It’s easy.. Or how to make a cheap house

I just wanted to show you how easy it was to make a house -- a very simple one just to give you some building ideas. This is NOT made with Builders Buddy or a Grid or hidden wires :D just eyeballing it.


First Rezz the foundation , simple one with these measurements X: 10.000 Y:10.00 Z:0.500.

Then copy with the arrows trick and make an exact copy of it -- Until I resized it to X: 5.000 Y: 9.800 Z: 0.500.

Then rotated it X 90.00 Y0.00 Z: 270. (See Builders Tips)

Once again I did the arrow copy and slid that over to the other side for the opposite wall. Weeee!! 2 walls up we be jamming! (can you find the mystery builder?) :D
The back wall I kept the original the X:5.000 Y:10.000 Z:0.500. With a Rotation of X:0.00 Y:90.00 Z: 0.00.

Now the front wall with the door. Copy with the Arrow trick and slide the back wall as a front of the house wall. Changing the size to this X: 5.000 Y: 3.500 Z: 0.500 and put it on one side (we will add the door in the middle this go round) Take your newly made half wall and slide that over to the other side so you have an opening in the middle.

Now we need to make a portion of the door I just slid and copied one of the half walls in the opening and made these changes X: 1.000 Y:3.000 Z: 0.500 and positioned it at the top. (don't be hating my bunny shoes...I made those too).

Now for the Eave part. Just Rezz a Box but it’s the one that looks like a triangle on the Edit Box and do these measurements. X 7.700 Y: .0.500 Z: .7.500 with a rotation of X: 135.00 Y:0.000 Z: 270.00 ease that in the proper place on the roof.

Once again Rezz a box in the ground with X:10.000 Y:10.000 Z:0.500 and rotation of X: 315.00 Y:0.00 Z:0.00 for one side of the roof. Do that arrow copy trick and slide it over to the other side with a Rotation of X: 45.00 Y:0.00 Z: 0.00.

You might need to make minor adjustments here and there just to get it arranged properly.

After you get it set Select the Whole house and Crtl-L to link it all together. Rename the whole thing something like “Test house”. Right click it and Take it into your Inventory. Later we will put windows in and a door to keep out the flies and texture it.

The best way to learn to build houses is to of course ask, there are some really good home builders on SL. Also take some of the freebie ones and drop them and tear them apart, see how they were constructed. Maybe try to look at some that are being built and get a handle on that.

My favorite thing to do is to look at other houses, and try to make them (so I know what they are supposed to look like) DONT SELL THEM, just make them and hone up your building skills, then get out there and make something! Most of all have fun doing it, thats part of the game.