Canaveral 2

The Canaveral 2

The Canaveral 2 is the second in IPD’s ultra-modern range of housing units.

Modelled after the Canaveral house, the Canaveral 2 provides extended living space for those that like to have more room in their homes, through the addition of a single-storey wing to the right side of the house that blends perfectly with the familiar lines of the Canaveral.

Some 43 metres across the double frontage, the Canaveral 2 is a striking design that will catch the eye in any environment in which it is placed. As with the Canaveral, the design is deliberately open-plan to make maximum use of the panoramic windows, although a modesty wall does allow the single-storey wing of the house to be used for a variety of functions.

Front View

Entry to the house is gained via a set of double doors leading to a broad hall with open-step stairs leading to the upper floor and a suspended walkway linking the bedroom to the rooftop patio area.

The entrance hall provides plenty of space and flows into the 20×15 metre lounge area with views to the front and rear aspects as well as full floor-to-ceiling side windows.

Like the smaller Canaveral, a special feature of the lounge is the choice of optional fireplaces, controlled from a dual rezzing unit mounted on the pillar on your left as you enter the lounge area.

Wall fireplace

The first of these rezzes against the living room / bedroom wall, providing twin fireplaces and an exterior chimney.  A lighting system in included to provide a soft lighting effect at night. By default, this will come on at dusk and turn off at dawn, although touching the mantle above the lounge fireplace will display a menu which allows you to turn the lighting on or off manually.

Outside view showing the central fireplaces at night

The second option provides a more unusual fireplace option, with both fireplaces rezzing in the middle of the lounge and bedroom floor space, providing both a focal point for each room, as well as helping divide them both somewhat without resorting to interior walls.

The central fireplace also includes a double lighting system, designed to come on at dusk and turn off at dawn and which can also be menu-controlled by touching the mantle over the lounge fireplace.

The fires themselves are “lit” by default. Simply type “x” (lower case) is chat to douse the flames, and type “on” to re-light the fires!

The suspended walkway

Upstairs is a large bedroom space, again with aspects to the front and rear via the large panoramic windows. A suspended walkway leads from the bedroom, crossing over the entrance hall, to connect with the roof-top patio that sits over the single-storey wing of the house.

This wing provides a further room some 20 x12 metres in size, and is separated by a modesty wall (which can be edited and removed, if preferred).

Canaveral 2 at night

The hallway itself is lit via a concealed uplighter contained in a ceiling beam, which again will turn on and off automatically at duck and dawn, or which can be manually activated by touching the beam itself.

The doors in the house are fully scripted and include a range of options – touch and hold the mouse button for more than 2 seconds to access the Admin menu.

All-in-all the Canaveral 2 provides a lot of living space within a very distinctive design that will fit almost any environment within Second Life.

Specifications

• Prims: House: 93; wall fireplaces: 23; central fireplaces: 27
• Permissions: Copy / Mod (subject to fair use policy)
• Preferred land size: 2048 sq metres
• Price: L$370

Canaveral

The Canaveral

The Canaveral is an ultra-modern house design that combines style with plenty of living space.

With its open-plan design, it offers incredibly flexible living space, and is equally-well suited to urban environs as it is to private estate or skyliving. Certainly, it is one of the most eye-catching builds to come out of IPD.

On the ground floor of the house are a pair of linked rooms, the larger of which is well suited as a living room and can be easily divided into two smaller rooms in a number of ways – of which more in a moment. The second room has a vaulted ceiling and double doors leading to the outside patio.

Canaveral: side view and patio

Upstairs is a large bedroom, one side of which overlooks the smaller of the downstairs room and is connected to it by a step loose stairway.

All of the rooms feature large panoramic windows to the front and rear aspect; indeed the windows form a major part of the Canaveral’s overall architecture, designed to hence the dramatic form of the white frame of the house while providing a further sense of space and airiness inside, without overly compromising on privacy.

Wall-mounted fireplace

The Canaveral features a choice of optional fireplaces – both downstairs and up – using a dual rez-on-demand system.

The first of these rezzes against the living room / bedroom wall, providing twin fireplaces and an exterior chimney.

Canaveral showing the chimney

The second option provides a more unusual fireplace option, with both fireplaces rezzing in the middle of the lounge and bedroom floor space, providing both a focal point for each room, as well as helping divide them both somewhat without resorting to interior walls.

Central fireplace

Either fireplace can be rezzed on demand at will, using a wall-mounted controller, allowing you to swap between them depending on how you wish your lounge to be arranged – or you can opt not to use either of them, depending on your requirements.

The fires themselves are “lit” by default. Simply type “x” (lower case) is chat to douse the flames, and type “on” to re-light the fires!

The Canaveral at night

The Canaveral includes moderate scripted lighting with two options. The first is a uplighter concealed in the roof cross-beam over the staircase. The second is completely optional, being located in the the central fireplace, if rezzed.

Both lights will come on automatically at dusk and turn off at dawn. alternatively, you can turn them on / off manually at any time using a simple menu control system.

The doors in the Canaveral are fully scripted, with a range of options available from the Admin menu – simply touch a door for 2 seconds or longer to access the menu.

Specifications

• Prims: House – 83; fireplace (either one) – 27
• Permissions: Copy / Mod (subject to fair use policy).
• Land size: 1024 sq metres or larger
• Price: L$265

Available from my SL Marketplace store or via my in-world rezzing platform.

Massive price restructuring!

With immediate effect, all ISD house, skyhome, and commercial build prices have been massively restructured.

UNDER L$200:

• Rohan skysphere: L$80
• Carmel and Milla skyhomes: L$130
• Tropicana sky platform: L$130
• Tahoma Beach House: L$160

L$215:

• Lion’s Gate single floor
• Melbourne House
• Water Margin Floating House

L$265:

• Caprican House
• Lion’s Gate 2-floors
• Rotera skysphere

L$320:

• BDSM skysphere
• Galleria House

L$370:

• Lion’s Gate single floor with furnishings
• Resolution 32m skysphere with hot tub

L$395:

• Revolution 40m skysphere with hot tub

L$425:

• Caprican House with furnishings
• Chelsea House with spa
• Kesington House with hot tub
• Lion’s Gate 2-floor with furnishings
• Melbourne House with furnishings
• Resolution BDSM 32m Skysphere with hot tub AND RLV-enable playrooms
• Richmond House with pool
• Skylander skyhome with pool and hot tub

Commercial:

• Buckingham: L$1100
• Blenheim: L$1600

New name

i-Squared Designs is no more, as of 10th October 2010, it is now Inara Pey Designs – or IPD for short.

Essentially, i-Squared was set-up as a partnership between two people; one of whom sadly lost interest very quickly, leaving myself to run the business and its associated websites for the last two-and-a-half years.

I’ve now taken the steps necessary to dissolve the partnership, and thus the change in name and the removal of the less popular items from the i-Squared range. Thus is born IPD – a name and brand that I hope will continue reflect my aims to provide good value houses and skyhomes within Second Life and similar virtual worlds.

To all of you who have supported i-Squared, I’d like to pass on my heartfelt thanks; I hope your support will continue under my new banner.

Inara Pey.

New updates / revisions

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve finally made time to make some much-needed updates to various builds to both reduce additional prim counts and improve script use.

As of today, the following units are updated and available at the in-world store and on SLM:

• Galleria: Reduced to some 255 prims for the house and kitchen and 24 prims for the additional breakfast chairs. Script use is a huge 50% reduction while offering improved lighting and window effects.
• Melbourne: The Melbourne Plus is now discontinued, with the Essential now at 105 prims and including a revised window tinting / indirect lighting system. The Ultimate also includes the new tinting / lighting and is reduced to 157 prims and has a 40% reduction in scripts
• Caprican: The Caprican House is reduced to 205 prims and features a new “granite” exterior finish, the i-Squared window tinting / indirect lighting system and a 40% reduction in scripts. The Ultimate offers the same improvements, with the house now only 273 prims, while retaining all of the optional extras.

Price Reductions

The following price reductions have been made to the listed i-Squared builds:

• Caprican Ultimate: L$1500 (was $2500)
• Richmond, Chelsea and Kensington: L$1500 (were $2500)
• Melbourne Ultimate: L$1500 (was L$2000)
• Caprican House: L$650 (was L$1000)
• Revolution Skysphere: L$650 (was L$850)
• Resolution Skysphere: L$600 (was L$850)
• Melbourne House: L$500 (was L$900)
• Rotera Skysphere: L$450 (was L$600)

Commercial Units:

• Buckingham: L$4000 (was L$5000)
• Blenheim: L$5000 (was L$6000)

The Water Margin

The Water Margin is my first “water” home.

Based on a real-world design for a floating home developed in the Netherlands, the Water Margin retains the look and feel of the original but expands it for comfortable SL living.

The Water Margin - Front view

The house is a single-floor unit comprising a 16x16m lounge area with an additional 16x8m raised gallery room to the rear. A glass-fronted hallway links the lounge to a large, airy 16x16m bedroom.

A sliding door to the front aspect provides access to the large deck area that runs along the front of the lounge area and down the side, providing a large 20x10m open space for sun loungers, etc. A set of double doors from the side of the house provides additional access to the deck.

Between the two main sections of the house is a small jetty which provides sufficient space to moor your speedboat or other small craft, with steps from the jetty going directly up to the front door of the house.

The Water Margin Deck

As one would expect from an IPD house, the Water Margin includes a high finish standard, NDE-scripted doors and the IPD window “tinting” system.

During the day the windows of the house are covered by lace curtains or “open” blinds to provide a measure of privacy; however, as dusk falls, the lace curtains are replaced by Fully opaque curtains while indirect lighting helps illuminate the rooms. Touching any window will also allow you to manually change the appearance of the curtains should you want greater privacy during daylight hours or if you prefer to have the curtains “open” at night.

Water Margin at night

While the Water Margin is primarily intended for use on water, it can also be rezzed on land as well; although I think you’ll find that it is on the water that it really comes into its own.

Price and Specifications

Price: L$215. Prims: 106; permissions: Copy / Mod.

Find it at SL Marketplace or visit my in-world rezzing platform and see it first-hand!

Note: Furnishings in the accompanying pictures are for illustration only. The displayed items are *not* included with the purchased house.

Lion’s Gate: Colonial-style living

Lion’s Gate is another range of houses inspired by places I’ve seen.

Designed in a colonial style, Lion’s Gate comes in two main styles suitable for town, rural or even beach front use.

The single-floor Lion's Gate

The single-floor design provides two spacious rooms linked by a central entrance hall with double doors to the front aspect. Sharing the same overall appearance, the 2-floor Lion’s Gate design provides an upper floor with a spacious bedroom over the lounge and a second gallery room above the remain downstairs area. Both of the upper floor rooms are linked by a staircase and glass-sided suspended hallway.

To the front of each house is a raise lawn complete with a footpath leading to the front doors. Two the rear of each house is a small raised deck area.

The 2-floor Lion's Gate Design

As one would expect, the Lion’s Gate comes complete with NDE-scripted doors and with full interior lighting.

Additionally, all models are supplied with my unique window tinting system. During the day, to provide a degree of privacy, all windows are covered by “open” blinds. However, come dusk, the blinds automatically close and indirect interior / exterior lighting brings the house to life.

If you prefer, the blinds can be manually closed at any time, simply by touching any window, an each room can be individually controlled. Finally, the blinds to the front aspect of the lounge can be additionally raised / lowered using the winnow-mounted control.

The lounge of the single-floor Lion's Gate

For those that like a little extra luxury, each version of the Lion’s Gate is additionally supplied with a sunken seating area. For the single-floor version of the house, this comprises three fitted sofas ranged around the fireplace, with corner steps into the sitting area.

The 2-floor Lion’s Gate provides two fitted sofas, one on either side of the fireplace, which faces a hexagonal set of steps into the seating area.

All of the sofas are fitted with quality 30-second animation loops. Both of the furnished versions of Lion’s Gate are additionally supplied with an optional pack of occasional table lights and a coffee table.

And finally – a video of the two 2-floor Lion’s Gate designs.

Prices and Specifications:

• Lion’s Gate 1-floor, no furnishings: 113 prims, L$215 from SL Marketplace
• Lions’ Gate 2-floor, no furnishings, 140 prims, L$265 from SL Marketplace
• Lion’s Gate 1-floor, WITH furnishings: 157 prims, L$370 from SL Marketplace
• Lion’s Gate 2-floor, WITH furnishings: 165 prims, L$425 from SL Marketplace

OR visit my in-world rezzing platform and see each of them in turn!

Tahoma Beach House

I’m pleased to announce the arrival of the Tahoma II Beach houses.

A simple but elegant design, the Tahoma provides superb beach front living for those that want a house that stands out from the crowd.

Finished with a white stucco exterior, rich, dark wood and soft interior colour, the Tahoma offers three comfortably-sized rooms for you to furnish as you wish.

On the ground floor are a front and back room, each with excellent window views, and which are linked by an archway.

Upstairs is a single large bedroom with access via a sliding door to a large front blacony – ideal for those over-the-ocean views!

As is common with most of my houses, the Tahoma includes a lighting system that provides added depth and dimension to the house, and saves you the trouble of having to buy your own lighting sets!

The Tahoma includes a rez-on-demand set of wooden blinds for both the downstairs rooms and the upstairs rooms. Blinds on each floor can be raised or lowered collectively using the house controllers supplied (which also control lighting and tinting in the A model), or individually, allowing you to vary the appearance of each room.

Specifications and Pricing

Prims: 91-107 (with blinds rezzed). Price: L$160

Permissions: Copy / Modify (subject to i-Squared Fair Use License)

Availability:
Tahoma A: SL Marketplace or visit my in-world rezzing platform and see it first-hand.

Products and updates

Things have been a little quiet of late. I’m waiting for the new script limits (server 1.38) and LSL extensions to become generally available so I can investigate which builds will benefit from updates, etc., to make them more script efficient. Needless to say, any units that are updated will result in customers receiving copies of the updates.

The Caprican

Revised and Updated – July 2010

The Caprican is broadly inspired by the house used as Gaius Baltar’s residence in the television mini-series Battlestar Galactica (2003).

With a 55×30 metre footprint, the Caprican is best suited to land parcels of 4096 sq metres or greater, and offers single-storey accommodation, with front patio areas and steps leading to the rear aspect.

The Caprican is available in two versions: the Caprican and the Caprican Ultimate.

The Caprican

The Caprican

Features a 25×15 metre main living area and a 15×15 bedroom linked by a 15×12 metre kitchen area.

The main living area has double doors to the front aspect, opening off of a railed balcony. Floor-to-ceiling windows provide views to the front, side and rear aspects.

The bedroom also has double doors to the front aspect, opening off of a railed balcony. Floor-to-ceiling windows provide views to the front, side and rear aspects, which an internal wall helps sub-divide the bedroom for a warmer feel.

Caprican Kitchen

The kitchen has double doors to the front and rear aspects. The front doors open off of a balcony with steps leading down to a stone paved patio area, enclosed on either side by the bedroom and living area. The rear doors from the kitchen area provide access to steps leading to ground level.

The kitchen itself is galley-style with units against the rear wall of the house, and a separate island with sink fronting them. This island also includes a breakfast bar. Two breakfast bar chairs (Transfer only) are included. The kitchen area is sufficiently large for additional furnishing to be included – or if the area is to be used for other purposes, the kitchen units can be safely removed post-rezzing.

Caprican Bedroom by Night

The Caprican includes a fireplace in both the living area and the bedroom. Both are removable post-rezzing, if required, or can be repositioned according to preferences. In addition, the Caprican includes the following features:

Lighting

The lounge and bedroom both feature stylish 2-prim wall lights, while the kitchen area has a single overhead light. If the kitchen area is to be used for other purposes, an additional 3 wall lights are included in the pack, which can be used in place of the ceiling light.

Window tinting and Indirect Lighting

The Caprican includes my window tinting / indirect lighting system. By day the windows feature “open” vertical blinds that provide a degree of privacy. At night, these automatically “close” to provide complete privacy. In addition hidden lighting effects provide an subtle external glow to the house, giving the impression that light from inside is filtering out from behind the blinds. Additionally, you can manually “open” or “close” the blinds at any time by touching any window and selecting the required state from the displayed menu.

The doors used on the Caprican are all NDE scripted and can be locked, or can be set to owner or Group-only use, or can have a list of authorised users added to them.

Specifications

Prims: 205, inclusive of kitchen (+ 14 prims for breakfast chairs)

Permissions: Copy / Modify (Copy subject to i-Squared Fair Use Licence).

Price: L$265.

Find it on SL Marketplace or visit my showroom to see it!

Caprican Ultimate

The Caprican Ultimate Front View

The Caprican ultimate is outwardly identical to the Caprican, and includes the same lighting, tinting, and door systems as the Caprican. However, the Ultimate additionally includes a number of features and optional extras that make it a complete home-in-a-box.

The living area, for example, includes a sunken lounge area centred on the fireplace. This includes a reversible rug, bookcases and cupboards and three built-in sofas, each featuring up to 3 quality animation loops supplied by Craig Altman’s team at Bits’n'Bobs.

The Lounge Area at Night

Two table-top occasional lamps are also supplied (part of the optional furnishing pack described below) to provide intimate lighting in the lounge area, as show in the picture here.

Steps from this area provide access to the front doors and to the rear section of the living area.

The bedroom of the Ultimate can be fitted with the supplied bedroom furnishings, comprising:

• A double bed complete with menu-driven MLP with 27 animations and menu-selectable bedspread textures
• A dressing table with a further animation from Bits’n'Bobs
• A (non-functional) matching closet

Caprican Ultimate Bedroom

This furniture is supplied in the optional pack, as described below, and as such is supplied NO COPY.

Optional Furnishings Pack

As well as the bedroom furniture described above, the optional furniture pack supplied with the Ultimate also includes:

• 2 x armchairs, suitable for the lounge  or bedroom
• 1 x round table
• 2 x wooden chairs suitable for the kitchen or the balconies / patio
• 1 x tall occasional lamp
• 2x occasional table lamps
• 4 x wall lights that can be using in the kitchen area in place of the overhead light (remove this after rezzing the house), or if you opt to remove the kitchen completely and use this section of the house for other purposes.

These furnishings can be placed as you wish, and the chairs are all supplied with quality 30-sec animation loops. All are supplied NO COPY / TRANSFER.

The Ultimate Includes an Optional Furniture Pack

With the range of included furnishings, the Caprican Ultimate offers an inspirational and complete home for you, ideally suited to parcels of 4096 sq m and above. And even with the optional extras, the house is big enough to accommodate your own favourite furniture as well.

Specifications

Prims: 441, inclusive of all optional extras

Permissions: Copy / Modify (Copy subject to i-Squared Fair Use Licence).

Price: L$425.

Find it on SL Marketplace or visit my showroom to see it!