Honeyfrost Retreat

A small riverside cottage in Eastmarch woodland.

Simple SSE conversion: save the .esp in Creation Kit and run all meshes through the SSE NIF Optimizer. Works on my machine and hopefully yours too.

I made this house for my character and his companions. It features a little bit of a special nod to their stories and personalities, but I decided to share it here because I thought others might enjoy it too. I still think it lends itself to a wide variety of characters. However, a common theme you'll notice is that there's alcohol throughout the place (99 bottles of mead on the wall, 99 bottles of mead~) and there's even a microbrewery outside, so it's pretty perfect for drinking if you're in character.

The main room features a bar, a kitchen with stocked pantry containers, and a cozy sitting area near the fireplace. Behind the bar are trap doors to the basement bathroom, and stairs lead to a candlelit loft bedroom complete with geocaching/mapping study table. Still, there's not much in the way of gaming facilities. It has no charming table, no alchemical laboratory, no anvil, no workbench, no grinding wheel, and no smelter, because why would it be like this? I never thought that a humble abode with all these things would be unrealistic, so I didn't include them. In fact, it doesn't even require a cooking pot on the stove because it would throw unnecessary shadows across the room. So, just to be clear, I emphasize the functional form of this house. 90% of the reason I made it was to have a place to take beautiful screenshots.

Location:

It is located on a bend in the river near Cradlecrush Rock, on the road from Whiterun to Windhelm. The area near the road has changed significantly, follow the road to Windhelm to reach the corner and look for a small opening on the left, which is the path to the yard. No key or mini-fetch quests required, just waltz in. If you're faster, you can also use "coc honeyfrostretreat" or "coc honeyfrostretreatexterior".

Recommended Mods:

The mods I used while making and testing this house, so these will make it look closest to how I intended it to look.

SMIM

Skyrim HD 2K

noble sky

EVERY GAMWICH TEXTURE FOREVER

skyline fence

Immersive Fallen Trees Mod (adds something to the background of the house, gently clipped with rock walls, but looks polished)

Enhance the landscape (again, it adds background, it's conflicting in nature, so if you pass it, I understand)

Known conflicts:

Almost anything that occupies the same vicinity will conflict, here are some examples:

Oblivion Door - In that location around the world there are some ruins of a door that leads through part of a doorway. Using these two mods is available.

Skyline's Campground - A campground located on the property.

Gharalbur Family Friendly Fortress

Gwent Hearth

integral:

Fimbulvetr Retreat - Borrowed some static entries for time saving reasons

Lolicept Resources

Modder’s resource pack

Modder's Resource Pack - The Witcher Expansion

BookSets resources

I'd also like to thank ChaserTech, Halofarm and Meara for helping me do this.

*Disclaimer: Example screenshots were taken in Skyrim LE. The ENB used in my screenshots is TKRE.

The legendary version is here.

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Simple SSE Conversion: Saved.esp in Creation Kit and ran all meshes through SSE NIF Optimizer. Works on my machine, hopefully yours' too.

I made this house mod for my own character and his companion. It's decked out with specific nods to their stories and personalities, but I decided to share it here because I thought others might enjoy it too. I still think it could be fitting enough for a wide variety of characters. However, a common theme you'll notice is that there's alcohol all over the place, (99 bottles of mead on the wall, 99 bottles mead~) and even a micro-brewery outside, so it's pretty perfect if you're playing a drinky character.

The main room includes a bar, a kitchen with some stocked food storage containers, and a cozy lounging ar …