How to Put Art on the Wall in a Linden Home

Linden Homes are ready-to-motility-in homes in themed communities that are available only to premium account members.

Introduction

Linden Homes are ready-to-movement-in homes in themed communities that are bachelor only to premium account members. Premium account holders can get a gratis Linden Dwelling, in addition to the other benefits of premium membership. For more information, see Premium membership.

Themes

✏️	Notation: For detailed photos of our Linden Home offerings and more information about the new Linden Home continent of Bellisseria, visit our New Linden Homes 2019 page on the Official 2d Life wiki.

Linden homes come in themed communities, each with choices of private homes:

Traditional homes

Traditional suburban homes are arranged along tree-lined streets on 1024 sq m parcels. The homes are one and 2-story buildings with shingle roofs, and in about models, a porch or patio area. A typical home has a 2 or more than large rooms on the main floor and may have one or two upstairs. Equally described in a after section of this guide, you may utilise the Business firm Controller on your package to cull among the styles pictured hither, and you may use the business firm controller to change colors and details both inside and on the outside of the business firm.

A traditional home is set back from the sidewalk and may have a hedge, a wall, or a low contend to prepare it autonomously from its neighbors. You may add to the planting or other landscaping elements on the package .

Traditional homes are all within a convenient distance from communal park areas where you lot can join your friends for picnics, sports, or family activities. Some communal areas offering a dining or trip the light fantastic area, or a puddle where you lot tin relax.

Houseboats

With a houseboat home, you lot tin enjoy life in coves and inlets around the perimeter of the continent or the large nearby isle, or along rivers or around the big bay in the heart of the continent. You cannot travel on a houseboat, but each houseboat parcel has room for you to moor your own sailboat or other watercraft. All h2o areas around the New Linden Homes continent are navigable and public.

The houseboat models accept big rooms with a loftier ceiling and skylights, plus a deck area exterior for yous to relax or entertain on.

Nearly houseboats are on 16 m x 64 chiliad h2o parcels. Some are on foursquare 32 m ten 32 chiliad parcels. Therefore, all take an area of 1024 sq m. All are accessible past open h2o. You may also walk hands from 1 place to another, along wooden docks that dissever the parcels, or along sandbars and spits from the mainland.

Houseboats are all within convenient reach of community areas and cultural venues (lighthouses, beaches, and community buildings where yous may assemble with friends).

Campers

A retro-style silver camper in the forest Experience the country life while you sit back and relax in your own Linden Homes camping ground trailer.

Spacious trailers -- eight dissimilar models in all -- are all assail 512 sqm (16m X 32m) parcels in beautiful wooded regions. Depending on the model yous choose, your home can be a sleek, aerodynamically designed trailer, or ane that looks more similar a Roma caravan, or one of several other designs.

Victorian Homes

A green Victorian home with flower garden Be prepared for belatedly 19th century living when yous cull a spacious Victorian-themed habitation. All homes in this theme are on 32 10 32m parcels and sited in the sort of small customs that would have been new 150 years ago -- consummate with asphalt streets and wrought fe street lamps. By using your House Controller, you may select any of four models, featuring signature Victorian features like turrets, expansive porches, and elegant bay windows.

Log Homes

A two-story log home in forested neighborhood The log homes are your opportunity to savor comfortable land living. Nestled in forested hills and valleys, these upscale log homes bring you close to nature and still allow you enjoy the clean, modern lines of a firm that you can live in year-round. Four styles each offer high ceilings and both upstairs and downstairs rooms. Other amenities include balconies, large windows, and a porch.

First-generation themes

Outset-generation Linden Homes have limited space and country capacity. Homes in these themes are yet available for buy, but provide less land capacity and use older-style control panels:

Tahoe - Rustic cabin retreats with winding roads amid hills and pino forests.
Elderglen - Fantasy dwellings with winding roads around hills and giant trees.
Sahreta Osumai - Traditional Japanese homes nestled in picturesque areas with mossy rocks and colorful trees.
Meadowbrook - California modern suburban homes with decks perfect for barbeques!

Showtime-generation Linden Homes have a land capacity of 175 on a 512 m² parcel.

Features

Linden Homes incorporate one or more of the following features, depending on the type of habitation:

Touch entry - Left-click the front door to enter and exit your home.
Touch lighting - Click the lights to toggle them on and off.
Working fireplace - Click the fireplace to toggle a burn on and off.

You'll also get a control panel that enables y'all to manage your home accessories and to change the textures used in your home. For more information, encounter Using the control panel.

Getting your Linden Home

You can get a Linden Domicile when you sign up for a premium account, upgrade your bones business relationship to premium, or if you already have a premium account and have not claimed your Linden Home nevertheless.

Prerequisites

If you have a premium account and you take 512m² available tier then you qualify for a Linden Domicile. For case, if you have a new premium account — y'all've simply joined Second Life every bit a premium account or upgraded from a bones business relationship — and haven't changed your land usage, and then you have exactly 1024m² of available tier.

Note: Yous don't have to use your premium account 1024m^two state tier for a Linden Habitation. You can use it instead towards other mainland purchases or you can contribute it to group tier allocations. Also, if you lot abandon your Linden Dwelling, yous tin employ your 1024m² tier to buy other mainland parcels.

Checking if yous have enough land tier bachelor

If you don't have whatever land already in Second Life, and then you volition always accept plenty land tier, considering each premium account comes with 1024m² of state tier. In that location are 2 means to check if you have enough available tier:

Inworld: From the Viewer menus, cull World > My state holdings.... Your available state tier is listed in Bachelor for land purchases.
Website: If you already own land, then you can also cheque if you have enough state tier on the Second Life website:
1. Go to Your Business relationship.
2. On the left side of the folio, click Account Summary.
3. Find the section called State Holdings
4. Available square meters for buy at your electric current tier is listed under Available for buy.

Signing up

The Linden Home registration process offers options for theme, habitation type, and dwelling name. One time you submit your registration, your selected home is immediately generated on the side by side available packet within your selected theme. Yous cannot request a specific region or package location.

New premium accounts

Go to join.secondlife.com.
Complete your registration.
Upgrade to premium as prompted.
Go to Linden Home registration and log in with your 2d Life account and password.

Existing basic accounts

Go to Premium Membership registration and log in with your Second Life account.
Follow the business relationship upgrade process.
Once your business relationship is upgraded to Premium Membership, the page will redirect to Linden Home registration.

Existing premium accounts

Become to Linden Home registration and log in with your 2d Life account and password.
View the iv themed communities and abode options within each theme.
Click on your preferred domicile paradigm.
Name your home.
Click Next.
Read the Terms and Atmospheric condition and cheque the box agreeing to them.
Click Accept.
Review your Linden Home information on the confirmation page.
Click Go to your Home or use the SLurl provided.

Note: Confirmation is sent to the email accost you provided to register your Second Life account.

Troubleshooting

If you didn't receive your electronic mail confirmation, exist certain to bank check your email application's spam binder.

It's also possible there has been an error in the email process, and your Linden Home is fix and waiting for you. If your Linden Home is ready, a landmark is sent to you inworld. If in that location appears to be such a problem, head to the Back up Portal and submit a ticket. Identify whether the electronic mail did not go through and your home is actually available, or whether there was a trouble with the registration process overall.

Finding your Linden Home

Your welcome email will provide the location of your Linden Home. If you lost or did not receive your welcome email, then there are two ways to locate your Linden Home:

On the Second Life website:
1. Log in using your Second Life username and countersign.
2. Get to your Account Dashboard.
3. On the left, click Land Manager.
4. Click My Mainland.
5. Look for the proper name of the Linden Home that yous chose when you lot registered. Click the link in theLocation column to teleport in that location.
Inworld:
1. Login to Second Life with the Second Life Viewer
2. Choose World > My land holdings...
3. Select the bundle that matches your called Linden Dwelling house name.
4. Click Teleport.
  You lot volition be teleported to your Linden Domicile.

Abandoning or changing your Linden Home

To alter your choice of Linden Home type, you must abandon your current Linden Home and and so register for a new 1.

To abandon your Linden Home:

Choose World > Nigh Country and click the General tab.
Click Abandon Land.
After you confirm your choice, the land is removed from your business relationship.

Now if y'all wish, you tin register for another Linden Dwelling house.

Warning: Please apply this reasonably: if you carelessness and cull a new Linden Home v times in 24 hours, you are temporarily blocked from choosing some other. You volition need to wait 24 hours earlier registering over again.

Enjoying your Linden Home

What you tin can practise

Y'all can:

Decorate your home with furniture or other items from Second Life Market place.
Your partner or friends can aid yous decorate as well. Linden Home parcels piece of work just similar any other parcel of land in that regard; who can rez objects on your country depends on the Virtually Land settings. Meet Managing state for more data.
Customize textures used in your Linden Abode via the control panel. Run into Using the control panel.

Covenant and restrictions

The covenant describes how you can apply Linden Home land.

To view the covenant, cull World > Region / Estateast, then click the Covenant tab or right-click on the footing and choose About Countrythen click on the COVENANT tab.

You are not allowed to:

Terraform Linden Home country, sell it, act it to a grouping, bring together information technology with some other packet, or divide the land.
Modify the construction. For instance, yous tin can not motility or eliminate individual components of your Linden Home such as the fireplace or a window.
Move or rotate the structure. Your Linden Habitation must remain every bit it came on its 512mⁱⁱ parcel. If you want both a Linden Habitation and more than country for your premium account, you can utilise your remaining tier and/or upgrade on the Land Use Fees page.

Tip: Linden Home land tin't be grouping-owned. Only if your personal Resident account is eligible for Linden Home state, you tin can set the land to a group to collaborate with other group members.

Also, you agree that your Linden Dwelling house:

Is for residential use only. Business employ of any kind is prohibited, including parcel rental, rental boxes, classified ads or other forms of advertising, and event listings.
Will be kept presentable and in-theme.
Does not include traffic tracking.
State cannot incorporate temporary object rezzers or individual prims beyond the maximum size allowed by the Second Life Viewer build tools. Skyboxes are allowed on the Bellisseria continent in a higher place 2000 meters. Skyboxes are non allowed for first-generation Linden Homes.

Etiquette

Living in a community includes courtesy towards your neighbors. Hither are some guidelines for etiquette in Linden Home regions:

Use local chat say, rather than shout.
Attach to the maturity rating for the Linden Home region you are in.
Respect your neighbors' privacy.
Review general Second Life etiquette suggestions and incorporate them into your Linden Home feel.

House controllers

Each Linden Homes bundle is equipped with a House Controller like the one shown here. It is merely outside the parcel boundary, oftentimes near a street or sidewalk or on the dock next to a houseboat bundle. Yours may look similar a mailbox or some other marker appropriate to the neighborhood.

A House Controller is your tool for selecting the specific model of abode y'all want to erect on the parcel. To use it, simply left-click on it. The Firm Controller will merely respond if you are the electric current possessor of the bundle. It volition non respond to guests, friends, or strangers.

When y'all rez a new dwelling, we advise you to wait for 30 seconds before using whatsoever of the business firm controls. This volition allow time for the dwelling to download important information near its decor and access permissions.

Choose a home from one of the available models by clicking one of the numbered buttons. Your new dwelling house volition appear near the center of the parcel, replacing whichever home was in that location before. You cannot rotate the home (except for Camping ground Trailers) or move it to some other spot on the package. Linden Homes are e'er rezzed with the front door facing the House Controller.

Y'all may replace the model on your parcel at whatever fourth dimension. Homes within a theme all fit in the same parcel expanse, so they will not interfere with vegetation, fencing, or other objects that Linden Lab has placed on land next to your packet. Even so, because each model has a different flooring plan, you will usually need to move furniture or other items that you take placed in a previous habitation so that information technology is arranged well in your new home.

If y'all select the notecard option, you lot will receive an instructional notecard. It will explain the features of your house in greater detail than they are covered in this guide.

If you select theContent Cosmos Pack option, y'all will receive a folder of items that y'all may utilize to landscape your parcel and decorate your home.

House control panels

As you lot enter a Linden Home, you volition detect a Control Panel only inside the front door. The command panel is your tool for customizing the appearance of your dwelling house and for controlling access. The layout of menu buttons for a Control Console varies slightly from i theme to another, only all Linden Homes have the aforementioned basic set of functions described hither.

Click on the Control Panel to see the main carte of your options:

When you make most changes with the Control Panel, y'all receive confirmation in chat. A notice appears within a few seconds to tell you that the new data has been recorded in the arrangement.

TheDoor push button offers you a choice between allowing your doors to Stay Open when yous click on them, or toAutoClose within x seconds after they are opened.

TheWindows push on the master menu toggles the window roofing (blinds) upwards or downwardly. Using this push button in the Control Panel toggles all windows in the house at in one case, so that they are all either up or down at the aforementioned time. If yous (or a person y'all have granted admission to) desire to raise or lower a unmarried window covering, you can do that by simply left-clicking on the window roofing (Note: Some house models also offering the option to open up and shut individual windows. Where that option is bachelor, it is not managed in the Control Console. To open a window, you just left-click on it).

TheAccess button, which is only visible to you as the package owner, will let you give additional people permission to utilise the Control Panel menus. Using itsAdd together Name card option, you create a whitelist and add anyone you choose. The person does not demand to belong to a special group. Yous may remove the person's access permission at whatsoever fourth dimension by clicking this sameAccessbutton and using theRemove Nameoption. If you have created a whitelist, y'all may check to see who is on it by using theView List option.

The Admission menus allow you to control who has permission to use some features in your dwelling. At that place are 3 access levels:

ONLY ME is the highest level. If you click that bill of fare button, nobody else may use the Command Panel, operate the window blinds, or open up doors.
LIST is the eye level. If you lot accept created a whitelist, selecting LIST gives people on the listing permission to operate window and door functions, and about functions in the Control Panel (but not theAccessfunctions).
ANYONE is the everyman level. If yous click that button, anybody may open doors or operate the blinds. Merely y'all and people on the whitelist may use the Command Console.

Please note that the Access menu does not command permission to rez objects in your home, or modify its music stream. Manage those permissions by creating a group for your home, as discussed later in this guide.

TheRedecorate push offers options which are unlike in each home theme, although some features are found in all themes.

TheOutside button offers different color schemes for painting the siding on the dwelling house.
TheWall button lets you change the color of the walls inside your home.
TheFlooringbutton lets you choose among options for flooring inside the home, so you may opt for carpeting or unlike types of wood flooring.
Submenu buttons on some themed homes include options for irresolute the color of theRoof,Trim,Deck, or other parts of the home that are special for that theme.

Most menus in your Control Panel also comprise two other buttons. TheWashed button closes the Command Panel menus and saves your most recent changes in the system's memory. TheDorsum push button opens the previous dialog carte.

Custom interior wall colors

Starting with the Victorian Homes, introduced in late 2019, the Command Panel includes a new option for decor, the ability to create up to nine custom colors to apply to interior walls in your home.

Clicking on theMy Colors button in either the Master menu or theRedecorate > Wallsmenu opens a submenu that lets y'all decide whether to create a New Color or apply one that yous have created earlier:

You lot may and then utilise either a Color Picker (graphic interface) or may blazon in RGB values for a color that you lot may have designed elsewhere.

The Color Picker is similar to the interface that you lot will detect in your SL viewer'southEdit > Texture > Colorpanel:

If you choose theType <RGB>option instead, it opens a text box where you may enter numerical values for the Blood-red, Light-green, and Bluish components of a color

In one case y'all take created a colour using either method, y'all may apply it to the walls in any room in the firm. Y'all may too use any of nine preset colors if you wish.

Content creation packs

Equally a homeowner, yous may want to personalize your parcel by adding vegetation, pathways, rocks, or other decorative items. Please retrieve to stay within the theme of your neighborhood. For more specific details, refer to the covenant in Earth > About State when y'all are standing in your parcel.

As an assistance, your Linden Home comes with a gratuitousContent Creation Pack. In it, you lot will find items that y'all may apply to spruce up your home/parcel -- items such equally decor items, textures, wall/argue kits and lighting may be included. Unlike the house itself, which does not add to the Land Impact on your bundle, these extra objects and anything else that you rez will add land impact, so be careful to stay within your limit. Refer toEarth > Well-nigh Land > Objects to verify your available state touch.

You may receive the Content Cosmos Pack past clicking on the appropriate card selection in your Firm Controller.

Textures

Texture packs with the building textures for each showtime-generation Linden Abode theme are available at the Linden Dwelling infohubs. Resale of textures is prohibited.

Texture pack locations:

Meadowbrook Infohub
Tahoe Infohub
Elderglen Infohub
Shareta Osumai Infohub

Privacy

Total privacy in an open customs like Linden Homes is not possible, simply at that place are ways that you lot tin manage access to your home and its features. Equally noted above, for example, you can use your home's Control Console to control who may enter your dwelling and utilise its redecorate functions. You may too use the Options tab inWorld > About Land to determine who is allowed to rez objects on your packet and whether people outside the packet can see and hear what yous are doing.

You may not use selections in the Access tab of About State to set ban lines around your parcel, but you may utilise theLinden Homes Security Arrangement (found in the Content Cosmos Pack) to eject unwanted visitors from your parcel. You may not use other security systems that have a shorter warning time or a greater detection range than the Linden Homes Security Organization.

The security system is designed to exist wall-mounted. When activated, it scans your packet equally much as 400m in a higher place and below the control unit, provides a warning to unauthorized visitors, and then ejects them from the package. It does not detect people in neighboring parcels. You may adjust the system'south range and the amount of alert fourth dimension (minimum xv seconds), and may tell the system to ignore members of your group or specific people that yous have added to its whitelist. The system will not function if information technology is placed at an distance betwixt 100m and 2000m above sea level, only can be used in your Linden Dwelling or in a skybox to a higher place 2000m. Instructions for setting up the organisation and operating it are provided on a notecard with the unit of measurement, and in shortened course, by clicking on the system's assistance(?) button.

Getting aid

Every bit a premium account holder, you're eligible for alive chat and ticket support from the Support Portal. If you lot need support for your Linden Home:

Go to the Support Portal and choose Submit a Support Instance.
Select Country and Region from the first dropdown card.
Select Linden Home Bug from the second dropdown card.
Fill out the required fields; make sure to include equally much relevant information as possible when describing your upshot.
Click Submit to submit your ticket.

Requesting terraforming of adjoining land

If at that place is an issue with the terraforming of your parcel or nearby land that you doubtable is an error:

Go to the Support Portal.
Click Contact Support.
Click Submit a Support Example grade.
From the dropdown menus, choose:
1. Land and Region
2. Linden Home Issues - Terrain or Content
Fill in the residue of the required fields.
Click Submit to submit your ticket.

Bellisseria Fairgrounds

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The Bellisseria Fairgrounds is open to all Premium Residents of Second Life to use for their events. Individual events that crave the Fairgrounds to exist restricted to a certain list or group of people are non a adept use for the infinite; however, if you are happy to welcome anyone to your events and so the Bellisseria Fairgrounds is a peachy identify to cull to program your adjacent party, go together, shindig or any!

Whatever Premium fellow member tin reserve the Bellisseria Fairgrounds for their effect, though preference will be given to members of Bellisseria Resident groups. While any public event is welcome at the Fairgrounds, we encourage the planning of events that contribute to and support the Bellisseria customs spirit.

Employ this course to reserve the Bellisseria Fairground to host an event: http://bit.ly/BellisseriaFairgroundsCalendar