Hello All.

Welcome to UOF's How-To-Do-It-Yourself deocrating page.

In this page, myself, and hopefully others will post how-to's on some neat decorating tips and ideas to help you decorate your home/vendor mall/guild house or whatever else needs decorating.

Feel free to use any of the designs in this page to help you decorate!

Have fun and Happy Decorating!!!

Epona :new_smili

Ok All!

Here is my Bonsai Tree...I think its better looking then those new plants...however thats just me Or you could call it Topiary.

What you Require:
- house deco tool
- one free tile
- two bales of cotton dyed green
- two mandrake root
- one wooden bowl (bowl of stew)
- one small wooden table

Instructions:
- place the table on the tile you wish your plant to go and lock it down
- place 1 of the bales of cotton on the table and lock it down
- raise it 7 times using the deco tool
- place 1 mandrake root on the table and lock it down
- raise it 7 times
- place the second bale of cotton on the table and lock it down
- raise it 4 times
- place the second mandrake root on the table and lock it down
- raise it 3 times
- place the wooden bowl on the table and lock it down
- lower the bowl once

You may have to raise and lower each of the pieces to suit your fancy.

VOILA! You should now have a beautiful Bonsai/Topiary Tree for your home.

Happy Decorating.
Epona

Ok, here we go! A friend of mine showed me how to make this last year and it's one of my favorite decorations!

Hanging Violet Plant

*This one can be a little tedious and take a little time*

You will need:

-Small Crate
-Bag (NOTthe backpack type)
-Axe
-Bola (complete, not just the ball)
-Bowl of Lettuce
-Inshave
-Nightshade x4
-Springs from an NPC x2
-Springs that were player made x2
-Wide Brim Hat x2
-Interior Decorator
-Mount (ethy works too, I'll explain later)
-One free tile beside a wall

How to do it:

**Note: This deco looks best on North walls.

1. Place inshave on the tile you choose. Lock it down and use the Interior Decorator to raise it as high as it will go.

2. Place the bola and lock it down. Raise it 13 times.

3. Place the bag, lock it down and raise it 6 times.

4. Do not open the bag, but drop into it the NPC springs. Raise the bag 2 times.

5. Drop the player made springs into the bag and raise the bag 1 time.

6. Drop 2 nightshade inside the bag and raise the bag 1 time.

7. Drop the crate into the bag. Raise the bag 1 time up. Then lower it 1 time.

8. Open the bag and drop into the crate, in this order - 1 Wide Brim Hat, Bowl of Lettuce, 1 Wide Brim Hat

9. Release just the crate and chop it with the axe. (Things will start to look messy here, but don't worry!)

10. Lock down the bowl of lettuce at the one hat that is showing.

11. Mount your horse and redraw the image. This will cause the second hat to pop up on top. Lock the hat down.

12. Drop last 2 Nightshade into the bag and raise the bag up 1 time.

13. Release the bag and chop it with an axe.

14. Lock down the 2 sets of springs and the nightshade and you have yourself a hanging Violet!

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A lot of people ask me why all the mounting and raising, so I will quickly explain. Mounting a horse in UO does what is called a re-draw. It's like resetting the graphics that you are seeing. In this case, in order to bring the other hat that is not locked down to the top, you must re-draw the graphics that you are seeing.

Raising and lowering objects changing the position they are in. So in order to get the springs, nightshade, bowl, etc into the right position, it's necessary to force the client to push them around inside the bag.

This can be made without all of these steps, but this is the best way to get flawless results.

Need instructions for a couch and a wide screen tv.. :wink:

That hanging violet is awesome!

The Record Player

Not my original design, but one that I have used many times over. Thanks to Breyn Darkthorne from A^E who showed me how to do this wonderful record player A LONG time ago.

What you Need:
- 2 shadow metal kite sheilds
- 2 pans of cookies
- 1 oil cloth (dyed dark grey)
- 1 smoothing plane
- 1 iron ingot
- 1 clock part
- 1 deco tool

Instructions
- *Best done on top of a small table*
- stack both pans of cookies one on top of each other and lock them both down
- stack one of the metal shields on top and lock it down
- stack the oil cloth on top of the metal shield and lock it down
- Lower the cloth 1 time, using the deco tool
*note if you do not lower the cloth, the effect will be off*
- stack the second metal shield on the oil cloth and lock it down
- stack smoothing plane and lock it down
- stack iron ingot and lock it down
- stack clock parts and lock it down

VOILA! A cute record player for your home!

Enjoy and Happy Decorating

Money Taps

Another Epona original These are cute for Treasure Rooms

What you Need:
- deco tool
- a pile of silver/gold
- 3 peices of silver/gold
- barrel tap
- east facing wall

Instructions
- place the barrel tap on the floor and lock it down
- raise the tap 9 times using the deco tool
- place one silver/gold coin on the floor and lock it down
- raise the coin 10 times
- place a second silver/gold coin on the floor and lock it down
- raise it 8 times
- place a third silver/gold coin on the floor and lock it down
- raise it 6 times
- place the remaining stack of coins on the floor and lock it down

VOILA! Now you have neat money taps that make you look like you have money running through the walls of your house!

Enjoy! And Happy Decorating

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I'd like to add a comment to your taps Epona!
Those look wonderful and you can modify them by putting a small barrel with water under them if you wanted a water tap.

Very cute!