Sapphire Tower

Brchure: This is a medium size castle tower built with all the comforts of home, two bedrooms, gorgeous textures, a glass dance floor and lovely arches for your own stained glass. All packaged in an easy rezzer. I tried to bring in hints of victoria with the glass towers, reminiscent of greenhouses. This was built with layout and ease of use in mind, made with the inspiration of my partner whose name it honors. This castle is 30x30 and fits on a 1024 lot more then perfectly. It takes 93 prims.




Story: Early on I found that I built better if I had a person in mind for who I wanted to give my builds. This held true even though I was building on the same themes I had used before in building DarkRayne this was meant to be a simpler more compact version, still textured and designed in a manner other small prim buildings didn't approach at the time. The person I kept in mind was an amazing artist who eventually became my partner in SecondLife. Sapphire is a wonderful person and actually does all the stained glass in my designs. Our collaboration has been amazing and I couldn't have built IDG to where it's going without her encouragement and support.
This became an experiment in optimizing a large design into a smaller one, I found that the 6 room layout for the DarkRayne became almost pointless in the smaller footprint... it felt cluttered and not like the style I was trying to adopt. I wanted this to have presence just like the DarkRayne, another thing I can't stand in Secondlife is 'cardboard houses'. Walls too thin to look like they can support the roof, no sense of scale.... drives me crazy that these designs are out and bought in such numbers. So, I found that 6 rooms didn't do the sense of scale and openness I wanted, I reduced the rooms down to 2 very large rooms with open entertaining areas as well. I think this turned out very well and it's still one of my favorite builds and I started messing with tints in order to give it it's distinctive blue cieling tiles. It's a great medium sized build that feels much larger then it is.