It Took Me Long Enough

Finally, after being settled in Westmoreland for more than a year, I start work on building a house of my own.

Why yes, you are reading that caption correctly.  I moved to Caledon Westmoreland as a resident just under a year ago.  At the time, things in my job were going from frantic to insanely retarded as fast as they possibly could.  So, rather than attempt to build something more suited to my little island home, I settled in a nice prefab cottage I had been using on the Mainland plot I was running away from and promised myself I would build something of my own when I had the time.

Then, as some of you know, things went from horrendous to “how on earth could things get any worse” within a matter of days and the little cottage with it’s accompanying gazebo became a more permanent residence than I had ever planned.

This weekend I decided to correct that.

The little cottage is still there, for now. Although I’ve removed the furniture in preparation for it’s (hopefully soon) replacement with the fine establishment you see above.  (What?  That doesn’t look like every little girl’s dream home?)

Admittedly, it doesn’t look like much now, sitting in the skies way above Westmoreland, untextured and featureless.  But, I intend for it to soon be glorious.  Contrary to it’s appearance here, it is not simply two large blocks stacked on atop the other.  Each face is actually a wall and there are rooms evolving inside.  Doors and windows will appear as I go, with the textures coming once I’ve roughed out the prims for the features and details.  Nor, will it be such a hideous mishmash of colors, I promise you.  The colors are merely to provide me with visual cues as to what feature I am working on at each given time.

The short white cylander you see is, of course, where the balcony will go.  Any good seaside home should have one for standing in to watch the melancholy sea, after all.  And I think there will be a porch running along the ground floor on these two sides, which are the front and seaward facing sides.  (The other two sides will look up onto the mountains of Westmoreland.)

I realize such things are not of much interest to many longer-term residents of Second Life.  But, as this is my first attempt at such a complicated build, I thought I’d share my progress.  I tried to find tutorials specifically geared toward building houses before I started and was woefully disappointed.  So, while not a tutorial, perhaps periodic updates on my adventures in building will help others who are to come after me.

If we’re all very lucky, there may be a housewarming party before the first snows settle over Caledon and the Realms.