Luxury Houses, Cool Builds

[36% Not FossilJake]

I see that a lot of people go super sicko mode on their houses and builds, and when I try to do it, it's just...ew. So I want to know the stuff I should use or know when I build a luxury house/build.

[Flyin' High]

I'd recommend using a heavy work bench, it's stone slabs look great, also I wouldn't use golden or unrealistic blocks, and windows in the background seem to work well.

[Saver Sigonith]

When building, I like to consider shape and color.
No matter what it's made from, building only in rectangles gets boring!
And no matter what the shape, a build with only one block gets dull!

But building is just about practice and experimentation~
There's no set rules or "right" and "wrong", you'll just get better at it as you go and learn what you like. Play with different shapes, blocks and combinations - and see what you can do!

[Flyin' High]

Also for building a large housing area, don't do a hotel, do a bunch of houses and huts, hammers are great for that.

[K13]

If your building try and experiment with paint cause it can add so much to a build.

[Dacote]

Pearlstone bricks are quite good for modern houses. I really like green dungeon bricks for castles or something like this. You can check a couple of screenshots on my profile. For wooden structures I can recommend to use different kinds of wood, just be shure to paint non-brown with deep brown paint.

[Aurelia]

Make sure you have the right items on

[Submarine_Koelkast_1]

One very important detail aforementioned is shape.
Just box stacked on top of each other is just ugly.
But if you make rooms like the blocks in tetris for example, your house will look a lot better.
I don't recommend some rooms sticking out of the edges of your house.
Although if you make ground floor of your house a little less width at one side and stack for example boreal fence on top of each other you can make it look like you have some pillars holding up your house (It looks best if you fill every other column with fences and also the top and the bottom row. It would look even better if you add some torches to the pillars).
Some kind of entrance like a few stairs slab would also look cool.

Another thing worth to mention is to make some rooms have a specific function.
Like building a bath room with marble, a bedroom with a closet and a drawer and a living room with a table surrounded by chairs a couch with a television in front of it.

It's also good to look for blocks with colors that match with each other and also the environment like for example I once build a house build on the border where plains and the snow biome met. I build that house almost fully out of spooky wood added some shapes and then some doors and stairs and used obsidian blocks for the roof which had a little angle in it and was about 3 to 4 blocks thick. I used spooky wood walls for all of my walls and some boreal fence as aforementioned and started placing some furniture and paintings in all rooms. I also had some sort of ceiling where I placed some old paintings and stacked some crates caught from fishing. As for lighting I used some chandeliers.

After that I wanted to create an underground jungle village. But sadly everything under my house was ice. So I create a large whole with dynamite which would make the terrain a little more natural than mining it out yourself. After that I started placing mud blocks around the walls, floor and ceiling and started placing jungle seeds all over the cave. The cave had some pretty large holes in the floor which where ideal to make small lakes from. After that I started building the houses, because it's a cave i couldn't really build a large house inside of it because it wouldn't really fit in there. So I made a tower from 4 to 5 boxes of mahogany wood just large enough for an NPC to move in and added a rood made of blue dynasty shingles which kinda looked like a flattened out triangle which 2 blocks wider than the houses. So it didn't look very simple I added some extra blocks which extend out of every floor of the boxes.
After that I made a shorter but wider house kind a thing having 3 rooms at both sides and a stairs to every room in the middle. I made this house from the same blocks as the tower.
I still had some room left so I decided to build some smaller house only 1 NPC. Again using the same materials I build a box just big enough for a NPC to live in added a roof on top of it. I made a couple of them and placed them around the cave. To finish it of I build a bridge of wood platforms over the some of the lakes and placed 1 row of fences on top of the bridge.

I hope this helps you!

PS. This can be a bit confusing to read as I am not exactly a pro at writing long texts like this.