Just because you can’t move the walls or floors around on your Premium Linden Home doesn’t mean you can’t add new ones, or even cover the old ones with a new wallpaper or paneling pattern. When I acquired my Tahoe “Maple Floorplan” Linden Home it was just one big, long, narrow room with a siding pattern on the floor and walls that made it seem even longer and narrower! Here’s how I added a loft to one end to create a separate 2nd floor space, along with half-walls to minimize the confining feel that the sloped walls create in an A-frame.
Here’s what it looked like before:
Just one room and way too many conflicting wood patterns!
Below is the after photo. Adding furniture will soften the room considerably:
New modern loft, half-walls on sides with a wood top trim board, and lighting. Bright and cheery! The loft is built using only 3 prims, both the side walls are a single U-shaped prim that goes under the floor. The 3 spot-lights are 1 prim each.
For this project I went for a very clean, bright, modern look. I added a second floor loft, with a low front wall, topped with a translucent smoked glass railing (which could also be one-way glass if you want more privacy in the loft.) Three down facing spot-lights were added at the peak of the roof. The vertical half-sidewalls just above the ground-floor level are white wood panels, with vertical battens, the texture doesn’t really show well in this photo. The side walls have a wood color top trim board to give them definition. The ceiling below the loft has the same white panel texture as the side walls (it is one of the standard interior wall and ceiling textures provided by Linden Lab for the Tahoe series homes.) You could, of course, use any texture or color you desire for the surfaces. It was pretty easy to build, the only cost was a few pennies for the teleporter I used in place of space-consuming stairs (and if you are willing to live with a very simple teleporter and know how to use LSL scripts, you can build one using my free Second Life LSL teleporter script.) So all the changes you see here used only 9 prims/land units, including the teleporters! Keep reading for instructions on how to build these additions…
Searching Second Life Marketplace – A Better Way
Search the Second Life® Marketplace Listings using Google Search:
The box above only searches for items listed in the Second Life Marketplace.
This is a little tool I made for myself, but you are welcome to use it. I have found that the search engine on the Second Life Marketplace website doesn’t give very good results. Most of the items in the search results don’t seem to be related to my search term. Then I discovered that Google also indexes the SL Marketplace, and the search results from Google are much more relevant. So I created a custom search engine to search the Marketplace using Google. Please try it, I think you will like the results.
This is not to say that the search feature on SL Marketplace is useless. I actually enjoy looking at all the odd stuff that comes up with a search. Just that if you want something specific, it can take a while to wade through all the seemingly unrelated search results. What I would really like is to have Second Life improve their search results.
Disclaimer: I also have reason to be biased, the products I sell on Marketplace come up much earlier in the search results using Google! Plus the ads on the Google results pages are tied to my account and I do get a small fee for them.