I was on Yahoo looking up the top stories when an article caught my eye: “Private Island Homes”. I clicked on the article and began reading about these different houses spanning from states such as New York and Pennsylvania to more luxurious areas such as the Mediterranean and the Grand Cayman Islands. These were no ordinary summerhouses; they were amazing. The first to catch my eye was this house, a private house with a retractable glass canopy completely surrounded by water. The really amazing characteristic of this house is that it can be moved and placed anywhere. How cool!

My second favorite house was this one. It looks like something straight out of a movie or video game. It is located in the Grand Cayman Islands and is part of a very selective community of 19 deckhouses such as this. It provides all time access to the water with its huge, glass windows on every side, wrap around deck, and dock underneath one section of the deck.

These houses look just as extravagant as the some of the ones I’ve seen in SL. In Dee, most of the architecture is large, stone building with old European flare, which is very unlike these houses. These houses remind me of the ones I’ve seen on some of the more exclusive beaches or even getaway islands I’ve explored. Since they carry similarities it got me thinking: who had the idea first? Did architects get the idea for these houses from SL or was it the other way around? Because the houses had elements of futuristic and outlandish qualities, I thought at first maybe SL was the prototype for a house such as these. The idea that once someone made it online, it became a reality.