An Old Attic Apartment | FFXIV Housing Guide

this old and cozy attic was built within Final Fantasy 14's most underrated housing space an apartment often snub due to their current size and Slot limitations apartments are seen as a stepping stone in the race to win of bigger and better houses but today we're going off the beaten path away from large complicated builds to celebrate an apartment design that Embraces a decayed aesthetic with lots of greenery and plenty of tombs that will make any Bookworm feel right at home hello and welcome b

ack beautiful blooms my my name is galatina and I'll be going over this Unique Look from floor plan to completion and I'll throw in some item guides from the more glitch heavy aspects of the build so you can recreate them for your own designs so let's go now I know what you may be thinking there's not much you can do to change an apartment shape so what do you need a floor plan for that's where you're wrong my friend the smaller the space the more important cohesive floor plan becomes because it

's vital to make use of every every Square in you have and knowing where you want distinct areas to be in your build will make the entire process that much easier so with that being said the floor plan in this apartment is broken up into three key sections the north wall became the focal point with a big night sky window and a built-in bed that doubles as a reading Nook which serves to catch your attention the moment you enter the apartment and makes you want to explore further inside now the ce

ntral area is a seating space and given the Decay aesthetic there's really not much much to the spot other than picking the right Furniture pieces to match the theme I kept it nice and clear for ease of foot traffic finally in the southern third section there's a small kitchen to the west of the entrance and a big window feature to the east where there's also a sink I opted to forgo a custom entrance in order to dedicate the majority of the item slots I had to work with into the rest of the spac

e that being said I did shrink the dimensions of the apartment with custom walls to make the whole build feel that much more cozy and speaking of which what can be Cozier than this window bed it's super simple to make and there's only two items you have to use the float anything glitch for one of them is the portal partition which makes the round window shape it's not floated very high but just high enough that it'll stay afloat and the bottom can peek over the two hanging sideboards that make t

he window sill The Greenery is made of two Wall Planters and one wall climbing Ivy if the IV is hung low enough that its Central hip box doesn't overlap the partition wall then it will not snap to either side of the partition and that goes for any wallmounted item by the way finally the night SK just the crystal tower fasm Escape slid far enough to the side to hide the tower fast escapes are your best friends for Designing custom windows and apartments and small houses because they provide colli

sion and a lot of custom Sky boox details in only one item they're big so they help fill a lot of space too I also hid two of the new fairy pend and wall lights just behind it to add a soft twinkling star effect which can be done with the help of a stage panel and a wooden beam the effect here is much more subtle with the fasma Escape than it would be if you use this trick with a dyed white screen but I think that subtlety is better in busy areas like this because it adds a little life to the sp

ace without detracting from all the other details now the bed itself is just a step bed with two floating kitchen cabinets floated backwards to hide the bed's intricate sides and a set of matching cushions is floated onto the bed with the help of a Riviera bookshelf as was an open book to help make the space feel more lived in both the cushions and the side tied curtain that help create a sense of privacy are dyed Rano blue to provide a pop of color the compliments all VAR wood tones and the bit

s of reddish pink on the step bed too now the inner walls are just two mounted bookshelves turned backwards though be warned the bookshelves don't have camera Collision so you'll need to put something behind them if you want to keep your camera from zooming out behind all of your furniture in this case I have imitation wooden skylights there as they make up the walls for this build and the backs of them can be seen here in the front where you will also see a wooden staircase bookshelf and anothe

r mounted bookshelf just facing forward this time and finally the one and only other item for the bed that you need to use the float anything glitch for is the Oasis bed that makes the ceiling of this little Nook I left it visible because the bottom textures of the bed actually look really nice and worked for the design aluminous one Loft placed above it instead of trying to hide it provides some lighting within the Nook and helps close off the Gap the bed would have left up top trailing Vines f

rom a rose trellis turned backwards and pushed into the bookshelf add some Greenery and contribute to the reclaimed by Nature Vibe the whole design exudes as for the colors used this was a great time to play with wood tones again which I was really happy to do so I'll have a list of dies up on screen for you to shop for yourself all the mounted bookshelves and steped can't be dyed but everything else can the portal wall is bark Brown the hingan sideboards and kitchen cabinets are LOM Brown and t

he wooden staircase bookshelf is chestnut brown but do feel free to experiment with different shades and that is it for the Book Nook which comes down to roughly 23 items in this particular variant 24 if you want to include the tabletop orchestrion like I I have here as we move on to the seating area I'd like to remind you that if you'd like to see more of my designs and guides then you should tap the Subscribe button so you don't miss any of my future projects now while the seating area is rela

tively simple there are a couple of tricks I still wanted to touch on for this apartment I wanted to create an old attic that's been reclaimed by nature but is slowly getting used again which is why I picked pieces like the factory bench and the Woodland chair yet if I get my big bouncy hair out of the way you'll also see some antique wall shelves laying on the floor makes it look like some wood dropped down from the ceiling at one point doesn't it but that's a wallmounted item so how do we get

that to lay down on the floor easy with the help of a stage panel and a wooden beam you can attach the wall shelf as low as it will go on the beam then use the stage panel to maneuver it where you want the shelf to lay lower the wooden beam to sink the wall shelf into the floor and then detach the Shelf if you want a more detailed guide to floating wall mounted items like this I'll leave a link to Shay Cloud Banks video that goes over all the controls behind it even for controller users it's rea

lly easy I promise it's worth learning Small Tricks like this because they go a long way in creating a unique look as for the rest of the space the jetting rocks behind the bench is an indoor Oriental waterfall turned around and the climbing vine with the Cherry Bloss and flowers on it it's just an Eastern canopy bed with a single Corner PE poking through the walls which as I mentioned already the walls for this build are predominantly made of imitation wooden skylights I love this item and that

trick I just showed you with the wall shelf you can use that same cran method to place the wooden skylights backwards to create your own custom cabin walls and if you're going for a really rustic look I prefer these over using blank partitions because they can be dyed and their texture is fantastic and best of all because they a wallmounted item they offer More Design opportunities for apartments that blank partitions can't provide let's walk through an example shall we've all been there right

we see this really cool build on housing snap that features a beautiful window and we all want to recreate it until we try to replicate it and realize most of the custom windows we see require having a lower floor to float stuff up from meaning such designs are gated behind having a house and that sucks but don't worry you can achieve similar looks in your apartment and I already showed you one of the tricks to get that look where I used hingan sideboards as the window sill for the booknook the

second window feature is another using that crane method I showed you and the imitation wooden skylights I used three skylights to frame the windowed partition and hide the marble W that item has because the hit boxes for these skylight don't overlap with the wall they don't snap to the other side of it for the lower one you're going to need to use your wooden beam crane to sink it into the floor until it gets to the height you want yes I know that is so easy to say wooden beam crane but we're g

oing to do it anyway unfortunately you can't use these skylights to hide that top remaining bit of wall above the window because the hit boox will overlap there so to finish the look I use the back of two wooden casrs in dead now keep in mind you can't dye the C cacks I found dying the imitation when skylights lone Brown gets you a pretty close match to the cas R's natural color finally an Earth's F fasm Escape provides the illusion of some Greenery outside and an imitation Square window hidden

behind the fastcap gives us Sun raise during the morning hours in the game and all in all this window only took N9 item slots to make so it's cheap and you can use it in your own build pretty easily next up in a across the window is the small kitchenet on the West Wall the base is one Southern Kitchen with six ice boxes dyed Cerulean blue to create custom cabinets and I wanted to bring a bit more of the blue that I had used for the booknook further into the space since we currently only have one

die channel in the game this also allows you to have separate cabinet and countertop colors too and there's no guarantee we're going to get the dual Channel system in Furniture so this is a trick that will still be relevant even after Da tril is release a Glade bookshelf is turned so that its side faces forward and is pushed into the wall an accompany chest is floated up above the Southern Kitchen and turn backwards for a makeshift vent Hood two floating cabinets one of them turned on its side

like you did with the Glade bookshelf make the upper cabinets of the kitchen both the cabinets and the bookshelf are also dyed C and blue to match the lower ice boxes and finally a cask rack Cask rack is floated above the whole thing to finish the wall and make everything look nice and cohesive for this particular aesthetic I've also got some more of the wall climbing Ivy trailing down since the kitchen probably hasn't been used in a long time I don't know maybe the new Resident is making more b

etter use of it and that's everything on the ground you didn't think all that work went into such tiny spaces did you but I assure you the devil's in the details and apartments are honestly one of the best areas in the game for experimental designs like this not only do they force you to choose which areas need more item slots than others but it's actually a little easier to create a cohesive look because sometimes we tend to miss the force for the trees if you will when we're trying to fill in

bigger spaces but wait we're not done yet to really sell the idea that this was an attic I wanted to create a custom ceiling around a skylight which is one of the easier ceiling designs you can work with a Starry Sky fasm Escape sits right above the seating area to bathe it in a nice soft light it's also dyed cabal Brown to blend in with all of the wood tones in the rest of the build and give the illusion that there's a hole in the ceiling now there are better ways to make this look more seamles

s and I highly recommend checking out Jelly Pano for that there or bun bone orbon their orbon ruins build makes me absolutely jealous in the best way possible so make sure to go give them some love however for this build the item slots need to go elsewhere so what I've done here was good enough for the rest of the ceiling several stage panels were turned backwards and floated up so that their bottoms could be used for Rafters two troop stages dyed chestnut brown and aluminous wind Loft dyed wood

Brown alongside a single imitation wooden Loft angled from the left make the rest of the ceiling enclose the space and hidden up above all that are two Eastern Indoor ponds for camera Collision throughout the space so that once again your camera doesn't go flying through the ceiling when you're spinning around checking everything out beyond all those structural details there's a few aesthetic touches here and there such as the ivy pend and wall light and my tried and true IV curtains that I can

't seem to get enough of in all of my builds and all of it came together to create a unique yet cozy space you're not going to find anywhere [Music] else [Music] can you believe this was only done with a 100 items and that's the reason why I really wanted to Showcase more apartment builds it's precisely because I feel like they get overlooked in the 14 Community they never demolish and are a lot cheaper to decorate and maintain than any house in the game and with the promised item slot increase

in Dawn Trail the benefits of an apartment are only going to get better yet until then you really can do more with 100 item slots than you think but more importantly what did you think would you like to see more apartment builds too and what kind let me know in the comments below and as always thank you all so much for watching if you're hungry for more of my designs I've got another video up on screen for you to enjoy otherwise until next time see you then