Gatekeeper's Lodge in Winter

 

This autumn one of my favorite SL stores, Apple Fall, released a recolored version of a previous gacha item, the Gatekeeper's Lodge. They also released a modular greenhouse that works well with the Lodge, though the windows require a little tweaking or hiding behind things. Still, with a little effort, I have a complete extra room to decorate. As it was the holiday season I made it the place to put my tree. Quite a few really nice home decor items were put out this fall, and I enjoyed putting them together. 

The Lodge is one open room on each floor, which makes a cozy home but can be tricky to decorate. I think I made it welcoming, even if it's snowy and freezing outside. Here's my holiday home this year in SL. The main room is divided into a small kitchen area, entry way, and combination dining & living room.

Nothing like reading by a nice warm fire while it snows outside!

Upstairs is another single room, which becomes a nice bedroom with another cozy reading nook.

And out in my holiday room, I have a lovely tree by Apple Fall and Fancy Decor that came out last year for Christmas. I added the beautiful new fireplace from 8F8 - Imagine...-Warm Hearted Tales Keeper and bracketed it with some wall panels from AppleFall. The colors matched amazingly well and I tinted the top of the wall to make it all blend together. 

I would say that 80% of my decor in this house was from Apple Fall and Nutmeg, because they do the cozy old fashioned look so well. I hope you all had a lovely holiday season, whatever holiday you may celebrate. Meanwhile, Raynee is gazing into the fire while it's freezing outside and dreaming of her next vacation to the place she has in her picture frames.