buildings to live in

My architect friend came round last weekend rl for a meal and the subject of dwellings arose. He was talking about all the things he has converted for people to live in, like churches, barns, water towers, WW11 pill boxes, martello towers, airfield buildings, lightbouses, windmills, haylofts, chapels with a cemetary and a hospital. It got me to thinking, what do you all live in or perhaps yearn to live in?

What a cool thread. I reckon peoples builds are a bit like extensions of their avi's.

I have a friend in real life who drove an old bus up the valley and gently and intentionally crashed it into a steep hillside, he lived in it and then built off the bus. Also another has a teepee and another has an amazing treehouse in this same valley. They all lived there long term.

I live in a horse trailer in a swamp with a rusted out truck in the yard. What more does a ferret need?

My RL home is a house.

In SL my home is the Egotherapy Centre. It's a sort of mock-tudor style like a bit like some British pubs. I live in an apartment on the first floor.

Click link in my signature below to see a pic of my home.

The first home I had in SL was something modernistic a friend of mine had gotten for free. Neither of us liked it much, and it didn't last a week.

Then I lived a few months in a shared tree-house with someone else, while that first friend set up a small Japanese village for us to live in.

The Japanese Village was nice, but not very private. That lasted several months, though.

Next we commissioned a Builder friend to make us a custom house. Edo-period Japanese motif, with a dojo and a concealed swimming pool. That house moved with us for 5 moves!

I also lived for a while in a Lighthouse that I built, with a skybox above it.

My current home is my most elaborate to date. I built a replica of Hikone Castle, in Japan, and live in that.

i suppose i am really interested i what sort of house you all live in, or would like to live in given the choice here in sl.......I am looking for inspiration, though I guess there's no limit to imagination in sl.

We have a castle with a nice garden.

I live in a chopped, frenched and decked cake mixer.

My first home was a simple (and badly built) cave on a hillside (I've had two more caves since then, one of which was an ice-cave, the other was a more realistic drippy bat-infested cave I made myself), I've had a skybox, a spherical space station, a neo-classical inspired futuristic building and my current home is a Mediterranean style villa overlooking tropical ocean with a private beach.

So not very inventive in my case. I guess it fits what we all want to have if we could in RL heh.

I live on a 512 lot. I have a 15x30m "holodeck" for a skybox. So far I have built 3 different scenes for it. I have a Japanese Tearoom, a Victorian era apartment, and a Deserted Island. I am currently adding an old west saloon to it and have several other ideas to still work on.

I'd love some sort of cave, it'd be hard to build I am sure.

My SL place is a little hut with a mega fuck fire place that I remake over and over.

I'm old fashioned - I'd like a Wealden Hall House or an Oast House conversion.

Actually surprisingly easy. You make a few rocks (spend some time making them look realistic, it pays dividends later) and plant them in the ground. Then you drag copy one of them, rotate and interlink it with another rock. Keep doing the same, and make a sort of demi-igloo shape built into a hillside. If you keep your rotations inventive you end up with a cave made of only a few basic rocks copied endlessly without people even realising so few different shapes have been used.

The devil is in the detail...add some drippy water sounds, bats, a bit of fog streaming down the hillside, billowing over the cave entrance. Maybe some trees at the entrance for a bit of light screening. I had a stream running out of the last cave. The ice cave had a faint crystalline tinkling sound in the background as well as a light dusting of snowfall and a merry campfire in the middle. Decorate appropriately - ice sculptures in my ice cave, some swans swimming in and out of my last cave into a pond...some reeds and in the last two cases a spiral staircase to a second level.

Above all, enjoy!

*me has rock *me make cave!

Cardboard box in the middle of the motorway

Rock

Right now I live in a FL style concrete block split floor plan house. It's got some really beautiful architectural touches/accents and a screened in pool area. It's pretty cool....not a house I EVER would have imagined I'd live in since I'm from the North East originally and I tend to like more traditional architecture.

I always thought it would be cool to have an old barn or an old church transformed into a big open floor plan home....with a loft bedroom.....I love love love the look & mood of old New England .... but I would add a modern flair while maintaining the integrity of the structure.

Actually....funny you should ask this, as it relates to SL....I was flying around the little islands off the Nantucket Square sim... there's tons of islands called Watch Hill....Buzzards Bay.....all New England names......and the homes are just fantastic! I was taking pics and I saw this house that was exactly what I just described.... This pic was edited in PS to give it a painting quality....but you get the idea. I was so blown away by this cluster of islands.....if anyone wants to know what the North Eastern portion of the US coast is like....this place captures it dead on!!

My first home was on a yacht. Then I started to build a house next to the pier where I kept it moored.

Before that was quite done, I sold that land. For a while, my home was any vacant house in our rental community, but then I made myself a sky island. It had a little one-room modern style living area set into the side. That was my home for quite a while.

Then I moved into a small Japanese house, a copy of one that I'd built on commission, and kept the island as an "upstairs bedroom".

Now I live in a loft apartment above a sky platform garden. The view out the window can be changed to any of about twenty cities and other great scenes.

One of the coolest houses I ever saw was a wrecked motoryacht on the sea floor. It was all at an angle, and looked just like you'd expect a submerged wreck to look...from the outside. Once you got inside, though, the floors were built level and the place was light and cozy. Aside from the oddly-angled windows, you'd never know you were inside a shipwreck.

I tend to favor small houses. All I need is a bedroom area, and a sitting area to entertain a few friends, and a little garden. But it's nice to have extra land and prims handy for those rare occasions when I want to throw a party for a larger group.

I also love being on, over, under, or near the water, in both SL and RL.

I second that. My landlord has done a cool job 'extending' the skyline with some virtual rocks and a megaprim horizon of hills and mountains so the view resembles an inlet on the coast of Scotland or Ireland.

I live in a half-built country house in the Gorgian style. I'm a painfully slow worker but I hope to finish it sometime before the end of the decade.

I also have a facsimile of Arcadia Asylum's freighter moored in the bay. I rebuilt it with more prims because I couldn't manage my camera in the hollowed-out boxes she used to construct the original. It also has working doors and I plan to add prim windows eventually. A lighthouse is also something I would like to try.

The freighter is home to my Great Great Great Great Great Great Uncle Ethen. He 'sleeps' in a cargo container down in the hold.

A hole in the ground atm.

(It's been a bad couple of weeks.)

Truly the most bizarre "home" I ever saw was a motorhome. I was traveling back home to the Texas panhandle one rainy night, going north on 287, and mad a gas stop in Tulia. Must have been about 30 years ago. I was getting ready to leave when a jet liner pulled up close to the pumps... That was such a surreal scene to see that thing come out of that stormy night into the lights of the store. At the "wheel" was a man in his 70s, shoulder length white hair and a full white beard to match. He had taken the nose and about 20 feet of the fuselage of either a DC-6 or DC-7 (can't remember which, may have been something altogether different, but very large), put it on wheels, stuck a Cadillac engine in it and made himself a motorhome. Most bizarre looking thing. I did not have a camera with me, it was before cell phones with cameras, and even before disposable cameras.

I use to have a nice beach house but I noticed is that we never went inside and used it. When friends came by we'd either sit on the deck or down on the beach. So now I no longer have a house. I just built a beautiful garden overlooking the ocean and that's where we'll sit and talk.

I've built quite a few houses for myself. They've been different in a lot of ways, but stylistically, they all tend to look like the house I grew up in. A little suburban ranch-style house.

This.

My base is a skybox that I built over my First Land 512 parcel about 3 weeks into my SL.
Even though I've expanded way beyond that 512, I still use that box as a base no matter what else I build.



At the moment it's hanging over a beach I made a while back

right now I live in a skybox that from the inside looks like a cave with a garden entrance. on the ground I am on a water plot and have a nice area of walkways and waterfall. Several nice little conversation areas. Across the sim I have a home for my kid alt that is very playful. It is in skyhome that is a little victorian home set in a crescent moon I love it. I will have to try to put a picture of it up.
I have lived in a wide variety of homes. Roman villa, little hut, tiki hut, modern beach house, gothic castle, several styles of skyboxes. I really enjoy furnishing and landscaping. I need to look into one of those holodeck thingies.