Seaside cottage
Pale oak planks read like painted boards, with spruce corners and a slate-grey cobbled deepslate roof. Faded blue terracotta frames the door and shutters, and azalea hedges sit along the walls.
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- 7 × 9 footprint
- 9 blocks high
- Java 1.21.4+ or Bedrock 1.21.50+
The blocks
- FrameStripped Spruce Log
minecraft:stripped_spruce_logCorners, pillars and beams that hold it together.
How to build with it
- Mark out 7 × 9 blocks and lay the Birch Planks floor first.
- Put Stripped Spruce Log on every corner and every 4 or 5 blocks along long walls, then fill between them with Pale Oak Planks.
- Roof it with Cobbled Deepslate stairs and slabs. Keep the whole build within 9 blocks of height, roof included.
- Give Light Blue Terracotta one job, such as a band under the roof or frames around doors and windows, and repeat it.
- Add Azalea Leaves last and use less of it than you think.
Rules for this build
- The roof overhangs the walls by at least one block.
- A path leads up to the door.
- Something green grows on it.
Rules keep a build from turning into a box. Follow all three, or roll others in Blockroll.
Related palettes
Cherry cottagePale calcite walls let the pink cherry roof carry the colour, and dark cherry logs keep the corners crisp. Built for a small house in a cherry grove.Snowy cabinSpruce planks and logs read warm against snow, and a deepslate tile roof stays dark enough to see from far away. Cobblestone for the chimney and the base.Japanese tea houseOff-white mushroom stem walls between dark beams, a grey tile roof with wide eaves, and a bamboo mosaic floor. Cherry leaves are the only colour.