The palette

Stone bricks, polished andesite, smooth stone and a chiseled stone brick at each corner for the podium, with a few cracked and mossy stone bricks and andesite, stone brick stairs for its steps; stripped dark oak logs for the posts, dark oak logs for the sills and head beams, stripped dark oak wood for the brackets with dark oak stairs and slabs reaching out, dark oak planks behind the doors and as ceilings; calcite for the white plaster; spruce trapdoors for the doors, dark oak trapdoors with white wool behind for the lattice windows; polished tuff blocks, stairs and slabs for the grey tiles, polished deepslate for the hips, birch slabs for the eaves' pale edge, dark oak slabs as rafters; weathered cut copper blocks, stairs and slabs and weathered lightning rods for the bronze finial, a gold block and a lightning rod for its jewel; lanterns at the corners.

Techniques

• Three-stepped brackets
• Deep eaves that barely shrink
• Curved tiles and lifted corners
• A pale edge line
• The bronze finial

The steps

1. Stone podium and its four stairs
2. First storey: posts, doors and lattice
3. First storey: three-stepped brackets
4. First roof: deep eaves of charcoal tiles
5. Second storey: posts, doors and lattice
6. Second storey: three-stepped brackets
7. Second roof: deep eaves of charcoal tiles
8. Third storey: posts, doors and lattice
9. Third storey: three-stepped brackets
10. Third roof: deep eaves of charcoal tiles
11. Fourth storey: posts, doors and lattice
12. Fourth storey: three-stepped brackets
13. Fourth roof: deep eaves of charcoal tiles
14. Fifth storey: posts, doors and lattice
15. Fifth storey: three-stepped brackets
16. Top roof: the charcoal tiles to a point
17. Finial: dew basin, upturned bowl and lotus
18. Finial: the nine rings on the mast
19. Finial: the water flame and the jewel
20. Bronze bells at the corners

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