Parhelion Palou

One thing you could do is modify the windows by putting a vertical section in the middle of each so that the two wide windows become four smaller ones. Those would be more fitting to a country kitchen. A sculpty that reproduces window sashes & panes would work well in the openings. To avoid bleed-through you have to find curtains/valances that have no alpha (transparency) at all -- not in the texture itself or via prim setting (in the texture tab). I'm rushed right now, but later I'll post a link to any window sculpties I find. I know they exist, and I could use them in updating the windows in my old cabin.

Thank you. I'm glad you liked my work. I've enjoyed all the pictures, but the inspiration I have from this topic is to design a house. I've tended to build very large skybox structures rather than houses. I think the last small house-like structure I did was a few years ago. It was meant to be an office space on Nonprofit Commons, but we ended up making it into an art gallery.  Obviously it wasn't meant to be serious at all. The background may seem a bit strange. I rezzed it in this: I see beta Viewer 2.8.1 has some problems with the sky at 3000 meters. This was a fun topic, valerie. Thanks for starting it.

I'll go back in time a bit. Here's part of my land in summer 2010:  and again, but playing with water settings  Spring/summer 2010 was an attempt at a fantasy look:  And fall 2010 was the beginning of the shift to the current look (with a total rebuild for winter in between): 

Very nice pictures! I especially like the first one. The FL Wright Museum is gone, as of the beginning of the year, I think. The group that ran it had an agreement with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation that allowed them to make reproductions of Wright's work in SL. When the agreement expired the Foundation refused to renew it and the museum had to close. The region is still there and landmarks to the Wright museum still work, but the region has a new name and is run by Virtual Museums Incorporated. It's interesting, but not FL Wright. :matte-motes-frown:

Did you try this link? http://secondlife.com/land/lindenhomes/?lang=en-US

I believe they were referring to the Firestorm viewer, which is in beta. It's Viewer 2 done by the Phoenix people and is customizable to come close to the V1 interface. I've been using it awhile and find it to be quite stable. You can read about Firestorm at http://www.phoenixviewer.com/ I tried the latest LL beta viewer (2.8) and didn't see anything in it or the release notes about changing the GUI.

Your region looks very peaceful, though someone trying to get a boat to the dock might disagree. I wondered what was tragic about Taliesin, so I looked it up as you suggested. I've read a lot about Frank Lloyd Wright and never before run across what happened at his home. I admit I'm more interested in his architecture than his personal life, but it seems like something that would've come up. Did you spend time at the FL Wright Museum in SL?

I just heard a talk (in SL) by one of the Mayo Clinic's people. They do in-world meetings and classes, and much more. IBM was holding meetings in-world, but I believe they went to a private grid. Any company that wants to hold serious meetings is likely to use a closed estate and RegAPI. That way their people register through the company and can be/are restricted to the company's estate. They'd be invisible to the rest of us. I've been in meetings held via telephone conference call. I'd much rather meet in SL. I don't classify my in-world activities as roleplay, but that's because we have different definitions of roleplay.

Thank you valerie, you're very kind. In hopes of keeping the thread going so more pictures of more gardens will arrive, here are a couple from a temporary build at Nonprofit Commons for a 1920s Lawn Party. Since the party's location was a flat grassy area surrounded by distinctly non-1920s buildings, the area needed to be isolated from its surroundings. This was built from stuff in inventory. Most came from Heart with a few things from Botanical and Organica. I know there are a lot of talented gardeners out there, so how about some pictures?

@valerie: It looks great -- I really like that house too. @kryptic: Great job and good pictures. I prefer it without the backdrop. I'm afraid my pictures will pale in comparison to the preceding two posts, but here are a few more shots. This cabin has been tweaked over the years, but it still has some prims and textures from 2006 when I built it Nothing much growing here, but I like the shot. A couple shots of the grove that was in my first set of pictures.

Thank you. Yes, those trees are from Botanical.

De-lurking for a moment ... here are 3 pictures from my land. You all have done very nice work, btw. Derezzing...