You can read about all the mods below, or watch the video above (complete with plenty of heavily-modded Skyrim eye-candy).
Rather than force you, dear modder, to spend those precious hours that could be better used actually playing Skyrim, here is our list of the 15 (and then some) best mods to use that will drastically improve your adventurous experience. Since each mod needs to be properly installed and configured, it can take hours to get everything in working order - certain methods of beautifying the game, such as S.T.E.P., or the Skyrim Total Enhancement Project, have been known to take as long as eight to ten hours to fully configure. Overhauling a game with mods can be an intimidating process, but the only thing you really need in order to make Skyrim shine is patience.