Looking for more of an open-air type home

[TheFantasyEffect]

I am looking for a home that more open-air but is still a home. By that I mean still a home, but something that doesn't have all roofs and walls. Maybe just a home with a lot more outdoor type areas. There could still be rooms inside and I do want that, I just want the option of having the ability to put stuff outside and that would be more of the focal point of the home. For an example, something like a deck, it is still connected to the home but outside. I would like it to still be part of the whole home itself, but just outdoors. I like homes like Trompe Loeil, any type IE: modern or rustic would do really, if I had a preference it may be modern. I do not want to go crazy with price either, given the size of my land below (plus prim availability). A requirement, also, is no stairs or elevator. Must be one floor or split level with no stairs or elevator.

My land has 914 prims available and is 2304 m^2.

I am thinking more of a single floor villa.

 

[Seawitch]

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/ba-catalina-bungalow-packaged/12216258

I have this house. The pictures are not very good. It has a lovely courtyard and outdoor eating area. See it in world . It is 89 LI and you can colour/paint
the wall as you like. I am not sure if all the bushes are included Mine did not come with them. I was able to decorate with my own plants. Hope you like it .
Sea

 

[Bea McMahon]

I was living in a tiki house at one time. Huge wrap around porch on two sides. Two stories, 1 big room on each floor. We spent almost all of out time on the porch.

 

[PandoraB]

try Inverse, their houses have very large outdoor area's (most of the time swimming pool, garden, ect).

 

[Trifina]

Sounds like you are describing this:

Trompe Nicolina Pavillion

It does have a balcony, but I just made it storage and never went up there. (You know, all that wierd stuff in your attic.... iron maidens and old coke machines, maybe a cat or mouse sleeping.... that cuckoo clock you can't find....)

 

[Beebo Brink]

Trompe Nicolina Pavillion

Gorgeous! I just went and bought it.

 

[Free]

Sounds like you are describing this:

Trompe Nicolina Pavillion

Gorgeous! I just went and bought it.

Can the fireplace, stairwell and upper floor be edited out of it? In other words, can you make the first floor one big open space?

 

[Ellie]

I am looking for a home that more open-air but is still a home. By that I mean still a home, but something that doesn't have all roofs and walls. Maybe just a home with a lot more outdoor type areas. There could still be rooms inside and I do want that, I just want the option of having the ability to put stuff outside and that would be more of the focal point of the home. For an example, something like a deck, it is still connected to the home but outside. I would like it to still be part of the whole home itself, but just outdoors. I like homes like Trompe Loeil, any type IE: modern or rustic would do really, if I had a preference it may be modern. I do not want to go crazy with price either, given the size of my land below (plus prim availability). A requirement, also, is no stairs or elevator. Must be one floor or split level with no stairs or elevator.

My land has 914 prims available and is 2304 m^2.

I am thinking more of a single floor villa.

Second your enthusiasm re Trompe homes, I prolly have dozens of them & have adapted them to suit and fit my parcel, including a latest offering found at Uber: the Bailey A-Frame Cottage can be seen at Sylvan surprisingly easy to mess with considering recent mesh developments!

Pls feel free to wander around it inside & out.

Nicolina model is another of my favorites from them. I didn't try to do much modding with it as Ioved it at first sight & found it combined nicely with another of their builds, the Eloa Rainforest Pool, which I kinda merged onto one open end.

Their Yara Treehouse is another one I've put out numerous times.

ETA
Recent purchases I love but have yet to experiment with include Killer's Tiny Tree House, MINIMAL Mykonos and Tia Madison - Woodlands Cottage. I also enjoy many Culprit & Scarlet Creative builds, so those are some other places to look.

The Zaara Jodhpur house (Rare gatcha - from marketplace) is becoming more affordable and well worth a look.

My ideal home is a smallish mostly one story (balcony inside & outside) adobe house with latillas & vigas, a cozy fireplace, window seats, high ceilings and great night settings to remind me of my New Mexico home of many years ago constructed by an amazing grandmother tired of waiting for her husband to "just build the goddam extension".

I recently suffered huge buyers remorse after a very expensive marketplace (rare gatcha) home purchase. When rezzed, it had almost no difference inside when I set time to 'midnight" - a great disappointment - as I love my firelight & candles at the end of a busy day.

Good luck & happy hunting!

 

[Beebo Brink]

Can the fireplace, stairwell and upper floor be edited out of it? In other words, can you make the first floor one big open space?

Free - I just now saw your question and logged in to check. The answer is yes! They can be removed entirely. The fire leaves a charred shadow on the floor, but a rug should cover that nicely.

 

[Seawitch]

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Trompe-Loeil-Ysela-A-Frame-Cabin-mesh/16641683

I also have this one but I only set it up to have a look around. maybe my summer house.
I buy pretty well every home BA offers at Collabor88 so I have a Lot of houses
I also pick up a few from Apple Fall when they had a sale .

 

[Ellie]

Is it a coincidence that the recently opened Collaborate88 has an almost perfect open air home from Trompe, or has someone been peeping at our thread? The Trompe Loeil - Genoveva Hacienda Poolhouse PG is on sale for LR$188 (may need to use cam sim for a few days, make sure camera restraints is unchecked to purchase. I fly up to the demo plat & have a good gander at everything with max. draw distance enableded.)

It ticked many of my boxes - two private rooms, three large porches inc. two with fireplaces, small pool in front, nice wooden beans & wood textures in general, allows modification of textures & looks good with night settings. Well worth a look IMHO.

 

[Ellie]

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Mayas-Amazing-Cottage-Fully/11278889?id=11278889&slug=Mayas-Amazing-Cottage-Fully
A lovely although fairly small home with plenty of open air space at a very good price.
AND the furniture isn't bad at all.

 

[Ellie]

On the subject of new homes, where the hell did info on Fameshed go? It used to be posted to SL Seraphim alongside all the other events, but now there's no decent list of items to be found except a pretty but not comprehensive or particuarly useful group of photos here July 2019 – FaMESHed

 

[Shiloh Lyric]

On the subject of new homes, where the hell did info on Fameshed go? It used to be posted to SL Seraphim alongside all the other events, but now there's no decent list of items to be found except a pretty but not comprehensive or particuarly useful group of photos here July 2019 – FaMESHed

I noticed that, too. I always liked looking at galleries before I bother going to events, or at least the ones Seraphim covers or I can find a gallery on.

Must have been drama or something between the Seraphim bloggers and the FaMESHed people. In SL, it ALWAYS comes down to drama, it seems.

 

[Ellie]

I fall in love easily with new homes.
This delightful home reminds me of my New Mexico years.
Hacienda del Sol by Zinnias L$450
Vigas, adobe walls, flat accessible roof, courtyard..drools.

Michigan Bay

 

[Brenda Archer]

I fall in love easily with new homes.
This delightful home reminds me of my New Mexico years.
Hacienda del Sol by Zinnias L$450
Vigas, adobe walls, flat accessible roof, courtyard..drools.

Michigan Bay

I went and got it, it's gorgeous! thank you <3

 

[Romana]

This is the one I've had up for a while now: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Trompe-Loeil-Xaviera-Villa-PG-mesh/10665253
It comes in an adult version too, and you can put up the house without the whole pool area.
I do like that pavilion and may grab it too, though I want to keep my current one up a bit longer now that I have leeway to use the whole build.
I've been thinking of a more airy, Elvish sorry of build myself, though I do want some rooms enclosed.

Oh, and FaMESHed is still around. December 2019 – FaMESHed

I thought I remembered getting a notice from them.

 

[Anya Ristow]

I don't see the point of being indoors in SL except to change clothes and build stuff, and I have a skybox for that. I also have a platform stuck into the side of the mountain behind here, at treetop level, with a view of the Ivory Tower.

Pergola ~ w/ivy ~ 18 LI
by Domineaux Prospero

 

[Puretone]

I have that too!
My space is all outdoors on a floating Island.

 

[Ellie]

My latest cottage collection addition is from Hisa - La maisonette D'Aurorais from Fameshed. I love that the doors stay open once opened - no idea why that's rare in houses I own. Not yet been able to edit to remove some internal walls but its open enough to make me a very comfortable home.

Hisa group gift English Garden Shed is a must have for outdoor life structure addicts!

Other recent open dwelling finds were YSM Smolhaus 1.1 Cabin/Bungalow and Milk Motion Bali bamboo house.

I still have Trompe's Nicolina Pavilion rezzed as my home, very reluctant to remove it now I'm so cozy! That and the Yara Treehouse are my favorites to date - if I had to chose only two SL homes to keep it would be these.