buildings to live in

I’ve drawn and built all our houses –from and country rancher to modern Tudor home-- we’ve lived in so far but also have found that I spend most my time in a sky platform building or on the lawn. Rarely do I go inside the house, how ever the holo deck sounds kind of cool to play with.

Ohhh!!!! Lucky you. When I was a kid we used to dream of someday living in a cardboard box.

I'm entering my 3rd year ISL and for the last 2 years, I lived on tropical islands with lots of palms and tropical theme stuffs. Last year, my ex build a traditional thatched roof hut for us to live in ... and this year my new partner & I create an efficiency out of a simple house on a lil island of the main island. I like our place and it is created for all residents to enjoy. It has waterpark on the cliff and a treehouse. It has dancing gazebo, place to hang out by the beach, curved palm trees with hammock, etc. Please feel free to drop by and hang out there

I think we've had a similar thread recently.

My most recent home has been a boat. Someone gave me a full-perms house he'd found in a freebie bundle, I tweaked a little here and a little there and made a three-story houseboat. I love it, but I notice I don't spend much time there - I hop into the skybox to try on clothes, or the building platform to try stuff out, or the ground level if I want to tend my alien garden.

For many months, I lived in a bubble house I made for myself, complete with bubble wand. I keep meaning to pull it out again one day soon...

I'm not sure what to call where I live here on Second Life.

There is a park with giant scripted 19th century inventions ... Wimshurt, Watt pump, Henson steam carriage.

I seem to be addicted to waterfalls and fountains.

There is a beach.

There is a steam powered building with a working engine. I have no idea what the building is ... it looks like it was made out of old industrial materials, and has tents for roofs. There is a living room and pool table, but also a big cat den, and a P47 Thunderbolt hanging from the ceiling.

Anyone that wants can stop over ... it's a half sim on two sims, Oyster and Shepherd. I don't sell things so this isn't an ad. If you like Industrial Steampunk, you might think its a little cool.

In RL, I just signed the papers on a condo.. It's an old mill building built in 1910 that's been converted into lofts. Biiiiig open space with ceilings over twice as tall as I am. Great view and all new stuffs. I like it.

In SL, I've got about 8k m2 of prim-water pool next to my club. It's my home but open to the public. Got sortofa mountain that's hollowed out - nice room inside with Light Waves furniture & fireplace and a cuddle rug - and the big LW statue from black swan is next to the mountain, with cheesy waterfalls covering the entrances. There's a waterslide built into the mountain - all enclosed - and a pool on top that has a big torus float with a ton of poseballs on it. Bunch of poseballs around the rest of the place and floaty rezzers that makes floats which will sorta circle the whole pool on a gentle current.

oh we could never aspire to CARDBOARD!!! What luxury! We had to make do with 3 day old newspaper that had been used to wrap fish and chips in to cover our hole in the gutter - still at least the stale smell reminded us of something called food.......

Inc

The engines sound very cool, I found a spot oneday with a massive roller coaster all around the parcel, it was incredible, I just hung there and took a turn on all their rides and marveled at their skill.

just until last week i lived underground in a grassy area with a pond.

A dear friend of mine rents and lives in a flowerpot on a fairy themed PI

For a long time I used an industrial looking skybox, part culvert, part church window thingy that I built.

Eventually I realized I don't need to "live" anywhere. Now I have 10x10 cubicle dressing room a 1000 meters in the air with a posing stand and no entrances or exits other than via teleport. The rest of one parcel is devoted to an outdoor gallery / garden and playground. The other parcel is just a building platform that I hope to use someday as an alien planet diorama immersive environment.

In roughly chronological order...

A rented Oriental-styled rural house on a lakeside
A poorly built medieval stone tower
A slightly modded freebie house
A 'streamline modern' concrete & glass beach house
A larger, better-built keep
A flying island held up by balloons, with a wooden cabin hanging from a cliff
A bizarrely-shaped concrete & glass structure
A large, covered wooden platform in a swamp
A Martian sky-galleon (Space 1889 style)
A small gazebo in a landscaped garden
A large but simple concrete & glass house
An industrial loft built in an abandoned factory

Currently, a small parcel with a Japanese tea-house and a few trees. 1500 or so metres up, I have a simple concrete platform where I build, dress & unpack stuff.

Me and my fiancee live in a huuuge rez-faux white-textured house we found on Xstreet for a very low price. It has 5 rooms, plus a garage, on the main floor, and two more rooms, the bed rooms, which are attic-like rooms you can teleport into from the bottom. The main bad thing about the house is that the white texture glows in the dark, so it doesn't make for very romantic nights hehe. It also has a porch going all the way around. Everything else is grand. Absolutely love the house. It was only about 200 prims, and under 300L, which is awesome for such a big house.

/waves from Florida RL

Your post is so cool to me because I live in FL and LOVE the architecture, landscape of (at least the photos I've seen and movie depictions of) those New England areas. In fact, I someday hope to locate my shop to one of those areas. My original ad for *Czari`s Attic* when I owned land was something like "Yadda, yadda, yadda...all housed in a Cape Cod motif." I owned land on a water sim at the time and had a dock built with supporting poles. A Cape Cod style house was built for me...complete with an attic...and I was going to have weathered signs on the outside, etc.

Then SL took a different turn.

Same here on both counts, except for a garden per se I enjoy a rooftop balcony. I've put trees on that in the past.

As for my fantasy home in SL, a couple come to mind. I mentioned living in a Cape Cod type area in a previous post. I would also love a small apartment in a Manhattan/Central Park/NYC type sim (think Carrie's apartment in "Sex & the City" or Monica's in "Friends). A large Victorian home always takes my breath away, but too much space and Victorian furniture tends to be a bit on the primmy side (but gorgeous).

My former neighbor lives in a Victorian Steampunk air dirigible that is fully equipped and amazing.

But for my real fantasy dream home - it would be some type of amazing underwater home...like in a huge bubble or somehow dileneated. The most important thing would be to have the "feel" of being underwater...the quiet...some underwater soothing noises...bubbles...really gorgeous coral, sea plants...a clam shell bed (I've seen those on mer sims) and one or two other types of "furniture."

Some day

Congratulations!!! That condo sounds amazing! I adore older/antique type buildings. The only home I owned in RL was in the historic district of my city and was a home built in 1936 (not as cool as 1910, but still fun) and was a "cottage type" home that I decorated in Victorian motif.

Do you recall where that was? I ADORE coasters!!!!

I'm sorry I don't. I found it on a sculpty search, would have been pretty low traffic.

A spaceship that I built myself.

*grins*

And it flies!

Thank you Jesrad!

Beach shack for me! Complete walls, unnecessary where the climate is so perfect.

I once had a friend who lived in a loft in the steeple of a converted church (on Church St. in Ann Arbor MI). Looked great, but she no doubt kept in shape thanks to all those stairs.

Which reminds me, I once had a small loft about 6' off the floor, with no stairs or ladder. This was a device to keep me from crawling back in bed after shutting off my alarm, which was on the desk below. An unintended benefit was that I had only athletic girlfriends!