In Minecraft, the sky is the limit, but building houses requires a lot of practice. What are some simple designs beginners should try?
One of the first house ideas many players build in Minecraft is simple and little more than a wooden box built in a panic as the sun sets for the first time. As players seek to build something visually interesting in Minecraft, they will look for a lot more beyond the basics.
There are plenty of beautiful designs out there, but many are complex and would be difficult for beginners to grasp, even with a tutorial. These players need a middle-ground, a set of smaller and easier house designs that have their own little techniques and intricacies to teach them how to build the massive stuff and come up with cool ideas.
In addition to the size and shape of a house, Minecraft players can make unique color and texture choices with the game’s blocks, even without using mods.
The options for wood are endless, along with the options for stone and a lot more. If you choose the right building blocks, you can transform any log cabin or dank dungeon. For a unique house design, think outside the box when choosing a building material!
10 House With Storage Space
The main section of the house design doesn’t do much to improve on the box with a roof design that most players will have already built. However, the extra features around this house are what make it much nicer to look at.
Raising the main section of the house makes it nicer to look at and safer from Creepers, not to mention it gives lots of space underneath. It can be used to keep animals, store large items, or as a bedroom for a second player. The space around the house can also be used for other purposes, as shown in the image, which has attached a stable and a couple of farms.
However, be sure to light up this space below, otherwise, mobs will spawn in great numbers. However, this does not mean that players will have to stick torches everywhere. Utilizing fenceposts and lanterns, players can illuminate this natural outdoor basement visually pleasingly.
9 Remodeled Village House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf7mZFppsUI
The villages are a great place for new players to hunker down. Their pre-built houses have beds aplenty, so they’re a safe place to spend the first few nights. The houses, however, aren’t the most eye-catching, no matter what kind of wood they’re made of. Thankfully, they can be improved with a few simple additions.
Changing the ratio of wood to stone gives a lot less grey in the building, and adding in more logs and trapdoors gives the design plenty of variation. The roof gets spiced up, too, with sections protruding for windows, making this easy house idea prettier on the outside and brighter on the inside.
Additionally, players can replace the generic cobblestone foundations with a different kind of stone, such as smooth stone, stone bricks, and more. This will remove some of the cracked and mundane looks that come with a generated structure.
8 Roundhouse By The River
What’s the easiest way to ensure players avoid the box design? Build a circle! As expected in a game all about cubes, building circular structures takes a bit of finesse. Thankfully, plenty of tools online can give players blueprints to work from.
This building has a smaller circle on top of a bigger one to add some layers and variation to the interior design. The open feel this design gives the interior is perfect for people who like everything they need in one centralized location. If more space is needed, building another layer underground or making the existing layers bigger and going further upwards would be effortless.
Including water features in a house by the river can be a nice touch that can impress friends online as well as give players quicker access to the upper floors. Simply choose an area on the roof of the desired floor and place a block of water to create a small waterfall. To avoid making a mess, simply dig a one-by-one hole where the water lands to contain it. This will create a water elevator as well as a more aquatic aesthetic for one’s riverside abode.
7 Inside A Mountain
https://architecturesstyle.com/minecraft-mountain-house/
For the players who didn’t build a wooden box on their first night, it’s likely because they dug into the side of a mountain instead. Hollowing out a few rooms in a mountain is a fairly easy task, and the interior can be designed pretty much any way the player likes. However, the exterior can be so much more than a door on a mountainside.
This design extends the room’s overall feel out onto the side of the mountain and made the whole thing open with a window. Not only does this look nice on the outside, but it means that players no longer have to rely solely on artificial lighting for the inside–everything can have a nice sunny feel.
Keeping most of the surrounding area about the massive window wall rugged and organic will allow the juxtaposition between the refined interior and natural mountainside to be both more noticeable and complimentary. There is nothing wrong with creating a little garden in front of the large window to add a bit of flair without interfering with the feel of the mountain retreat.
6 Multiplayer Bunkhouse
Minecraft is lots of fun to play with friends, especially if everyone is experiencing the game for the first time. However, it means that whatever house someone builds (unless built separately) will need to have enough room for both players, which is where this design shines.
A satisfyingly symmetrical shape, this raised house design gives each player their own space, complete with a living area and bedroom. The open walkway is positioned to be safe from monsters and provide fresh air, while a neat little farm is tucked underneath. For example, players could also use the bottom layer to make more interior space, like a communal area.
For a more cozy vibe, players can potentially build bunk beds if they have a lot of friends staying in a single house. To do so, simply use fenceposts and wooden slabs to craft a small structure above a bed in order to place another bed on top. Just be sure to leave enough room for the bottom bed so that the player sleeping there won’t get trapped.
5 Over The Sea
Want to be safe from monsters at night? The sea is the place to be! As long as players aren’t foolish enough to build near an ocean monument, living a short distance from the shore in Minecraft will be a rather peaceful existence.
This design can be quite a modular one, as whenever players need more space, they can build off what they’ve already created. There is the main house, a smithing area, and a farm in the image, but so much more could be built on top of that. It could be layered outwards and upwards infinitely, creating a towering raft with lots of intricacies.
While a simple dock will do when getting such an ocean house setup, it could be a fun idea to craft a full harbor with individual docking spots for boats and other waterfront features.
4 Roomy House With A Basement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF8oXVLbBEE
There are no fancy building techniques for constructing this house. However, it still manages to look fairly interesting, which is mostly thanks to its shape. It’s rectangular, but the way it dips inwards and outwards gives the impression of several rectangles stuck together, making for a great house idea in Minecraft when combined with the solid roof design.
The basement layer is well done too. The small amounts of stone poking out through the leaves add some color variation without overwhelming it with grey, and the windows make it visually interesting both inside and outside.
If players want to kick this already awesome roof’s design up a notch, they can use even more stairs in strategic spots. The kind of stair block that appears will depend on the surrounding stair blocks when placing stairs. For example, players can create a corner stair block by placing a stair block to connect two existing ones that are diagonal to one another. This can be done to give the corners of rooves an even more refined appearance.
3 Tiered Farmhouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE5x0S5NTfM
Players will need a farm fairly quickly in their world, and they’ll eventually need quite a big one, so why not build it into the house? This tiered design makes it pretty to look at and practical for whatever crops need to be grown. Players could even trade some of the crop space for animal pens if they wanted.
The house design itself is long and thin, but there’s nothing to say that can’t be altered easily. For example, in the image, the section underneath everything is left hollow, which would look weird from the back, but players could easily build the house downwards into the ample space available there.
With tiers being a significant feature in this design, players can place individual stone walls in loadbearing sections to create thin stone posts. Additionally, when these stone posts are placed next to one another, they will automatically form walls, which will give players many visual options for the supportive parts of this house.
2 Modern House On Stilts
Modern house ideas are often quite easy to build in Minecraft as they have square designs. Compared to medieval houses, which have a lot of complexity, modern houses just have weaved rectangles. This is an example with a few less complicated weaving to get players familiar with the style.
The way each section slowly fans outwards and backward gives a simultaneously sharp and rounded feeling while still leaving plenty of interior space and working in windows for lots of light. If that isn’t enough, a couple of skylights too make the roof more visually interesting and light up the interior.
Taking the support idea even further, players can use stone pillars (not to be confused with stone walls and stone posts) to create a relatively realistic aesthetic. The detail of the stone pillars will look nicer than wooden logs if players prefer the visuals of stone over wood.
1 Easy Castle Living
A castle is a very common desire for Minecraft players. However, those who have seen the ridiculously complicated and massive ones may think there’s no way they’ll ever achieve that dream. That’s not the case, though, as nothing says a castle has to be massive or complicated.
While living in a complicated weave of rooms and corridors is not quite the same, there are plenty of ways for simple buildings to still feel like a castle. This design has the essential turrets, which give way to a big entranceway to an open middle room. If this feels too simple for players, then it’s simple to add more turrets or extend the gaps between the existing ones for a more interesting shape.
This design is pretty much asking to be made of a more unique kind of stone, such as stone bricks and chiseled stone bricks, for the more refined textures of these blocks will make one’s castle look like it was truly built instead of being cobbled together from the simplest and most abundant resources.
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