Whew...I know I've been quiet for a few days. It's been a very busy time for me. I placed a "scripter wants work" post in the main board classified section, and have been swamped with work. I'm finishing up my projects in the next few days. Hopefully, I can take a break and have some fun again. It is nice to have some spending money though. :)
In the meantime, my spare minutes have been spent house and furniture shopping. It has become much more of a chore than I first thought. The problem I've found is that there is plenty of 'how to buy land' help. But not nearly as much 'what to do once you've got it' help out there. There is much more than finding a nice house design that fits your land footprint!
House sizes...how much is enough?
My first thing was to measure my land so I know what I have to work with. My plot is technically 1008sqm (16sqm was reserved by Dreamlands for community features). This works out to a 32x32 lot with a corner cut out. But these lots do not have the full size to work with. My lot has one side with water that the covenant forbids moving. Measuring my flat land give a 32x26 rectangle (the little 16sqm cutout is underwater so doesn't affect my buildable land). Dreamlands also reserved 4 prims for that water, so my free prim count is 230.
Prims...the new budget
The neighbors that I've managed to find and chat up have all agreed on one thing. Prim Count is Everything! With only 230 prims for the lot, I have to keep that foremost in mind.
For my home, I'm not worried about money. If it's the right one, then I'll afford it. With the money I saved on land, I can splurge on the house if I need to. Plus did I say I've been free-lancing as a scripter! :)
But with 230 prims, I think that budgeting is needed, or I could run out of prims before I set all of my (soon to be new) furniture.
With this in mind, and talking to neighbors, I think I'm targeting (for a 1024 size lot):
House: 50 - 80 prims
Furniture: 50 - 70 prims
Yard: 50 prims
That should put it at 150 - 200 prims total. So I'll have 30 or so prims left over for projects and rezzing new purchases.
Next post, I'll go over my search, and reveal the house I selected. :)
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2 comments:
hopefully i'm not to late, but i use to have a land like yours and i made my own houses, i'll check the ones i made and send you some for you to choose.
that way you wont even have to pay for one ^^
Tiana, thank you for the link. I'm sorry, I think I deleted them without looking. I didn't see this post first! You were a little late though. I had already bought something.
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