Homekraft's Heart U





In round 3 of Designers Challenge, in which every 2 weeks 2 home and garden designers will take the same RL picture as inspiration and create what they see in Second Life in their own way, Mainit Hellman from Baustein and GM Nikolaidis of Homekraft chose a picture of an Asian styled bathroom as inspiration.

The warm colors of the original photo grabbed GM Nikolaidis attention hard, so he made a fairly literal version initially. After messing with it for a few days he then decided that it was too static and needed a few more personal touches and a bit of interactivity.

The poses were then added to the sink, and a few bathroom items were thrown about on the counter. To make it a bit more fun he added the proverb stone, which whispers some clever or wise sayings when touched.

You can see the creations of both designers at their shops Baustein and Homekraft!
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Baustein's Hatake Garden




In round 3 of Designers Challenge, in which every 2 weeks 2 home and garden designers will take the same RL picture as inspiration and create what they see in Second Life in their own way, Mainit Hellman from Baustein and GM Nikolaidis of Homekraft chose a picture of an Asian styled bathroom as inspiration.

The colors and the feel striked Mainit Hellman right away, it took a few hours of really thinking what he should do with it, then ideas started flowing through his head. He had ideas of this dragon, zen style garden set, with the warm colors and the flames of the dragons, of strength and courage.

Mainit created this set, creating each piece by hand, just like the asian craftsmen did. Perfect for friends and family to hang out in the garden, while the sun sets with its warm colors shining over the sky. Candlelight always burning so the dragons flames never going out. But the set works well inside to.

You can see the creations of both designers at their shopsBaustein and Homekraft!
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