerning the house and how it functions.

First, about linked containers.....the containers are linked to each other, not the crafting stations. For example, you can dump all your leathers and furs into the chest inside the house and access them from the barrel outside the house. They are not, however, linked to the anvil or workbench. I purposely wanted it this way because I actually like setting up my new houses. So if you want to craft something, you're going to have to take the materials out of their assigned container and have it in your inventory.

Second about the positioning in the armor displays.....When I was setting them up, I discovered not all armor items align the same way. Take for instance a cuirass. The Daedric Cuirass when placed in the display properly stood up as if on a mannequin (I *HATE* those things), but the Nordic Carved Cuirass laid down as if lying on a table or the floor....which of course looked *horrible* in a display where I wanted it erect. This appears to be an issue prodominantly with DLC items. So what I did was make a switch giving you two options to change the positions, either erect or prone. It doesn't allow you to swap out items. If it is a cuirass display, it will still only accept a cuirass. The switch just allows you to change how it is handled. If neither of the two positions work well, then the display is simply not suitable for that particular armor.

***Adding/Subtracting/Changing Beds***

The Meadows is very versitile in that you decide whether you want to use your new home to raise a family, house your favorite followers, or both. With the menu system you can can have up to four children or four followers or you can change it up. It is important to remember, though, if you decide to make changes to the default setup to follow these guidelines.

1. Set up your beds however you desire. Remember the multi-adoption mod requires at least two beds for children if you plan to have your family there. They can be in any arrangement, both downstairs, both upstairs, or one up and one down. You must, however, make that choice BEFORE using the "Bless Home" spell.
2. Bless your house and you're done! Easy!

If you decide later on you want to change up your arrangement and say have 3 or 4 kids after already setting up your home you must temporarily move your family to another another location then repeat the steps above.

***New in 3.0***

The Meadows was my first attempt at creating a Skyrim mod and as I pretty much expected, I made a couple of mistakes. The primary mistake was I put EVERY book in EVERY bookcase upside down. Oops. So that has been corrected. Yay me!

Also, and I'm very excited about this for personal reasons (my son who doesn't play pc will now be able to use my mods!), The Meadows is going to XBox One! Yay me again! Because of that, I had to tweak a few things and switch out a few things that didn't play well with the XBox platform and instead of making two separate versions, I made all the changes and corrections in one.

For all intents and purposes, The Meadows Cottage is finished with the exception of bug fixes and I have moved on to other projects. So making two different versions would not have been practical. Still, I believe most, if not all, will like the changes.

Mod on my friends!