Best Skyrim House Mods
Every Dragonborn needs a cool home, a place they can store his loot and retreat to in times of need. With plenty of homes available, choosing one can be daunting as if you change your mind later on, it’ll be a pain to transfer everything over. This is where this list comes in, giving you everything you need to know about the best player homes in Skyrim.As there are less than 10 purchasable player homes, dwellings provided by spouses will also make the list. Male and female spouse homes will be provided.10. Female Spouse: Ysolda’s HouseWhile Ysolda’s house is pretty much a little shack, it’s one of the first residences you can obtain. You at least get a nice bed and a few containers.
Thankfully, this home is right next to several merchants, stalls and shops.How to acquire: Speak to to obtain the quest, she’s available to marry after completion, you can then move in with her.10. Male Spouse: Karthwasten HallYou’d think being named a Hall would come with some nice amenities but Karthwasten Hall is pretty bare-bones.
Its best aspect is fast travelling to Karthwasten will put you a short walking distance to your home. As well as the nearby mine, allowing you to acquire Iron and Silver efficiently.There’s a Tanning Rack outside but crucially, there are also several barrels. Working as an awesome drop off point, it’s one of Karthwasten Hall’s main advantages. Inside the “hall” is a choice of beds, group of Silver Ingots and a Cooking Pot. A dummy target is also found in the basement if you need to practice archery!How to acquire: Ending the dispute of the will allow you to marry Ainethach, you can then use this home freely.9.Female Spouse: Viola Giordano’s HouseLocated in, Viola Giordano’s house is huge, with 2 large floors available. Tons of food can be discovered all around the house, as can a few coin purses and potions. I sound like an estate agent here but the house is just a short walk away from the main markets in Windhelm.
Downsides come in the form of travel time, as you have to run a fair distance from the main gate and the storage chests, despite there being quite a few, are spaced far apart.How to acquire: Complete the quest, you can then marry and move into her house.9. Male Spouse: The Winking SkeeverOne of the best starting player homes available, the Winking Skeever provides a solid income of potions, food and potion brewing materials. Additionally, a choice of beds and huge amount of storage make it hard to turn down for new Dragonborn saves.Absolutely no stations (such as Alchemy Table, Cooking Pot, Tanning Rack) come with the Winking Skeever so you’ll need to go elsewhere for them. Not ideal when you’re trying to organise your storage!How to acquire: You can move in after marrying Sorex Vinius.
Which is possible by delivering a bottle of rum to for him.8. Female Spouse: Uthgerd’s HouseLocated in Whiterun, Uthgerd’s house is fairly close to the main gate, allowing you to get in and out easily. Inside you’ll find plenty of storage space, with barrels, chests and drawers close to each-other for effective item sorting. Overall the house is fairly small so if you have a lot of items to hoard, you’ll find it difficult to keep track of them all.How to acquire: Beat in a brawl, you’ll be able to marry her and move into her house afterwards.8. Male Spouse: Filnjar’s HouseIf you want a simple but useful home, Filnjar’s House might be perfect for you.
Located a few feet away from the fast travel landing point, you’ll be able to drop off loot quickly. Outside you’ll find typical blacksmith resources such as a Forge, Tanning Rack, Workbench and Grindstone.Inside is quite small, with just the main floor and basement. However, storage containers are located all over so this player home would make a great starting point!How to acquire: Located in Shor’s Stone, Filnjar needs help clearing of spiders. If you do so, you’ll be able to marry him and move into his house.7.Female Spouse: Sarethi FarmThe greatest benefit of moving into Sarethi Farm is the abundance of potatoes, gourds and even. Avrusa Sarethi, the owner of the farm, cultivates these plants, giving you a huge supply. You don’t need to move in to farm these resources but if you do move in, you’ll visit the farm often, giving you more opportunities to dig up those precious plants.Outside the main house, you’ll find a tanning rack to convert all those pelts you find on your adventures. Inside the main house is full of food, materials and even an alchemy table.
A distinct lack of storage options is a huge downside though, you have the one chest to store items in, with a few barrels/cupboards around the place.How to acquire: Complete the quest, you can then marry and move into the farm.7. Male Spouse: The Scorched HammerIf you’re a hands-on, crafty character then you’ll love the Scorched Hammer. Located right next to the Riften marketplace, you’ll have easy access to a variety of stores.
With a Tanning Rack, Forge, Grindstone and Workbench outside, you’ll have everything you need.Inside you’ll find a Cooking Pot, another Grindstone and Tanning Rack. As well as multiple rooms, storage containers and even a safe.Just be aware, Balimund does have an adopted son/apprentice living with him. So if you aren’t ready for that kind of commitment, you might want to look elsewhere!How to acquire: Balimund will tell you he needs some. If you provide them, he’ll become a candidate for marriage.6. Abandoned HouseAny new save should absolutely take advantage of the Abandoned House in.
Not only is this place huge, it has a huge variety of foods, weapons and clothes at your disposal. With a bed included and more than enough chests, cupboards and barrels to store your loot in. In fact, this home has the most amount of storage options in the entire game!A pickaxe and woodcutting axe are also included, which are great items for obtaining ore/wood.
Unfortunately, as you do not technically own this house, you can’t move any followers or spouses into it. For the early stages of your adventures though, there’s no house better in Skyrim.How to acquire: Complete the quest, it can then be used as an alternative home.5. BreezehomeThe classic itself, Breezehome is one of the most popular player homes in Skyrim.
Not because of what it offers, its more to do with how early on players can obtain it. With a decent amount of space, plenty of storage and resources, this house is well worth choosing early on.For just 6800 Gold (purchase cost + upgrades), you’ll have literally everything you need to house your loot and family. The missing Tanning Rack is no issue, there’s a whole forgery next door you can use at your leisure!Please be aware you can either have the Alchemy Lab OR the children’s bedroom, you can’t have both!Full upgrade cost: 1800 GoldTanning Rack: NoAlchemy Table: YesCooking Pot: YesEnchanting Table: NoHow to acquire: You are able to purchase this house for 5000 Gold in Whiterun after becoming of Whiterun.4. HoneysideHoneyside comes equipped with 2 points of entry. You can enter this home from the front door, inside Riften, or you can go through the back door, which is accessible via your personal dock (yes, really).
Outside the front door you’ll find a number of barrels in your garden, which are excellent drop-off points. Crops & alchemy plants are also littered throughout the garden after you’ve upgraded it.The interior leaves a lot to be desired, a fairly small ground floor is offset by a large basement area. Honeyside is the only purchaseable home with a Tanning Rack. Overall, this house is an excellent home for the price.Full upgrade cost: Up to 4850 GoldTanning Rack: YesAlchemy Table: YesCooking Pot: YesEnchanting Table: YesHow to acquire: You are able to purchase this house for 8000 Gold in after earning a good reputation (by helping local citizens).3. Vlindrel HallWhile this house is quite large with a ton of potential upgrades and a myriad of rooms, its location is abysmal.
You’ll have to climb countless steps to reach it, which gets tedious after the first few times. If you can cope with this, Vlindrel Hall is highly recommended as the combined cost offers a great mid-game home. You’d have to get used to storing items in anything other than chests though, as you only get the 1 chest.Full upgrade cost: 4200 GoldTanning Rack: NoAlchemy Table: YesCooking Pot: YesEnchanting Table: YesHow to acquire: You are able to purchase this house for 8000 Gold in after earning a good reputation (by helping local citizens).2. HjerimOne of the largest homes in the game, justifiably by the huge cost. The display area upgrade is very nice, giving you a huge room full of racks, display cases and mannequins to store your best gear. Prior to purchasing upgrades, Hjerim is almost completely empty so it’s highly recommended you have a massive coin purse before fully moving in.An upside is the ability to use it as a home without purchasing it, although you won’t have much to use.
If you’re in desperate need in the early stages, you can use it as a home until you have the gold to purchase ownership and start upgrading!Full upgrade cost: 9000 GoldTanning Rack: NoAlchemy Table: YesCooking Pot: YesEnchanting Table: YesHow to acquire: You are able to purchase this house for 12,000 Gold in after earning a good reputation (by helping local citizens)1. Proudspire ManorAn insanely high cost means an insanely good home. I have to point out the silliness of its location, deep into Solitude forcing you to sprint a fair distance to get to it. Other than that, Proudspire Manor is simply the best player home in Skyrim. You can almost get lost in this house, with 3 floors containing several rooms, all of which can be upgraded.
Outside one of the 3 entrances is a small drop-off point, giving you the ability to throw some loot into a barrel to sort later.I shouldn’t tell you this but you don’t even need to purchase Proudspire Manor to live in it. You can pickpocket a from or, which works for Proudspire Manor for some reason.Of course you won’t get the upgrades until you purchase ownership though.Full upgrade cost: 14,000 GoldTanning Rack: NoAlchemy Table: YesCooking Pot: YesEnchanting Table: YesHow to acquire: You are able to purchase this house for 25,000 Gold in after completing 2 quests, &.
The Dragonborn should not be outclassed by other Mages. Let's look at some mods to make sure they won't be.It’s no secret that Bethesda’s release of Skyrim left much to be desired for the up and coming mages of the world. A linear, one dimensional way to become the best mage was all that we could do. No Harry Potter-esque choice of future. Well, the modders of the world have created something for us: A better, magical place.
These mods will make you the mage you always should have been. Immersive College of WinterholdRework the College into something impressive, and pass off the Arch-Mage job if you want.Let’s start with the college. This College of Winterhold is an embarrassing excuse for a mage college. This mod seeks to correct all of that.
In IMC the College becomes a brand new version of it’s old, unimpressive self. There are random books lying around open that can each teach you something new.
There are rooms dedicated to each of the studies. There’s research constantly being carried out. The library is larger and better. You can become the arch-mage, but if you’re too busy running around Skyrim, you don’t have to be the Arch-mage! Pass it off, and keep doing what you need to.
(And feel free to continue on to Summerset Isle, if you want.) 2. Apocalypse – Magic of SkyrimOne of the problems with Skyrim is that the vanilla spells get boring. As you progress you get used to, and tired of, the same things again and again. Apocalypse adds over 100 brand new spells. They come with new animations, and are included in every school of magic. Want to create new objects?
Feel like attacking with hailstones? Do it with this mod. The mod page has an in-depth description of all spells, but if you’re like me, you’ll want to download and find out for yourself.Control the weather, fight with dragon’s teeth, or build magical bridges. Balanced MagicThis mod fixes some of the original problems I had with Skyrim magic. It made no sense!
As I got more powerful, I had to purchase my spell upgrades. This mod, among many other things, makes sure that as you level up your spells get more powerful. Your Magicka regenerates faster, and the less armor you’re wearing, the less it costs to cast spells, because your body is less encumbered. I love this mod because it makes sense. Wearing less should logically make it easier to cast spells, and with this mod it does. Smart CastCommon sense parameters mean you automatically heal yourself if your health falls too low.My favorite thing about Smart Cast is that it brings in more common sense features than Balanced Magic could do alone. Smart Cast will automagically begin spells without your help if the right conditions are met.
My personal favorite Smart Cast spell is the healing spell. If I’m in danger of dying, I don’t necessarily have time to equip healing and try and save my life. Smart Cast has my back. Even better, you can cast more than one spell with each hand.
(That’s not quite as realistic, but go for it anyways.) 5. Wrath of Nature – The Path of the DruidTurn into a tiger, a lion, or a bear, oh my!This mod allows you to magically turn into powerful monsters that can destroy all of your enemies. (Personally, I love the tiger.) You begin this mod by discovering a book that teaches you about druidic lore.
You spend your time leveling up and become a more powerful transformation master. If you enjoy this mod, you can continue your powerful ride with Wrath of Nature – The Champion of Kynareth. T3nd0’s Perkus MaximusBecome a better Warrior, Thief, or Mage.This mod is about so much more than magic. As one of my favorite mods, Perkus Maximus reworks the major skill trees.
It effects everything, from how you level up as a warrior, to the mage you can become. PerMa changes the way every part of magic works, and it’s too much to describe here. It adds over 200 new spells, and that’s just the start.
I suggest you load this one up and just see for yourself. The only problem with PerMa is that if you aren’t an experienced modder than it has to be loaded at the start of a new game. If you don’t do that, you risk breaking your game.
Mighty Magick SkyrimMagic is alive. Its place changes over time and grows with us.Mighty Magick takes the magic of Skyrim and makes it matter. To be honest, in vanilla Skyrim you could get by casting one spell, maybe two (at the College of Winterhold), because you don’t need it that much. The magic just isn’t that useful. Mighty Magick seeks to change that. The creator has also been improving this mod since the days of Morrowind.
If that’s not a reason to add this mod to your repertoire, I don’t know what is. Flying Mod BetaFly around Tamriel and bring your followers, too.This is just a fun mod, but it does allow you to do something in Skyrim that I always wondered why we couldn’t. This is a simple spell that turns you into a flying Dragonborn. It comes with its own animations, and includes a spell to help your followers fly too. Take to the sky like the dragon-blooded warrior you are! Wintermyst – Enchantments of SkyrimI have never cared about enchanting items. For the longest time there was just no point.
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I could spend time ripping things apart to put their powers on other things, or I could just not do that at all. Wintermyst changed my mind about that.
Wintermyst provides 124 new enchantments so you can enchant to your heart’s content. This mod is no longer updating, 10. Forgotten Magic RedoneTake a few spells, and make yourself more powerful than you’ve ever been before.Forgotten magic does what so many Skyrim Magic mods do: It brings you new spells!
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The difference between this mod and others on my list is the number of spells it brings you. Instead of going for breadth, this mod goes for depth. You take a small collection of new spells and level them up to unlock their full potential. 39 new spells doesn’t sound like much, but when you can improve them as much as this mod allows you to, they become more powerful then you could expect. Skyrim Spells and PowersBecome a more powerful, more feared, Mage.And, to round out the list is my final magical mod. When looking to feel powerful, this mod must be in your load order. More spells, more weapons, and more armors, all in one little package.
Skyrim Best Home Mods
Want to clear the weather? Want to fortify your carry weight?
Want to be bored? Nope, not here. You want boredom, go somewhere else.Now that you’ve read up on some of my favorite magic mods, go try them! Did I miss something here?
I’m always up to try new mods. Can’t know you love something if you don’t try it. Now, get out there and do something magical.Looking for even more mods? Check out these:.