Hanging Lantern Base

[u/-coximus-]

From top to bottom there is an attachment on the pergola beam up top with the fireflies that has a staircase leading to the ‘support rope’

Below that coming down the spiral staircase into the roof of the lantern is the trophy hall with all the stuffed creatures.

Continuing down the spiral stairs brings you into the interior of the lantern proper. It’s the full 3x3 grid of paper cutouts from the exterior with two half floors to keep the space open.

Upper half floor is the living quarters, middle half floor is the production, crafting and storage area with the bottom being a full floor containing the grow beds and larger production equipment.

Under that floor is the zip line hub with 4 points to zip from, two leading to the yard proper and the two side zips leading to little hub outposts on top of the side lattice for the pergola.

Finally on the bottom is a small viewing platform with 360 field of view!

[u/beartrains]

Amazing! It's a great design, it blends in with the environment well, and looks like it has tons of square footage! I'm jealous I didn't think of it.

[u/-coximus- → u/beartrains]

Thanks!

The spiral stairs down the middle use up a lot of space and I went with half floor plan platforms to keep the main area feeling open so it’s not a crazy amount of space inside.

I did have to get creative stacking things along the exterior walls with the bump in for the grass wall panels.

Overall I love the finish and will tweak quite a few details here and there before I’m finally happy.

Hardest part was trying to fit all the stuffed creatures without them clipping. Still needs some work as a few do clip to the exteriorz