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Intro
Player housing in The War Within has quickly become one of the expansion’s standout features. Even in early access, the system already allows players to customize entire neighborhoods, design multi-room homes, build custom structures, and experiment creatively with hundreds of decor tools and thousands of placeable objects.
This guide walks you through everything you need to know — from unlocking both Alliance and Horde homes to advanced building tricks, hidden seating, decor vendor resources, room expansion, and full customization workflows.
If you’re still working toward max level or unlocking housing on multiple characters, TWW Leveling can help you reach all requirements faster and start building immediately.
You Can Own Two Homes: Alliance and Horde Housing
Every account can maintain two houses:
- Founders Point — Alliance district
- Razorwind Shores — Horde district
Even if you do not normally play both factions, you can create a secondary character to unlock the second plot. Both homes:
- Level up separately
- Offer identical tools and customization
- Can be visited by any character across your account
Your full property list appears in the Housing Dashboard, where you can instantly switch between plots.
If you’re building multiple characters for cross-faction housing, TWW Leveling speeds up the process dramatically.
Neighborhoods: Public, Personal, and Guild Communities
Housing is tied to neighborhoods, which you can browse or join through the bulletin board in the major zones of The War Within. Here, players can:
- Create their own neighborhood
- Join a public one
- Join their guild’s neighborhood
- Move freely between neighborhoods at any time
Guild neighborhoods require 10 unique accounts in the guild. Larger guilds (55+ active accounts) automatically unlock additional neighborhood “phases” to ensure enough plots for everyone.
For guilds progressing endgame together, gearing up early with Mythic+ Bundles helps maintain strong performance in both social and competitive content.
Moving Your House Is Simple — All Progress Moves With You
If you initially placed your home in a public area, you can still move it:
- Open Housing Dashboard
- Select Open House Finder
- Choose any public or guild neighborhood
Your home’s level, layout, floors, walls, decor, and unlocks all follow you. Nothing is lost or reset.
Decor Vendors, Addons and a Massive Database of Housing Items
TWW housing includes an enormous catalog of decor — currently over 2,200 items, with more added regularly. Sources include:
- Vendors across Azeroth
- PvP currency vendors
- Achievement vendors
- Treasure chests
- Crafting recipes
- World drops
To navigate this:
Use a Decor Vendor Addon
It shows:
- Every decor vendor in the game
- Their exact map location
- What items they sell
- Required currencies (gold, honor, marks, etc.)
With waypoint addons, you can instantly travel to any vendor listed. Many decor pieces require honor, so a decent stockpile of WoW Gold EU or WoW Gold US helps you pick up vendor items, crafted furniture, and cosmetic components.
Additionally, the WoW Housing Hub maintains a searchable web index with filters for:
- Color
- Cost
- Item quality
- Source type
- Expansion
- Currency
This is invaluable when trying to match a specific theme.
Advanced Building Tools — Rotation, Scaling and Full 3D Placement
The heart of housing is the Advanced Edit Mode, which gives you three powerful tools:
Move Tool
- Drag items freely across all three axes
- Place decor on furniture, shelves, ceilings, or inside structures
Rotate Tool
- Rotate objects at any angle
- Tilt furniture, align walls, create custom patterns
Scale Tool
- Grow or shrink nearly any decor item
- Create micro-objects, giant props, or embedded structures
Together, these tools allow players to build structures Blizzard never directly provided — waterfalls, rock formations, custom gardens, false walls, or complete room overhauls.
Creative Trick: Hidden Seating With Micro-Chairs
One of the strongest techniques in modern housing design uses scaled-down chairs:
- Place a chair
- Scale it down until it’s nearly invisible
- Slide it slightly inside another object (like a rock or platform)
- Sit on it to test
- Adjust your build while seated
The game still detects it as a seat, allowing you to create:
- Floating perches
- Natural rock seating
- Hidden RP spots
- Decorative lounges
- Screenshot poses
This technique appears constantly in high-end community builds.
Example Build: Creating a Custom Rock Fountain
A great demonstration of what’s possible:
- Start with a basic in-game fountain
- Surround it with multiple rock types
- Resize and rotate each rock to hide the original structure
- Leave the water effect exposed
- Add trees, lanterns, benches, or animals as decoration
The result is a fully custom fountain that looks like a natural stone pool rather than a prefab asset. With enough decor, you can redesign the entire exterior region of your home.
If you’re farming decor through dungeons, having a geared main via the Mythic+ Bundle helps speed up acquisition of rare housing rewards.
Expanding Your Home: Rooms, Floors, Walls and Roof Customization
Your house can be upgraded to Level 5, unlocking:
- Larger rooms
- Different structural pieces
- Expanded budgets
- Better indoor layouts
Using Floor Plan Mode, you can:
- Add or remove rooms
- Reposition hallways
- Design full multi-room layouts
- Adjust door placement
- Build specific-purpose rooms (bedrooms, libraries, workshops, bathrooms, etc.)
Full Visual Customization Includes:
- Themes for each wall
- Flooring patterns
- Ceiling and roof styles
- Doorway appearances
- Global “apply to all walls” tools for convenience
Some decorators even use false doors and angled furniture to simulate 3D space or trick the eye into seeing larger structures.
Housing Creativity, Early Access State & Future Potential
Housing is still in early access, so Blizzard will keep refining:
- Object budgets
- Placement limits
- Wall rules
- Neighborhood features
- Guild collaboration tools
With the Midnight expansion approaching, housing will likely expand significantly — more decor, more features, more systems, and more freedom.
If you’re preparing for future content like Manaforge Omega, Normal Omega runs can get you raid-ready while you continue decorating your home.
Final Thoughts
WoW housing in The War Within is already a creative powerhouse. With two homes per account, flexible neighborhoods, thousands of decor items, and advanced 3D editing tools, players can design entirely unique environments that showcase personality, creativity, and aesthetic vision.
Whether you’re building a cozy cottage, a faction-themed hall, a mage tower, a tavern, a garden sanctuary, or a fully custom home interior, the tools are already here — and they’ll only get better from here.
If you want to speed up your progression, gather gold for decor, or prepare characters for endgame while focusing on housing, the following can help: