So, as promised a while back and keeping putting off, today I want to show you my cottage in Second Life. The cottage is named “Laurel” and from the (have I said this before?) brilliant design from the folks over at { What Next }. It’s a small one bedroom cottage and it’s situated on a high pad in the air and gives me a place to be, to work, to write (yes I am actually writing this from my ‘office’ as you can see later).
As you probably can remember, I used to have a self built home, based on a freebie home modded pretty much to beyond recognition. It was fun, but Second Life being Second Life, at one point when I tried to rez the house after I per accidental had returned it to my inventory, decided that it needed eating and gone it was.
For a while after that the house more or less (mostly a lot more) resembled a building site with a rubble pit. It was mostly an open air design with some large building blocks strewn around for effect and basically because I wanted not to to have the parcel all that empty.
As you know, Mistress, after me asking and her checking out { What Next }, she graciously gave me the permission to build a new place for myself. Thank you Mistress! Of course there is the stipulation that while the place now looks absolutely charming and darling, this will not be, not now, nor ever, be my home. It’s my cottage, my crash-pad, my whatever-you-want to call it, but most definitely it is not my home in any shape or form. That, home, is our place together.
So what does my new cottage look like? Let’s have a look shall we?
The cottage is cute, definitely me. The biggest problem is that in the end the biggest enemy (as per usual) is running out of prims for the build. I think I have some five prims, give or take left. How much would I need to finish the way I want it? I really can not say. I could horde prims like nobodies business, and { What Next } have so many cute and cool stuff I could happily and easily without batting an eyelid or straining a whisker do with triple the amount of prims for my house.
The two above photos show the exterior of the cottage the best. Both of course as obviously perhaps from the front and from the back. The front has both a nice letter box for mail (and in pink!) and a nice swing.
The back porch has a static bench and looks out over a field of sunflowers. I love that bench and my back garden. It’s reachable either (of course) through the house, with doors for either the office or the sitting room as well as double wooden gates on the back. For me the back garden was initially really the more private part of the plot.
I had decided that since my old plot had two style sitting areas and neither one was fully utilised to their potential to do away with the separate setting of vanilla seating arrangement as well as as a more kink friendly (and by that I really just mean mostly leather couches, not that you think I had enormous amount of dungeon gear lying around my plot ( a girl could wish though!). The new garden set has a cover that can be changed more or less, and variable seating arrangements and above all, a fire-pit! I love the sound and sight of an open wood fire, it makes me remember when I was young.
On the inside we have a lovely warm room in green, dark yellows, browns and subdued reds. Typical fall and autumn colours as you can see. The two paintings on either side of the wood fire (see, recurring theme!), are made by my sister Vannesh Cannoli and her partner and my dear friend Miss Sasara Klaar. If you have a moment to spare, I can heartily recommend you go and check out their art-gallery in Diloba.
The seating area (one of the areas to be decorated last and thus suffering from the earlier aforementioned epic shortage of prims, is a place for people to lounge around on cushions and contemplate the fairness of the world in all it’s forms and methods.
If you follow the stairs from the living room up, you come in the only bedroom, the house has. Right up in the attic, under a double slanted roof is a small bedroom with a nice double bed. Of course with obligatory coffee tray. After all is there nothing more luxurious than having breakfast brought to you in bed while you lounge about.The walls of the bedroom are adorned by art of Miss Sasara Klaar featuring yours truly as the photogenic subject. *smiles*
Through the double French doors, you can walk onto the balcony, and find a very pleasant and nice little balcony which I have decorated with a small table and French terrace type chairs. Ideal to sit in the early morning and drink coffee and wait for the sun to warm up.The balcony also looks out over a completely new revamped sitting area. Ideally it could do with some plants (I really need a shrubbery somewhere! *grins and winks*).
And last but most certainly not least…
My office, for writing & blogging from. As you can see this is the most lavious decorated room of the whole house and thus not unsafely to assume (and to which you would be correct) that this is the room that got first decorated).
But I love if. It is a pleasure to be in, be that for reading in my big comfy chair or actually sitting behind my desk and writing on my laptop working on a blog post. The only thing that this picture does not show is the big poster on the other wall showing an exploding Tardis “painted” by Vincent van Gogh, at least according to who-lore.
If you, like me, love Vincent van Gogh as a painter (hence the sunflowers), and you love your Doctor to be slightly quirky and unstable; I can recommend watching “Vincent and the Doctor” It’s a touching episode and to see so many parts of Vincent’s paintings come to live is a treat.
And that concludes this photo tour of my new sky based cottage. It’s a place I feel radiates with warmth and somewhere I can happily relax with friends. And again a bit thank you to my Mistress for making this dream of a house possible. *smiles*
Take care, and have fun
lexi
