Your home in SL

just ring me up when you feel like it. i'm usually only inworld in SL am-time.

http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/pic.aspx?id=268604&sort=Pictures.PictureID+desc&Search=nykus

Thats a pic of my property ( looking ominous in the fog). Its a quarter of an island sim. I live up on top of the mesa overlooking the ocean in a gothic castle-ish structure. I built it out of plywood cubes and rough hewn stone textures. Down front is my windmill which guests stay in. Id seen that for sale somewhere and really liked it, so thats my prefab. If you delve further into my pic portfolio there at SLPICS.COM, you can see my other buildings on the property, my nightclub as well as my ship ( which was also purchased as a prefab) tho I have retextured it. Heres one more pic, of the interior of my house this time.

http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/pic.aspx?id=235936&sort=Pictures.PictureID+desc&Search=nykus


The island is privately owned by four of us. You will see a variety of tastes and styles between us. I also have this huge virtual reality cube flying above the cloudlayer, allows you to visit France, a volcanic isle, assorted other landscapes ect. I have a sofa and some chairs up there, as well as a tv to watch. So its kinda like the playroom. I own a ton of furniture and stuff that I dont have the prims to display lol. Though you may find my 'roomies' properties locked off at times, I rarely lock things down, so feel free to explore the place.

Hi! Well here's my two cents:

1) Right now I live in a two story Southern Plantation house very reminiscent of what would be seen in old Louisiana, Mississippi, or other places in that area. I used to live in a very modern stained wood giant Japanese-pogoda style house, but I started over from scratch with everything.

2) I'm not exactly sure what the exact footprint of the house is, but I know that it required a 4096m lot.

3) The total size of my lot is a touch over 11K meters. I used to own the whole island my house is on plus a 2048 across the channel from it but I let go of 6K meters a while back.

4) I have actually done both. My last house was unfurnished and I brought over most of the furniture from my first house, which was much smaller. Then I added on from there. My current house had complete furniture set that was so well designed, so pretty, and so easy to deploy to both floors at the same time that I couldn't pass it up at the offered price. The only thing I've added inside the house is a couple of my large pictures and a hugemungous teddy bear

5) The build quality of the house itself and its design is most important to me. Room size is second, and after that locking doors and obviously working switches on lights, etc. I abhor tp units being installed in place of stairs - it's cheap, and I'm the type who always takes her stairs and never flies. My favorite feature of my new home is the window shades, which have three positions depending on how much light/privacy I want.

6) I would not want pre-terraformed land. I do my own terraforming, as landscaping is what I want to get into professionally here, and I did all of the placement and scenery layout on my property as well as building my pool area (except the pool itself) from scratch. I had a homebuilt hedge maze previously where the pool is now, on a 6144m portion of my land. I also have some megaprim sculptie cliff boulders that are phantom in the ocean off my beach for realism (is that description even possible) that make the property look even larger (from SLX) and cliff/shore waves. And a pet Killer Whale! Hope this helps!

1. What style home do you live in? Castle, Mansion, Modern or Theme

I'd have to say Theme, Tribute to Fae is it's name .. fairies and the likes on the walls. IT's the house I have rezzed the most tho I am building tons of houses myself trying to make the perfect one for me

2. How big is it? Approximately in meters

20X26

3. What size lot is it on? 1920

4. Would you buy a pre-furnished house (if you were looking)? Fully furnished, partially furnished or not furniture

I would have to buy a non-furnished

5. What features do you consider important? Light switches, locking doors, on & off fireplaces, tinted windows - anything else?

I like to have a fireplace and windows that are perhaps tinted or change to closed, like the house I have

6. Would you rent pre-terraformed, pre-landscaped land with a pre-furnished house on it or would you prefer to do everything yourself piecemeal?

I rent a pre terraformed plot (can't terraform for nothing) but i have to have it empty (apart from the trees), the rest I do myself to my tase but inkeeping with the SIM.

1. What style home do you live in? Castle, Mansion, Modern or Theme
Modern (http://www.gallandhomes.com/estate.html) its the last house listed on that page

2. How big is it? Approximately in meters
40x40

3. What size lot is it on?
4096

4. Would you buy a pre-furnished house (if you were looking)? Fully furnished, partially furnished or not furniture
Yes, would buy one either fully or partially furnished.

5. What features do you consider important? Light switches, locking doors, on & off fireplaces, tinted windows - anything else?
All of the above.

6. Would you rent pre-terraformed, pre-landscaped land with a pre-furnished house on it or would you prefer to do everything yourself piecemeal?
Wouldn't rent period, heard to many horror stories. There are very few people in SL i would ever trust to rent from.

1. What style home do you live in? Castle, Mansion, Modern or Theme
Some wierd mix of modern, classical meditteranean, and gor maybe? *laughs

2. How big is it? Approximately in meters
The house proper is only maybe 20x20...but when you add on all the decking and outdoor areas which are really the whole deal. well.. it's a lot bigger

3. What size lot is it on?
8192 meters

4. Would you buy a pre-furnished house (if you were looking)? Fully furnished, partially furnished or not furniture
I build my own, but I might do partially furnished (ornamentation and such to set the feel with me adding primary furniture)

5. What features do you consider important? Light switches, locking doors, on & off fireplaces, tinted windows - anything else?
texturing, hands down. THe rest can be added. That being said, for me it's all about mood which comes down to lighting and poses.

6. Would you rent pre-terraformed, pre-landscaped land with a pre-furnished house on it or would you prefer to do everything yourself piecemeal?
I'm an everything myself girl

Sort inventory, that is so funny.
BT

Why?

It made me laugh because I saw myself doing the same thing.

A hole in the ground.
3m x 5m.
4096
No. I might buy a prefab, copy/mod.
Authentic 1:1 scale reproduction of a famous house (eg, something by Frank Lloyd Wright, Rennie Mackintosh, Roger Dean, ...).
No.

How come there are no bots to do inventory sorting? Now that would be a useful bot indeed

1. What style home do you live in? Castle, Mansion, Modern or Theme

Erm, Modern? It's one of Banesworth Anubis'.

2. How big is it? Approximately in meters

I have no idea. Smallish, but not tiny.

3. What size lot is it on?

It's currently floating above a friend's sim as a skybox, but I had it on a 3,072m prior to that. It would have been more than fine on a 2,048m though.

4. Would you buy a pre-furnished house (if you were looking)? Fully furnished, partially furnished or not furniture

No, although offering optional furniture which 'matches' the house's theme is always good.

5. What features do you consider important? Light switches, locking doors, on & off fireplaces, tinted windows - anything else?

Locking doors and tinted windows. I like having a fireplace, but it doesn't need on/off and I'd rather supply my own lighting, so the switches for that are unnecessary as well.

6. Would you rent pre-terraformed, pre-landscaped land with a pre-furnished house on it or would you prefer to do everything yourself piecemeal?

I haven't rented since I was an SL baby, but I'd probably be fine with landscaping and not with furniture.

1. Mine is of modern design, I suppose.

2. The ground house is approx. 450 sq.m., single level, not counting the back porch or the helicopter pad. The skybox is another 300 sq.m., not counting the patio.

3. The house and skybox sit on (or above) a 1536m lot. I own another 1024 in the same region for the prims.

4. I've considered it, but no, I like to build and doing so improves my skills. In fact, it's time to construct a new house again.

5. Locking doors stop newbies. Tinted windows, fireplaces and so forth are nice pluses though.

6. I love doing it all myself. Makes what I have original, and as I said, helps improve my skills.

1. What style home do you live in? Castle, Mansion, Modern or Theme

I live in a yurt which I guess would be avant garde. It is pale lime green with a mural around the outside that has the life cycle of a bee from egg to worker creating honey painted on it. It also glows a bit at night and the neighbors must love it.

2. How big is it? Approximately in meters

78.5 -- 85 square meters if you take the platform into account.

3. What size lot is it on?

512 amd it's at grade level. The lot is sunken on three sides so the house is about 20 feet above the ground.

4. Would you buy a pre-furnished house (if you were looking)? Fully furnished, partially furnished or nt furniture

Furniture is very easy to knock off. My first build which sits in my garden is a one prim stool. It has a cute polkadot texture.

5. What features do you consider important? Light switches, locking doors, on & off fireplaces, tinted windows - anything else?

None of these are important. What is important is garden space or yard. Avatarim don't need a lot of indoor space. Second in importance is some sort of porch or stoop. I use my backporch (My yurt platform extends out behind the yurt a few feet) to house my Xstreet Magic Box. I can also stand on there and watch the world go by or on my front porch right outside my door. I'm a very nosey type. Yard furniture is also important or a place to put yard furniture. It's no fun being all alone in your house.

As for tinted glass, frosted glass and pier glass and peep holes (for small scale dwellings) work much better. The roof of my yurt is frosted patterned glass. The light gets in. The small place is not claustrophobic and yes, people can see in, but it takes some work. Lattices and trellises and even low fences on the ground provide the same sense of a barrier without blocking the view on either side.

I'm not a fan of fire places. I go elsewhere to swim.

I set my property no rez so it's vandal proof.

One last feature you left off are gates and archways. These provide entrance to property. Most of SL is without roads. If you are a good citizen, you let others cross your land. A gate or arch marks the property line without keeping others out.

6. Would you rent pre-terraformed, pre-landscaped land with a pre-furnished house on it or would you prefer to do everything yourself piecemeal?

I do my own building.

My first house was a quanset hut. It was not large enough. I fit inside it, but the draw distances in SL are larger than I am. I am a very poor model for houses due to my 4'8" height. The yurt is tall enough. If I had more land, I'd probably have another go at designing a quanset hut. There's a free one, but the colors are hideous and I'd want to retexture it to something pretty.

There are also free yurts available for those who have a 512. Yurts are incredibly primenomical. My yurt is 8 prims including platform and ramp.

If I wanted something really large, and could modify it in some way, there is a lovely grass roofed building at the Texas Women's University Islands. It's the nicest house I have seen. I think you can climb the roof which is an added bonus and I like the green roof. I think it has a bit too much steel for my taste.

One last thing I'd like to see is a low wall with bits of glass and other oddments set in it. I think this would have to be sculpties since I envision it with a rounded top. Again, I don't have the space to build it. I built mainly plants for my land. And if you're curious, I have between 30 and 40 prims left to play with.

bah, Im a child av and live with my SL parents

I do not live in a house, I just have my stores and a cat condo I built (I suppose I could put some furniture in that and live there LOL)


If I were looking it would be pretty much all over the place as I tend to like a lot of different builds

locks nah
lights nah

although lights done with a low glow effect on the bulb looks nice

1. What style home do you live in? Castle, Mansion, Modern or Theme

Plain skybox (only 2 prims!)

2. How big is it? Approximately in meters

10 x 10 x 10

3. What size lot is it on?

512 sq. m.

4. Would you buy a pre-furnished house (if you were looking)? Fully furnished, partially furnished or not furniture

No, unless it's only 1 prim and still lockable.

5. What features do you consider important? Light switches, locking doors, on & off fireplaces, tinted windows - anything else?

Locking door, opaque.

6. Would you rent pre-terraformed, pre-landscaped land with a pre-furnished house on it or would you prefer to do everything yourself piecemeal?

Don't care what the land looks like, no need for house on it.

I would like to point out that since the OP posted this thread in May last year that they are probably building these prefabs already (or may have decided not to). Not too sure that any more preferences are going to help now - though it is always possible I could be wrong

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my first place was a rental mansion .not sure of the lot size lot but me and some friends that came into SL together lived there..

it had the tinted windows you could dim or darkent and locking doors that did nothing to keep people out ..
it was more fun furnishing it than getting something furnished..

then i moved out still paying the bills for a while in the mansion so my friends had a place to live when i got my 1/4 sim lot
I bought a beautiful 3 story cabin which had no walls on the inside and huge open rooms..big decks in the front and back and the front was all windows...nice fireplaces on each floor..nice kitchen area huge bath and the top floor was the bedroom..
i still have the house...it was 401 prims and light switches that controlled all the windows and doors that locked but never kept anyone out..

then moved into a sim with a friend and we really didn't pay much attention to the house..we had a whole sim to play with lol..i think we rezzed it but enjoyed blowing off our weapons and building things when we were not dancing..so really the same house as i had in the 1/4 sim

Then moved to one of my best friends sims next to work in one of the GOL project resident sims.. Dakota Neuman's Generation sim
a beautiful home with everything you could imagine..he even put out jet skis for each resident to have and sail boats and we had like 4 water sims to run them on..
his builds were always my favorite and i remember getting to have access to choose which spot i wanted before he opened it to the public hehehe Definitely one of the nicer homes i have lived in..the style was amazing..the pool was part of a beatiful slow flowing fountain that was also mixed with the lake..hard to explain but it was a great place to relax..

then the past year i was living in 6 sims all to myself ...my BF had a custom home made from Dakota Neuman..
his builds you just have to see because they are too wild to describe..but he had elevators going down to his forest and open walls out to the front pool and hidden caves and..it's too hard to describe..
but i spent most of the year there messing around with a mall and club i was designing..that took up a whole sim itself lol..the best sand box in the world lol

then after My BF left SL i went to where i am now living in my 1024 double prim lot in skybeam 2000 meters up in a 4 story skybox that is 1024x1024x32 each floor.. no inside walls .the bottom floor is my home the upper floors are for relaxing and building and hanging out with friends.no fancy lights or anything..only in my home floor..my bar my art and bed and living room and movie screen..

i love my prefab cabin and when i get more time and decide to get more land i'll rezz it again..anything that is open inside that my camera is not bumping into and feels roomy i can live in..
a lot of tight builds are nice but i cannot be in them for too long without feeling like i have to stretch hehehe

Tintable windows are a must, in my opinion, even for those who see no reason to tint them. Don't leave that one out. But..... One caveat: Do not make the mistake of saving prims by making the entire wall with window one texture and putting it on one prim. This is a sure-fire way to cause guaranteed problems. Use the extra prims (often can add a window with only adding one extra prim to the wall, depending on the design) to make the window a prim all to itself, it will make your house build a whole lot better.

The problem is alpha sorting, which is not a Second Life problem, but rather an inherent flaw in the alpha channel system itself, and present in all 3-D software. Is that tree in front of the wall or behind it? Only the builder knows for sure, your computer can't make up its mind.

1. Rusty oil tanker
2. 60 X 20
3. Full sim
4. No furniture
5. Lockable doors and tintable windows seem the basic entry level
6. I hate terraforming so like someone to do it, the rest I tinker with (badly)

As to what sells, ghetto fab miami-pimp style mansions seem very in demand, clean lines, lots of glass etc

Click on the link in my signature to see a pic of my home. I built it myself.

I have a few home types for sale - don't sell many though as they are only available, boxed, in one place at the moment to passing trade.

I would guess a furnished, fitted modern living module with futuristic high-tech look - and suitable for 512m lots, would be a good thing to try as a first product.