Minecraft

How to make a fancy house

N.B. The house that I make in this tutorial isn't really a beginner-type house, but you can always make it smaller and/or substitute some materials.

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Rome wasn't built in a day,you know! If you're building a big fancy house like me, be prepared! Also, I built this in creative mode, so if you're making this in survival, you'll need all the materials before you even start, otherwise you'll keep breaking off in the middle of building because you need more materials.

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Skip this part if you're building this in creative mode:

You'll need maybe 4 stacks of birch wood if you're building this to scale in survival mode, maybe 5, to have a bit extra. (At least I think so, if I'm wrong please tell me and I'm sorry.) 20 spruce bark blocks, a little less than 3 stacks of quartz, a lot of stone slabs (the slabs are optional, for aesthetic purposes, you could leave them out and have more quartz) , a dark oak door, and whatever you want to use for furniture. If you're unsure about how to craft something I used as furniture, you can just email me!

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First, you're going to decide where to build your house. I built mine on some plains floating islands, but you decide where it should go. Then, decide which materials to use. I used birch planks for the walls and roof, and quartz for the floor. The walls are 18x13 blocks, and the walls are 5 blocks tall.I used spruce logs on the corners of the walls to break up the monotony. I decided to make a pattern with smooth stone on the floor too. I put glowstone in the ceiling.

Now, when I was building this, I forgot to put the windows till the very end, so I don't have any pictures. Just put them where it looks right, and make it symmetrical.

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Now let's work on the furniture.

 

• I put a "bedroom" in the corner. (I didn't put indoor walls, as I liked the floor pattern and walls would have covered it up. Also, they make the area feel smaller.) I put 4 beds on top of each other with banners on one end, with a ladder leading up, and to the roof. On the roof I made a small sheltered area, but I'll do more on the roof later. I made a desk area next to the beds, with quartz stairs, a pressure plate and painting for a laptop, with a stone button for a mouse, and a minecart and a birch trapdoor as a chair that you can actually sit in! I also put a few chests.

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• I made a reading area with a couch made out of prismarine stairs, a coffee table made of sandstone slabs, and a cool bookcase made of bookshelves, dark oak planks, stairs and trapdoors.

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• I made a kitchen with stripped birch logs with spruce trapdoors on top for counters, a cauldron full of water with a tripwire hook for a sink, furnaces with stone pressure plates on top and birch trapdoors in front as ovens, with quartz stairs over them. 

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• I made a dining table with dark oak slabs, with acacia stairs and acacia trapdoors for chairs, with iron pressure plates for, well plates, and a flower pot with an azure bluet for decoration.

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• I made a simple bathroom with quartz stairs as a bathtub, a hopper with an iron trapdoor on top with a dark oak button on the wall as a toilet, another cauldron with water in it as a sink, but this time on the same block as the tripwire hook I put an item frame with a white glass pane as a mirror. 

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• On the roof I made a cool table with white carpets, rails and some string, with some more acacia stair/trapdoor chairs. I put some flowers on dirt with jungle wood trapdoors with end rods to light them up.