Niko's (curious Japanese inspired hideout) - ESO

You are welcomed to visit it at PS EU server.

This house started with two shooting sets made for a pic competition. So originally only the eye and the Japanese screens were there. 

As I liked the outcome, I wanted to turn that stages into an actual house. The space was daring, as it was an only-inside one, small and with some inner structures like beams, but that added an extra fun. 

So I looked up traditional Japanese housing elements (both for structure and inner decoration), and if the "paintings" were coming to life and there was a "dragon" eye, it was naturally a magical environment, in which creatures had to be present, both lured to and part of it. 

As the ESO Hub competition was announced, I thought this house could be a good choice, as in the building process that "room for everyone" had been in its core, and relax (both senses, calm and being at ease) was present in it. And with the recent increase of slots, it was a great oportunity to partially rebuild and enhance it with more details. 

But the best moment came with the shooting of the pics. With a lovely friend I took the solo ones and after asked some others to come help if they were free. "Tp t m pls" and "Why am I here?" lead to a very fun moment that looked like the begginig of a joke: we were 1 Dutch, 1 Italian, 1 German, 1 English and 2 Spanish. Not everyone was in voice chat, not everyone spoke English, and definetelly not everyone was used to posing for pics, so we all ended up laughing while taking the photos. "We just did a hard mode trial" one said XD. So that was an unexpected cherry on the cake for that "room for everyone" and "relax with friends" motto of the competition. 

Congratulations (and apologies) if you read all this XD