41 Prim/LI Solid Mesh - four Modern Homes in one building - Chin Rey's Linden Quad Version 1.1

+ 10 land impact
+ LOD resistant
+ Low lag
+ Solid mesh and prims
+ 12x20 m
+ Modern, practical SL home
+ Two floors
+ Ideal rental unit

This may sound strange but I didn't actually mean to make a pretty building. I wanted to make it practical - a house that fitted onto a standard 512 m2 parcel, making the most of the limited space. So how comes it looks as good as it does? Well, in the end I couldn't resist adding a little bit of flair but mostly it's because practical often equals beautiful.
From the outside Chin Rey's Linden looks very much like a modern real life house and it would fit perfectly into most European or North American surroundings. But inside it's pure Second Life. The open space with lots of big windows makes it feel so much bigger than the actual size and for privacy, the front door area is separated with the only divider wall in the house and upstairs there this nice little nook well away from the panoramic windows.
The overall dimensions of the house are specially selected to fit Second Life too. SL land can be split up in chunks of 4x4 m. Chin Rey's Linden's overall size (excluding balcony and porch) is 12.1x20.1 m which means you can partition off the interior of the building and give it its own land settings. (By happy coincidence, this also gives the house very good proportions and unless you're a designer or architect you won't believe how much that helps the look of a house!)
As default the house comes with two large pale brick feature walls and an overall neutral, discreet texture scheme. But it is fully modifiable so you can easily change it to any look you want. It even comes with a notecard with some simple instructions how to retexture an SL house.
Since it's modifiable, you can also change the size/scale from the default "average SL size" to most anything you like - all the way from petite size to the giantomanic scale that was so popular in SL a few years ago.
Now, I have to admit that there already are quite a few houses similar to Chin Rey's Linden on the market. The general design is simply so suitable for Second Life and many house builders have already come up with similar ideas. The Linden has one trick up its sleeve though: the prim count - or land impact as we should call it these days. Typically a house like this would take up 50, 70, 80 or even more of your precious prim allowance, giving you very little left to furnish your house and build a garden around it. But Chin Rey's Linden is different. It was made from a combination of carefully optimized mesh and a few good ol' prims (yes, sometimes prims are the best option even today). The result is a land impact of 10. Yes, that's right, it only takes up ten of your precious prims. That means with a standard small 512 m2/117 prims parcel you still have no less than 107 prims left to furnish you house. Put it on a 1024 m2 parcel, fill it and the surroundings up with good quality low prim items and you can live a second life in splendid luxury without having to spend a fortune in land rent or tier.
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Chin Rey's Linden is available in four different versions:
Linden A and Linden B are the same building only mirrored. Choose the one that fits your parcel and surroundings the best.
Linden Duo and Linden Quad are combo buildings with two and four Linden houses merged into a single unit. Chin Rey's Linden is of course the ultimate mid priced rental unit and I made these two variants specially for rental groups although they should also be very practical for groups of friends who want to live together.