leangreen's worlds: Modern Living

This'll be the last post before Christmas, then I'm going away and won't be back for 4/5 days. I don't have that much to post about it's mainly pictures of the kitchen and new walls of this world that I posted about yesterday. There is one other thing I could post about but I'll save that for when I get back.

So whilst I finished paving the future kitchen floor with wood planks I smelted the clay blobs in the furnace. Three furnaces in fact. I'm not sure why I had three furnaces on me , but there you go, it helped. As soon as I finished laying the floor of the future kitchen I did encounter a problem however. Obviously if I changed the mountain walls to sand (Which is what I used for the kitchen walls in the end), it would show on the outside of the mountain, so I added "Inner walls". This however made the kitchen much, much smaller.

You can just see the start of the new brick walls. (Plus new railings)

In the end, because it was now so small with the "Inner walls" - I just said forget it, and just took the walls back a block to the original dirt walls, even if two showed outside. it doesn't look too bad however.

And yeah, I did make it two width outside the door so I could add a safe step and a surround with railing. It's a nice look-out point when you go outside too!

I'll probably add a pitched roof over both windows anyway which will cover most of it. But here it is, the kitchen!:

It still needs a fridge but, I'm very pleased with the way it turned out! It's compact but stylish and modern. Originally in the apartments on World#2, I was going to have this glass block idea between the log pillars so I used the idea here. The chest all have there work surfaces (Trapdoors/hatches), and there's plenty of storage, loads more than you'd need for a kitchen! There's a funny story at how I arrived at this arch though:

Originally it was just glass panes for decoration along the left and right edge, but then I added the top bar over the glass. I couldn't use sand as it would fall, so I used sandstone. That was okay, but it looked kinda silly so I changed the left and right sides below it to Sandstone also and then just filled up the top completely in the middle with glass panes. This looked okay but there was something missing, it was only when i stepped back that i realized it'd look better with the four blocks on top of the bad (The last in the dead center) as sandstone. That's how the evaluation of the arch evolved. Now I can stop staring down this little gangway (With diner table) for the first picture view! it'll look better when the ceiling above it is all wool, but I absolutely love that arch design!

Incidentally that side window by the dinning table was also an evolved idea. When replacing the dirt with sand I did everything but the space under the three window panes. I was just about to add sand under there when i liked how open it looked, so instead of glass I just added more window panes. It does look nice though, as a feature window, and had a nice view, which was also part of the reason: