House Are You

Special request post done for those seeking houses & structures. Hope you find something suitable to your needs. ^_^


L$0 for *ARAI* tekitou house.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/SWITCH/155/159/34, http://arai.cp-switch.com/

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Lucky Board - =mini-Cafe=BOX, L$0 for =jam=BOX. & L$0 for =time traveler=GIFT. @ *time traveler*
L$0 for time traveler=GIFT2. @ *time traveler* UMall
All 3 locations have lucky boards. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Wombat/134/47/35, http://slurl.com/secondlife/SeLaVi%20Japan%20Tokyo/88/71/22, or http://slurl.com/secondlife/Stepanovych/244/114/51 http://timetraveler24.blog28.fc2.com/

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Lucky Board - *CR* Deck Table set-Pink Box @ Cotton Room
http://slurl.com/secondlife/SHIKI%20VILLAGE/238/201/21

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All at Muu Workshop
group gift in store - *MW*GroupGift-4
lucky boards- *MW*heartLivingboard, *MW*heartsofaset, *MW*Bookshelf darkbrown, *MW*Kitchen darkbrown, & (previously blogged)*MW*Carriage-LB
15 minute camp each: *MW*Dining chair-darkblown & *MW*Dining table-darkblown

L$0 for (upstairs): *MW*Noren X'mas set., Kitchen, *MW*Kitchenset, *MW*Kitchenset-c, *MW*Homebar, *MW*Table chair set Stump, Flowerpotset, *MW*AromaRug Lemon, *MW*chairstand bear, *MW*chairstand bear(P), *MW*Rattan table&Chairset
L$0 for (outside): 1Prim flower set.
L$1 for: *MW*SkyBox-F, *MW*SkyBox-D, *MW*SkyBox, *MW*SkyBoxB, *MW*House-D, *MW*House-G, *MW*HouseS, *MW*House~c
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Little%20Cat%20GreenEyes/196/224/23

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All items $0 from Milk Hall.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/First%20Step/125/82/109, http://milkhall.sljfc.net/

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lucky boards: :::OBF::: Bread Bed & :::OBF::: Reading Stump @ off-brand Furniture
10 minute camp: :::OBF::: Watermelon Cooler
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Plush%20Sigma/241/233/24, http://secondlife-furniture.blogspot.com/

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L$0 for 20 40 prim theme houses @ Yadni's Junkyard
This series was made by Atom Burma, from 2006 - 2008. There are 20 homes in total in this series, all in various themes from Ancient Egypt, urban city scapes, victorian homes, under water and outer space homes, all with 40 prims. The doors and features vary from home to home, and in some cases these features maybe stripped in these "public domain" versions.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Leda/210/57/55

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$L0 for Gnubie store items by: Barnesworth Anubis, Ingrid Ingersoll, Cubey Terra, Forseti Svarog, Bethany Heart, Colleen Desmoulins, Charlotte Bartlett, Teizus Miles
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Powder%20Mill/120/144/34


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$L1 section @ .::La Flat::. Skyboxes, Modern Homes, Urban Skybox
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Yaboop%20Island/226/145/500

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Fujiyama Geisha & Samurai's Freebie shop
Lucky Boards - ASIAN shop BOX & Pirate Shop BOX
Remaining items $L0 by: Mermaid Temple Shop, Interior Furniture Healing Goods, CADINI, *shirayuki SHOP*, nocc., Harajuku Place, electical store@waterland 2, *Miroku*, Flowering
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Trapper/229/16/240

If you have a special request or suggestion for future entries please feel free to drop a note card on my (Anna Zwiers) profile.

What makes a house a home?

In thinking about starting our interior design firm, I have been pondering what makes a house a home and not a set from a magazine shoot. What is it that gives a house warmth and personality and soul? Think about the feeling that you have when you come home to a house you love - the house evokes an emotional reaction in us, it touches us somewhere inside and we feel safe and can be refreshed.

This is the house that I, my mother and grandmother grew up in:



Just looking at the photo gives me a feeling of "home." This house is why I built a white clapboard house - it just feels like home to me. Each one of us has different things that evoke that feeling of home. The job of an interior designer is to help the client figure out what those things are and how they translate into design of the house (inside and out).

A house tells the story of a person's life, and describes the journey that one has traveled. At the beginning the house is fresh and often fairly empty, as time goes by the house develops a patina, and becomes full of the artifacts and treasures collected along the way. If you look closely, you can learn a lot about a person from his or her house - you can see what is meaningful to the homeowners and what their passions are.

In the next few posts, we will explore the things that Jane Douglas and I love about houses and interior design and we will show you some of things that we love about our own houses.

The Bunny Hop - Skirts Off *Girls Edition*

The Bunny Hop's starting point. ($0 - 300 eggs- http://slurl.com/secondlife/aduchi%20momoyama/147/190/40)



Tank & Pants: #273 - SIMco, Shoes: #237 - amplify, Basket & earrings: #241 - Ear Candy Girlz, Pose: #200 - Mela's



LEFT: #046 - DYN Clothing, Pet: #040 - Curious Kitties, Shoes: #027 - NONKO romankan; CENTER: #075 - ***ADEQUATE***, Shoes: #064 - Unique Needs!, Jewelry: #076 - Ultra kitty, RIGHT: #087 - Draconic Kiss, Jewelry: #089 - GINZA jewelry Kohime, Shoes: #198 - Duh! * Prop used in all - #261 - JUICY



Outfit: #068 - Modd.G, Necklace: #089 - GINZA jewelry Kohime, Shoes: #064 - Unique Needs!, Purse: #196 -=IZUMIYA=, Poses: #106 - Chikka Design



Outfit: #176 - Project Kiwi, Necklace: #089 - GINZA jewelry Kohime, Shoes: #235 - * Pretties by JB *, Nails: #025 - Love Soul, Pose: #169 - Natural Expression Animation



Shoes: #059 - Studio M'z, Jewelry: #101 - ::f*a:: forbidden apple, Egg Attachment: #245 - Grimalkin Workshop, Outfit: #201 *{4Eva GuTta}*, Couch: #028 (1 of 2) - La Belle Vie



Outfit: #225 - (female) .::NOSOTR@S::., Furniture: #077 - tomo noren, Collar: #076 - Ultra kitty, Poses: #218 - KSCreations



Outfit: *Fukmi* Bunny Hop Prize #255, Earrings: #091 - Violet Voltaire , Furniture: #190 - *ELISA* Poses For Friends




Outfit: #098 - AGEHA Raizeen, Poses: #106 - Chikka Design


Used in both girl & boy edition:
Skins: #271 - Nikita Fride Designer, Hairs & Eyes:#232 - MADesigns, Shapes: #205 - ~Savoir Faire Shapes~,



Used in Girl Edition: House: #004 - The Sea Hole, Swing: #007 - Thistle Homes, Plants: #291 - AmberMyst Botanical Designs

Daily Dose & Hunts

The offering for today (23rd) from Lemania Indigo Designs is a chic' pants outfit: Urban Mod. ($1 - F- outfit - http://slurl.com/secondlife/S%20Crystal%20Springs/148/169/30)



The earrings peaking through my hair are just one of many $1 samples from Chloe. ($1 - F - Jewelry - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Elf%20Fala%20Lands/60/176/2)

Hair from Adora found is a Valentine's present so I'm unsure of how much longer this will be available. ($0/1? - F - Hair - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Adora%20Isle/114/195/30)

There is a hunt going on at the Oak Tree Shoppes. You'll be searching for Mardi Gras masks and you have until the 27th to complete the hunt. There are lots of home decor items, but also a killer period dress from Vintage Clothing Reproductions by Skye Qi along with a shirt and vest meant for kids (I stretched it.). ($0 - ?# - home & clothing items - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Zebranky/10/128/22)



I've written about both skins shown in this post before, but both are worth mentioing again. The 'adult' skin is from RockBerry's lucky board. (Lucky Board - F - Skin - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Scaramanga/20/40/66)

The 'child' skin is from Utsuku City (a camping sim). The skin comes with a shape. You'll have to join the Utsuku City Members group and sit for 10 minutes in the chair with the "Ami" flag. (10 min. camp - F - skin - http://slurl.com/secondlife/utsuku%20city/179/18/37)

You'll notice that 3 of the shops in Oak Tree Shopping area are also participating in the Kid's Grid Wide Hunt. You may want to pick up these too, the bear from Vintage Clothing Reproduction contains both a child's and adult's dress in it. ($0 - children's items - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Zebranky/10/128/22)



Pictures taken at the Oak Tree Shopping area. Preset used [TOR] das fog.

Home Sweet Home

I was requested to write on setting up home on a 512m plot. In no way is this a comprehensive guide, but a starting point offering a few suggestions.

If you've been around a while you are probably ready to have a little virtual home. There are several places to find free starter homes and furniture. Your inventory > library > objects > household folder offers a few options - specifically the cabin and a few pieces of furniture. If you want to immediately set something up upon purchasing your land the cabin is provided to you. However if you've purchased a small piece of land building in close proximity to other homes can cause camera view problems. So, a simple solution is obtaining a skybox/skypod. This is simply a home that you place in the sky. Here are a couple of suggested places to obtain free skyhomes:

1) .:: KMH ::. Sannomiya Store (Sannomiya 38/140/40) offers a completely private skybox. This is a skybox that does not have doors to the outside, that is you'll probably need to landmark the inside of your box to enter or exit or place a teleporter to get in and out of the box. ($0 - 14 prims)

2) House Of Effulgent (Blarn Isle 170/53/28) offers several free original houses and furniture. All are suitable for starter homes. In particular you may find the Fawn Skyhome of particular interest. It is 31 prims and comes with furniture. ($1 - 31 prims)



A couple of newer furniture places that regularly run $1 deals on furniture pieces are:
1) Apocalips Japan Low Prim Furniture ( Zoq 92/87/23) which has several specials including the whicker/rattan chairs outside of the store in either male or female pose versions, resizable chairs, and free futons (futon $0 & chair $1 @ secondlife://Zoq/55/48/24). All pieces are prim conservative with the prim heaviest being the resizable chair weighting in at 6 prims.

2)If you'd like to splurge on prims you might try Dolci! (Muslin 142/178/94) who offers varying pieces of furniture for $1. This week she has two chairs ($1 each) out which are 15 prims a piece. (Dolci is a friend so I contacted her to find out if she knew what she'd be offering in the future and she was kind enough to send me a couple of her future (sofa) planned offerings which I'm showing in the pictures along with the current $1 items.)


Other items of interest:

You can find many quality items ( Powder Mill 92/130/44) at the Gnubie Store. Including houses, furniture, Cubey Terra's teleporter, and kits like the create a bar texture kit in Four Yip's booth.

Yadni's Junkyard offers (Leda (217, 20, 53) offers a a repository of freebies offered over the years. You'll find almost anything you can think of here.

NCI (New Citizens Incorporated please open search and search on places tab for " NCI ") has many locations and not only offers vendors that disperse free items, but also classes on building.

Here's the house I set up using the sources posted...
Outside of the .:: KMH ::. Skybox:



Interior shots:



The house and furnishings come in at 74 prims well under the 117 prims alloted to a 512m plot.


Living room items: Furniture from Dolci!: 21 prim couch, 2 - 15 prim chairs, rug is texture changing rug from the Gnubie Store by Forseti Svarog of the Electric Sheep Company 1 prim, bar was made from the create a bar textures also from the Gnubie Store by Four Yip 1 prim, pot was from inventory> library > objects > landscaping >flowers - potted (select edit linked parts and unlink flowers then you have just the pot that I used to add the tree to) 2 prims, Tree is the Dogwood Tree from inventory> library > objects > trees, plants, and grasses> dogwood tree 1 prim.

Loft/Bedroom:


Futon is from Apoclapis Japan Low Prim Furniture (3 prims), again the rug is texture changing rug from the Gnubie Store by Forseti Svarog of the Electric Sheep Company (1 prim), and the chandelier from Four Yip can be obtained at the Gnubie Store also (2 prims).

There are a number of freebie homes and furniture items available. These are merely suggestions. Take time to look around and I hope you find something you like.