3 Day Weekend!

 Hey there!

Here in my area of the world, it's Memorial Weekend and that means an extra day off work for me! It's a bit rainy out this Monday so that makes it the perfect time for me to finally blog again. 

I've skipped a house or two since my winter post but here is my latest one. It's another {YD} build, as they are fairly small builds, cute, and very easy on my SL budget. This one is called Almeria House and it's another little stucco house with a patio and MCM feel. I love the arched windows in the front. So, here we go with the photos!

In SL I have a green thumb! That's great because in RL... not so much. I love the front patio area of this house because it reminds me of my RL house, complete with an arched front door! I just wish I had the cute gazebo and furniture in RL.

I didn't start out with the MCM style, but once again I ended up with it due to taking some inspiration from photos of a yellow chair and couch in RL. 

I continued with the gold and green theme in the kitchen & dining area, as you see. The arched bar window was a nice touch and the chairs & lanterns I dug out of my inventory from 2 different stores were perfect matches! 

The bedroom reflects my RL urge to travel the world with its passport and postcards on the desk, travel posters on the wall, and unpacked luggage lurking in the corner. I even snuck in a few RL photos of my favorite places. I like to imagine I'm sitting there at the computer planning my next trip. Ahh, if only.

The back patio of the house is pretty small but it does have enough room for a BBQ grill and table. As I said, it's a holiday weekend and I've cooked all this food, I just need someone to come to help me eat it. Oh, and drink some of this wine! 

(there is a second tiny room in this house but I wore myself out cooking and didn't finish decorating it. It would be a good office or maybe bathroom space)

Some credits:

{YD}, Apple Fall, Kraftwork, Fancy Decor, Muniick, Atelier Burgundy, Black. Sand, Brocante/Floorplan, Mithral, Granola., {moss&mink}, {wn}, HIDEKI, Bazar, DiCore, Broken Arrows, Trompe Loeil, Tarte

Another Winter Holiday

Another holiday season has come and gone and we're on to a new year. My last SL house of 2022 was the Scarlet Creative Lockhart Cabin with Snow. I always enjoy SC's little houses, they lend themselves to being cozy little homes.  

I pulled out my winter sky surround since I live on a green sim, found some new trees, and tried to find my White Christmas spirit.

I have an inventory folder full of Christmas trees, but of course, that wasn't good enough, I needed new ones. Fancy Decor came out with

 some lovely ornaments and Apple Fall let them use their undecorated tree as a base. Two of my favorite stores in a Christmas tree collaboration?! Take my $L! So, without further ado, here's what I did with the house and the tree.

 I just want to curl up with a cup of cocoa and watch the lights on the tree twinkle. Oh hey, it's SL so I can! Don't mind the cat, he's enjoying his holiday too.

I felt like this little cabin would work with a little bit of an industrial feel, so I added the brick walls. The clocks were a fun thing to find and use, plus the little London touches seemed to fit the theme. I pulled out one of my latest obsessions, a murphy bed from Muniick. I did tint it darker and added some closets on either side to fill in the space. The doggy was sitting in my inventory whining to be let out, so here he is; he and the cat ignore each other usually. 

Alas, tomorrow in RL I have to go back to work, but in my head, I'll be sitting here watching the snowfall with my furry friends.

Country Comfy Elegance.

Hello Everyone!

I hope everyone who celebrates US Thanksgiving had a nice holiday. Mine was pretty nice. 

I found a new house by one of my favorite home creators- L2 Studio. It's called the Spicewood Farmhouse. This store always has homes that feel very comfortable, like going to visit your grandma's house; older with soft colors and high ceilings. There is a living area, a central area where I put a kitchen and small dining area, and a lovely open room that could be anything you want.  It has one bedroom area upstairs with a balcony and one room that is probably meant to be a bathroom upstairs with a tile floor that has 4 textures to choose from. I always love a house with a bathroom! The front patio area and the wooden sidewalks are add-ons that come with the house, so you can create your own outdoor spaces.

 

 I started with the entryway. I wanted something with a nice warm feel. I think I managed it. The console and plates are from Nutmeg, and the curtains, painting and chandelier are from Kraftwork. The rug is from a Dreamlands Design set and the knickknacks are Apple Fall, Vespertine, and Tuesday. The background items in the other room are also mostly the same stores, with a painting set from Fancy Decor way in the back over the bookcase. 

The kitchen is another Black Friday shopping purchase. I spent so many $L that weekend! It's the Wickman Farmhouse Kitchen from Muniick. It is texture change if you buy the fatpack, which I splurged on for the sale. I had fun searching through my inventory finding all my pitchers and boxes to display along the top shelf. I mean, I can't reach it in RL either so I might as well use it to display cute things, right? I always like a window over the sink but this house didn't have one, so I hit up the marketplace and found one to hang. It's fake but it does the job!

The dining area is just the space at the end of the kitchen where the front window sits. There is enough space to put a small table for two. Plus, you can't beat the view! If you wanted to you could use the big sunroom right next to the kitchen for a dining area, but I wanted a cozy, yet light open space. 

I think most of the items in the dining area are from Apple Fall and Nutmeg. The curtains are from Kraftwork and are also texture change with a nice selection of colors. I used the same ones in the living room. 

I feel like most of the stuff I used is from the same stores, but they have the soft, faded textures that work in an old farmhouse. So, my living room is furnished with stuff from Nutmeg, Apple Fall, DaD, Kraftwork, and a fireplace from Fancy Decor. 

I didn't do the upstairs because I suddenly got the urge to do some holiday decorating. And since I live on a green sim that means I have to either lay down an entire base of snow on my land or pull out my winter surround. I'll figure it out once I decide which house I'm using and how many prims it is. Onward! I hope you enjoyed my house.

#SLHouses #FancyDecor #AppleFall #Nutmeg #Kraftwork

Asian Style

 The latest house I landscaped and decorated is from {YD}. It's the {YD} Japanese House - White. While there are a few minor texture issues (the seam line on the front of the house being the main one), I still thought it was a cute house. 

I'm not feeling super wordy right now so I'm leaning toward just giving you photos and letting you enjoy them without all the words. At least I hope you enjoy it. 

My favorite things about this little house were the front porch and the little balcony. I love being able to sit outside and enjoy a cup of something and enjoy the peace. 

Now I think I'll see about setting up something for the holiday season or maybe I'll get a cute house in before diving into my usual winter skybox, who knows? I hope you like my house. 

Small meets MCM.

Good day! It's a beautiful cool day here in RL after months of blazingly hot summer and I'm totally enjoying having the windows open. It won't last, of course, I checked the forecast but still, it's nice while it's here. Now, on to the latest of my SL houses!

During one of the rounds of The Saturday Sale, I picked up a small house from {YD} called Petit Home. It seemed vaguely MCM to me and that's mostly how I went with decor. I added a small outside Asian-inspired back garden surrounded by the Perla Wall set from [Fourth Wall]. 

The house is small, with an open-plan main room and 3 small other rooms. I chose to make them the bedroom, office, and bathroom of course. I am predictable sometimes, yes. 

In the distance, you can see my neighbor also put up what appears to be an Asian-themed house as well. This is getting to be amusing. I wonder if they'll follow me when I put up my next house? 

I put a lot of yellow accents in the main area because it makes such a bright contrast to the black & white that I seem to end up decorating my homes within SL. It also seems like you can find a lot of MCM/retro stuff in bright yellow gold. I know my kitchen cabinets are not quite MCM but I already had them fitted in place before I found the rest of the theme and didn't feel like changing them out. I did tint the counters and such to match the black theme. I also added all the wood floors, as I wasn't finding the original tile easy to work with. The floor pieces are Rekja Wood Floors from [Fourth Wall]. I wasn't able to match the curve of the big window so it's hidden under the round rug I modded to fit. Plus, plants and such hide odd corners that don't match up. 

My office was my usual cozy feminine area with some warmer pink tones added. I always love having a comfy place where I can curl up with a cup of coffee and a good book. In the bedroom, I went more with brown, black, and tan. I found a nice big rug to cover the tile and a cool Murphy's bed from Kraftwork. 

The bathroom/laundry room is the only place I left the tile floor showing, as it was easy enough to decorate with and more appropriate for the area. The furniture is the Kraftwork Eugene Bathroom set, Kraftwork Wash/Dryer from the Mini Laundry Unit, and various other set pieces from my inventory. 

Did you know that SL has these 360 photos now or am I way behind as usual? Or is it a Firestorm viewer thing? I don't know. I just saw it and was like "oh cool, let's try this." So, here is one last photo. Have a great weekend! See you next house.

Midsummer Post

 Hello! It's me again. It's ridiculously hot here in RL and it's making my brain not want to put words together, so I might be less chatty in this post. We'll see. 

My latest house is another Scarlet Creative; the Xander Skybox- Groud version. It's a cute little house with lots of windows and a nice patio with flower boxes. I did add some inside walls since, as it comes, it's basically 2 open rooms.  And on to pictures!

Inside, I used some wall panels from Atelier Burgundy and a kitchen island from the Fancy Decor & Kraftwork collaboration kitchen set to separate the kitchen from the living room area, plus I made a little coffee nook for relaxing in. I tinted it to match the other kitchen which is from the {YD} Mclane kitchen set. I used the gacha set Kitchen Rails from Kraftwork, plus random other bits from other sets to finish out the kitchen area. I also used the bathroom walls and set from the AB KW Pitaya Nordic cabin set; if you've got a big enough corner in a house it can be quite useful to create a small bathroom space.

On the other side of the house is a room divided off by windowed walls. I put up some blinds in the windows for privacy.  It's a nice place for a bedroom and the front section makes a great desk area with a lovely view out the windows. I really like the bed I found from FAYDED, it's a Murphy's bed. It comes with the decor on the shelves but you can switch it out for your own things if you like. I switched out the pictures for some of my own photos. 

Anyway, I hope you like this house I'm showing you. I enjoy decorating them and it's nice to share. As always, you can ask me about anything you see in the pictures and I might be able to tell you where I got it (I can't promise, but I'll try!) I'll list a few of the stores that I know things are from below. Hope you're staying cool in this summer we're having (unless you're south of the equator of course!)

#SL

#Kraftwork, #AtelierBurgudy, #ScarletCreative, #Architect, #FAYDED, #Pitaya, #FancyDecor, #Black.Sand, #[FourthWall], #Brocante, #BAMSE, #DreamlandDesigns, #Nutmeg, #TrompeLoeil