Copperfield Heights Linden Home Area Adds More Sims

 

 The Copperfield Heights homes that first became available to the residents a week ago and had more available a few days later, have continued to grow in numbers. They have gone from 27 sims to 44. Many have amusing names such as Spit Take and Trollbridge. The Winter look the first ones had is now gone, the snow melted and replaced with greenery. 

 

Demand for the homes seems to have been outstripping supply, at least early in the week. On Tuesday evening when I dropped by, I noticed several sins on the west were empty of people and people were gathered at the edge on the other side of the boundary. Going over, I found those sims were closed to regular residents. In Bellisseria chat, a Linden stated they wouldn't be open until later. And this left the residents grumbling a little, the ones near me frustrated with unoccupied new Linden Homes so tantalizingly close, but out of reach until presumably some unknown time tomorrow, with no guarantee by the time they logged on any would be available. 

 

With this kind of demand, there will likely be more Copperfield Heights sims later on. There is plenty of room to the west for further expansion.  How soon is not known.

 

Stay tuned for details.

 

Bixyl Shufan

 

More on The Copperfield Heights Linden Homes

 

 

As reported earlier, on Thursday February 26 Linden Lab announced their latest model of Linden Homes: the Copperfield Heights homes, both in the official blog, and the forums. 

Copperfield Heights - Traditional Craftsman homes with spacious living areas and signature architectural design.

The newest in the line of Linden Homes has arrived. These warm craftsman styled homes feature wooden beams, custom wood elements and minimalist Craftsman interiors.

Copperfield Heights is open to all Plus, Premium and Premium Plus Residents. This collection of Craftsman style homes creates communities featuring natural elements and earth tones designed to create an authentic Arts & Crafts neighborhood in Second Life.

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 Copperfield Heights brings traditional Craftsman design with spacious living areas and signature architectural details inspired by the Arts & Crafts movement. Warm wood tones, exposed beams, natural stone elements, and multi-paned windows create a neighborhood that feels timeless and welcoming.

Open to Plus, Premium, and Premium Plus members, this collection expands the Linden Homes lineup with a focus on craftsmanship and comfort.

 

Dropping in myself for a look, the place looked like a nice suburb in the middle of winter. As it turns out the neighborhood is designed to change with the seasons, with greenery appearing in the spring, and in the fall the leaves turn brown and red. I would read, "Like Aspen Ridge, Copperfield Heights regions transform automatically throughout the year. ... There is nothing to manage. The seasons shift on their own."

 

But what sets this neighborhood apart from previous Linden Home areas is it's not just Premium homes, not just Premium Plus homes, but both! Among the 512 and 1024 square-meter lots one would expect to find in a Premium Linden Home area are some 2048 sm lots that were previously only in their own spacious neighborhoods. 

 

And in terms of variety of house design, this is the most diverse Linden Home area to date with a total of twelve models. There are four homes with 512 square meter lots, Glenwood, Laurel, Maple Grove, and Prairie. There are four with 1024 sm lots, Cedarwood, Meadowbrook, Millbrook, and Sunnydale. And there are four with 2024 sm lots, Maplecrest, Oakridge, Pinecrest, and Woodland. 

 

If you want to jump right in to look around, this spot is as good as any: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Winesap%20Ridge/128/128/25 

 

Update: The Copperfield Heights area has been expanded to 27 sims, including Copperfield Crossing which connects it to Bellissera. The shore has a boat rezzing area, near All Hours (169,150,23),  so you can sail across. The sims I saw at the edge looked green, so this being March, the change of seasons may have already happened. 

 

There may be further expansions, so those who are interested in a home here, keep an eye here for more sims later. 

 

Bixyl Shuftan

 

Scenes From The Christmas Expo

 

 

The Christmas Expo opened last Friday, November 29, and there's been plenty of fun to be had there. At the music area, I saw a live performers sing away to audiences that included a few dragons and a unicorn. 

There were activities, such as taking a ride on Santa's sleigh across the sims.

There were various decorated houses om the sims, reflecting the theme "Christmas Through The Decades."

There were auctions in cooperation with the Lab for last names, a homestead sim, time with Patch Linden, and more. 

Besides all this, there's time with Santa Patch, and lots and lots of shopping.

For more information, read the website: https://slchristmasexpo.com/ 

Bixyl Shuftan

It Came From Fantasy Faire Chat: Halloween Decorating

 

 

A few days ago in Second Life, chatter started up in the Fantasy Faire group. Topics went to someone playing hide and seek with his pet snow leopard, "he's not very good at hide-and-seek, but I pretend I can't find him sometimes." Then eventually Milisandre Sarleon (Milisandre Resident)

then eventually talked about her pet "helping me spook the place up a bit for Halloween." It was quickly complimented, "That looks delightfully cozy." "Wow!" Milisandre thanked them, "Thank you. I made a couple modifications to it from stock, like redoing the interior surfaces to a cleaner stucco, and adding an upper floor and mezzanine reading spot; outside vines and trellis etc."

Delain (Delain Canucci): would add, "finished up my place too and is ready for Halloween. "That's amazing!" "Thank you *smile* It's open for public so if anyone wants to visit let me know, I toss the LM" She would later give the SURL, which was for a house in Color Alchemists.

What Halloween houses have you the readers seen? Feel free to mention some in the comments?

Scenes From the Bellisseria Anniversary Grounds

 

Bellisseria, the Linden Home continent, turns five years old this month. And there's a month of celebrations planned. Much of them will be taking place at a special Fairgrounds created just for the occasion, one that's been in the works for some time. Gemma Cleanslate went and checked out the place.

 

Read Gemma's article in Design. 

 

The Fantasy Linden Homes At A Glance

 

On Thursday June 17, Patch Linden announced the next theme of Linden Homes: Fantasy. Looking in in SLB Mesmirize, I found four examples of them.

Amberbrooke : A two story with an upper floor in the roof. There are seven rooms, with a large central room on the first floor. On the second floor there was  a balcony one could step out on. Skylight windows on the roof let light in.

Mistbrooke - A one story house with five rooms and a back porch area one could put patio furnishings on.

Stonebrooke - Another one story house with five rooms. One enters a small round entranceway to get into through the front.  -

Rosebrooke - This house could be called one and a half stories, with three rooms on the first floor and stairs leading to two small rooms on the second. The front has a porch area.

The area itself looked like something of a fantasy story (or the Fantasy Faire). The plants around the houses had an unearthly glow about them. There was the occasional group of crystals. At night, some of the flowers and tree leaves were glowing, as well as the edges of the roofs of the houses. The globes on some stone walls, the earlier mentioned crystals, and some script on the sides of the bridge over the water were also glowing a little. There was also some purple lights in the water.

Also adding to the atmosphere were some of the residents dropping by to look around from a fairy to a furry with wings to a tiny riding a unicorn to someone in a feral horse avatar, along with some regular-looking humans. Perhaps this is a clue as to whom will be getting these Linden Homes. 

Bixyl Shuftan
 

SL Video: "Bellisseria Parade of Homes Video"

 

From Pring Productions/Prudence Anton on March 17, a video featuring various homes on Bellisseria. As it turns out, the homes were the winners of a contest.

Halo Rain Traditional - Adams Evangeline Ling Houseboat - Evening Star Hope (Birdie Ravenhurst) Trailer - Williamsburg Bela Tolsen Victorian - Verne D-VINE Collingwood Finest Log - Grandview Hedy Heartsong Stilt - Santiago

Hat Tip: Daniel Voyager 

New Sims With Beach House Linden Homes Open

 

 Despite the number of glitches on the Grid lately, as stated by Patch Linden on Sunday, on Monday December 21, a number of sims northeast of Bellisseria were opened, containing both houseboats, and the new stilt house style Linden Homes.

 The date for when the Chalets, revealed recently at the RFL Expo, will be open for residents has not yet been announced.

New Land Just Off East Bellisseria

 

Good news for those waiting for Linden Homes. Just off the coast of northeast Eastern Bellisseria dozens of new sims have popped up.

Due to how touchy the map has gotten lately, making the landscape vanish at times when zoomed out, I can't get a picture of the whole of them. It looks like they're all beach areas and piers, which suggests houseboats, and the beach houses seen at the Second Life Birthday in June.

A number of these new sims have amusing names, such as Otter Limits, Littoral Truth, Popeye, Octopus Garden, Shore Thing, Squeegee, Rock Lobster, Strait Home, Mussel Beach, Mellow Submarine, and others.

The Newser hasn't heard a date when these sims and their homes will be open. But one unknown Mole left a clue, the letters "S O O N" over four sims on the map.

Bixyl Shuftan

Some Sunweaver Houses

If your could make your home in however you wanted it, what would it look like? That's a question many here in Second Life ask themselves. Some of us don't bother getting one as avatars don't need a place to sleep or bathe. But others feel a strong desire to have someplace to call their very own. Some of us are satisfied with a small place. Others want something more. Here's how some of my virtual neighbors here in the Sunweaver community choose to make their homes.

See the pictures in Places.

The Home and Garden Expo

A few days ago on September 16, the 2014 Home and Garden Expo opened in Second Life. Described as having "the finest in Second Life home and garden design product and creator tools," the event takes place over nine sims.Home Epo 1 to 8 and Home Expo P.


Checking the place out, there were many homes up for sale, as well as many yard accessories such as gazebos, hammocks, treehouses, swings, walkways, flowers, trees, and more. There's even tall grass lawns up for sale. The event is a fundraiser for the Relay for Life, the cash raised considered part of it's 2015 season total, and either part or all of the sales of each of the products go to the American Cancer Socoety. Each exhibitor is required to have at least two new products with 100% of sales going to the ACS.

The event, the seventh of it's kind, has nine "Platinum" sponsors, including SL magazine Prim Perfect, and eight "Gold" level ones. Besides Just regular shopping, there are other ways one can shop here. There are hunts where one can search for free items with the help of clues. There are gachas where one can get items for good deals, such as an 11 animation chair for 35L, with the color you get one of several possible ones plus the chance that you might get a limited edition item. There is also a silent auction and a raffle.

Besides shopping, hunting, and the raffle, there are also building classes one can take. They are held at Home Expo P (119/53/24) with the schedule (here). Then there are the 2014 Rezzie Awards, "The Rezzie Awards are specifically designed to honor the designers, creators, coders, and builders who make Second Life so visually stunning and interactive, who inspire roleplay, photography. machinima, and so much more." Votes are being taken in for the finalists, and the winners will be announced on the final day of the Expo.

The Home and Garden Expo will go on until September 28. For more information, check out it's website at http://slhomeandgardenexpo.com/, and it's Flickr page at https://www.flickr.com/groups/homeandgardenexpo2014/ . Someone also did a list of items at http://eloquencesl.com/2014/09/16/home-garden-expo/ .

Bixyl Shuftan

The First Sims: Minna

DrFran Babcock takes a moment from her tour of the first sims of Second Life to report on the latest area she explored: Mina. Unlike a few of the other historic sims, the place had a number of active residents, one she talked to. So what awaits the tourist who drops by? Plenty.

Read DrFran's article in Places.