User blog comment:BMWM3 man/Houses.... PLEASE RESPOND FEEDBACK!!!!/@comment-98.164.206.118-20120703053552

After buying every house in the game and fully furnishing each one, I have to say I'm torn between Windhelm and Markarth being the best house in the game.

Windhelm is good if you like large, open space. Windhelm is also a good, centralized city with everything you could need. The downside is that there is very little storage, unless you count sacks (I don't -- sacks are for food and ingredients only) Windhelm also suffers from a few bugs, such as the dagger display cases in the master bedroom, and the fact that the Butcher quest breaks on me to the point where it is impossible to complete about half the time, but it does have a nice display area at the top of the stairs that allowed me to showcase all of my daedric artifacts. The hidden room for enchanting and alchemy is fun, too.

Markarth is definitely my favorite house aesthetically, but I'm a big fan of dwemer architechture. It isn't the biggest, but it has a nice layout with a neat entry hall leading into a nice common area with all the other rooms branching off of that. Plenty of doors, too, which I like. It's close to the main entrance of Markarth, but perhaps even more importantly it is close to the Abandoned House for Molag Bal's quest, which counts as a player house once you've completed that quest and has the most storage of any home in the entire game. It's nice to be able to stuff all my random garbage down there and keep my Markarth home free of clutter.

As for the worst, I'd go with either Solitude or Whiterun. I don't like Whiterun because it is too small and cramped. I always get stuck on the stairs, Lydia knocks stuff off the tables, it's always a mess. And I dislike the Solitude house because of its layout. Solitude is much smaller than the Windhelm house as far as sheer space, and Solitude is a terrible city due to its lack of a Smelter and the fact that it is so far away from everything. The Solitude house is also too expensive. Your money is better spent in Windhelm or Markarth.