The palette

Stone, andesite, cobblestone, tuff and mossy cobblestone for the foundation with stone stairs round it, stone bricks and polished andesite for the cut course; stripped dark oak logs for the frame, spruce trapdoors for the storm shutters, birch trapdoors on white wool for the shoji, calcite for the plaster; dripstone blocks and packed mud for the thatch's courses under lips of tuff stairs and mud brick stairs, stripped oak logs and oak stairs for the fresh cut edge at the eaves, a few moss blocks; stripped dark oak and dark oak slabs, stairs and fences for the ridge and its crossed sticks; spruce planks, stairs and slabs for the floors, pents and window hoods.

Techniques

• Thatch in courses
• A thick cut edge
• Gables with attic floors
• A ridge held by crossed sticks
• A ground floor that reads

The steps

1. Stone foundation
2. Cut stone course and the floor
3. Ground floor: posts and beams
4. Ground floor: sliding doors, shoji and storm shutters
5. Entrance: posts, shoji and sliding doors
6. Entrance: its small gable of shingles
7. Shallow pents of shingles across the gable ends
8. North gable: timber frame, plaster and windows
9. South gable: timber frame, plaster and windows
10. Thatch: the lower courses, cut thick at the eaves
11. Thatch: course by course up to the ridge
12. Ridge and its crossed sticks
13. Lanterns

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