Minecraft Tutorial: Modern House Building Tips

Hey what’s up guys in this video i’m going to be sharing with you some tips that you can use to improve and build your very own modern houses i always get asked on the channel tsmc what is your favorite kind of build make and honestly that’s quite easy i absolutely love

Building modern houses i really do it’s my favorite kind of house to design and make for a multitude of reasons so i’m really hoping that this video can be at least a little bit educational for you hopefully you’ll be able to get at least one tip or one little design quirk that

You can add to your modern builds and if you even just get one of them i’ll be happy and if you do enjoy these kind of videos i’ve really not made anything like this before perhaps you’d like to see another one of these but with like

Tree houses or maybe you’d like to see one with like suburban houses or something like that please do leave a little suggestion down below if you’d like to see something like this again and of course give the video a like to show me that you enjoy it because i

Really don’t know whether you guys are even gonna like this one i’ve i’ve not made anything like this before but without any further ado let’s get started the first thing that we’re going to chat about ladies and gentlemen is materials and first of all the more preferred materials when it

Comes to modern building so every modern house or just about every single modern house 99 starts off with quartz you have the trifecta you’ve got quartz block quartz stairs and quartz slab you can’t be done without them because they are usually the backbone of a house they’re white they’re modern looking

They’re futuristic they go with any other color of block because they’re white and they can be used to shape and mold a house because you have access to all three kinds of blocks you’ll be using these mostly in the structure and to cover up various parts of your modern

House to shape it in some sort of way but you can’t just get by with your quartz you need a secondary or sometimes even a tertiary material so we need something like gray concrete or black concrete those are two really good contrast colors because you can’t get

Too much further away than white by using either black or grey not only those but of course you can pair these with woods as well so oakwood works really well some birch some acacia as a matter of fact you can really make a formidable looking house using some

Say quartz black and some birch planks they all go together very well when it comes to glass you really aren’t limited you can use any variety of glass but blue in particular i really like with modern builds and you’re going to see why later on

When it comes to doors you don’t have to be too picky i really like all of these selection but you could use literally any door my favorite two are probably the oak and dark oak so these are the sort of preferred materials so if you’re making just a

Standard modern house you don’t want to get too experimental any combination of these will probably do you quite well but we can literally use any variety of concrete that we like you can use any one of these out of that color spectrum and you’ll be seeing that as we move

Along the same goes for glass you can use pretty much any kind of glass that you like whether that be block or pain and there’s going to be certain situations where you’re going to want to use black and certain situations where you use pain and sometimes when you use

Glass pane instead of glass block you’ll find that the result could be quite painful oh this this video is going to be bad so moving beyond the glass and horrible horrible puns here are a list of materials that you might just want to try in making a

Modern build so as i kind of hinted at over there quartz gray concrete oak planks blue glass specifically dark blue glass makes a great combination the same goes for quartz black birch and black glass makes a really cool combination additionally quartz light gray acacia and light blue glass really cool classic

Combinations all of them but modern builds aren’t just about the concrete and the quartz and the glass you can literally use all of these blocks as well to your advantage so you’re going to want to include a bit of nature you’re going to need water in most modern builds

Nature theme you’re going to want to have leaves i do have my favorites a lot of these look very very similar but jungle is one of my particular favorites we have some vines as well you can apply this to certain types of builds you can substitute your concretes for

Terracottas as well you don’t just have to use concretes you can use terracottas if you like however they are kind of like the dual counterparts of the concrete and i probably wouldn’t prefer those over the concrete myself you’ll find that if you want to keep things

Nice and bright and colorful you can use the glazed terracottas as an accent so you can use these in the bottom of your pools you can use these for plant pots you can use these to fill in particular panels of your walls and floors they rarely are the more vibrant

Cousin of the regular stained terracotta and honestly i’d rather invite the glazed terracottas to my party wow i sure am glad that we didn’t glaze over those terracottas that probably just about covers materials and how you can put them together and different color combinations and some weirdest sorts of

Materials that you can use so the next part of this video is going to be about shapes entrances walls and all of that sort of business you’ll kind of get the gist of this as we go along so talking about doorways first this is a pretty simple blocky modern door now

This doesn’t look so bad depending on the way you’re using this but you’re probably going to want to get a little bit more flavorful with your modern builds so for instance with this door it’s the same sort of idea except we’ve added another color into it and we’ve added a

Little bit of depth using some gray concrete but we can do better and it doesn’t take much effort if we move along to this store you’ll notice that we have the same sort of deal we’ve used a little bit of slabs it’s a little bit taller so that we can add more detail

And we even have glass involved in the door this is a very common sort of modern door that you’re going to see throughout the build as we move down you can see another example of this you can make it a little bit lower and you can take advantage of

These slabs to conceal a little bit of the glass and add a little bit of mystery so mysterious as we move down again you can see that you can expand this door shape so now we’re using all of these techniques we’ve made the doorway a little bit

Wider a little bit of glass involved different change of materials but we have this really cool accent as well at the top of the door you really want to use all of your assets all together in one to create an interesting looking door but you don’t have to keep things

Like square and rectangular you can expand on things a little bit you can use circles in modern builds i know perish the four everything’s got to be like squares and rectangles hasn’t it but no you can use circles so this is a very very basic sort of like rounded top

Door but you don’t have to be basic you can move it along a little bit this is a little bit of a double door you could use upside down stairs instead of the quartz slabs that’s a perfectly viable door looking shape and it does look quite good with the right house as we

Move down you don’t just have to have kind of like an archway you can have like a full-on circle this can look incredibly cool and modern as well given the right house and you’re going to want to maintain the techniques that we talked about over there so it’s going to

Be depth and glass you could even place that door like backwards so that you create a little bit of extra depth and the same can be applied down and down and down so again this is a similar sort of deal here except it’s a little bit bigger

It might be possible to rearrange things a little bit to put a little bit of glass above the door and kind of complete the circle with some gray concrete but this might be a door shape that you really do like and you can see now how it kind of goes together with

The little bit of the side of the house like it does fit in quite well you’re going to have to make the house taller if you are going to go for a wide entrance you’re going to want to make a huge house around it so that it doesn’t

Look a little bit goofy as a matter of fact i don’t know if anybody else can see this but i’m kind of seen like a duck’s head this is kind of like a duck head house right you’ve got like the the head on the actual left side and then

You’ve got kind of got like the bill the beak on the right side is am i crazy ah probably so as we move down a little bit i mean you can get a little bit fancier with the shapes of doors as well i’ve used a lot of these varieties of

Doors when it comes to like tree houses and quite often when builds are a little bit more uniform a little bit more squarey i just want to show you that you really can use slabs to your advantage you can use depth to your advantage is is like you can make a really cool

Interesting looking door the same goes for here like not every door has to be on the floor poet didn’t know it and you can use a little bit of glass in the use of the door you don’t have to just stick to block you can use pain where appropriate

I think that we should probably close the door on door talk because now it’s time to raise the roofs you’ll find when it comes to modern building most modern roofs are flat it’s just kind of the nature of modern building it really is it’s a lot of solid shapes a lot of

Squares a lot of rectangles it can’t really be helped but just because you’ve got a flat roof doesn’t mean it has to be boring this is the most basic of roots it’s just a filled in shape there’s an easy way to fix that so just one notch upon the creativity

Scale you can add glass to a roof you can even split it in two to create what kind of looks like an ethereal white butterfly but not only can you add a glass to a roof to make it look a little bit more interesting you can add some glass to a roof

And you can also add some quartz slabs around the top of your roof so that’s around the top layer of the concrete it looks a little bit more interesting this way so very common technique is placing quartz slabs around the top of a roof area

But beyond that a cool thing to do is add glass to the wall of your build so in just having a regular concrete wall that’s fine and everything you’ll see a lot of those you can add glass to the top and then that allows you to use a

Little bit of quartz slab this isn’t my favorite kind of roof by the way you can add a bit of quartz slab around the glass to create an interesting level of depth and just to create something that’s a little bit more pleasing to the eye so

This is pretty much the inverse of what we have there we have the same roof except that the quartz is around the top of the glass it looks a lot better than the previous but you can go one step further so we have the glass built into

The wall we have the quartz slab around the top of it you can go this this is probably the ideal sort of modern roof if you’re going to use this technique this is pretty much what i would do you have glass at the top you have quartz slabs around the bottom of your

Glass block and then you have quartz slabs and you can see it creates such an interesting depth you can see that the quartz slabs are all the way around the top as well half a row higher than the glass of the roof that is probably my favorite design when it comes to modern

Roots it’s it’s you know it’s very elegant it has layers of depth it’s very interesting it likes to read einstein and listen to mozart on the weekends and last but not least if you want to stick with just a flat roof you don’t want to make it too fancy i’d

Almost always recommend adding in a skylight not only does it create again it’s kind of like levels and depth and a change of material but you can also place glass inside of it and it keeps the inside of the build nice and light and bright and again it’s just a little

Bit more interesting this despite the fact that it’s not too far off is more interesting than that over there and that’s all i really have to say about roofs we should probably put a lid on this situation so carrying on this dance i think it’s time to throw some shapes at you

This is one of the most common shapes in the modern building whether it’s facing this way or this way i refer to this as an l shape basically because it looks like a sideways l it also kind of reminds me of like a gun that i drew when i was like three years

Old that’s that’s kind of how i drew them a little bit but you’re going to see this a lot probably in different forms like you’ll see them a little bit longer than we have here but as a general representation you’ll see this a lot as

We move down you’ll be able to see that you can use this shape to structure a build this is how you could create an entrance if you make an l shape like this extend it backwards you can slot in using depth and a different color

An entrance way and you can use this as walls anyway it doesn’t just have to be an entrance you can take it a little bit further though so now we have the l shape but we have a bit more of an interesting entrance we’re using depth still but we

Have glass involved as well again very common techniques if we move down a little bit more we can extrapolate and we can make it even more fancy we can have a door we can have glass above it we can have separation in the wall we can have different varieties

Of windows and then if you could imagine that the build would go backwards and continue in a very very similar manner to this as we move down you don’t just have to use this shape here as a structure to a build you can see all of these houses like the quartz is

The backbone but on this one we have what i call the a shape to a build and you might be able to see why i g you’ll see this a lot during modern building as well by the way a lot drawing entrances as well i call it the a because it’s well it

Looks like a capital letter a and we don’t have to just use the l shape as the actual structure of the build it doesn’t have to go around anything it can be used as kind of like a wall builder it’s very versatile as we move down a little bit i call this particular

Part of a modern house and you’re not going to see it in this form exactly i’ll i’ll explain as we go down i call this the squiggle for obvious read it it kind of just looks like a squiggle right so you might see it like this you might see it facing

Another way you can involve a little bit of quartz slab it might be longer this is a very versatile shape as well it’s just pretty much the next level of the l so if we move down you can see that you can use this to create levels this is why it’s such a

Versatile shape so you can create a bottom floor using the middle part of the squiggle and you can create a top floor you can create levels using the upper part as we come down you can see this is kind of this reminds me more so of the

Handlebar so let’s refer to it as that if you look if you take a look like this and you look sideways a little bit to the left it kind of reminds me of it’s either rabbit ears or handlebars my neck hurts ow so you can use this to create any variety levels of

Basically you can just use it to create a any sort of varieties of amounts of flaws that you like it’s a great way to do it you can use it to create terraces or balconies you can use it to create gardens just easy ways to separate your

Modern house it’s a very common shape you won’t exactly see it in this formula because this is a bit small but you might see it like this now this isn’t as far-fetched is it and a great way to use this technique as well is to split the

House as i mentioned but you don’t just have to split in terms of floors but you can include a different material in the split as well it’s a great way to kind of just like put a put a cap on the lower part of the house and include a

Different color up above and if you just imagine these going backwards you can of course just have like a nice big normal looking modern house this way you don’t just have to stick to two floors you can absolutely have three of them if you like it’s just the same

Thing over and over again if you want to use the rabbit ears if you go even further i don’t know what to call it i call it like i guess it’d be kind of like snake on like the old nokias where you’re kind of just like bending into like an

Just like an unrealistically contortable shape that just doesn’t look like anything but as we move down you’re going to see again the a shape and the l shape working together so the a shape is very very important and we saw it a little bit down there but this is a little bit

More of a simplified version there’s just something that looks so clean and nice about that right like that’s a good cool starter modern house as we come down a little bit you’re not just limited to small versions but we can have big versions as well

The l doesn’t just have to sit on the left side of the build it can move through and join to the opposite side of the build as well like if you just keep the shape going it’s you can make a really pleasing looking combination if i was to change anything i’d just expand

Out the a shape a little bit and then we’d really have something as we come down you’re going to see this again so this is the squiggle pretty much so this is probably like the next level from there we have depth we have some interesting walls we have the

Squiggle being used we have glass we have birch we have a variety of shape like that’s a cool modern house we have even indented the doors as well which is something that i like to do i’d live in this that that’s a cool modern house that’s a that’s a perfectly great

Starter house you just have to make the side walls so just moving on a little bit ladies and gentlemen i don’t want you to think that modern houses are all squares and rectangles absolutely not you can make them a lot more interesting if you do so choose so these next few examples are

Going to show you how you can break the mould a little bit again you don’t have to be all squares and rectangles you can add things like cylinders and circles to your build you’ve just got to do it correctly so for instance we have a pretty interesting looking addition to what

Would be kind of like a normal looking modern house like if you just look at the lower part that looks cool and all but you can really make it look a lot more interesting by adding a few abstract shapes i’d probably add a little bit of glass to the sides just to

Make it look a little bit more interesting but if you follow the same sort of rules in terms of depth in terms of material variety you can improve a house by making it a little bit more interesting to look at and that’s a shape that kind of works in a variety of

Colors as well so this is basically the same shape that i just added onto that house but we actually just have two of them and i i kind of like this it’s kind of like a cool house if we were to add another one of these like in a cluster

In the back like i think that that’d like be really cool interesting looking modern house quite honestly so these shapes are really kind of like diverse you can use them uh when it comes to your square houses as well you don’t just have to kind of like have them in circles all by

Themselves but feel free to do add those to your builds if you want a bit more variety and not only that you don’t have to keep the a shape strictly like a big flat a so this looks a little bit horrible honestly but the idea is here you can

Round the edges of the tops of your modern bills they don’t just have to be flat this is probably a little bit of a better example so like with the doorway you can see that now we’ve added a little bit of curvature it’s a little bit stronger looking than that one

Because we’ve added a couple of different materials but it’s a little bit longer as well and the best example of this that i can give you the one that looks by far the best this is probably what you’re going to want to strive for is this sort of shape and the wider you

Go the more acceptable more better looking and the kind of like the curve look so again you don’t have to just have a big flat surface you can round it and you can add other materials you can add glass you can add concrete you can have

Planks it’s just a it’s just a little bit of a different idea like thinking outside of the outside of the box so to speak as a matter of fact i think it’s time for us to go a little bit deeper ladies and gentlemen i want to talk about something that’s

Got a little bit more depth to it ah too much whew managed to dig myself out of that hole so dev this is a standard looking modern wall it’s about as basic as you can get actually a little bit less basic because we actually have a bit of grey concrete in

There how diverse you can make this wall as boring as it is way more interesting by doing one very simple thing depth i want this little section to convey to you how important it is to include depth in your modern build so obviously we also have a little bit of glass on that

Right one but which one looks better i think that is pretty obvious as we move down a little bit you’re going to see this again now this has more variety of depth we have our a shaped entrance we have kind of like the l shaper i guess it’s more so a backwards

C but you guys get the idea and behind that we have some birch and we also used pain instead of block like there’s a lot going on there like this is perfect this is kind of what you’re going to want to strive for we are keeping things interesting looking by adding depth it’s

Such an important part of your house i’ll show you how important it is so this is a modern house right on the right we have a flat house it’s flat like you’ll be like if we just look at it from here it’s all flat maybe maybe what we can do

Like if you if you cover your left eye maybe you’ll kind of see the point that i’m talking about but on the right it’s flat on the left side we have the exact same house pretty much but we have changed a little bit of the materials

And we have included depth so you can see how important it really is when it comes to modern building things don’t have to be flat and boring you can certainly make them way more interesting and the same thing goes as well for the squiggle we talked about this

Earlier how the squiggles are great way to separate ground floor second floor third floor fifth seven whatever this is a great way to do it as well so we have our ground floor here it’s set backwards from the court so we’ve got a little bit of depth we’re using pain

Which is a good thing the second level is set a little bit backwards not far enough for me i like a little bit further back than that but it’s set further backwards it looks better so not only do i want to talk about depth in terms of like forwards and

Backwards but i want to talk about depth in terms of up and down as well because it’s very important so this house is a perfect example we have depth when it comes to front and back because the entrance to the house is set forwards in relation to the main body of the house

Even the sides of the house are different depths different levels in relation to the quartz frame the same goes here as well just off to the side and we have created levels we’ve created different depths up and down by digging downwards into the ground and additionally not only is this little

Part the house set backwards but it’s also at a different level than the main body of the house as well we’ve done a great job here of also incorporating a little bit of nature in the form of grass or fake grass and flowers and leaves but we’ve also

Incorporated a little bit of curvature as well to the build it really does just make a build look a little bit more interesting if it has a bit of variety so i love this as well because of course it’s got an underground sort of entrance i love this sort of thing

But it also has a bit more to it as well like if you come around the back the backs of your builds don’t have to be boring somebody’s completely forgot about filling in this window but that’s besides the point you can have stairs that come up and reach around and you

Can walk around and explore the balconies make your modern houses interesting you want to give them different ways to get in and around that’s one of the most important things when i think it comes to modern houses all of my favorite modern builds have an exploratory element to them

And that doesn’t just change with this house if we move down a little bit we have this one this has all of the same sort of elements that that one does so number one we’ve created depth between the main entrance the sides all of this we have at different levels

Everything’s different heights we have a different set of materials we have block where appropriate we have pain where appropriate we have a staircase leading you to the side of the build mysterious you want to explore where this staircase goes we have the main entrance to the house here we have a

Different color which kind of stands out we kind of have like a gray oak white red like i said you can make houses out of so many different colors it doesn’t have to be the same ones all the time we even have a bit of nature we

Have a bit of curve to the house we have some flat to the house the panels are interesting around the back i probably would have included some more glass around it but you guys get the idea you want to keep things fresh and interesting you don’t just have to stick

To a particular theme this house is a great example of how you could really pull all of the different building techniques all into one and i think that this next one is a good example of that as well so this one is actually my favorite out

Of all of these probably all of the houses that you’ve seen and are going to see this is probably my favorite and i’m not quite sure why but it includes all of the previous techniques that we spoke about it has the squiggle it has l shapes it has depth it has different

Levels it has intrigue just to get into the house you’ve got to kind of cross this oak trapdoor drawbridge we have water around the house as well a little bit of a moat you saw that we have an additional entrance all the way up there the lower floor is separated from the

Upper floor which means you can only access certain things by actually getting up and going up to the second story of the house i love that it has a little bit of curvature to it it’s probably lacking a couple of windows on the back but it really is

Just an example of everything i love in a modern build i really like this this is like kind of like a really cool intermediate like high starter house i love that so much not only that you don’t have to get that fancy with these houses so this is

Pretty much the squiggle shape that i referred to earlier but extrapolated so if you just kind of like take a look at this house this is kind of what you start with but if you use depth and if you use different levels then you can really make something that’s quite a

Decent looking house it goes quite far back it’s got a large interior it’s not complicated to make in the slightest little bit of garden a little bit of pool you can see some glazed terracotta didn’t want to glaze over that some glazed terracotta in the bottom of the

Pool like you can really just take simple shapes and really make them into decent looking houses but this next one this one’s off the wall a little bit this is kind of like a nature modern house it’s kind of like a mix between kind of like a little hobbit hole

And just like a full-on modern jungle sort of vibe house this is something that you’d build like into a cliffside we have built up flowers and grass we have kind of like this stream running down from the top of the house plenty of nature plenty of vines grass we have uh

Flowers everywhere we even have a little farm down here and again we’re using the same techniques though we have an underground element to the house the main entrance of course is at the front and we’re using actual an actual circular entrance and curves if the house is actually exposed on the sides

This would actually be built in a into a cliff in an ideal world you could add windows and stuff to the outside of varying different styles this one is a great example of modern houses don’t always have to be clean they can be big and messy and strange

Looking and i actually think that that looks quite cool like you could easily build this into a cliff house or a cliff side into the side of a cliff somewhere in a survival world and it’d look pretty good i do think so so this is really a good example of modern houses

Not having to be the environment but modern houses being able to be built into an environment they don’t have to completely overtake a space they can indeed be molded into one and you can just they look nice and natural depending on how you do it moseying on

Down to our final build ladies and gentlemen this is probably the most advanced of the houses that i’ve made in terms of size so it uses all of the techniques that we have used before we have the a that’s the entrance we have the l that is the what i would call

Kind of called the paul side house we have the squiggle which makes up the main body of the house we have an elevated pool that you can see and look into as you come around the house the sides of the house are a little bit

Boring but the back of the house is a little bit more interesting we have a raised terrace we have a bit of an outdoor area you could include a garden or a farm back here it really does use and cultivate all of the techniques that

We have used all the way up into this point and it’s really quite a cool looking house i could probably make a tutorial on this and be quite happy with it and it does include a bit of a different color scheme in using the purple as well

Purple i think does really well with the gray and the white and well now ladies and gentlemen i’m i’m sad to say that this is this is the end i i think or at least i hope that i’ve managed to gloss over all of the simple techniques that you can use to

Make a modern house or to at least get you started and hopefully i’ve showed you how to cultivate those techniques and combine them all together so that you can make some really cool modern builds and hopefully you might now think a little bit more outside the box or

Maybe i’ve taught you more so how to think inside of my box i don’t know but hopefully this has been at least some sort of use to you um as i said this whole thing here all of this this is brand new to me i’ve

Not made a video like this before at all so i really i’m not sure how you guys are gonna take it i do hope that you did enjoy it though if you did please do remember to hit that like button as it really helped me out and let me know

That you did enjoy it if you leave a comment and let me know if you’d like to see another one of these and perhaps what that might be if you want to see like a suburban version of this or a treehouse version of this i’m not saying

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