Player Housing is coming to World of Warcraft with the Midnight expansion, and it's being built as a permanent pillar of the game rather than a temporary system. Blizzard has mapped out a dedicated development roadmap that extends through The Worldsoul Saga and beyond. You'll never truly "finish" your home. Instead, expect continuous updates bringing new decor items, systems, and customization options over time.
This guide covers everything you need to know about collecting, crafting, and placing decor items to turn your player house into a personalized home.
Understanding the Decor System
What Are Decor Items?
Once you've customized your house's basic exterior structure, decor items handle everything else. These are the objects that fill your space: furniture, lighting, decorative accents, structural elements, and more. They let you express your personal style, commemorate achievements, and build spaces that reflect your journey through Azeroth.
The decor system pulls from every corner of WoW's history. You'll find themed collections representing Blood Elves, Kul Tirans, Zandalari and Amani Trolls, Draenei, Earthen, Wildhammer Dwarves, Tauren, Humans, Forsaken, Orcs, Night Elves, Pandaren, Goblins, Nightborn, and plenty of others. Themed decor also comes from specific locations and storylines like Class Halls, Suramar, Mechagon, The Consortium, Shadowlands Covenants, and Void-Touched sources.
Account-Wide Collections with Individual Quantities
Decor collections work on a Warband (account-wide) basis. Once you earn, purchase, or acquire a decor item, it becomes available to every character in your Warband.
Some decor items are marked as Unique. You can only display one Unique item in your home, no matter how many you've collected.
The Three Tiers of Decor
Every decor item falls into one of three categories based on how hard it is to get:
Decor Item Tiers
Commodities are the easiest tier. Simple, everyday items like chairs, coffins, shelves, rugs, and basic furnishings. They're cheap and easy to acquire through multiple methods. You can buy them directly from vendors, craft them with professions, or grab them from other players on the Auction House. These items form the foundation of most player homes.
Investments sit in the middle tier and include more specialized or themed items. As the name suggests, these require an investment of time or resources. Investment-tier items often feature enhanced visuals like sound effects, movement, or particle effects. Think sparkling fountains with water effects or magical books that animate and flap their pages on their own. These add personality beyond basic furnishings.
Trophies are the highest tier, requiring real skill, coordinated group content, or major time commitments. Sources include Mythic+ dungeons, raid encounters, and long-term achievements. Trophy items serve as tangible proof of your accomplishments. The classic example is Onyxia's Head mounted on your wall as a permanent reminder of your victory.
The Decor Catalog
Accessing the Housing Dashboard
Everything related to player housing centers on the Housing Dashboard. Press H or find it on your menu bar. The Dashboard shows information about your house, your Neighborhood Favor progress, and most importantly, the Decor Catalog.
Navigating the Catalog
The Decor Catalog is a searchable database containing every available decor item in the game. When you view any item, the catalog displays a preview image along with its source, Decor Placement Cost, and how many you currently have in your Warband inventory. For items that support color customization, a small palette icon indicates the item can be dyed.
Catalog Categories
The Decor Catalog organizes items into these main categories and subcategories:
| Category | Subcategories | Example Items |
|---|---|---|
| Furnishings | Seating, Tables & Desks, Storage, Beds, Miscellaneous | Chairs, bars, lecterns, shelves, crates |
| Accents | Ornamental, Wall Hangings, Food & Drink, Floor, Miscellaneous | Books, pedestals, curtains, platters, boulders |
| Structural | Doors, Walls & Columns, Windows, Large Structures, Miscellaneous | Gazebos, forges, tents, windmills, fountains |
| Lighting | Large Lights, Wall Lights, Ceiling Lights, Small Lights, Ambient | Lampposts, braziers, sconces, floating lights |
| Nature | Large Foliage, Small Foliage, Bushes, Ground Cover, Miscellaneous | Trees, flowers, grass clusters, mushrooms |
| Functional | Utility, Miscellaneous | Cauldrons, stoves, cookpots, Warlock altars |
Where to Find Decor
Core Design Philosophy
Blizzard built decor acquisition around three guiding principles:
- Progressive Journey: Getting any specific piece of decor should be achievable for any player given enough time and effort. Collecting the complete catalog, on the other hand, is meant to be extremely difficult. You can target specific items, but completionism requires serious dedication.
- Core Gameplay with Variations: Decor rewards come from virtually every type of content in World of Warcraft. Prefer world content, professions, raids, dungeons, or PvP? You'll find decor items available from activities you already enjoy.
- Reverence for the Past: Your previous accomplishments matter. If you've already completed an achievement that now awards a decor item, you'll receive it automatically. Years of gameplay translate into immediate housing rewards rather than forcing you to repeat old content.
Earning Decor from Quests
Dozens of quests spanning WoW's expansions will have decor rewards added to their completion. If you've already finished these quests, the associated decor items will automatically appear in your collection.
Earning Decor from Raids and Dungeons
Select dungeons and raids throughout the game's history will include decor items in their loot tables. These items drop only from the final boss of each instance. Current testing shows a 100% drop chance.
One limitation to note: only one decor item drops per boss kill. If you want multiple copies of a specific raid or dungeon decor item, you'll need to run that instance multiple times.
Earning Decor from Reputations
A substantial chunk of available decor can be purchased from reputation vendors. This includes both new factions introduced going forward and many existing factions from previous expansions that are receiving decor additions.
If you've already earned reputation with a faction that offers decor rewards, those items will be available for purchase immediately when player housing launches. Returning players will find that their reputation grinding over the years has already unlocked numerous buying options.
Earning Decor from Achievements
Over 100 achievements across World of Warcraft are being updated to include decor item rewards. These span every aspect of the game including PvP, exploration, and expansion meta achievements.
Items earned through achievement completion become available to purchase from a vendor afterward, so you can get multiple copies of achievement-based decor. If you've already completed an achievement that now offers a decor reward, that item will automatically be added to your collection or unlocked at the appropriate vendor.
Earning Decor from Professions
There's no dedicated Housing profession. Instead, all non-gathering primary professions can craft certain decor pieces, with each profession specializing in thematically appropriate items:
All crafted decor items can be traded between players and sold on the Auction House.
Lumber: The New Gathering Reagent
A new reagent called Lumber serves as a universal crafting component for housing items. Lumber is expansion-specific, meaning you need different Lumber types from different eras alongside existing expansion reagents.
Gathering Lumber works similarly to other gathering professions. You collect it from nodes in the world. You can learn the ability to gather Lumber from Lestia Goldenstrike in Founder's Point or from Xiz'ro in Razorwind Shores.
The Dye System
Select decor items support dyeing, letting you change their colors to match your aesthetic preferences. The dye system involves two professions working together.
Scribes (Inscription) mill herbs from various expansions into Dye Pigments. Alchemists then transform these Dye Pigments into finished Dyes. The resulting Dyes can be bought and sold on the Auction House.
Most dyeable items have multiple zones that can be colored independently, giving you solid customization options for matching your decor to a cohesive color scheme.
Earning Decor from Events
World holidays are expected to include decor rewards. The Decor Catalog already features items like a Christmas tree, suggesting the Winterveil event will offer holiday-themed decor through vendors or as drops.
Beyond seasonal events, game modes like Legion Remix offer unique decor opportunities. Legion Remix features a decor vendor named Domelius with exclusive items. Similar decor additions may extend to other game modes in the future.
Earning Decor from the Cash Shop
Blizzard has confirmed the in-game cash shop will occasionally offer decor items. Specific pricing and frequency remain unannounced, but the Decor Catalog shows several items labeled as "shop" items, including Cherry Blossom and Garden Gnome themed pieces. These give us an idea of what styles to expect.
Decor Placement
Understanding the Placement Budget
Your home has a Decor Placement Budget that limits how many items you can display. Each decor item carries a Decor Placement Cost, typically ranging from 1 to 5 points. As you add items to your home, these costs add up against your total budget.
New homes start with a Decor Placement Budget of 300 points.
Through Neighborhood Favor progression, you can increase this budget up to a maximum of 825 points.
Basic Placement Controls
Basic Controls allow reasonably precise positioning for most decorating needs. You can adjust item position using mouse wheel controls and toggle grid-snapping on or off based on your preference. A collision toggle lets you disable object collision if you prefer more creative freedom in overlapping or tightly arranging items.
Advanced Placement Controls
Advanced Controls unlock sophisticated decoration capabilities. These include item scale adjustment to resize pieces, 360-degree rotation for precise angular positioning, and a nudge function for fine-tuned movement adjustments.
Collecting Efficiently
Using Your Existing Progress
Because the housing system honors past achievements, reputation, quest completion, and profession leveling, your first step should be logging in to claim what you've already earned. Years of gameplay may translate into a substantial starting collection without any additional effort.
Check your achievement panel for completed achievements that now offer decor rewards. Visit reputation vendors for factions where you've reached appropriate standing. Review quest-related vendors for items tied to content you completed previously.
Targeting Specific Items
The Decor Catalog shows the source for every item. Use this to plan your collecting priorities. If a specific themed piece interests you, the catalog will direct you to the exact content, vendor, or activity required.
Some items may require waiting for content to age if you prefer to solo group content. Others may be immediately purchasable. Planning around your preferred playstyle makes collection more enjoyable.
The Collection Achievement
For dedicated collectors, gathering 500 decor pieces of Uncommon quality or higher earns the Fully Furnished achievement and awards "The Furnished" title. It's a significant but achievable milestone for housing enthusiasts.
Race-Themed Collections
The decor system includes extensive themed collections. Here are examples of items representing various races and sources based on currently available information:
| Theme | Example Items |
|---|---|
| Pandaren | Traditional tables, iconic Noodle Cart |
| Goblin | Treasure chest storage, characteristic Goblin-style chairs |
| Tauren | Vignette chests, ceremonial drums, canoes |
| Night Elf | Elegant bookshelves reflecting ancient aesthetic |
| Nightborn | Windows, signposts, rugs, crates, decorative fencing, cages, bookshelves |
| Draenei | Medium-sized bushes, crystalline or Exodar-inspired pieces |
| Zandalari | Decorative masks representing cultural heritage |
Miscellaneous themed collections draw from various sources including Barracks (footlockers), Mechagon (hazard lights and mechanical items), Mage Tower (floating books), Campfire settings (cooking campfires), Reliquary sources (bookcases), Dragon themed items (book piles and telescopes), and Hunter themed items (mounted dragon heads as trophies).
Quick Reference
- Collections are Warband-wide, but quantities matter. Earning an item once makes it available account-wide, but you need multiple copies if you want to use the same item in multiple places.
- Items placed in one house aren't available for another. If your Alliance character uses an item, your Horde character can't use that same individual piece.
- Unique items can only be displayed once regardless of how many you own.
- Past achievements, reputation, and quest completions grant immediate rewards when housing launches.
- Profession skill levels from all expansions remain relevant for crafting expansion-specific decor recipes.
- The Decor Catalog serves as your primary reference for locating specific items and checking your current inventory.
- Decor Placement Budget starts at 300 and can reach 825 through Neighborhood Favor.
- Crafted items can be freely traded and sold on the Auction House.
Decor collecting shares similarities with mount and transmog collecting. There are numerous sources, specific methods for getting coveted pieces, and room for both casual engagement and dedicated completionism. If you want a simple, cozy retreat or an elaborate showpiece demonstrating your accomplishments, the decor system provides the tools and variety to make it happen.