Sandra's Place Townhouse - Modern Minimal Elegance

Brochure: I know most of our builds so far have been gothic or dark. Looking for something more modern? Something that dosen't scream denizen of the night? Then our newest build may be for you. A one bedroom brownstone rowhouse in the tradition of New York Living or San Francisco row houses this quality small house is extremely well textured and the ivy walls scream of the charm of it's residents.

This was built with layout and ease of use in mind, made with the inspiration of the friend whose name it honors.

This townhouse is 10x27 meters and fits on a 512 lot more then perfectly, it takes 46 prims and is designed as a nice first home for that small plot of land without sacraficing quality or beautiful construction.

The Story: So, yet another foray into making beautiful builds for new landowners, this is essentially a re-imagining of Anya's Keep but it presented its own unique challenges. At the time I was designing this I had entered the Second Life land market as a realtor. I was buying large plots and putting down small house like this and Anya's and then reselling them for about 10% more then I bought them. I was having some good success with this strategy and someone noted that a row of Anya's Keep properties looked like San Francisco rowhomes. Also at the time I'd just gotten back from a real life business trip to New York City and had loved the feeling of it's old brownstones.

So inspired I began trying to replicate that in this walkup. It really did turn out well and the lessons I learned I later went back and reincorporated in Anya's Keep. But it was an experience in more modern textures and how they work. I really learned how to use the texture offsets in this build. I now am aware that textures have at least as much to do with the build as actual construction. I've seen people do amazing builds but use more prims then they need to because they aren't using high quality textures. On the reverse there are builders who don't make things look architecturally sound because they think the eye candy will detract, it's really a balancing act on each build.

I've been truly surprised at the lackluster sales of this build, but I think it stems from the smaller size. Small size builds don't sell well because of the market. This is a truly attractive place and I'd love to show it to you, test rez it. If I ever go back to selling fully built small parcels this will be the house I put down for people.