Room Makeover 6 March 2008

Give Us a Room, You Get FREE Stuff!

Our HOST makeover a player's room and donate items to the player they get to keep.

See the results here, including BEFORE and AFTER pics and tips you can use to make better rooms.

This week:

ClearCosmicKnight's
Captain Cosmic Pirate Fortress

I first met ClearCosmicKnight, or Captain Cosmic as he likes to be called, as he sat in his room thinking about how to build a better mousetrap. In this case that mousetrap was a pirate fort that needed a few improvements. I asked him if he needed any help and of course he jumped at the chance for a VMK Room Makeover!

As regular readers of this section know, we normally begin a makeover by clearing the room of all furniture and adding rugs to get a basis for our theme. The good thing about the Caribbean Town Square room is that the floor is already quite detailed and ready for the type of room we're about to create today.

The only prep work that was really needed was to remove the table and chairs so we'd have room to reshape the fort. Pushing the walls of the fort towards the edge of the beach we used the wall of the room as the left side of the fortress.

After the first wall was built (along with some outer wall guidelines), we filled in the center of our fort with Pirate Maze Walls, then topped them off with Pirate Treasure Rugs so defending pirates could stand up and man the cannons. We left one space open in the back as the entrance and flanked it with Skeleton at the Helm guards.

To finish up the fort, we added brown Barrel Chairs and rotated them so they look like barrels full of powder for the cannons. Brown Coffee Table Crates hold explosives to throw at any intruding scallywags. A Skeleton at the Helm guards the walls.

Now that the fortress was solid, we added a Well Chair for keeping captured trespassers tied up and a mountain of pirate loot. We created that out of Ariel Treasure Chests, Treasure Chairs, Pirate Treasure Chairs, Pirate Treasure Rugs and small hidden Space Mountain Poles.

Finally, a Pirate Council meeting table was created by surrounding three Pirate Map Tables with Pirate Thrones in red and black. We even found a place for Captain Cosmic's ship to dock near the edge of the fort, (the ship was made from Galleon Pieces and a Galleon Mast.)

Arrgh! At last matey, Captain Cosmic's treasure be safe from plunderin' pirates! Now time to celebrate another VMK Makeover – so drink up me hearties! Yo ho ho! It's a pirate's life, indeed!

HOST_Bella

Each week VMK's HOST_Bella selects a lucky player from the Kingdom (at random) for a Room Makeover! HOST_Bella then remakes the room – for free – using items that are donated to the players and they get to keep!

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