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    are Newbrooke 1024 homes completely sold out?

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    9 hours ago, Always Incognito said:

    Linking lights? I remember linking my outdoor lamps with my flagpole…. Turned the lights on and the flagpole was visible from the next region 🤣

    I've never had this issue but I can imagine it was quite the shock!

    8 hours ago, Marianne Little said:

    I have never been interested in scripted on/off lamps. I turn them on and delete the script. No electricity bills in SL. ;)

    I am the same. After I make my link-set, I delete all the scripts out of it. It's shocking how many scripts there are in everything.

    6 hours ago, Leora Greenwood said:

    hahahaha...  Early, early in our SL lives, a friend of mine linked her whole house to her revolving fan and.... you guessed it!!  😆

    I will never admit that I did the same once.

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    are Newbrooke 1024 homes completely sold out?

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    Posted · Edited by Mercedes Avon

    Linking decor is really the ticket to saving on Li. However, do not link in anything with animations; couches, chairs, ceiling fans, beds etc. Like mentioned, it ruins furniture if you link it to other things. Leave all that stuff as is. The decor you can link all together. I link rugs, tables, artwork, plants, knickknacks, the kitchen (minus the parts with animations), lights and other random decor. My link-set is 117LI but un-linked it is 196Li.  That's a big Li savings.

    If you have a bed you adore the animations in but it is high Li, consider taking the root prim with the animations out of it and linking it onto a lower Li bed (as the root prim and after you delete out the animations that are already in it) and get the best of both worlds. I say this but I know not everyone is comfortable with building, but if the pieces are copy, you have nothing to lose by taking both beds to a sandbox and trying it out. I do this constantly. I buy nice looking low Li PG beds, sofas and/or chairs and use an adult *coughs* engine from another furniture piece I like the poses in. I think 75% of my furniture has an animation engine from another piece in it. My bed is 5Li (I bought it at Fancy Decor during their 50% off sale) but has the animation engine from a much higher Li bed on it. Modifiable stuff is awesome!

    My Bradbury is a large house and fully decked out inside and out and I think I still have 15Li left. For me the challenge of the 351Li is half the fun, but I know not everyone is crazy like me.

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    -Bellisserians Show Off Your Home and Garden-

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    1 hour ago, Marianne Little said:

    The Bradbury has really big rooms! It is so challenging to fill it like I want, because of the room size. I have not done the last part inside, but I already had to sacrifice a sofa and replace it with a 1 Li sofa from PrimPossible. I do not love that sofa, but it is my "last resort" when I will have more decor.

    I like your kitchen floor tiles. And that pool is very well made. I guess you made the wall fountain yourself?

    I have every room furnished now, but the bedroom is so large that it bugs me. I put the fireplace room divider in there too and that helped break up the large space. I might try the idea mentioned above and put in a wall and make the room smaller.

    That fountain I bought from Fourth Wall and then re-textured it to match the pool.

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    -Bellisserians Show Off Your Home and Garden-

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    Once I moved to my new parcel, I decided to change the house I am using and go with a different one. I am using the Bradbury now and I think I like it best of all the home styles I've tried. It is larger and used more Li to decorate but I still have 12LI left so that means I need to go shopping! lol

     

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    Decorating SOS...how do I?

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    52 minutes ago, Missbehavin Neva said:

    Love Home and Garden by Krystali Rabeni is also a good source for pretty and low prim landscaping. 

    https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/18133

    I was just going to recommend this store too. I find a lot of what I like and need there and the best part is that she often has sales on the weekends so you can slowly pick up a lot of neat things for a very good price.

    With the Newbrooke, I haven't gone as crazy with the grasses and landscaping as I usually go. I've put down more concrete then I typically do. I got a lot of good ideas googling mid-century modern landscape ideas. I have been enjoying trying new ideas outside my norm.

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    Beautiful Abandons

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    2 hours ago, EnchantrixLisa said:

    May I ask how you went about scoping out the areas you were interested in?  I wish we were able to take a look at a parcel before accepting it even if it's just on the map.  I don't know how to look for areas and such really.  I know I want another Houseboat.  I have to wait 24hr as I've used up my 5 tries.  

    There is no good way really. I have no way of knowing what house I am going to get when I click the land page to accept one, but I can be a bit strategic and travel around the map and look at what has not been claimed yet. I knew that parcel I wanted was still a Linden Home and owned my Governor Linden and not claimed. Thus, I knew it was on the land page someplace in the pile of available homes. At that time, nothing on that sim had been claimed by a resident so I knew all the houses on the sim were buried under a lot of other houses in the queue. I tracked the region on my world map and when I started to see people on the sim, I then knew houses were going on that sim and the homes had reached the top of the queue. I of course still was not able to get the house I wanted then. I simply lucked out days later and got that house because I rolled for a house just after the person who had it abandoned it back to the queue (new abandons typically go to the top of the queue). It was incredibly lucky timing. At this point, the 1024sqm have sold out a few times so any 1024sqm that comes on the land page is an abandoned (until the new sims on the map release). I hope all that rambling made sense? lol

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    Beautiful Abandons

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    3 hours ago, Nika Talaj said:

    Yay you!  What a miracle!  And those trellises you built are so perfect for this theme!  Your place really has a spacious, gracious living feel.

    I lucked out and got one on the same lake a few days ago, but it was on an alt who only has a couple weeks left on premium.  But I have a happy ending too - late last night I actually succeeded in swapping it to a more long-lived alt!

    Planning to have this place  together in about a week... hoping it'll be a fun place to stop at when driving or strolling around the lake :)   Maybe we can have a block party there, the golf is kinda high in LI, but easy to pick up and replace when done. There's a rez zone 2 houses down, so folks can resume their drive after puttering around and grabbing a drink on the deck.  It's in the SE corner of Resolve.

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    I think I know the majority of my neighbors from the forums! I will be watching for your build 🙂

    Beautiful Abandons

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    I don't have many avies to roll with so I try to be strategic with my rolls. I don't want to waste them. I really like the Newbrooke parcel I got when the theme first rolled out, but it's on my alt and I want to downgrade her to a free account so I have been rolling in hopes of finding one I like just as much (I did not want to attempt a swap).

    I patiently watched a few sims when the Newbrooke theme released. There are not a lot of 1024sqm on water. I did spot one 1024 parcel I thought was the hallelujah of Newbrooke (for my tastes) - pond and lake view, rez zone, and two big public parks. I watched the sim for days waiting for the sim to come to the top of the land page stack. When I saw the parcels start to go, I used all my 5 rolls but didn't get that dream Newbrooke parcel. I saw it went a day later.

    I have been eyeballing the new regions popping up on the map because I am sure there will be a lot of new inventory to roll through. I've been saving my rolls for that until last night. I thought, "I don't think those regions are going in the next couple of days, so I can burn some rolls." My rolling fingers were itching to gamble my luck.

    I went to the page and rolled. First roll was the same sim I kept getting one of two homes in days before. "Ugh, not again," I thought. I went over with my abandon finger ready and . . . .

    It was that dream parcel I had thirsted for. That very same one I had decided was my perfect spot. I could not believe it.

    I already got to thank the person who abandon it, but THANK YOU AGAIN! You have no idea how excited I was to get that house.

    *HAPPY DANCES THROUGH THIS THREAD*

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