Player-owned house

"House" redirects here. For Baba Yaga's house, see House (Berty).

For a list of all items and upgrades within the Construction skill, see Construction/Level up table.

A player-owned house (often shortened to POH) is the focus of the Construction skill. It can be bought from an estate agent for 1,000, or received for free upon completion of the miniquest Daddy's Home. Players' houses are located in Rimmington by default but can be moved to one of 8 different cities for a fee by talking to an estate agent, if the required (unboostable) Construction level is met. Players can enter the house through house portals, labelled on the world map as . For a list of pros and cons on different locations consult the house portal page. Owning a house is required for a player to use an experience lamp on the Construction skill.

Location	Level	Cost to move	Map
Rimmington	1	5,000	Show map
Taverley	10	5,000	Show map
Pollnivneach	20	7,500	Show map
Hosidius	25	8,750	Show map
Rellekka	30	10,000	Show map
Aldarin	35	12,500	Show map
Brimhaven	40	15,000	Show map
Yanille	50	25,000	Show map
Prifddinas	70	50,000	Show map

House styles

Main article: House styles

Houses can be redecorated in different styles. This is a cosmetic change which affects the appearance of the ground, walls, and roofs of a house, but not the layout and features of the house. Redecoration can be done by speaking with any of the estate agents. There are multiple styles available to choose from, though they each require a certain Construction level, and most cost a fee between 5,000 and 35,000 coins. Some styles have additional special requirements.

Rooms

There are many different rooms that can be added to houses. The house a player buys will begin with a garden and parlour, but more rooms can be added. Different rooms will require different Construction levels and will cost money. New rooms can be added by right-clicking the door hotspots or using the viewer while in building mode.

Upper

Level	Room		Cost
1		Parlour	1,000
1		Garden	1,000
5		Kitchen	5,000
10		Dining room	5,000
15		Workshop	10,000
20		Bedroom	10,000
25		Skill hall	15,000
27		League hall	15,000
30		Games room	25,000
32		Combat room	25,000
35		Quest hall	25,000
37		Menagerie	30,000
40		Study	50,000
42		Costume room	50,000
45		Chapel	50,000
50		Portal chamber	100,000
55		Formal garden	75,000
60		Throne room	150,000
65		Superior garden	75,000
72		Portal nexus	200,000
80		Achievement gallery	200,000

Basement

Level	Room		Cost
65		Oubliette	150,000
70		Dungeon	7,500
75		Treasure room	250,000

Building a house

The House Options interface can be used to toggle Building Mode

The player's first house starts off with only a parlour and garden, but new rooms and furniture can be easily built.

Building mode

Main article: Building mode

In order to begin customising a house, a player must enter their house with building mode turned on. This can be done either by entering portal in building mode or by changing the building mode settings in house options of the Settings menu. Changing the setting in the Settings menu while not in a house, the player will automatically be in building mode the next time they cast Teleport to House. The player cannot drop items while in building mode and pets are not allowed. Building mode cannot be turned on while guests are in the house.

Adding new rooms

While in building mode, players will see white doors in the entryways of all their rooms. Right-clicking on these and selecting build will allow the player to see a menu of all the rooms that can be built attached to that door. The player will also see the level requirement and the price of the new room. When a room is selected, the player will see a ghost version of the new room and will be able to rotate the room to any desired rotation provided that the doorways line up. If a room is occupying the spot the player wants to build, they are given the option to remove it, unless it is a menagerie or costume room, where it is moved instead to that location for the building fee.

Removing rooms

A room can be removed in building mode by right-clicking the door to the room and selecting the build option. This brings up a prompt asking if you want to remove the room. You cannot remove a room on the ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US] that is supporting another room on the 1^st floor^[UK]2^nd floor^[US]. This rule does not apply to dungeon rooms under the ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US] rooms.

It is advisable to remove all the built items in a room before removing the room. In most cases, nothing is gained by removing items, but in some cases items are recovered. For example, armour, swords, and capes that are part of a display can be recovered.

Moving rooms

Rooms can be moved using the House Viewer, which can be found within the house options in your settings tab.

Planning the layout

The most important point to consider when designing the layout is which rooms are placed next to the garden portal. For beginning players, the workshop or kitchen can be the best rooms next to the portal because they offer fast training methods such as building flatpacks or larders. Portal chambers are very useful to place directly adjacent to the portal, since this allows quick and easy access to teleports for when players wish to use their house as a teleport hub. Another room that is often put near the portal is a chapel, which will allow players to train and recharge prayer more quickly.

Another important point to consider when building a house is which direction that rooms face. While this is not a huge concern for most rooms, some orientations can make moving through the house much faster. For example, normal staircases can be annoying if built facing the wrong direction unlike spiral staircases, which can be accessed from any side. When a staircase is added to a skill hall, it will connect to the room above or below by default if and only if the room is facing the proper direction. This restriction is in effect for both normal staircases and, even though they do not have a "direction", spiral staircases. Another good example is the orientation of the exit portal.

Maximum number of rooms and area

From level 1 to 25 Construction, a maximum of 24 rooms (including gardens) can be built. At level 26 and every 6 levels thereafter to level 92, an additional room can be built. One additional room can also be built at levels 96 and 99, for a maximum of 38.

There is also a maximum area that can be built on that also goes up with Construction level, starting at 3 rooms by 3 rooms up to 7 rooms by 7 rooms.

As your maximum house dimensions goes up, so does your yard space. Yard space increases by adding a row to the top of your current yard space, and a column to the right. You should plan accordingly should you desire a centred house, as increasing your construction over time will off-centre it. Players who wish to centre a 3x3 or 4x4 house that is currently off-centre should move all rooms exactly one tile south-west using the House Viewer, starting with the most south-western room and ending with the most north-eastern room.

Construction level	Maximum number of rooms	Maximum house dimensions	Yard space
1	24	3×3	5×5
15	24	4×4	6×6
26	25	4×4	6×6
30	25	5×5	7×7
32	26	5×5	7×7
38	27	5×5	7×7
44	28	5×5	7×7
45	28	6×6	8×8
50	29	6×6	8×8
56	30	6×6	8×8
60	30	7×7	9×9
62	31	7×7	9×9
68	32	7×7	9×9
74	33	7×7	9×9
80	34	7×7	9×9
86	35	7×7	9×9
92	36	7×7	9×9
96	37	7×7	9×9
99	38	7×7	9×9

Notable features

• The superior garden's spirit tree & fairy ring provides the fastest way to access transportation networks of spirit trees and fairy rings. The ornate rejuvenation pool is extremely convenient when doing player-versus-monster activities, as other alternatives for restoring all drained stats take notably more time.
• The achievement gallery has several useful hotspots; the jewellery box, when fully upgraded, will provide unlimited teleports for various useful destinations with the ring of dueling, games necklace, skills necklace, combat bracelet, amulet of glory and ring of wealth. The occult altar also allows the player to swap between the Ancient, Arceuus, Lunar, and Standard spellbooks without having to go to their respective areas (or have 99 Magic). The cape hanger, equipped with a proper cape, will provide various useful perks.
• The chapel may contain an altar, up to a gilded altar (requires 75 Construction). In addition to being able to recharge prayer at this altar, players may also train prayer here, by using bones with the altar. With one marble incense burner lit, it gives 300% Prayer experience per bone. When both are lit, it gives 350% Prayer experience. The experience bonus will easily pay itself back with cheaper training.
• The workshop allows you to build flat-pack furniture at your workbench, make clockwork toys at the clockmakers bench, repair barrows armour for a much cheaper price compared to using NPCs, and less significantly, paint steel and rune armour (this makes them untradeable), and make banners.
• With a portal chamber a player can create portals with any teleports available to them, provided they have met the requirements. This makes it possible to use teleports from different spellbooks without the need for switching spellbook.
  • The portal nexus is an upgraded portal chamber that can hold even more teleports depending on the type of portal they've built.
• A kitchen allows various levels of shelves, which contain unlimited Cooking supplies such as kettles, teapots, teacups, beer glasses, cake tins, bowls, pie dishes, pots, and chef's hats. These allow you to make tea, with the various other items in the kitchen, which gives a temporary boost to Construction. You can also cook here if you wish, and re-building oak larders is a fast method of training Construction.
• The costume room can be amazingly helpful in storing items that would normally be taking up room in the bank. Considering that all items in this room may be made flat-pack at a workbench, any player may have the best costume room.
• Players who wish to hire a servant must have at least two bedrooms with beds in them.
• The study can be used to build a lectern (levels 47, 57, 67, and 77), which allows you to make magic tablets, providing you have some soft clay and the runes to cast the spell required. The eagle lectern is used for teleport spells, whilst the demon lectern is used for enchantment spells. The best eagle lectern can create: Lvl-1 Enchant, Varrock Teleport, Lumbridge Teleport, Falador Teleport, Camelot Teleport, Ardougne Teleport, Watchtower Teleport, and House Teleport. The marble lectern can make all tablets from both eagle and demon lecterns.
• The quest hall may contain a mounted amulet of glory on the wall, which will give you unlimited teleports. This is useful for quick banking once you are finished in your house.
• A dining room's most notable feature is the bell-pull (level 26), which allows you to summon your servant quickly. Having a bell-pull also unlocks the use of the "Call Servant" button to quickly summon your servant from anywhere in your house. The button is in the House options menu in the Settings side-panel.
• Unneeded pets may be stored in menagerie to clear bank space. It also enables storing of cats.
• If any player dies within a house (via the combat room or dungeon rooms), they will be teleported to outside the house but will retain all their items and have their Hitpoints and other stats restored. This remains true for anyone who may die inside a player-owned house to another player in a PvP world.

Restrictions

• House room limit and sizes vary depending on your Construction level. At level 1, you are restricted to a 3×3 grid and 24 room limit, which gradually increases to a 7×7 grid at level 60 and 38 rooms at level 99.
• Houses can only have a limit of one additional room above or below the ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US]. This means you cannot have a 2^nd floor^[UK]3^rd floor^[US] in the house or have two levels underground.
• Some rooms are limited to certain areas. For example, gardens can only be built on ground level, while dungeon rooms must be placed underground.
• Players cannot have a room above ground level if there is no room below it. Replacing or removing a room supporting another room must relocate or remove the upper level.
• Costume rooms cannot be removed until all items placed inside have been taken out.

House planning

The layout of a player-owned house can be changed for free at any time by entering building mode and using the 'Viewer' option in the House Options setting. Players can move rooms to meet their current requirements.

When planning a house layout, particular consideration should be given to the following criteria:

• The room limit and dimensions of the house, which both depend on construction level. At 99 , there can be up to 38 rooms including gardens in a 7x7 house.
• Which rooms are useful. You can eventually get rid of the level 1 parlour and garden. Other less frequently used rooms can either be removed or moved to the 1^st floor^[UK]2^nd floor^[US].
• How many doors the rooms have and which way they are facing.
  • Rooms with 4 doors such as gardens have their direction determined by what direction the player faces while being built, but can be rotated using the house viewer mode in the house settings panel.
• Which rooms to have close to the entrance for quick access
• An oubliette should be below a throne room

The following list of rooms shows the number and position of doors:

Garden	Parlour	Kitchen	Dining room
Workshop	Bedroom	Hall (skill trophies)	League hall
Games room	Combat room	Hall (quest trophies)	Menagerie
Study	Costume room	Chapel	Portal chamber
Formal garden	Throne room	Oubliette	Superior garden
Dungeon (Construction)	Portal nexus	Dungeon corridor	Treasure room
Achievement gallery

Guest access

Other players may enter a host's house via the House Advertisement board if advertised, or by selecting the 'Friend's house' option on the entrance portal and typing the host's name. Players will be unable to enter if the host's Private setting is off, even if their house is advertised. The guest must also be on the same world as the host.

Guests will remain in a house if the host leaves. Hosts may remove any player from their house by using the 'Kick' right-click option, or all guests with the 'Expel Guests' button in the house options, but neither will prevent re-entry. Players added to a host's Ignore list will not be able to enter.

A player who is teleblocked may still enter via the entrance portal.

Ironmen may not access another player's house. Group Ironmen can enter the houses of other members of the group and teleport directly to them, provided they are online. Players without account restrictions can visit any other player's house.

Max houses

A max house is a house containing the highest level features that are considered useful to the average player. These include:

• An ornate rejuvenation pool for restoring stats
• A gilded altar for training Prayer
• An occult altar for switching spellbooks
• An armour stand for repairing degradable armour
• A lectern to create teletabs
• Teleports from the ornate jewellery box, portal nexus, and spiritual fairy tree

84 Construction is the lowest Construction level needed for a max house, as it allows players to boost (+8 skill boost) with a crystal saw (+3 invisible skill boost) and spicy stew (+5 visible skill boost) to build a Crystalline portal nexus. Players who wish to avoid using spicy stews may use a cup of tea (trimmed) (+3 visible skill boost) requiring two extra construction levels. The crystal saw cannot be used for the Fairy ring, the Spirit tree, or the combination of the two, as they do not require a saw to build.

Item		Level	With tea (+3)	With stew (+5)	With tea and saw (+6)	With stew and saw (+8)
	Ornate rejuvenation pool	90	87	85	84	82
	Occult altar	90	87	85	84	82
	Ornate jewellery box	91	88	86	85	83
	Crystalline portal nexus	92	89	87	86	84
	Fairy ring	85	82	80	N/A	N/A
	Spirit tree & fairy ring	95	92	90	N/A	N/A

In official house party worlds, many players who do not own a max house use other player's houses for the above amenities.

Players can view whose house is available by viewing the house advertisement board next to each house portal. This will list the above information in a menu that the player can select from to pick a house to go to.

Players using other players' houses typically teleport to outside of the house portal by turning Teleport Inside off in the House Options, as seen in the image below.

Teleport outside of the house option is the second option in the house options interface

Changes

Date	Changes
26 February 2025 (Update | poll)	Mounted heads can now be switched out and upgraded without removing the entire display. New house styles for Canifis and Civitas are available. Improved PoH animations including sitting, combat ring entry and exit, treasure and storage interactions, and new interactions for the Trailblazer Globe and League Hall. Maximum rooms increased from 34 to 38. The PoH Bookcase is now alphabetised and fits onto a single menu page.
10 January 2024 (Update)	House loading times have been improved, and are now consistent regardless of the house's size or presence of upper floors or dungeons.
6 October 2021 (Update)	Ironmen are now able to let regular players enter their POH.
19 November 2015 (Update)	Wintumber trees and Pet rocks now respond more appropriately when a POH instance changes size.
12 November 2015 (Update)	Player-owned houses should now render more reliably for players who've lost Construction XP.
5 November 2015 (Update)	It is no longer possible to cause a POH throne to disappear by sitting on the adjacent throne.
22 October 2015 (Update)	Building mode can now be activated more consistently inside a player-owned house.
10 September 2015 (Update)	It is now possible to toggle whether teleporting to your house will place you inside your house or by the house portal.
3 September 2015 (Update)	Doors in player-owned houses can now only be closed by the host.
20 August 2015 (Update)	Switching weapons while you're sitting down in a player-owned house now updates your weapon holding stance correctly when you stand up. Chairs will no longer disappear if a player uses the leave house button or is evicted. You will no longer stand up from a chair when talking to another player's servant.
19 March 2015 (Update)	Watchtower & Camelot player-owned house portals & teleport tablets now teleport you to the new teleport location if you have them set.
14 November 2013 (Update | poll)	The player-owned house options menu now has a new toggle button, allowing you to have your house rendered with its doors already open.
7 November 2013 (Update | poll)	Owners now have a 'Kick' option to expel unwanted guests
5 March 2013 (Update)	Player-Owned Houses are now accessible enabling the proper training of Construction.
22 February 2013 (Update)	Old School RuneScape servers are officially launched, with player-owned houses and the Construction skill disabled.

Trivia

• If a player has the poison status inside a POH, exiting the POH in any way will remove this debuff, removing the potential need to wait for death or a recovery pool.

See also

• Template:POH room Templates for creating a floor plan of a player's house.