The best Skyrim player home mods either rebuild the houses you already own, like Breezehome, Honeyside and the Hearthfire homesteads, or add new places to live: cottages near Riverwood, hidden vampire dens, buildable towns and castles, a pirate ship and even a home inside a wizard’s hat. The 25 below are for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition and Anniversary Edition on PC, all from the Skyrim Special Edition section of Nexus Mods, and every entry says where the home is, what it needs and whether a version from its creator (or one its creator allowed) is on Bethesda.net for Xbox or PlayStation.
The list runs from overhauls of the vanilla homes to new houses, then castles and buildable estates, and ends with a pocket home and the two Hearthfire helpers that make family life work in modded houses. If you have not bought a house yet, start with our guides on how to buy a house and how to build one with Hearthfire, and for the frameworks and fixes every load order needs, see our list of the 100 best Skyrim mods.
Vanilla Home Overhauls
These rebuild houses the game already sells you, so they work with the quests and stewards you know.
1. Elianora’s Breezehome Overhaul
Elianora’s Breezehome Overhaul (EBO) is the most endorsed player home on the Skyrim Special Edition Nexus, with more than 51,000 endorsements and 2.3 million downloads. It turns the cramped Whiterun starter house into a home fit for the thane of Whiterun: an armory to display your heroic loot, a steamy sauna and baths, every crafting station, lockable doors and a mirror to change your appearance. Its page also has a long section on running it with Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions (number 24), so your spouse and children settle in properly. As of November 2, 2026, version 3.4 (July 10, 2025) is the main file, and it needs SKSE64 and powerofthree’s Papyrus Extender, whose newest file supports game version 1.7.99 and later. Console: Elianora’s own Xbox version is on Bethesda.net, with more than 780,000 downloads there; there is no PlayStation version from her. Creator: Elianora and Khrysinxs. Needs: SKSE64, powerofthree’s Papyrus Extender. Download: Elianora’s Breezehome Overhaul on Nexus Mods.
2. Hearthfire Extended
Hearthfire Extended adds what its creator calls “all the little things” that should have been part of the official Hearthfire add-on, and it works inside the same building system rather than replacing it. A new carpenter’s workbench lets you craft most Hearthfire furniture in common, upper and noble styles and place it anywhere, including vanilla and mod-added homes. You can also add new wings to your cellar, hire guards and new kinds of servants, brew mead, milk cows and build a well. Its page says you can install it at any point in a playthrough, since nothing new appears until you build it. As of November 2, 2026, version 1.0.5 (October 2021) is the main file, and it needs only the Hearthfire add-on, which Special Edition includes. Console: no version from its creator is on Bethesda.net, so it is PC only. Creator: Kinaga. Download: Hearthfire Extended on Nexus Mods.
3. Lakeview Manor – As It Should Be
Lakeview Manor – As It Should Be remodels the interior of the Hearthfire house near Falkreath for a wealthy family man or collector. The main hall gets a fireplace, bookshelves and dining area, the kitchen moves to the back with its own storage room, and you get a real master bedroom, a music room, a games room, a library with enchanting and staff stations, an alchemy tower and an attic room for two children. Its page counts around 80 containers, none of which respawn, custom displays for collectibles from masks and Black Books to Elder Scrolls, shelves for about 500 books and windows that let in daylight. As of November 2, 2026, version 2.0.0 (June 2020) is the main file, and it lists no requirements beyond Hearthfire. Console: PC only; its creator has no Bethesda.net version. Creator: Nimee. Download: Lakeview Manor – As It Should Be on Nexus Mods.
4. Draco’s Hearthfire Homes Exteriors
Where most Hearthfire mods change the inside, this one upgrades the grounds of all three homesteads with walls, lights, guards and starter ruins. Lakeview Manor becomes a modern estate with gardens, three Falkreath guards and an old cabin in the woods, Windstad gets walls and old towers around an ancient Nord ruin, and Heljarchen Hall becomes an old imperial fort with training dummies and guards from the Pale. Its creator kept the changes simple and lore-friendly to stay compatible with other mods, and you hire the guards and a vendor yourself. As of November 2, 2026, each home is a separate main file, and the newest, Heljarchen Hall 2.0 (June 2023), is flagged ESL and needs a clean save or new game. Console: Draco1122 uploaded his own Xbox and PS4 versions to Bethesda.net as Draco’s Lakeview, Windstad and Heljarchen Manor Upgrades, and the PS4 uploads also run on PS5. Creator: draco1122. Download: Draco’s Hearthfire Homes Exteriors on Nexus Mods.
5. HS Player Homes – Honeyside
The HS Player Homes series rebuilds the vanilla houses into warmer family homes using almost entirely Skyrim’s own assets, so most texture and mesh replacers still fit. Honeyside, the Riften house you buy from the steward, is the most downloaded of the series, with nearly 3 million downloads: it adds an entire floor, turns the ground floor into a kitchen with a baking oven and a bar beside the dining table, and moves the master bedroom, with its own fireplace and bathroom, to a new basement level beside a children’s room. Its page recommends loading it late in your load order so other mods do not change the house’s visuals. As of November 2, 2026, version 2.0.3 (June 2023) is the main file, and it needs the creator’s HS Resources. Console: PC only. Creator: Hylios Sykes. Needs: HS Resources. Download: HS Player Homes – Honeyside on Nexus Mods.
6. HS Player Homes – Proudspire Manor
The same creator’s take on Proudspire Manor, the Solitude house you earn by helping the city’s citizens and finishing Jarl Elisif’s tribute quest, reworks the floor plan to add space. The master bedroom and children’s bedroom each gain a fireplace and a bathing area, the living room gets a fully stocked bar and sitting areas, and the enchanter moves into a study and library with a staff enchanter. It has nearly 2.5 million downloads, and the series also covers Breezehome, Severin Manor, Vlindrel Hall and Hjerim if you want matching homes across Skyrim. As of November 2, 2026, version 2.0.1 (June 2023) is the main file. Console: PC only. Creator: Hylios Sykes. Needs: HS Resources. Download: HS Player Homes – Proudspire Manor on Nexus Mods.
New Player Homes
Standalone houses you buy, find or unlock, from starter cabins to hidden lairs.
7. Elysium Estate
Elysium Estate is the most endorsed new player home in the category, with more than 28,000 endorsements: a mid-sized, lore-friendly estate near Whiterun built for you, your family and your followers. Version 5 added a voiced introductory quest, and the estate is full of foliage, fountains, crafting, optional displays and features you can customize, with a free PDF guide on its Files tab. Books of Elysium inside the house switch features on and off, such as turning the large followers room into a kids room, and its page recommends Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions and My Home Is Your Home to move family and followers in. Its creator left out automatic storage on purpose, to avoid scripted sorting bugs. As of November 2, 2026, version 5.0.1 (February 2018) is the main file; it needs Dawnguard, Hearthfire and Dragonborn, which Special Edition includes, a clean save if you are updating from an older version, and a spot near the bottom of your load order. Console: its creator’s page says there is no Xbox One or PS4 version. Creator: thejadeshadow. Download: Elysium Estate on Nexus Mods.
8. JK’s Riverfall Cottage
From the creator of JK’s Skyrim, Riverfall Cottage is a cozy medium-sized home near Riverwood that you buy for 15,000 septims from the sign by the road. It has a master bedroom, room for three followers and three children, a bathtub, an armory with mannequins, plaques and weapon racks, a kitchen with a Hearthfire oven, a full smithy with smelter, alchemy and enchanting stations, planters and even a fish hatchery. Its Family Edition works with the Hearthfire adoption system and Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions, and a separate patch collection helps it sit alongside other mods. As of November 2, 2026, version 1.1.5 (March 30, 2025) is the main file, and it has no requirements beyond an up-to-date game. Console: no version from its creator is on Bethesda.net. Creator: Jkrojmal. Download: JK’s Riverfall Cottage on Nexus Mods.
9. Rayek’s End
Rayek’s End is a mid-sized, atmospheric hideout with its own history, tucked off the beaten path between Riverwood and Whiterun behind the sound of waterfalls. This Expanded Edition adds a display room and an underground garden, and its page counts more than 192 unique displays plus a full smithing area, alchemy and enchanting tables, a staff enchanter, a fish trap and pond, an apiary, six planters and a mirror for changing your appearance. A long journal fills in the backstory of the hideout and its owner. As of November 2, 2026, version 1.7 (May 2017) is the main file, in the original darker lighting, and the page lists no requirements. Console: an Xbox port by MeisterB, made with the creator’s permission, is on Bethesda.net. Creator: Rayek. Download: Rayek’s End on Nexus Mods.
10. Unique Vampire Dens
A vampire cannot exactly sleep in Breezehome. Unique Vampire Dens hides a den inside each of the five major cities, Solitude, Whiterun, Markarth, Windhelm and Riften, plus a small new one on Solstheim, each designed to fit its city: Whiterun’s is a forgotten, decaying crypt, while Solitude’s is a proper two-story house buried out of sight. Every den has secure storage, a coffin to sleep in, thralls to feed on and a vampire-only fence who stocks blood potions, and the larger ones add crafting stations. If you have not turned yet, see our guide on how to become a vampire. As of November 2, 2026, the main file is the January 2018 Special Edition port, it needs no other mods, and a patch for JK’s Skyrim is offered. Console: PC only as far as we could confirm; its page mentions a PlayStation port made with permission, but we could not find it on Bethesda.net. Creator: Gonkish. Download: Unique Vampire Dens on Nexus Mods.
11. Riverside Lodge
Riverside Lodge has been a favorite since 2012, and its creator ported it to Special Edition for its fifth anniversary: a picturesque, fully equipped home between Whiterun and Riverwood that fits quietly into the landscape. The main building holds a kitchen and living room upstairs and a basement with weapon and armor storage next to an underground crafting room, while a side wing has the sleeping quarters, a library and an enchanting and alchemy space. Outside are a Nordic sauna cabin with a hot tub and a garden, and automatic sorting scripts put ingredients and other items away for you, each of which can be turned off. As of November 2, 2026, version 1.1.0 (May 2017) is the main file, with no requirements. Console: no version from its creator is on Bethesda.net. Creator: Lupus. Download: Riverside Lodge on Nexus Mods.
12. Leaf Rest
Leaf Rest is the interactive pick: a single-cell home in Riverwood, across from the Sleeping Giant Inn, where you can customize the decorations, statues, rugs, doorways, beds and room layouts from a settings book. Its gardening system has you water crops with real farming animations, the fireplace burns firewood you chop and stock, merchants send trade offers by letter to the mail post (where the house key waits), and the bookshelves pop up your library whenever you sit in a reading chair. Rooms can be set up for followers, children or a collection. As of November 2, 2026, version 1.6 (July 2019) is the main file, and the page lists no requirements. Console: no version from its creator is on Bethesda.net. Creator: Aukmat (Special Edition version uploaded by mnikjom). Download: Leaf Rest on Nexus Mods.
13. Routa – Stormcloak and Warrior Cabin
Routa is a cabin for a burly Nord warrior, next to the Windhelm stables, that you buy for 7,500 septims from its For Sale sign. It comes in Stormcloak and non-Stormcloak versions (our guide to picking a Civil War side can help you choose), with armor stands and a wardrobe that adjust to your character’s sex, a lockable front door, every smithing station except a woodchopping block (one stands behind the stables), a unique display for Ysgramor’s Shield and Axe and the Longhammer, a basement alchemy lab and a sauna. In its creator’s words, there is no enchanter because you are a warrior, not a mage. As of November 2, 2026, version 1.0 (October 2016) is the main file, and it needs only vanilla Skyrim. Console: Elianora’s own Xbox version is on Bethesda.net. Creator: Elianora. Download: Routa on Nexus Mods.
14. Ruska – Riften Player Home
Elianora built Ruska for PlayStation 4 players first, which is why it is a plugin-only mod with no new assets, and it is the best choice on this list for console players: a small cabin next to Merryfair Farm near Riften, packed with custom storage, displays, clutter, a garden and every crafting station, down to the spider scroll and staff enchanter stations. Her PlayStation upload alone has more than 220,000 downloads on Bethesda.net. As of November 2, 2026, version 1.0 (March 2018) is the main file on Nexus, with no requirements. Console: Elianora’s own versions for Xbox and PlayStation are on Bethesda.net, and the PlayStation one also runs on PS5. Creator: Elianora. Download: Ruska on Nexus Mods.
15. Thur Vonun Sanctum
Thur Vonun Sanctum is a large, feature-rich fortress with Nordic, Falmer and Dwemer styling, hidden in the mountains beside Darkwater Pass and guarded by a family of sabre cats that recognize you as the Last Dragonborn. You awaken the forsaken sanctum and restore its functions, and an in-house information kit of books and journals explains how each system works. It is built for efficient crafting between quests, and its page says your horse is moved to the sanctum’s stable when you fast travel there. As of November 2, 2026, version 2.2 (June 2024) is the main file, with a master bed hotfix from August 2025, and it needs SKSE64, PapyrusUtil, powerofthree’s Papyrus Extender and SkyUI for its menu. Console: PC only; its page says no permission will be granted to port it to consoles. Creator: KhrysINXS and the THUR Team. Needs: SKSE64, PapyrusUtil, powerofthree’s Papyrus Extender, SkyUI. Download: Thur Vonun Sanctum on Nexus Mods.
Castles, Estates and Buildable Homes
Bigger projects: towns you build piece by piece, castles with staff and guards, and a ship.
16. LC_Build Your Noble House
Build Your Noble House is the most endorsed buildable home, with nearly 23,000 endorsements and more than 2.3 million downloads. You start at a map marker called Fellburg in Falkreath Hold with only a small shed and a tent, and over time build a whole village and your own fortified noble house in whatever order you choose. Each building earns revenue and produces materials that are delivered daily to your shed, barrels of building materials are scattered across Falkreath Hold, and you can change your guards’ uniforms to match a faction. With Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions’ Bless Home spell, a spouse and up to six children can move into the keep. As of November 2, 2026, version 1.4 (October 2018) is the main file, with no requirements. Console: PC only. Creator: Locaster. Download: LC_Build Your Noble House on Nexus Mods.
17. Blackthorn – A Buildable Town in The Rift
Blackthorn is a Hearthfire-inspired player home and town in the Rift with more than 400 build options. Its page says that once you raise its buildings, you can hire shop merchants, an innkeeper, a groundskeeper and townsfolk, and collect income from rent chests, including 160 gold every 48 hours from the mine once you hire miners. The manor has safe storage, Hearthfire-style planters, mannequins, displays for Dragon Priest masks, dragon claws and Black Books, an indoor smithing area and plenty of room for followers, and it works with Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions. Its creator stepped away from modding in 2016 and gave the community permission to update his mods with credit. As of November 2, 2026, version 1.1 (November 2016) is the main file, with no requirements. Console: Ld50365’s own Xbox One version is on Bethesda.net, and a PlayStation port credited to him is there too, in separate PS4 and PS5 files. Creator: Ld50365. Download: Blackthorn on Nexus Mods.
18. The Scarlett – A Buildable Ship
The Scarlett is a player home you can sail, at least from one port to the next: a large buildable ship with more than 200 build options, two small quests and a new location. To start, read the note on the counter at the East Empire Company on the Solitude docks, which sends you to Lostport Cavern to claim the ship. Once it is yours, it has a fast travel system, rowboats that reach spots along Skyrim’s rivers, safe storage, mannequins, display cases and an indoor smithing area. As of November 2, 2026, version 1.1 (November 2016) is the main file, with no requirements. Console: Ld50365’s own Xbox One version is on Bethesda.net. Creator: Ld50365. Download: The Scarlett on Nexus Mods.
19. Skyfall Estate
Skyfall Estate is the same creator’s medium-sized estate just outside Whiterun, across from Honningbrew Meadery, for 10,000 gold. It is adoption-friendly and lore-friendly, with safe storage, mannequins, weapon racks, displays for Dragon Priest masks, claws, Black Books, Elder Scrolls and paragons, an indoor smithing area, and new merchant, follower and marriageable NPCs (our guide on getting married covers how marriage works). It has a teleport spell tome and works with Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions. As of November 2, 2026, version 1.2 (December 2016) is the main file, and it needs Dawnguard, Hearthfire and Dragonborn, which Special Edition includes. Console: Ld50365’s own Xbox One version is on Bethesda.net, plus a smaller Lite version for PS4 that also runs on PS5. Creator: Ld50365. Download: Skyfall Estate on Nexus Mods.
20. Dragons Keep
Dragons Keep began as its creator’s answer to all the orphaned children in Skyrim: a castle boarding school where you can send up to 12 orphans to attend classes and recess, with a private home and quarters of your own. Its page says it has room for 36 adult followers, 12 student followers, a spouse and six adopted children. The Blackmoor Edition, now the main file, adds a whole town at the base of the mountain built around music, with a choir, an orchestra and daily concerts, though its page warns that it is large, memory-hungry and still a work in progress; the older Classic and Optimized versions remain as optional files. As of November 2, 2026, the main file is version 1.3 (June 2026); it needs SKSE64, and DynDOLOD is recommended so the keep shows from afar. Its creator has since stepped away from modding. Console: ToppDog’s own Xbox One version is on Bethesda.net. Creator: ToppDog and KhrysINXS. Needs: SKSE64. Download: Dragons Keep on Nexus Mods.
21. Sjel Blad Castle
Sjel Blad, “Soul Blade” in Norwegian, is an expansive castle due south of the Throat of the World and east of Helgen along the road. Its page lists an armory with more than 80 mannequins and 500 weapon plaques, a vault for Dragon Priest masks, Black Books and artifacts, a barracks of companions based on Oblivion’s character classes, castle servants for every trade, stables of purchasable creature mounts and waygates to every major city. It also has a Hall of Ascension where you can raise your stats and change your appearance, a cloud storage system with a portal spell, and in-house teleportation between rooms. As of November 2, 2026, version 1.44c (February 2017) is the main file, and its page says Dawnguard, Dragonborn and Hearthfire are required, which Special Edition includes. Console: its creator’s own Xbox version is on Bethesda.net, with nearly 490,000 downloads, alongside an alpha of a version 2.0. Creator: SoulBladeX. Download: Sjel Blad Castle on Nexus Mods.
22. Levelers Tower
Levelers Tower is a home base for players who like tools: its own page calls it a cheat mod, and it is built to create test characters quickly or rebuild a character lost to a corrupted save. The tower stands north of Helgen, just to the right as you leave the opening dungeon, and holds auto-sorting storage, displays and a full set of crafting stations, a combat dummy that grants experience to whatever skill is in your right hand, and an arena button that starts waves of enemies. A pull chain empties every sorted container back into your inventory. As of November 2, 2026, version 4.4 (November 2016) is the main file, with no requirements. Console: its creator’s own Xbox version is on Bethesda.net, and a PlayStation port by MeisterB, which links the creator’s permission, is there too. Creator: WillieSea. Download: Levelers Tower on Nexus Mods.
Pocket Homes and Hearthfire Helpers
A home you can carry, and two mods that make families and Hearthfire building work the way players expect.
23. Home in a Hat
Home in a Hat is a very small, compact pocket home, inspired by the old Haven Bag mod. Loading the game adds an Ancient Wizard Hat to your inventory: equip it to enter the home and unequip it to return exactly where you were, and the hat never shows on your head, so you can keep wearing a circlet while crafting. Inside are all the vanilla crafting stations except a woodchopping block, a mirror to change your appearance, a font that resets the enchantments and smithing upgrades on items you made, and a bed that gives Well Rested. As of November 2, 2026, the main file is version 1.0.9 (March 2025), and it needs the Anniversary update to the game (any version with Fishing and Survival Mode), not the Anniversary Edition content. Console: Elianora’s own version is on Bethesda.net for PC, Xbox and PlayStation. Creator: Elianora. Download: Home in a Hat on Nexus Mods.
24. Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions
Almost every home on this list mentions this mod, because it is how your family moves in. It raises the adoption limit from two children to six, gives the children a last name, and adds a Bless Home spell: cast it in a suitable custom home and your spouse and children can move there. See our guide to adopting a child for the vanilla process. Its page strongly recommends starting a new game, since a save that already ran the vanilla adoption scripts may not allow extra adoptions, though custom home support works either way. As of November 2, 2026, version 3.0.4 (July 2022) is the main file, with no requirements. Console: TMPhoenix’s own Xbox version is on Bethesda.net, with more than 1.2 million downloads. Creator: TMPhoenix. Download: Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions on Nexus Mods.
25. Build Your Hearthfire Homes With Gold
If gathering clay, quarried stone and iron fittings is the part of Hearthfire you dread, this mod makes every piece of the house and every furnishing cost only gold, without cheating materials into your inventory. Its page puts the total for building and furnishing every room at around 25,000 gold, with the cellar by far the most expensive, and the Shrine of Arkay keeps a requirement of 20 logs so you can use up the log pile you get with the land. You pick one of four main files: for the Unofficial Patch or vanilla, at normal or double price, and an optional file covers the Goldenhills Plantation Creation. As of November 2, 2026, version 1.1 (November 2021) is the main file, all files are flagged ESL, and older 1.0 files remain for players on older game versions. Console: PC only. Creator: Santala. Download: Build your Hearthfire homes with gold on Nexus Mods.
How to Install Player Home Mods Without Losing Your Stuff
Player homes are mostly plugins that place buildings and containers in the world, so they rarely break with game updates, but a few habits from the creators’ own pages keep your loot and family safe:
- Load homes late. Elysium Estate’s and the HS series’ pages both recommend placing the home near the bottom of your load order, so city, landscape and lighting mods do not overwrite it.
- Empty a home before you update or remove it. Several pages, including Levelers Tower’s, say to clear out containers and displays first, because your save remembers what was inside.
- Install Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions before you adopt. Most homes here use its Bless Home spell to take in your spouse and children, and its page recommends a new game for the full feature set.
- Check the requirements on SKSE homes. EBO, Thur Vonun Sanctum and Dragons Keep need SKSE64, which supports only the Steam and GOG releases, so make sure SKSE and each plugin they use have builds for your game version.
Install everything with a mod manager (Vortex or Mod Organizer 2), and save your game before adding or removing a home mid-playthrough. On Xbox and PlayStation, install the console versions named above from the in-game Creations menu, and remember that only the versions their creators uploaded (or allowed) are covered here.
How We Chose These Mods
Every mod here is for Skyrim Special Edition or Anniversary Edition on PC and comes from the Skyrim Special Edition section of Nexus Mods. We ranked candidates by Nexus Mods’ own popularity data, endorsements and downloads, read through Nexus’s public API, and kept the most loved player homes and home overhauls, plus the two Hearthfire helpers that most homes rely on. Each one is published, free and has files available to download. We left out adult-flagged homes, homes with AI-generated voice lines, small add-ons and patches for other homes, and near-duplicates such as a second Breezehome overhaul, and we kept to four entries per creator. For console versions, we checked Bethesda.net’s own Creations listings for an upload by each mod’s creator, or one its creator’s page says was made with permission. Two entries also appear in our 100 best Skyrim mods list (Elianora’s Breezehome Overhaul and Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions), because no home list is complete without them.
Only download from the creator pages linked above, since several of these creators forbid re-uploads. For custom companions to fill your new house, see our Skyrim follower mods list, and for everything else in the series, our Elder Scrolls guides hub.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best player home mod for Skyrim? Elianora’s Breezehome Overhaul is the most endorsed player home on the Skyrim Special Edition Nexus, and it rebuilds a house you already own. For a brand-new home, Elysium Estate is the most endorsed, and LC_Build Your Noble House leads the buildable homes.
Are there player home mods for Skyrim on Xbox and PS5? Yes, through the in-game Creations menu. Ruska and Home in a Hat have versions from Elianora for both Xbox and PlayStation, Draco’s Hearthfire upgrades and Skyfall Estate have PS4 versions that also run on PS5, and Elianora’s Breezehome Overhaul, Routa, Blackthorn, The Scarlett, Dragons Keep, Sjel Blad Castle, Levelers Tower and Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions have Xbox versions from their creators.
Can my spouse and children live in a modded player home? In most of them, yes. Install Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions, cast its Bless Home spell inside the new home, then ask your spouse or children to move to your new house. Homes such as Elysium Estate, JK’s Riverfall Cottage, Blackthorn, Skyfall Estate and Build Your Noble House say on their pages that they support it.
Do player home mods need SKSE? Most do not: they are plugins that add buildings, containers and scripts the base game already supports, so a game update rarely breaks them the way it breaks SKSE plugins. The exceptions here are Elianora’s Breezehome Overhaul, Thur Vonun Sanctum and Dragons Keep, which need SKSE64.
Can I remove a player home mod mid-playthrough? Empty everything you stored there first, since items in a removed home are lost, then save, disable the mod and load that save. Homes with scripts, families or followers can leave traces in a save, so keep a backup from before you installed them.
Are these Skyrim player home mods free? Yes. Every mod on this list is free to download with a Nexus Mods account, and the console versions named above are free on Bethesda.net. Some creators accept donations, but none of these mods require payment.