Furniture Reporter

If you are just about to refurbish your office, or if you are starting up and need to furnish your space in a clean lined manner, then this could be the range you have been looking for. Of course, costing is important too and this range is already reasonably priced.

However, there is a great offer of fifty per cent off at present so it is an even greater bargain than before! Along with the clean lines already mentioned, this collection has a very nice contemporary feel to it. American hardwood veneers have been used in a choice of four shades from the ‘yellow’ wood to rich dark finishes giving you the option of going for the Scandinavian view point or staying with the traditional look.

All the pieces are highly functional. Overhead cabinets can be cabinet mounted or mounted free form style directly onto the walls. This gives a very open feel to the office and looks great. Desks come with bow fronts for another style touch and can be ordered with laminate tops or veneered tops for scratch resistance. Recessed modesty boards also give an added touch of modernity to this furniture. Pedestals come in three quarter or full size, depending upon your requirements. There is quite a wide range of components within this range which allows you to choose exactly the right pieces for your specific requirements.

Support units are also there along with book cases, occasional tables, computer desks and conference tables. Indeed, anything for the contemporary office is available within this range. File drawers extend fully for easy access and all pieces in this collection come with a ten year warranty. This, of course, confirms that you will be buying quality pieces when you choose to install this collection in your new office. There are suggested layouts for you to choose from, or you could try designing your own office space. When designing for yourself you should take into consideration the flow of traffic and work load throughout your establishment.

Also consider the aesthetics for both your staff and/or clientèle. Remember that a happy workforce is a productive one!

Furniture in Second Life™ is one of those markets (like so many) that is entirely over saturated. When a market gets like this it becomes increasingly common to find, unfortunately, bad quality stuff and it becomes even harder to find the really good quality stuff. In the current SL™ ‘bot culture,’ traffic stats can be misleading and can also mean that the smaller or newer stores without the bot armies face an uphill struggle to become known.

So it was a particularly pleasant surprise to come across a lesser known and yet very high quality modern furnishings store while out with the wonderful Demoiselle! La Resistance modern furnishings lies on a sim sized parcel on an open space sim called (funnily enough) La Resistance. The furnishings are the creations of Xeit Lane, who has set up here an absolutely incredible store.

The first thing you notice upon entering this store is the ultra-modern feel it has. It’s spacious and laid out well. Every item is set out with other items that co-ordinate with it, meaning that you can essentially get the entire furnishings for a room together and know it will all look like it did in the store! The other great thing is that pretty much everything you see is for sale, from lamps, to plants and artwork so if you see a look for a room that you want, you can replicate it exactly in your own pixel place!

In particular, there is an entire room dedicated to black and white with some pretty unique pieces in there. Again all is laid out so it’s perfectly easy to look around and find what you want. Everything has a very ‘showroom’ feel to it, which always makes shopping easier!

In terms of the products themselves, there’s everything from couches, chairs, to tables, office sets, beds, lamps and plants. The prim usage is economical, with a corner couch (with 3 animations) containing 21 prims or so, up to 40 for a more elaborate one. An animated bed with texture changing for the bed clothes has twenty or so prims. So, admitedly, it isn’t ‘mega-low’ prim, but by the same account it certainly isn’t high prim and the prims that are used are used in such a way as to maximise the quality of the product.

So how much will this stuff set you back? Well, actually the pricing is good! You can pick up sculpted cushions (non-copiable) for L$ 49. The smallers couches are L$ 399, with the most expensive piece I came across (a rather elaborate corner couch with 6 animations) just L$ 499. And, you may notice I have mentioned that everything has animations! There’s perhaps nothing worse than sitting on unanimated furniture… you buy a beautiful couch and then you sit down only to look like a complete prat in your newbie style sitting pose, right? Not here! Xeit Lane’s pieces are all animated.

In all, this is a great place to visit if you are looking for modern furnishings at a reasonable price. I do have one complaint though…. it’s a no fly parcel! I really get irritated by that! Yes, yes, I know I could just enable admin options, I just don’t get the no fly thing!

Other than that, thumbs up!

Visit La Resistance here.

Thanks once again to Demoiselle (sexy) Denimore for the pictures and finding this place!

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The rise of the internets has been great.  Especially for porn.  And for finding great deals on other stuff…like rugs and furniture.

I present case #1: an 11′ x 14′ oriental rug, direct from Iran.  What would you pay for this?  C’mon, really.  How much do you think it’s worth.  Cause the wife got it off ebay for a scant $250, including shipping.  I was dubious, but the quality is actually better than advertised, it’s hand signed, and really heavy.  Win.

Case #2: antique repro kitchen island.  Solid wood, heavy as hell.  It’s got drawers on both sides and a great natural look.  $180 on craigslist.  So cheap that I’m actually feeling guilty about it.

Don’t look at my kitchen floor…it’s hideous.  I’ll get around to tiling it sometime this fall.

Also, what does this say about my life?  I’m excited about a rug and furniture.  Not exactly the high rolling, jet setting plans I made back in high school.

It’s been a beautiful day today, one of those that makes me realise autumn isn’t such a bad season after all. It was lovely and sunny and so warm, but not in a ridiculously boiling sun-stroke causing manner like it was back in August. Fabulous.

I stayed at Jan’s last night, which is why I wasn’t able to blog. My boyfriend is a computer scientist with no computer. Madness! We went to a furniture shop just outside Karlsruhe and Jan finally ordered a sofa for his flat. Yay! No more sitting on uncomfortable kitchen chairs. I can actually curl up and be comfortable while we’re watching TV… provided we can get his flat mate out of the way for long enough that is.

Today we’ve been to see a football match. I’m not a huge fan of football but I don’t mind it, so when Jan’s friend managed to get three tickets for the local footbal team, Karlsruhe SC, I said I would go along. They were playing against Wolfsburg. The first half was incredibly boring and if it hadn’t been such a nice day I would have regretted saying I would go. Things picked up a bit in the second half though and the final score was 2-1 to KSC. Towards the end Karlsruhe’s goalkeeper, Markus Miller, got injured. Fairly badly it seems . at least after a failed attempt at standing he was carried off on a stretcher! I’m not even sure what exactly happened, even though the action was pretty much in front of our block and I was even looking the right way. One minute a Wolfsburg player was running towards the goal, the next a bunch of people had somehow run into each other and the goalkeeper was lying on the floor. Crazy stuff!

And so another weekend is over. Tomorrow it’s back to work, but only for two days. On Tuesday evening we’re off to Dublin, where we’ll be spending the night in the airport before taking a flight to Newcastle at 6:20 the next morning. My brother is turning 18 on Thursday, hence the trip. I still haven’t actually bought him a present though. Anyone got an idea what to buy for an 18 year old boy? Suggestions in the comments box please…