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The design features one French door that opens the greenhouse up to the residence walkway and one terrace door that allows access to the fenced in garden. Awning windows line the rest of the structure and help facilitate heat gains by pulling in cool air as the heated interior air is expelled out the ridge vents. Circulating fans installed on the structure’s beams are used to assist airflow. Drip and misting irrigation systems provide substantial watering to all plants along the integrated benches that were manufactured and installed by Solar Innovations®. Four of the benches are equipped with rollers, allowing the space to be flexible and customized, while fixed benches are equipped with racking and a built-in stainless steel sink. Two cold frames provide a place to transition plants to the outdoor garden.
The long face of the greenhouse is oriented south to maximize solar gains. To the north a concrete block wall clad in wood takes up the majority of the rear face of the structure. A heater and evaporative cooler, also supplied by Solar Innovations®, use this wall to exchange air with the outdoors. People have been trying to outsmart the seasons by growing plants in controlled environments since the Roman Empire. The greenhouse as we know it today, an often ornate glass and iron building, became more common during the 19th century as materials became more accessible. Striking examples are now found around the world, from classic Victorian-style conservatories in London to sleek and modern greenhouses in Australia.
This backyard greenhouse can be right next to your outdoor gardens, adding the additional benefit of a potting shed. It can provide you with a garden paradise and light therapy at the same time — especially through the long winters. They also can provide an eye-catching backyard focal point, a place to pot your plants and relax in a tropical oasis.
One of the simplest ways to build a greenhouse is to purchase a kit and follow the instructions. If you have some basic carpentry skills, you can also create a simple structure using wood and plastic sheeting or greenhouse film. Another option is to use recycled materials, such as old windows, doors, or even old shipping pallets. Once you have your materials ready, the next step is to build the frame of your greenhouse. This typically involves creating a rectangular or square frame using the wood boards. Once the frame is complete, you can then start attaching the walls.
How Do You Style A Greenhouse?
But remember that it is important to install the blinds on the outside of the window, especially to keep out the heat in the summer. In addition, I hope you might consider a follow-on piece about rammed earth dwellings. They are like kissing cousins of the Chinese greenhouses discussed in this article. You might think of a rammed earth dwelling as being very something similar to the Chinese greenhouses. Except instead of being designed for plants to live in, rammed earth dwellings are designed for people to live in.
The roof is constructed of steel and glass and covers 23,000 square feet, providing cover for over 1600 cubic metres of soil, all of which was hand mixed to a specific requirement.
If you want to get more from a larger greenhouse, then consider adding a partition.
We don't have a garage and need to build a bigger shed to store the snowblower, bikes, tools, etc.
Plus, a lean to greenhouse provides easy access to a kitchen garden or can be designed as small conservatories, glass houses, solariums or open additions to your living spaces.
Ventilation can be achieved via the use of vents – often controlled automatically via a computer – and recirculation fans.
You can use greenhouse clamps to secure the plastic sheeting to the frame.
This typically involves creating a rectangular or square frame using the wood boards.
The city lies just south of the 42nd parallel north and is one of the most northern areas where Chinese-style greenhouses are built . The walls of this unfinished greenhouse will capture solar energy to warm the structure at night. This woman is able to grow vegetables long into the winter in her passive solar greenhouse located in Ladakh, India, even when the outside temperature falls to negative 13 degrees Fahrenheit. Modern Greenhouse Design Inspiration have already begin landscaping around the base — so I’ll share ongoing updates as the garden evolves around the Modern Greenhouse. If you’ve spent any time around goats, you know they love to jump up high onto things and gobble up green or flowering plants.
Compost Heated Greenhouses
You could place rabbits and their hutch in your greenhouse to radiate heat. Another option is to hang plastic sheeting to divide the space and reduce the area you need to heat. Do you love the look of those Victorian greenhouses with their impressive vaulted ceilings and all-glass walls? They have ornate details and look like a typical building, but see-through.
An unusual feature of this otherwise freestanding greenhouse is the way in which it can be entered. The pervasiveness of the structure reflects an interest in keeping exotic plants, which was a fundamental function of a greenhouse. In addition, the greenhouse allowed the extension of the growing season by providing a supportive environment for starting seeds, ripening fruit, and forcing flowers. If you want to grow plants out of season, or grow things not recommended to your zone, you’ll likely want to grow on benches.
Will The Gambrel Roof Hold Ut To The Snow?
This is so easy to put together with the thing you can find from any hardware store easily. Cover the frame with polyethylene film or another type of greenhouse material. You can use greenhouse clamps to secure the plastic sheeting to the frame. Purchase the PVC pipe and fittings needed to construct your greenhouse. Make sure to get the correct size pipe and fittings for the size greenhouse you are building. There are plenty of PVC greenhouse plans available here, but we’ve selected some of the best ones for you.
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The material is 2-ply, with inner walls which separate the sheets and create an internal air space. Twin-wall polyethylene is infused with UV inhibitors and provides soft, diffused light while letting about 75% of natural light to pass through. Twin-wall polyethylene is milky white, or opaque, in appearance. An example of twin-walled polyethylene is the Solexx line of greenhouses.
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Light enters the greenhouse and is trapped there by the glass and absorbed by the plants and other objects. As the structure is not open to the atmosphere, the warmed air cannot escape via convection, so the temperature inside the greenhouse rises. This differs from the earth-oriented theory known as the “greenhouse effect”. Not only because I love gardening, but also because greenhouses are gorgeous!
Modern versions of the conservatory still have the same impressive size but get rid of the intricate details and increase the size of the glass panes. If you aren’t interested in installing a heating system in your greenhouse, consider building a cold frame greenhouse. These use the power of the sun and insulation to keep your plants warm. Then there’s the geodome greenhouse, which looks similar to the hoop style, but instead of being a long tube, it’s a rounded structure, like an angular igloo. Having a greenhouse can help you develop your green thumb by lengthening your growing season beyond what’s possible when growing outside.
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The great thing about this one is that you can customize the dimensions, color and foundation. The Cape Cod Greenhouse is equipped with a fan and windows that open for temperature control. This glass to ground modern greenhouse design is available in 6ft, 8ft and 10ft wide options with length to suit. Designed for the practical minded gardener who aspires to having a beautiful Greenhouse structure, but also requires the functional space of a garden shed. Available in varying widths and lengths to work perfectly in your garden setting. Several new polycarbonate and acrylic materials are now made for greenhouse coverings.
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A partial greenhouse brings nature indoors and opens up the interior of a house designed by Joe D’Urso.
Inside Today’s Home, 1986
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The Best of Both Worlds
A blend of greenhouse design elements mixed with industrial architecture is a winning combination.
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It’s time to revisit photographer turned novelty chandelier maker, Adam Wallacavage’s Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1890 brownstone, b/c it celebrates spooky season all year.
Before he purchased his home, he lived in a tiny apartment across the street from famed stained glass artist Judith Schaechter. Her house was his original inspiration.
From there, he graduated to making sculptural lighting, then showing at the Jonathan LeVine gallery in NYC and all over the world.
Unlike Judith’s house, Adam’s was missing all the ornamental elements as it was modernized in the 1940s. It was dirt cheap, so he didn’t have a place worth restoring but a place worth customizing.
He tore down walls and rebuilt the layout similar to the original design, making molds and casting plaster and turning the place into a Victorian style freak show.
After visiting the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, United Kingdom just a few months after closing on the house, he found his path to what he wanted his interior to be based on.
He describes his style as a mixture of the beach towns Wildwood, New Jersey and Cape May, New Jersey. Wildwood is known for kitschy ’50s neon and mid-century modern motels. Cape May is known for its gingerbread Victorians.
He’s proudest of the first room he did, which was inspired by Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.” It’s the room that he made the first octopus chandelier for.
Chandeliers are how he makes his living now.
He was broke when got the place, but was able to do things like bling it out in ornamental plasterwork with help from a friend who has a plaster studio and let him borrow from her extensive rubber mold collection.
There’s a perfect long decal for fridge.
Adam says that a backpack vacuum cleaner is the best thing he ever bought to dust the house.
Adam’s advice: Don’t be afraid of messing stuff up. It can always be redone.
And don’t be afraid of what people are going to think. Do it for yourself first and not for trying to impress others.
Being pretentious works in what you do as well as what you don’t do that’s not yourself or true to your vision.
It’s okay to emulate others but always give credit to those who inspired you and try to put a spin on it.
Adam says that his home is basically a show room for his chandeliers. His studio is on the third floor as well.
His biggest indulgence is the second floor greenhouse and backyard.
It’s not finished or really started on yet, but the room under the greenhouse is going to be the seashell grotto room.
Adam’s fabulous Victorian fish tank and goldfish.
Adam’s absolute best home secret is to let your freak flag fly.
If you are remodeling, Adam says to mess with what you are getting rid of, for practice.
What a beautiful back garden.
https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/adam-wallacavages-south-philadelphia-home-37137656
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Boudoir design for Lady Sigyn
A boudoir is a woman's private sitting room or salon in a furnished residence, usually between the dining room and the bedroom, but can also refer to a woman's private bedroom.
A cognate of the English "bower", historically, the boudoir formed part of the private suite of rooms of a "lady" or upper-class woman, for bathing and dressing, adjacent to her bedchamber, being the female equivalent of the male cabinet. In later periods, the boudoir was used as a private drawing room, and was used for other activities, such as embroidery or spending time with one's romantic partner.
Since Loki has just become the God of Stories and, as a result, the Emperor of the Multiverse… he can create his own castle for himself and his new wife.
I will be happy to present the boudoir design for Lady Sigyn. For Lady Sigyn, we will consider the boudoir as places for her own use like bedroom, living room, bathroom, dressing room...
While I think Loki's citadel would have been quite dark in color, I think part of it would have had a completely different aesthetic for his wife's use.
So let's go for our tour.
First - enterning to her part of citadel.
Beautiful bright colors, stained glass windows with effect of illusions, nice couches for those waiting, and a golden elevator.
After going up the golden elevator, we have a beautiful living room for guests. Modern, cozy style in a winter tone. Sigyn loves winter as she was born during this time of year. Comfortable sofas to welcome guests, a table on which to place treats and drinks. Windows have a wonderful part of illusion, clean air and winter landscapes. The living room also serves as a dining room. You can eat all your meals there. Lady Sigyn can eat alone or with her husband.
Next we go to Lady Sigyn's private library. Like her husband, she loves reading. But on the way, we have place of meditation. Greenhouse with stained glass and exotic plants. A nice place to reflect among nature.
From the greenhouse we are now at the library. A beautiful library with a warm fireplace and pink flowers.
While places like the living room, greenhouse and library can still be considered somewhat accessible to guests… now we go to the private rooms. Now we go to bedroom.
Lady Sigyn has a beautiful place with a rain illusion window where she can lie comfortably and watch movies like The Lion King or listening of music.
Another part of the bedroom contains illusions in window about the effect of the city and its lights. Lady Sigyn has a comfortable bed, sofas and beautiful lamps.
Next to the bedroom there are three rooms - two-piece bathroom, two-piece dressing room and private swimming pool - Lady Sigyn loves swimming.
The bathroom consists of two rooms - one with a bathtub and the other with only a washbasin. The place with the sink is used for quickly and daily hygiene. The place with a bathtub is for morning and evening baths.
Next we go to the dressing room consists of two rooms - a part for make-up and hairstyles and a part where dresses and outfits are stored.
Lady Sigyn loves swimming, so she loves to have own swimming pool. The swimming pool is located in a beautiful, sunny room with white walls among green plants. An additional place is a spacious terrace and a scarf swing.
Thank you for the tour of Lady Sigyn's boudoir. I hope that tour was nice for you.
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@oligopsoriasis I don't know if you're still interested in the farming thing, but, regarding your land efficiency vs. energy-efficiency thing:
My impression is that, when designing an agricultural system, the basic trade-off is labor against land area, i.e. you can reduce labor inputs by using more land and reduce your land footprint by sinking more labor into it.
In this framing, I think industrial row-crop monocultures are extensive rather than intensive, i.e. they sacrifice land to save labor as well as/rather than energy to save land. Sustainability and higher absolute production might well not mean using more land.
A lot of the articles and papers that talk about modern sustainable systems trumpet them as Actually Much More Efficient than “industrial” agriculture, when, really, they’re just opting for the other end of the ancient trade-off -- they lead with productivity statistics calculated entirely on land use, and quietly note somewhere down below that “of course, this takes vastly more work, and is devilishly complicated to maintain...”
But that doesn’t mean they aren’t a better bet! The point is, there are trade-offs to be made other than technology-i.e.-what-we-have-now/primitivism. It means we’d need more greenhouse-minders and algae-scrapers, yes, maybe even more people growing beans in raised beds, but that’s Jobs, not a return to peasant agriculture.
(I’m not really considering the original thing about hunting, meat just doesn’t seem likely to ever be efficient, except on marginal lands, where it couldn’t support modern population densities, alligators or no.)
[some rambling speculation about historical intensive systems:]
Anyway, historically, intensive, labor-heavy, small-land-footprint systems make sense if you have a lot of labor and not a lot of land, and include the various clever Native American polyculture systems (the chinampa, the three sisters), but also potato-farming (Ireland, before the famine, being prototypically labor-rich and area-poor: a densely-populated, highly fertile area in which people had to subsist on glorified garden-plots), modern Dutch-style greenhouse fruit/veg/cash-crop cultivation, maybe what the Cubans do. Wet rice cultivation and terrace-farms are possibly in this category. “Vertical farming”, if it’s not a nothingburger, probably will be too (multistory buildings are capital, capital is dead labor, lotta walking up stairs, etc.).
(Classic Geertzian involution is when you can’t get any more intensive, so you have to sink more people, more bodies, more hours into it, without hope of improving productivity per head.)
My conjecture is that intensive systems make more sense when you don’t have draft animals to give you access to a larger area and incentivize more drivable open layouts and planting/harvesting techniques.
#politics#history#agriculture#edited bc it sounded like the last paragraph was referring to involution#rather than intensive agriculture
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What’s your thoughts on arcane so far? You tend to have good takes on media, so I’m intrigued on what you think of it :0
I wanna say that overall I like it, but there are some things I wish they did differently or weren't afraid of portraying. I'll put this in short form because I feel like that's what will be good for my brain to categorize. I just finished it so I'm still disgesting everything and a second rewatch could probably help refine my opinions, but I'll put what I have so far (also note that I don't play league of Legends so I can't compare it to its game lore or whether or not its better, so I'll be treating Arcane as a standalone series just for this)
Things I appreciated, liked, and thought the series did well:
The animation and art style is gorgeous. I love the spurts of color throughout. I see a lot of references to art and art history, particularly with a LOT of inspiration from Art Nouveau. I feel like the Art Nouveau thing could specifically be intended since Art Nouveau takes inspiration in nature & plants, & one of the themes in Arcane is classicism & how the lower classes have less or little to no access to fresh air/clean water. Art Nouveau used architecture to both mimic nature AND depict it, & in Arcane the people of Zaun have to literally create greenhouses just to get fresh air, and you see the Art Nouveau architecture in Zaun, too. Their access to nature is mostly through Art Nouveau architecture mimicking nature, or self created through greenhouses. By extension, Topside (while still having references to Art Nouveau) seems more influenced by Art Deco, which had emphasis on modernity and luxury.
Classicism. I like the theme of classicism within this series because I feel like it portrays it very well, particularly with showing us the living conditions that the lower classes have to survive in, and how pollution is affecting them first, foremost, and the worst. Also explains why Silco was such a successful crimelord with Shimmer, since the shimmer can be used as medicine to treat illness and injury.
Characters. I think they did the characters really well, and explained their motivations, and their stories intertwining in a complex, yet not overly complicated or cumbersome way. Also a lot of really touching & profound relationships between the characters
Racism and sexism (at least between humans) don't really seem to be a thing in the Arcane world, which in a few ways, is really nice. The female characters are just as complex as the men, there didn't really seem to be any gender roles or prejudice between characters on the basis of "race" or skintone because of the existence of institutional racism.
On top of that, homophobia seems to not really be a thing here either, which is great. I heard that when Vi asks Caitlin if she prefers "men or women", she didn't outright say any specific sexuality because the writers said that it's so normalized, that this society doesn't even HAVE a word for it. I like that. I hope they're more explicit with gay relationships in the next season, and adding trans charas featured in the plot would be awesome
The Jinx vs Ekko fight. That gets its own point on this list because it was visually stunning, the music was killer, and it told a really tragic story with rich history between these two characters in about 2 minutes
The music
The eye motif that keeps popping up
Things that I didn't like, thought could have been done better, or wished they did differently:
Racism/colorism & classicism. I know I said I thought they did the classicism well as well as the fact that there's no racism (IN universe) in Arcane, but at the same time I feel like real world prejudice (irl) of the writers or designers or whoever else was involved leaks through. What I mean is stuff like how 3 of the more violent & less feminine female characters aren't White & are dark skinned (with the only other dark skinned female character is Mel), Mel is probably the most beautiful & most feminine female character & is a dark skinned Black woman but she's also manipulative at times (which I think is worth mentioning, even if it IS a character flaw, since Black women, especially dark skinned women, are often shown as controlling), you have like 3 Asian characters who are rich cops with one being VERY corrupt and working for a crime lord (on top of brutalizing the lower class), Sky is fridged because of a White guy's fault. A lot of the cops, upperclass main characters aren't White, and a lot of the poorer characters are. This is awkward because racism is VERY connected to classicism in real life, especially when talking about environmental racism, so this is almost sort of coming off as a "reverse racism" thing to me, which I don't think was intended, but still. I think in the very least they should have had more lower class characters of color to balance out this issue, but we only have Ekko (whom I love, Ekko is wonderful), Finn (who isn't a main character, doesn't appear much, & works for Silco), & Sevika, who again, is kind of a villian & violent & a foil for Vi, a White woman
On the classicism side, Silco is one of the main "villians" as someone who's trying to take down the oppressive state but he's also cool with killing children & torture & kidnapping, the narrative treats revolutionaries and those who try to fight oppression with violence (because their oppressors are being violent themselves) as if that's the "wrong" way to get freedom, most of the more morally grey characters are poor, the lower classes are frequently shown being violent with each other while the narrative was ALSO trying very hard to humanize the cops & upperclass people so we'd sympathize with them. I think they were trying to do a broken windows theory here, or trying to imply that classicism is inherently violent and creates violence, but I feel like it wasn't very effective or done properly & should have focused less on trying to make us like the rich characters so much, because this way it makes it seem like the poor are just naturally predisposed to violence, that the rich actually DO care about the poor most of the time if it were not for ignorance rather than because of their own classicism/belief of superiority & the dehumanization of poor people, & that most cops are just good guys "following the orders" of whoever is leading them rather than the whole system being wrong & most cops being corrupt or happily complacent. There's ways that they did or tried to show this, but like I said in a previous post, they should have pushed it over the edge.
Ableism... I don't like that Silco, Sevika, and that scientist dude are all kinda demonized & villians, but they're also disabled and/or disfigured in some way. Viktor faces this too, in a way. And again, they're all lower class.
The plot is very picky & convenient with who it wants to kill off & at what time, & plot armor is a fickle bitch. Somehow that little blonde bitch who was jacked up on shimmer was able to survive a direct blast from the hex crystals, but 2 people who had a door & a wall between them & the crystal didn't. Vander, who is MUCH bigger and had WAY more shimmer in his body, was also somehow not able to survive. Vi gets stabbed AND falls from a big height doesn't immediately die. Sevika gets beat up a bunch AND put in front of an explosion and survives multiple times.
I don't want to say I think her "villian origin story" is "weak" (although I don't like using that for her, necessarily), but I think it could have been a bit... stronger. Like Powder says "Vi isn't my sister anymore" & into the arms of a guy who killed her Father & was trying to kill her siblings because Vi went to sit in the corner & she thinks Vi "left" her?? Like kid... you SAW her go over there and sit down, you literally could have followed her over there. Vi was shitty for hitting her little sister & letting her cry by herself in the rain & an idiot for not booking it out of there WITH her when the cops were still looking for them, but I think it could have been more effective if they'd shown Vi get seperated from Powder FIRST, Powder be alone for a while thinking Vi left without her, and Silco progressively manipulating Powder before then her turning to be with him as a replacement Father out of desperation, because to me this just seemed too quick of a character decision for Powder to go from "I'm going to help kill this guy" to "you're my dad now" because of one argument with her sister in the span of like 10 minutes
This is a really minor one but, costumes. I wish the characters had bigger wardrobes & more clothes between all of them, but instead for the most part they all generally wear the same clothing or recolord of the same basic clothing throughout. Alternatively they could have also shown the richer characters with a lot of clothing, and the poor characters wearing the same tattered outfits to further demonstrate class disparity
So that's my thoughts on Arcane... I give it a solid 7/10 at least
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I'm not saying I was born in the wrong generation, or whatever, because I wasn't. I just really, really hate modern architecture.
✨️✨️ARCHITECTURE RANT✨️✨️
Look at all this flavor, this personality, this artwork. By God, it is beautiful. Reject minimalism. Reject brutality. Reject beige. Reject concrete. Embrace maximalism. Embrace lace. Embrace hand carved furniture. Embrace stained glass. Embrace lots and lots of plants in your home. Return to your roots. Become beautiful once again. Be an oceanside house with sea glass wind chimes and stained glass windows. Be a hillside manor with an ornate greenhouse and plush bed. Be a little cabin deep in the forest with a stone fireplace and handmade chairs. Be a cramped apartment in New York with string lights and heirloom plates stacked in a cabinate. Anything but the London Lincoln Plaza, minimal, or modern brutalism. PLEASE. For some reason, unknown to me, society as a whole has become obsessed with sleek, clean designs. All houses must look the same. Save on space. Beige! I hate it. The overwhelming obsession with minimalism feels gross. Like people shouldn't express themselves through their home, the very place in which they live and thrive. When I walk into a minimalistic house, it seems like no one really lives there. Everything is perfect and pristine. Also, I hate cubes. And rectangles. And any perfect quadrilateral. Why should we as humans have perfect, pristine homes when we as humans are inherently flawed, imperfect beings? Why have we done this? Why shouldn't we show off our strange collections and bright throw pillows? Why should anything have to match? Why live your life and not express your joy? I understand that many people like these styles, but usually, if they do, they really mean eco-brutalist or googie. But minimalism brings no joy. I have too many things and opinions to express at once. Thoughts?
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NAME: Mansión Mexicana
LOCATION: Seven Peaks
Right on the edge of Seven Peaks and The Pines sits a seemingly out of place mansion. Shortly after moving to town, Anita Nieves decided that none of the pre-existing houses in town were good enough for her liking so she purchased a plot of land on the lower portion of Seven Peaks. Every few months during the construction, however, many of the laborers and subcontractors went mysteriously missing. None of the bodies were ever found, and the rest of the workers began to suspect that there was a beast in the forest lurking around. Just about one year after breaking ground on the project, a glorious Spanish-style mansion was completed. Some of the nearby neighbors call the place “extravagant” and the residents “unusual” but they could not care less.
Most of the mansion is bright, modern, colorful, and in traditional Spanish-style architecture - except for the few rooms that have been redesigned by the home's newest occupant, Metzli Bernal.
The kitchen, despite being impeccably designed and having just about every high-end cooking tool one might need, always seems impossibly clean - almost as if nobody actually does any cooking in it.
Due to Anita’s profession as an entomologist, there are a wide variety of terrariums located throughout the home that house various exotic bugs. Some of the insects don’t quite look right, like those bees, but Anita promises there is nothing to worry about.
There is a greenhouse near the edge of the property where Anita lets the bodies of small woodland animals decompose to observe and cultivate certain maggot species. She always keeps it locked up tight. Who knows what else may be decomposing in there …
A stark contrast to Anita’s parts of the house, Metzli has redesigned their rooms to block out sunlight and removed much of the “painful” color, despite the original designer’s insistence to keep it cohesive. He is now missing.
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Welcome to my first build featured on Sim River Construction - Peacelands Academy! It hasn't been playtested yet, but should be fully accessible and usable. It is up on the Gallery, and is listed as a Generic Modded lot, as I did use one CC wallpaper.
Peacelands Academy was built on the High School lot in Copperdale with the intention of being a playable high school for those using High School Years in its standard form (so, only two classrooms for ease of playability during an active school day), with room for 6 students in one class, and up to 8 in the other).
Students at Peacelands are placed in one of two cohorts - Cedar Class or Sage Class. The cohorts have been named after traditional medicines, and Peacelands enjoys a collaborative relationship with local First Nations to teach about the land, its history and its importance.
The common areas of the school were given a black and white, modern style design, but the faculty and students have offset those with lots of greenery and natural light. Anywhere the students are expected to spend a lot of time has been warmed through use of mostly natural tones. From the main floor entry hall, students can go straight through to the cafeteria and club rooms, or downstairs to the exercise centre, upstairs to class, or over into the administrative offices.
The Peacelands Administration Office has two rooms: one for the clerk who handles the registrations, deliveries and coordinates schedules. Beyond the main office is the principal's private office. Here, they can work on reports, hold small meetings and keep an eye on students through not only the exterior windows, but also through the interior window looking out into the entry hall.
The cafeteria is the main gathering space for students while not in classes. With a full service cafeteria bar, plenty of varied seating options, and access to vending machines, students can pass their lunch hours here easily. Toilets and club rooms are also accessible from here.
Peacelands Academy has four "club rooms": Music, Computer, Library and Art. Each room has space for a few sims to gather and work on skill-building in the creative and tech areas.
The music room features an accent wall with CC wallpaper from AJ Nebula's Even Mistier Forest collection, available on CurseForge.
The Exercise Centre has everything students would need to build their Fitness and Wellness skills. There are two gender-segregated change rooms with showers available here. For those who want all-gender access to the change rooms, it's a simple matter of changing the doors from the Male/Female options in Build Mode to the Gender-Neutral option.
Now onto the outdoor areas!
Peacelands Academy encourages their students to use sustainable, eco-friendly forms of transportation wherever possible to get to school, and so they've built a secure area for students to store bikes and other transport forms. (My story brain says they're skateboards, but realistically, guys, it's the ski and snowboard rack from Snowy Escape. Do with that what you will, LOL.)
Behind the school is a large patio for students who want to take in some fresh air - it's sparsely furnished, but has several picnic tables for eating, as well as a partly shaded seating area. The patio leads off to the three main outdoor spaces for Peacelands, including the outdoor basketball court.
Peacelands Academy boasts not one, but THREE greenhouse areas gathered in the back corner of the lot. One greenhouse is purely decorative, while another has a bonsai tree and the third has a flower arranging table. Students can work on building their Flower Arranging skills here.
The Shed is Peacelands' newest outbuilding. Here, students can work on building their Handiness and Fabrication skills through woodworking stations, candle making stations and a fizzing station. Toilets are available here as well. The Shed also has some outdoor seating for students to enjoy the sun on great weather days!
Thanks for coming along on my first Simblr post! If you're interested in using Peacelands in your own game, it's available on the Gallery, under Peacelands Academy (ID is ForeverCamp). I have some other builds available on my Gallery from earlier years as well.
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ೃ࿔*･ 𝟏𝟕 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. 𝟏𝟕 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞
(though there’s only 15 questions 😅)
Thank you for tagging me @bisexualwvtson @luluthesandgoose @star-shard @steph-speaks & @uselssdishwasher for tagging me! Sorry I took so long to reply 😅
Nickname: Cici! I’ve had it since the day I was born
Sign: Sagittarius ♐️
Height: 5'2″
Last thing I googled: T-Shirt sleeve designs
Song stuck in my head: (Now and Then There’s) A Fool Such as I by Elvis Presley honestly this song is constantly getting stuck in my head I dont even listen to it that much!
Number of followers: 377
Amount of sleep: ....about that
Dream job: Costume Illustration for film and tv
Wearing: PJs, some grey swetpants that are a lil too warm and my most comfy Aquaman tshirt
Movies/books that summarize you: This is hard! Now that im on the spot I cant think of anything...idk if i can even answer that question for myself. But some things that inspired me to be like the characters in them or that I learned from would be In To The Wild by on Krakauer, or Beauty and the Beast.
Favorite song: Wasteland by The GazettE, Summer/In My Body by Elvis Presley
Favorite instrument: The acoustic guitar is a very sentimental instrument for me, but I love the sound of the cello and the electric organ.
Aesthetic: Im a fan of aesthetic in general, I find beauty in any aesthetic thats well curated tbh but for my own self I like a clean semi-modern living space surrounded by greenery. But for my clothing I like a sophisticated modern goth style with masculine/androgynous touches
Favorite author: Hmm not sure if I have a favorite author but Brigid Kemmerer & Marie Lu have writen some favorites. And so far Chip Zdarsky is prooving to be my favorite comic author.
Random fun fact: One of my favorite hobbies is gardening! Every year I get a little better at it but I have 18 houseplants in my room alone! And thats not including the mini greenhouse in here I also grow herbs in, or the actual produce garden I have outside. This summer I also added a pollinator garden and it turned out so pretty!
Tagging: @lindszeppelin @elvisfatass @nora-nexus-34 @powerofelvis @valkaryah @xxsupervampwolfxx @burninlovebutler @heartbrake-hotel Sorry if you've already done it 🖤
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Features/Items that should be modified/added in Animal Crossing New Horizons (although I know it's never happening) :
More DIY rocks with more colours and shapes available
Walls and pillars that actually fit together and with more designs available (modern, Japanese, with windows, shutters, balconies, etc...)
1 unit large wall (to replace single panels with realistic looking walls)
Bridges that connect land, and you can walk underneath
Make some items fit against others without this weird little gap (walls, artisanal bug cage, etc...)
Bananas
Pocket Camp furniture and any new item - without a dlc (barrel table, candle lit banquet table, Alpine kitchen cart, bookshop shelves, gardening and greenhouse furniture, Sweet set, classic cinema screen, pumpkin record player, dishwasher, double clothesline, Harvest festival kitchen furniture, Luxurious set, shower (no stall), pool floats, geyser water fountain, hurdle, kayak, trampoline, canoe, baked-good display, flower wagon, shop counters, display cases and stands, Zen café set, tree-trunk mailbox, shop racks, aquarium pillar, art supplies, Big-Top set, staircases, Acorn set, Autumn set, batty gravestone, bell-clutching crocodile, rain puddle, AND SO MUCH MORE)
Being able to climb and put things on the highest level in terraforming
More arches and pillars (Greek style, Gothic style, desert style like yofriendo on Twitter, etc...)
New fences and (wall) partitions that can be used outside
Outdoor rugs !!!
Changing the color/style of cliffs (grey rocks, red brick, darker soil, concrete, etc...)
Being able to plant trees against each others as long as one of them is not fully grown. (big tree - small tree - big tree - small tree)
Changing the style of resident services, shops, campsite and museum to fit different aesthetics
Bring back perfect fruits
Adding a luxury store for Label somewhere, in the museum or on Harvey's island
More veggies/fruits : grapes, salads, strawberries, etc...
Having paths to cover the grass properly (instead of having this weird little gap)
Our villagers' houses can be bigger inside (just like in Happy Home Paradise)
Being able to have sea critters art and having fish art to be the right scale (instead of tiny sharks)
Being able to turn items and furniture at a certain angle, like diagonally (just like with villagers when taking their picture)
Unbreakable golden tools...
Being able to personalize fish tanks (shape and color)
Being able to buy several clothes of the same category at once - with a cart or something
More house personalizations (mushroom style, flower style, new colours, new material, etc...)
Putting stuff (rocks, plants like waterlilies) in rivers and lakes just like in the museum
Having paths remain under buildings !!! (You can do that in Happy Home Paradise, but you get the awkward grass gap in the main game)
Being able to put bridges together (like _HorribleGaming on Twitter)
Having extra plants that work like flowers (nettle, blackberry bush, fern like _PetitLotus on Twitter, the museum's big bushes, etc...)
New bridges and inclines (new styles, slight modifications) as well as path new colours and variants
Being able to use more than 10 bridges and inclines (seriously, why...?)
That's just on top of my head, I'll probably add more later. Feel free to do the same !
#acnh#animal crossing#animal crossing new horizons#acnh items#acnh decor#acnh design#acnh update#acnh features#animal crossing design#nintendo#nintendo switch
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Mabel
Bernard’s late wife. Design based on a 1940 Ford Deluxe flower car. In life, dignified yet approachable, with a keen sense of fairness and justice and a strong distaste for cruelty in all its forms. Most folks found her more approachable than her prickly husband. Their home was a much more welcoming place when she was still around, and Bernard a little softer around the edges.
Mabel was an accomplished florist who designed arrangements for weddings, parties, funerals, all sorts of events. Her reputation for excellent, detailed work, combined with an avant-grade sensibility that blended classic and modern styles, ensured that she was never without clients who would pay top dollar for her work.
Later in life, when illness had necessitated an early retirement, Mabel took up painting as a hobby. She dabbled in different styles, from the realistic to the impressionistic, with her beloved flowers as her subject of choice.
She was also an avid horticulturalist, tending to the flowers in her garden and greenhouse. Her rose garden, filled with red, yellow, and pink blooms, was her pride and joy.
Westerly Hills is a tangle of overgrowth and weeds, but in one small corner of the vast cemetery, a tidy patch of grass surrounds a neat flower bed and a gravestone. This is Mabel’s resting place, and the flowers were all her favorites. Twice every week, her husband comes to the cemetery and tends them. Though he was never much of a green-thumb type, he wanted to learn. For her. Sometimes, when the moon is bright in the sky and Bernard can’t sleep, he comes here to sit with his wife and look at the flowers. Lilies for devotion, roses for passion, and primroses for eternal love. By keeping this garden alive, he keeps her memory alive. Bernard would sooner crash in a ditch and rust away to nothing than let Mabel end up like the poor souls with toppled tombstones or weeds growing through the floors of their mausoleums.
Inspiration: 1940 Ford Deluxe Flower Car
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Wren, the city made of stone.
FMP: Contemporary/Modern/Brutalist Architecture
Ideas - Here we have the final piece, a combination of ideas and improvisation. This architectural model depicts what it would be like to live in a typical city dominated by brutalist/modern architecture, a utopian future if you will.
The reason why I named the city Wren names after a small bird is that it all symbolises rebirth, immortality and protection which is important for three reasons, the people who choose to live in this city wish for a clean fresh start in life, the stone city has connotations of being immortalise since stone structures will probably long outlive humans and protection because as well as being immortalised, you can also add a feeling of protection behind sophisticated stone walls. We can even go a step further and infer that it’s a haven, protection from the broken and corrupt outside world.
Here I’ve designed an office building to have parts jutting out just for some added style, a train station which I’ve highlighted by using the white straw instead of the stirrers and some apartments buildings next to the highway; as you can see for the highway that there are two levels to increase transportation and decrease traffic. Also at the far back you’ll see a greenhouse this is because I wanted to emphasise a point on making a utopian city that gave back to the earth, I designed the greenhouse in such a way as to represent the important work being done inside so I made it look as unique and as futuristic as possible using white straws.
The office building to the far left that the train tracks run through is connected via two walkable bridges with benches running along them offering the employees a chance to gaze upon the view of the city from above. Also practically thinking, it is also easier for the people to traverse from building to building without necessarily having to go to the ground floor.
The reason why I’ve designed the apartments and office buildings in such a jagged way is to represent how it’s meant to be natural like a mountain, now of course it was humans that made it but its the inspiration from the nature around us and how ticks naturally form which gave me this idea to design the buildings in such a way.
My main goal with making this improvised city instead of model houses using the 3d printer is that I wanted to stick to the idea of giving back to the earth, making a sustainable eco-friendly city with a very low production of carbon emissions. A city which would be the ideal utopia for what we’d want to strive for as a civilisation with green energy and solar panels, and of course the added touch of brutalist architecture as I believe it’s possible for technology to work with the earth not against it.
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