The palette

Stone bricks, polished andesite and andesite for the ground floor's dressed stone, mossy cobblestone and stone for the podium; stripped dark oak logs for the posts and beams, dark oak planks, slabs and trapdoors for the floors, boards and lattice windows; calcite for the plaster, birch trapdoors on white wool for the shoji; stripped spruce logs and spruce fences for the balconies, bamboo trapdoors for the reed blinds; tuff bricks, polished tuff and tuff brick stairs for the roof tiles, polished deepslate at the eaves and on the ridges; blue and white wool for the noren, ochre froglights for the paper lanterns.

Techniques

• A stone ground floor
• A pent roof at every floor
• Balconies with reed blinds
• Layered roofs
• A noren entrance

The steps

1. Stone podium and the entrance steps
2. Ground floor: stone walls and lattice windows
3. Entrance: the wooden portal and its sliding doors
4. Ground floor: pent roof all round
5. First floor: floor, posts and beams
6. First floor: shoji, plaster and boards
7. First floor: the balcony and its railing
8. First floor: pent roof all round
9. Second floor: floor, posts and beams
10. Second floor: shoji, plaster and boards
11. Second floor: the balcony and its railing
12. Great roof: the tiles
13. Front gable over the entrance
14. Ridges and ridge tiles
15. Lookout on the ridge: its walls and shoji
16. Lookout roof and its finial
17. Wing roof
18. Noren, paper lanterns and lights

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