Sophrosyne Stenvaag (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} sophrosyne_sl) wrote,@ 2007-05-20 12:00:00 |
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Housemod I
This is the first step in my project of learning how to build by customizing the living daylights out of my freebie starter house.
I began with the BSD Archer House that you probably saw on Help Island - that's where I got my copy. On Day 1 of the project, it looked like this:
It's a fine little starter, and very very nice for what it is. But, the photorealist texture of the stonework looks pretty fake - but not as fake as the "marble" flooring, which looks like cheap-motel linoleum they picked out 'cause it's easy to hose down :-/
And, I really wanted a separate workshop/studio: having my drafting table and pose stand in the bedroom, making me feel guilty for not working, wasn't helping my sleep! :)
So, here's what I did in Housemod I:
- Painted the ceiling sky blue, to get rid of that "under a concrete slab" feeling: just selected the house, clicked Edit in the pie menu, then checked "Select Texture" and clicked to bullseye the ceiling, then changed the color under "Edit/Texture tab/Textures ."
- Replaced the cheapo stonework with a nice pale blue stone: same tools.
- Stripped up the linoleum on the patio, leaving the bare concrete pad: same tools.
- Put worn copper sheeting around the interior wall separating the living room and bedroom: same tools.
- Replaced two of the glass walls in the bedroom with stucco, and painted them: same, but after choosing the textures, I had to delete the script for the window blinds that changes the transparency, and set the transparency to 0.
So here's where we are on Sunday of Week I:
Patio, showing the new stonework and bare concrete:
New flooring, painted ceiling, copper wall, new stonework. And the painting and frame are my own work, too: a snapshot of me and my sweetie
nox_pinion , with canvas effects added in GIMP, uploaded as a texture, then joined to a prim with a darkened jade texture:
Here's the bedroom:
And from the opposite angle:
Here's what's up for Housemod II:
- Putting a spiral staircase in the far corner of the bedroom. This is going to involve turning my 1-prim roof into a 4-prim, so I can cut a hole where I want it in the far right corner, then using Virtual Builders Studio to put in the staircase.
- Enclosing the space above the bedroom in glass windows and ceiling: I'll rez a copy of the house, unlink the prims, select the three glass walls and roof, link those, move them ontop of my house and link them to the structure. This will give me an enclosed dojo space upstairs.
- Enclosing the space above the living room for my design studio. This will be trickier: the stone walls extend above the roofline, so I can't just rez copies of all the downstairs prims, I don't think - I think I'll have to edit those stone walls down to flush, then copy.
- Making proper 3-D matted picture frames for nox_pinion's artwork: using her paintings as a base prim, overlaying a flat box prim with canvas texture with a hole widened to mat size. Do an inner and outer mat, then drop all that into a hollowed-out box that will be the frame. Texturing the edges of the frame will be the interesting and tricky part!
