Grian – Minecraft: Large Suburban House Tutorial

Hello my name is green it’s been about three months since we made our last house can you believe it and this is what we are making today another suburban house design but i feel like this one is going a little bit above and beyond what we’re a bit used to this is

Going to be slightly larger so prepare yourselves and i’m going to try and be as thorough as possible we’re going to start off by making our base shape on the floor as we normally do we’re starting off with a nine block wall and there will be a bunch of dimensions in a

Second from an aerial view so it should be pretty easy to follow once you see that now of course i don’t encourage you to make them exactly block for block but there will be the ability to if you so wish what we’re trying to do here is

Make a large rectangular shape but add just a very slight variation in the shape itself so it’s not completely square okay so this is the shape we’ve gone for that little indent here are all the dimensions that you’ll need to make this base layer and it is important that

This bit is correct however i do encourage you to try and make a slightly different shape it really won’t make that much difference if you do one okay so this is slightly different in format this tutorial because it’s a more complicated house than i normally do on

This channel so what we’re going to do is slightly odd we’re going to make towers in the middle directly in the middle of each of our walls where there’s going to be a roof this one is 20 blocks tall along with this one this is going to be the two front parts of

Our house we’re also going to make several others remember these are directly in the middle if you place these either side of the middle it’s going to come out wonky so do make sure we need a third pole that is 20 high on the back of the building and on the two

Sides we’re going to need two more both of those will be 23 blocks high now these represent the absolute top tips of the walls now either side of them we’re going to make sure we go down one block at a time and start supplying the a-frame to the build this will very very

Quickly result in the shape of the house coming together so if you start with the highest points and work your way down around them everything should really start coming together as you can see here now once you hit the sides of your buildings that’s where you need to stop

And it should all come together like a big puzzle piece now these are intentionally very tall so if your build looks ridiculously high even from the start do go with it because it will make sense later on why it is so tall we will need to be putting

In a halfway point and all sorts of things so bear with me it is a very large build and you will need a lot of blocks so we’re immediately going to go ahead and start filling in the roof which is kind of odd for my channel because this is not how we normally

Structure things but trust me it makes sense on this build to get it out of the way so you’ll notice that i’m using a full block here instead of a staircase you are more than welcome to use a staircase or however else you want to do your roof but for this particular build

I will be using a full block and that may even make sense later on in a different video to this one so you fill it in like so it should all slot together you just follow the nooks of the a-frames all the way around and it should connect up quite nicely now on

These two a fronts here what we need to do is create a little ledge and i’ve marked out in oak directly where that is going to happen it is seven blocks from the floor and then you go ahead and fill in that extra layer over the top so that

There is an overhang on this build however once it’s all finished this will be much less noticeable it’s a very minor detail but things like this really do help a build stand out so now we’re going to fill in this little bit that we purposely left earlier because we want to make sure

That the roof sits nicely in between it so it is two blocks back from your overhang and then connect the roof up afterwards once that’s all done it should sit very nicely together and if yours is very slightly different from mine that is totally fine you can work

With it if you’re one or two blocks off try not to get hung up on following a tutorial block for block because it’s only going to get frustrating when one block is out of place just try and make it work with what you’ve got now we’re

Going to do the outlines to our a-frames and the rest of the roof very simple and we will be using staircases for this so that the roof itself just peeks out over the top of those staircases it’s quite a nice effect lots of people avoid using full blocks in their roofs but for

Buildings like this it really does make a lot of sense so at the moment i am just making my way round the building entirely highlighting every part of the roof i just made a mistake there by making that bit of staircase in line with it instead of below it you want to

Make sure that it’s nice and flush with the a-frame so you need to also make sure that your staircases are accompanied by upside down staircases to make it that little bit more thick it just helps highlight the entire build once you’ve made your way all the way

Around the house you might want to add a couple of slabs either side to add a little indent and some detailing to this part so as you can see things are immediately starting to come together now i know i didn’t include this in the base because i wanted to keep things

Simple initially but we’re going to add what will become a garage later on it is 19 blocks along and nine wide of course you could make this slightly bigger slightly smaller however you want and it is seven blocks tall we will come back to that part later on the other side of

The build we also have a flat surface to work with and we’re going to add another little part to this little extensions like this make a big difference to the overall effect of the house it is nine along and eight wide again lots of room

For your own take on how to do this however for this little bit here i wouldn’t recommend making it massive as it’s supposed to accompany the house not dominate it for the floor we will be missing out the block around the edge and this is for a reason that will make

Sense later on and then what we’re going to do is a few blocks back or maybe directly in the middle we want to create another a-frame to a very medium-ish height definitely don’t go to the top of the build and then again we want to complete the same roof style as before

However we want it to overhang to the point where we missed out so perhaps half of it will overhang this allows us to create a little balcony you may also notice that i have changed the roof to some log as well now we’re going to

Focus on making some of the meat of this build now that we have the main structure we can start off by making the front door it’s always a good place to start in my opinion as it will set the scene for the rest of the build now you

Can make your own details or shape or whatever you want but i’ve gone for an arch made out of quartz with a spruce wood backdrop now we’re going to need to place some pillars in some very specific locations but if you have a slightly different house to the one that i’ve

Made and you’re not following a block for block just place it in a similar location and it will work out just fine in each corner we need to make our way outwards diagonally two blocks and place the base pillar and the same on the other side and again either side of our

Five wide entrance all in one line build them up just short of our oak marker and that’s where they’re going to sit for the time being it’s always handy just to have those in place while working on everything else and what we’re going to be adding now is a foundation layer to

The build some cobblestone staircase along with a birch slab on the top and some full blocks in the corners make your way all the way around the build and it will transition the walls into the floor quite nicely which is always a very harsh right angle you can leave it

Out where appropriate and put it in where you feel like it i added a quick window here just to test the waters and to make sure i got the height right is three blocks high and then we’re going to start off by making a slab sloping upwards towards the pillars and

Where it meets is very important which is why i added the window in to make sure that it fit it should all sit together quite nicely as you can see the oak liner is just sitting where the slab meets the top it all looks rather confusing but if you’re one block off

Here or there you can adapt your build fairly easily now we’re linking up the outside of the pillars with some slabs or made out of quartz and then we’re placing a nice roof over the top made out of spruce slab now it does look rather complicated but essentially all

We’re doing is using slabs from the bottom and the top meeting in the middle and then we’re creating a little a-frame over the front of the door to create a patio this also needs to overhang just one block from our slabs on the outside and then underneath i’ve just filled it

In with some also spruce slabs now it doesn’t matter if you mess up a little bit or if it doesn’t work out it’s very easy to adapt this i do know it looks a bit complicated but it really is just a tiny roof overhanging with some pillars

Without the walls this is what’s going to break up the build sort of split it in half and make it look like it has a ton of shape if you make your way all the way around the extension as well you can see that it’s really starting to

Tie this build together and that’s exactly why we had the front of our build overhang just one block so it fits together on the garage side i’ve added in two doors as this is a larger house i want it to have two cars available i i don’t know you could have three it

Depends how many cars you want and then again doing the same technique for the roof adding in slabs and it again it should connect up very naturally this time instead of using full block it is a slab meaning that every time you put in a quartz slab going up half a block it

Should all sit quite nicely and fit together like so again if you get the dimensions correct on this and the a-frames it should all slot together rather nicely now i’m going to add a few more windows i’ve gone for a three by three directly in the center again setting my glass one

Block back and either side in the walls we’re adding a very strange detail but trust me it really does tie this building together we’re going to add some staircases made out of birch just two blocks and it’s going to create these tiny little crevices inside the

Walls and it’s going to add that little level of detail that will make this build look extra nice and then again some trapdoors either side of our windows really kind of brings us together along again with some more staircases to add those little nooks and crannies as we’re not adding many

Layers of depth in this build we’re going to put it inside the wall itself and then of course replicate it over to the right hand side but in the center we’re going to do something slightly different just a different way of decorating the windows we’re going to lay trapdoors facing outwards which have

Less impact on the wall and it’s more minimalist so that really does work quite well and in the bottom right hand corner we’re basically going to add exactly the same window but also adding in those slabs that slant upwards and meet our overhang together you could

Also add some glass panes to create a bit of a curved shape it’s entirely up to you on the garage also going to add a small level of detail it’s a very simple technique we’re using the staircases and just some windows and maybe even a fence

In there as well now we’ve got a big chunk of wall here to detail and there’s a lot of freedom in how you can do this i’m basically going to do exactly what we did on the front add more windows more trap doors and more little details

Using staircases and i kind of fiddled around with the sizes of them trying not to make it look too overcrowded i probably could have done this a bit better but overall it works quite nicely and then there’s all these little areas like here where you probably just want

To add in a little bit of a base layer maybe a small window and try not to overdo it i think probably my downfall with this design is i used a lot of trap doors one tiny little detail to add here is the guttering the little pipe that adds

At the corner it just helps add in that suburban effect and ties everything together those little details overall make quite a nice difference over on the little extension on the side we’ve got much smaller windows to add or maybe none at all is it up to you there is

Nothing wrong with having a bit of blank wall like i said i probably overdid it on the old trap doors for example down here i decided to add a smaller window because i thought i was slightly overdoing it and there’s no shame in that on houses you don’t have windows

Absolutely pasted everywhere sometimes you just have smaller ones at a higher or lower part of the building over here where i said we were going to make our balcony i added a few iron trap doors along with some cobblestone wall and a tiny window to go with it again there’s

A lot of freedom in how you can detail this part of the build i also added a mandatory chimney made out of brick this just helps set aside that this side of the house has an extension and it’s slightly larger than the other half and it helps balance out the build a little

Bit now we’ve got a few more walls to fill in with some windows by now you know the drill but i also added in a back door there as i thought it would be like a utility room there’s an awful lot of space inside this build so no need to

Worry about that plenty of space to get creative now this is the last little piece of roof that i’m going to add and it was completely optional it doesn’t actually impact the build at all but because this was such a large bit of wall here that didn’t have anything i

Thought it necessary to try and break it up that way i didn’t have to put as many windows in as you can see i only put two in and i also made sure that this side of the wall had those little nooks in the side to try and give it a bit more

Detail in it and then another more formal back door to this building and then again adding more windows the windows are just everywhere on this build it is a very large house and it will seem like there are just massive portions of wall that need filling in such as this section which slightly

Extends outwards now you can see why we try to break up builds with these little bits of shape it’s so that it makes it easier to add small windows in and such the like so on this bit added nooks either side of it as we have done on the

Other parts of the build also added a base which is the only part on the back that i have done and then added some more 3×3 windows and some tiny details added in as well and all of that added together makes the build really tie in nicely and

I didn’t add too many details to the garage as it is a garage and you don’t typically have many windows in it or anything that may won’t make it stand out now there’s only a few final touches to do and that is sort of the terrain and the gardening suburban houses like this

Do tend to have some very fancy gardens and paths and parking and all that kind of stuff so we’re going to add a bit of tarmac we’re going to outline where the garage is and where the parking spaces are so i’ve marked it out with some polished underside and filled it in with

Some normal andesite i also decided to mix in some gravel later on but for now i’ve just left it as undesired and some leaves in the front there that are defined by the spruce slab around the outside and that’s pretty much all of the build put in together those little details are

Of course completely optional you could put in some flowers if you fancied a bit more color in this build but overall it’s the shape of each individual part that really makes it mixed in with the little details i absolutely love this design it is by far one of my favorite

Suburban houses even if it is slightly more complicated to build and trust me it was very difficult to explain how to make this i had to come up with a technique that would be semi-easy to follow without going too complicated too quickly and of course not making it a

Perfect block for block tutorial otherwise it could have ended up being an hour long video anyway this is a very large suburban house and you should be able to make slight variations on this and no worries using the same techniques as i have and i want to thank pearlescent

Moon for helping me put this together she was a big help for me recently where i’ve been putting out plenty of content so i hope you enjoyed this video i hope you’ve enjoyed this design thank you very much for watching everyone and i hope to see you in the next video any

Ideas leave them in the comments good bye