Where do you live in SL?

I loved 3ring's thread asking people to post pics ( and talk about) what they do in SL, so....

Where do you live?

I am finishing up my newest home, a skybox platform that I built myself. I think it is my favorite home in SL so far, and I've had a lot of them. I love outdoor spaces, flowers, and trees, but I've always been rubbish at thinking of a home on the ground as "mine." When I build on the ground I always ended up thinking of it as a public space, open for anyone to stroll through, which I love, but ultimatly doesn't feel like a private place of my own.

Anyway....this is my new place.

And, I have a kitchen, which I also built.






More pics at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24942448@N04/sets/72157616367844336/show/


So, where do you live? Do you like living in the sky or on land? What do you think of as "home" if you don't need a house?

Very impressive home, Nimue.

My home is the Egotherpy Centre in Yosu sim. I live in an apartment on the upper floor, while the ground floor houses the display/office area and my little shop. There's a back garden with an underground bunker under the lawn, where I have my SL snapshot gallery. I also have a structure 900m up in the sky, which is a building platform with the Egotherapy chillout club suspended beneath it.

I have lived in Yosu since 2006 and my current home has been more or less as it is now since it was built over a year ago. The previous Egotherpy Centre was destroyed in a terrible deletion accident.

I'm lucky in that my home borders a protected Linden route, so I can have a nice frontage.

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

I like the sparkly light strings in your garden, Nimue!

I live in an Elven-style house made by Isablan, designed specifically to fit my very steep mountain parcel.

Conifer - Your home sounds great. I like the idea of creating spaces underground too. It's really impressive to have been in the same place since 2006. I've been too transient in my time in SL to see one area around my home develop and change the way I am sure your sim has. I would imagine that really adds to the sense of feeling "home" there.

Oryx - I love that house, and I love it all the more because of the way it blends with the natural terrain. Isablan does beautiful work.

The light strands come from "Beloved Custom Designs" by Aisuru Rieko. There are three different types all in one box, all mod/copy and only L$75 for the set. I'm going to have to find more places I can use them because they are just so pretty, and can be tinted any color.
slurl to Beloved:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Nishijima/98/238/58

I must note here that I visited Oryx's shop yesterday and it is most impressive as well. There are several nooks and crannies to explore and the ocassional odd rock or sculpture to discover where you are not expecting them. I just hung around and looked at the art and seemed to feel my blood pressure lowering.

Actually I live in a plain old 10x10 meter box 1200 meters in the sky.




The inside is very plain too -- just a posing stand.




That is so I can save prims for more fun stuff, like this platform where I putter at a sculpture, or maybe it's just a big laval lamp.



But mostly I need the prims for my massively cluttered picture garden-




where there really is room to walk, in spite of how the photos appear.




[Sometimes the pictures don't work for me, no matter what I do. If so, I will keep trying, but you may just have to follow the url.].

I wouldn't exactly say I 'live' here....but this is my island......I've turned it all into a series of galleries......but it's still my oasis and where I call 'home' in SL.

I've been there too. I love the realistic wet banks and your mother's fine artwork as well.

My little village spoilt by a couple of long standing items whose owner has not logged in foor 3 months.




My Library

My home is on a large parcel in a private sim, a little over 1/4 of the sim, that I have set up as a replica of Hikone Castle in Japan, and other Edo-period Japanese buildings. I built the vast majority of what you see in these images.


Distant view - everything you see here is on my land... except for the dark grey peak by the roof of the white castle, at the skyline.


Inside one of the two small guest houses on the beach.


Down at the boat dock and swimming beach, looking up at Hikone Castle.


Halfway up the hill, the stables, similar to the ones that the actual castle has.

Hikone Castle - my home in SL


A Shinto shrine to Inari is on the hill beside the castle.


Hikone Castle - seen from entry side


Hikone Castle - Reception hall, ground floor

Hikone castle: Informal dining area and kitchen.


Hikone castle: My bedroom on the top floor


Koi pond and Tea House. Path to Sauk Valley is beyond the pond.


Inside the Tea House

Koi pond and bridge


Sauk Valley - A secluded area for some of my friends.


Bonfire ring in Sauk Valley.

Not shown: 4 small skyboxes (mostly for friends to use when they want some privacy), and a skybox lounge with an avatar prep area, photo studio, and a shared social space with a dance ball. (My non-period "family room".

Pep (Well, it seems like I live here most of the time)

LOL, Pep

You poor dear...

ooo! Im jealous =) I love the way the sunset streams across the garden toward the door. Is really nice.

I have lived both ground and sky. On the same parcel sometimes. Depends on my mood really. At the moment Im on the ground living in another half-made building without any furniture. Again =)

Nimue, very bohemian-looking, I love it

I just today moved from the mainlain onto a private estate. The only thing I have rezzed is my boat

Wow. Thanks for sharing, everyone!

Weston and Milla - I love the way you've decided to share your space with all of SL by hosting picture gardens/galleries. I'll have to pop over and have a look.

Blot - That seaside village looks wonderful. Honestly, I wouldn't have thought anything about the stray prims if you hadn't pointed them out. The library looks great!

Ceera - Wonderful build as always. Thanks for sharing pictures of your private home. I find it really impressive the way you can link together so many spaces in such a cohesive way, to say nothing of the Hikone Castle build.

Pep - LOL...and no comment.

Ashe - Congrats on the new place! A boat sounds like a great start. You have to take care of the important things first.




Hey, I think I've lived in that place too! More times than I want to count, in fact.

Nimue, if that's a wood-fired oven I am SO there! Everyone's got such great places!

I live in Bagh Bodhi, a classical Islamic garden that is open for the public to enjoy.


I'm so happy to be on a public waterway that I built a quay where anyone can rez their boat and go for a paddle, sail or cruise. There's a bit of a sim pinch to the southwest, but the residents there have thoughtfully left juuuuust enough room.


Adjacent to Bagh Bodhi is the Our Lady of Perpetual Frustration Shrine. If you visit and believe, you may be blessed by a vision of Her. At least you can say Hello! to my rat companion, Yersinia.


But where I really spend most of my time is building in my "lab." It seems I've chosen the same arbitrary altitude as my neighbors for our skybuilds.

I've a small parcel with a platform high in the air. Mostly it's just an open space for building, with a worktable & pose-stand, the whole space dotted with half-built projects. I don't like walls or a roof where I'm building so I can cam away when I need to. There's a very simple stone pagoda with cushions and an orrery in the domed roof as a chill space.

Floating a little higher is a rickety looking cottage perched on a stone tower. It's a bit small to be practical, but I like the style so much I don't want to de-rezz it. At ground level there's been modernist glass & concrete houses, landscaped gardens, abandoned factories and a skate-park. My imagination often overreaches my prim limit. It's so long since I've been down there I'm not sure if there's anything now... maybe a copy of the cottage.

Pics to follow next time I log in.

OK, I'll bite. I don't really even use this place to be honest, but I do think it's nice and I'm kind of proud of it.

No beautiful terraforming, sorry - this sits on one of those "beachside waffle sims" where everything started out flat with a grid of stupid looking canals to delineate the parcels. Oh well, it was cheap.

Anyway, here's the house. Sort of prosaic for SL, I guess it's vaguely Cape Cod-ish, but I made it myself and I'm told it fits my generally down-to-earth nature. I suppose I should landscape the front yard one of these days.



Another view, sunset coming up. I do like those corner plots



Back. Needs moar shrubberies, perhaps Sir Robin will happen by and I can demand he provide me with some.



View from the front door. I didn't make any of this furniture, it's mostly Sky Designs. Primmy but good.

Looking the other way. Just comfy and homey. I did make the fireplace and the blinds/drapes.



Around the corner, a cuddly pillow-stuffed nook for enjoying the sunsets and the back door off in the distance. And stairs going somewhere...



Bedroom upstairs. Note the lack of visible Adult Content, I will leave the placement of such as an exercise for the class.



Another view. Yep, same fireplace - I am nothing if not a thrifty builder! Cool divider hides the bath/spa area (next post...)

In SL I live on a Greek island. I built my home myself. It is almost entirely made of sculpties.

Bathtub, another creation of your humble servant. Nice view, the glass can be darkened in a couple steps or darkened just from the outside while leaving the view intact.



Spa/shower thingy. Note the lack of a toilet. I like that we don't have to mess with bodily functions in SL, so I'm not gonna burn prims on a useless toilet. We don't need to eat either (and any incidental food seems to come pre-cooked) so kitchen = noes too. Some of us do, on the other hand, enjoy our baths and showers a lot hence about 20% of the square footage in this house devoted to these activities



Deck off the bedroom. That's a hammock down at the other end.



Outdoor breakfast nook, also a nice place for a glass of champagne at the end of the day.